Hola de Santiago

how are you doing? o boy what a crazy week, elder marsh and i have been tarring it up. we both know little about running a brand new area, but we know missionary handbook and how to be obiedient. we are not the best teachers but we have the spirit, and it payed off for us this week. this is definatly streching us both more than before, but that is good becuase we are learning. it good to hear that you all are doing good, i got the christmas tree yesterday, o man that beard of marcs is pretty narley. i hope you all are doing well. i love you all.

Elder Gardner

could you please send the adress of aaron and garrison, and the emails of emily and annie.

Jan 31,2011

Hola de Santiago

how are you doing? o boy what a crazy week, elder marsh and i have been tarring it up.  we both know little about running a brand new area, but we know missionary handbook and how to be obedient.  we are not the best teachers but we have the spirit, and it paid off for us this week.  this is defiantly stretching us both more than before, but that is good because we are learning.   it good to hear that you all are doing good, i got the Christmas tree yesterday, o man that beard of marcs is pretty gnarly. i hope you all are doing well. i love you all. 

Elder Gardner

I'm so glad to hear that you made it back safe and sound. well, what a crazy email. im so confused. i got the biggest pit in my stomache when i read about michael kendall. i hope they find what ever they are looking for. you can tell garrett that i feel bad for him cause he got so close to going to the best mission on this planet (dont tel marc i said that). who is andy getting married to?

sorry this week has been crazy and i have not had time to do anything, i had the crazies week of the mission thus far. i will sent a recording next week explaning. i was wondering if you could send garrison and aaron mailing adress. and emily and annies email.

well, today is the first day of the a new change. i said goodbye to my dad today, because im staying in tepotzotlan kind of. so they are spliting this ward in to two areas. I was sent to open the new area, and be senior comp, and my new comp, Elder Marsh only has 6 months on the mission. this is the most humbliing expirence ive every had in my life. my spanish is still so rough, and elder marsh is about the same as me. its time to put my money were my mouth is. im out here telling people all day about how this message can help anyone in any situation, if you will put all your faith in him. we are all going to be figurativly put up against the ropes, and you can either sit down and give up, our you can fight back. i can promise you that when we fight back and you do it the lords way you will not fail. God loves us, o boy he loves us. thanks for all you have done for me, remeber me in your prayers cause i going to need the help. no dout you all are in mine. As for the ward tell them i love them and that im so grateful for all they have ever done for me. this mission has all ready changed my life completly and i wish i could be there to tell all the boys in our ward about how much this mission means to me, and they better not think of missing out of an oppourtunity like this. i love you so much. up ward and onward.

Love
Elder Gardner

January 23, 2011

I'm so glad to hear that you made it back safe and sound.  well, what a crazy email. I'm so confused.   i got the biggest pit in my stomach when i read about Michael Kendall.  i hope they find what ever they are looking for.  you can tell garret that i feel bad for him cause he got so close to going to the best mission on this planet (don't tell marc i said that). who is Andy getting married to?

sorry this week has been crazy and i have not had time to do anything, i had the crazies week of the mission thus far. i will sent a recording next week explaining. i was wondering if you could send  garrison and Aaron mailing address. and Emily and Annie's email.     

well, today is the first day of the a new change.  i said goodbye to my dad today, because I'm staying in Tepotzotlan kind of.  so they are splitting this ward in to two areas.  I was sent to open the new area, and be senior comp, and my new comp, Elder Marsh only has 6 months on the mission.  this is the most humbling experience I've every had in my life. my Spanish is still so rough, and elder marsh is about the same as me.  its time to put my money were my mouth is.  I'm out here telling people all day about how this message can help anyone in any situation, if you will put all your faith in him. we are all going to be figuratively put up against the ropes, and you can either sit down and give up, our you can fight back.  i can promise you that when we fight back and you do it the lords way you will not fail.  God loves us, o boy he loves us.  thanks for all you have done for me, remember me in your prayers cause i going to need the help.  no doubt you all are in mine.  As for the ward tell them i love them and that I'm so grateful for all they have ever done for me.  this mission has all ready changed my life completely and i wish i could be there to tell all the boys in our ward about how much this mission means to me, and they better not think of missing out of an opportunity like this.  i love you so much.  up ward and onward.

Love

Elder Gardner

January 3, 2011

I´m not sure what holidays you are talking about.  this has been a different holiday season (not a big surprise), because i haven´t been with the family, but it was good and the work goes on.  i miss the food and the staying up late with the fam. 

we had a great week, not sure what changed but golden investigators are popping out of the woodwork.  we were walking down this street and saw this lady up on this latter trying to keep her balance while she painted her house.  we asked if we could help and she tried to be polite and tell us no but we helped her anyways.  it ended up talking the whole day and I'm pretty sure i ruined my pants and my shoes are covered in orange paint, but it was all worth it.  she kept telling us that we were angels sent from heaven, we went back the next day and taught her the next day.  we taught her and her neighbor, and after the lesson her neighbor told us she attended one of our church's with her friends when she was younger and felt so peaceful and happy.  she told us she felt the same feeling when were painting the house and during the lesson.  another experience, we were knocking doors, and this lady answered and told us to come in, she told us that she had been waiting for us to knock her door. the next three days we taught back to back to back and she is getting baptized on the 16 of enero.  we had an awesome domingo, and had 9 investigators attend church and next week we are hoping for double that.   things are going great. 

thanks for sending garrisons and Aarons letters through dear elder, its always good to hear from them.  that's crazy about garrison reaching one year and having a little boy. what a stud.  could you get me garrisons and Aarons mailing address. good luck mom in san frantic, that should be pretty fun. don't worry about the girls you have the boys to look after them:)

I hope you are all doing well, and are as happy as can be.  sorry I'm so terrible at writing letters, hopefully i will get better.  good luck and do work.

love you

Elder Gardner