me encanta kfc..

 sooo, i went to kfc last week, yeah, its not very good here.  yall should feel blessed, and say a prayer of gratitude because you have a kfc that doesnt make you sick and tastes good, but other then that downer my week was pretty good!!!

     the fact that i only have a few weeks left with elder sumano just hit me in the face... that poor kid, ill bet he will miss me!!! lol, no but for real its been a good time with him, ive learned a lot, and weve made some good memories together and for that i am soo soo grateful! kinda scary to think that two weeks from now president is gonna call out a name and whether i like him or not were stuck together for atleast a month and a half... pray for my next comp that he will be a good one please :)

    so, i played basketball today... that was very interesting, i think a mix between the fact that i havnt touched a basketball in 4 monthes, the ghettoness of the court and the fact that none of the mexican elder actually knew how to play basketball made it a game for the ages... lol.  they suck so bad.

    so my investigators are doing pretty good, although we had to drop someof them... oh well.  if they want it they want it, if they dont they dont, simple enough!!

    were working super hard tho, elder sumano and i have a goal to teach 60 lessons next week, ahhh its going to be so so so awesome, walking like 5 miles a day just doing work, im so grateful to be out here serving, its so satisfying, theres not much else that anyone could do thats better lol, so if yall wanna do something worthwile go on a mission, yes, you brandon ward. you.

     so as much as i want to report on the week i cant, theres stuff more important out there...  my prayers go out to the loerchster and culley families this week.   as a missionary one thing that i have learned is that i dont have all of the answeres... and it kills me, because i want to be able to help and answer and do all of that stuff so bad.  but what i can say is god loves each and every single one of us, and that it will all workout in the end, i know that and i testify of that every single day and i wont ever stop, because its too easy for us to forget... so my words and my prayers are that you all rest easy people, god left us in good hands when he sent his son to die for us!  please please dont ever forget it, because in a life as imperfect as this one, and the world we live in today, there isnt anything in the world i could tell you that is more comforting then the fact that you have a father in heaven who loves you, who cares for you, and who has a plan for each and every single one of you.   why do i know that?  because i see it every single day, in my life and in the lives of those i teach and i feel it every single night as i kneel to pray, and now without a shout of a doubt i know it.       family, friends if you do not know for yourself that god loves you, open your eyes, and see.  open your ears and hear, and last of all, open your heart and feel and i promise you in one way or another, god will let you know that hes there, that hes listening, and that hes looking out for you.  

stay up and smile everyone

-elda hicks

"soy un profeta..."..... "ha, me too"‏

sorry guys, this letter is a week late posting. so this is before the last letter posted. 




Alright white people, ya know, when this things all over i think im going to be so dark that i wont be able to be caucasiaun anymore... and no, probably not poly either, ill be too skinny :(  ha, just some freaky looking thing more like it... 

      So todays been nuts, and we moved our house, and i really dont have much time, because good old elder hicks decided, hey, lets go teach more lessons on pday and now im realizing i dont have anytime to write... oh well, youll get over it...

     But, saturday was the funniest thing ever, so i have to tell you about it.   So some other elders in our district found a lady whose been taking lessons from the j-dubs (jehova witnesses, thanks jord for the nickname) and this lady wanted to know which one of us was right, so she set up an appointment with elders and jdubs at the same time, and these elders called us in the help cuz let me tell ya, jdubs our our specialty... we get there... the the jehovas witnesses missionaries didnt show up... ha, sucked, until we found out why, the lady wanted us to teach her too.... lol, shes crazy.  no litterally, crazy.   we asked her the first question we ask every person who is god for her???  yeah, apparently shes seen god (or so she says, everything she says contradicts the scriptures so hard) but it was exciting... i mean, apprently.. actually no, i will not share what she shared with us, so much apostasy... hahaha but it was really funny, she was really funny, and then we tried teaching the resturation and my idiot comp decided to share a scripture in the bible talking about how profets and how they talk to god face to face and all that stuff and now this lady thinks shes a profet and has told just about every single person she knows... awww, we set up another appointment with her because like yeah we need to figure out whats going on with her because shes wack, but hey, idk, maybe she knows something that we dont ;)  hahaha if that wasnt crazy enough we taught margaritas mom right after (yeah the one who is straight off an indian reservation here who speaks a dead language and understands about 15 percent... hahahahaha imagine that, a know it all mexican whose super frustrated, a huge white dude who doesnt understand that well, and then this sister (we still dont understand her name so i am not oging to spell it) hahaha she just laughs when she doesnt understand which is always and is always stitching together sombreros out of leaves from her front yard. hahaha so cool, but every time we try to pray with her she just starts reciting catholic prayers, im pretty sure thats about all she understands about the gospel, oh well, esta bien, we had fun and she learned something... welll, probably not but its fine... 

    To top it all off saturday night we went by gabriel one  of our best investigators and he just decided he wasnt making enough money to take sunday off so he just opened a hamburger restaurent stand idk what it is... lol, so funny, so mexican, so awesome... and honestly, those burgers are so good.  except it added to my diarreah, oh well. 

    On a more spiritual note, i really lam so grateful to be here, it really is an eyeopener to be here and to realixze how blessed we are to live in such a great country, give thanks to god tonight!!!  love ya all, keep the faith!

elda hicks

haga su ejercicio!!!‏

hey white people whats cracking???  sometimes i forget what white people look like, and then i show up for general conference and the abundance of blanco litterally hurt my eyes... its ok, thats why god made sunglasses right??? lol

         So, another good week filled with incredible food, another box of anti diarrareal consumed (yeah, im forgetting how to spell) and a bunch of investigatores promising to go to church, and not going!!! yeah i know righgt? just kidding, some of em came, theyre the good ones, ha, im starting to learn whose actually sincere in their desires to come closer to christ and who just says it cuz it sounds cool, eventually ill be pro at reading these people just like ammon with limonhi, thatll be dope!!!

         So tuesday we had to go shoppingh for a bunch of stuff for the new house, and i passed this guy that makes boxing bags and gloves and all the goods, and he hooked it up fat with all that stuff for like 10 bucks, called one of my homie investigatores to install it in the house and all of the sudden my companion has to call me mike tyson, its bien padre... hahaha that means cool.... but yeah, something to spice up my workouts, making things a little bit more fun, yeha, you could say i enjoy getting up at 630 in the am now...

       Wednesday was my favorite day this week, we have this awesome family in our ward who has a special needs daughter who has about 25 years who cant go to church that often because she is on some heavy meds for her epilepsy that make her sleep a toooon!  but we ran into her mom and i asked if we could come read the book of mormon with her just for like 20 minutes a day once a week... oh my gosh so much fun!!!  her spirit is so sweet and reading the scrips with her was hilarious, she asked usually about 2 or 3 questions every verse so it lasted for about 45 minutes but i loved every second of it!!!  reminds me of all my friends back of bingham, and for this one im giving a big shout out to hayden cuz i miss that kid!!!! hahaha but seriously, ahhh so muich fun!

     thursday we had interviews with pres, he interviews everyone every 2-3 monthes, its so weird to think that its already been that long, it feels like just this morning i had my entrance interview here in the field and pres was setting goals for my studies and for the language, it felt even better when he told me ive met those goals and am doing better then expected (i didnt tell him about the diarrheal) hahahaha we also had some really good lessons with a few of the jehovas witness, ha, they actually went relaly good, change is hard but we know with the help of god all things are possible, so weve just been moving line upon line with them and its finally starting to feel like were getting somewhere!

      friday we found a couple of teenage kids messing around and told em were going to teach em, talked to em about drinking because everyone drinks here, and it was so cool, theyre both like 16 but they were so cool with everytghing and idk it was just fun to teach kids because we could talk about sports and stuff too!!!  hahaha, we worked hard and planned alot for the big even we had this weekend!!!

        i was pretty dissappointed when president said that we had to watch conference in espanol, but i prayed for some help to understand it and i got it!!  oh my gosh, every single session was really good and it was even better to have some investigators show up feel the spirit and then be like, ya know what, your right, those guys really too tlak to god ahhhH!   i hope everyone watched conference but more important i hope everyone watched it and really is trying to get something ou of it because there was something in there for everyone!!!  

      -also want to give a big shout out to my boi riley culley!   dig deep baby!  OLFLH-

      last but not least i want to talk about the familia aline that we contacted on sunday, oh my gosh.... their mom passed away a few years back and are still struggling with that, we taught em the plan of salvation and the spirit was so hard in the room and they were all crying and really it was just such a blessing to be a part of that... thats what i came here to do, help people and this is the first time ive relally seen the gospel really bring that peace and tranquility into real peoples lives and help them day to day!!  im so grateful to be able to bring the message of christ into peoples lives and if anyone out theres reading this and just needs someone to lean on christ is waiting!!  i know that, ive seen that, and ive felt that!   have a good week everyone and dont forget, hes always watching, and always waiting to lend a hand!!!

with love... -elda hicks