2015 May 18

:D WAHOOOO!

Oh the days the days.

They're growing shorter AND longer. We are able to stay out in sunlight until 830 now which is good because people stay up then. :D YAAY(most of the time. We knocked on a door at 730 and it was clearly light out and a lady came to the door and said "what are you doing out at this time of night?" All I could think was "BWUUUUUH!?")

The day has been good! I've laughed I've shopped, and I've cleaned a car(wishing there was free vacuuming around here...) That's pday!

This past week we started tracting lignite road in our area and have met two people so far that interested in hearing more about the gospel! What a true blessing patience and longsuffering is.(I mean that too because we knocked eight doors before a positive answer was had.   :/   )

We have updated the area book as well as one can and now we have to tract. This week we are receiving on all of our vehicles BLACK boxes! :D YAAAY! you know what that means?  It means we will have to watch out, no more 120 mph runs around corners! (Just kidding, fastest I've gone around a corner is 60. :P not even a blind corner but i should have gone 45 apparently although it was pretty comfortable a turn.)

This transfer President Mullen is leaving and a new mission president will come in, president Dymock. The reign of Mullen is at an end(as some of us joke. :P) WELP I hope all of you can message meh back! Tell me some stories and what you've been doing. I've finished Jesus the christ a third time as well as the new Testament.

2015 Jul 13

Done!!!  Welcome home

2015 Jul 6

:D WEEEE

What more can be saaid!? I'm returning in a week. It's been an exciting, fruitful, hard, rewarding two years. I soon return to you(After a layover in Los Angeles)

I have been studying the full thing of Jesus the christ as well as Psalms. I didn't realize how many prophecies of Christ were in Psalms until this time around, it's really quite amazing! :O I've also found a great verse within psalms 34, verse 3.

COME and let us glorify the Lord together!

 3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Isn't this a fantastic charge?

I know that the Lord has helped me throughout these past days and that life is more full with him in my life.

Continue to do good, continue studying the scriptures. Stay classy Arizona.

2015 Jul 2

My day
Today we went to the temple. We drove their with the Ormeshers who are the nicest people around. As we went there my New temple recommend came up as another missionary. Once the temple president saw that my name was signed on it as well as my mission presidents he could tell it was a clerical error so he allowed us into the temple. It was wonderful and spiritual. here is me and my companion leaving the temple!!

After that we went to Golden Corral and I found that cotton candy makes an impressive beard!

more fuzzy animals!

 

 

2015 Jun 22

WOWeeee


This past week we met with our mission President as he is about to go home. It's amazing that he is so thorough, meeting with each zone he even came up to Sandpoint and met with us. It was an interesting event and I enjoyed it quite thoroughly.

Well on top of that a missionary has returned from Kirabist island from the Marshall islands. It was quite interesting talking with him. He is quite interesting to talk to and wants to help us out but says there is so much now he has to do. One is taking medicine that is flushing parasites and such out of him which is pretty nasty.

This past week I've been reading the scriptures, a bit of everything right now, Jesus the Christ, BOM and the testaments but it's all been pretty good and well organized. Today I studied the useful of parables in our lords Teaching and why he implied them and taught using them. It was so that the simple doctrines could be understood and taught by any. It was so those people could ponder and speak upon those things.

This next Sunday I am giving a talk. We were at the library and I was typing so I could Print it out. As It hit an hour it's supposed to offer an extension of time. this time around it shut down on me.... DANGIT! A whole hour of typing put to useless!

It was deeply frustrating and aggravating to lose all that but this week I'll be able to make up for that time.

Well I hope all is doing good out there

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Chris Padilla

Darned computers!!!  😀. I don't like them when they do that to us....  But, as I always say, Jesus saves so don't forget to do the same....  Lol....  I know corney but, always try to do that.

2015 Jun 17

How is everybody?
 :D I had a great day yesterday... if everyone didn't keep saying "short timer eh?" Or "Four weeks left right?" T^T  WHYYYYYYYY!?

Anyways this past week we had a long meeting and a good drive to spokane. On top of that we had a meeting with a member of the seventy. The whole mission was there so I was able to get some last minute contact info with other missionaries.

This past week we met with Sandy and Della who are finally letting missionaries back in and have admitted themselves they need to come back to church. Nothing makes my day like people realizing themselves that they need to return to church. It makes it all the easier to bring them in.

 It's going to be in the 85's all this week and everyone s complaining it will be hot. All I can think though is "This will be nothing compared to 120 degrees at home." On top of that I will have to say that this week we will be having possibly the last meeting with the mullens. My mission president is leaving in two weeks and I get to meet the new mission president and have him be my mission president for....two weeks. Not much time at all right? Who knows though, maybe something amazing will change or he will take the mission in a whole new direction.

I hope all of you are doing great!

 

 

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Stephanie Padilla 

​4 weeks!  Dang son!

Your awesome and can't wait to see you again elder.

Auntie Steph

 

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<Francisco Padilla

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Elder Padilla, with little time left you can do so much! When I ran that marathon I pushed hard from begining to end, but there was something about the last mile. I was on the 25th mile and I could feel every muscle and bone aching with sharp pain, but when a lady on the side said, "you can do it, only one mile left" I bursted into a full out sprint. I forgot about any pain I felt and finished the last mile in 7 minutes.
Giving my all at the end gave a sense of accomplishment. I felt amazing. In pain, but amazing. Elder, I promise that if you give it your all with only one month left, you will not only feel amazing and accomplished, but the Lord will bless you with a brighter and better future when you return. 
Love you. Sigue adelante.

Edward Padilla	Jun 16

 

Amen

-- Edward Padilla

2015 Jun 15

FUZZY and cuddly animals!

Kittens, rabbits, and chicks and one grumpy turtle.

2015 Jun 8

YUM dinner of champions
I was taught by another elder (Elder Carlile) how to make wings, so me and my companion had hot wings for dinner to celebrate us staying 

YUUUM!

I can tell you where it's at.  It's at my mission

How are you doing?

not much is changing around here. I am cleaning and dejunking preparatory to sending things home and not having to worry about it later.

I have begun a handout sent out by our mission president that has helped me begin thinking about what I shall do once I am home. It has asked several basic questions and I get one each week talking about different topics preparatory to going home. week 5 is ALL about dating. :3 that i might send out just for kicks and giggles to all of you.

This past week has been pretty productive 21 lessons at the end although I can't remember them all.Most of it was on doorsteps.

I hope everyone is doing well back in Phoenix and wherever you are. May you have god's blessings upon you all.

1 Jun 2015

Fwd:  Hot Wings in Sagle and LAST.....TRANSFER

Our victorious faces over eating my very first attempt at making hot wings. ^P^ yuuum

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OH my gooosh! I am officially freaking ouuut!

O_O what can I do but freak out a little? ALSO before anyone asks I am staying in Sagle Idaho, with Elder Sandau as my companion. Here is him with a turtle we found on the roadside. And yes that turtle is not happy he has gotten picked up.

We are currently reactivating the Northways, and meeting with our new mission leader Tyler Pettit, which is a HUGE sur[rise because he was very lessactive and not interested in his past calling as youth teacher(as far as I saw) and now he is a fireball! he was talking to us about all the plans he has for the ward and us and it just got me and my companion fired UP!

Aside from that not much else to report out in this week. I finished our search for happiness this past week and enjoyed a good day. I plan on making homemade chicken wings tomorrow night as celebration! :D

 

 

Francisco Padilla <youngguns3@gmail.com>	Jun 1
to Christopher, Alexandria, aNG, Barbara, Benjamin, me, Deanna, Edward, Elizabeth, Joseph, Kandace, Karen, Kayli, Kenneth, Lora, Melanie, Nathaniel, Stephanie, Wendy

Work the hardest you ever have at this point and you will receive blessings beyond your belief for the rest of your life. We are excited that you will back home soon!!!

2015 May 26

howdy howdy wooooowdy


:D GASP! Could it be!? could it bee?! mayhaps not for so soon a time was unimaginable! It's my birthday tommorrow! :D OH how excited I am too! I'll have such wonderful fun, shrimp, crayfish, cocktails, margarita's oh the works!(not really but I don't mind joking a little. :D)(It IS my birthday just not a crazy one)

Ahhhhhh What a week ahead of me. yesterday was pretty crazy I'd say, lots of door knocking and not many people met. It was actually cool though how many families we met together here. most places I'm in people just get away from them to be elsewhere and it's a day of just knocking empty houses.

Today is exciting though as well. We have cleaned laundry, vacuumed the house, and yesterday it rained so thankfully that took care of the car.

I hope all of you had a great Memorial day! It's a day we celebrate the many freedoms we enjoy today. Just remember the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus made in the past, and you can also remember more appreciatively the people that have helped us in these days to continue to freely worship how we will, what, or may.

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Melanie Montoya

Happy happy bday 

Sent on the new Sprint Network

2015 May 18

:D WAHOOOO!

 

Oh the days the days.

They're growing shorter AND longer. We are able to stay out in sunlight until 830 now which is good because people stay up then. :D YAAY(most of the time. We knocked on a door at 730 and it was clearly light out and a lady came to the door and said "what are you doing out at this time of night?" All I could think was "BWUUUUUH!?")

The day has been good! I've laughed I've shopped, and I've cleaned a car(wishing there was free vacuuming around here...) That's pday!

This past week we started tracting lignite road in our area and have met two people so far that interested in hearing more about the gospel! What a true blessing patience and longsuffering is.(I mean that too because we knocked eight doors before a positive answer was had.   :/   )

We have updated the area book as well as one can and now we have to tract. This week we are receiving on all of our vehicles BLACK boxes! :D YAAAY! you know what that means?  It means we will have to watch out, no more 120 mph runs around corners! (Just kidding, fastest I've gone around a corner is 60. :P not even a blind corner but i should have gone 45 apparently although it was pretty comfortable a turn.)

This transfer President Mullen is leaving and a new mission president will come in, president Dymock. The reign of Mullen is at an end(as some of us joke. :P) WELP I hope all of you can message meh back! Tell me some stories and what you've been doing. I've finished Jesus the christ a third time as well as the new Testament.

2015 May 11

MOTHERS DAAY!

:D How is everyone!? I hope you all wished your mothers a happy mothers day! Mothers are amazing people that cook, care, help and love with 0 pay.

Well as for myself everything has been doing wonderfully! We have been teaching and helping people and saw four returning less actives so we are feeling really good about the work being done here.

Not much else to say except I love you all!

Elder bramans Nerd companions(lest to right)ME, Elder Rich, and elder Saunders! :D

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Benjamin Padilla <benbyu1>

That's funny. I love nerds! By the way, how much time do you have left? Just a few more months right? Time flies when you're having fun.

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Chris Padilla <chrispadillaaz>

He'll be back in Phoenix on Monday July 13th.  We still haven't gotten his itinerary.