Fwd: CARTTA #42 MEXICO!

Hey Fam!

Here we are in Junio! Crazy! I can't believe it! The 1 year mark is coming up quick. GO KATE AND ERIC, PREGO!!!  Alden's gonna be a Big BRO!  SO awesome!  And I can't believe Trent is already home, nutty!  When does Cameron get home?

Q´s

1.  Print off the instructions for voting--I was wondering how we would be able to allow you to vote......then do it!  
Ill look into it. the other secretary wants to do it too. if i have Q´s or if you can do anything to help me mom, ill let you know. i would like to vote just to say i did! ha

2.  Story of the week?
UMMM I would have to say with Jonni. Hes a hopeful temple trip in a year ha, so we are trying to work a lot with him. His wife is a strong member and comes from a strong family.  Her dad is one of the 7 stake presidentes in Merida or something.  But she married a Catholic!  haha come on!  We had a great few lessons this week. Two weeks ago he felt pressured when we put a baptismal date for the 14th of June and actually told his wife that he didn't want us to return. She was devastated and started to pray to have his heart softened toward the message. And when we showed up for the lesson on Thursday, he was ready to learn again and tha'ts when his wife told us the story of what had happened over the past 2 weeks, with tears streaming down her cheeks. Jonni´s a great guy, would make a great member and baptism, but he just needs a little bit of time. I hope I'll be here for when he feels ready.  What helped a ton was that we had the 2nd counselor in the ward come with us to the lesson on Thursday, and he just gave a great testimony of how he converted to the church, and to our surprise, it was a very similar story with how Jonni is coming to the church, almost a perfect match-- and that helped Jonni out alot.  They are coming to church tomorrow, and we hope to keep him there for at least the 2nd hour, and would be amazing for the 3rd too!

3.  We loved the story of Hernan--we are dying to hear if anything happened this week....
so hes listening to us. nothing really spectacular came from him this week, but I am grateful for the chance we have again to teach him again.

4.  What are the plans the church has for August as far as Mitt Romney?  I am so curious!  

So come august, Mormon.org is coming out in Spanish, A LOT better than it is. Presidente Salinas is beyond ecstatic about this release. As missionaries, we are told to start preparing and writing a profile about who we are, as Mormons, without the plaque, just plain old Richie Connolly. We are going to take a picture in street clothes and put our real names and they´re all going to go up online.  When mine is up, I will tell you!  But you may have to learn Spanish to read it!  Also, as part of the lessons, we are going to have time set apart in planning to use mormon.org  Every week to use the videos that they will be releasing for the missionaries. for example, if we are teaching someone about faith one day, we leave Alma 32 in the Book of Mormon and the video "etc" on mormon.org.  The missionary work is going to the internet, and what presidente Salinas told us: "you will be able to tell your kids and write in your journals that you were in the mission when the work went digital."  It should be spectacular, and I am excited to try it out when it releases. Especially in parts where there is a lot of tourism, there are a lot of people who know "the Mormons" because of Mitt Romney, and the church is well aware of that and taking advantage of it. So with the new mormon.org that will release in Spanish in August, we will use the Mormon Boom to our advantage. If I think of more news, I'll let you know next week!

Well the week went well, the work is good.  The office was chill this week, the sun is unbelievable hot, and I got a haircut ;) ! that's about it, and it's time I gotta go. Sorry it's somewhat short. Thanks for the emails and letters. you guys are the beeeest! Laterrrr

Elder Connolly

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