Friday, November 20, 2009

E-Mail 11-16-09





Hey everyone,
I still have not gotten the box but I think I'll get it this week. We have interviews so I'll see president this week and that is when we get packages. It should be here this week I hope. I have been praying for it to get here safe.

I can't believe Ross broke his leg, that is SO crappy! OH, seven screws and a plate, he broke it really good!!! How is he feeling? Tell him I'm so sorry, I feel his pain. OH that sucks so bad!!! Did he cry like a little girl or was he tuffer then me? I hope he cried like a little girl so I don't feel as bad about being a baby when I broke my leg.

OK, cool story OK... so me and my companion are teaching this super cool family. It's a mom and dad and 3 little girls. There cousins live next door and they are a family I baptized a month ago. We always teach them together so we were teaching them lesson 1. The spirit was strong and the family was bearing testimony, it was super good. Then all of a sudden a big FAT mouse runs under the door (the houses here are small so we are all by this door where the mouse ran under) so there are about 10 people in this room trying to stomp on this mouse. I mean everyone in the house jumped up and tried to step on it, the moms, the little girls, my companion, everyone!.....EVERYONE except me! I was standing on the sofa screaming "Kill It!!!" scared to death of this little mouse. (I'm like dad, I hate them. His fear is in me now.) So anyway, finally one of the mom steps on it and smashes it after about 10 seconds with 10 people trying to kill it. (It looked like a ho-down). After it was dead everyone looks at me standing up on the sofa scared to death screaming like a little girl (I think I might have even peed a little.) and everyone just starts making fun of me. There were 5 year old little girls trying to stomp on the mouse and me this big 6 foot 8 football player is standing on the sofa screaming. So ya they all made fun of me all night and every time I see them now they talk about it first thing. They even told our ward so everyone knows I'm just a big chicken now.

This week my comp got upset with me because he is kinda little and I am really big and we were walking down the street when some little kids saw us and one of them said "Wow its Big Show and Ray Mysterioso." This is important because "Big Show and Ray Mysterioso are wrestlers for the WWE like hulk Hogan wrestling. Big Show, is this huge giant white guy wrestler and Ray Mysterioso is this super little Mexican wrestler. So my comp was upset cuz now that I'm his comp. people think he is a little wrestler. I always call him that now and he just laughs.

Our area is starting to do better. We had 10 people come to church which made me feel super happy. We were having a way hard time getting people to church but we had 10 this week so God really blessed us alot. We fasted on Wed and a bunch of people came so God is blessing us.

That is about it this week. I love you guys. Tell Ross I said sorry and I feel his pain!!! That's not good!
I love you all, hope life is going good!
Love Elder Fackler

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Hey family
Hey what's up? So First off the thing we climbed was a volcano I think. I'm not totally sure cuz no one knows the word in English. They were all Mexicans that went with me.

Mom for Christmas I need new shoes. Mine are OK for now but are starting to come apart. I think they will be fine till like Feb or March but not after that. The problem is the others you sent me have already started coming apart and they hurt my feet to walk in. So I still use the Rockports everyday cuz they are super comfortable and have been holding up good till this week. They started wearing threw the rubber on the heel.

It is starting to get cold here and I'm wishing I had got one of those weird V neck sweaters. Mexico does get cold I have figured out in the last 2 weeks. My big coat is to hot and no coat is to cold. Anyways it is true, Mexico does get cold.

I haven't got my birthday box yet. I think I'll get it on the 19th cuz that is when we have the next interview with president and that is when we get our boxes. I have been praying for it to get here so I'm sure it will get here safe if I have faith!

This week has been OK. We found a cool family but they have a lot of problems. It is a family of 6 and they are all baptized but inactive. The problem is the 2 oldest sons have girlfriends and the girlfriends are both pregnant. They live with the sons in the families house. The girlfriends wanna get baptized the problem is we have got to get them married first and one of them divorced from her last husband. We have got some work to do but they are very cool people. They have been reading and praying and got answers and everything so that part of it is good. One of the girls said after she read 3 Nephi 11 she had a dream that she was in the scriptures when Christ visited the Americas and got to see him, it was super cool!

My birthday party didn't happen. The family forgot about it but oh well its OK. Halloween here is so much different. The kids trick-or-treat for 3 days and everyone goes to there families graves and sleeps there and has parties in the grave yard. They sell food and all kinds of stuff. It is was way cool here. It's weird to remember how scared I was to come here and how crazy I felt at first. Now it's all just normal stuff that would blow your minds and it is just normal for me! Mexico kinda feels like home. I want you and Dad and Angela to come visit once with me, after my mission to see what my life has been like. We will go in combies, eat tacos at the street vender's, visit the cool Catholic churches and eat tamales. It will be way fun OK.

I got a new shirt it is an Abercrombie and Fitch shirt and its a large. I look super good in it!!! Ill send you guys a picture next week. I got it in the tanges for 3 dollars. It's a large or an X large, it says large but I'm not sure, It fits good and I like it cuz I could never wear those clothes before!!!

That is about it family. Bridger looked super good in his pics with Brecken. RJ looks good too, I am proud of both of them. I love you all tons! Can't wait to talk to you all.
Hope Bridger's call comes this week cuz I wanna talk to you all!
I love you guys!
Love Elder Fackler

Thursday, November 5, 2009

E-Mail 11-2-09

Hey everyone,

How are you all doing? I am doing OK. This week has been a good week to learn haha. We worked like crazy and didn't have much success which is crappy!!! But oh well all I can do is keep working.

My first birthday away from home and it's really crappy to be honest! It doesn't really feel like my birthday. It was weird to not have you guys come in and sing to me, I missed it this morning. But I'm glad it's my birthday cuz that means I only have to miss 1 more!!! That's how I look at holidays, everyone that passes is just one less I have to miss. Tomorrow will be better, a member is having a birthday party for me and is making a cake and everything so that will be fun. We couldn't do it today because after I finish emailing we have to go to the other part of the mission for zone conference so I won't be in my house or area all night. So we are going to do it tomorrow night when I get back so that will be cool.

I found some cool scriptures for you guys, one is D & C 118:3 and the other is in Ephesians 6:11-12. Read them, they are way cool! I know it's weird that I'm asking you to read scriptures I just liked them a lot.

So I got the pics of Ross and Sandi's wedding, they looked so good. I liked them a lot. It is hard to have not been able to be there but I know I am where I need to be.

So I am starting to lose weight again. I stopped the last transfer but I have lost again in the last 2 weeks cuz I started running in the mornings. I have lost 9 pounds in the last two weeks so I'm skinnier then the last photos, cool huh hahaha!!! I think I'm going to get my cloths taken in cuz they are just so huge. I look like I robbed a big fat homeless bum!!! So ya, I need to get them taken in a little in the next few weeks. No one in my ward can do it, I asked. They all just said they are not good at fixing cloths the same size as bed spreads!!! So ya I think I'll take them to a bedding store to have them made smaller cuz they are HUGE on me!!!

So I got bit by a dog! Ya, a little dog bit my shoe. I was going to kick it all the way to the United States (cuz I can't kick it to Mexico cuz that is where I am LOL) but the family was outside trying to get it. So I didn't do it, but ya... it bit my shoe. Stupid Dog!!!

OH! I know what I was going to tell you...I made little kids cry! Terrible huh! What happened was, on Halloween night we went to a members to warm up cuz it was way cold. While we were there kids were knocking on the door for candy, so the member had me put on a wrestlers mask. Kind of like a Hulk Hogan mask and answer the door for little kids. (To kids in the United States I am very big, but to kids here I am what you would call a Scary Giant) so the first kids to knock were a 5 year old girl and a 6 year old boy. So I opened the door wide and stepped up into the door way. (Here I am bigger then the door ways so I filled it and then some. You have to know this to get a picture of what happened) and asked these little kids in the scariest tuff voice I could "What Do You Want?" They just sat and looked straight up at me with their mouths wide open and I think peeing in there pants for like 5 seconds, not saying anything. Just staring straight up at me with there mouths wide open and eyes as big as softballs. So I bent down to give them candy and they both screamed as loud as they could. Then the brother grabbed his little sister and yelled "Run!!! Before he breaks all of your bones!" and they ran to their dad screaming and crying. I felt kinda bad but it was way funny. I think the dad was a little upset but didn't know what to do, cuz he just stared at me with his mouth wide open too! I think he might have peed a little too. So it was way funny but I felt bad. After, I took off the mask and we gave them lots of candy and told them I was sorry I scared them to death. It was funny!!!

Well family that is about it for this week. It's OK my birthday package will be late. I don't mind, as long as I get one! Or I'll come home and scare you guys with a wrestling mask!!!

Love you all tons!
Hope everything is good!
Love you all!

Elder Fackler