October 24th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is going good down here and things changed this week for the better i think.

 

On saturday we had special transfers. Elder Garcia changed with another elder that was DL in a different area. Elder Cruz is my new comp. and he only has 3 weeks left in his mission before he heads home. He is from Tijuana also and is the oldest of 4 brothers, he is 20 and his brothers 18,17, and 5. Big gap in the last ones no! He was DL for 1 yr and now he is with me but they put him as Junior comp and me as senior. Werid no?

Elder Templin and Elder Cruz 

This week I got to see the other part of the funerals here in mexico. One of the Sister's husband died and she wanted us to go because none of her family wanted a catholic funeral and she wanted to have us come. We went to the viewing for about an 1hr and then to the cemetery. They are different here, they are above the ground and are stacked 4 high by about 50 long and there are a lot of rows in the cemetery. We went and the put the casket in one of the boxes and we all waited until they closed it up with bricks and cement. We sang a few hymns with some of the people form the ward and then that was all. It's a lot different then back home.

 

Pizza and a Movie 

 

That was my week and today we had an activity with the zone. We all went to the stake and played some Bball for an hr and then went to play soccer. I got 2 goals in. We played for a while then went back to the stake and had pizza and watched Prince of Egypt. That took all day and then we had to clean our cloths fast and come to write.

 

With this change in companions i might be here another cycle after this who knows.

 

Thanks for everything and hope all is good. Love you all.

 

Love you all,

Elder Templin

October 17th

¡Hola!

 

Sorry I didn't send the week letter last week. With Elder Garcia my new companion some of the things changed this 1st week.

 

Things are going  good down here and I'm still having a good time teaching and being down here.

 

Elder Garcia-

The 1st pic is of him and me on the 1st day after the tranfer meeting.

He is from Tijuana, Mexico and is the oldest in his family of 3 siblings.

He has had 19 months in the field, and is ready to be done. ( He isn't wanting to follow all the rules)

We get along good and have fun.

Elder Garcia and Elder Templin 

 

Angelica's Baptism 

About last week-

 

Last week was good.

 

It rained one night really had and there were floodings in some of the streets. 2 on the members in the ward had water enter into their houses and the ward house got some water also. Everything is good with them and the building is fine. It was different to have that problem with the rain but good.

 

We had a baptism last week also, that is the 2nd pic. Her name is Angelica and we taught her once before but stopped for a time but this time the teachings stuck and she followed through.

Eating Food!! 

This week-

 

This week we had divisions with the new DL. I went to their area with E. Rivas and He(E. Salamanca) come here with E. Garcia. It was fun and we worked and had lots of citas for them for the next day. The 3rd pic is us eating tacos that night in the area of the DL.

 

The baptisms that we had for this week fell through, but we are working on them for the next week.

 

Today we went to the center of the city and went to the big open market that is there everyday. I bought some ties that were cheap (6 for 200 or about 18 dollors). The thing is the markets are really cheep. Send me a list if you all want me to look for stuff later on in the mission. It was really fun and good to get away and do something else then just the normal day to day stuff.

 

Everything is good and I hope it is with everyone up there. Let me know if you all want to know anything and How things are going for each of you. Thanks for everything and I love you all.

  

Love you all,

Elder Templin

October 3rd

Hola!

Things are going good down here. Big new for the week yesterday was the day that we found out if we had transfers or not and it ended up with I'm staying in the area and Elder Medina is getting transferred. This will be a big change for me and everything in my mission. I will be facing new and more experiences with the new comp. and they are going to be taking away the ward La Perla so i will just be in Refoma

This week we had divisions with our DL. I worked with him on Tuesday and he worked with E. Medina on Friday. We spent the whole day looking for people and putting citas for the week. We had citas but all fell through that day so we just had to look for more. We ended up with one and a whole lot more for the other days. At the end of the day he told me that i need to speak more because i have the language but don't use it. That's something that i need to work on.

This week we had to look for a house for the elders that will be coming to La Perla so we spent our time in the week looking for a house. We found several but our DL had to pass it off. In the ended they found a different one that is really ugly and not good, but it works for what will be done there. 

Conference was really good there were several talks that i liked. With being in the field and having different experiences brings the talks to a different understanding.

Pres. Packer-

Hno Cook of the 70-

Elder Holland- He grilled everyone!

Hno Waddell of the 70-

Elder Hales-

Hno Carnish of the 70-

Hno Callister of the 70- This was good about the BofM.

Hno Bennet of the 70-

And an experience that is similar to the one that Hno Yanshite talked about the son and his dads jacket. We have the tie that you (dad) used on your mission and that i'm using now.

All the talks were good. we had to go the the stake and watch but we got to watch in English, all the Americans in the zone watched in a small room. It was cool. Hope that you all enjoyed it as while.

We got a baptism this week, she passed her interview easily and we did it between the Sunday session's. She was livving the gospel before we taught her.

The other photos are of my shoes that are almost dead and have a little hole that lets in the dirt of the street.

Thanks for everything and keep up doing what you doing and enjoy life. I love you all and hope all is good.

Love,

Elder Templin

September 26th

Hola!

Everything is good down here. We had a zone activity today so it might be a little short because we are running on time.

This week we were a little stressed. We had a goal for the month that we had to try and reach. We didn't make it. our goal for the month in baptisms was 7 and we ended only with 2. This week we needed to shot for 5 but all the people that we had in teaching and others all had problems or didn't pass their interviews. We taught a bunch of lessons this week trying to work with everyone. We got back to the house everyday tired and ready for bed.

The week was normal but all the lessons. We had a party in La Perla for the 15th of Sept. on Saturday. It was really fun to see and hear some Mexican songs and dances. The members sang 5 or 6 songs and the RS dances and number. We had lots of references from that night and some of them came the next day to church. I forgot my camera that night so i will have to send some photos next week of that.

It was Elder Medina's b-day this week on Thursday. We had some member parties on Sunday for him one in La Perla and the other with the Family Bautista. The cake is a little different down here but good.

For the activity today we sent to the center and got on a tour bus and went around the city seeing all the statues and everything.  The steets are cool and have a lot of history to them. It's fun to see another county and their history.

Thanks for being my family and supporting me. I love this work and hope that everyone loves the message it bring. Love you all.

Elder Templin 

September 19th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is going good down here.

 

My new DL Elder Villagómez say Hi. Elder Hawkes got transferred to zone leader this last transfer.

 

This week we had a zone conference on Wednesday. We talked a lot about working with the members and how to get them involved in sharing the Gospel and helping us with investigators. If we can get them involved more things will be easier in teaching and keeping investigators.

 

This week was the independence of Mexico the 15th. We had to be in the house at 6pm so that we were not in the street in the party. We were in the house and get some pizzas and had a party Elder Medina and I. There are pics of that. We could not leave the house until 2pm the next day because of all the party in the street from the night before until 8am the next morning. The fireworks aren't the same but it's the same felling, while with out the family.

 

While the first pair of my shoes is getting ready to die. they are thin in the ball and the heal is smaller. it's only been 5 months in the field working but that shows the work.

 

This week i got to experience more of the Mexican culture. The member that we rent from her husband has been in the hospital for 2 months and was brought home this week on Tuesday. He had problems with his heart. Thursday in the night the hermana asked if we would come and give him a blessing. I had the opportunity to give it to him. When we came home form working on Friday we were told by the other renters of the house that he passed away. We got to help clean and get ready for the viewing that was in the house from Saturday at 2 or 3am to Sunday at 11am. Everything was done in the house and was really different from home. This was a different experience for me. because when I was giving the blessing this is what i felt. But i know that we have the plan of salvation and it covers all parts of life.

 

The end of the week ended up good. we had a baptism of one of the daughter-in-laws of a member. Elder Medina did this one. Of the 14 that we have I have done 9. We found out that day of the baptism that she is pregnant so it was a 2x1 baptism. haha. The service was good.

 

Thanks for all the support.

Elder Templin

September 12th

¡Hola!

 

This week has been good and everything is going good down here.

 

This week we had our baptism for last week. Her name is Jessica and we have been teaching here for the past month. I got the opportunity to baptize her. After the ordinance she gave her testimony and it was really powerful. All in the room cried but Elder Medina and I. It was really nice to finally have someone that wanted to take the steps and enter in the path to return to our family in Heaven.

 

Things this week were good. On Sunday we had some nice experiences. The converts that we have in the ward "La Perla" took part in the meeting. Alicia and Gloria both gave talks. Gloria is getting a calling in Sunday school as a teacher. Jesus blessed the sacrament. Its cool to see them all strong and in the gospel receiving the blessings in their lives.

 

When we were going to get some of the investigators on Sunday we passed through a Tiangis and was a Book of Mormon in one of the stands. We didn't have time to see how much they were selling it for, but it was one of the older ones.

 

The time down here is fun and going fast this week is 7 months and 5 in Mexico. The time goes by fast when we have people in teaching and they are listening and receiving the blessing. The gospel is were we can receive all the Lord has for us when listen and do the things. I know that these blessings are real.

 

I love you all.

 

Thanks for all the loving words and letter. Love you all.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

September 5 th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is going down here in Mexico.

 

Nothing really happened this week that was exciting .

 

On Wednesday we were teaching a family and when we entered into there house and started to teach we saw 2 photos on the wall that were really interesting. They were both church pictures. One of the 2nd coming and the other of Jesus in the Americas. They bought them both in a tiangis, the outside market. The pics let us start teaching about the BOM because it has the same photo of Jesus in the Americas.

 

Our baptism that we had for this week fell through, but she still wants to do it and it is set for this week. She is really strong and comes to church on her own, this week she brought her family.

 

This week in church we had lots of people just come to church and we were able to teach them in the 3rd hour and all 4 of them became new investigators that accepted their baptism date with out problems. The church saved the week, we were having a not so good week until Sunday and it all came together. This just shows that with work and patience all is possible with God.

 

At the end of sacrament of La Perla our new DL called(Elder Villagómez) and said that we had to be in the area of the ZLs to report at 5 our numbers for the week. We finished the meeting and were running after that. We ran home changed and ran to eat. we then went to catch the "Smurf" it's a big blue bus that took us the the area. When we got there we had to wait for everyone and then report. some of the elders had a baptism so there were about 20 elders for the service. After the baptismal service we had our zone meeting and we had to come up with goals for baptism for the rest of the cycle. We were some of the last elders to leave the room so we got to the cleaning closet to talk and pray about the numbers and what they should be for the cycle. That was different in the closet. After we all had our numbers we practiced some teaching things. The whole time after the baptismal service it was raining and it didn't stop until we were about home. It rained a lot and when we got to our street it was full of water and there was no other way. So we got our legs wet.

 

Thanks for all the support that you all give me. Hope everything is going good in your lives in all parts. Love you all.

Thanks for everything. Love you all so much.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

Dinner August 22nd

Before!

After!

August 28th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is going good down here in Mexico.

 

The baptisms fell through for this week but there are a couple for this next week. Things are going good with finding people and teaching them. They seem to be listening more and fallowing the things that we teach. It's cool to see the people progress and find the happiness that this message brings to all. The change in the people is big in some cases.

 

This week we had divisions with two priests in La Perla. We were just able to work half day with them because of their schedules but it was fun. I was with one named Luis. We had to citas to check but they weren't there and a reference that was not there either. We got the opportunity to look for people and work. Because of school starting down here last week it makes contacting a little harder because the people are going to school or going to pick up their kids at school. It really shows who wants to listen and who doesn't

 

Thursday this week i had the opportunity to try out the day without power Because during the night some one stole the cable to sell the copper that is in the cable. We had to study, eat, exercise, and get ready using flashlights. The day before the gas went out to heat the water also so that made it fun too.

 

Sunday I had the opportunity to talk in La Perla ward. It's a lot different in Spanish. I had one of the talks for the July Liahona that was about the parachuting firefighters and the radio not working. It was a cool talk that shows that we need to move for ourselves and then call for help through prayer and searching the scriptures. It ended up being good.

 

The picture are form our last district class. We were together for 12 weeks with out changes. We had pizza and it was really fun.

 

Everything else this week was normal. Wake up, workout, shower, eat, study, work in the street, come home, eat, and sleep. That's the day that i have all the time. It's fun and the time goes be fast when we are teaching and having a good time.

 

Thanks for being my family. Hope all is good in your lives.

 

Love you all,

 

Love,

Elder Templin

August 22nd

¡Hola!

Everything is going good down here.

This week was changes. We hard a big surprise, our DL told E. Medina the changes when they were in exchanges. He said that Elder Medina was going to go but Sunday when the APs called the ZLs and they told the DL everything changed. Elder Mendina and I are still going to be here working together in the same area for at least 6 more weeks. It's going to be 6 months to together after this.

These past few weeks after we had exchanges have been really busy. We have had a lot of new people and lots of lessons. We have 5 or so investigators that are set for this next week if everything goes good with interviews and teaching them. And we are set with more after that. We starting early some of the days this week at 930 which made it a long day and lost of walking.

Every time that we see some of the members they are saying that i'm still looking more and more thinner. but I think that it's a good thing.

The Photos
14 - today we had our last activity with the zone that is all from the east. we went and played soccer and basketball then went to a converts house and had fish. I will send pics of those in a separate email. But is was really good.
4,7,8,11 -sense we thought that E. Medina was going to have changes we went and said bye to some members and Alicia and Gerardo. So these are some pics of them.


Everything is good down here hope everyone is good. Hope that you all know that our Father in Heaven loves us and that he has a plan for everyone of us and that it is perfect. i know that we all have the opportunity to return to live with him and our family if we do the things we need to return.

I love you all

Love,
Elder Templin

August 15th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is good down here.

 

This week we had a Mutli-Zone conference. We had it on Friday and one of the area 70 come and talked to us. Elder Benjamen de Hoyos. He and his wife talked with the Pres and his wife. They talked about how we can better use members and teach so people can know about the atonement. It was a really good conference, but long 10am to 3 pm.

 

This week instead of buying tacos we tried to make some. we bought some meat and cooked in the house it went alright but its better to buy, It's a lot easier and tastes better also.

 

Yesterday we had Stake conference. We had to divide to try and get all the investigators. We got a few but not all. The conference was really good also the talked about the family and the temple and how that is where families can be the happiest. One of the other Area 70 was there and Pres. Morales.

 

Last Monday we played soccer as a zone and we had two teams of 7 and then another team of some Mexicans that played also. I got to play for them as there goalie we won a lot also. it was really fun.

 

Thanks for everything. Love you all. hope that your lives are good.

 

Love you all and hope that you all can fell the love that i have for you and the love that heavenly father also has.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

 

Hey Everyone!!

Sorry I haven't updated the blog in about 2 months, I didn't have a computer but I finally got it updated. Elder Templin would really love to hear from everyone and it would be great if you would like to send him an email

jeffrey.templin@myldsmail.net he might not be able to respond to you that fast but would still love to hear from you.

August 8th

!Hola¡

Things are going good down here. All is good.

This week we had exchanges with our district leader. Elder Medina and
Elder Hawkes were here in our area and Elder Rivas and I were in their
area. We had that on Wednesday. The day after We had citas and
everything started to work and Elder Medina and I were talking with
people and finding and everything. This week ended up turning out
good. The past few weeks have not been very good but after exchanges
things start to move along. Normally every cycle we have exchange but
since that 1st time in my 5th week in the mission we have not had
them. With the exchanges it recharged our batteries to work together
and find people because everyday all the time we were needing a
little recharge and time away. Everything is good now and we are
thinking that we are going to have exchanges (at least Elder Medina).
We ended up finding 13 new people to teach.

This week we were talking with one of our families that we
baptized(Gerardo y Alicia). Gerardo is having a hard time wanting to
come to church and fell back into some old habits of smoking. We have
another cita with them this week to talk more. That was one of the sad
things this week. The good things were that we found more to teach.

In 8 days it's going to be 6 months in the mission. The time has gone
by really fast. The time in the field more then the time in the MTC
but fast.

Nothing big happened this week so i don't have any pictures to send.
Sorry, I will at least try to send a picture of something every week.

Hope all is good with everyone and that there is not anything big that
has happened. It would be nice to hear from everyone but I know lives
are busy.

Thanks for everything and the love that you all have for me, it helps
to know that there are people at home that love me. Love you all.

Thanks and I love you all.

Love,
Elder Templin

August 1st

¡Hola!

 

Everything is going good down here.

 

The leg is good and the shots are coming along. There are 5 shots and I've had 2, the next is tomorrow.

 

This week we had the baptism of Maribe's husband, he is the one that had the lost membership record. It went good but long. I got the opportunity to baptize him. So I had the chance to baptize the entire family. 

This week was a little tougher on the numbers but the work is coming along and it's fun teaching the people.

 

Today we had a zone actvticity. We went to Tecamac to a Fun center. We went skating and bowling. It was really fun. I took 5th place in bowling with a 105. We are running fast today because we just got back to the house at 615 and we had a district meeting at 6 so it's going to be a little shorter today sorry.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

July 25th

¡Hola!

 

Things are good down here. I'm still alive and moving. The Spanish is coming along it's a lot easier to understand people and communicate with them.

 

This week we had interviews with President Morales on Tuesday. We talked about my family and how things are going in the mission and what I need help with.

 

On Wednesday we searched for people all day. We found people for citas the next days. Most all the citas this week all fell through. We had a low number week and lots of work to try and find people but they didn't want to listen.

 

This week we had two baptisms planned but one one went through. The baptism of Jesus, the husband of Gloria that was having problems with the Wof W, Went really good. This past week we went to see him everyday and talk with him. Doing this he is stronger and passed this week without problems. He wanted his brother to baptize him so that made it all the more special.

 

The other baptism that we had planned was for David, the husband of Maribel. They went to a party on Saturday with the family of Maribel and they got in a fight. Things are good now we spent time yesterday after the other baptism to talk with them. We helped them and today we are going to see when we can to baptize David this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week I had a interesting thing happen. All is good so don't worry but i was bit by a dog in the leg. Everything is fine we went to the doctors to get shots for rabbis today but they were closed. It happened on Friday, there were three dogs playing in the street and we were just walking. They decided to stop playing and started barking and one decided to bite me in the leg. It was a rather small dog so it's all good, but he riped my pants and put a hole in them.

 

All things are good down here. Hope all is good with everyone. Thanks for everything Love you all.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

July 18th

¡Hola!

Things are going good down here. It was 5 months on Saturday!

 

 

This week was good, we got news about the husband of Maribel, one of our investigators that we baptized not to long ago, does not have records in the church so we get the opportunity to baptize him this next week.

Yesterday we had the ward conference of La Perla. It was really good the topic was on the importance of fathers and helping their children grow spiritually and physically. I understood most of the conference the Spanish is coming along but its still hard to get all things that people say and talk about but it's good.

Today we played soccer as a zone. It was fun like always. 

Things are good. Hope things are good with you all as while.

Love you all.

 

Thanks you for everything.

Love,

Elder Templin

This week we did a family home evening with Gloria, Jesus, and their family and Alicia, Gerardo, and their family. We talked about the restoration and it went really good. We watched the short film of the restoration and played a game. It was fun. If anyone knows about any good activities or games for family home evenings will you let me know? Thanks

July 11th

¡Hola!

 

Things are going good down here.

 

Today is the start of the next transfer cycle. This will be the 3rd cycle. Elder Medina and I are still going to be companions and still in the same area.

 

This week we had a conference with the whole mission on Friday. They told us the Hymn, scripture, theme, and vision of the mission. That's all the conference was for. After they told us everything we got the opportunity to talk with the missionaries from the South Mission.

 

This week we had baptisms but one needed more time with the goals that we had put with him and the others we could not find all week and they didn't come to church. We are hoping that all will go good this week and that we can baptize them this week.

 

The Pictures this week:

1 - One of the day that it was raining we were walking home and got really wet 

2 - This is a picture of me cleaning the bathroom with my boots on. It's really clean now!

3- This is a picture of what the tacos and a torta look like. The tacos are "al pastor" which is just a marinated meat that is on a big rod that they cut it off of. They are really good.

 

 

Hope all is good with everyone. You all should write so I can hear from you.

 

Thanks for everything, keep on the path.

  

Thanks for everything. Love you all.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

                       The Food!











                   After the Rain

July 4th

 

 

 

 

 

Gerardo y Alicia at their baptism.

 

 

 

 

 Maribel at her baptism and her family David (husband), Brayan (the bigger of the two), y Gerardo(the little one)

Eating Tacos!!!!

¡Hola!

 

Everything is good down here.

 

Tuesday we baptized the two families that had to go for special interveiws. I got to baptize all three of them that day. Gerardo, Alicia, y Maribel.

 

On Thursday it rained all day for the time we got home the night before until the next night. We got really wet. my shoes are still a little wet i had to use the others so i was not walking with wet shoes. Because of that day i bought some rain boots.

 

Sunday was fast sunday(5 down and 18 to go). After the services of Perla we had the baptism of Monica. Elder Madina got to do that one. With Monica that makes 10 for my mission so far. 7 for me, 2 for E. Medina, and 1 for the uncle of the Jasmin.

 

Today we had the opportunity to have a mulit zone conference with our new Mission President. President and Hermana Morales are form Tabasco Mexico. They have 5 hijos and 3 grandkids with one on the way. We were told about some changes that are taking place in the avtivities in the week. We staying on the same transfer plan so Elder Medina and I are still companions. Changes are on the 10th. We are still in the same place and area for now. For now this is all that I know when I know more I will let you know.

 

The weeks and days are going fast. We have 3 that are set for this week to be baptized also but they are not for sure right now. I'm coming up on 5 months in the mission the time has gone by really fast for me i hope that it has for you all to.

 

Thanks for all your letters. Let me know of any questions that you all have.

 

Love you all hope everything is good.

 

Thanks for being my family, loving, and supporting me.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

June 27th

¡Hola!

 

Everything is still going good down here. 

 

The Rains have started everyday between 3 and 4, it starts raining and does not stop for a long time. My jacket that I brought works good.

 

This week was filled with fun trying to get all the baptismal interviews done. We ended up with 2 this week because 2 of the families needed to have special interviews with the Mission Presidnet. We got to spend 8-10 hrs in the Church this week with all the interviews and the 2 different baptizmal services because they were from both the wards. We are planning to baptize the 2 families that had the specail interviews this week, hopefully tomorrow, because they both passed their interviews.

  

There was not much else that happened this week but the baptisms. We worked this week to find more investigators to teach. We had 11 in the Chruch this week. The people that we have found are good and are keeping their commitments. They are progressing along the path.

 

Hope all is good with you all. Thanks for all and for being there. Love you all. 

 

Thanks for the letters fill free to keep writing. Thanks for everything.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

June 20th

¡Hola!

 

Happy Father's day to all the Dads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The week was good.

 

We are half way through the cycle of transfers.This cycle has been good. We have been teaching more and people are listening and want to progress. We have 6 people set to be baptized this up coming week. We just have to get the interviews theis week and have them have no problems. It's a Mom of a part member family and 2 husbands and wifes.

 

The time has moved really fast. These 9 weeks in mexico have been faster then the ones in the MTC. Thanks for letting me know whats going on at home it really helps the time also.

 

Today as a district we went to the center of the city. We went to the exibit of Tutankamon, a exibit call "the fear", a big catholic church, and a street in the city that has a bunch of shops. The pictures are of these and one of the church. Everything in the exibits was in spanish so it was a little hard to understand everything but it was really cool to see all of the stuff that they had.

 

Thanks for being in my life and for everything that you all have done for me. Keep pushing on the path might be hard but the end goal is what we are all heading for. (The Celestial kingdom with our families) Love you all 

 

Love,

Elder Templin

 

June 12th 2011

Elder Templin on top of the Sun pyramid 

  Cards to pass out

The Sun Pyrmaid

¡Hola!

It's getting close to 2 months in the field and 4 in the mission!

Everything is still going good down here. The weather has been really hot the last few days. I hope that it will back off soon.

Sounds like everything is going good for all the people that are emailing me, but I'm sure all is good with everyone.

We have been working more in La Perla ward this month and week. We found 11 new people to teach this week through references and contacting and knocking on doors. We had all the people that we thought would come to church form La Perla make it and really liked it.

The week has been a normal one with the work and what not. We found out more about the Mission at the multi zone conference that we had on Wednesday. There are 5 zones form the east and I think some form the south mission that are going to be in the new mission. All it will be is come 1st of July all those missionaries will be under the new president. And I thinks that is all that is going to happen about the change but IDK for sure.

Today the zone went to Teotihuacan, (The Pyramids that are in the mission). They are really cool and Big. There are two different ones. One is called the sun and the other is the moon. 

It was really fun. We had to meet at the DL's house last night at 630 then we sent to the area of the ZL's. We stayed the night with other missionaries in the area. This morning we meet again to leave to go to Teotihuacan. There where 22 of us in the group including the driver and his daughter (I think). It was a small cargo van that was changed into a combi. The driver, his daughter, and 2 elders where in the front. the rest of us where in the back. The back was designed for 13 but we had.18 of us in there. All the seats and 3 on the floor. It was packed like sardines. While we where there I bought a Jaguar that is made of some type of black rock for 200 pasos, and a neckless thing of a mans head in a jaguars head for 10 pasos. I will send pictures of those next week.

Thanks for all you all do. Keep it up and keep on the path.

Thanks for everything.

Love,

Elder Templin

June 6th 2011

¡Hola!

Everything is still going good down here.

The temp has been really high the past few weeks, i guess, but it is starting to back off now. I feels a lot better.

I got my Card back this week. They are cards that have my name and address on them for investigators and members. I paid 180 Pesos for 1000 cards. It's like $16-$18 I will sent a picture next week of them.

We did not have any baptisms this week.We had a fun time this week with trying to get all of our families to church. We had 4 for Refoma and 4 for Perla. Not all of them could come but it was a challange. we ended up with 2 in Refoma and only 1 in Perla, but it's all good.

So we found out today that we are going to be in the Mexico south east when the mission splits. The President said to day in his weekly letter. It's all good because the new mission is going to have all the best baptizing zones in the east mission. I will let you know more when i know more but i thought i would let you know.

Thanks for everything and I love you all.

Thanks for the letters keep sending them its good to hear about everything.

Love,
Elder Templin

May 30th 2011

¡Hola!

Everything is good this week I'm still here in Mexico walking around talking with people.

Today is the end of the 1st transfer period. Yesterday was the day that we find out if we have to go to the transfers meeting. Nether Elder Medina or myself have transfers. We get to be together the this area at least 6 more weeks. I'm happy because I like this area and Elder Medina. Yesterday after we reported to our district leader Elder Medina decided to play a not so funny joke. He said that I had transfered. He had me and the family Bautista going for 15-20 mins, but he finally told the truth.

This week we were eating in La Perla ward. We worked in that area this week because it was closer to food. We found 4 different families to teach. We have appointments this week with them.

Yesterday Perla, Alfonso, y Belit we confirmed. I baptized Perla and Alfonso. Elder Medina baptized Belit.That's a cool thing to see a family all joining the church together. And we are teaching her brother and almost her mom. Her brother, Erick, is progressing and her mom, Guadalupe, is not ready to listen but is always there when we teach Erick.

The Spanish is coming along the lessons are good but all the other stuff is coming slowly, but its easier to talk and understand.

Thanks for everything hope all is good in your lives. If you want to write and tell me how things are it's jeffery.templin@myldsmail.net

Love you all and miss talking and hanging out. Let me know what you'll want me to write about.

 

Love,

Elder Templin

May 23rd 2011

Elder Medina, Perla is the mom, Alfonso the son, Belit th Daughter,

    Guadalupe the grandma (We hope that she will listen more to us and want to be baptized soon), Elder Templin

Elder Templin and Elder Medina

¡Hola!

Everything is still going good. Still here working.

This week we had divisions. I was with our district leader in his area and his companion was with mine here in our area. We had them on Wednesday. They started Wednesday at 9am through Thursday at 8am. Things went good with that, I learned that we are put in our companionships for a reason, but I learned from him what I can improve on.

Things were the same the rest of the week.

Today I had my 1st Mexican hair cut. Everythings good and a lot cooler with out as much hair. 

Thanks for the letters.
Hope all is well with everyone in their lives. Let me know!

Love you all,

Elder Templin