July 9, 2015
Elder Brett Darcy returns home from serving the people of Mexico on July 22, 2015. He will be speaking in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday July 26, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
100 weeks in and two to go!
July 6, 2015
HEYO!!
HEYO!!
Well This is it! I have been here at work for 100 weeks now and I have only 2 weeks left!! It is so wierd to think that the end is near! I have loved and enjoyed being a missionary! This last weeks has been good and went super fast! We did have some problems with some investigators that we have this week and it bummed me out and yesterday was my last Fast Sunday in the mission Field! Today this email is coming in late because a couple senior missionary couples that live here in Chalco invited us to thier house to eat today! But over all it has been a good week with a ton of clouds and Rain! But it has been GREAT!!
Problems with investigators:
So this next saturday we were going to be baptising our investigator Angel who we have been teaching for over a month! BUT!!!! Yesterday he called us to inform us that he would not be coming to church cause he had a family event and he procceded to tell us that he had talked to his parents about him getting baptised (cause they are not members and are not interested in the message) And the are ok if he gets baptized but in a month!...... So we were like well flip what are we going to do because he was suposed to have his interview yesterday. So we decided that we will have to talk to him on Tuesday when we have our appt with him!
Then we found a family A week ago that we started teaching and we put baptismal dates with them for the 8th of Aug and all was going great! They had been to church last sunday and enjoyed it! But the thing is that they work in a school and the principal gives them assignments! and the spesific assignment that they got this last weekend was to paint the desks of a couple 9th graders cause they were super vandalized. They started on Friday and had all day Saturday and we hlped them out and we were ready to go for them to come to church on sunday! BUT!!!! The next day they were so focused on cleaning the school that they did not come! We went to go get them and they said that they had to much work! We told them that they could come for just the first hour to Sacrament Meeting! But they still said no and all the baptimal date that we had with them fell and our last baptism of the mission fell through!
Last Fast sunday:
So yesterday was my last fast and testimony meeting in the mission! And as we were sitting there partaking of the Sacrament a thought or a voic came to me and said "Hey it's your last fast and testimony meeting you should get up and share your testimony." So that is what I did! And I am glad I did! It was a great experiance and a wierd one to think that the next I will be home! But it was a good sunday!
Goodbye Lunch:
So like I commented before today we were invited to lunch! We have three pairs of senior missionaries here in the mission that are the secretaries for the mission and they invited us and a few other missionaries finishing thier missions a few weeks to go to Chalco and eat lunch with them! It was great it was grilled meat! It was super delicious! We had a great time as well! One of the missionary couples is from Roseville CA. And he was a missionary here in Mexico and he shared with us some stories and excited us to finish our missions strong! But it was great! So that is why this email is coming late!
President Packer:
On Friday July 3rd as a lot of us know President Boyd K. Paker President of the quourm of the 12 Apostols Passed away. I give a personal tribute to him and the way he taught! He was direct and he was brave about it! He always seemed to teach things that are always hard to understand in a simple way so that we all can understand! He was an amazing person and he served as an Apostle for more than 25 years! He was a spiritual giant for all of us! My prayer is that he rests in the glory of God and now works along with Elder Perry and all of the other Prophets and Apostles in the Spirit World!
Well that is about it for me this week I love you all and I hope that you all have a good week I pray that our Father in Heaven is with you all for where ever you go!
Love,
Elder Darcy
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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy
Calle Porvenir No. 8
Col. Centro, Chalco
Edo. De Mèxico
C.P. 56600, Mèxico
One Month To Go!
June 22, 2015
Well This is it!!!!
I have less than one month to go! Just like my grandma told me today "I remember when you left and I thought it was one month down and 23 more to go. Now it is just the opposite." It is so wierd to think that I have less than one month to go! But things have been good! 2 weeks ago there were transfers but my companion and I did not have transfers so we are going to be finnishing our mission together! But all is well as we come up on the end together we have decided that we need to have the area ready for the next missionaries that will be coming in here!! But all is well we are working hard and doing all that we need to to be ready to go!!
Feelings of uneasiness:
Just like it says I have been having feelings of uneasiness recently knowing that I am in my last cylce of my mission and I am moving ever more faster towrds the end of my mission! I honestly feel uneasy about coming home and I have finally realized that it is because of the love I have grown for the people here and then love of the work that we are having here! But I know that as all things begin all things must end. I can say even though I still have 4 weeks left I am sad to think that it is almost better but i can say this that i have felt the love of our loving father in heaven in my life more than befor and I know that all I have done has been for him!
One baptism more!
Well as of now we will be having one more baptism in our missions (my companion and I) and I have to say that it's pretty cool! we have a programed baptismal date for the 11th of july. The kid that we found actuall was brought to church by another memeber here from the city! The guys name is Angel and he is 21 and a golden investigator!! He has been to church the last 3 weeks and we are in the process of getting him ready for his baptism and he is super excited for that! The only challenge that we see with him is that his parents are hard core Catholics and he has not talked to them yet about getting baptized!.... But he told us this week that his mom told him that she is happy that he is finding god even though that it is not through their religion! so I have a ton of hope that all will go well and that there will be no problems from this point on.
a p-day of fun!
Today was a cool p-day! Today we went bowling with another 18-20 missionaries! It was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed it and it looked like everyone else did as well!! we were the only ones in the bowling ally so they let us chooes the music tht we wanted to listen to and it was great cause we were bowling to the piano guys! so it was cool! But it was a calm day and the best part is that Sams club had a open house for people to come in and buy without a membership and it was really cool! so i baught stuff in bulk! It was great!
Well i hope that you all have a good week and that the Lord goes with you all in all that you do I love you all and I will see you soon!
Love,
Elder Darcy
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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy
Calle Porvenir No. 8
Col. Centro, Chalco
Edo. De Mèxico
C.P. 56600, Mèxico
Busy, Busy, Busy!!
May 25, 2015
Ok I feel bad!......
It has been forever since I have done a group email! I have been super busy and feel like I am running more than ever in my mission! I guess that is what happens to us "old Farts" Since the last time I have written A TON has happened! I have had more baptisms and transfers and Mother's Day and a trip to the center and an exercise tournament today and now I feel super weak and dead for all the running and playing and exercise that I have done today! At the end I will add the photo of my zone who won it all today!! So where to start where to start!
Well we will go last to most recent. I have had transfers yet again and I am back in Ixtapaluca for the third time! I am in the ward Heroes! It is an awesome place and we have had one baptism here! It was great, We baptized a lady that has been receiving the missionary lessons for 4 months! She is super strong and now her family is listening to the discussions as well ! It is awesome!
Mother's day was good! I talked to my family for the last time in the mission field! It was
really weird when I was done I realized that the next time that I talk to my family it will be in person in July! Oh and talking about that I have received my return date! I will be coming home the 22nd of July! My flight leaves here (Mexico City) at 3:50 P.M. (that is 2:50 P.M. there in Utah) and I will be arriving in Utah at 7 P.M that evening! I am hoping customs won't take long because we are going to be a big group and it is going to be 7 at night and we just have to show them our papers this time
to show that we are citizens! We won't have to fill out visa papers since we are Americans! so I think 7:45-8 I will be out with my family again! It just feels so weird this is it the last eight weeks of my mission! It feels so weird that it is all ending!
So another cool thing happened! We got a visit as a mission from someone very special! On Friday May 15, 2015 we received a visit from Elder David A. Bednar! And it was an amazing experience! He got there and we were ready to take a picture with him! and It was great to have the meeting with him! He talked to us about faith and how it is a principle of ´power and action! And he said something that was awesome! He told us "you can't just pray and ask for power from god to open your mouths and talk to the people here, then just sit around and wait for that power to come. you just gotta get up and go! to invoke that request from God!" It was truly incredible he is also short... he is about my height actually we are pretty even he and I!
This last Monday we went to the center and we went on the tour bus and we bought some pretty cool ties! A member said that there was a tie sale there but there was not so I could only get one tie and it is cool it is a type of red and black checker pattern! It is pretty slick! The tour bus was a lot of fun and super cool! We saw a ton of places and of all days I left my camera at the house today so I will have to send the pics to my dad and he can post them on Facebook later! But we saw cool stuff like the monument of the revolution and the angle of independence and while we were on the bus
we met a guy who is a member from Canada and it was cool!
So today!!!! Today we had a an exercise day and a tournament! It was so much fun we did exercises like Push-ups and triceps dips, yoga (that killed me) then lunges and squats and that was right after the yoga so it was not fun! Then we did crunches and planks! Then the sports were basketball, volleyball, and soccer! And well WE GOT FIRST PLACE!! This is how it played out. The first game of basketball we lost. then we did exercise, Then we played volleyball and lost the first game but we won the second game! Then we did yoga and more exercise and then soccer and the fist game we won thanks to a goal and the second went to a penalty shoot out and it was tied 2-2 when it was our goalies turn to kick! He made the goal, he rocketed it past the other goalie and then he blocked the other goalie after his own goal so we won 3-2 on penalties! Then we did the planks and
crunches and we played one more game of basketball! and we won that one too! So our final pointage was 4 wins and 2 losses! but there were three teams with that same record so we had to do a three way tie to see who would win! The tie breaker was Free throws and one team went before us and they
made 2 of 10 then we went and the same elder who was our goalie and helped us win in soccer made 7-of 9 free throws and one hna from our zone tried but missed. so we had a foot up on the other zone but we had to wait for one zone more and well they only scored 3 out of 10 baskets! So the zone
Moroni was named as President said it "Immortal Champs of the Battle of Chalco" it was fun and it was a great day!
So ya I am going to do my best to write this letter for the next 8 weeks as I finish my mission! I love you all and hope that you all have a good week! I know He lives and that He loves us! Love you all!
Love Elder Darcy
P.S We all had names on the back and I put an Original............Mr. Darcy
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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy
Calle Porvenir No. 8
Col. Centro, Chalco
Edo. De Mèxico
C.P. 56600, Mèxico
Ok I feel bad!......
It has been forever since I have done a group email! I have been super busy and feel like I am running more than ever in my mission! I guess that is what happens to us "old Farts" Since the last time I have written A TON has happened! I have had more baptisms and transfers and Mother's Day and a trip to the center and an exercise tournament today and now I feel super weak and dead for all the running and playing and exercise that I have done today! At the end I will add the photo of my zone who won it all today!! So where to start where to start!
Well we will go last to most recent. I have had transfers yet again and I am back in Ixtapaluca for the third time! I am in the ward Heroes! It is an awesome place and we have had one baptism here! It was great, We baptized a lady that has been receiving the missionary lessons for 4 months! She is super strong and now her family is listening to the discussions as well ! It is awesome!
Mother's day was good! I talked to my family for the last time in the mission field! It was
really weird when I was done I realized that the next time that I talk to my family it will be in person in July! Oh and talking about that I have received my return date! I will be coming home the 22nd of July! My flight leaves here (Mexico City) at 3:50 P.M. (that is 2:50 P.M. there in Utah) and I will be arriving in Utah at 7 P.M that evening! I am hoping customs won't take long because we are going to be a big group and it is going to be 7 at night and we just have to show them our papers this time
to show that we are citizens! We won't have to fill out visa papers since we are Americans! so I think 7:45-8 I will be out with my family again! It just feels so weird this is it the last eight weeks of my mission! It feels so weird that it is all ending!
So another cool thing happened! We got a visit as a mission from someone very special! On Friday May 15, 2015 we received a visit from Elder David A. Bednar! And it was an amazing experience! He got there and we were ready to take a picture with him! and It was great to have the meeting with him! He talked to us about faith and how it is a principle of ´power and action! And he said something that was awesome! He told us "you can't just pray and ask for power from god to open your mouths and talk to the people here, then just sit around and wait for that power to come. you just gotta get up and go! to invoke that request from God!" It was truly incredible he is also short... he is about my height actually we are pretty even he and I!
This last Monday we went to the center and we went on the tour bus and we bought some pretty cool ties! A member said that there was a tie sale there but there was not so I could only get one tie and it is cool it is a type of red and black checker pattern! It is pretty slick! The tour bus was a lot of fun and super cool! We saw a ton of places and of all days I left my camera at the house today so I will have to send the pics to my dad and he can post them on Facebook later! But we saw cool stuff like the monument of the revolution and the angle of independence and while we were on the bus
we met a guy who is a member from Canada and it was cool!
So today!!!! Today we had a an exercise day and a tournament! It was so much fun we did exercises like Push-ups and triceps dips, yoga (that killed me) then lunges and squats and that was right after the yoga so it was not fun! Then we did crunches and planks! Then the sports were basketball, volleyball, and soccer! And well WE GOT FIRST PLACE!! This is how it played out. The first game of basketball we lost. then we did exercise, Then we played volleyball and lost the first game but we won the second game! Then we did yoga and more exercise and then soccer and the fist game we won thanks to a goal and the second went to a penalty shoot out and it was tied 2-2 when it was our goalies turn to kick! He made the goal, he rocketed it past the other goalie and then he blocked the other goalie after his own goal so we won 3-2 on penalties! Then we did the planks and
crunches and we played one more game of basketball! and we won that one too! So our final pointage was 4 wins and 2 losses! but there were three teams with that same record so we had to do a three way tie to see who would win! The tie breaker was Free throws and one team went before us and they
made 2 of 10 then we went and the same elder who was our goalie and helped us win in soccer made 7-of 9 free throws and one hna from our zone tried but missed. so we had a foot up on the other zone but we had to wait for one zone more and well they only scored 3 out of 10 baskets! So the zone
Moroni was named as President said it "Immortal Champs of the Battle of Chalco" it was fun and it was a great day!
So ya I am going to do my best to write this letter for the next 8 weeks as I finish my mission! I love you all and hope that you all have a good week! I know He lives and that He loves us! Love you all!
Love Elder Darcy
P.S We all had names on the back and I put an Original............Mr. Darcy
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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy
Calle Porvenir No. 8
Col. Centro, Chalco
Edo. De Mèxico
C.P. 56600, Mèxico
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