Ohhhh yeaaaaaa!!!!!

Perfection! 

I had an amazing week! How was yours? We hit Standards of excellence (SOE) this week which is just the numbers that the mission wants us to be hitting every week! I am so happy we did that because the ward I am in has been really slow. Like when I first got into it, the ward was dead... Like no missionary work at all!  

My new companion Elder Pennington is amazing! He is such a great missionary! He is basically perfect! He is such an example to me on how I need to improve myself! And I know he is probably so annoyed with me because I talk and talk and talk  You know how I am! In the lessons Elder P and I talk about the same but in the car, at home and when we are just normally talking with members it's all me. But I love it! It has helped my Spanish so much! Our ward has picked up so much with missionary work that we have four missionaries in it now!  And Elder Studyvin has gotten to see the change in the members! Being able to watch the change the atonement has on people not just investigators but on members as well has been something that has strengthened my testimony of the Savior so much! 

I am so confused on one thing: Why do people love the missionaries so much?  

I actually want an answer to this please! Because members and  investigators are always giving us food, doing things for us, etc. and I want to know why! I am a 19 year old punk. I don't know anything. I can barely speak Spanish. And these people act like I'm their son, grandson, or brother. We must have angels behind us bribing the members with brownie points or something. Because every time I fall down on my knees before I go to bed I remember everything un-Christ-like I have done that day and I don't understand why people love us! 

I think that is about it from me! Love you all! 

-Elder Studs 

Éste semana para todos dos personas

Este semana

Oh yea, I have a new comp and he is super quiet! I am still in Agua Fria but we have four missionaries here in Agua Fria! Because my comp elder Pennington is so quiet I feel like he doesn't like me!  The car rides are so boring!! He doesn't sing while music is playing so I don't want to bug him by singing so it's just quiet music. 

So they split of the area of Agua Fria right. Well all of the information in our area book went to the other elders so we literally have nothing to work with. And we don't live with the other elders!  that's me right now ! We still live with the normal two elders we used to live with! Elders Newcomb and Vanderplas cover English areas and Elder
Pennington and I cover the west side of a Spanish area.  About my companion! He is a quiet one but he knows how to show you he loves you. He knows Spanish a lot better than I do. He is been out about a year. He is having some trouble right now on the computer. He is debating about getting another mouse. He found a new mouse and he agrees that it is a lot easier to use. I love him very much and I am super excited about Agua Fria West.
The people we live with! Elder Vanderplas and Elder Newcomb. They are the two elders that we live with. They cover two English wards, and Elder Newcomb is my district leader. The two of them love to run in the morning. One of them, Elder Newcomb, is training for the Olympics.

We are planning on doing the FaceTime Christmas thing at the church so we don't know much about it! (Mom you are going to hate this one) EVERYONE is invited! I miss all of you!

Baptism!

On Monday the 23 of November we received a phone call from our bishop saying "one of the part member families wants to get baptized!" He had been investigating the church for about 18 years now!!!  My 3rd day in Agua Fria his wife challenged me to be the missionary in the area when he got baptized! And I did! He knew all of the lessons but we still had to teach him everything so we taught him all of the lessons in 4 days! He just got confirmed yesterday. He is a super solid member. We love him a lot. We cannot wait until one year later when he can enter the temple and be sealed to his family for all time and eternity.

I have a really funny story to tell. It is about a member named Hermana Hernández. She said this phrase "tú eres un negro" I will just let all of you go to Google translate and figure out what that means. So the story behind this one is we were talking about what foods we liked and I said that I really liked fried chicken.

Christmas! I am super excited about Christmas coming up. I am super excited to have the opportunity to talk with my mom! I love my mom so much! I just wish I could talk to all of you face-to-face.

This is my letter. I am sorry if it is not long enough for any of you. I am not perfect. I hate writing. I hate it so much that I am using Siri to write this letter for me! LOL I love all of you! 

Baptism this Wednesday

So even though P-day is on Tuesday I don't know about transfers until Wednesday. We will get a text at around 8 tonight. We also have a baptism this Wednesday. We have been doing a lot of finding and serving! 

It has been getting chilly not cold just chilly here and I am in a very thin sweater and all the members are in bundles of jackets. It is very funny.

Love, Elder Studs