Run missionaries run!!‏

October 27, 2014
HOLA A TODOS!!

Well I know that it has been a while since i wrote! But it's just like the title says we have been running, running, running! Things have been going great here in good ole' Chalco ;) we have been super busy at work! I kind of forgot how hard it is to open up an area but its been so much fun! Things are going great with my companion. We also have a possible baptism! Then a few weeks ago I got the chance to go to Polanco, the nicest part of the city, to resign my visa for the last time! It was a lot of fun and other than that things are just busy, busy, busy!! 

So with the running, running, running. This last week we decided that we have not been finding a ton of new people so we looked at the list of people that we have contacted in the street the last few weeks and we realized that we had a list of about 30 different people. We decided we needed to look for these people to see if they really wanted anything. It was kind of sad because we walked all day for two days and whittled the list down from 30 possible investigators to only about five that accepted to really listen. It was kind of sad but now we know where the possibilities are at and we know who to work with! So we are ready to hit the ground running and that will be exciting!

We possibly have a baptism this week! The guy had an accident a few weeks ago and shared his experience like this:  He works making big ice blocks and a machine fell and crushed his foot! he told us where the machine was he should have been completely crushed but he wasn't! He said that a warm smooth feeling took hold of him and moved him out of the way and so the machine only crushed his foot, which is still bad.... but then he told us that his foot was completely under the machine and that same feeling came back and took his foot out! We were like wow that's crazy! He is convinced it was our Father in Heaven (which it was) and he is ready to put a bag over his foot and jump in the font! So we will be baptizing him with the bag over his foot this week probably! it was so cool to hear his experience and he is super ready! His wife and kids are members he is the only one that is not a member and now is ready to jump in the font!!

Polanco was cool! we got to go to a store that sells complete american food! iI was so cool! I got some Twizzlers and Gierideli chocolate! it was so much fun!

I do have to say that its crazy how we get caught up in our many activities each week and each day! This last week my companion and I were talking and we were like wow where is the time! October literally is almost gone! this is the last week of October and then we are in November again, and before we know it, it will be Christmas again!  And then the new year! Something that i have learned out here is to enjoy the time because when we hit the real world again it will be a dumbed down version of the mission! We will be always be running, running, running. That is why it is super important to remember the savior in our lives! When we do the small things like daily prayer, scripture study,  and weekly family home evening to the bigger stuff like weekly church attendance and monthly temple visits we will be richly blessed!

 The Lord himself promised I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise. D&C 82:10 As we do what he says he will help us i can testify to that because like he said "i am bound"

I love you all and hope that you all have a good week this next week! Untill next week with all of the excitement may God bless each and every one of you!


Love,
Elder Darcy--
Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy
Calle Porvenir No. 8
Col. Centro, Chalco
Edo. De Mèxico
C.P. 56600, Mèxico

14 months!!!! What!!! Where is the time!!‏

October 6, 2014

HEYO!!!!!

So ya 14 months I can't believe that we are already at that point! Before we know it it will be 18 months!! It's super crazy!! but all is well! this last week we had transfers and that was good. I am in a new area called Culturas! It's nice because we are right off to the side of the center of Chalco! It takes like 10 min to walk their from our house! Let's not forget that conference was this week! It was super great!  Other than that all has been super calm!

 

Transfers were great I am now in Chalco! I am in the ward Culturas! My companion is an elder from my generation his name is Elder Thomson! He is a missionary from Honolulu Hawii. Iit has been a great week with him! We both are new to the area and for that the work is slow but all is well here!! We are slowly but surly meeting people. The highlight of this week is that we got to the house after the transfer meeting! The house was a MESS! it was a joke the worst part was cleaning the fridge that had a month and a half of cheese and hamburger patties left in it and the fridge had been unplugged the day the last missionaries left! so lets just say that the fridge did not smell the best when we opened it! The next day I got the great privilege  to clean it! It was so much fun!! no not really I came close to throwing-up a few times because of the smell! but at the end of 1 1/2 to 2 hours of cleaning the fridge smelt like a fresh rained on field (does that make sense? :S)! All is going well here in the new area!!

 

So how about that conference!! That was so cool! I was a little thrown off at first because the last few weeks we have been listening to the last conference talks over and over again that i was used to that and i was like where is that! but it was great! I feel that this conference was focused on the fact that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God! It's part I feel that was given because there are a ton of people here that do not have a solid testimony that Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration and some don't think that he is all that important!!! It was good for all of us to remember the importance of the divinity of Joseph Smith! I loved the talks from Sunday that were about personal revelation and how and what we can do to receive it! I loved that talk from the Sunday afternoon session where the guy talked about the four tools 1- prayer 2- scripture study 3- family home evening and 4- regular temple attendance! I believe that as we do all four of these things we will receive our revelation and how we can be "spiritually tracked" for our "personal load" it truly was a great conference! on top of that I really loved how the members of the 70 got to share their talks in their native language! it was great! when the two members gave their talks in Spanish we flipped to the Spanish channel and listened in Spanish! it was so cool!

Well love you guys hope you all have a good week and that all goes well! may god bless you all!!

until next time,

Elder Darcy

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

A Birthday I will never forget!!!

September 16, 2014


HOLA MIS AMIGOS!!!

To start off, yesterday I turned 20! It was really weird I woke up and I was like whoa I am 20 now and if felt super weird!! This last week has been one of the most eventful and stressfull of my mission! To give quick overview this last week our district leader had to go home. That ended up with me in a trio now!! Yesterday( the day of my birthday) my companion Elder Aguilar ended up in the hospital for a mini heart attack! so it was a super crazy week!!
Yesterday was Independence Day here in Mexico and because of that our day was cut short and we had to be in the house by 5:00 PM. That morning we had our meeting then we were helping an hermana pass out a famous tradicinal soup called pazolle! As we were doing this Elder Aguliar told me that he didn't feel good! We went to the house to get him some medicine and when we got home he went to the bathroom and he started to vomit!! THEN as he came out of the bathroom he acted like a drunk he staggered out of the bathroom and as he was entering the bedroom  he grabbed his stomach and fell into the door then to the floor and passed out!! The other Elder (my new companion) Elder Ortiz and I were like ummm uh oh what do we do!!!! We looked for the phone to call the doctors and then we found the phone and we didnt have the number!  We did have another doctor so Elder Ortiz called her and I had to call President and as he answered the phone he was like Elder Darcy happy birthday. I was like haha not really we have a problem Elder Aguilar just passed out which hospital do we go to? He helped us and we got Elder Aguilar to come to a little and then we gave him a blessing then we had to go to a hospital in Chalco! So it was super intersing! We did not get ther untill about 11:30 in the morning and we didn't leave untill 5:30 in the afternoon! It was super crazy! We did not get back here to the area untill 8. Because it takes forever with the traffic! It was a mini heartattack that happened because of high altitued and bad management of his feelings... he was stressed... but all is well!

Thanks again to all for your love and wishes!

Love elder Darcy

-- 

Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico

Spiritual Experiences!

August 25, 2014

 

QUE PASO?!

Hey all, how is it going! I have to say that all is going well here! This last few weeks have been pretty good just super busy! A few weeks ago we had another baptism! and it was so cool! Since then we had changes! So everything was only a little crazy because we didn't have changes ( so that means that I am still in Buenavista!) but that is okay because I love this ward! And I love my area! then this last week I had some spiritual experiences that were super cool! It has been a good week!

A few weeks back we had a baptism. The lady who got baptized has been taught for more than two years and she finally agreed to be baptized! The experience was actually pretty cool. We went to visit her about a month ago and we taught the subject of baptism and at the end we asked her how she felt, and she told us that she feels ready. But I had known that she had been living with her boyfriend so I asked her what was happening there because that is a requirement for baptism. When I asked she was like don't worry I will be visiting him tomorrow and I will tell him he can't live here and we cant have those types of relations if we are not married. I was like WOW! That was so cool! I did get to baptize her! She walked out of her interview and said that she wanted me to do the ordinance, it was so cool!

Then the last few weeks I have seen that when they say that the mission is hard it is not a lie! I had some struggles this last week and as I was studying the scriptures and praying I felt like I got partial answers but I felt like something was missing! Yesterday in priesthood we talked about the things we need to do to make a "Spiritual Load" from Elder Bednars talk in April! and the Spirit just hit me so hard and said there is what you need to do! So i know know what is my spiritual load and I know for a surety that this is Gods church and he answers our prayers!!

I love you all and hope that you all have a good week! que dios les bendiga!

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 53: Just another normal week!

August 11, 2014

jaja! I am learning new phrases now :D It was an awesome week! I had a lot happen in this week ! for one I made a year here in the mission and we had a baptism! It was a pretty good week! But to top it off , my companion got super sick with a stomach infection on Saturday after the baptism, but he is doing better now. Then with more news we have another baptism this week! I am so excited things are going well we are busy at work! it overall was a good week and a fast week I just cannot believe that I have one year in the mission now! it is super crazy! other than that all is going well!

So this week we had a baptism! The Brother had been coming to church for a while and he always told us that he lived in the upper part of the ward! I thought lives in the are of the other two Elders and we kept passing the reference but one day they told us that they could not find the house, so when my companion got here that next Sunday we talked to the guy and we asked him for his address and it turns out that he lives on the boarders of our areas and he fell into our part! he accepted our invitation today!! all of the commitments and all of the lesson  that we shared with him! It was so cool! After my companion got super sick and could not do much because he had a stomach infection! so it was a super crazy day!



Thursday I hit exactly one year in my mission and it was super crazy! then that day we had divisions with our zone leaders and I was with my zone leader Elder Lamont who is from my same generation! so it was fun! then that night we went to his house and we finished the divisions AND we celebrated the one year with the burring of shirts! and yes I have pictures!

1 Year Mark - Burning of a shirt!

Breakfast of Champions! Frosted Flakes with Coke!

other than that it was a good week not a lot happened it was super slow but here are a few more pics!

 

Cleaning the font

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love you all. I hope that you have good week! I will let you know what is going on with this next baptism! she has to have an interview with the President!


Love,

 Elder Darcy

Week 52: Half Way!!

August 4, 2014

 

QUE PASO?
 

Well first off I have been bad at doing an update for the last few weeks,  am sorry about that! Well quite a bit has happened recently! I am training right now and it is so much fun! we are almost at the end of another cycle and this Thursday I HAVE ONE YEAR!! It is so crazy!! I don't know what to think about that. I am going super crazy right now! But one thing is for sure..... I have seen such a huge growth in my testimony in the last year and I was like WOW! So where to start,  where to start!
 

To start off I am a "dad" which means I am training! I started training when we had changes at the start of this last month! The name of my companion is Elder Aguilar! He is from Tijuana Baja California! He is pretty cool! We have gotten so much work done in these last 4 weeks! As of right now we have an investigator who passed his interview and will be getting baptized this next Saturday! Then we have other dates for next Saturday the 16tha and the end of the month the 30th! We have been getting so much work done that it has been really fun! But I am really enjoying this companion because I feel like with him, more than ever in my mission, I am learning the significance of being a "true disciple of Christ" it is truly amazing! and I am Truly grateful for this chance that the Lord has given me to be a missionary!
 

Here we are the second to last week of this cycle and as I look back at this cycle and have to say that we truly did our best and I know that there were things that we could have done better but we still have these next two weeks before we start again! I am pretty excited because if you remember back in April one of the baptisms that I had, her name is Sheila, we have recently been working with her mom who has been attending our Church for about two years now........ yeah I know two years! It's crazy!  Because she has the 5 Sundays investigators are required to have we have a date with her to be baptized the 16th of August!
 

But the time is just flying! I can't believe it! I feel like there were points of these last four months that were just super slow but now I am at a year! I have always heard from other missionaries that the mission in terms of tiempo is a hill! months one to 11 are super slow at times because that is the climb up the hill! Then month 12 is the top and to finish months 13 to 24 is that fast race down! It's super crazy! I can't believe in a year (a little less) it will be over I will be back home and everything that I have done will be set in stone!
 

I would like to finish with my testimony that I know this work is true. I testify that Jesus is the Christ! and that He lived and died for every one of us and like he states in Joshua "Fear not for I am with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. I will give thee aid." I know that through him the prophet Joseph Smith restored the Church, translated the Book of Mormon and restored every Priesthood key here to the earth! I know that I am here in this part of the Lord's vineyard for a reason! I know that he called me here to do this work! And I will proudly work to the end in "the greatest army on earth." I testify that Thomas S. Monson is our living prophet today!  These things I testify in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

I love you guys and hope that you have a great week! I will be sending pictures in the next week of a few activities that have taking place!

que dios les bendiga!

con muco cariño!
 

Elder Darcy

11 Months In and Training!

July 7, 2014

HEYO!

First off I need to send out a HUGE Apology!! I have not sent an update in a few weeks and that is because we have been super busy! Two weeks ago we were playing soccer and working on some stuff as a district so we were not allowed much time! Then last week I went with my companion to el Centro de D.F or the center of Mexico City!  Because of that we did not get back until 6 P.M. We had our district meeting and then I got permission to hurry and email my family! It has been a crazy couple of weeks! This last week was the last of this cycle and with that tomorrow we have the annual changes! Last night we got a call from my district leader and I AM TRAINGING!!!!!!!!!! For the first time in my mission I will be training a new missionary! To top that off today I hit eleven months in my mission! I honestly can`t believe how fast the time is flying! But all is well and let the training begin!

Yesterday night we were supposed to get the changes call at 9 P.M. but they came a little later and because we live four to a house the call came in on my phone! We hovered over my phone with it on speaker phone. The first thing that my district leader said was.... Elder Darcy you and Elder Ragle have changes......Elder Darcy you are staying in Buenavista and will be TRAINING!!! At that point I was so excited that I started to scream YES!! a bunch! Then after I calmed down, I told my district leader sorry and he started to laugh and said that my current companion is headed to the Estado of Mèxico for the first time in his mission! Elder Ragle has changes to Chalco! then the other two Elders that were in our ward are staying the same! So last night after we got the call I had to take a few seconds to reflect and I was truly humbled to know that the Lord has so much trust in me that I can train a new Elder here in the mission! I am so excited for this changes meeting to receive my son!

So on top of all of this good news today I complete eleven months in my mission! This is so crazy that almost one year ago I was walking into the MTC and starting my mission! And now look it is almost half over! I have to say I have learned so much in the last eleven months! I know that everything happening is happening for a reason. I know that they are the things that the Lord wants me to experience! I have truly loved every moment of it and I am more than ready to bust out this last year and do what I need to to bring more people to know their Father In Heaven! I truly testify that he lives, that his son Jesus Christ dies for us, and thanks to his atonement we can live again in peace with him! I am truly proud and humbled to be part of the greatest army on earth! the army of God!

I love you all and hope that you have a good week and that all goes well! I pray that our Father In Heaven will guide you and bless you all wherever you may be!

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Darcy =D

P.S. I will send pics next week of me and my "son!"

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Elder Brett Jeffrey Darcy

Calle Porvenir No. 8

Col. Centro, Chalco

Edo. De Mèxico

C.P. 56600, Mèxico