Queretaro Mexico Mission: 7 Weeks Left

This week went quite well, no complaints, actually, better than that, it was fantastic, no joke. Something amazing that happened this week is that.... actually a couple things :) 1) We have officially reactivated 3 families. Every single one came to church and are going strong. 2)We have one investigator that is amazing and she is going to be baptized this Saturday. She came and everything was good. Then, out of the blue, a family that we have never seen walked in and sat down. We talked to them afterwards and they told us that they are from Queretaro and just moved here. She is an investigator and so is her husband. She had a baptismal date for the 30th (this saturday) and wanted to continue with it!!! 2 baptisms! :D life is pretty good and I am very happy :) 

The ward is great and transfers are this Sunday! Not so happy. I think I will be staying because it will be my last transfer. That is very weird to say. So I am doing good, still don't have my flight information. I talked to an Elder who is going home and he told me he didn´t get it until 4 weeks before he left. So it is a possibility that I will have to wait until then. I love you guys and miss you!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

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1) A pretty legit dog from a less active

2) Oh Mexico, the only country where guts from a cow on the street as an offering to the street dogs. Sorry if it is gross mom :) 

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 8 Weeks Left

The baptism, this past Saturday,  went pretty smoothly (they just got there 30 minutes late). But it was very sweet. She got confirmed yesterday and yeah! It was pretty great, not gonna lie. Ilich didnt go to church because he got sick, but he is going strong. And the dinner that Sister Sepulveda gave us was cheese burgers, so amazing! The work here is pretty much the same, hard but very rewarding. I was talking with the asistant last night (he is going home with me) and he told me that we had 8 weeks left, 7 weeks and 6 days more tomorrow. You are not the only one who is excited for September 12th :P Nothing much to report, Life is good and grand :) Say hi to everyone there, I miss you guys, Love you and will be seeing you soon! also, transfers are next sunday.

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

1)Baptism!!

2)Playing some foosball after mini golf. Your son and Elder Brown Won (OF COURSE!)

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 9 Weeks Left

Sister Sepulveda friended me on FB and I asked Alex about her.  

-Stephanie

Sister Sepulveda is easily one of the most legit sisters ever, she loves us because her son is on a mission in Costa Rica and she has an amazing testimony! She also speaks english :) But more importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!! I LOVE YOU AND you are the greatest mother a son could ask for, and more. I love you more than I can say mom. Thanks for being a mom that was always there and always ready to help and love, not only your own children, but everyone around you. You truly understand your calling as a mother. 

This week was very good, an investigator went to the temple with the ward, so he is locked and loaded for baptism. This Saturday we will have the baptism of a girl whose family we reactivated, we are very very excited for that. This has been one of my favorite areas by far :) even though it has also been one of the hardest, I truly love it here! I think I will finish here (but honestly who knows?). Nothing new, life goes good, as well as the work of the Lord. I am completely and utterly happy! I miss you and love you guys. Take care!

love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

1)I never showed you guys the outside of my house! It is one of the nicest houses EVER! (for missionaries at least)

2)I found this in my bag. I totally forgot I had it. It is definitely the most mormon thing I own.

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 10 Weeks Left

Finally met the new Mission President!! We met with them Wednesday and they are the nicest people ever! President Williamson served a mission in Argentina and his spanish was kind of lost, he wasn't used to speaking it. I felt super bad for the Sister Williamson! She doesn't speak a lick of spanish, and I helped her translate for the multi zone conference, and she just feels a little over her head. I gave her some words of encouragement and all the Americans talked to her and got her happy. They are super great people and it is the easiest thing to love them. I didn´t even try hard :) hahahaha We have a legit guy, Ilich, who accepted baptism and is a for sure on his baptism. 

This Monday we got permission to play together the 2 zones and is was super fun. Everyone enjoyed it, even though from time to time it got heated, we were able to cool it down (20 year olds being 20 year olds). And all in all, the week was quite good, no complaints!! I love you guys and miss you a bunch!! See ya in 10!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

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1)New mission president

2)Zone playing soccer! 

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 11 Weeks Left

Well mommacita, I have still not met the new president, he gets here today! And the last conference was full of tears! Mostly me..... again........ We had 4 people come to the church this week! So it was a very happy surprise! It is the biggest amount of investigators that have gotten to church in 6 months in this area. So yeah, we were happy!  This week was busy, what with the conference and all, saying goodbye, some elders got sick,  luckily it was not nearly as bad this time! But Moses didn't come to church, but we are going to start teaching his entire family. 

 I am feeling ok, just normal. I am ok with the homecoming talk being that day. And don't worry about being excited, at least one of us has to be :P don`t get me wrong, I am excited to see you guys and say hi to the family, I love you guys!!! But it is going to be hard to leave. I feel like there are 2 wars in my head. But I got another 2 and a half months to think about it :P I love you guys and miss you like crazy!! 

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

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1)last photo with the mission president

2)Chowing down on some gorditas

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 12 Weeks Left

We stayed exactly the same! I am going to be staying in Celaya Vergel! Kind of super happy! I felt like I still hadn´t accomplished what I needed to do, so I am super glad to stay. We found some new people this week, among them being a professional beatboxer named Moses and a failed actor from Hollywood named Johnny. It was a pretty great week. And we brought more to church! It was a great week. Unfortunately we had to close down the area of the sisters, so that was pretty sad. But they understood the reason. 

The new mission president will get here in exactly one week, this Thursday will be the last conference with President Mejorada. I feel super old in the mission, especially since we got a new missionary in the zone named Elder Russon he only has 2 months. He asked me how much time  I had, I told him 21 months. I have 21 months!! But, it mattereth not. The members are doing great, just need a little push to get going! That is it family, I love you guys and miss you a ton! Take care! 

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Photos

1)Goodbye to Elder May

2)Stuffed chili peppers for lunch! Pretty dang good!

Queretaro Mexico Mission: 14 Weeks Left

I will indeed be coming home the 14th of September. Don't worry mommacita, I will be home soon :P hahahaha The baptism was pretty great, the dad is actually not a member so we are now teaching him in hopes that this will be a turning point for him. The kid who I baptized can´t say my name very well, so he just calls me Elder Guerito (Elder White guy). I talked to president about possibly closing one of the 2 companionships in our area. I recommended that he keep the sisters in the area, and he said he'll think about it. I saw him this Sunday and the President Mejorada smiled and told me that he talked to the stake president (who is in our ward) and asked him which ones he would like to keep. He told us that the stake president said the elders, 100%. Apparently he likes us a lot! So it is possible that I will be finishing off here. 

Something that has been occuring in the mission is that we are recieving less and less missionaries, while more and more missionaries are leaving. So we zone leaders are deciding which areas should be closed down and which not to close down. It has gotten to be such a problem that most likely this next change they are going to merge the 2 zones in Celaya into 1 zone of 26 missionaries. That will be crazy!! Anyways, that video of the baseball was awesome! Congratulate papa for me!! And Sam and Cole look like stud muffins! Also say hi to Grandpa Beyete for me! I miss you guys and about the travel itinerary, it will be coming next transfer. :O I love you!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

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1) That missionary life! I already took them to a tailor, don't be worried.

2)Legit graffiti of a scottish war bear!