May 19, 2014

Yeah we stopped by Carls Jr.  before we took money out of the bank so I got a little sandwich! Shoot, Grantsville, well good for them but better for Jared that would be a really cool experience! (STate baseball and soccer) I can bet you guys are pretty busy with all of the yard work, sooner that later we are going to be doing a yard work day for you two old farts like we do for grandma,  ha. Yeah if the people in this world acted to their beliefs this world would be a whole different place. But yeah people are changing here everyday and it is wonderful to see! 

   Speaking of which I would like to share an experience that was really powerful yesterday. So yesterday was a wonderful day, to start off, we had a confirmation to a baptism, whoop! Then later in the day we were out doing our visits and saving the world. We went to a new converts house and one of her friends walked in and his name is Alberto, and he had a couple of questions about the gospel not really the church but just religion. So he started talking and he talked a whole bunch and while he talked we tried to put the gospel in to the conversation. Then he touched the subject about God, and I bore my testimony about how God loves us and all of that, and he just broke down and started crying. He told us about how he had had a dream that God had come down by his side and held his hand and told him everything was going to be alright. So that was all cool and really spiritual and we set up another appointment with him! Then after this, the spirit was just full in the room. We were about to leave, when one of the recent converts asked us to give a blessing to her son of about 30 years, he is not a member his name is Omar. So we explained first what we were going to do and how we had authority of God to do it, and so he agreed and my comp did the unción and I did the sealing,  and when I said amen tears just started flowing out of his eyes and he said I don't know why I am crying and just continued to cry. We explained to him a little more about the power of the priesthood and that the Holy Ghost was testifying to him of the truthfulness and comforting him. 

  This all just helps my testimony grow so much, cause it is not like I said any magic words to make Omar feel the way he did, but the power of the Holy Ghost bearing witness to him, I know this is the church of God and that he has given His sons the sacred power of the priesthood to work miracles here on the earth. 

 I love you Dad thanks for always being a worthy preisthood holder and example for me. 

Love,

 Elder Zundel

We were told that the mission puts 50 years on you just the other day by the presidents wife and it think it is true! I already want to just be perfect in all that I do when I get back. I wrote dad a long letter so that is for the both of you! I love you, mother. Love your bello Hijo

Oh, and Aunt Lisa sent me a package! Tell her thank you so much, make sure to give her a big hug and a little kiss on the cheek for me! 

The package from Aunt Lisa!

I love you mom! 

  Yesterday was wonderful I loved every minute of it! I am glad I got to see everyone and all of the nieces and nephews they are all groing up so much!

 I know we are going to see a lot of fruits of our labors in this next little while and I am really excited for that! 

Tell Ada Hola! that is awesome that she got that and that she has a goal to go to the temple, that is what I like to tell the people here, that the goal is not baptism but to enter the temple. 

I love you mom and I know you love me. 

Love,

 ELder Zundel

Yesterday was a wonderful day! It gives me a little bit of fire to get some more work done out here! 

Um I will let you know when I will buy some shoes. I checked today about contacts and it looks like I will need some new ones in about 3 months or so. 

Thanks for all that you do for me dad and the example that you are for me, you keep me going in the work of the Lord. You will always be my hero. 

Love you. 

Love,

 Elder Zundel

FELIZ CINCO DO MAYO!!! Que NADIE LO CELEBREN ... nobody celebrates that here! haha I dont know if they even know what it means, let alone for me to know what it means. The new area is straight up all on a mountain. There is not one street that is flat... that does some work on a man and wearing down my shoes fast! I am pretty tired but I am lovin' it here.

The hills of Tijuana

An angled look of the hills

In sacrament meeting yesterday we had 50 people in the meeting and of those 50, ten of them were investigators!!!! I am sure looking forward to where this will go with all of them. It is kind of hard to work with the members here just because there are so few active members. My comp is really obedient (my fist really obedient comp whooop!) and that is really good! 

 

 Wow that is awesome that Parker changed his whole point of veiw on the mission so fast Great news to hear!! And wowowowowowowo I cant believe Taylor is getting married.....? That has got to be pretty exciting for all of there family! Joel is a happy daddy? 

  Yeah the weather has been really hot here makin' me sweat like a pig with all of these hills and everything. Well I saw that you send another letter and I imagine that is asking about the call this week, but bad news we don't get to call.... sorry mom...  

  But hey keep your head up cause I love you!!!

 Love,

 Elder Zundel

I am going to skype you at right about 3 o'clock in our time maybe 3:30  I can't wait to talk to you my lovely mother!

Well you supposed wrong they are not to much of celebrators of Cinco de Mayo here in Mexico. Oh, Jay, the Mexican food back home is nothing compared to what its like over here. But hey I got put in an area with straight hills,  it is all on a mountain so we walk hills every day and it is workin' me out pretty good! Especially with heat. 

  Oh I know you had a tough time making any type of purchase. (new roto tiller) All these years I have told you to buy a riding mower, now ya wish you would have listened to me, huh? To tell you the truth I miss doing yard work, but that's not saying I am going to do it when I get back! 

  Dang it really is crazy that Taylor is getting married cant believe how all of that worked out. yeah I need the skype passwork por favor! I am stoked to talk with you guys on sunday!!!! 

I love you paps.

 Love,

 Elder Zundel

April 28, 2014


HEYEYEYEYE! Yeah I was a little busy last week so I couldn't write all that well. Well we had transfers today and I finaly moved out of my first area!~! whoo whoo! My new comp is Elder Alanis he is from Mexico and is 18, he has 3 months in the mission and seems like a great missionary. I am excited to work with him. Our new house is ten million times better than the last one, ha, I am really excited to not live so crappy. I am really hoping that things are going goood in this area I will find out here soon though. Yeah I say that the time is going by really fast but at the same time I stlll have a long ways to go.
 Oh that is good for Jason! How about Dusty is he still working in Brigham? I am still going to be a dentist!
Yeah, I dont know anything about calling home this time so I will talk to some members and find out what I am going to do about that. Don't worry I will keep on workin' hard!
I love you mom, and I love this gospel it is blessing my life in so many ways. Take care ya hear now!
Love,
 ELder Zundel

Okay so I got transfered today and I am in Lomas de la Mistad, Tijuana. I will try to figure out our address in this week so you can check it out, cause I know you are going to ask. But this area is a lot nicer than my last area I have some pictures to send but I forgot my converter to send them so nimodo! I am really excited to get out of my first area and work here! All of my people in my other area are going to miss me a whole bunch, one of my converts was just crying when I went to say goodbye to her, she is awesome! 

Ha that is cool that the missionaries are always at the house, I wish that they would have used me when I was home. One time I gave them a reference but then they never called back... losers.,.. 

   Dang Bears doing alright! I write Taylor Lund quite a bit and he is keeping me up to date with that stuff. He is really excited about his mission! Yeah right now I am good with money, maybe here soon i will need a little just to tidey up the house a little but nothing to much.  I am doing a little better writing in the journal still not the best but okay.
I love you too paps.
 Love,
 Elder Zundel

April 21, 2014

Some Elders!

  Okay so my week was pretty dang good. We have baptized for the last two weeks in a row and are going to baptize this week also. I will leave this area after this week, but this area will continue to baptize throughout the month of May. So I am really happy about that! We are going to play some mini golf today and eat at TGI Fridays so that should be a good time. I had to give a talk in sacrament this last week and I did pretty well I thought I had to harp on the members a little bit but I hope it helps them to get the work going in the ward. I am excited to leave this area and get to start somewhere new, but at the same time I know that I will miss this area when I leave,  I have gotten to make a pretty good relationship with the members and with the investigators. 

Well jeez how couldn't you miss this guy. (referring to our Easter camp trip and him not being there) How crazy is that that Taylor is getting married, I dont know why but it seems really strange for me. I really dont know anything about politics so that will be one thing I will have to study up on when I get home. Oh the good old baseball auction that is a good program. Oh yeah I kinda forgot about that scholarship. Yeah make sure to send fotos I like having those a lot! 

  Yeah you best as well make the best with that missionary you got now! Put her to work. Read your Book of Mormon every day!

 Love you.

 Love,

 Elder Zundel

The guy we baptized throwing his cafe' down the toilet

We baptized this man this week and were going to baptize his wife next week!

April 14, 2014

It really is good to hear that you can have an impact on someones life from a little email. Tell ol' Jeff I will be home soon to work for him so not to worry. Yeah that is how I am trying to do it, just like Taylor, I want to be so worn out by the time these two years are done.
 I went of interchanges this last week with a kid from Logan, he is an awesome missionary and I learned a lot from him and am going to put in practice what I learned. There are two rules that I have a hard time with, being home at 9 and going to bed at 10:30, they are so hard to do when there is so much stuff to get done...
Don't worry I wont be fat when I get home, not going to let that happen!
Nope we dont have ipads and dont use facebook, but I heard that we will in not to much longer. I wish I could have a ward mission leader like you paps, I love you and am so grateful for the example that you are for me.
Love,
 Elder Zundel

Yeah the days do go along a little bit faster now that the sun is out, that is nice, I really like the warm not to much of a fan of the cold. Yeah I think it is rough on Kylan's mom too, but I also know she is being blessed that Kylan is on a mission right now. Hopefully she can get a transplant so she can enjoy the blessing of the temple.  speaking of a member in the home ward) Speaking of the temple, that is something that I miss. We dont get to go to the temple.... every once in like 3 months pres. will take a small group of like 7 to the temple in San Diego, so hopefuly I will be able to go on one of these trips. I don't know if the new pres will keep on doing that though, not sure when we get the new pres but I know that its not to much longer. 

  Oh I want to go to Willard Bay!!! I miss camping so much, that is what I am going to do my fist weekend back is go camping! 

 Well this week we had some success in finding new people to teach, and that is good cause in Preach My Gospel it says nothing happens in the work of a missionary until we find people. and not just people we found 4 families!!! This past little while we have been working with a family who is less active and one of the daughters of this family has a daughter who is not baptized and this week they all went to church for the first time in who knows how long and that was awesome to see! I want all of the families to have what we have as a family and that helps me to help them. Another son of God entered the waters of baptism this week, always wonderful to have a hand in helping someone enter the door to the path to return to God.

 I recieved the package from Grandma tell her thank yoou so much!! We do not have a VCR but we do have DVD so make a DVD if you can please! 

I love you mom I hope you are doing wonderful as you should be!

 Love,

 Elder Zundel

April 7, 2014

Today is a hot one! Well today we are going to play a little bit of Fútbol, hoy. Should be a good time. Yeah better to be healthy and go then to suffer and go right? (about Pale Riders death) Yeah, mom told me about Bears Butt that is awesome, are grandma and grandpa still reading? They kinda of sound like some of my investigators here! ha. 

 I loved conference my favorite one of my life, I appreciate having a living prophet so much more now and my love for him has grown so much it these last seven months!

 Are my brothers fat? Cause the fattest country in the world is trying to make me fat... I still live in the same place, Delicias Tijuana Baja California.

 Everything was pretty normal, the guy who we gave the blessing to is awesome he loves us and loves the Lord and wants to be baptized. I am really excited for him. 

Well paps,  I love your support while I am here! 

Love,

 Elder Zundel

WOW how amazing was General Conference! I loved it so much. I got to watch it in English but I would still like you to send me the magazine, favor. The pressure is on the members now so best as well step it up, momma, invite someone to church 4 times a year AT LEAST.

   That makes me sad the Parker isn't going to all of church, but hopefully he will see the importance of it soon. 

DANG that is awesome the Bears Butt is reading the Book of Mormon, I had no idea, now all he has to do is pray about it and get that testimony of the truthfulness of it it. 

Well this week was just a normal week not a ton going on just normal lessons and trying to find new people. 

Hey I love you mom I hope all is going well keep on pressing forward with an eye single to the glory of God. 

Love,

Elder Zundel

 Elder Zundel