Week 38: Who you callin Gueto? ;)‏

April 28, 2014

I have decided to change around the titles of my emails because we just have A LOT to do and the time is flying by! I realized that in about 3 months (almost) I will be at the top of the hill in my mission and then its all running downhill until the day of my last transfers meeting! It is so crazy to think about that! But for now in the little ole area de Buenavista we are working hard with some exciting things happening! This week we are hoping to see another baptism and in the next few on the 17th we are hoping to see two more baptisms!
 

This week was SOOOOOOOOO much better than this last week because everyone was home from the vacations de Easter! We got some more teaching in this week and we had some crazy experiences! we had one guy tell us he has not had a drink in 15 days and we are having another baptism interview tonight!!!
 

One of the guys that we are teaching off and on just became a focus this week! His family was baptized in October but he could not be baptized cause he was having a problem with drinking. A few weeks ago when I was with Elder Luis we went with the Bishop and we visited with this brother and the bishop started to talk with him and the Bishop asked "hno. do you want to be baptized" and the hno said "yes I have a desire to be baptized I know its true!" then the Bishop told him "well hno do you know what you need to do to be able to be baptized?" and the Hno. Told us " yes I know what I need to do I have to leave drinking" so we were like exactly! So the bishop told him "Hno. come to the church tomorrow and I want to give you an assignment! Elder Luis and I were like uhhh Bishop, what are you doing he is not a member. But of course we didn't say anything and the next night we saw the hno at the church and after that we did not know what had happened and we didn't visit him after that! This week Elder Ragle and I saw him and we asked how it was going and what was the assignment. He told us the Bishop gave him a blessing 15 days ago and since that day he had not had a drink! So we are setting a date with him this week!
 

Then the second exciting event this week was that our investigator that we had for last week was not baptized because there was confusion and we thought he had some other things to work on, so we postpone the baptism and come to find out all was fine and there was a miscommunication so all is well with him and he is excited for his interview. Yesterday we went and visited him and we had not said a thing about his interview and then he told us he was having the interview the next night. We are so excited for him!

So it was a good week! We did a lot of work and to top it all off we got approached by someone who was trying to bible bash with us. It was kind of funny cause he was a little tipsy We tried to use the "we have an appointment" trick and he was not going to let us go. We finally got him convinced that we had to go so he was like "give me 70 pesos" and we told him we didn't have 70 pesos that day so he asked for 20 pesos and we told him we were broke and he was like OK give me your phone that you have.... and I said hno you told us that you studied the bible and if you have studied the bible you will know that the 8th commandment is "Thou shalt not rob" you can't take this from us cause if you do God will give you bad luck and he got a little scared and was like OK OK thank  you and kissed my companions hand and we were like uhhhhh OK. Then he said God bless you and he left.

So yah interesting week and well ya love you all so much!

Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

Pasqua, Temblores y Kia Kaha!‏

April 21, 2014

FELIZ DIA DE PASQUA! That is how you say Easter in Mexico and wow was this week was different! All this last week was called Semana Santa! And it was so cool! Each day last week was a representation of different things that happened in the last week of Christ's life! here are the different days:

Monday: Was Christ entered into Jerusalem and began teaching, Tuesday and Wednesday: Christ was teaching and organizing the church in that day, Thursday: Was the Last Super and the atonement, Friday was the trial and crucifixion,  Saturday: Was a day of darkness Sunday: Christ was resurrected and broke the chains of death! In this moment it was possible for all to live again!

So this week was super cool to see how another culture celebrates the life of our Redeemer! This last week was super slow because everyone went on vacation! Not a lot happened till Friday when we baptized a sister,  her name is Hna. Sheila, and she was baptized on Friday afternoon! After the baptism we had to return home because one of the ways people here celebrate was to party and there is a lot of drinking involved. That is not safe for us to be out after dark, especially for two Americans. On Friday night we were in the house all night! The rest of the week was super slow!

Temblors! So as we were getting ready for our baptism there was a 7.2 Earthquake! it was so wierd because Elder Ragle and I were walking and we felt nothing! The Temblor was the up and down type that's super destructive but then after a few seconds it turned into a swaying motion type! so we didn't feel it but the power lines were moving like crazy! so it was super intense but I am safe and Elder Ragle is safe and we still held our baptism! 

Kia Kaha= Forever Strong! Becaue we had to be in the house on Friday night one of the elders got permission and we watched Forever strong. I don't know why but this time now more than ever different things from that movie stood out to me! I want to relate something from that movie the first is that Coach Larry Gilwix Told his team "I want you to be forever strong on the field so that you will always be forever strong off of it. Kia Kaha Forever Strong! and I made that connection to us here in the mission field. Our Father in Heaven is the coach and he is telling us " I want you to be forever strong in the field so that you will be forever strong out of it" and I really liked that and as I made that connection my perspective of the mission field grew! The other line I loved from that movie is " I will never do anything that embarrasses myself, my team (my mission and its missionaries), or my family" that line I love because it shows my commitment and love for the mission and the rules that we have with it!

I love you all and hope that you all have a good week and that the Lord will always be with you! I love you all El Vive and KIA KAHA

con mucho amor por todos,

Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

Changes!!

April 14, 2014

QUE PASO??
 

Well I  will tell you what happened -  6 weeks have come and gone so fast that I had time to only blink once! So what does this mean? It means changes and this time my companion Elder Luis is leaving and I have earned the privilege to become senior companion! I will be receiving Elder Ragle and American Elder from California! He was in my district in Tlaltenco! He has about three months less than me so I am a little nervous!  This is because somos aprendiendo Española! But I have faith in the Lord that this will be a good cycle!

To start this cycle off we are baptizing this week! We are baptizing Hna. Sheila the investigator that had a date for the day before conference is getting baptized and we will have another baptism next week too! we have plans to baptize every week except one this cycle!
 

This last week was good! but after playing a lot of soccer last Monday by the end of the day my legs felt like Jell-O! Tuesday and Wednesday my legs hurt like crazy! It was a slow week because the schools are out for a few weeks and with Easter this week there is something called santa semana were the Catholics do different things for the last week of Christ's life. In our letter today President Crickmore told us to be careful and until something happens to a missionary we will be working so I am hoping that nothing happens to any of our missionaries!
 

Besides the slow week and futból it was good I loved this cycle! My companion Elder Luis and I will be returning home on the same day! So it was like I was working with someone from my generation! I am actually excited to see how this week goes and how the Mexican people celebrate Easter! I would like to bear my testimony that Christ does live today! He did "bleed grand drops of blood that fell to the earth" (Luke 22:43) from every pore for us and he did die for us and on that third and glorious day he didn't break the bands of death he destroyed them! It is because of him that we can live with him and like him glorified and perfected! let us all remember him and what his did for us in this week and let us all "come unto Christ" (youth theme 2014) of these thing I know are true I share my witness in his holy name even Jesus Christ. Amen.
 

I love you all and hope that this next week goes well for all! Love you all and HAPPY EASTER!

Con mucho amor Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

Conferencia!!‏

April 7, 2014

QUE PACHO GUETOS??!!

This week is going to be short again because we are a little behind. we are behind because we had a soccer tournament in Chalco and didn't get back till 6:30 in the afternoon! but we did OK we came in 5th out of 6............ but it was fun and I got to play all of our last game! 

Conference! I loved conference I thought that it was too fast but I loved it! Some of my favorite talks were Elder Holland's, Elder Oaks President Uchdorf (from priesthood) and President Monson (from Sunday in the morning!) I have to agree with dad on they were super direct!

From Elder Holland's talk one thing that I liked was "the restoration of the Gospel and the priesthood is more real than me talking to you today" I was just sitting there with my mouth wide open like W-O-W WOW that's insane! 

From Elder Oaks........ I just loved his whole talk his was very direct and made it clear that women cannot posses the priesthood!

President Uchdorf: I loved his story about him and President Monson on Air Force One...."Dieter....Don´t even think about it ;)

President Monson´s talk I loved he was clear on how we need to love God and we need to love our neighbors! he talk was awesome!

I loved conference! and yes it was in English! We only have 5 Americans in the zone so they just stuck us in the high counsel room in the stake! We went tot the stake for all five sessions! it was so much fun and so cool! I am so grateful that I have this chance to be here! I am so glad to have you guys here to support me! 

This next week is the last week of the cycle and then there is changes next week! It is going by so fast something else crazy.........TODAY I HIT 8 MONTHS IN MY MISSION!!! its bien loco mis amigos! so ya i am freaking out about how fast it is but I am loving every moment of it!

I love you guys and hope you all have a super awesome week!

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

Another Slow Week

March 31, 2014

HOLA MI FAMILA Y AMIGOS!
 

Not a lot happened this week.... it was super slow but there is something exciting this next week quien sabe que esa es?  If you guessed American baseball that's incorrecto and now its all about Futból ;) But no, this next weekend we have the great chance of listening to our Profeta Thomas S. Monson and his counselors and the 12! I have to say that here in the mission I have learned to love conference!! so I am super excited for this next weekend! The best part is that Utah and us (here in Mexico) are in the same time zone right now!! so Saturday conference is at 10, 2, and  6 so it will be like I am just back at home! but then Saturday in la noche we move the clocks ahead 1 hora XP so I will lose my hour of sleep....
 

So I do have some news.... our baptism for this next week fell through because we have the general conference this week. Next week we have stake conference here..... so its been pushed back a little bit..... but all is good our investigators name is Sheila and she is still super strong and she understood completely fine why we had to change it! so I just I hope I am here during that time because the same week of Sheila's new date is the same week as changes and given my history the last couple of cycles who knows what will happen!
 

I love you all so much and hope the best for you all this conference weekend! sorry this week is short y I hope to have a lot to tell next week!
 

Con mucho amor!

Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

Super Super Slow Week!

March 24, 2014

So this week was super slow! We didn't teach that much at all this week like 1-3 lessons each day and that is super bad! but here are two things that happened this week that I want to share!

On Tuesday we had this multi zone conference with Elder Miron From the area Presidency and that was super good he talked about fixing our vision and the assistants talked about a plan they made to help us baptize every week of our mission! it was so cool!

Then speaking of Baptisms!!

We had a baptism interview this last weekend and we are baptizing but it has been changed to the 4th because that is when our in investigator wants it. but this story is very crazy! Our investigators name is Sheila and she and her boyfriend that she had been living with were supposed to come play futból last Monday. But that didn't happen so we were like umm OK. So on Wednesday we went over to see if everything was OK. She said that things are better! and we were like OK how? She said she prayed to know what to do and she got her answer. she told us that she has a strong desire to be baptized so she prayed to know if she need to split from her boyfriend and she said she got a positive good feeling! So she told us that they didn´t come Monday because that is when they split and  he was moving out. So we just sat there for like 10-15 seconds and I think my companion Elder Luis was like did that just happen. I was like what just happened. We had her interviewed and she had to have a special interview with president and she passed and wants the 4th (the day before conference!)

So those are the highlights of my week! hope all is well this week! This update was not long it was just a super slow week!

Love you all!

Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

MY LOCO SEMANA !!

March 17, 2014

 

That is what I get a lot here is gueto and all sorts of stuff but its OK because I am doing the Lords work! We were super busy this week and did a lot! here is look at my week!

Monday: we had a zone meeting and that was good then we played a little soccer for our tournament  after conference! Then we did the normal P-Day stuff and taught a few lessons that night!

Tuesday: we taught a good amount of lessons but we didn't contact all that great all day so at 630 we went back to the house grabbed some things and from 7-9 we contacted 17 different people! it was so much fun I had a blast!

Thursday I went to Plonko and got my green card. I AM LEGAL!! It took almost 6 months I was getting nervous. The best part is that it expires on my birthday! but can't go that day because its my birthday ;) and its Mexico's Independence day!

Friday: In the morning on Friday we found A TON of old investigator files and we prayerfully chose one and from that we ended up get 4 people to accept baptism! so here is a tip PRAYER WORKS!

Saturday was slow because we did our weekly planning and because of that we didn't teach that much and on the bright side there was some catholic thing called Carnival happening this weekend so there were more borachos than usual!

Sun (yesterday) Church was good the talks were about service and stuff it was cool! then it is super hot and I got a little heat sick but was fine. Other than that we went to the zone report because my companion is our district leader! so it was a fun week!

So much craziness! In the last few weeks we had changes again and again I was part of them! I am still in stake Meyeuhalco but now in ward Buenavista not Tlaltenco. And my companion's name is Elder Luis! For anyone who saw the first in between program of confrence in October after the Saturday morning session there was a world report. It talked about the new Mexico MTC and how it used to be the church school here. They talked about a kid who went there for his three years of high school then after he graduated the school became the MTC and that kid was in the MTC to come to Mìssion Chalco..... that kid is now my companion and people are always talking about it. He hates it but thinks its kind of cool at the same time!

So thats my life right now! How is everyone else doing? I Hope all is well! 

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