Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 7/10/17 ~ Pequeños Milagros

Hi Family! I hope you had a great fourth of July week and that there were lots of fireworks involved for my part! We did divisiones on the fourth and I went with Elder Lopez and he had the national anthem on his usb so we heard that a few times, but unfortunately there was a protest against the lack of neighborhood security in another part of our area and the streets were closed and we couldnt order pizza.... but we did find lots of future investigadores. 

The coolest experience of this week was finding an investigador named Eduardo. We contacted him outside while it was raining and he was lighting a cigarette. We asked him about his concept of religion and God and he told us that for him God can be a plant or an animal or something in nature. We explained the Godhead to him and left him a pamphlet of the plan of salvation. We found him two days later and he explained to us that he had read and understood that before this life we lived with God as his spirit children and that the fall of Adam and Eve was something God knew would happen, and that through the atonement of Jesus Christ we can overcome the fall. We then gave him a pamphlet of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and he loved it and said he understood that he needs to get baptized. A Jehova´s Witness tried to give a pamphlet and he said you can give it to me but im sorry im mormon!!! The guy even had his wife iron his pants to go to church and he took out some brand new shoes. The bad news is that he is moving to Mexico city this week and he was so sad to tell us that. 

We were able to place 6 baptismal dates this week and of the 11 investigators that said they were gonna show up, 6 of them did so that was great:)) We should have about 5 more baptisms this change so lets see what happens:)

I love you all tons and hope you have a great week!!

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 7/3/17 ~ 20 months, first move, and two baptisms

Hi family!!! I cant believe that tomorrow I hit twenty months in the mission field!! Literally everytime someone asks me how much time I have left and I tell them, they respond saying... o ya mero te vas... or in english youre basically giong home:P

At first this week was a little hard because I honestly learned my area in two days because its so small... but we are finding people and i think we have three pueblitos we are going to be working in:) On Tuesday we had to move houses and we moved to the furthest but newest part of Arboleda that is called Cielo Alto... it looks super fresa and nice but its more low key that what it looks like. That was the first time that ive had to change houses in 20 months in the mission because I always have avoided it but I guess it finally caught up to me. 

My area has a recent convert that is 19 years old that is seriously one of the most powerful converts i have ever met. He got baptized three weeks ago and I would swear he has been a member his whole life. 

This week we had two baptisms of a mom and a daughter that are really such great examples to me. The Dad was going to get baptized too but he kinda pulled a nutty last second and took off for another state without warning.. I think he will come back though. Anyway these two amazing women (one of them 16 years old) still decided to get baptized this week and are strong as ever in their testimony of the true church of Jesus Christ. 

I met the coolest family ever this week that lives in the counter corner of our house. They are the Familia Rivero and they actually lived in Florida for 4 years! They are so good to us and literally whatever we need at whatever time they do it automatically without even asking. Food, washer and dryer, or whatever and are so great to the missionaries. The ward has the biggest assistence I have seen since i got on the mission and we were about 150 on Sunday!

Love you all

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/26/17 ~ Adios Tanlum!

Well just like I predicted... i had transfers this week! I said goodbye to Tanlum this morning after being there for 6 months and now im in the Zona Merida and im with Elder Mejia. The only sad thing is that the missionaries here had ac, but people broke into the house and stole it... good thing we are moving tomorrow even if it is a pain in the butt:P 

The best part about last week was Sunday. We were heading to church and we couldnt walk very fast because Elder Roa had a huge blister that burst on his ankle, and we were going to get there late but then our investigator happened to show up right on time and she was going to church with us! She like it so much that she asked us if she can split in two because she knows its true but doesnt wanna leave her church:P 

Also Dulce and Olaf invited us to eat lunch with them this week and it was super fun because we cooked tacos dorados... They are the same family that we made sushi with! Olaf said that he loved that we are with his family and even if he isnt there he likes us being there because we are such good examples to his children:) 

I dont have much to say this week, but I love you all tons and hope you have a great week! We are in the rainy season here so every day is lots of sun and rain somehow mixed together:P

Love,

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/19/17 ~ Pictures!! BUENAS....

 BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Big Ears, Big Brain!

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/19/17 ~ Mission Memories!

LOOK WHAT I FOUND! :)

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/19/17 ~ Full of Divisiones...

This week was a week full of divisiones. I like divisiones but they are kind of tiring sometimes and it makes it hard to plan, but it helps us to have new investigators in the area. We did divisiones with the Elderes of Pinos and it was lots of fun because they are both really new in the mission so they have lots of energy and still arent accustomed to everything.  

On thursday we had our interviews with presidente Ruiz, and he practically told me that im going to have transfers this week. He asked me how much time i had in the area and when i told him 6 months, he said well i think its time then unless you really feel differently about it.... so we will see what happens this week:) He also asked me how much time I have in the mission and when i told him 19 months he said wow its the last sprint then:)

On Friday we had our 8 principles meeting and it was really cool because for the first time in like 4 tranfers my companion and I didnt have to prepare anything! We just showed up and had fun teaching:) We then went and did divisiones with the assistents afterwards and I went with Elder Mordasini. He only has a year and its his second transfer as assistent! 

On Saturday we ate lunch with Olaf, Dulce, and their two sons. They are one of our best investigator families and we made sushi with them and it was so fun! It was really good and was a great mission experience:)

Last night we ate dinner with Rommel and I am really gonna miss him and his wife Brenda! I am so grateful for the people that i have met and I know I will always treasure these memories.

Love you guys tons

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/12/17 ~ Global Warming is Real

Hi family!!! I think I can officially say that my eyebrows are three different colors from so much sun here!! This week was a good, but challenging week. The biggest struggle in the mission is finding new investigators and now that we have contacted the better part of our area sometimes its difficult to find new investigators but somehow we always do:) 

On Thursday I had to teach an english class and its honestly really hard to teach a language. One of the investigators of the sisters of our zona is some sort of metafisica psychologist that is pretty cocky but knows a lot of english and kept wanting to say weird sentencies like ¨before being born we were entities of light¨ and i was like uhuhh yeah sure:P  we also ate tacos afterwards in some taco stand of a member that lives close by, and I tried tacos de cabeza.. not my favorite but not bad either.

On Friday we had a lesson at night with a partial family who the husband is a chef, and a member of like 15 years who has been inactive, and his wife is catholic but very receptive. They want to one day get married in the temple and we are working with them but they dont show up to sacrament meeting:( We showed up to teach them but we had to go to the mother in laws house because it was her birthday and they were over there. When they invited us in we realized that if it hadnt been for the fact that we know them we never would be able to get into a house like that. It had a library and a bunch of catholic statues. Rich and catholic usually dont let us in but this was the exception hahhaa:P

I hope you guys are doing great and I love you tons! Happy Father´s Day Dad love you tons and Ill be there to celebrate our birthday!

Elder Jordan Saunooke