February 18,2013 Counting down.....7 weeks!

Hello Family,

Wow this past week has been really really rewarding! Elder Mecham and myself saw a lot of miracles! We did lots of finding as well and we saw the fruits of our labours! On Wednesday we randomly got a text and it was a guy called Aidan and he said that he and his friends wanted to meet up to have a chat so we met them in a coffee shop in town and it was basically a Q&A haha but it was sweet they were about our age so at first we thought oh great more punk kids trying to make fun of us but nah they were really cool and we had great chats about all aspects of the gospel! So that was pretty sweet as well! And lets see we also got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders and that was good always learn something from them and it's good to see it work as we apply it!

 Elder Mecham and I are getting on so well were having so much fun! Since we are losing our car we're making the best use of it that we can going all over our area to visit people and stuff and it's fun to throw on MOTAB and jam as we drive! aww the life as a missionary I will miss it for sure!
Mecham and I cut each others hair as well.  We gotta look fly for my last zone conference! We decided on a hair style that I've been doing for a while now called Shelving.   I'm sure you can guess what it looks like! haha were trying to start a trend in the mission!

 We are working with some less actives as well.  I really enjoy doing that as I feel I can connect with those people so that's been going good.  Some of them have been coming out to church and stuff and keeping the commitments we leave them so that is all going well! We have seen this crazy lady called ...well, I won't say her name and she's not to crazy except she can talk the hind legs off a donkey... haha i'ts hard for us to get an actual discussion in but we try our best and we got to help her get some groceries as she is not able to so that was cool!

 The work is moving forward here and although it seems slow the Lord is blessing us for sure! I love this gospel and I love my Saviour Jesus Christ! I  love sharing my testimony with people and seeing the power I receive as I study the scriptures! The Book Of Mormon is the best! I love it so much and I love seeing Heavenly Father answer my prayers and bless us with the things we NEED.  I  know he knows me and my struggles and I'm grateful for Jesus Christ and how through him I can be picked up when I fall short! The church is true! 7 more weeks!! love you all!

Elder Armijo

January 28,2013 Sonia's Baptism and the Snow!

 Sonia was taught by the Sister Missionaries and requested that I baptize her.  It was so sweet!

 Sonia was so sweet ! It was solid and as she was walking down in the font I grabbed her hand to help her cause she cant walk very well...It  was touching and she gave me the biggest hug ever after!!!!

 THE SNOW!!!

 Elder Ormsby and I.  He just got transerred so I will get another companion.

January 14th, 2013......My 21st Birthday!!

Hey there everybody! I'd just like to thank all of you for the birthday wishes! Most of you know that on a mission sometimes there are times when you get lonely and to hear from your family really makes the difference. I mean I don't feel lonely lol I'm just saying that hearing from you all really made my day so I thought it would be easier to send a big email to everyone seeing as I don't have much time on the computer and I'm sure all of you understand and know how grateful I am for the emails!

 Time has gone by so fast!  21 years flew by just like that!  I can't imagine what it will be like when I get to some of your ages... hahaha just kidding!:) you know when I think about what most 21 years olds are doing right now or what they would do on their 21st it really makes me grateful for the gospel in my life and not only that, but the testimony that I now have cause who knows I could possibly be like the rest of the 21 years olds if I had not come on my mission and I'm so thankful that Heavenly Father has given me this opportunity to serve him and my Saviour Jesus Christ!
I am grateful for all of your support since I have been out here and the love you have shown me and my family especially. I think that knowing I had such great family back home to take care of my mum and stuff really made it easy for me to focus and know that they would be alright! I just thank you all for your examples and whether you know it or not the impact you had on me! I'm sure the same will happen for Ammon and the rest of the littlen's:) hope everyone is doing great Know that I pray for all of you every night! this has been the best 2 years of my life(22 months) but still. The church is true!  I know it without a doubt in my mind! :) I love you all!!! thank you !
elder armijo
1/14/2013

Happy New Year!!! 2013

On Jan 7, 2013 2:08 PM, "Queston Armijo" <queston.armijo@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Happy new year!!!!

Hey there everybody these past few weeks have been rough . Christmas time and New years no one seems like they want to listen to our message and it's been tough to get a hold of all the people that we have been teaching but nevertheless we have been blessed with miracles! We are teaching a young man called Connor right now he was found by contacting on the street and we met up with him and he loved our message. We have been meeting with him for a couple of weeks and his faith has just grown stronger! His parents are against the church and they have thrown him out countless times but that hasn't phased him in the slightest! We at first had counselled him to make things right with his parents and so we put off his date a few weeks but this past week we met with him and he said he knows its true and despite what his parents think he is going to be baptised.  There is no question that they will throw him out again but this past Saturday he passed his baptismal interview and will be baptised on the 12th! 

We are also teaching a family, the husband is a less active member and his wife is not a member they are the nicest people ever! They have so many good questions and we love going over there to answer them and talk about the plan of salvation with them. Unfortunately he has a lot of health problems so they are always at the hospital but we have great plans for them and know they will be a solid family in the church! 

We have a few other people who we are working with.  I'll tell you about a young man called Tim. He is 24 and he had back surgery so he was inactive for a while but has started coming back since I first got here and he is so funny and loves the gospel so much! He received his patriarchal blessing this past Sunday and he is preparing for a mission! he's been going out with us to street contact and knock so that's been awesome! we are  working hard and miracles are happening here! 

I just want to say how much I love the book of Mormon! I sometimes slack on my studies and I don't know what to read but the Lord always brings me back to the book of Mormon and I know its because that's the keystone to my testimony and I know that it's true. I have found how my answers to my questions can be answered and how it makes me want to be more like Christ! I love the book of Mormon so much! I really have felt its power in my life and especially on my mission! 

This church is true!

Elder Armijo
1/7/2013

New Years bowling 2013

bowling with sis missionaries and family from the ward

December 2012

Sight seeing.  This is where they filmed "Pride and Prejudice"

Pictures from Christmas Conference 12/18/2012

 Posing

 Christmas Conference Dinner

 My Favorite Place

 Played "Capture the Flag" in shorts.  Bad Idea

 Posing again

Driving the Sister Missionaries home........6 hr round trip.  That's what we do!

December 3rd, 2012

Hey there Mum and Dad!

Wow this week there isn't to much to talk about only that we didn't have too much success but I'm not the type to get discouraged.  Ive been on my mission 20 months and I've never got down when things don't  happen it pushes me to work harder and rely on the Lord more.  So that's the game plan for this week and we know the Lord will provide and he already has today! This morning we were street contacting and we were specifically looking for a young lady in about her 20's wearing a hat... that's the description a ward member gave us of our next baptism... talk about crazy revelation.. so we were out searching for this young lady and we didn't find her.... today anyways... but we did find a young lad called Daniel and he's homeless and he's a Christian. We started talking to him and he's so sweet! We gave him a book of Mormon and we're meeting with him next Monday so miracles do happen!

Other than that its been a long week... I had the chance to go interview a few candidates for baptism this week in Salisbury.   The two Elders there have two baptisms this weekend and I'm the guy that interviewed them both.   They were solid as can be! So that was a great experience nice to chat to people who have completely changed their lives to join the church!

But yeah things are good we got to be uplifted by Elder Patrick Kearon this past week. It really gave me a boost! I enjoyed it and what a powerful man and quite funny as well! The week has been good! were praying for miracles and we know that the Lord will provide those for us as we are true and faithful!  I love my Mission!!!! I love you all!! Thanks for everything!
Elder Armijo

November 26, 2012

Hey there!!
Well this week has been so sweet!

Dave one of our investigators was baptized on Saturday by my companion Elder Ormsby. It was a great service and there was a great turnout from the ward and then Sunday I was able to give Dave the gift of the Holy Ghost in sacrament and it was amazing. Dave is so solid and he has had to make tons of changes in his life in order to live the gospel fully but his heart has changed and that's why it was possible for him to do so! So he is doing great! One of our other investigators called June she unfortunately dropped us this week. We had an amazing family home evening with her at a members home and she felt the spirit ( not the first time shes felt it) then she called us the next day asking if we could call her Sunday morning and wake her up for church! so we were pretty happy about that then the next day she called us and said she was meeting with her minister from her church and that she wouldn't be able to come to church so we were bummed out. She was so solid and she definitely felt the spirit but she decided to stick with her church and so were going to be writing her a letter this week and helping her realize that she has received an answer to which way the Lord wants her to go! so that was rubbish but everything else this week went ok.  We had the opportunity to go help an elderly, less active lady whose house had flooded. We were there scooping out tons of water from her house and I was able to put on some "wellies"  but Elder Ormsby was wearing his running shoes and he got absolutely soaked haha but it was a great chance to serve someone else! I LOVE helping people it just brings this amazing satisfaction to my heart!

Lately I have been reading this book entitled ''Christ in the Americas'' it's all the archaeology and stuff of the ancient Americas and it basically proves the Book of Mormon to be true and it's so amazing to read.  Not because I need to know the Book of Mormon is true but just out of interest! I love this gospel!  I love missionary work!  I love being out here serving the Lord!  I love my Savior Jesus Christ!  He is the only begotten of the father and he is our Redeemer. I love the Book of Mormon and the all the scriptures because they bring light to my day every morning I get to study them. This is Christ's restored church the only true church and I know he restored it through the prophet Joseph Smith! This work is true! I love my mission!
Elder Armijo

November 15,2012

Hey there MUM!  It's good to hear from you!

This week was good. I'm glad you enjoyed stake conference. that's good , they are really trying to push young men to stay worthy to go on missions, I think it is awesome!

My new area is sweet and beautiful. We were in the zone leaders area this past weekend and its the nicest beach in the UK I took some sweet photos. I love this area!  I'm sure we're going to get a car. President called us this morning and talked to us about it lol. I love my new companion Elder Ormsby.  He's from Austrailia and played Tennis at BYU.  He is flippin sweet and we get along great! 

Dave is doing good we taught him the "Law of Tithing"  this past week after church and it went really well he accepted to live it all! President Millar will be doing his baptismal interview this coming week.
 June is golden as can be. We taught her the "Restoration" this past week and she is good to be baptised on the 1st of December. She smokes but is willing to stop for sure. She already told us she knows Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, so she is solid for sure.
I did get your parcel by the way thank you for it:) and the sweets as well! I read most of the book already its really easy to understand! i like it.
We also this weekend were able to attend a play called " Redemption"  It was to remember the fallen soldiers and stuff I enjoyed it!
but yeah that was my week i loved it!
tell me whats new! i love you tons!!
Elder Armijo

here are a few photos. of the beach !