July 25, 2011

Hey! Sounds like everyone is having fun in Utah! Im kinda bummed i cant be there but whatever, thats life haha. Tell everyone I said hi! And thats crazy im in Julios old stake in limòn! That is insane. Its a small world. But thats super cool! But yeah tell Ron and Kaye and Kristen and Lauren and Natilyn that i say hi. Oh and we were at an investigators house the other night and they turned it to the byu channel and motab was on and i saw Ron like 5 or six times! That was pretty cool. But yeah anyways. Things are going good! We have 2 baptisms this week so we are super excited. Hopefully nothing falls through and they actually happen. But we are having their baptism interviews in the next couple days so we will see what happens. Oh and yesterday my comp and i had to give talks in sacrament meeting! When i found out early in the week i was like crap im screwed! But i prepared it and it ended up going really well. Its kinda funny that talk was the least scary talk ever! Like while i was talking i wasnt nervous at all haha i joked a little bit too so that was good ;) haha but im glad its over now. Oh and after church we went to this old ladys house and she fed us.. I thought i was gonna explode! She gave us so much food! Some of it was good but some of it not so much haha. She gave us some kind of meat that was the fattiest meat ever. It was kinda gross too haha. But it was ok. But i thought i was gonna die haha. Then after that we went fell asleep while reading hahaha. So it was a good day. Oh but today i finished the book of Alma! Im pretty excited! It took forever but i loved it. Those are my favorite stories now. But yeah im gonna try and finish the book of mormon before the end of this change. Which is in about 5 weeks. Around the end of August. So im excited about that. I wrote a letter to Livvy today too! I havent sent the one to Craig that i wrote last week yet though. I think i might write one or two more before i send them. We will see. Sorry its been a while since you all have gotten letters from me. Im always sooo busy and then the mail system sucks. But hopefully you guys get something soon. Also I have some things that i got for everybody. I think i might wait more till christmas time to send it all though. But anyways i gotta go. Hopefully ill have more interesting things to write about next week haha. I hope you all have fun in Utah! I love you all. Talk to you next week!
Love, Elder Gunnell

An investiagor family, the Gamboa's

A volcano right outside the house

July 11, 2011

Hey! Glad to hear this last week was more exciting! Last week i was falling asleep reading it! Hahaha just kidding. But sounds like everyone is enjoying the summer time so thats good. Oh and my new presidents name is pres Watts! He is from Utah and a really nice guy so we are all excited. But its crazy! It rains every day! I like it on one hand but it sucks cuz we gotta work in it! Haha but its fun. Oh and i took out some money today cuz i needed to buy some shoes. One of my pairs of shoes is tearing up my feet so i got some new ones that will hopefully be better. But wow! Today i am sick as crap.. Haha i am not feeling good at all. When we left the house this morning i felt ok but as the day went on i started feeling sick. And after lunch we got on a bus to come use internet and the buses here are always packed to the max! Like hardly even standing room. And i freaking threw up! I was just holding it in my mouth and luckily it stopped like right then so i pushed through everyone and got off and spit it out and heaved pretty good and got more out and then the bus started going so i just jumped on and grabbed on the little handle thing and was completely out of the bus! Haha it was crazy! Then we stopped at some other elders house and i threw up some more and just rested. Now im here and trying to hurry cuz i feel pretty crappy still! haha anyways so im sorry this is a crappy email! But about that family... Yeah i think that their marriage might be ending soon. And it is soooo sad. It just breaks my heart. They have two kids that are super young and it just breaks my heart that they are probably gonna have to deal with separated parents. Its just so sad. But we have been visiting and teaching them more about families and trying to help them out. But we will see how it turns out. All we can really do is teach them and pray. Which is exactly what we have been doing. But on the bright side! We have a baptism next week! My first one! So we are super excited! Man i cant wait. Her name is Maryelsi. Actually we are having 2 the same day. The others name is Jenifer. So yeah we are teaching them and preparing them for that. But things are good! I gotta go. Thanks for writing every week! I love you all so much and i miss you. Talk to you soon!
Love, Elder Gunnell

July 4, 2011

Happy 4th of July! Haha its crazy huh! I feel sorry for you guys you are cookin over there in mesa hahaha. It feels so nice here all the time! Right now its cloudy and like 80 degrees probably. It feels amazing haha. Anyways im glad to hear that everyone is doing good! You all should write me! Haha I love hearing from you all. Anyways this week was pretty good. We found 14 new investigators... Holy crap it is crazy! We have so much work to do all the time. We dont have enough time to get everything done! I swear at the end of each day i feel like im about to die cuz im so tired! But its fun haha. We found this one guy, his name is Marvin. He lived in the us for a while and he speaks really good english! So its pretty sweet. But he is so awesome! He has so many questions for us! Its pretty awesome. We taught him a little bit about eternal families and he said oh i like this! Haha and last night we read from the book of Alma with him and he said that he believes it all. Its so awesome! And we are gonna try and put a baptism date with him in the next couple days. So we are pretty excited about that. We do have a bunch of crazy kids as investigators.. We asked 7 of them yesterday if they would follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and they all said no! Its just frustrating cuz it seems like they just come cuz we always have a good time at activities and stuff. Man... We will see how it goes this week. Even if they dont get baptized now but they do later in their life thats good. We are doing our job right now and its up to them to accept it or not! But anyways haha. But whats everyone doing for the 4th? We had a little activity at the church! All the gringos haha. It was fun we played ultimate frisbee and football a little bit. So it was super fun. Oh! And we met our new mission pres! We met him 2 days ago i think? anyways he is super cool! Im really excited. He is super nice and just a cool guy! So we are all really excited about him ahaha. But i gotta go! I hope everyone is doing awesome! I love you all! Talk to you next week!

And make sure you tell grandma i love her so much! And im sorry i havent written her. I dont think i have her address. And tell her im so sorry i didnt get to come by and see her right before i left. I feel really bad about that.. Just tell her i love her! I have been meaning to have you guys say something to her but i always forget when i get on here. Also if you guys are in touch with bro clarkson or any of my other priesthood leaders tell them i would love to hear from them.� Also i think im gonna try and write bro Sell sometime soon. I read his letter that he gave to me the day i left the other day and it was so awesome. I didnt fully appreciate it at the time but i really do now. Its really hard to write actual letters cuz we have like no time but im gonna try to really soon. I love you all! Liz you better be behaving yourself! That goes for you too Livvy! Stay away from boys. They have cooties... And Craig... Dont eat so much... youre getting fat... Hahahaha just playing. You better be doing wrestling camps! I better hear about you placing at state this near or next year. Mom and Dad, I love you guys! I hope you guys are staying young ;) i dont wanna come hope to a couple old farts! Hahaha im just kidding with you :) I love you guys!
Love, Elder Gunnell