27 de junio

dear loved ones,

another week in the mission. mission of the lord. ya. thats right. im on the lords errand. woot woot! me and my new companion get along really well. we´ll probably be friends after the mission haha. and we are having a lot of success and fun. fun in a good way. as in having success = having fun. who wants to guess what our goal for the month of july is... thats right, nueve! or nine for those who dont know what nueve is.. ha i mean its just a goal, but we put 9 of our best investigators together and its what the goal is! and we wanna do it! and we will.

some investigators we have that we think we can baptize are rosario, norma, daughter of norma and her husband hugo, the sanchez family of 4, genoveva and her 3 daughters, luis alberto, abigaíl and her husband ariam and son armando, and ignacio and his wife and johana.

rosario has a date for the 9th of july and quit smoking and dring coffee all in one!

norma and hugo are getting baptized this friday and also married on thursday the day before! the mom norma wants to get baptized but she still has some doubts so we hope that after the baptism of her daughter she will wants to be baptized!

the sanchez family is a family that my comp found a couple days before i got here and they gave the dad a blessing because he has a heart problem and now we teach them and they are listening to us and wanna go to church and all that good stuff.

genoveva and her 3 daughters we some people we found contacting and we went to their house and they listened and learned and want to go to church too!

luis alberto has a date for 16th of july. he has been attending church for 5 years and still doesnt know if he should be baptized... we left with the compromiso that he needs to pray with a sincere heart, having a true intention and having faith in jesus christ. and with that he can pray and receive an answer if the things are true.

abigaíl and her fam went to church this sunday and well i havent had the chance to teach them yet but they are super nice and so we will see what happens with them. my comp says they are really good.

and ignacio and his are people that have been attending church for a long time and we didnt know that they were investigators! so they should be baptized.

and johanna is a joven (youth) of like 16 years and she was really receptive. she told us she wants to be baptized but she needs to talk to her mom first. the next cita is tomorrow so we will see what happens!

well thats about it for now... i love all of you and miss you. i hope everyone is being good and "using good judgement" -scott inglish

love elder inglish

1. elder nájera and i in tianguis

2. from last area with bishop and his family

3. my old mission leader, ismael toledano.

4. the tenorio family from last area.
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5. the new district. ha.

20 de junio

bueno...

a lot has happened this week...

ALOT. tuesday the president came to the zone to have a zone conference to say goodbye to us because we are gonna be in the new mission in july. and so we listened to him and his wife talk and after we ate a little food and hung out.

wednesday was pretty normal and we just worked as normal and stuff... i dont think again crazy happened..

thursday, had divisions with the new missionary from peru. elder Carrillo. we call him medio missionary because hes super short. haha. well that day went pretty well. he loves to contact people and so we contacted a lot that day. and i am pretty sure he didnt stop talking all day. but hes a good missionary. hes a convert of 4 years. that day we gave a triple (b of m, d and c, p of gp) to an investigator that wants to read more of the church because he already read the b of m. he is chosen. he will be baptized.. then we had a really good appt with julieta who finally is progressing and went to church and well the cita was almost over after like 45 minutes... but then i asked her, if you were to pray and ask god if you should be baptized, and you got an answer, would you follow it? and she went off for like 30 more minutes and said, "actually i have a confession to make... when you guys wanted me to pray after like the 2nd appt i got an answer and it was indescribable the feeling i had. it was amazing...." then i was like, what the!! i never knew that! but she says that the answer that she got was that she should keep listening to us and do the things we say.. then we talked a little more and before we left i said, will you pray to know that god wants you to be baptized? and she said yes of course, she also said when she receives an answer she will get baptized.... so ya, she will be baptized....

friday, during tianguis (an open air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico) elder ferlin gave me some crazy and shocking news... special changes.... for the zone Ermita in the Delegation Iztacalco en Distrito Federal. i was in shock. because i was sure i would stay in the new mission. so after tianguis we ate with the bishop and his fam and we said goodebye and the hermana started crying... so sad. haha. never would have expected this coming. so we went and taught some really poor people in a really small and poor pueblo and put more baptism dates... ha no big deal...

saturday i came and arrived here with Elder Najera from Guadalajara. he is way sweet and we get along great. well be friends after the mission. haha. were gonna have a lot of success here...

well i gotta go! sorry, i actually have more to write but we have a meeting to go to. adios!

love elder inglish

pics:
1. random pic with new comp, elder najera


2. y 3. getting my shoes polished before the goodbye conference


4. la zona volcanes y la familia chavez


5. me with some biking gloves ha

13 de junio

well this week was a little rough.. well just one day kinda.. mas o menos..

on tuesday we had tianguis as usual and we only got one reference.. but after we went to Chimal to eat lunch and she made us burritos!! how rare was that?! haha. flour tortillas hardly exist here! they were amazing tho... i loved them. they had some yummy meat mixture inside... and one was bean and cheese. then we went to santiago to find some new people and talk to references. we went to a house where a German lived. he wasnt there. but like an hour later we were riding around on our sweet bicis (short for bicicleta, or bike) and some guy came up to us and was like, "hey, listen brothers, i wanna change my life. i dont do very good things... i drink a lot...." then i was like well you found the right people! haha. well at this moment he was like half drunk, but not like a lot a lot. we gave him the gospel of J.C. pamphlet and also the word of wisdom, but he already had the word of wisdom. haha. he said he got it from tianguis one day. then we set up an appt for sunday, but he wasnt there, but he was in the taxi when we got in there! so we set up another appt. afterwards we returned to ozumba to finish off the night and we went to teach a women named laura but she wasnt there, but her sister in law daniela was there and we taught a sweet lesson and invited her to be baptized, but she had to think about it first then we committed her to pray. she said she would.

then on wednesday we went to Victors house, who is a old investigator from past missionaries and he also came to tianguis one day and so we got his info and went to his house. we come to find out that he has already read the book of mormon. all of it. he says that its great and it truly helped him and strengthened his faith. he kinda didnt like the parts that were super bloody tho haha. but we taught about the restoration and well he already new some stuff. but we showed him the part in the intro that says if the b of m is true, then J.S. was a prophet and the church of J.C. of LDS is the only true church in the world.. he was silenced by that and our testimonies. then we talked about how today we have prophets and apostles in the world again. then he asked how he can listen and hear the words of the prophets. and we showed him the church website and he said he was gonna check it out. them we set up another appt for him later in the week and i told him when we come back were gonna bring you church magazines to read that have talks by the apostles and prophets and also a video of Jose Smith. we went to his house but he was really busy but we gave him the magazines and the movies and he was super grateful! i believe he is escogido...(chosen)

on thursday we went to julietas house who is a really old investigator. we talked to her and let her know we have patience with her and we arent there to win a baptism. after talking for a while we finally came to the conclusion that she believes everything and knows everything but just doesnt know if the church is true yet... then i was like have you ever been to church? and she was like, well no. and i was like entonces! how do you think you can find out? then she said, well maybe i should go to church. i said that sounds like a great idea! then we started talking more and she was saying how she is going thru tough times right now and she is like divorcing her husband and other stuff. she just feels like right now she has a lot going on and a lot of loads on her back... fast forward to sunday to gospel priciples class and what does the teacher talk about? how baptism and the holy ghost and god and all that good stuff can help us with heavy loads we have... coincidence? i think not. oh ya btw julieta was there in that class... we have a cita (appt.) on jueves this week and well see what happened and what she thought...

friday we had a family home evening with the familia tenorio. who has older kids who arent baptized. we talked about how families can be together for ever through heavenly fathers plan. then we read parts from the proclamation to the world. afterwards we ate cake and celebrated the birthday for elder manzanares. it was a good night..

saturday we were supposed to have a baptism for Daniela. a little sister of an hermana in the ward. there was a lot of complications that day. first there wasnt any baptism clothes for her anywhere. no one had any! we called like 3 bishops and the stake president. then we finally decided she would use my pants and a smalll shirt. then we went to fill the font. and well the water here is a little dirty so we bought some blue water coloring. we opened it and nothing was coming out! so then i squeezed it super hard and guess what happened? yes, the top flew off and half the bottle went into the water. the water was sooooooo blue. it was actually kinda pretty... haha (check photos) but ya we didnt end up baptising her.......to be continued bwhahahaha tell ya next week i gotta go.

love elder inglish

1. found a scorpion in the house

2. y 3. elder manzanares`s birthday

4, 5, 6. preparing the baptismal font after the accident... haha pretty funny stuff.

6 de junio

hello all you beautiful people.

well, here again. in the same area. ugh. its getting really old. its hard. but im gonna etch some ganas and go to work. (spanglish) we americans always talk in spanglish. its fun. so ya i got a new comp. elder fox. from kentucky. hes a good missionary so we get along. he could be my only american comp in the mission so im going to try to enjoy the time with my paisano. (person from same counrty). well this week we worked prettty hard... we gotta find more people to teach and get more investigadores that wanna progress. we have like 13. by next week we should have like 16. and we gotta get more! bwahahahaha.

so ya me and elder fox are contacting more and using the area folder to find old investigators to teach and try to get them going again... we went and talked to a reference and she already had the folletos (pamphlets) and had the book of mormon and was already reading it! when we went to talk to her she was happy. we were like when can we visit for an appt?! she was like, listen, you have done more than enough for me and more than you know.... and we were like huh? then she says, before i was super dramatic and super depressed and super etc. then i was like well thats why we are here. to help you. then she was like, ya but listen i work everyday all day with 2 jobs and i get home at 11:30 p.m. and i was like its cool, well visit you here at your magazine store thingy. then she was like i would like that but people are always coming up and buying stuff and i dont wanna get interrupted.. so ya long story short we left a little sad. but were gonna go next time and teach the dia de reposo (day of rest, sabbath day) and promise her blessings and what not... we´ll see what happens... i hope we can help her. say some prayers... her name is josephina.

well i dont have much time left... i gotta go eat soon.. i hope everyone back in az is doing good! i love and miss all you people.

elder inglish

1,2,3: the district and the zone leaders

4. me and my papi Moyano

5. ELDER ERICKSEN!!! im gonna miss him. hes staying in the south mission and im gonna be in the southeast. :(

30 de mayo

hola

well another week has passed by and changes are tomorrow. and im staying here, again, in the same area. this will be my fourth time, and so this means im gonna be in the new mission... mexico city south east. everyone from the district is staying except my companion. he is going to Hermita in D.F. and staying in the mexico city south mission. and he is gonna be zone leader... and im getting an american companion. i kinda know him.

so this week was good tho... we worked hard, taught people, found new people, had a BAPTISM:), we did it all. but for some reason idk what to write about......

ill think hard...

ya nothings comin....

jkjk.

oh man the baptism this week was a little difficult to get things going. satan definitely was working against us... first we got there and went to an hermanos house so that he could kinda help us. then we went to his brothers house to get the keys. then we opened everything and started getting things ready but we didnt have the special key that opened the doors for in front of the font where people can see. then the boiler wasnt working so the water was gonna be cold. then we had to go find the branch president so we could get more keys but he wasnt home but he was kinda close by so we found him and then he was like oh i dont have the keys but if you just kinda jimmy the doors and move them around they will open... we tried that and nothing happened. then we went back and we were like it didnt work and then he told us that the stake president has the keys then we called him and he didnt answer and he was at the temple then he called his counselor and he was with him at the temple. then we called the secretary and he answered and he had the keys!!! so we asked an hermano to take us all the way to tecalco so we could get them. then we got them and everything was pretty good. or so we thought... we went to victors house to go get him and the family and the uncle who is a little crazy was outside shoveling "stuff" and we were like hey what ya doin? you gonna go to the baptism? and he is like oh well im really busy and i have a lot of work... then we went to go get the aunt and she was resting because she was sick and said she couldnt go.. so it was gonna be us, victor, a bunch of little cousins of victor, and some hermanos. then right when we were gonna start in comes the aunt and more family and all the neighbors that live by them... so ya everything actually worked out good!!! wooo!!!

this sunday was ward conference so there was an activity every night in the week. but saturday all day the ward went to some big ranch thing where there is like a soccer court and a bball court and a pool and stuff and well ya we went for a little bit... but when we were leaving we were riding by on our bikes and to the side there was a little kid that was going number 2 in the middle of the road!!! it was probably the funniest thing i have ever seen in my life...

one more thing thats kinda cool. the past 2 weeks i was reading the church book Our Heritage. and well i found out something really cool... when joseph and hyrum smith and all them were in liberty jail, there was another guy that was with them in the jail that was like part of their lil group that all got put in jail. and well his name was Alexander McRae! thats my name!! well im McCrae. but my McCrae is spelled wrong. it should be the exact same.. but ya thats cool huh. dont act like its not.. youre all jealous.... jajajaja. jk!

well i love you all!

elder inglish

1 and 2. on a random tire swing that we found.. it was thuper fun.

3. me and my compa on some old train car thing...

4 and 5. baptism of victor

23 de mayo

dear you,

well a good week has passed by i would say... we taught a lot, found new people, listened to an apostle!!!, went like 50 miles an hour on our bikes...jk jk only like 40, and found un joven de oro! thats a kid whose family goes to church and so does he but hes not baptized so we teach him and baptize him. his name is victor and he is 15. he wants to be baptized.. so were grateful.

so on tuesday Elder Oaks came.. AMAZING. he talked about revelation and how we can receive it and all the different ways we can receive it. he talked in english and had a translater... he was funny, and cool. Sister Oaks also talked and also a guy from the Quorum of the 70 and his wife and the Pres and his wife shared testimonies.. it was awesome. he also greeted everyone personally. and he looked at me and said, Inglish? what an interesting last name... and i think that was it. haha but he is super nice and cool.

on wednesday we had divisions and elder ferlin came to my area. we rode the bikes in the morning and took some sweet pics.. we worked pretty good together. we contacted and found 4 new people in that day.

on thursday and friday me and my companion went to Tepecoculco on the bikes and well we havent been there very much and its a really big spread out pueblo... so we looked for some references that we had and contacted and what not...

on saturday Elder jimenez, who is 100% American came to my area and we worked really good! taught a lot, went with less actives, contacted, taught the priesthood to Luis haha, we did it all. this week was a really good week.

yesterday we went to the branch we have in Tepecoculco and that was good, there is like a total of 60 people there. the members were kinda...cold to us. like they are like, elderes, there is a lot of work here and we have a lot of references for you and we know people that wanna be baptized...

and well they dont realize that we arent here to make wards grow, we are here to make the church in total grow. we have a lot of work and a lot of people to teach and well they probably think we are fritos or something... but we arent! but we couldnt really work there because we didnt have bikes before and now that we do we are gonna work there more..

changes are next tuesday and well i hope i leave and stay in the mexico city south mission, the mission right now, but its gonna split and well this zone im in will be another mission... dont have time to explain more of that haha... but i love you all.

read and pray erryday,

Elder Alex Inglish

1. self timer

2. GANGSTAS...no....CHOLOS....

3. poppin a wheelie....you already know.

4. pose 1

5. pose 2

16 de mayo

hola!

well this week went by super fast! monday was pday. tuesday was normal. wednesday we had zone conference all day. that was cool. the president talked and we talked about a lot of different stuff. we watched a talk of elder holland that was from the mtc in january so i actually saw it live cause i was there still. woo! i remember that talk though. it was so strong and super powerful and i think i cried a tid bit..spirit was strong! it was better in english than in espanol though... also the president talked more about when the mission is gonna split.. the mexico city south (my mission) is gonna join with the mexico city east to create the mexico city southeast. where i am right now and i think 2 more zones are gonna become part of the southeast mission. but i really hope that i leave this change so that i can stay in the south mission where there is more city. well its gonna be all city. Distrito Federal. and then thursday was choir practice for Elder Oaks tomorrow woo!! friday i was in the house all day because my companion got his molar taken out or something.. saturday he had to rest a little too and so we worked slowly... then sunday was church and monday well here i am again!

i got a package this week. woo! from my loving fam. i got some good stuff, lemme tell you... but i wont tell you... bwahahaha.

i made a really good sandwich this morning.. tuna;), ham, cheese and ya thats it. it was goooooooooooood!!

so yes, i baptized luis! woo! luis elpidio ruis lopez is now member of the church of jesus christ of LDS! hes way excited and loves all the nice new people that he is making friends with. hes really excited to learn more and hes like talking to one of his friends about the church too! woo!! i love this work.

and i love all you,

elder inglish

pics:

1. luis´s baptism!

2. and 3. elder ferlin cutting my hair.

4. me with my bike!

5. a chapel where we have meetings every sunday. its 2 stories... up stairs is just the sacrament room.