May 17, 2010

heyyyyyyyy! talking to you was soooooo sweet last sunday oh my. we were supposed to be able to email monday too but we changed houses and didnt have any time. our new house is way sweet! its 2 stories and just me and my comp live in it. theres a balcony thing in the back with a little tin roof and i put my hammock under it and its been raining a lot so i lay in that and the rain falls right next to me off the roof its so sweet! we went with one of the hermanos to this place and he bought us tacos de cabesa they were way good but they are made from a cows brains eyes cheeks and tongue hahah i guess they just mash it all up and make tacos out of it hahah they tasted good though :/ we taught this lesson at this house and the kids were eating dinner while we were there and ive honestly never seen so many flies in my entire life in one place there was honestly thousands of flies on their dinner table and all in their beans and tacos and they were just eating like nothing was happening hahaha it was so sick they´re like .wanna taco?!. hahahhah last monday after we got moved in we had to go to centro and i bought some more stuff hahha i bought a dock for my ipod for 100 pesos or like 9 bucks haha and we went to this place that sells sweeet ties gage you would be so jealous and they were only like 35 pesos or like 3 bucks. after that i wanted to get a new watch and dad i bought an oakley one you would like i think! its gotta be fake cuz it was like 185 pesos, but its way sweet! a member took us out to lunch the other day to this place called sirloin stockade and it was the greatest place ever its just like chuckarama hyahaha i was in love i really have never eaten so much food in my life. i love the food here but it was a buffet of american food it tasted soo good. they had a mothers day bash at the church this weekand it was hilarious. all the members just dance and have fun its so funny no one cares what anyone thinks. they love american rap and they were playing such bad songs in the chapel hahah but no one had any idea what the words were saying i was laughing so hard. we went to that conference in guadalajara saturday and heard the apostle talk it was way goood but i was mostly just excited for that package haha then the conference ended and they told us they didnt have our mail! can you believe that! and that counted as the zone conference for may so i have to wait until june to get that pàckage! oh well i guess it will give me something to look forward too. we were supposed to have 2 baptisms yesterday and they both fell through so hopefully this week! i dont know if you rememeber the story about the lady that has 2 daughters that we talked to in a bus a couple weeks ago but her and her daughters are gonna get baptized this saturday so thats good! today we played indoor soccer in downtown it was way fun! after that our way cool mariachi band family wanted to have us over for lunch so we went there! they gave us hamburgers haha they were so good. those guys are getting baptized soon too its just hard to get him to church cuz he works saturday nights until 5 in the morning! they wanna get baptized but we just gotta figure out how to get the dad to church. i´ll try to send pictures right now but i love you guys and miss you tons! i printed out all your letters cuz i didnt have too much time again today but i cant wait to read them! oh dad i did look at the pictures of your truck that is sooooo sweet i cant wait to get home so you can finally give it to me! i bet your dying of anticipation! and gage this kid in our ward is way into football and told me that both ladainian tomlinson and santonio holmes are going to the jets?! Love you guys! hasta lunes!

May 3, 2010

Braden seems to be doing great. We cant wait to talk to him Sunday!!

hey hey hey we have been gone all day looking at mayan pyramides so we dont have very much time to email! we have an appointment at 530 and that was 5 minutes ago hahah so we just have to write way fast! last tuesday this taxi driver drove us home and we started talking to him about the church and hes like i really wanna change my life and start following christ so we got all excited and stuff and hes like i just dont know if i can be forgiven of my sins. ive killed 4 people. so that was weird. now he knows where we live too hahah he said he was gonna come to church but he didnt show up. im not sure how much progress we could really make with him until he got out of prison anyways haha poor guy then on wednesday we went to this town in our area that elder barnes has never even been to and hes been in morelia for 3 months hah funny huh its like 45 minutes away. the bus finally got us there and it was so crazy. there wasnt really anything there at all. we talked to 2 people and they both told us we should leave the town fast or else we were gonna get robbed hahaha one of the ladies we talked to was selling used clothes on the side of the road. she was using a tie to tie down her tarp roof and said that she wanted to sell it to me, so i bought it from her for 1 peso haha thats like 9 cents. i tried to pay her more but she said no and that the tie would bring me good luck. it was so filthy and had holes in it but i took it home and washed it and im wearing it right now haha if i have time to send pictures from today youll see it it really isnt too. we were walking to our first appointment the other day and this guy came up to us in the street and shook our hands and then he just started crying and said “i cant find work and my family is hungry and i know you guys are close to christ so can you say a prayer for me right now?.” so we did and it was so sad he was crying so hard it was so sad. we had our baptism saturday night! everything went way good. the water was freezing cuz we didnt have gas but other than that everything was good! we´re inviting a bunch of people to be baptized for may. it was hard when i first got here cuz there werent any investigators so we had to start from scratch but they´re all starting to progress the ones we found. today for pday we went to a place called patzcuaro. you guys should look it up its so sweet! i´ll try to send pictures but i definitely wanna go there after the mission with you guys! theres this island with a huge statue and tons of little stores and restaurants. i bought a ton of stuff and felt bad then remembered that it was like 15 dollars worth of stuff haha thats the cool thing about mexico. oh! i found out about calling for mothers day! we are gonna go to our bishops house sunday and YOU GUYS CALL US! you have to remember that part! haha you guys are supposed to call me at 6pm oclock my time, so i think thats 5 oclock pm your time. elder barnes told me that its a way long process to get the call through, so call a little bit early so we for sure have the whole time to talk! the bishops number is 443-304-0843. call some time this week and make sure it works so that we can talk for way long on sunday! so rememeber thats 6 oclock my time haha if you havent called by like 6:10pm i´ll just run to a pay phone or something haha oh yeah today we went and saw some sweet mayan ruins too. anyways i love you guys tons and miss you too! i cant wait to read your letters i just printed them all out so theyre in my backpack right now. thanks for everything and i´ll talk to you on sunday! love you guys and talk to you soon! ps. make sure brookes at the house! :O nos vemos!

April 26, 2010

First off.. I was going to go through and try to post everything from the beginning of the MTC to now.. but I decided it would take WAAAAAY to long and everyone would probably have WAAAAAY to much to read. SO. I am going to go ahead and post from now on. Every week we will be taking bits and pieces but get the jist of his emails.. Ill post that and then whatever pictures he sends a long with it! Anything from him will always be in RED.

Hey everyone!

Last week I had like 2 seconds to write cuz we were in guadalajara all day to sign my visa! This week my companion got made district leader so he had to go with other missionaries on thusday and viernes so I was with 2 other missionaries those days in my area and I had to know where to go and who to visit and how to take all the right busses and stuff hahaha our area is sooo huge! It takes 45 minutes in a bus to get from one side to the other hahah we never really got lost but when my comp came back on saturday I was way relieved.

We are teaching this way cool family of a dad, a mom, and their 14 year old daughter. His job is a violinist in a mariachi band! Way cool huh? He has this little guitar thats a mix between a ukelele and a guitar that he is going to sell me. Its one that they use in mariachi bands and it was made in Morelia its so cool! The family is way cool though they come to our english classes and said they were going to come to church this Sunday. Its way hard to get people ready for baptism because our area is so huge so for most people the chapel is like 20 or 30 minutes away.

My companions name is elder Barnes. Hes been out for about a year. Hes wayyy cool. Just he and I live in our house. Hes from Herriman.

A girl named Alexia is getting baptized this friday! She wanted to wait until the 30th cuz its day of the niños here haha I'm not exactly sure what that is but its a big deal I guess. Her mom wasnt active and shes coming back to church now but her dad isnt baptized and doesnt really want anything to do with the church. She's getting baptized this friday and she told me she wants me to baptize her, but im way nervous cause she has like 40 names hahahah so I´ll tell you how that goes in the next letter.

Oh mom! laundry works like this. Theres a lavanderia right by our house and its cheap and they have washing machines, so I wash all my clothes (all of them. together :/) in the washing machines and then we take them back to our house and hang everything out on our clothesline behind our house. it works pretty good!

After we email today we´re going to El Centro of Morelia to look at all the old churches and fountains and to go to the markets and stuff! I am way excited, I've heard its so cool. I think next pday we´re going to see some of those mayan pyramids. They´re like 20 minutes from our house. There are these little huts outside of our house across the street and they sell the best fruit EVER. Ohhh my heck and its way cheap so ive been eating tons of that and tacos from the stands. I love you guys and miss you tons! write me this week and I cant wait to talk to you next Monday.

Con amor,

Elder Tibbitts