ya me enferme otra vez...‏

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So the rain season started full blast here in mexico....  When your this wet, and no one will let you in you sometimes have to stop and just take a nice sexy selfie in the rain you know??? hahaha but seriously tho, i think were going to invet in some umbrellas, i mean, considering the fact that there only like 1.50 in US dollars i think thatd be worth it.. hahahaha

so, short week short week, it feels like i just wrote yesterday, i mean, i did right on monday, and now its saturday so obviously i didnt write yesterday but i swear i just blinked and im writing agian... why didnt weeks go by this fast when i was in high school?  hahaha

so i may or may not have gotten some raw food poisoning monday night, we went and ate with the relief society president, she gave us the funkiest omelletes ever, and worse, shes a food pusher, so we HAD TO EAT.  ha, i had a raw fever of 102° and chills all night, i probably could have died, but I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL WIN THIS FIGHT OF MAN VS FOOD POISONED FOOD MEXICO MEXICO CITY SERIES...  just need a few more monthes to let my immune system get used to the dirtiness of this pllace... hahah, when this is all done and over with imma have a stomach of iron that can litterally eat everything. tight right?

so our area is going good, gonna babtize my boy mario next week, GET EXCITED lol, hes a cool dude, im grateful gods blessed us with the opportunity to teach him and has filled our mouths with words and lessons that are actually worth listening too.... couldnt do it without the big boy up stairs!!!!

took a nacho pic, check it out

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trying to get president to buy us a motorized on of these bad boys so we can cruise like this all day every day, probably not gonna happen but hey a man can dream right?

so like its weird, cuz my comps my grampa i told yall that right?  ya dud, its tight, but as i completed six monthes he completed 18, aka, hes only got 6 monthes left.. we started a new ab workout program, its called 6 monthes to sexy, considering how hot he looks in this next pic and the ferociousness of this workout my only comments are....

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WATCH OUT LADIES.

lol, so ya, for this weeks letter i think thats just about it, things are going really good here, working hard, playing hard to (dont worry only on pdays :) and just doing our very best to serve the lord!!!  every one have a good week, love yall, cheer super loud for mexico againnst netherlands cuz they are going to get smashed and i am going to talk so much smack to every one here when they lose lol... USA BABY ALL THE WAY!!!

love yall

elder hicks

GANÖ MËXICO!!!!!!!!!!!‏

 alright everyone, so i was walking down the street after lunch today coming to my office so i could send you all some workds of love and then everything just exploded... you could hear cheering in the houses, fireworks, and just a lot of crazy coming out of nowhere... why?  because mexico won the game today and they are passing into the next round of the world cup... dude, these little mexis are NUTS about soccer... like, nuts.  nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts... oh well tho, it is really really entertaining, i enjoy it alot!!

          i really love my mission ya know???  like i finished six monthes this last week and as fun and cool as it was i am also kinda sad that it just flies by so fast... i love you all, and i miss you all so much, i have so many days where i wish i could just see all of you and give yall a big keeg hug and say what up but i just love love love my mission too, so it makes things so much better... and its kinda sad that i have already finished a quarter of my mission so fast, thats six monthes as a full time servant of the lord that i can never get back, that i can never redue in the same place in the same situation with the same people, and ya know, its kinda sad.. but awesome, i have learned so much out here in these short six monthes, so many life lessons that i never would have learned anywhere else, and the best part?  i still got 18 monthes ( a full mission for a sister missionary )  to keep learning, to keep progressing, and to keep coming closer with my father in heaven!!!!  love the motivation to realize how fast time flies and to realize that i gotta be doing everything i can to take advantage of where i am and what i am doing. its like life ya know, we all have a clock thats ticking down, but whats important is what we do with that amount of time gods given each and every single one of us to become like him.   So what will i do with the time that i got to serve the lord?  i couldnt tell you exactly what im going to do but i can prommise you i am going to be living the slogan that good old coach peck hammered into my brain for 4 years... NO REGRETS.   nothing better then looking back at something and saying if i did that again i would go do it the exact same way again cuz i did my very best, and thats where we are at with my mission, just trying to ball out in a spiritual sense ya know?

        So this last week was pretty good, we had a lot of office work but ya know, when you are in the service of your fellow man you are in the service of your god, so whether we are working the streets or working the offices making sure all our guys in the mission are having the best mission they can possibly have physically and mentally it doesnt matter, we dont choose how we serve, got just puts us in the position to serve and we "JUST DO IT"   LOVE IT.

        we are progressing really really well with some of our investigators, my boy mario who i found because i felt like getting  a nice big fat amazing mexican hamburger has accepted the invitation to be babtized and it really is amazing to see a guy who didnt even know if there was a god and who really didnt even know how to tlak to him just grow so far spiritually... his family is progressing really well too, im thinking were going to get lucky in a couple weeks here with quite a few babtisms, and its all from the big man upstairs helping us out!!!

       i am really so pumped to be with my dude elder gagon, he relaly is like my brother from another motha, ya know??? to have a comp to help and make you better really is such a blessing as a missionary, and my guys so great!!!  h3es been out here for like 17 monthes or something like that so he definitely knows whats going on and hes in that mindset of no regrets too so i am just loving what we are getting done!!!  although if someone can hook me up with a bingham shirt i will love you, my boy looks way better in bingham blue then he does in alta gay.

        we havfe been having a problem in our mission with disanimation, just elders getting down because they havnt completed their goals,or they get homesick or something like that and so today elder gagon and i were able to plan a nice day of basketball for a lot of the boys in the mish, it was SOOOO much fun and i am so greatful to be able to play  apart of something that just makes people in need smile ya know that???  its just all about helping people, that is really what the gospel of christ comes down to, learning to love and respect and serve your neighbor, your family, your friends, some homeless man on the street.  gotta be willing to do that if you wanna follow christ!!!  

      i am running out of time now, but i love allof you guys, if there is anything i can do for ya please let me know, i mean i am kinda tied up right now so i cant just hop on a plane and come visit but like, i could hook it up with a fat letter or something that might just do the trick... love you all:)  have a good week:)  miss you and hope the best for each and every one of you :)

love,

elder hicks

mexico ganó... no manchies.‏

 hows everyone doing this week?? haha, ya know, sometimes my reports are super freaking crazy... and sometimes, theyre just average.... and then, there are weeks like today, where theyre just flat out boring.  hahaha its fine tho, like, stuff happens.... hahha, so we got a new load of elders in this week, which means we had a butt ton of office work get at us, yah, that means this week was pretty uneventful on the teaching side of things because we were busy keeping the mexico city east mission running, but oh well, serving is serving, and right now were serving the mission as hard as we can..

     we also had transfers, elder lee took off, hes only got six weeks left in his mission, im glad that president is letting him finish it off in the field, he deserves it considering how hard he worked here in the offices to keep things running nice and smoothly!!!  so now its just me and gagon that poor alta alumni and i riding solo dolo baby!!! hahaha, im so grateful to be comps with gagon, i mean, he did go to alta but i always win the smack talk (thanks again kalin) so i mean, im getting over it, and hes just becoming one of my best friends.   Ya have lots of strange comps out here in themission but everyonce in a while you get a comp who just becomes a good friend and thats where we are with that!!!

     we had to leave the mission several times this week, one for us to take a training course and another one to go to migration and make sure everyones visas are clear and out of deportations way!!!  its fun to get out get some fresh air, it also helps that bouth times we went to easily the nicest places in the city, theres poor parts of the city, and theres rich parts... and then there is polonco, ya, we enjoyed it, if i didnt know better i woulda thought we were in beverly hills thats how dope this area is!!!

      something funny, while we were on a visa run mexico was playing camaroon in the world cup, and you wouldnt believe how crazy these fans are, no one was driving and every single tv in sight had hordes of atleast 50 little mexicans wearing their jerseys and screaming their heads off... hahaha so funny, sports bars were packed, the mall was loaded, and every single taco stand, tamale cart and torta shop had a little tiny tv that had way more people watching it then it had in centimeters in perimeter!!! Even the government buildings especially put tvs up for the game  hahahaha, it was fun tho, just be walking down the street and all the of the restraunts just explode in cheering and those annoying soccer horns and all that good stuff!!!  hahaha made my day, we won too, so everyone just seems to be in a good mood, haha hows usa doing by the way?   dont tell my investigators but secretly im still pulling for them.

     this next week we shouldnt be too busy in the offices, im excited to get my but out in the area again teaching and preaching, thats what we came here to do right??? hahaha, oh well, miss all of yall, hope ya had a good week, if your wondering how im doing, jsut know im doing great, happier then ive been in a long time, and its because when you are in the service of your fellow man you truly are in the service of your fellow god!!!  

lvoe you all, dont be shy to write, or type cuz i would really love some pictures of all of you, like old pics of us or something, im going to be here in the offices for a bit like probably a year so ive been trying to get nice and comfy and ive built a wall of fame with all of my favorite pics on it, send me something so i can get you on there too!!!  

take care everyone, love ya, 

elda hicks

pday on saturday??? say whatttttttttttt?‏

alright, what up people, i realize that considering the fact that your going to be reading this before monday that your going to be feeling like christmas came early this year... thats cuz it did, just putting out a public announcement, my pday is now on saturday, just thought you would want to know that, idk, i feel like its pretty dope...
       so i feeel like i just wrote you all yesterday, but i didnt, but honestly there really isnt much to update yall on, like my comps are tight, my areas tight and we are just doing work!!!  i know, so tight!!! hahahaha

we did babtize this week tho... check it out homies

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such a blessing to be able to be involved in this ladies conversion, so grateful that God could help us out in the work and bring back another one of his beloved children!!! 
 

so that was cool this week, we also had mission leader ship council, decided ill throw  up a pic of that too because it was so funny!!!

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yeah, its pretty obvious which ones my comp, we pulled the "josé" face.... hes this cereep in our ward who litterally is always got his face like that trying to check out the sister missionarys... oh well, i hope everyone got a laugh out of that, because like serious, some of these dudes gotta loosen up and enjoy themselves hahahaha

      but anyways, i gots to dip, but i love you all, miss you all, and im having the time of my life!!!

stay up yall!

elda hicks

Presidente, Podriamos jugar golf??? Pues Claro‏

Hey whats up fools another weeks has passed and im still telling everyone that time flies as a missionary... cuz its true.  i mean, ill probably tell yall the same thing next week dont even worry about it!!!

       So my new comps are freaking tight man, i gave yall the run down on em last week, they tight ight??? hahaha weve been going to work too, between keeping this mission running and working our area we stay pretty budy, but hey its really fun...

       We got a couple to get hitched... wast expecting to be telling people to get married out here but i mean ya, it happened!!!  and now the wifes going to get babtized, were so psyched man so so psyched these people out here are so fantistic!!! 

      like, there is so much cool stuff to tell yall about and i feel like there just isnt enough time, but imma tell yall about taco machine... so we have this restaurant next to our house, and there is this guy there that litterally pumps out like 100 tacos per minute... the fastest moving man in the world, it takes him 1 second to cut up and dice an entire onion, yeah... he keeps the tacos coming and we keep on eating em, its good hahahaha

        yesterday we had the coolest experience with one of our hermanos, hes kinda been a punk while investigating the church, super uninterested and only doing it for his girlfriend and all that stuff, but yesterday he bore his testimony to us... the spirit touch that boys heart hardcore and let him know whats up... man, im pumped!!!  i know Gods helping us out getting it done, and i know that with god anything is impossible, like getting julio to accept a babtisimal date :)  hahaha 

        also president lived up to his promise, he took me my 2 comps and a couple other white boys (ya, mitch holmans in my mish, tight right?) to go hit the links... uncle kenny, you have to come, this was one of the coolest courses ive ever played in my life you would dig it!!!!  ill throw up some picks

        but im just loving the mission and loving life guys, ya wanna be happy?  go on a mission, feeling and recognizing gods hand in your life every day just will blow your mind and make you so so happy!!! love ya all, be good, be jealous that your not living my life here in mexico (yup, diarreah and all) because its freaking awesome!!!

and always remember the big man upstairs loves ya

im out yall

elda hicks

los mejores cambios en todo el mundo

well everyone... how are we doing today??? good?  bad?  just ok???    write me cuz i want to know chumps...
         hahaha so things are going absolutely fantastic here...  have you ever been to prison???  you know how good it feels to be let out..?  yes.  i know your joy... pres put big elda hicks back in the field this thursday and it has just been absolutely fantastic!!!  hahaha i also had changes this last week,  president put me with elder gagon and elder lee, were the secretarys of the mission, and its really cool!!!  hahaha whats cooler is elder gagon and elder lee though, we work hard, we keep the mission running, and we have the best talks about just about everything.

        hahaha elder gagons an alta hawk, but its fine, i just preached a little bit of forgiveness to him so i think god will forgive him, eventually... hahahaha he played ball too, number 3.  dont worry guys, he couldnt stop kalin, thats all that matters!!! hahaha we get along reallywell though and im just enjoying every second of this, pretty drastic change from last week isnt it??? hahhaha yeah the missions like that sometimes i guess!!!

        elder lee only has like 1 month and a half left in his mission, hes going to get changed here in a little because pres doesnt want him to die in a leader ship position hahaha he knows so much, its cool to learn from somebody that actually knows what they are doing, there are very few missionarys here in the field i think in the whole world that actually know what they are doing and he is one of them... its been such a blessing to learn from him im so grateful... and hes pretty cool too, like he boxed in high school, i call him rocky sometimes hahaha.

         our new area, besides the office is fantastic!!! we are super close to the temple and the visitors center so we are able to bring people and teach them here in the visitors center all the time, kinda bugs the hermanas because they wanna teach em but hey theyre mine and i aint gonna let some sister ruin what we got going on!!!

          our house is awesome, we live with a sister whose just fantastic and her family is so cool too, shes got a son named juaquin who just got back from going to high school in the states and he speaks english, so he joins in on our homie talks every night, looooove it!!! we also kinda have a dog, its the families but its basically ours, yessssssss hahaha

         its so great to see kids like me become freaking awesome missionarys and it gets me pumped to learn from em!!!  

so, as you can probably tell, im doing a lot better then i was and im psyched its just like ether 12 27... god humbles ya, and if you have faith strengthens ya after... looooove it!!! go read it and remember that its worked for me so itll work for you!!! 

yall have a good week kids,

elda hicks