hello everyone,
How is everyone doing this week? This week has been one of the most hectic weeks of the mission so far. I got here to P-dú Tuesday night and I had Elder Oswald waiting for me, but two of the elders in our zone got robbed and lost their luggage, but luckily they only took the bags and not the clothes so we have been on the house hunt this last week and working with the offices of the mission and the people here to try to get them into a new house. It is so much fun being comps with Elder Oswald we are having so much fun, we get along great it is like we are brothers. But some of the responsibilities that we have as ZLs is take numbers, direct the district meetings, get the bolsa, do divisions with other elders, go to ZLC (zone leader conference) and he the best example for the rest of the missionaries. Paysandú is a lot bigger than bella union and we live in a sick house. We live with 4 other elders for now until we get the other elders into their new house. But you don´t need to worry about me living in bad conditions for at least 3 months. The area is really tranquilo and the people are great. There is a lot of work to do here. The ward is quite small there were only 30-40 people at church i wouldn´t be surprised if they actually combined a couple of the wards to make a real ward that qualifies to be a ward.that sucks that you about cut your finger off mom. be careful. i bet you are going to have a lot of fun up at camp with all the girls of the stake. How is our ward doing? i haven´t heard anything lately about the wars. there are a lot of places that i could buy clothes here in p-dú but yes i bought a pair the other day in salto, so for right now you don´t have to worry about it. Thanks for all the love and support that you all give me i appreciate it a lot. i hope that everyone is doing great and they are working hard. que tengan una buena semana y que disfruten el sol porque hace mucho frio acá. les amo mucho hasta la semana que viene
chao
Elder Tate
Changes
Hola a todos,
How is everyone doing? This week just like everyweek went by extrimely fast. I did divisions with the zone leaders in salto and the any week that you have divisions goes by really fast. Well we got changes today and i am leaving Bella Union. Elder Arnett is staying with a another really young Elder. But you are all going to freak when i tell you what is happening with me……….I am going to be a Zone Leader in Paysandú with Elder Oswald. It is going to be so much fun. I never thought that we would be comps but it is going to happen. I found out today and when i heard what was going to happen i thought they were lying to me but it is for real. I can´t wait to be his comp, we are going to have so much fun leading the troops in p-dú. I have loved the time that i have spent here in Bella Union. I am going to miss the area, the members, and our investigators. we have this investigator that we just gave a baptismal date the other day that was a pretty cool story. We have been teaching him for like a month and a half or more and he was progressing great, he would go to church every week and was keeping all the commitments but he wanted to know everything about the church before he got baptized. So we had taught him almost all the lessons except tithing and he still said that he wanted to know a lot more. So we went to visit him and taught him tithing and after we got done we told him that we had taught him all the things he needed to know to get baptized and he said he would pray about it. Well he is getting baptized on Saturday but that is great for Elder Arnett and his new comp get them started off on the right foot.I am kind of bummed that i won´t be with Elder Arnett for another change but they say in the mission that if you are with your son for two changes it is because he didn´t learn everything that he needed to. So i guess he learned everything. He is a great Elder and is going to be a future leader here in the mission.That is so funny that Ali and Taylor hiked Mt. Olympus . Elyse and i are going to hike it and beat there time. Because you all know how i am everything is a competition. I love you all thanks for all the support and everything that you do for me. Work hard and keep having fun. I love you all until next week.
Elder Tate
How is everyone doing? This week just like everyweek went by extrimely fast. I did divisions with the zone leaders in salto and the any week that you have divisions goes by really fast. Well we got changes today and i am leaving Bella Union. Elder Arnett is staying with a another really young Elder. But you are all going to freak when i tell you what is happening with me……….I am going to be a Zone Leader in Paysandú with Elder Oswald. It is going to be so much fun. I never thought that we would be comps but it is going to happen. I found out today and when i heard what was going to happen i thought they were lying to me but it is for real. I can´t wait to be his comp, we are going to have so much fun leading the troops in p-dú. I have loved the time that i have spent here in Bella Union. I am going to miss the area, the members, and our investigators. we have this investigator that we just gave a baptismal date the other day that was a pretty cool story. We have been teaching him for like a month and a half or more and he was progressing great, he would go to church every week and was keeping all the commitments but he wanted to know everything about the church before he got baptized. So we had taught him almost all the lessons except tithing and he still said that he wanted to know a lot more. So we went to visit him and taught him tithing and after we got done we told him that we had taught him all the things he needed to know to get baptized and he said he would pray about it. Well he is getting baptized on Saturday but that is great for Elder Arnett and his new comp get them started off on the right foot.I am kind of bummed that i won´t be with Elder Arnett for another change but they say in the mission that if you are with your son for two changes it is because he didn´t learn everything that he needed to. So i guess he learned everything. He is a great Elder and is going to be a future leader here in the mission.That is so funny that Ali and Taylor hiked Mt. Olympus . Elyse and i are going to hike it and beat there time. Because you all know how i am everything is a competition. I love you all thanks for all the support and everything that you do for me. Work hard and keep having fun. I love you all until next week.
Elder Tate
Pictures from Elder Tate - July 13th 2009
YAY for Pictures! As always, Elder Tate looks great!!!!!
Elder Tate with a russian guy.... I'll get his name from Taylor
The Alur Sugar Factory that Taylor and his comp toured on the 7th of July
One of the things Taylor misses the most...duck hunting.
Elder Arnett (Taylors Comp) and Elder Tate chopping wood as service for one of the families in the are. No wonder he got a blister, he was using a machete!
The baptism Elder Tate and Elder Arnett had on the 11th of July. The name of the person who was baptized is Alarico. What a great day!!!
Elder Arnett (Taylors Comp) and Elder Tate chopping wood as service for one of the families in the are. No wonder he got a blister, he was using a machete!
The baptism Elder Tate and Elder Arnett had on the 11th of July. The name of the person who was baptized is Alarico. What a great day!!!
Whats up Everyone- July 13th 2009
Hello everyone,
How is everyone doing this week? This week went by really fast it seems like i got done writing you last week. A lot has happened since the last week when i wrote. First of all we had a baptism last Saturday. Alarico Larrosa got baptized it was a cool story he is 84 years old. It was funny because we started to talk about baptism and he said that he was going to wait until summer to get baptized because he thought that we were going to do the baptism in the river Uruguay. He didn´t know that we did the baptisms in the church. Missionaries had talked to him over 3 years ago and they left him a Libro de Mormón but he never progressed and they stopped visiting him. We found him like a month and a half ago and he said that he had read the Book of Mormon 2 times all the way through. He went to church 3 times and was baptized last Saturday. Really it was a huge miracle for my comp and i we have worked really hard and we are just starting to see the fruits of our work. It is getting really cold up in Bella Union and i still haven´t used the scarf. The weather is really cold in the mornings but it heats up by mid-day and then it feels really good. We went and did service with one of the families in the area and we cut wood. I got the biggest blister on my hand from cutting wood with an ax. It was really fun to do it but we paid the price afterwards. Our investigators are progressing great the area is in a lot better shape now than when i got here almost tow changes ago. Next week we have changes again and i think that i will be going but i will tell you next week so i might e-mail on Tuesday next week but write me like you normally do cause i probably will still do e-mail on Monday.Hey Mom a couple people in the ward have asked for a recipe for corn bread could you send me your recipe? I love you all thanks so much for the e-mails i´m glad that you got to take the boat out for the first time. Dad did you pull out of the water the first time? If not you better practice you have got a summer to get it perfected. Work hard and have fun i love you all have a great week. Que pasen bien.
Chao Elder Tate
p.s. My pants are dropping like flies, i´m going to buy a couple here in Salto today could you put some money in my account. Thanks. I think they are like 40$ each.
How is everyone doing this week? This week went by really fast it seems like i got done writing you last week. A lot has happened since the last week when i wrote. First of all we had a baptism last Saturday. Alarico Larrosa got baptized it was a cool story he is 84 years old. It was funny because we started to talk about baptism and he said that he was going to wait until summer to get baptized because he thought that we were going to do the baptism in the river Uruguay. He didn´t know that we did the baptisms in the church. Missionaries had talked to him over 3 years ago and they left him a Libro de Mormón but he never progressed and they stopped visiting him. We found him like a month and a half ago and he said that he had read the Book of Mormon 2 times all the way through. He went to church 3 times and was baptized last Saturday. Really it was a huge miracle for my comp and i we have worked really hard and we are just starting to see the fruits of our work. It is getting really cold up in Bella Union and i still haven´t used the scarf. The weather is really cold in the mornings but it heats up by mid-day and then it feels really good. We went and did service with one of the families in the area and we cut wood. I got the biggest blister on my hand from cutting wood with an ax. It was really fun to do it but we paid the price afterwards. Our investigators are progressing great the area is in a lot better shape now than when i got here almost tow changes ago. Next week we have changes again and i think that i will be going but i will tell you next week so i might e-mail on Tuesday next week but write me like you normally do cause i probably will still do e-mail on Monday.Hey Mom a couple people in the ward have asked for a recipe for corn bread could you send me your recipe? I love you all thanks so much for the e-mails i´m glad that you got to take the boat out for the first time. Dad did you pull out of the water the first time? If not you better practice you have got a summer to get it perfected. Work hard and have fun i love you all have a great week. Que pasen bien.
Chao Elder Tate
p.s. My pants are dropping like flies, i´m going to buy a couple here in Salto today could you put some money in my account. Thanks. I think they are like 40$ each.
Hello Everyone
Hola todos,
¿Cómo están? How is everything going back home. How was the 4th of july i can´t belieive that it has already been one year since i was in the MTC watching the fireworks at the stadium of fire. It really is crazy how fast the time goes by. Well sorry i couldn´t write you all yesterday we had interviews with President Peterson in the house here in Bella Union. He came up to inspect the house. We passed. We spent a lot of time cleaning and just organizing the house, but it needed it. So we just got back from Alur. It is a sugar factory here in Bella Union and one of our investigators works there and he took us to see it. It really was pretty cool i don´t have the cords with me to send pictures today but next week i will send some pics. It is kind of funny because everyone that live here works with the sugar cane. Either in the factory or the cut the cane by hand and haul it out on the shoulder. It looks like it would be really hard work. How is little Cole doing? You need to send me some more pictures cause the first ones i saw him but you know how it is right after they come out. They have been jam packed for 9 months and they are all little alien lookin. Does he look like Aaron or Jodi? So the work is going pretty good here we are working our tails off and we are starting to see the blessings. The weather is so crazy here. Today it is way hot and humid and last Saturday we walked around freezing the whole day. It can´t really make up it´s mind if it wants to be hot or cold. We might get bikes here in the area. Yesterday i asked president and he said that we need to write him a letter and he would ask to see if we can. But with my luck i will leave and the next change they will get bikes. Today when we went to see the factory we went on the back roads and there was a little lake and we drove by and 20 ducks took off and it had to be one of the most trunky moments in the mission. I can´t wait to go huntin. I love you all so much thanks for everything that you all do for me. Keep up the good work work hard and have fun. It is the trick to life. I love you all. Elder Tate
¿Cómo están? How is everything going back home. How was the 4th of july i can´t belieive that it has already been one year since i was in the MTC watching the fireworks at the stadium of fire. It really is crazy how fast the time goes by. Well sorry i couldn´t write you all yesterday we had interviews with President Peterson in the house here in Bella Union. He came up to inspect the house. We passed. We spent a lot of time cleaning and just organizing the house, but it needed it. So we just got back from Alur. It is a sugar factory here in Bella Union and one of our investigators works there and he took us to see it. It really was pretty cool i don´t have the cords with me to send pictures today but next week i will send some pics. It is kind of funny because everyone that live here works with the sugar cane. Either in the factory or the cut the cane by hand and haul it out on the shoulder. It looks like it would be really hard work. How is little Cole doing? You need to send me some more pictures cause the first ones i saw him but you know how it is right after they come out. They have been jam packed for 9 months and they are all little alien lookin. Does he look like Aaron or Jodi? So the work is going pretty good here we are working our tails off and we are starting to see the blessings. The weather is so crazy here. Today it is way hot and humid and last Saturday we walked around freezing the whole day. It can´t really make up it´s mind if it wants to be hot or cold. We might get bikes here in the area. Yesterday i asked president and he said that we need to write him a letter and he would ask to see if we can. But with my luck i will leave and the next change they will get bikes. Today when we went to see the factory we went on the back roads and there was a little lake and we drove by and 20 ducks took off and it had to be one of the most trunky moments in the mission. I can´t wait to go huntin. I love you all so much thanks for everything that you all do for me. Keep up the good work work hard and have fun. It is the trick to life. I love you all. Elder Tate
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