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Hola Familia!

How´s it going everybody? It was a cool week! I´ve been learning a ton of new things everyday here in the offices with my new assignment. Nothing too complicated yet, just a lot of things to get done everyday.

First off, Thursday, President Treviño took Élder Smchitz and I to Acapulco and Chilpancingo to get some signatures and pictures of the elders in the mission that are coming up on their year mark and need to get their Visas renewed. It was pretty cool to talk to President for the long drive. Sounds like he was a successful businessman. Has some good spiritual and temporal advice.  But the best part was when we stopped for Tarascos Tacos in Acapulco!!! Élder Schmitz and I took down half a kilo of pastor with cheese melted on top man it was so good.

Sunday I was assigned to give a talk in church, but I was saved when Élder Martínez of the area 70 decided to show up and take up a bunch of sacrament meeting. He gave a really good talk too on love. He said posed the question How do you know you love someone? How does someone know you love them? One answer would be to reflect on all the past things you have done for that person and all the things you´d be willing to do for them. Christ loves us with a perfect love because he was willing to do everything for us and he did. And he invites us, A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Not only should we love others like ourself, but we should love them even as He loves them. What an invitation! Obviously, we all have a long way to go before being able to love everyone even as Jesus does, but like everything, we need to try. The last thing Élder Martinez asked to the parents was, What are the best things you can do to show your children that you love them? Family prayer, family scripture study, and familly have evening. I can also testify to the power of those three things and I always felt good after doing them with my fam.

Anyway, love you all! Have a good week!

Love,

Élder Tucker

ps-I got in a fight with a pole today

¡Aún más cambios: Secretario Ejecutivo!

Hola Familia,

I don´t have time to write right now, but this week, President Treviño called me as the new executive secretary of the mission! Some of my new responsibilites include renewing the Visas and passports of all the missionaries in the mission from outside of Mexico, receiving and sending off missionaries in the Mexico City airport, helping with the transfers, and buying bus tickets for missionaries that need to travel in the mission. I´m very excited for this new assignment. Élder Schmitz, the last executive secretary, will be training me for the next 2 weeks to teach me the ropes and my other companion, Élder Bonilla from Honduras, is the finance secretary. It sounds like generally, I´ll be working in the office in Cuernavaca everyday from 9am until about 2:30pm and then we´re expected to proselyte the rest of the day. But we have the flexibility to change the order of our schedule based on the time of appointments and the busyness of our things to do.

Saturday, we had a baptism in my new ward, Palmas, of a 45 year-old convert named César who I just met on Wednesday! He´s awesome and I´m excited to keep visiting and working with him!

Hopefully I´ll have a little more time to write next week, but anyway, it´s all good out here! Love you all!

Love,

Élder Tucker

Hola Familia!

Another good week out here!

Tuesday we had a multizone conference in Cuernavaca with our new mission president, President Treviño. He seems really good and excited about the work, he´s already changed the schedule so that we´re going to bed at 9:30 now and getting up at 6. I heard a lot of missionaries mention the difference in experience between him and President Ávila because before coming to the mission, President Ávila was an area 70 and President Treviño was just a bishop in Monterrey, but I´m excited for what´s in store and I think he´ll be great! He, like President Ávila, talked a lot about the importance of obedience. He wants the missionaries of this mission to be like the Army of Helaman!

Élder Pacheco and I have got two families right now that are so down to get baptized, we just gotta get em married and stuff so I´ll keep ya posted, but man it´s the best to see people get amped about the Gospel like us, I love it.

Today, we had a sweet activity with the zone where we played basketball (so nice to dominate in something after always getting owned at soccer down here), ate pizza, and watch the movie El Monte del Señor (The Mountain of the Lord). Super cool movie about the Wilford Woodruff and the construction of the Salt Lake Temple and I totally recommend it. Wilford Woodruff had the coolest conversion btw.

Love you all, have a great week!

Love,

Élder Tucker

Hola Familia!

Another good week out here in La Misión México Cuernavaca! It´s pretty chill having an american comp because we can just talk about basketball and spanglish all day and it is hilarious! It´s still difficult getting used to the new area because my mind has been overflowed with yet another new set streets and colonies I´ve never been to before, but atleast I get a minimum of 4 more weeks with Élder Pacheco before I gotta take over.

Today we went bowling with the zone in Cuernavaca because we got our first multizone conference with President Treviño tomorrow! I´m excited to meet him and hear about his vision for the mission. And by the way, your boy beat everyone in the zone in each of the two games of bowling we played lol.

This week I really got to see a positive difference missionary work is having in the lives of one of our investigator families. Élder Pacheco told me that before I got here, this particular family almost wasn´t even willing to meet with the missionaries, but this week, they anxiously received us and asked  great, deep-thinking questions which shows how much interest they´ve gained!  Yesterday they attended church and they´ve been telling us their desires to be closer as a family and centered on gospel principles!

I know that every single one of us can make a tremendously positive difference in someone else´s life because this is the Lord´s work. He can make a fine instrument out all of us if we are willing to let. I invite you to look around and find what positive difference you can make in the lifeof someone us.

Well, that all I got for this week! Hope everyone´s enjoying summer! Love you all!

Elder Tucker