August 12 2013

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Hola Family!!

So, first things first. I can officially solve the Rubik´s cube! haha, okay, with that said, on to mission matters.

So we have bikes in this area, which is slightly annoying, but hey, what can you do? and least the exhaustion helps me sleep at night. I had my first leader conference this week, it went well, and I learned a lot of stuff to use AFTER my mission. Hey, I don´t know If you guys are doing family history, but it´s been following around lately, so I feel like I should tell you guys to do it!

This district has so much potential, seriously. I just hope I can be the type of leader that helps them reach it.... but we´re doing quite well. we´ve found 3 people to teach this week who have accepted a baptismal invitation, but not a specific date, So I´ll keep you all updated on that. oh, and before I forget to put this quote:

"Stop bothering Korean Jesus! He doesn´t have time for your problems! he´s busy with Korean things!!!"

Haha, that´s probably the funniest thing I´ve heard all week :p okay, well, if anything changes, I´ll let you all know, for now just kicking spiritual butt and taking phisical names to open some celestial doors! I´ll send pictures next time because I can´t here. LOVE YOU ALL! Don´t make horrible choices, I´ve seem a little too much of that lately...

Elder Stormy Sheppard

August 5 2013

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Okay famiy, hold onto your seats, cause this week was insane.

First off, remember the Columbian companion I´ve been with all this time? well, his spirit was obviously one of the stronger ones out here, because he`s now a zone leader! and he only had 4 months in the mission. usually a WAY good missionary isn`t made a zone leader until at least a year in the mission, so that`s way tight.

In my news, after only a month and a half in my area (the least amount of time I`ve had in an area up to this point), they transferred me. to another state again. I`m now in Guanaxoato, which I`m not even sure I know how to spell correctly, and get this, I`m now a district leader. I know, I couldn`t believe it either. I feel like it`s gonna be super difficult, because when I got here, my companion was telling me all of the district info, and turns out 4 missionaries have been taken from the district for problems they`ve had with members and each other, and they haven`t been replaced! so now, my Comp and I are working alone, but in 3 different wards and areas. And It`s my first district as leader, so obiously I want to make a good impression. but it`s all good folks, because if God put me here in the midst of all these problems I didn`t start, that means my purpose here is to finish them. so those are the updates for right now, I`m now in charge of teaching missionaries how to be better when I haven`t even taught myself yet. we`ll see how it goes :p. but for now this is Elder Sheppard, signing off.

July 29 2013

Hola Familia!!!!

Cómo están? todo bien? good, well, this week has been good, we have another married couple pereparing for baptism along with the husband and oldest son of the family we baptized a few weeks back :) those are really the only updates, and I have like no time today, but I`ll send some pictures, and sorry about the shortness of this email. but I promise there will be more next week!

 Elder Sheppard

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July 22 2013

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Hola Familia!

Okay, this week has been SO STRESSFULL. I mean, we`re teaching like, 2 people. that`s it. I know the Lord`s probably just waiting for us to exercise a little more faith, but I still get frustrated. and on top of that, this ward still has all the problems of last week and more. Satan really is working extra hard on this generation. it just takes two years in the mission field to open your eyes to the world we live in. at first, it made me mad, but now, it just makes me sad that so many people act without any thought of the consequences... It`s happening in Utah too, but that`s another story for another year :p anyway, I gotta go soon, we have to find more people searching for the truth. but I`d like to leave you with a few thoughts:

"We waste more time trying to justify our problems than we do fixing them." -- Stake President (I still don`t know his name)

"Never judge anyone. Because God will make you live the situation of the one you judge in order for you to understand them." -- Sister Quevedo

- Elder (Stormy) Sheppard

July 15 2013

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¡Hola Familia!!!!!

Thanks for writing and emailing me so much! :D oh that`s right... you haven`t... hahaha, it`s cool. so this week, we had 3 baptisms! I`m finally starting to get a hold of this whole "recognizing the spirit" concept. this family was prepared for a long time though, when we found them, they actually found us haha. God has been blessing us so much in this area and I`m so grateful for that. really that`s the only update for this week. the new mission is great :) I`m having a great time. I think I`ll be in this ward for a while, which is both good and bad. I`ve realized something in my mission and more specifically in this ward: there are good members, and there are members who make a complete mockery of God and the Atonement of his son Jesus Christ. The truth is that has bothered me a lot today after hearing the stories of things that have happened here, but we all just gotta remember Moroni 10:27, which makes me feel a little better. there`s a lost to be changed, and 11 months to change it all :p well, be safe! stay in school and all that good stuff.

Elder J. Stormy Sheppard

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July 8 2013

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Hola familia!!!! 

So listen up, the first thing I have to say is that obedience to God`s laws brings so many blessings! We`ve been obeying the mission rules to the best of our ability, and we`ve found so many people to teach it`s not even funny :D. But my comp got sick so we`re kinf of on quarentine in the house til he gets better. so he can`t get anyone else sick but me haha. lucky for him I`m a Sheppard, so sickness in foreign to me >:).

When I got here, everyone told me how great Querètaro is because it never rains... I`ve been here two weeks.... still waiting for the rain to stop -____-. I`ll attach some pictures to this. okay like, 2 or three, since I haven`t sent any lately, but the truth is, I don`t want anyone to see me until I get home with my new found MUSCULARITY >:). 

Anyway, take care family, I`ll send pictures of our next baptism next monday :D

-- Elder (Stormy) Sheppard