Thursday, June 28, 2012

New pictures

More pictures can be found on Elder Trevino's Flickr account. I update them periodically with new pictures he sends. Sometimes they have descriptions and sometimes he leaves it to me to figure them out!

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Elder Trevino and his new companion, Elder Jacob Dayley from Idaho.

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Week of June 18

Everything is going well, this week was a pretty decent week as far as everything goes. On Monday we played some soccer and had a good time with some of the Elders from our zone. Then we had a sweet family home evening with a less active named Deisy and her husband Carlos. and they totally gave us dinner after. good stuff.

Tuesday, I taught my second district meeting, and once again, one of the Assistants to the President was there. Makes me wonder what is up :/ Then we got back and worked throughout the afternoon and night and all that. We got a good amount of lessons in as well.

Then on Wednesday, we had a special training with the mission president and his wife. It talked a lot about the goals of the area and how we can support them as a mission, and it also talked a lot about working with the ward in ward councils and all that good stuff. Then in the afternoon we went and visited a part member family that we are visiting, Her name is Cynthia and she has been a member for most of her life, and she is living with a man named Alfredo, and he hadn't really had interest before in the church, but last week he went, and now he wants to get married, and baptized and be an example for his family and all that stuff, and so we are planning the wedding for the 4th of July, which would totally be sweet if everything works out well.

Thursday was a normal day, so was Friday. Saturday was pretty normal as well. Then on Sunday I gave a talk in sacrament meeting which talked about missionary work. go figure. Then as I said before, we are having a second sacrament metting out in an area called Isla Valle. I also spoke there, and it was a cool meeting. Next week we are going to start teaching primary and Sunday school, and me and my comp have to teach those classes as well, it will be fun I'm sure. I will send you guys more picture this week. That is basically all that happened. Things are going very well in this area. Being district leader isn't anything hard but it is just more responsibility that I don't really want, but I'll take it. Any other questions and I will take them.

Anyway, have a good week.

-Elder Treviño

Friday, June 22, 2012

Howdy

Alright alright I will tell you a bit more about some things that are going on. Just relax a little. So my comp is Elder Dayley, he is from Idaho, and his is 6 foot 4, so he is pretty tall. Blond hair grayish eyes. and he is super funny. The area here is doing really well.

On Tuesday I gave my first district meeting lesson, which went really well. One of the assistants to the President was there, which was cool. I'm pretty sure he went there to see if I was really ready to be a District leader, but I can't really say.

On Wednesday, we repaired a roof for a member family which was sweet, I will try to send photos.

This Saturday we had a baptismal service, and President Madariaga and his wife came to the service, which went really really well. He shared some thought and stuff. I will send you guys some pics if I can.

After the baptism, we went and showed President our area, and where we are having the meetings for the parts that are far away, and we also looked for a different house with him as well, because we live well out of our area. I'm thinking that he will be splitting the area coming up pretty soon because our area is really big, and it's hard to work it all effectively, but we will see what happens.

And mom you spelt dam wrong...good work.

But yeah, everything so far in this area is going really well. Today we are going to go play some soccer and get some stress out and have some fun. Any questions just let me know.

-Elder Treviño

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Week of crazyness

Alright so this week was a bit crazy.

So monday sucked after getting all that news, but I just put it aside. Monday night we went around, Elder Muñoz and I and started saying goodbye and taking pictures because I was almost guaranteed to get out of the area cause I was there for six months. Then Monday night I got the news on my transfer, which I will tell you in a bit. Tuesday we went around and said goodbye to everybody that I could, and a ton of people gave me food. It was awesome. Nobody cried so that was good. I will definitely miss that area but at the same time I needed to get out. 6 months is a long time.

Wednesday morning I woke up early at 4, finished all my packing and went with my comp and the Bishop to the mission office to meet my new comp. So, my new companion is Elder Dayley, from Caldwell Idaho. He has about 9 months in the mission, so he is new, but not so much. We are in the area of Areguá A, and i have been called to serve as a (drum roll)............................. District Leader! Which is cool. So now I have the opportunity to serve other missionaries and lead them to success. And now I also have a ton of responsibilities, like doing weekly reports and boring stuff like that. Fun stuff. The area here is waaaaaayyyyy big and we are working in 2 areas. One area is about 30 minutes from the Capilla and we are trying to build a branch out there. We are having 2 different sacrament meetings to facilitate that for now, so we will se how it develops. We should also have 3 baptisms this week, so we will see how that goes.

So yeah crazy week. I will send photos.

Elder Treviño