~Sorry Elder Mckibben doesn't always send an explanation of his pictures!~
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Letters Home
September 11, 2008
Hey family,
Well at this rate I think I will be home tomorrow or at least that's what it seems like. Life goes by so fast, and even faster here in las oficinas.Right now I am a little tired because my body did not get to sleep a lot last night do to the fact that we have 12 Americans coming in today, which means lots of work. Well I also went on another road trip to Zamora. It was a good road trip. I am starting to like driving in Mexico because if you want to do something you just do it and everyone makes room. For your sake I wont give anymore details haha. So we have a couple people that are progressing right now. One is Billy Conner. He´s from the USA and speaks perfect English and Spanish. He is a really good Man and wants to learn more. I have been thinking a lot about the adventures that I had with the YM in are ward. When I think about such things I get an overwhelming feeling of gratitude. What great people I have known. Well that is it for now. Oh and I do not know if I told you about my new companion. His name is Elder Padilla. He is a chilango haha and we always make jokes about it. He has about 7 months in the mission. Ok well I love all of you a lot. Ok well tell everyone that I love them and miss them but the time moves to fast.
Elder McKibben.
Hey family,
Well at this rate I think I will be home tomorrow or at least that's what it seems like. Life goes by so fast, and even faster here in las oficinas.Right now I am a little tired because my body did not get to sleep a lot last night do to the fact that we have 12 Americans coming in today, which means lots of work. Well I also went on another road trip to Zamora. It was a good road trip. I am starting to like driving in Mexico because if you want to do something you just do it and everyone makes room. For your sake I wont give anymore details haha. So we have a couple people that are progressing right now. One is Billy Conner. He´s from the USA and speaks perfect English and Spanish. He is a really good Man and wants to learn more. I have been thinking a lot about the adventures that I had with the YM in are ward. When I think about such things I get an overwhelming feeling of gratitude. What great people I have known. Well that is it for now. Oh and I do not know if I told you about my new companion. His name is Elder Padilla. He is a chilango haha and we always make jokes about it. He has about 7 months in the mission. Ok well I love all of you a lot. Ok well tell everyone that I love them and miss them but the time moves to fast.
Elder McKibben.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Pictures
~Elder Mckibben said this is a "big fish" his companion and him caught.~
~Elder Mckibben on the coast~
~The Garcia Family~ Letters Home
September 5th, 2008
Hey Family,
This last week I did not have time to write you guys. We went to the temple and had to do a lot of things. It was my fault. Anyways that is cool that you went hunting with Jared Dad. I hope you really had a good time. Well I have good news and bad news. First the bad news. Our family the Garcia's are falling and I think that we are going to have to drop them. I cant not explain the pain that it is going to cause but I can feel it coming. They are not keeping their commitments. Please pray for us and them. However on a positive note. Right now we have a little problem in the offices. Only one person is certified to drive in the crazy traffic here. That's right, your son. That however is not the good news. The good news is that I get to go on some cool trips. Today I went to Colima, and a part of it called Manzanillo. It is really really hot there. However we got to go to the ocean. And it was our P day so we got to spend a little bit of time there.I love you all a ton. Here are the pictures.
Elder McKibben
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Letters Home
Hello Family,
Well another week has almost gone by. Funny thing happened today. I received a list of all the Elder waiting in the MTC. And behold there was Sean haha. From knowing, what I know about are missionaries that are waiting I am guessing Sean could have another couple weeks in the Utah mission. But he will get to Peru sooner or later. What a great guy. Well I had a couple funny experiences this last week. First off I was walking and contacting and contacted this old man that was walking.I said buenas Tardes and he then yelled grabbed my hand and began to shake with great force then he hugged me and began to scream, buenas tardes ¿cómo está? after about 10 seconds of this I was a little shook up and tried to restart the conversation but when I said again, I am elder mck....and he screamed again and started the whole thing over again however this time I had learned his tactic. So when he began to scream and tried to hug me, I hugged back with all my strength and yelled too. At this point my companion was on the other side watching us thinking that we were crazy hahah. But it was funny because after this time I yelled ¡Again! but he had had enough and did not want to do it hahaha. My other story was that we were walking along the street and in this one yard I quite possibly looked upon one of the ugliest dogs on the planet. I am going to send it to you but be careful because I do not know if you want to see something so nasty. Ok, what else? So we are still working with the Garcia family and I hope everything goes through with them. It looks like they will not be being baptized this week but it is still possible, so we are going to fast and see. They are really cool. Such a great family. I am meaning to send a picture of them but I got to get around to it. I hope the Grows are doing ok. Sometimes the Lord really allows some tests of faith to come along.But we just have to keep the gloves on and keep the good fight. Hey speaking of the fight, I got my mitts for boxing. Thanks a lot. Everyone here is surprised how fast I hit. But I got to work on my power. Well I think that is about it from LAS OFICINAS. Oh also. Dad I do not know if you remember but in the church there is a program they use to do just about everything. When ever you were counting money there was always a program on the computer in the church I do not know what it is called in English, but in Spanish is called MLS and now we are using it a lot and I am becoming quite the expert with it. How about that.Anyways I love you all a ton.
Elder McKibben
Well another week has almost gone by. Funny thing happened today. I received a list of all the Elder waiting in the MTC. And behold there was Sean haha. From knowing, what I know about are missionaries that are waiting I am guessing Sean could have another couple weeks in the Utah mission. But he will get to Peru sooner or later. What a great guy. Well I had a couple funny experiences this last week. First off I was walking and contacting and contacted this old man that was walking.I said buenas Tardes and he then yelled grabbed my hand and began to shake with great force then he hugged me and began to scream, buenas tardes ¿cómo está? after about 10 seconds of this I was a little shook up and tried to restart the conversation but when I said again, I am elder mck....and he screamed again and started the whole thing over again however this time I had learned his tactic. So when he began to scream and tried to hug me, I hugged back with all my strength and yelled too. At this point my companion was on the other side watching us thinking that we were crazy hahah. But it was funny because after this time I yelled ¡Again! but he had had enough and did not want to do it hahaha. My other story was that we were walking along the street and in this one yard I quite possibly looked upon one of the ugliest dogs on the planet. I am going to send it to you but be careful because I do not know if you want to see something so nasty. Ok, what else? So we are still working with the Garcia family and I hope everything goes through with them. It looks like they will not be being baptized this week but it is still possible, so we are going to fast and see. They are really cool. Such a great family. I am meaning to send a picture of them but I got to get around to it. I hope the Grows are doing ok. Sometimes the Lord really allows some tests of faith to come along.But we just have to keep the gloves on and keep the good fight. Hey speaking of the fight, I got my mitts for boxing. Thanks a lot. Everyone here is surprised how fast I hit. But I got to work on my power. Well I think that is about it from LAS OFICINAS. Oh also. Dad I do not know if you remember but in the church there is a program they use to do just about everything. When ever you were counting money there was always a program on the computer in the church I do not know what it is called in English, but in Spanish is called MLS and now we are using it a lot and I am becoming quite the expert with it. How about that.Anyways I love you all a ton.
Elder McKibben
~The Ugly Dog~
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Letters Home
Elder Mckibben wrote me (Megan) today so I thought I would go ahead and share some of his letter with everyone.
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Hey Guys,
Well I got some really cool pictures for you today. And some good stories but I do not have a lot of time. One picture that I would send you but it turned out bad is a pictures of nest of a humming birds. They are so sweet. It is funny that you should mention that everyone is noticing that I don't write, because today I made the effort and wrote about five people, including brother Layton haha. Anyways I am glad you got a cool blog so that I do not have to write every single person however I think that people have had enough with me not writing back because now I never get letters hmmmm well...I will work on that. {this is a guilt trip for all your readers, i repeat big fat guilt trip :) }
Hey that is so cool that you threw out a bunch of movies. Those thing are worthless just about always. Better to grab a book, and yet even better...grab a book (maybe a blue one) and go preach the gospel with it.Ok well enough is enough. Right now I am in Guadalajara again and we are teaching a family of six. They are the Garcias. What a sweet family. We are also working hard in the offices. The other day I had to wait in a polacio (?) federal for two hours to register an American. 2 hours for one American and now we have a group of 13 Americans coming in. I do not even want to think about how much time I will spend in that place when I get to do there paper work hahaha just kidding.
Hey I wanted to send you a picture when I solved the Rubik's Cube. Sometimes in the offices my eyes get tired of looking at a monitor so I started using a Rubik's cube to focus on something else. It took days but finally I solved it and now I can do it in about 3 min.
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Hey Guys,
Well I got some really cool pictures for you today. And some good stories but I do not have a lot of time. One picture that I would send you but it turned out bad is a pictures of nest of a humming birds. They are so sweet. It is funny that you should mention that everyone is noticing that I don't write, because today I made the effort and wrote about five people, including brother Layton haha. Anyways I am glad you got a cool blog so that I do not have to write every single person however I think that people have had enough with me not writing back because now I never get letters hmmmm well...I will work on that. {this is a guilt trip for all your readers, i repeat big fat guilt trip :) }
Hey that is so cool that you threw out a bunch of movies. Those thing are worthless just about always. Better to grab a book, and yet even better...grab a book (maybe a blue one) and go preach the gospel with it.Ok well enough is enough. Right now I am in Guadalajara again and we are teaching a family of six. They are the Garcias. What a sweet family. We are also working hard in the offices. The other day I had to wait in a polacio (?) federal for two hours to register an American. 2 hours for one American and now we have a group of 13 Americans coming in. I do not even want to think about how much time I will spend in that place when I get to do there paper work hahaha just kidding.
Hey I wanted to send you a picture when I solved the Rubik's Cube. Sometimes in the offices my eyes get tired of looking at a monitor so I started using a Rubik's cube to focus on something else. It took days but finally I solved it and now I can do it in about 3 min.
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