3 junio 2013

Que onda!!!

I have learned that I am not capable of watching Mormon Messages and writing a letter to you at the same time. Oprah calls that multi-tasking. That´s one thing that I haven´t learned on my mission. So it was another awesome week! We are taking half of our P-day today and another half tomorrow due to a Leadership Council that we are going to have tomorrow.

Elder Shirley and I are doing great. I watched him chase a nonexistant Chihuahua around the house at about 1 in the morning last night. Haha. Poor guy never sleeps good. It has been awesome having him as a last companion. Definitely a tender mercy of the Lord. And the good news is that I have converted him into a mamey smoothie addict also. 

We taught 23 lessons this week. It´s not as much as we would have liked but we had a few extra things that we had to do too. I went to Chinampas with Elder Beal once again to interview some people. He´s from my generation but won´t be flying home with us because his parents are flying in on Wednesday. I will be flying to L.A. with Elder Reid and Elder Herman though. We also gave a special training to a district in our zone that is struggling with la Obra de la Salvación. Most of them only teach about 12 lessons per week. So we set goals with them to increase the amount they teach every week and to also uplift and strengthen the members more. I love teaching a lot because we are not walking in the street all day, we get better at teaching, we find new people to teach, and we can strengthen whoever is in front of us. 

Mitzy is going great. She is going to be baptized this Friday and she already asked me to perform the ordinance. I am so glad that I could see her be baptized before I go. Her whole family went to church this week and are progressing really well.  Secretly, Elder Shirley and I have our own theme music for Mitzy. Haha.

Last night, our bishop invited his friend Monica and her kid, Gabriel over so we could meet them and teach them. Gabriel is a nine year old genius and Monica is really interested in the Restoration. So the area is running like a well oiled machine.

I love being a missionary and I love teaching. It´s so much fun. Tell the Bishop that I´ll do whatever he asks me when I get back! I´m still not the greatest teacher but I´m better than I was.

I have a ton that I have to do this week. Teach 30 lessons, have a baptism, a Leadership Council, interview some more people, and find new people to teach. It will be awesome. Churubusco has easily been one of my favorite wards. So that´s about all she wrote. I love  you  a ton! I´ll write again on Monday next week.  Paz.

Elder Hubbard

Happy Anniversary Aaron and Lynze.

28 mayo 2013

Hubbardoooos!!!

That means Hubbards in Spanish. How was your week? It sounds like Mom and Dad are having fun in the land of the pápas.  I can´t believe you met Spencer Call! I let him live with us when he was homeless for a few months. Haha. Happy Birthday this week to Don Marcos!

We had a good week here in Churubusco. It seemed like it was a water park with all of the rain, but it was fun. We taught 25 lessons this week and now we want to go for 30. Teaching a lot is so much fun.

This week Stefano was baptized! It was a good day. The baptismal service was probably the simplest one that I have ever seen. Stefano was born in Chicago so we baptized a fellow American. This week we are going to work on getting him prepared to recieve the Aaronic Priesthood.

We taught the Ramirez Flores family this week about the law of the fast and the mom did it this weekend. She loved it and recieved a huge testimony of it. As a result, we are now teaching their daughter, who didn´t want to listen to us before.

Things are also going well with Mitzy. Elder Jeffery R. Holland did us a favor this week, and visited Mexico City. Mitzy went with the YSA and she loved it. Obviously. We are now teaching Mitzy´s mom and sisters and they went to church on Sunday. So we have a lot of work in Churubusco.

This week I woke up in the middle of the night and heard that Elder Shirley was making a lot of noise. I looked down at him and all of the sudden he rolled over and fell right off the bed onto the floor. Hahaha. Poor kid. He was alright though.

Next Tuesday I am going to go to try to find some souvenirs for all of you. I´ll see if I can find something but it´s not going to be as cool as the scripture case that Aaron got us. Ni modo.

I love you all a ton! It feels good to be an elder. (Oh, and somebody yelled nefitas at my companion and I this week on the subway.) Have a good week!

Elder Hubbs

21 mayo 2013

Thanks for all of the happy birthday wishes! I feel loved. 

 Elder Shirley and I had another great week. The Zone Conference might have been the best one that I have had in my whole mission. President Valadez talked about how to study the scriptures so we can teach them. He taught us how to study doctrine, principles, and how to apply them. I love it. 

Elder Shirley and I have a great work system right now in our area. We are teaching a lot of lessons with members present at the church. Stefano is going good for his baptism this Saturday. Mitzy is also going well for her baptism on June 1st. The Ramirez Flores family went to a baptismal service Sunday night and when they walked out they looked like they had just gotten their minds blown. Brother Ramirez said that it felt like someone was hugging him during all of the service and he took that as his answer. They are all ready for baptism. They just need to get divorced and married first. I am really banking on the Mexican government pulling through for us.

I renewed my temple recommend this week! I love having those interviews. 

The rainy season is starting once again, so we are no longer dying from the scorching sun as much. We had a total of four birthday cakes in two days. Impressive. Sister Mares and her family gave us three and Laura and Michel gave us one. Haha.

There`s a whole bunch of other stuff that happened this week and I wrote all in my journal so I can tell you when I get home. I love you and thanks for everything. 

Love,

Elder Hubbard

RETURN Travel Itinerary For HUBBARD/TYLER JAMES - 12June

It's official!! Tyler will really be coming home!! We would like to invite anyone who would like to be with us at the airport when Tyler arrives home.

CHURCH TRAVEL CWT                          DATE 10APRIL13

50 EAST NORTH TEMPLE ST                    AGENT VH/K3 BOOKING REF 3L4DUL

SALT LAKE CITY UT 84150

TELEPHONE: 801 240-5111                    HUBBARD/TYLER JAMES 219765-R

FAX      : 801-240-5115

  MISSIONARY TRAVEL

  MEXICO MEXICO CITY SOUTH

SERVICE               DATE  FROM           TO             DEPART  ARRIVE

_____________________ _____ ______________ ______________ _______ ______

AMERICAN AIRLINES     12JUN MEXICO CITY    LOS ANGELES CA 725A    930A

AA 6936           WEDNESDAY JUAREZ INTL    LOS ANGELES IN

Q ECONOMY                   TERMINAL 1     TERMINAL 6

           NON SMOKING      SNACK                         NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         4:05 DURATION

AS 0225                    FLIGHT OPERATED BY AS ALASKA AIRLINES

            AIRCRAFT OWNER: AS  ALASKA AIRLINES

                  AIRCRAFT: BOEING 737 ALL SERIES PASSENGER

AMERICAN AIRLINES     12JUN LOS ANGELES CA RENO NV        1200N   120P    

AA 2662           WEDNESDAY LOS ANGELES IN TAHOE INTL

Q ECONOMY                   TERMINAL 4

           NON SMOKING      FOOD FOR PURCHASE             NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         1:20 DURATION

                            FLIGHT OPERATED BY SKYWEST AIRLINES AS AM

            AIRCRAFT OWNER: OO  SKYWEST AIRLINES

              COCKPIT CREW: OO  SKYWEST AIRLINES

                CABIN CREW: OO  SKYWEST AIRLINES

                  AIRCRAFT: CANADAIR REGIONAL JET

13 mayo 2013

It was so good to talk to you yesterday! I am glad that Travis could be there too to say hi. I´m writing today because tomorrow we are going to have our Zone Conference.  President Valadez has to show a future mission president an example of a zone conference and we won the lottery pick. 

We had such a good week in our area. President Valadez has invited us to teach thirty lessons every week. This week we acomplished 22. Elder Shirley is a beast and has helped me a lot. As part of teaching, we have taught a lot of active members. Week after week. We also always ask them if they know anyone that could be interested in our message. We are starting to see a lot of results.

We met a new investigator this week named Mitzy. She is 21 and her boyfriend is a member of the church. We taught her for the first time Saturday night in the church. It was so sweet! We gave her a tour and then we taught her the Restoration in the chapel. We invited her to pray about it as Elder Shirley played some hymns on the piano. Afterwards she said that she felt an unexplainable feeling and she accepted a baptitsmal date.

We also had a sweet lesson with the Ramirez Flores family. It was the first time that we taught them in about two months and they are on fire like in NBA Jam on the Super Nintendo. We explained to them why they needed to be baptized in the right way, they went to church yesterday, and I did a little fist pump in the pew. I am committed to do everything I can to help them be baptized before I leave.

The other miracle that we had was Jazmín. She is an inactive member that wants to come back to church out of nowhere. She brought her son Estefeno also to church yesterday and he is a great kid. 12 years old. We are going to start teaching them tomorrow. 

Happy Mother´s Day mom! I love you a ton. And Happy Birthday Jeff. Someday I will meet you. Haha. Have a great week. I love you all. I´ll write on Tuesday next week.

Elder Hubbard

8 mayo 2013

Familia!!

Sorry for writing so late! It feels like I haven`t had a p-day for about

two weeks! But here I am finally. We had a leadership council yesterday so

we couldn`t write. The Leadership Councils in the mission are now composed

of zone leaders and sister trainers. That may or may not be how you say

that in English. It was a lot of fun. There are a ton of new zone leaders,

including Elder Chronister from Aaron`s ward in Vegas. I ate lunch with him

yesterday.

So week 1 with my cool companion from Lovelock was awesome. We taught 26

lessons. In most of them we taught active members of the church and tried

to strengthen them. We still aren`t really repping in the investigators

category but we`ll get there. People from Nevada are athletes in the

mission field.

We had a ton of stuff to do this week as zone leaders. A bunch of

paperwork. I think Elder Shirley was pretty tired. He sleep walks every

night! Scares the bejeebees out of me. The first night I saw him walk into

the kitchen and in the morning a banana was on the floor. Haha. But I

already found the trick. He is really obedient so I just tell him to go

back to sleep. He just says okay...Haha.

Laura and Michel, our recent converts, have signed up to give us La Comida

every day this week. Word.

It`s gonna be another crazy week! I am so excited to talk to you on Sunday!

Travis better be there too. I love you and miss you.

Elder Hubbard

29 abril 2013

Happy Birthday dad!!! Biggest stud I know. I meant to tell you last week but at the last second I forgot. Sorry.  So my last transfer of the mission has officially begun. I didn´t get transferred but sadly, Elder Lee did. The goods news is that Fallon and Lovelock Nevada are now united here in Iztapalapa! My new companion is Elder Shirley from Lovelock. The Lord likes to do funny things like that.  It will be his first time being a zone leader so I´ll show him what we have to do. It will be tons of fun to be with him because he is normal and obedient.

I had a really good week. Elder Lee had to go to the doctors at the temple and there I bought a bible, triple and hymnbook for Laura. Better said, Mom and Dad bought it for her and she says thank you. Haha.

On Friday we didn´t work because we were puking. Elder Lee in the bathroom and I right on some plants that are outside the house. It was fun though. We don´t know why we got sick.

Socorro and Marisol are still going to church. Socorro said that one night she prayed to know if the church was true and she woke up in the morning with a train of thoughts. First-I´m gonna die. Second-God. Third- I need forgiveness. Fourth- I need to be baptized. And fifth- The elders. Haha. That´s a great way to start a day off. We invited them to a baptismal service of a little girl in the ward and they went and liked it but they still don´t want to do it. I have faith though. It has been such a fun project teaching them.

We have been teaching a lot of active members of the church and we find interesting things and have great lessons. For example, one marriage told us that they were sealed 7 years ago and haven´t gone back to the temple since. What are you people doing?! Go to the temple! It´s the best place in the world! Finally, an inactive family that we have been teaching for 2 months came to church on Sunday  It´s such a sweet feeling to see them back at the Lord´s Table. Well, actually only half of them went. But it´s alright for now.

Yesterday I had to take care of a problem of a missionary using his own cell phone to watch an ab workout video. What are you doing?! Haha. He´d better have a six pack.

Elder Lee and I played basketball at church today. It is the only church that I have seen here that as an indoor court. They´re ballers on budgets here in DF. Oh well.

I love every one of you almost as much as my investigators. Haha. JK. Love you.

Elder Hubbard

p.s. You should all make mormon.org profiles if you haven´t yet!