Queretaro Mexico Mission: Week 58

 Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

Blog:  alexeatonmission.blogspot.com  

Training is going good, and I am feeling pretty good. I will be giving the first baptismal interview of my mission tonight, so that is pretty exciting! Yesterday was the last meeting with President Flores, and we were all crying. A LOT! When they got to the branch, there was only 20 members that attended, and that was a maximum. It was normally 10 members and there was a lot of times when the chapel wasnt open Sunday, because nobody came. So it was on the downside. Now, 80 people are attending regularly!! They have done miracles.

That is awesome about the Annie's wedding!! The time is coming closer!! DUNN DUNNNNNNN DDDDDDDDDDDUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNN!! Actually, its more like Hallelujah! 

  The investigators are there, just that they have to be better prepared to be baptized. The comp and I are doing good, he is getting better everyday! we are pretty excited because the branch has improved a lot and the whole attitude is one of progress. It is going to keep going strong. We have been visiting a couple that have been members for a while, but inactives. They are 100% active now and told us they want to get married in the temple!!! We all cried with them that night. It was one of the greatest nights of my mission. It was almost better than a baptism!

All we are doing is visiting members a lot to get them ready and answering their questions and doubts. That is our game plan.  Love you guys and miss you a bunch!!! BYE!

Love

Alex Chadwick Eaton

Photos

1)just think nacho libre. 

2)An average missionary's desk in the mission

Queretaro Mexico Mission: Week 57

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

I am doing great, got 2 baptisms and everything turned out great!!! :D It was a pretty great week. We will be getting our new branch president in 2 weeks  and President Mejorada told he was going to come!!! It is going to be super sad to see them all leave. I already decided to ask President if I can hug Sister Flores, she is insanely awesome and has been our mom here on the mission. We had the last testimony meeting with the Flores here and Sister Flores cried of course but what really surprised me is that President Flores cried!! He is a super tough guy, ex military, and he gave the greatest testimony. All of us were crying.

Nothing much happened, We played soccer with all the kids today as usual and everything is super calm. Oh, except for the fact that we left our cell phone on the bus!!! We got down and after us came a sister that we knew, and she told us that we left our cell phone in there. LIKE YOU COULDNT GRAB IT FOR US! So she told us this only AFTER the bus pulled away, so we started running after it, but it was all for naught. So we flagged down a taxi, explained our situation, and started on a high speed pursuit (well, as fast as you can go in Mexico). We arrived before the bus at a stop, but the bus went another route, off we went again. And when all hope was lost, when we had pulled over and got out of the car, there was the bus!!! We asked the driver and he gave us the phone!! Can someone say miracle?! HECK YEAH!! We contacted the taxi guy, and he was super nice and we invited him to church. It was pretty intense.

Nothing else mommacita! I love you and miss you!!! BYE!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

PHotos

1)baptism of Lucina

2)baptism of Eva

Queretaro Mexico Mission: Week 56

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

I have great news and good news. Yep. Thats right. NO BAD NEWS!!! HAHAHAHAHA Great news is that Lucina got baptized and everything worked out ok. The hurricane did absolutely nothing, so that in and of itself was a miracle. We got some rain and that was it. It wasnt even a lot! Elder Dreesen (the assistant to the president) called me to tell me that you guys called ;) it was a nice reminder to know that my family still loves me. 

The training is A-ok and I feel like I finally know what to do. It was a bit stressful with the baptism but he did his best and I learned some more things about him. He is going to be a great missionary. Him and his brother are the only members in his family and he got baptized 4 years ago. He is 20 years old and he misses his family a lot but he has the right reason to be here. We will be having another baptism this week hopefully! About Halloween, all that they say here is that it is of the devil and that it shouldnt exist because pagan devil worshippers made it. So that would be a no. They do recognize Day of the Dead, Which is the beginning of November and it is a little similiar but not much. I just want lots of photos, and that is my only request! 

Unfortunately the usb to the computer doesnt work so I cant send pictures. i love you and miss you a ton!!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Queretaro Mexico Mission: Week 55

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

Well Familia, bigger news first! I got the package mommacita! yes!!  It was exactly what I wanted and more!! I love you guys!! Oh, and my greenie is doing pretty good! This week has been easier than I thought it would be, seeing as how Elder Estrada is from El Salvador and already knows Spanish. It is a little bit easier than my beginning and we get along pretty great, but he was kind of overwhelmed at the start and I helped to slowly get used to it. I know have way more respect for my trainer and the amount of patience that he had with me! I have been patient with him and have helped him feel at home. He already jokes with me and it is going pretty good.He is a bit quiet but has improved a lot in this first week.

He is pretty hard on himself but I told him how I was on the mission and he is already doing way better than I did. With that he felt better. News on the area, we will be having a baptism this week and the next week!!  So I am pretty excited. Our branch president is now delegating me a freak ton of responsability and is using me a lot more, so you could say that the relationship between everybody is improving. The branch is so strong now and I am pretty proud of the work that all of us have done. I do feel a bit bad for Elder Estrada, as he is a greenie and when I went to go pick him up, the president told him that I would be the busiest out of all the mission during this change  and that he would have to help me a lot because we will have a change of branch presidents and he is companions with the district leader and that I am also training. President told him that I would practically be the mission and branch president in my area. We will also be helping the branch president in his new roles and we still don't even know who it is going to be!  His face wasnt exactly something that said excited. hahaha but I feel like I am ready for this change and am actually pretty excited. 

Thats all I got to report.  I love you guys and peace out!!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

PHotos

1)Meet my trainee

2)My new district

3)THey are building a new sacrament hall and remodeling the entire house of worship. We are pretty dang pumped you could say

Queretaro Mexico Mission Week 54

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

Well family, the transfers came!!!! Elder Sivila went to Queretaro!!! We were super surprised at that because it was his last transfer and we had such little time in the area. But he was kind of upset because he said he really wanted to finish in the area with me. It seems like the Lord had other plans for him. So he got sent to Queretaro and I am going to be training and still be the DL here in Dolores!! I am actually writing you from an internet cafe here in Queretaro and I will be getting my greenie tomorrow! No idea who it is, but it is better like that.

I will be going to the office tomorrow so I will most likely get your package then. And that is pretty much what I expected of the wedding planning! hahahahaha but it will all be worth it in the end. We have a baptism for next week, we moved it because we wanted all the ward to be there. And we have another one planned the 31st, so we will see what happens with that. I hope that I can be a good trainer because I feel a little bit nervous to be training, even though I am pretty sure I am prepared. That is about it, tell Cole to keep it up, and tell him that he (Coach Walheim) yelled at us too when I was in his weight class, so I know how it feels more or less.

Nothing else, I am pretty excited and nervous for tomorrow. We are staying in the secretaries house tonight so we will not be sleeping most likely! And we will feast with pizza!!! Thats about it, I love you and will keep you guys updated.

Love

Elder Alex CHadwick Eaton

Photos

1) this is more or less what living in the North of Mexico is like. A common sight everyday (but thankfully not on Alex's mission.  This is his companion, reenacting)

2)And the trip was long and tiring. to say the least!

Queretaro Mexico Mission Week 53

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

  I want to hear about my kickbutt brother wrecking dudes! But transfers are this week and the senior couple have stayed here their whole mission and will be finishing their mission next transfer. They are officially in love with me now and they want to bring us everywhere, today they brought us to a lake and bought us fish, so that was pretty cool!!! And they will be leaving with my companion next transfer! He is pretty nervous to go home. Tell grandma and grandpa that I say Hi and I love them!!! I cant send pictures today, something with the computer (Mexico) but next week!! Conference was cool! But I am still kind of out of it, the thing with Annie and all. I love you guys and miss you a ton!!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

GOT THE COMPUTER WORKING!!

1)We started burning the shirt, which is tradition when you complete one year,buttttttttttt

2)It burned the trashcan. We didnt think it through very well. But One year baby!

3)meet the district!!!!

4)this is how they eat fish here. Fried, whole, and with your hands!!

5)the lake was cool, and the weather was perfect

Queretaro Mission Week 52 1 Year!!!

Elder Eaton mailing  address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email:  Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

As you might have heard, I will be completing a year in 3 days. I am sure that is the topic of all the conversations and that the people of Gilbert are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their king. UNFORTUNATELY, this guy wants to be on the mission another year and am super excited for this next one. i am pretty excited for this next half and am excited to improve even more. Everything is going pretty good here, we are planning for some baptisms the 17th so I hope those will turn out!

We have general conference this weekend and i want you guys to go with a question there. You should all write down a question of your soul that you have. Something that you feel like you need to know or hear. Something of inspiration, whatever THing!! Also, listen, really LISTEN to all 4 sessions of general conference. I know it is hard, but when you do that, I promise that your question will be answered. At the end of the conference, you should write down the answer that you got and then keep it forever. Many times in our life we take things for granted. We have Apostles and a living Prophet that reveals to us the will of God, and we complain that we have to listen to him! WHAT?! That is something that I finally understood here on the mission, and it is something that I want you guys to know too. Dont complain about watching General Conference (Cole, Sam, pay attention guys), when many people dont even know about the restored gospel! You guys are super blessed, so please be grateful for what you got ok? 

i love you guys and miss you! I pray for you every night! Sorry i dont have a lot to say! But Still love you guys!

Love

Elder Alex  Chadwick Eaton

Photos

1)This adorable girl did me the favor to draw me. It is exactly alike to how i am in real life!

2)There was an auto show so we enjoyed that!!!