Week 43: The fruits of our labors

HOLA A TODOS!!!!

As the title says we are starting to see the fruits of our labors! This last cycle my companion Elder Ragle and I were working and we had the hardest time to find new investigators to teach! This last week was a really good week we had a lot of people to teach and we found the secret to success in our area! On top of that I have found the secret to be the best missionary I can be! It was a really rewarding week! Today as we got on the computers to email the President he told us that in this last month we baptized 81 new members as a mission!! that means that 81 souls were brought unto Christ!!! This week we are hoping to put a Fecha with a family that we have had in teaching for a while!

This last week for the first time in a month and a half we were able to find a new family to teach!! We have been working so hard to find the new people here! Last Monday after I had emailed we had a family home evening with an active family and they invited a family of three! so we taught and the accepted another visit! Because of another meeting that we had a few weeks ago we were told that when we have a family accept and put a return appointment that it counts as a new investigator as it says in Preach My Gospel so we taught the family and they at least accepted a return appointment!

It was really cool to have that happen in this week! I have been trying to figure out how can i be obedient but not be a robot.The last few weeks I have been striving to be exactly obedient and that has kind of turned me into a robot and i do not like that so this last week I figured out how and what I need to do to be a obedient missionary......the answer........is to be myself but follow the rules!! It was a great  learning week!

Then this last week we had what is called a simple talk with a family that we have in teaching. They have been coming to church and keeping every commitment but will not accept baptism. Here is where we saw the fruits of our labors again and they opened up to us. They told us that they feel worried about changing a religion because they are scared of the change that will come after being baptized. We were able to go back and help them! then we have another apptointment with them to help them see that they are ready. The last lesson  with them was super spiritual! I have a lot of faith for this family this week!

Well that about does it from Mexico this week! It's crazy this upcoming Saturday i will hit 10 months in my mission its so crazy time is flying but I love it so much! I would not trade it for anything right now! I love the people here, I love the missionaries, I love my Mission President,  and I love the Lord,  that is why I am so engaged in this great work!

I love you all and hope that you all have a good week!

Cuidensen mucho y les amo bastante!

Con amor,

Elder Darcy

Week 42: Phase 6 of 16 compleate!‏

May 26, 2014

QUE PASO,

So we are yet again at the end of another cycle here in the mission Mexico City, Chalco! That means changes right? Well here is the catch..........WE DON´T HAVE CHANGES!!! Elder Ragle and I are not changing!!! So I will be in the area for a whole 4 months and a half! I will also be with Elder Ragle for 3 months by the end of this cycle!! It´s so cool! so this last week was good but slow! Only two major things happened besides changes! This week we did divisions with our zone leaders!! And in this last cycle I have learned a lot. but overall it was a good week! We had a good number of lessons but we are still struggling to find new people.

This last Wednesday we went to another area, we went to the area of Estación. We taught a lot of cool people! We ended up teaching the grandma of one of the members I knew from Taltenco! it was actually really cool! there was one house that we went to and the hermana that we visited has a small little dog named Goofy. This little dog has so much energy, it was so fun to mess with this dog. For lunch we went with another hermana and she has a big dog named Scooby! I am so glad that I had this chance to do divisions! I learned a lot from my zone leader! he is so cool! we had a great time and we helped one another!

So speaking of learning!!! I have learned so much this last cycle! I have learned about obedience, patience, and love for all! Obedience - since I got here I have always had companions super obedient and then we got to this cycle and i was expecting to have someone to help me and I realized it´s all on me now! I had a talk with the President this last week and I promised him and the Lord that I will be exactly obedient! I learned a lot about patience because I didn't do everything right nor did my companion. Finally I leaned love because we have had a lot of people reject us and some Elders do some super crazy things. I have learned the importance of love for all.

So it was a good cycle I look forward to this next! I am so excited to be out here and I just want it to slow down so that I can have more time out here because now I don't have much left out here.... but I will work hard and be more obedient to receive His blessings!

Love you all hope you have a good 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

Week 41: Bautismo!‏

May 19, 2014


Hola mi familia y amigos!
Well it is just like the subject says we have struck again in bringing a soul unto Christ! It was a good long week! by the end of last night I was exhausted and super tired..... yes I know its the same....... ;) but all is well here! We had a lot of adventures in this last week! Some of the stuff that happened is I took a trip down memory lane and I was back in the stake center of Solidaridad! it is because we had a meeting there this last week but it was so weird being there! Then this week was long we did a lot in walking and trying to find where some of our less active members live and trying to teach them! Then we Topped the cycle off with a BAPTISM!! it was a good week! and I will share a little bit about what happened in this week!
So this Wednesday I took a trip down memory lane of my first zone and I went back into Solidaridad! we had a multi zone conference because on the 9th of May Elder Valenzuela from the Area Presidency came and taught all the zone leaders, the assistants , and the presidents about a few things! so on Wednesday we had a Multi Zone conference with Ixtapaluca and solidaridad (the three zones I have been in). It was full of revelation! The one thing that I didn´t like was that they put the importance of numbers. I personally do not like numbers because I feel like they are pushing for numbers and not for the worth of souls. but then president Crickmore used a scripture of how the Lord would count all the hairs on our head....... so ya its important for numbers!
Then the week was long because we are in the process of looking for more members! When I was with my last companion,  Elder Luis, we only taught a certain number of people every week.. so in one of the meetings that we had with our ward mission leader and his assistant we talked about this, well they gave us a list and little by little we are finding people! But we do a lot of walking to find these addresses! We are getting there so that is why there is a pic of me exhausted!
BAUTISMO!!  On Saturday  we baptized a Hermana. we have had in teaching for 5 months. The only thing that was holding her back was getting married! about a week and a half ago she got married and she got baptized this last week! The service was super good and super spiritual because she was so ready for this! There were two other special things about the service on Saturday! the first is that the four Elders in our ward had baptisms (so us and the other two) and that is the first time that we have had that! The second which is the BEST is that my companion Elder Ragle did the baptism and it was the first time that he has done one!!! So it was super cool!
So that's about it for this week! This next week we are baptizing one more to end the cycle and we are again getting the call for transfers! This last week our investigator who baptized the other Hermana had a special interview with the President. After the interview he was talking with me and he sounded pretty sure that I will be training this next cycle! we just have to wait and see if the Lord is ready for that but he told me he feels that I am ready! During that interview Hermana. Crickmore was there to talk with Elder Ragle and I and she told us in the next couple of months we will have cool pictures to send home! It rains like crazy here and it makes for some great pictures! I am excited for that!
I hope all is well and that god may bless you! love you all!
Elder Darcy

my district leader (the Latino) his son (trainee) and us (Elder Ragle and I)

Week 39: 9 Months in....WHAT?‏

May 5, 2014

Well it's like the Subject says this Wednesday I will be completing 9 months in my mission from the day that I went into the MTC!  Before I know it I will be there at a year at the top of the hill looking down on what is to come! It's so crazy but I am absolutely loving being out here right now! it´s amazing how much I have felt the spirit of the Lord in the work here! I have fully come to believe it does not matter leader or no leader, whatever area that I am in I am called there by the Lord through revelation through a member of the 12 Apostles.

But this week was good! we did a lot of work and we had some adventures too!! It was kind of a fast week we hit Saturday and we were like oh no the week is over what are we going to do? so yes it was fast! 

So first off with the work one of the cooler things that we had this week is that the hna we have a date with for the 17th of may is getting married! Very cool!  The only thing that was holding her back to get baptized was getting married and she is doing that this Wednesday!!! I'm excited for her because she is truly amazing! The Hermana told us that she has her answer and that she know that it´s true. A few weeks ago she went to the visitors center at the temple and bought her scriptures and a hymn book! She also bought 6-7 movies of the church. when she told us this I was like WOW that's truly amazing because she is not a member yet and she is buying these things.... what???? but she is going to be ready for her baptism on the 17th!

So this week we did take a couple of trips to my old areas!! Elder Ragle had gotten an eye infection in his upper eyelid and so we had to go to Valle de Chalco to see the mission doctor. To get there we had to go straight through Independencia 1, my first area of where I was when I arrived in the mission field. As we had gone through there it was weird to think that I was there in September almost one year ago and that so much time has passed since I left there. As we drove back through to return to our area I thought of the person and the Elder that I was then and who I am now and I can see that I have had quite a change in myself! 

The second trip was to Tlaltenco 2 my last area. Elder Ragle had also caught a stomach infection from something, maybe the food we are not use to. All is well, Elder Ragle is doing better,  but Saturday and Sunday were long days. I truly saw the power of the Priesthood yesterday. Before we went to the doctors Elder Ragle had asked for a blessing and to sleep for a little bit because he had not slept at all the night before!  We gave him a blessing and he went to his bed and layed down and was out cold in a matter of seconds and did not move or wake up for several hours after that. It was so amazing to see the Priesthood work like that through the power that we have from our Father In Heaven. I was like wow our Father in Heaven is bien poderoso! so it was a cool experience!!

I love you all and bless that you have a good mothers day week! and oh ya HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!

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

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