hello hello hello‏

well oh my goodness,
that was a massive load of emails to get through. now I hope everybody got my last email last week because there were reports that some people did not get it. Great news has been made manifest this week. Our Top two investigator families both didn't come to church. It was little disappointing and we were trying figure out what happened. One family from Guatemala called our Cell phone right as church started but the signal was bad and died and we couldn't call them back neither. Our family from Idaho(Fabians) didn't come neither so we went and saw them first after church. well they simply forgot about it so Elder Durrant came up with the Idea on the spot to go take them down to the church right then and there for a tour of it. They both loved it and said that they were defiantly coming next week. After that we went to our Guatemalan family to see what happened. Well they told us that they actually came to church building that morning. However, they saw that it already started so they didn't know what to do. They decided to call our phone but that didn't work so they got intimidated and went home. we had no idea that they actually came. We felt bad about their experience and apologized to them about the little misunderstanding. They said they will come to church again this next Sunday. It was such a shame that they all didn't come for one reason or the other because we had a great service and great lessons. Oh well it was probably for the best though. The Lord's timing sure is different than mine but that's why I know it's right. I love my Savior Jesus Christ. He is our Foundation our Rock. In Him we can find happiness and understanding in this life and Salvation in the next. I love you Arizonans so much. Have great week.


P.S. THANK YOU FOR THE PACKEAGE MOM
AND THANK YOU BONNIE FOR THE LETTER!
Elder Jacob Colvin

MY FAMILY!!! 10/6/08‏

Wow That General Conference was one of my favorites! I saw two of them in spanish. I understood about 30% of what they said. I loved it all though. Holland's, Wirthlin's, Ballard's, Packer's, that one 70 who just boldly testified about Jesus Christ. They were all good. I'm gonna read this one a bunch. this week were trying hard to get our investigators to the conference. We've been seeing that the Lord is preparing people to hear the gospel. The Puerto Rican Family is progressing (I think last week I said they were Cuban). They loved the Wilford Woodruf Conversion Video (it's found on the Doctrine & Covenants lessons DVD). If ya'll haven't seen it you should. I've seen it over 30 times. Also, The Testaments is a must see too. I really do like to get letters. It helps put a smile on your face on those 'not so good' days. I will now Publicly Declare a thank you on my emails when I get a letter during the week: Sarah, thank you again for your letter. What else happened this week. I saw my first 09 Challenger the other day, I loved it. I'm trying real hard to learn my spanish. If I speak slowly I can say it right. Sometimes I feel like Hispanics should get an ward for who can move their tongue as fast as humanly possible. Maybe that's why they love tongue tacos. Oh yeah did I ever tell you I had Cow stomach soup. mmmmm Menudo yummy. well I'm going to be going now. Carry on and never hesitate.

-Elder Colvin (or 'Coalbeen' in Spanish)
Elder Jacob Colvin

9/29/08 ELDER COLVIN‏

Well Well Well....
Things are going exactly to my design


Hello family,
How are ya'll?
I'm Fine
I received a letter from.....Sarah this week. Thank you mucho mas.
We have recently found two very nice families.=20
I'm so excited for this! One is a lady from Brazil who married a guy from h
ere and now they both live here.=20
It's funny but I can almost understand Portugeese.=20
We were reading the Introduction to the Book of Mormon.=20
I've heard many times in spanish but it was really neat to hear it in 'Port
ugues' as the Spanish say.=20
It was almost the same with a few different words and pronunciation.
The other was this family of three in a trailer.
They come from Cuba.
(OK I'll stop the whole 'new line for every new sentance thing, it hurts to=
read')

Anyway, they are nice and they are reading the Book of Mormon. It's all goo=
d. Well my Spanish is coming great. I have a goal to speak it by this tr=
ansfer, that's only two more weeks. It's going to take some miracles. The=
whole learning process has been a big miracle for me. I can't wait for =
general conference this week. That'll be good. Well not much else to say =
except I would always love it if I got more letters please. Thank you my =
wonderful family. !Hasta la Vista Bebe!
Elder Colvin


Elder Jacob Colvin

....yup

Hello units of friendship (I'm trying to mix up my vocabulry).
we had our interviews this week. Our Mission President talked about raising our game and becoming more like disciples and less like Pharisees. It was good. I forgot again the names of those other two cd's that we can listen to. This week we had found a great new person. he is named Orvin. he is very humble and willing to hear what he had to say. On Saturday we met with him over at a member of the church'es home. we found out that the member (Bro. Cecilio) and Orvin work together, so they hit it off rather well. we had a great spirit filled lesson and I felt inspired to commit him to baptism on the 4th of Oct.. he said yes! It was really great. With all solid investigators there comes these random out of nowhere trial(s) that try to get in the way of them getting baptized. Orvin's work called him in at the last minute so he didn't make it to church on Sunday. However, the work go forth boldy nobly and independent and He'll be at church this week. I think it was for the best anyway, that we didn't have to deal with a baptism during General Conference week. Either way God is over all and, despite the battles, God will win the war.
Elder Ludlow is a missionary that lives with me. He just said to me that his mom hates Motorcycles , but he read that she rode one the other day for the very first time. Go and do

dearest Everyone I know

hey,
hello,
hello hello hello!


There was a certain classical song I had in mind when I was writing that.
Well hello my loved family. Thank you so much Grandma for your letter I always love hearing from you. This week has been great. We've been working hard to make up for Hurricane Gustav. Hurricane Ike didn't do much here. We only had our power out for a night. It was a week with Gustav. We just got a little wind and some rain. Like I'm annoyed that Gustav interrupted us here but I was a little happy I got to experience one on my mision. It was a torn feeling. So much good came from it though. We had so many people just thanking the heck out of us for coming and clearing their trees out for free and there were lots of people asking questions about our church. It was cool. What's really funny is that I heard from a member here that after Katrina in 05' the media did a survey on which churches helped the most with aid/relief efforts. Well the Statiscs were : 1st place "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", 2nd was "The Mormons". I love it. I'm so glad that we were able to help so much. anyway I forgot to mention something last week.
At our last Zone Conference we got new rules regarding music. ugh hmm; We Can now listen to EFY cd's and Two other things which names escape me at this moment. If you want to, could you Please send me some EFY Cd's. I would be very happy. Thank you. This week we found a bunch new investigators. It's amazing that if we just go and do it the Lord will put people in our path way Everytime. I'm happy to know that, what a blessing it really is to know that. If we just do our best and rely on Jesus We will accomplish more than we ever thought possible. Well times running short again and eyes are hurting. BYE
Elder Colvin

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC