September pics! 7 more months to go!!!

"SMILE BOARDING'

WE SET UP THE WHITE BOARD OUTSIDE THE CHURCH BUILING AND ASKED PEOPLE PASSING BY TO WRITE WHAT MAKES THEM HAPPY THEN WE HAND THEM A BOOK OF MORMON.

September 3, 2012.....7.5 months to go!

Hello Mum and Dad!  This week has been good,  like I said we've been working our tails off!  Right now we have four baptism dates! We have found some sweet people and the Lord is definitely blessing us. We have taught so many people!  This week we taught this man called Dom. He's from Kenya and we taught him the restoration only using the bible to prove and back everything up and then at the end bringing in the Book of Mormon! My knowledge of the Book of Mormon and the Bible and how they compliment each other has grown so much! They are both the word of God and I love both of them so much!!. We have also met some cray people this week like this guy on the bus who  was staring at Elder Holmes and I the whole ride.  Finally Elder Holmes said "hows it going?"  The man replied..." leave me alone don't talk to me."  I  started laughing cause it was hilarious and then the man said "whats funny am i funny to you"?  He was so creepy that Elder Holmes and I felt the spirit tell us to get off the bus so we did ........creepy ! We had a zone training with president and and it was legit, I love president Millar.  He is so cool. There's this little place that we go and get food called MOONS its kinda dodgy but the food is good and president went with our whole zone after to eat there haha it was so cool.  well i love you mum and Dad so much!! thanks for everything you do , I love my mission so much!!!!!! its the best.

-Elder Armijo-

August 27, 2012

  Hey mum this week has been a good one!

We have done a lot of teaching which is so awesome it’s been the first time on my mission that I’ve got to go appointment to appointment and we have found some sweet people this week and we're working so hard I'm exhausted everyday that I come home. We taught this elderly woman called Moraine this week she is a seeker and she is looking for truth we also taught this man called Dom and his cousin called Yvette. They are so sweet and they both have families and they wanted to learn more so we have been teaching them the lessons using only the bible right now. They are really golden and are at that point where they will do anything we ask of them as far as studying and praying….. it’s amazing. So we are working hard. I'm happy!! And my testimony has been strengthened so much this week.    I love my mission and all the sweet people that I get to meet and help its amazing. Elder Holmes is good! I’m good! Things are awesome!I love you mum tell me what’s new

Elder Armijo

 

August 26, 2012

Hey Mum so good to hear from you:) This week I have worked harder than I have my whole mission and I have seen the success and the blessings of the Lord for our diligence.  I have seen miracles this week. We have found people who have been prepared by the Lord. I also have been immersing myself in the Book of Mormon to strengthen my testimony and I love that book so much! I'm in Mosiah right now and this morning I just read about Abinadi and Alma and I just feel like when I read the book of Mormon, I'm a part of it. It's true. I know this is the true church and that Jesus Christ lives, our Heavenly Father answers prayers and he knows what we need in our lives. I have definitely seen his hand in my work this week. I love you mum and I know I was supposed to meet Chris that day as soon as I started talking to him I just felt something and I wasn't sure what it was but I knew we had some kind of connection. I love you mum be safe!
-Elder Armijo-

August 20, 2012

Hey there mum. well this week Elder Holmes and I decided to make all of our prayers more specific and to pray specifically for miracles to happen and that's what the Lord gave us. We found so many prepared people this week. Take this elderly lady called Moraine for instance, she's almost eighty years old. I stopped her and talked to her about the Plan of Salvation and she then began to tell us how she had lost her husband and a son as well. We were talking to her and she told us that meeting us was not a coincidence. We both bore our testimony to her about eternal families and she felt the spirit. We set up a time to come back and talk to her more this week. We also went and taught this family they are from Cameroon. We showed up and they were waiting for us. We thought they would have forgotten but they hadn't. We were able to get a feel for them and what the believe and they have a five year old son and a two month old baby. They are honest seekers of truth. We also met this guy called Dwayne. He's a really young guy and he was riding by on his bike and I waved at him to stop so he did and we got talking to him and he is a seeker for truth and was very anxious to meet with us. We're teaching him tonight. We found 18 potential investigators this past week, and were expecting to find more this coming week. Miracles are happening and the Lord is blessing us for working hard being diligent and being obedient. I love Elder Holmes He is a goofball like myself so were having tons of fun! I love my mission ! We're happy and working hard:) I love you mum! 

August 14, 2012 PDAY Trip to Harry Potter film site

hey mum here's a few pictures! it would be sweet if you could put these on FB and on the blog:):) I love you!  You might recognize some of these places in the movies. the dining room where they all eat and stuff ill send more of other stuff .this college was also where they shot Alice in Wonderlantd.  If you look at the pics on the stain glass windows you can see that they are characters from Alice in wonderland that big tree is the one in Alice in wonderland and harry potter. I believe its called the weeping willow?

August 13, 2012

hey mum this week has been good I've been so tired from working so hard. I met a guy yesterday that grandpa brown baptized!!!!!! his name is Chris Freeman. He is now on the high council. He asked me where I was from, I said Arizona and he said that's where the missionary who baptized me was from his name was Mike Brown. I said that is my Grandpa. He was so excited because he has been trying to get a  hold of Grandpa Brown for a little while. Now Chris Freeman's whole family is in the gospel now thanks to grandpa brown:) so amazing!! We have just had such an amazing week, we have found so many awesome people.this past Sunday. We had a man called Paul come to church his cousin invited him. After church he told us he wants to get baptized! He said I feel something and I know this is where I need to be and what I need to do. He has a family as well:) we did a lot  of finding this week which is really paying off cause of all the miracles that I have seen this week and the families we have found. I know the lord is preparing people for me to find and I just need to pray and ask him to put them in our paths! such a good week!!  Today is P-day and we are going on a Harry Potter tour! We get to go and see where the movie was filmed and go to the school where it was shot at for free.   Love you all!!

July 30,2012

Hey Mum and Dad how are you doing today?:) I'm doing good this week was pretty bomb. We taught a lot of people although our temple trip didn't work out it was a good week. We did some basketball contacting. In the white handbook it says to try new and creative ways of finding people to teach. so we tried basketball contacting. It worked. We taught like six people at the courts! Some of them are like 15-16 years old and they really look up to us since I'm good at ball and the fact that we abstain from certain things and they have all wanted to learn more. So we're hoping this week to go and teach them and their families! It's made me really happy though being able to be looked up to from the youth here, its hard for teens now a days and like if i can help them and change their lives ill be happy so were excited for that! Adam has a baptism date for the 25th! We had a family home evening this past week at a members house and we showed him the bible videos and we talked about Christ and the Atonement it was a sweet experience. ( I was leading the FHE) there were times during it where I just couldn't talk I just let the spirit touch everyone because it was so strong in there. The church is true. I also watched "Two Brothers" again last night. man that movie gets me every time. It makes me want to do better and it makes me realize how much I miss my brother and my family in general. It was a nice reminder that I have an amazing family back home. I'm reading Jesus the Christ right now as well as the old testament. I'm not sure how I feel about the old testament, yet ha ha its got some interesting stuff in it. But hey my knowledge is growing and I'm thankful for that! this week ....I was going to put on my sweats, and I'm deathly afraid of SPIDERS!...I found the biggest spider ever on my trousers and I screamed so loud!  It was about the size of my palm. It was so big! I freaked out. and the past few nights I feel like little spiders have been crawling on me lol but I got rid of the spider. luckily England only has one poisonous spider! lol I'm good I'm happy the church is true, Jesus is the Christ and I'm happy I'm on a mission wouldn't want to be anywhere else. love you mum and dad.
-Elder Armijo-

Hello Mum and Dad!
We had a really good week this past week. We taught a lot of people. We set a goal to hold a family home evening at least once a week for our investigators and it has been going well. We've accomplished it and it's helped our people a lot. This man we're teaching called Adam, his wife is a member we taught him the plan of salvation this past week and he accepted to be baptized and we just need to set a date for him!  His wife and him are so cool! We're seeing them three times this next week as well as going to the temple with them. I know that will be the extra punch that Adam needs! We're still teaching Cindy, but right now she isn't dong to much which is unfortunate. but were still working with her to try and get her to progress were going to extend  a new date to her this upcoming week! We're excited for her and we hope she will except. We have been doing a lot of knocking and finding to try and find new investigators its going well we have picked up a few cool people who we need to contact this next week. A member brought a friend from turkey this past week so were going to be teaching him. So things are going great. the ward is great they love Elder Silito and I. We get fed every night! its bomb. I'm really enjoying the work here in reading especially with elder Silito I've been able to help him a lot but he has also helped me which is really awesome. I'm grateful for that. Things are good and time is going fast. I can't believe that I only have 8 mnths left!
-Elder Armijo-

 Fishing with a family that is investigating the church.

 I caught 3 fish that day.  This is the young man we are teaching.  He is 14.

Um...ya:) I caught three fish that day. Elder Silito did as well. But everytime he tried to pick up the fish to take a picture the fish would slip out of his hand back in the water hahaha

July-2012

Hey mum and dad! the Olympic torch went through our city the other day and so we went over to the other elders flat and stood on their fourth story balcony and watched the torch. I took some sweet videos but I took only a few pictures! Here's a few! love ya both!