I cant tell you how much i missed you all this chrismas time. but its something i dont regret because i know like you do, that i´m in the place our loving heavenly father wants me to be. i wanted to appoligize about how the phone call went down, i want to talk a lot long, but thats just how it goes. sorry about cutting everybody off. i love you all so much, your support means more then you know. tell ryan good luck, and that he is perfect for the mission, tell him also that corey jackson got here the other week and is doing awesome, he actully turned out to be my Zone leader in the mtc. i was wondering if you get aaron and garrisons mail address for me again. Thanks for everything that you have done for me, and the examples you all set.

Les Quiero
Elder Gardner

Dad, i wanted to appoligize to you for how the phone call went down. i felt so ungreatful after we talked. you mean everything to me, you have always been the best for me. i love you so much, and i appreciate all that you do for our family. i know ive alread shared this with you but it has been on my mind again these last couple days. its Elder hollands talk, a highpriest of good things to come, or something like that. i reread this talk over last night and i want to reshare a part of that talk.(highly recommed a reread).

Some blessing come soon, some come late, and some dont come until heaven but for those who embrace the gospel of jesus christ, they come.
Dont give up, boy. dont you quite. you keep trying. there is help and happiness ahead. you keep your chin up. it will be allright in the end. trust god. and believe in good things to come.

i dont know if you remeber the blessing me and evan gave you before i left. but the words from that blessings have been in my head these last couple of days. "there is light at the end of the tunnel". Dad i know that is true, with every thing i feel. I love you. please let me know if there is anything i can do for you.

LOve your son
Elder Gardner

Hola de Tepot

That is insane about andrew, how are they doing? nothing happened to them, not a scratch? so i haven{t recieved those pictures yet not sure whats going on. but i have recieved the dear elders, please keep sending those through dear elder, i love to hear form those guys. i know ive asked like a hundred time, but could you get me garrisons and aarons letter address once more. so for christmas i can either call on the 24 or the 25, im not sure what works for you guys, but i was kind of feeling like like christmas day would be better, its tradition, but if that doesn{t work we can do the 24. there is a family here that is going to let us use their phone, i guess they have a phone plan that they can talk to the estados unidos for free. should i still use the phone card? ask me about this family when i call.

well this has been i feel a monumentous week for me. last week was the last week of transfers, it turns out i staying in tepo with elder rosales for another transfer. im excited. this past week i dont know why but i had a poor attitude and i could get out of it. it was crazy but i decieded to flip the switch and be happy and its made all the differnce. i read two talks that put it all into perspective for me. Come what may and love it" Elder Worthlin, and finging joy in the journey" Thomas s monson. i not sure what happend but the mision is so much easier when your happy. we have beeen teaching this selene for three weeks and she has a testimony about joshep smith and the book of mormon but her only hold up was she didn{t beleive in thomas s monson. crazy i know. we kept asking her to explain her self but she just kept telling us its jsut that "es encreible". ive though alot about that. that right this gospel the knowlege that we have the prophet that leader are church today, "es encreible". we have no reason to be in a bad mood or to be angry, or feel we have been treated unfairly. we have this knowelge that god lives and that he has a plan for us. nothing else matters.. i love you all

Elder GArdner

Things are still going here in mexico. i´m sorry i dont have a lot of time, and every thing seams insignificant to the message i want to share with you.
all i can say is that i´m still going through the pains of learning a language and that i still have many lessons to learn. I came across this talk by elder Jeffery r. holland intitled "the ministry of angles" nov. 2008. I want to share this snip it from that talk,
"I ask everyone within the sound of my voice to take heart, be filled with faith, and remember the lord has said he would fight our battles, our children´s battles, and the battles of our children´s children. and what do we do to merit such a defense? we are to search difilently, pray always, and be beiliving. then all things shall work together for our good, if we walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith we have covenanted. the latter days are not a time to fear or tremble they are a time to be beleiving and remember our covenants. I want to recommend this talk to you. God loves us. we go through trials, but we do not go through them alone. with faith in our heveanly father we will have miracles in our lives. "God never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face" i love you all so much and want you to know that things are going to work out. we are on the right team. keep the faith, be beleiving, and know that he loves you.
Thanks for every thing
Elder Gardner

"the simple secret is this put your trust in the lord, do your best, then leave the rest to him" joseph b worthlin