May 6, 2013 Hey family! This week was pretty saweeet. Well kind of. It was really hard because Elder Crawford was finishing his mission and did so well, but he had to pack really well and take care of some things, and then we had to plan for a few meetings that we were going to be conducting by the end of the week. So not a lot of time to go out and work in the streets and in the homes and in the sinagogs. Hmmm Anyway, my next comp, the asesino... is Elder Bills. He is from Idaho, and is from the same group as Elder Dowdle, Steeves and Larsen. I can´t escape their generation! Which is great because they are all great missionaries, and I am excited to work with him. He gets here on Wednesday. Til then, I will be bouncing around the zone, playing district leader for the Elder Ortega that goes home today also. Well... Not a whole lot to report. I am ready to talk to you guys next Sunday. Skype at... some hour. Just have it on like the whole day? puede ser? I am working this out now so we don´t have to come back to ciber to fix a schedule... but probably sometime after 6:00 pm my time. Can´t wait to see you guys. hmmmm I don´t think there is a ton to say...I am ready for an awesome transfer with Elder Bills. Love you guys. Hasta el dia de la mom Elder Daybell

April 29, 2013 Elder Daybell, called to be a missionary of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and our brother Elder Crawford, unto the family which is at the United States of America, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ. Howest art thou? Haha Okay. So as you can tell. I have been tearing apart the New testament recently. I finished Acts and then dove right into the pauline epistles (chronologically) and am now in Corintios. Love it! So this week we have been focusing a lot on working with the ward. We have a lot of great goals and a pretty clear plan of action to complete them. So I am excited. The week was really good. We met a really cool guy the other day! He lived in Long Island... So we were looking for a bus stop after having done an interview and my comp asked this guy who was just outside on the street corner smoking. He answered in english and I was like "no way you speak English?!?!" and he said yes, and explained that he lived in New Shork (York) for 13 years and had his family and everything there. I asked him why he was here and he told us that he came back to visit his mom who was sick, and how one day out of the blue someone did a driveby and he got shot 3 times in the "baht". So he had been here for about a year without seeing his family (tell me about it) and so we talked a little bit and I didn´t just stumble over my words in english, but full-on fell over like every other word haha. Anyways, we had a mutual understanding about our lack of english skills and then we coincided that the missionaries in that area would go visit him in his house, and then the bus came and I yelled to him that I would go visit him in New York sometime because he is going back as soon as he can. It would be sweet to go visit them and say, "hey! I was with Roman in Mendoza! He says hi!" I think that is the New York North mission right? I don´t know. Anyways, we are doing well. Elder Crawford is doing well and finishin the mission very well. Very focused and you wouldn´t even know that he is going in a week. Although, his body seems to be rejecting argentine food and drink recently haha. He has had tummy pain for basically the last three weeks. Me too a little bit but, hey que va a hacer no cierto??? Anyways, I hope you guys are doing well. I am loving it. Love you guys a ton. The salutation of me Elder Daybell with mine own hand. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.Amen

April 23, 2013 Hey family! This week was pretty awesome. I didn´t write yesterday because we had our conference with Elder Zwick from the First Qurum of the Seventy. It was pretty awesome... Oh but I did something SO stupid! At the beginning, he wanted to shake all of our hands, and so we got in the line and it was like a quick, hand shake, nice to meet you kind of thing.... very much so wedding reception style, but way quicker and a little bit more nerve racking haha. Anyways, I get up there and shake his hand and he holds on to mine (oh nooo) and says, "Elder Daybell, where are you from?" and without thinking I say "New York" "Oh hey! what stake?" "..... (blank stare)" "in the city? "yes" " Manhattan stake?" "...mhmm (no idea)" "Oh President Buckner! I love that man!" " Uh huh..." He noticed my confused look and then said, "oh you must have come directly from byu or somethin like that huh..." "yep!" And that was that. I am glad that the Seventy with the most time in that qourum thinks that I am a few crayons short of a full pack haha. The thing is, I got impatient with telling people that I am from utah, but we moved to virginia and then I will live in New York after the mission. So I have just started to tell people that ask that I am a New Yorker haha. But that was the first time I had met anyone in my whole mission that knows anything more about NY than I do haha. I later learned in the introduction that Elder Zwick was in the American Northeast Area Presidency at one point haha. Dang...besides that, I have not put my foot in my mouth any other time recently. In fact it was quite the opposite. I had to give 2 talks in church last sunday because we have two branches in our area and it was interesting. In one I talked about waiting eagerly on the Lord, and the other one was a Plan of Salvation talk. It was good and I felt like my message mostly arrived to the members over the shrieking children and snoring ancianos haha. We have seen some serious help here in the zone. Lots of people are going to get baptized next month and I am excited to do some interviews and have some done in my area. In our conference we talked a lot of establishing zion. We have been called more to do that than anything else. I am starting to understand that a little more because really its so much more important than going to any area and baptizing a hundred nine year old kids (happens a lot here) alone because their parents aren´t going to get married and so they can´t be baptized. That is why we focus on trying to teach complete families, or people who are going to be supported in their new religion. Anyone can establish Zion though. To start, you should start with establishing yourself. There are tons of ways to do that, but I feel like a testimony of the Book of Mormon is one of the best ways to start. Than you can really help extend the stakes and contribute in a worthwhile way to the work of God. Anyway, I heard about the Boston thing a little bit. Nothing besides a bomb though. I hope everyone is okay though. I love you guys. Have yourself a merry like week. Elder Daybell

April 15, 2013 Hey fam! This week was really awesome! We set a really high goal for baptisms this month (16.... all of you serving or who have served in Mexico can now do the nelson "ha-ha") and we had names ready for almost half of them. Like we all had at least one or two people who could be baptized this month, and so we put our faith to the test and agreed that we would find families. So we worked way hard this week to find some really awesome, ready families and almost every area found one! the only problem is no all of them came to church, so baptism is pretty much out of the question for a few of them for this month. May is going to be a great month though. There were also some miracles like... a few fathers from part member families randomly told the elders that they wanted to get baptized now haha!!! SO loco! I love it. Elder Crawford and I have been all over the place this week interviewing and doing companion exchanges. We are 9 companionships, and so its a really big zone. We have ALL of the city of Mendoza, and all of Las Heras and some other little parts. We also have the temple plot in MY area! We are going to go see it some p-day soon. I am way stoked to see it. Anyways, I was reading a lot from the Book of Mormon this week and got through the missions of Ammon and Aaron and Alma. I love Alma 26.. I think its one of my favorite chapters. It talks about the pure joy of the missionaries that were used in the Lord´s hands to bring sinners to repentance and into the loving embrace of the Lord. I feel the same about the people that I have been able to meet here. I haven´t baptized the whole state of Mendoza or anything, but the people the Lord sent us to are some excellent saints that gave up all thier sins to know the Lord. They are and were willing to give up material possessions in order to follow the Lord and I can not be more pleased and full of happiness for my association with them. So the work continues, and lives are changed. Miracles are the natural result of the application of true eternal principles. Be faithful. Love you guys. Elder Pequeño (thats my new name in this branch.... it means tiny or small)

April 15, 2013 Hey Mom! I kinda just want to write you because you are so loyal to writing every week and then I send back a big mass message. So my family letter will be a little shorter.... this is for you! I am doing really good. I really like my area and my comp. For the most part, there are people and families to baptize here and I am confident that we will do that in the next coming weeks. I had a pretty fun interview the other day. I had to give a baptismal interview to a 78 year old man named Jorge and tell you hhwwwhat, (accent on the "h" sound in what), Satan did not want this guy baptized! most interruptions to an interview ever! phone calls, surprise visits from family and other, etc... anyways, I did the interview in 2 parts and basically kicked out one of his buddies so that I could finish the interview so he could be baptized yesterday. Anyways, one of the interview questions has to do with crimes. Like if they every committed a crime of any kind and if they are on probation or in trial for anything else right now.... I asked him and he thought about it and first said that the only crime he committed was divorcing his wife..... sad. And then the second crime came out. It was so funny and just so old-man-like. He got quiet and looked into space and said...."when I was about 7 years old, my mother asked me to change a light bulb and so I got a latter and went to work. When I looked down, I saw that there was 15 cents on the window sill and thinking that someone else had abandoned them, I took them and went out and had a feast of candy. Then that night, my mother asked father if he had taken the 15 cents (15 cents would buy you a kilo of sugar back in MY day!) then I realized that I had taked them... I told them and papá helped me to learn that robbing is very bad. Since then I haven´t taken anything that isn´t mine." I chuckled and then we finished the interview. He got baptized on Sunday. I really like being a Zone leader because I get to interview a ton of people to get baptized and I have heard some things you know? But it has been really good. I don´t necessarily have as much time to work in my area anymore, but I am glad to help other elders have success. I like training missionaries, so that's why I want to work in the MTC. can we go to the temple when I get back in the Manhattan temple? like while I am still a missionary? Also, I hope you guys aren´t planning any big meal or anything because I would love to just go home and eat a meal of delicious fuity pebbles.... like 2 or 3 boxes? Puede ser che? Anyways, enough about those things. My comp is going home in 3 weeks and he is still working really well and being a good missionary. I appreciate that because sometimes missions are ended kind of crashed and burned. But mine won´t be like that. Anyways mom, I love you a ton and I am so thankful for your letters and constance-ness? for being constant haha. English is definitely not my first language anymore haha. The sad thing is neither is Spanish haha. Well Love you a ton and I will write ya next week. Elder Daybell

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April 8, 2013 Hey family! Wow conference was way good huh? I loved it. I think that the talks were wonderful. How they focused on the family so much, and how to teach and learn by the Spirit. I think that it is really great that we are kind of throwing some of the manuals out the window and learning together how to really teach by the Spirit and learn by faith. I was really thankful for the words spoken especially by Sister Wixom. I think the rising generations are so important. How Elder Falabella (sp?) talked about how the physical abuse is kind of on the downfall, but there is still a lot of emotional abuse... I think the principles taught in both talks will help us to really help raise the new generation and prepare them to really teach and testify about the love of God because they will have already experienced it bounteously. Not sure I spelled that right. Abundantemente. There we go. I also really like the incredible examples of the brothers and sisters who were able to do amazing things soley because they were living the Gospel. Like the two brothers that went to a different country to do their home teaching, and about the man who saved his tithing money for years hoping for a chance to comply with the Lord´s commandments. I liked the story about the young priest and the young deacon who did their callings. And felt the power of doing their calling. I liked it all. I took a myriad (that is a big word that just popped into my head. Thank you Ms. Otey) of notes and I am excited to read the messages again. But I think the best part of my week was something that happened on Monday, right after I wrote you guys. I got a letter from Lourdes Gutierrez (remember her? from when I was in Maipu about 6 months ago) Well she is doing wonderfully. She sent me a nice long letter that was really honestly the best news that I have heard in a long time. Her son Juan Pablo got baptized! She told me that a little while ago, her daughter (who has some mental health issues) reacted violently when she stopped taking her medication and ended up beating her mom up a little bit. Well, in her moment of sadness and feeling helpless, but not hopeless, her son, Juan Pablo took her under his arm and said, "ma, lets read the Book of Mormon like William said to do whenever we are sad." Lourdes told me that they sat down and just read from the Book and felt the peace it brings. She then said that a few days before her birthday (a little bit after this event) that Juan Pablo came to her and told her that hehad decided to be baptized. He decided a while ago, but wanted to tell her closer to her birthday. So he was baptized by one of the Elders that was in Rodeo, in February. The other bit of good news that she told me is that Graciela, one of the investigators Elder Larsen and I found got baptized in February also, on the same day as Juan Pablo. I am so happy. I am so glad that people that we started teaching have ended up being baptized. I amglad the Lord is patient also. So that is my week. We had a really great one. before the Priesthood session, we went to the President´s house and ate dinner. It was awesome, Elder Crawford and I made about 15 pizzas with Hermana Avila and one of her daughters, and President kept coming in the kitchen and helping his wife or making a joke or whatever. I have really enjoyed observing a good family like that one elder that someone talked about in conference, but I will not ask to come and observe more at the end of my mission only because I have already observed many good families, including our own. I sure love you guys. Elder Daybell