how is everything?
i hope its fantastic.
and love you!
Hey! who wants to marry some lady? she needs to get married to a US citizen so she can be with her 5 year old kid in the states that has cancer. otherwise she cant see him for 5 years. shes looking for someone!
AND THAT SOMEBODYS NAME IS GARY.
Isnt that sad though?
thats about all i have to say about that.
have a nice 14th of march and week,
ELDER ALBANO
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
March 7th, 2011
Stuff is going on over there! im glad everyone made it home alright, YAY CARL! say hi if its possible, which i highly doubt! fake eyes! Say hi to Brother Matthews for me, and tell him that i am glad hes ok. THANKS
Im good on swedish fish, alex pitched into the supply too. Hey, but when you do, i could go for some good gospel music. i wanted some Cat Stevens too, but ill let you judge if its appropriate or not. just something with soul (SOUL)! but i just got like two packages, and dont want to be one of those elders that gets a ton of packages. thanks for the sweater vest and whatnot too!
ill tell a quick experience.
yesterday my companion and i were walking and we saw some gangsters on the corner. i told my companion i wanted to go talk to them, but then a scripture came to my mind that said BE PRUDENT. if theres a scripture that i dont like, this ones it, and i had a companion that always repeated it to me. (prudente) i dont think ive ever really known what the word prudence really means, but i figured in this case it meant DONT WALK PAST THE CHOLOS. So we turned the corner.
We walked a few feet and my companion told me ¨here they come!¨ and sure enough about 15 came running around the corner.
I thought they were going to jump us, but then a somewhat fluffy rumor came to the mind about it being the day of ¨Carnival¨ where it was tradition to throw eggs at everyone.
sure enough the eggs began to fall. I started dodging, proud to show off my skills and taunting the eggsters with my jests. but then they got mad.
they got closer and closer until one smashed an egg over the head of my companion and we started to run. As i turned to escape, i got pelted in the leg.
We narrowly escaped alive.
on the way home we got attacked again, but were prepared to flee that time and got off scotch free.
I really enjoyed myself, and almost broke the sabbath to buy some and return fire, but thought twice. It did feel a lot like the Counte of Monte Cristo, so that was dandy. in fact it was dandy, but had we walked past those gangsters we would have got soaked like crutchy. the moral? Be prudent! at least when youre in León Mexico on the 6th of March.
thats the pensamiento espiritual!
I love you too!
Have a GRRRRREAT week.
Elder Albano
Im good on swedish fish, alex pitched into the supply too. Hey, but when you do, i could go for some good gospel music. i wanted some Cat Stevens too, but ill let you judge if its appropriate or not. just something with soul (SOUL)! but i just got like two packages, and dont want to be one of those elders that gets a ton of packages. thanks for the sweater vest and whatnot too!
ill tell a quick experience.
yesterday my companion and i were walking and we saw some gangsters on the corner. i told my companion i wanted to go talk to them, but then a scripture came to my mind that said BE PRUDENT. if theres a scripture that i dont like, this ones it, and i had a companion that always repeated it to me. (prudente) i dont think ive ever really known what the word prudence really means, but i figured in this case it meant DONT WALK PAST THE CHOLOS. So we turned the corner.
We walked a few feet and my companion told me ¨here they come!¨ and sure enough about 15 came running around the corner.
I thought they were going to jump us, but then a somewhat fluffy rumor came to the mind about it being the day of ¨Carnival¨ where it was tradition to throw eggs at everyone.
sure enough the eggs began to fall. I started dodging, proud to show off my skills and taunting the eggsters with my jests. but then they got mad.
they got closer and closer until one smashed an egg over the head of my companion and we started to run. As i turned to escape, i got pelted in the leg.
We narrowly escaped alive.
on the way home we got attacked again, but were prepared to flee that time and got off scotch free.
I really enjoyed myself, and almost broke the sabbath to buy some and return fire, but thought twice. It did feel a lot like the Counte of Monte Cristo, so that was dandy. in fact it was dandy, but had we walked past those gangsters we would have got soaked like crutchy. the moral? Be prudent! at least when youre in León Mexico on the 6th of March.
thats the pensamiento espiritual!
I love you too!
Have a GRRRRREAT week.
Elder Albano
Monday, November 22, 2010
November 22, 2010
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
to celebrate, i have some little big news.
Last night my companion left on a bus, and right now im awaiting my new companion.
and he just flew in from Mexico City!
Im going to be his first companion in the ¨field¨
I feel sorry for him! No actually im really nervous. but in having sent me him God has told me that im ready (or as ready as ever will be) and i know that with faith, my personal lameness is of no importance. Its comforting you know? but if ever faith is tried, it is at times like these when God tells us something we ¨know¨ isn´t true.
Someone named Edgar was just baptized. When we explained to him of baptism a week ago, he said he didn`t feel ready, or worthy of such a large step, of such a covenant with God.
My companion told him that truly, no one is worthy of it. and yet God has told all to partake.
When He tells us we are ready, we are ready. and we know that he gives no commandment unto the children of men save he prepareth the way that they might accomplish the thing that he commanded. He couldnt, being just.
Edgar was being prepared long before we ever arrived. and im am blessed greatly to have been there as the light that he had within him met that of the fulness of truth that is the gospel. and they were and are the same.
I figure it is the same with all challenges that come before us. although we know we can do nothing, when our preparation and personal effort meets that help which is perfect a miracle occurs.
Edgar finds truth and we overcome.
well, i hope everyone has just a dandy thanksgiving,!
thanks for your super coolness! I going to go now!
bye! I love you!
Elder Albano!
to celebrate, i have some little big news.
Last night my companion left on a bus, and right now im awaiting my new companion.
and he just flew in from Mexico City!
Im going to be his first companion in the ¨field¨
I feel sorry for him! No actually im really nervous. but in having sent me him God has told me that im ready (or as ready as ever will be) and i know that with faith, my personal lameness is of no importance. Its comforting you know? but if ever faith is tried, it is at times like these when God tells us something we ¨know¨ isn´t true.
Someone named Edgar was just baptized. When we explained to him of baptism a week ago, he said he didn`t feel ready, or worthy of such a large step, of such a covenant with God.
My companion told him that truly, no one is worthy of it. and yet God has told all to partake.
When He tells us we are ready, we are ready. and we know that he gives no commandment unto the children of men save he prepareth the way that they might accomplish the thing that he commanded. He couldnt, being just.
Edgar was being prepared long before we ever arrived. and im am blessed greatly to have been there as the light that he had within him met that of the fulness of truth that is the gospel. and they were and are the same.
I figure it is the same with all challenges that come before us. although we know we can do nothing, when our preparation and personal effort meets that help which is perfect a miracle occurs.
Edgar finds truth and we overcome.
well, i hope everyone has just a dandy thanksgiving,!
thanks for your super coolness! I going to go now!
bye! I love you!
Elder Albano!
Monday, November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
Hiya mom!
glad to hear everthing is dandy back home, with the homeless people burning down the malls and whatnot.Do i look good? i sure hope so! Do you need my address? no! you actually always send straight to the mission home, its the same address that you had, so dont worry bout that! otherwise who knows, i could be here 7 months or leave in three weeks, but i hope i stick around. theres a sister here in the ward that served her mission in santa rosa, and her last area was woodland, but i guess sacramento and our side were out of her area. o yeah, and the letters i got a few weeks ago...or last week...i dont know, were from when i was still in the mtc, so they resent them here. i thought that was right nice of them.How was Halloween? Im not sure what happened here but there was a lot of drum banging and dancing. Today is the first día de los muertos! day of the dead! I think theres two. and the only thing ive heard about in connection to this holiday is that there is this bread that everybody eats and is only made on this occasion. its called pan de muerto...i tried some too, and was alright with it, shoot! i dont have any complaints.hey mum? can you do me a favor, two? when you send the next package, (whenever you were going to!) could you toss in my harmonica and some finger nail clippers too? i dont know what happened, but i havent been able to find the ones i bought in the mtc since i moved, and and the situation is getting desperate! i could probably buy some here, but....i...dont know mom! i reckon i just dont trust mexico. they´ll arrive just fine! as far as what im doing down here,its not much! our missions president has asked us (as well as the prophets for like 15 years) to work with the members. there is a better way than knocking doors! said president Hinkley. but our mission is like stuck in the past, because you can teach a lot of lessons just by knocking doors, and everyone is accustomed to it. Well, we havent had much success. that is you can teach lessons, but the people dont go anywhere, they dont want to do anything, and so they dont progress.so we´ve been trying to adopt the ¨new¨ form.we put on this activity with games and a spiritual thought, and we even had the baker make us a bunch of sweet bread and another member make this chocolate drink that was super good, and we told everyone to come and bring friends and family and inactive neighbors (there are 700 members i think in our area and we see like 60 in the church every week)and hardly anybody came! it was fun, but also a bummer!but its alright, we´re learning. whats important, is that we all understand that we play a role in this work. an apostle told us that if we worked according to the will of the Lord, if we did his will as his church, the full time missionaries would spend all their time teaching, and not searching. right now we spend almost the whole time searching.So the spiritual thought is a challenge!Something that President Monson said is to think of the people who have recently suffered a loss, who are having difficulties in the home, people who in this moment in their life, need and have been prepared for the gospel. and then have the courage and the love for them, to share what has helped you so much in your life. can you do it? there are people in the life of every single person in this Church. God has put them there, has put us here to help one another! and i know, i dont have to tell you mom, you already know. so, ill leave you alone!
I love you! thanks for everything mom! have a nice week, please!
Elder Albano!
glad to hear everthing is dandy back home, with the homeless people burning down the malls and whatnot.Do i look good? i sure hope so! Do you need my address? no! you actually always send straight to the mission home, its the same address that you had, so dont worry bout that! otherwise who knows, i could be here 7 months or leave in three weeks, but i hope i stick around. theres a sister here in the ward that served her mission in santa rosa, and her last area was woodland, but i guess sacramento and our side were out of her area. o yeah, and the letters i got a few weeks ago...or last week...i dont know, were from when i was still in the mtc, so they resent them here. i thought that was right nice of them.How was Halloween? Im not sure what happened here but there was a lot of drum banging and dancing. Today is the first día de los muertos! day of the dead! I think theres two. and the only thing ive heard about in connection to this holiday is that there is this bread that everybody eats and is only made on this occasion. its called pan de muerto...i tried some too, and was alright with it, shoot! i dont have any complaints.hey mum? can you do me a favor, two? when you send the next package, (whenever you were going to!) could you toss in my harmonica and some finger nail clippers too? i dont know what happened, but i havent been able to find the ones i bought in the mtc since i moved, and and the situation is getting desperate! i could probably buy some here, but....i...dont know mom! i reckon i just dont trust mexico. they´ll arrive just fine! as far as what im doing down here,its not much! our missions president has asked us (as well as the prophets for like 15 years) to work with the members. there is a better way than knocking doors! said president Hinkley. but our mission is like stuck in the past, because you can teach a lot of lessons just by knocking doors, and everyone is accustomed to it. Well, we havent had much success. that is you can teach lessons, but the people dont go anywhere, they dont want to do anything, and so they dont progress.so we´ve been trying to adopt the ¨new¨ form.we put on this activity with games and a spiritual thought, and we even had the baker make us a bunch of sweet bread and another member make this chocolate drink that was super good, and we told everyone to come and bring friends and family and inactive neighbors (there are 700 members i think in our area and we see like 60 in the church every week)and hardly anybody came! it was fun, but also a bummer!but its alright, we´re learning. whats important, is that we all understand that we play a role in this work. an apostle told us that if we worked according to the will of the Lord, if we did his will as his church, the full time missionaries would spend all their time teaching, and not searching. right now we spend almost the whole time searching.So the spiritual thought is a challenge!Something that President Monson said is to think of the people who have recently suffered a loss, who are having difficulties in the home, people who in this moment in their life, need and have been prepared for the gospel. and then have the courage and the love for them, to share what has helped you so much in your life. can you do it? there are people in the life of every single person in this Church. God has put them there, has put us here to help one another! and i know, i dont have to tell you mom, you already know. so, ill leave you alone!
I love you! thanks for everything mom! have a nice week, please!
Elder Albano!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
10/25/10
Nick didn't actually email today, but we received this little note from the zone leader who's family is in my ward...
OK starting out Elder Albano, I love the kid. Of course i knew for like 2 weeks while i was his zone leader and did divisions with him and we figured it all out about his sister in the Smith family. He is a great missionary, he works really hard. He was with an Elder not so obedient but he handled it well and now he has a great companion who is Elder Javier. They are in a beautiful part of San Luis Potosi. It is a branch and they usually have tons of success out there, tell his family he is a great Elder and i love him.
Made my day : )
OK starting out Elder Albano, I love the kid. Of course i knew for like 2 weeks while i was his zone leader and did divisions with him and we figured it all out about his sister in the Smith family. He is a great missionary, he works really hard. He was with an Elder not so obedient but he handled it well and now he has a great companion who is Elder Javier. They are in a beautiful part of San Luis Potosi. It is a branch and they usually have tons of success out there, tell his family he is a great Elder and i love him.
Made my day : )
10/18/10
Guten nachte!
how art thou? i am glad to hear all is well. and mom, i hope you can forgive me!
who knows what happened last week, but i didn´t write and i am dreadfully sorry.
Wait no! i do know what happened!
I was on a bus almost the whole day, because i got changed from Irapuato to my new home in! Matahuala! Its the furthest area north for our mission, and actually, wasn´t even in our mission until about 3 months ago.
So! I have a new companion, Elder Javiere, who has about 8 or 9 months in the mission. he´s a neat guy.
I really like this place, not that i should care. Its really small, theres only one other companionship, and 2 branches. But i like it in the short time i have been here. Today we climbed a mountain, here! i will show you some pictures! in the last one is my companion, on my left hand side! closest to me! yep, thats him! neat huh?
ummmm
i´ll tell you a swell experience i had.
we went to lunch with a member of our branch, and her family.
well, we were about to eat these things that taste pretty good, but i always have a tough time downing, i think they´re called sope, and they´re basically tacos, but flat, and with a really thick tortilla. anyways,
i ate too many of them one time and now they give me this nauseous nostalgia (dont judge me for my spelling)of that occasion.
well, i sat down to eat them, with a little worry, as the hermana brought out more and more.
but then they turned on the tv and we watched this burned dvd of beautiful landscapes with smooth latinny mexican music, and i found myself at peace.
i don´t know why i felt inspired to tell you that. its just something about eating with members, and being in mexico, that i would like to share with you, because it brings me great happiness.
You have to eat what people give you! and its not a problem really, because you´re usually starving. did i tell you about the time the time the lady turned on the techno beats?
anyways, i wont waste more of your time.
PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL!!!
i was talking about something two weeks ago, but i can´t remember what.
But i spoke in church yesterday, i dont think anybody was listening, because i probably didn´t make any sense,
but i´ll share a scripture that i think i shared yesterday, with you!
pablo dijo!
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves.
Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
this makes me think of something i started to learn, and i say started to learn because im still trying, about the scriptures, and about prayer.
really the purpose, and the way we aquire and strengthen our testimonies, our beliefs.
this scripture is in 1 john, 2:21
i have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it...
When i have read the scriptures, when i have read them with faith, really searching for answers, really pondering over what i have read, and praying beforehand to ask for help in this aspect,
I find i don´t learn anything new.
I feel as if i find the words that were already within me. I feel as if i remember something i already knew, or i am given hope in something i had already hoped for.
the testimony, for me, is that that which i find, mirrors the yearning of my soul. in the times when i have questioned everything, fought to find a way out of believing, i have lucked, (or better yet recieved a little help), i have remembered something.
You cannot cheat yourself.
Even though you feel as if you are completely crazy to believe in something or someone like God, shoot! people talking outloud with arms folded and eyes closed and nobody around, and no, they aren´t talking to themselves!!! really, Its crazy! its absolutely ridiculous!
IF you skip out on faith
Its a rule! its a huge rule! one that we like to try to ignore at times! or that we don´t understand.
God has promised each and every one of us, that if we ¨ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you...¨ Moroni 10:4
I have a testimony of Christ, i have a testimony of God, his words in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon, and his words through living prophets today.
Search these things, and your life as well, with a hope to find, and you will. we all have the truth within us. align it with these gifts of God
I love you!
I wish you a nice week!
and have to go!
adiós
Elder Albano
how art thou? i am glad to hear all is well. and mom, i hope you can forgive me!
who knows what happened last week, but i didn´t write and i am dreadfully sorry.
Wait no! i do know what happened!
I was on a bus almost the whole day, because i got changed from Irapuato to my new home in! Matahuala! Its the furthest area north for our mission, and actually, wasn´t even in our mission until about 3 months ago.
So! I have a new companion, Elder Javiere, who has about 8 or 9 months in the mission. he´s a neat guy.
I really like this place, not that i should care. Its really small, theres only one other companionship, and 2 branches. But i like it in the short time i have been here. Today we climbed a mountain, here! i will show you some pictures! in the last one is my companion, on my left hand side! closest to me! yep, thats him! neat huh?
ummmm
i´ll tell you a swell experience i had.
we went to lunch with a member of our branch, and her family.
well, we were about to eat these things that taste pretty good, but i always have a tough time downing, i think they´re called sope, and they´re basically tacos, but flat, and with a really thick tortilla. anyways,
i ate too many of them one time and now they give me this nauseous nostalgia (dont judge me for my spelling)of that occasion.
well, i sat down to eat them, with a little worry, as the hermana brought out more and more.
but then they turned on the tv and we watched this burned dvd of beautiful landscapes with smooth latinny mexican music, and i found myself at peace.
i don´t know why i felt inspired to tell you that. its just something about eating with members, and being in mexico, that i would like to share with you, because it brings me great happiness.
You have to eat what people give you! and its not a problem really, because you´re usually starving. did i tell you about the time the time the lady turned on the techno beats?
anyways, i wont waste more of your time.
PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL!!!
i was talking about something two weeks ago, but i can´t remember what.
But i spoke in church yesterday, i dont think anybody was listening, because i probably didn´t make any sense,
but i´ll share a scripture that i think i shared yesterday, with you!
pablo dijo!
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves.
Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
this makes me think of something i started to learn, and i say started to learn because im still trying, about the scriptures, and about prayer.
really the purpose, and the way we aquire and strengthen our testimonies, our beliefs.
this scripture is in 1 john, 2:21
i have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it...
When i have read the scriptures, when i have read them with faith, really searching for answers, really pondering over what i have read, and praying beforehand to ask for help in this aspect,
I find i don´t learn anything new.
I feel as if i find the words that were already within me. I feel as if i remember something i already knew, or i am given hope in something i had already hoped for.
the testimony, for me, is that that which i find, mirrors the yearning of my soul. in the times when i have questioned everything, fought to find a way out of believing, i have lucked, (or better yet recieved a little help), i have remembered something.
You cannot cheat yourself.
Even though you feel as if you are completely crazy to believe in something or someone like God, shoot! people talking outloud with arms folded and eyes closed and nobody around, and no, they aren´t talking to themselves!!! really, Its crazy! its absolutely ridiculous!
IF you skip out on faith
Its a rule! its a huge rule! one that we like to try to ignore at times! or that we don´t understand.
God has promised each and every one of us, that if we ¨ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you...¨ Moroni 10:4
I have a testimony of Christ, i have a testimony of God, his words in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon, and his words through living prophets today.
Search these things, and your life as well, with a hope to find, and you will. we all have the truth within us. align it with these gifts of God
I love you!
I wish you a nice week!
and have to go!
adiós
Elder Albano
Saturday, October 2, 2010
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