March 25, 2013

This past week was alright our baptism fell through. . . . the family went on vacation and never told us. . . they acted so interestd and they are members. . . we dont know what happened. I am thinking i will still be here for the next change. I hope i do. I have always been changed though every change that i have had in my mission. So who knows what will happen. changes are next week, so i only have one more week left with elder Castillo. I am used to all the hills now that are here, we ha a crazy day the other day, we walked a ton!!!!!! I am exhousted still and the night beore i did a really hard work out, . . . i feel like i shouldnt have now, , , haha, it didnt eel like it was har but i realized that i pushed myself a little bit tooo far after a couple of days. I think i was just sooo happy to be able to start working out again, because with my accident the therapist said i couldnt,,, but now that i feel better now i started again, and i did just a little bit too much. But im better now, my arms are worn out still,, but it will die down. Everything is well here,,, i am soo dissapointed that we wont have a baptism this change, but we will see if i stay here. I hope i do, Libertad is a good area, I heard it is one of the more heavier areas to work in,, like its hard.. Its one of the big ones in the whole mission. soo i am glad to have it,,, haha gotta enjoy it while i can, It is definitly my hardest so far in the mission, but i couldnt be enjoying it anymore. I know that the areas after this i they are smaller, they will just be that more easier to work in. . . But everything is going well, Im healthy, We have new investigators, one is named heidi! She is 19 years old and progressing really well. she has the book of mormon and read the first part that we gave her, so that was good. She actually follows up with our homework that we give her. She is studying english in the university, and she asked if i would help her a little bit, so the next time we go i said i would, and the next appointment with her is tomorrow. I really hope she progresses, she has been having family problems, her grandma is at the point where she cant take care of herself anymore so she is living with her family. But we promised her that the gospel will help her and her family. Another person is an inactive member, he has a year in the church and his family is catholic, he has been having family troubles also,,, he has a patience problem with his daughters... hah,,, but we are working on that with him, I feel like i am a therapist more than a missionary,,,, no, Just kidding, But i know that the gospel can fix anything and its really important that they do the things that are important. Other people that we have found is guadalupe, i havent met her yet, but my companion said she is really cool, and she has a date t be baptized already. They did that when we were on divisions. We have been meeting a lot of people lately that seem interested in the gospel. It is kind of hard when we have sooo many people to teach. This change me and my companion have had time issues,,,, i feel like we are always late to our next appointment with him. I always tell him in our lessons when we need to go an then he keeps talking for like another 30 minutes. . . . I dont know, That is our only truggle and i we could only be on time more often it woul fix everything. I dont have a problem with patience.... but i just like to be on time, because if we arent then it ruins our plans,,, But also at the same time if the person has a lot of questions we need to help them also,... When it comes down to this situation, if the subject is off topic then we have to tell the investigator that they need to write down their question and then when we come again you can ask us. . . Because as missionaries we have a routine, and our plans are set when we walk in the door, and o they are way off subject it is better for us if they just write it down and then we can answer there question the next time we come. So that is the problem with well.... its not a problem but elder castillo i dont know if he sees the importance of being on time, because he really likes to help the investigators learn, but alot of the time the question is off topic, and we are not focused on our lesson that we came prepared to give,,, So that has been difficult, He is almost done with his mission! he is a good missionary he has tought me a lot this change and kinda picked my back up after my accident, and im very grateul for him, I am grateful that the president put me in this area, because yes a needed to recover physically, but having missed a week where i wasnt in routine as a missionary,,,, that wasnt very good, so i feel like this change, where i was put and who i was put with wa definitly inspired... and i am grateul. I was picked up and put back on my feet. There is a difference in my work, since the day i started out again. Mom i hope you are well, I am so happy your win is building and building!!!!!!! Thats awesome, Im happy you live what you love to do, Be sure to get your sleep though!! thats important. Im doing well, yes i heard about missy s baby that is great tell her congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! i hope everyone travels safe to missys I am happy the snow is clrearing up and you dont feel as cold. . . ha I hope your trip to vegas was well, what else is going in your life other than the win mom, what have you been doing? how are the shows on tv : ) haha does the family still watch them, up date me on everyone, david and jackie, send me pictures of david and jackies new house, how is danny and amana and hazel, ? I love you I miss you. Dad Thanks for the info on all those questions i had that really helped, And yeah you can get a good view on google maps,,, ha You can go to street level, Sorry i should have told you!!!!!! +24° 46' 10.25", -107° 24' Constituyente Enrique Recio 2380more info Aquiles Serdán, 80190 Culiacan Rosales, SIN This is our address then this is our church Constituyente Enrique Recio 2786more info Aquiles Serdán, 80190 Culiacan Rosales, SIN Love you dad, thanks for everything.!!!!! Hope the golf is good, Love you family, Hope everyone is doing well. Read your scriptures,!!!!!!!

March 25, 2013

These are the new mission presidents, for those that get called to go to obregon and the new preidents o culiacan.!!!!!!!! Its cool, PRESIDENTE DE LA MISION MÉXICO-CD. OBREGON Mauricio Munive 45, y Emma de Munive 3 Hijos, Estaca Independencia Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, el Hermano Munive sirve actualmente como consejero de Misión en la Misión Republica Dominicana Este, ha servido como miembro del Sumo consejo, Consejero de un Obispado, Presidente de Hombres Jóvenes de Barrio y Misionero en la Misión Tuxtla Gutiérrez México, Trabaja actualmente como Administrador Financiero de Área para la Iglesia, Nació en la Cd de México de Guillermo Munive Pérez y Sara Lara de Munive. La Hna. Munive sirve como presidenta de Sociedad de Socorro de Barrio, ha servido como presidenta y consejera de las Mujeres Jóvenes de Barrio, Presidenta de Primaria de Estaca, Maestra de Escuela Dominical y misionera de tiempo completo. Hija de Ángel Chico Fonseca y Emma Torres Vega.

March 18, 2013

This past week was good, better than the last one. Im doing better every day, my back doesnt hurt anymore. . . im fine, i still have like three therapies left and everything is great, Mom im sorry your singapore summit didnt have a lot of people, the women that liked it will tell all their friends and the next time you go there will be more people!!! I love you, i hope you travel safely to las vegas and back..!!!!!!!! Please tell missy im soooo happy for her and her new baby girl!!!!! I am very happy an even came out of all the odds : ) she has been waiting for a long time to have a girl and i cant wait to see her. : ) Dad im happy your out on the green again!!!! I am sorry you are sick though. thats a bummer, i hope your cough goes away. I love you and mom, Dad i have a lot of questions, why do the jehovas witnesses think that jesus christ was put on a post other than a cross. Also why do they have changes in their bible, If you could give me scriptures on how jesus christ is the son and our redeemer that are in the old testament that would be great, Its because the jehovas witnesses beleive that God is jehova??? right, I am a little confused with this, Whenever jehova is said in the old testament it is referred to as god? or Jesus christ??? Also if you could tell me a little bit more about Joseph smith and the mazons, Masons???? Masonry, And also if you could explain to me why their is a quorom of the seventy. ? Also i was wondering if you could send me something that i can print off, It is where i receive my authority!!!!! its like My line of authority. of the priesthood. This last week was pretty normal, i feel like i am getting back into routine again, i felt off for the first two weeks. . . . . but nw i am getting back into the missionary work again. I am a little bit worried about my spanish, i feel like i have lost a little bit.... but i am trying to talk as much as i can, i need to work on my grammar more, and i know it just takes practice. . . i need to wake up in the morning early to do it. We have a baptism coming up this next week, i am excited, Demetrio asked me if i would baptize him. . . . i was a little bit suprised because i have only tought him like two lessons. . . . hah my companion and the other missionary have been teaching them. We have found some new people to teach and nne are really ready for baptism. . . well i feel like everyone is ready for baptism it just depends on how we help them, We have been teaching the same people, we had two divisions this past week, one with our zone leaders and the other with achilles serdan. They had a baptism yesterday after church,a nd then after we had a missionaries fare well for a 19 year old named jesus, he is very cool, and ready to go . He is going to mexico city, and he didnt have enough money to go so lots of the members pitched in and gave him things, it was very cool. I gave him a pair of my shoes, he has the same shoe size, soooo i feel like i helped him, well mom and dad helped him, hah,, he was very grateful though, he will be serving in the city and the choes i bought are for the city, i am in the outskirts of the city and it is pure hills and dirt, my whole mission i have been in the dirt. . . . haha soooo i bought some boots. That was the only thing on the list mom that we did not buy. . . . haha. anyways he is grateful for the shoes. This letter might be a little short, but i dont have a lot to say. I am doing well, and i hope everyone else is doing well. Our president said we can type to whoever we want now!!!! I am now allowed to talk to melanie, I am so happy. and i can talk to friends. Melanie espero que todo esta bien, escribame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; ) les amo mucho Love you guys, I will talk to you next week!!! only two more weeks and then we have changes again. its crazy, six weeks go by so fast.

March 10, 2013

hey, hmmmmmm,, well this past week was fast to me, also kind of slow at the same time. These past week wasnt the best,, and i feel like it could have gone better. Withh my companion that i have right now its really boring,, i dont know why but he is going to finish his mission in two months,, and Its not that he is slowing down, i just dont know how to explain it. It is just super boring with him. He speaks really fast and he doesnt speak loud either. So its been really hard to communicate with him. . . The truth is that its been hard for me here. . . It is not one of my favorites. . . anyways. I dont even have that much to say. Im doing good, kinda frustrated, my back is better, not 100 but better. il finish up therapy. . . it taks a lot of time during our day. we still make up for it though. but their has been days this past week that i just dont feel like im doing enough, and it really hurts me inside. i dont like the feeling. I have been working full days,..and im tired. sometimes i wish i had more energy, Our investigators are doing well, we are still having the baptism of demetrio, it all depends if we can get the lessons in his head though, so we have been seeing him a lot lately. We had divisions the other day, and we switched, i went over to Achilles Serdan the other day and spent the night their, Our district is Elder Castillo, me, Elder Hair, and Elder Hernandez. we had success when we did the divisions, every time we have divisions i see my spanish progress. Always the day after. I dont know how that works. . . . but it has been like that all through my mission. Every day after divisions i speak a ton during the day... more than i normally do. and most of my companions have told me. . .i dont know why, its weird. We had a lesson last night, and we started with a prayer, and during our lesson, people just kept walking through the door, when we finished there were twenty people that were there listening to us. It was really cool to me, also that we could actually pull it off and keep everyone on the same page. . . we did!, it was a little bit of a miracle. Their were like 10 little kids and 10 parents. The spirit was there with us, and we found an inactive family, and received two more baptismal dates because of this lesson. It was very good. and it strengthened my testimony about how people can feel the spirit. Mom I hope you had safe travels, and i am glad that everything was a success, i miss you, and I love you, I am doing better everyday, I feel like hard work pays things off, and that God has blessed me very much... Atleast i have been trying to do my best, and i know i can only try to do better every single day. I hope you are doing okay, i hope everything is going well with the win,, i always hop you are healthy and safe, especially when you travel, i told a women yours and dads age the other day, and she said that i was wrong and that i was talking about my uncle or aunt or something like that, or my grandparents, and then i said well, I am adopted, and she realized and said oh perdon! and I said ha its okay, and then i explained my story with her, and I have just been thinking about everything thhat i am grateful for, and I am very grateful for my loving parents. I really miss you two, and i miss being able to talk to both of you, and receive your input in the moment i need it. My parents and my brothers and sisters are really such a blessing in my life, and i dont know what i would ever do without (This) and the decisions of others to put me where i am today. I am also Gratful to my Heavenly Father that he had the most input in the decision, but i am really just so grateful and i want everyone to know that. I want everyone to know that i love them soo very much. i remember a quote that mom gave me and it says something like everyone is put here on earth with only on wing, and to get back to heaven we can only fly back by embracing each other. I love how the family unit is sooo important in Gods plan, and that we are all soo close to each other, The further the days go on in my mission, the more close I feel I get to my family because in the end thats all that really matters. I love everyone. Dad I am happy you get to start playing golf again, I love you, it is really hard here to get adresses. . . I never have my address memorized when i am here, : / All i know is that if you type in Libertad Culiacan in google maps thats our area, Our church is really close to our house also. so you can probably find the church. We have found a lot of new people since we have been here one thing as a missionary is that you cant be afraid to just go up and talk to someone you dont know. Just do it, and have faith that God will pierce there heart with his words. Also another thing is that if you smile you will always get a good conversation out of someone. It doesnt matter who it is, The only thing that has to happen is that the person who you are going to talk to needs to see your smile first. Anyways hope your Healthy Dad. Elise Hope you and your family is okay, Im good, dont worry bout me!!!!!! I miss you guys, and dont feel pressured that you always have to write me, nobody is obligated, its just what we do as family! : ) i love you. Heidi, I am happy you went and . . . . hmmm i didnt really understand, you went inside the temple, or you went and saw the movie of the temple??? Anyways whatever you and mel did, i hope it was fun : ) hah I hope your well heidi, and i hope everything is going fast with papers so you can be more a part of our family. Thank you for your packages, If you ever decide to serve another mission heidi i will be sure to send you lots of packages : ) We have a medical aide here in our mission and her name is hmna martinez!!!!! and shhe is serving her mission, she has a son thats on a mission and she is divorced, So she decided to serve a year and a half while her son is on his mission, hah!! she is really cool, and she takes really good care of the missionaries. She deals with all the medical stuff in the offices. but hey their are always options when life gets boring. whhich it never is, but Thank you for the pictures!! i love seeing how grown up and different everyone is. Katie has such long hair!!!!! and patrick still looks thhe same, haha maybe he is a little bigger, but thank you very much!!! Joy,,, wow thank you. Thank you thhat is very nice of you!!!!!! now if i get a companion that is boring and doesnt have music i can listen to good music. no ha all of my companions have been cool. But you did not have to do that, thank you, il keep it in good shape and then when i get back it can go to kenneth for when he will serve a mission. It really always is good to have music to uplift.... emotions. . . There are missionaries that have music and some that dont, and i have seen the difference in the missionaries that dont have music and the ones that do, there is a difference... i have felt it in myself also. . . its more uplifting getting ready for the day and then to go outside and preach the gospel, Thank you very much. Love Elder Fellingham Mel, MHm lo tengo mucho para decir : ) primero es que te amo, mucho, un amor que no puedo explicar, y segundo es que estoy un poco triste que no recibi nada de ti, : ( Pero lo se que la vida es lleno de cosas para hacer y no se que esta haciendo. Puede decirme en sus proximas cartas, : ) yo siento que no se,,, Cuando no recibo nada de tu no puedo pensar bien,,,,: / Lo se que los personas dicen la oposicion,,, pero conmigo es diferente, y cuando yo recibo palabras de ti yo puedo trabajar mejor. Tu es alguien que me impulsa!!!! mucho especialmente aqui,,.. Y mi amor no vamos a hablar. . . pues con que va a pasar no se como vamos a hablar con cada quien, quiero ser capaz de hablar con usted tanto como sea posible antes de salir, y lo se que esta occupada, pero yo quiero que tu puedes salir con bien mel. . . Yo quiero ser alguien que puedo ayudarle antes de su mision,. . lo tengo un poquito de supresa que no tienes mas preguntas para mi. : ) ughh no se... espero que estoy alguien que pueda poner su confianza en mi todavia. No quiero perder que teniamos antes, y cada vez cuando mis pensamientos son sobre ti yo puedo recordar los sentimientos que todavia tenemos. Todavia son muy fuertes y muy muy importantes amor. We are still who we used to be and i remember mel. I love you, Nunca pierde que tenemos como pareja, te amo muchisimo. Estoy estresado que casi va a salir usted y no tengo un lugar donde puedo enviar cartas a ti.... Todavia lo tengo mucho para decir, y cosas, escrituras para ayudar te. estoy pronto va a sentir cuán lejos estamos de la otra y no quiero sentir eso. Lo se que la obediencia es muy importante mel, y yo quiero obedecer los reglas de la mision, When you get to your mission outside of the mtc ask your president who you can toalk to please,, who you are allowed to write too. : ) y si no puedes escribirme, nosotros necesitamos averiguar quien va a escribir y la otra no va a escribir, Es mejor que nunca vamos a hablar, que pienses tu?? Tambien mel Por favor enviarme su address of your mission!!!!!!es muy importante, it will be mexico to spain and spain to mexico : ) and then utah to spain : ) : ) : ) hah vamos a escribir a traves el mundo. No puedo esperar love, :_ ) te amo mucho y espero que tienes tiempo a escribirme, Tambien para estudiar, voy a darle escrituras con temas. They are the same struggles that i go through everyday with invstigators and i hope that they will help you be prepared to answer sharply a los personas en españa : ) For though i am far away from you, my heart is with you, and i rejoice that you are living as you should and that your faith in christ is strong Collasions2:5 Love Elder Fellingham All of these are for El dia de reposo (Santificarlo) exodus16:22-30 exodus 31:12-17 Juan 6:53-56 jarom 1:5,8,9 Mosiah13:16-17 Moroni6:5-6 Leviticus 25:1-6 Isaias 58:13 Nehmieahs 10:31 These are for the people that always say they have to work on sunday. Jacob2:18-19 Mosiah 2:41 4 nefi 1: 12,23 1 nefi 17:3 3 nefi 13:31-33 Why are their so many churches 2 nefi 26:20-21 2nefi 28:3-6 4nefi 1:26-30 1 nefi 13:25-27 3 nefi 27:10-11 That should be enough for this week il give more next week, Scriptures are for everyone : ) but mostly mel :) Love you, love everyone-.

March 5, 2013

: ) SOrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy im late. . . . . I am okay. . Yesterday we just had a lot of things to do. I think it was partly because i still dont know where everything is in thi new area. . . I am in Libertad Culiacan. . . I am in the city. I feel like there is sooo much to say in this letter and i probably wont get it all out. but here i go, Anyways, My companions name is Elder Castillo, and he is pretty cool, He likes to draw like me, and we have some things in common, he only had two more changs though in his whole mission, sooo he will be finishing up in a little bit, He is from wahhaka? more south of mexico city. He is pretty cool though, we get a long. I feel like i have been a little lazy here my first week. . . . trying to get back in the habit of things. . . and to think i was only out for a week. . . it really kind of mssed me up. I can tell that my spanish is a little worse. . . well atleast i feel that way, i dont know if it really is like that, but i just feel . . . . behind : / and i am just trying to catch up. I have been going to this place for therapy. Its called medico tres rios. . and i just go there and it is in the center of Culiacan and they put little electrode things on my back and lave me for an hour, and thats it. Mel me recuerdo cuando usted tenido su accidente en su carro y necesitaba terapia,,,, Cada vez cuando me voy me recuerdo todos los dias cuando fuimos para ti. : ) y todo el tiempo cuando esta en el cuarto estoy pensando sobre tu. : ) hah te amo. Anyways. . . its going well, the guy that does my therapy is inactive, and all he does the whole time we are their is make fun of Johovas witnsses. . . . hah. . . but its getting old now. and i can feel like my back is getting stronger but today my back has been really uncomfortable. i dont know why. . . but i hope i can sleep good tonight. Last night i didnt sleep that well. .It is getting hotter every day and it is going to be super hot pretty soon. . . I thhink thats why i couldnt go to sleep last night. but im good... I have been taking cold showers every morning. The warm thing to our shower doesnt work. . . Sorry if my spellinhg is bad this keyboard is kinda crappy. . . . : / but everything is going well. . . everything is really different here in the city, the people ar really different, and they speak differently also. . . I was supposed to go back to los mochis that is where the president assigned me to be. . . but because of my accident and therapy i wasnt able to go back, i really miss it, and we were about to baptize a family there. . . ugh it can be frustrating sometimes, I am trying to be better at specific things in my mission and it is hard to not be frustrated sometimes. . . but i know that i need to always be a good example to th people, and not get frustrated with them. . The church here in Culiacan is very big, and our ward has about 150 members in it, we had fast and testimony meeting last sunday and there were 130 members their. It suprised me after the second counselor got done sharing his testimony and right after about twenty or so members got up and we up to the pulpit together. It was really cool to see. It shows how strong the ward is, ALmost everyone went up and shared their testimon, I watched almost 130 go up and share. . . it was such a sight to me to see. It was a testimony builder. Their are soooo many hills here in this area, and the boundaries of our area are really big. I get really tired of walking hah, but i am getting back into the working mode, and doing ting again. My legs are getting stronger, every step we take up a hill is like a lunge,. . its like san francisco hills but they are just pure dirt. Everything is well here, we have a baptismal date for a 12 year old named demetrio, his family is inactive but we have reactivated their family, and he is the only on that hasnt been baptized. His date is th 14 of march. It is so weird to think that it is march. . . . Time is Flying. . . . I miss everyone and i hope everyone is okay, Yuor all in my prayers individually, and i miss everyone. I was wondering mom in my next package that you send if you could send me a mini preach my gospel. They started making those, the big ones are really hard to carry everywhere, well their not hard they just take up a lot of space. thank you i love you. I hope you have a great trip to singapor? what city??? wow, i hope you have success and you travel safely. i love you mom. I am doing well, my back is healing and getting better. Dad hope school is going well. Miss you love you. You can look up libertad in Culiacan, I am on th street 14 I dont have a name yet. . . the names ar all pretty crazy here, We have a nice house i like it. Were on the second floor, and the inside is pure tile. Its nice we have a couple balcony doors, and we can go on the top of our house. its cool. We started contacting people in the street again. thats always fun... hah. The church is really organized here, and we dont need to worry about small things anymore in the ranches that we were in it was always a little bit disorganized- but here it is just everything is organized, and we have a bishop and everything. It is just very different to me. . . i have never been in an area like this, and i like being in the little ranchitos more. . . i dont like the big city. Every car that passes i always have to look behind me to see if it is going to hit me. I am healthy, eating well. i want to start xercising but i dont know if i should. . . I started exercising a lot in ruiz Cortinez and then accident and now i feel all fat again. . haha, all is well though. I love it when people send me pictures, NEW Pictures. . . . : ) .... por favor, not old ones, i need to see what i am missing in the family, Thank you Heidi for your pictures and the packag with rice krispis and trail mix, and laffy taffy they are all gone now. . . hahh,, i love the picturs though. i am happy i can show people what my family looks like, please send more, love you soon to be paperized sister into our family!!!!!!!!! : ) im excited for that. Anyways i love everyone sorry im a day late, Love you my family. Love Elder Fellingham MEl te amo, te extraño tambien, Hah i really like the picturs, my face looks weird though it looks all skinny and different,,, ha but you ar beautiful as always,! and i am sooo excited for you and your mission. i have a letter and i wrote it like three weeks ago. . . This next monday i am going to send you some things that you can start preparing to study. I have a lot to say. . . and i really like the pictures you sent me, i got your christmas picture with brittney and your family one, and others, i hope i get some more pics from you before you leave, i miss you, and i know that serving the lord is the best thing in the world we could be doing right now. I hope you can get everything ready to get out in th field and serve with everything in you, tu es un gran ejemplo a mi, su dedicacion y la manera que trabaja es sooo impressive a mi y lo se que va a bendicir muchos personas en su mision. Te amo y espero que recibe un carta en esos proximos semanas. me encanta la anillo, y me gusto la tema hmmm que es de mi, Siempre mi amor, nunca olvide cuan grande mi amor es para ti. Te amo y cuidase Love your Elder Fellingham

February 25, 2013

Everything is well, i know i didnt email yesterday, i didnt get the time, we didnt go to the doctors yesterday because they had to take new x rays, but they took new ones and everything is okay i just need to have rehabilitation for ten days here in culiacan and then i will be okay, i dont need to come home. My ne Area is libirtad in Culiacan!!! and my new companion is Elder Castillo! They said i can go back to work but to not carry anything heavy. Everything is well. And i love everyone. Hope everyone is well, I am well. And the lord has blessed me, I will email everyone next monday. Back to regular rules.!!!!!! Love you Mom and dad Family, Melanie. : ) love you all.

February 18, 2013

Okay,,, sooo haha yeah everyone knows, anyways, I am doing fine. : ) It was just very unexpected. I never thought in my wildest dreams something that crazy would happen to me. It will always be one of the most scariest moments in my life. But one of the first things that i did after was sat myself down on the sidewalk and said a prayer of thanks to My Heavenly Father. I thanked him for everything i have in this life. and that i was still okay.

So we were walking, and we had just finished a really good lesson. It was with a partially active mom and her daughter that is like 30 years old, and i felt like we had really gotten to her heart, this lesson was in Culiacan, I told everyone last week that we had been chosen to go to this capacitacion, It was all the elders that will pretty much be leading the mission when the President that we have right now will end his period of being mission president. He is going to finish up in about three more months and then we will have a new mission president. But for this capacitacion we all got in a bus and went to Culiacan, they told us the area that we would be working in for these next five days, and we went there and spent the night. The next morning we woke up and got all ready i was put in a group of other people to work with, My companion was a different elder, Elder Eliason, He is from delta Utah and he is a really big kid, He is like goliath and still alive. He is the type of person that looks like he is really slow, because he is sooo big, but the steps that he takes makes up for what your assumption would be.

and sooo i was put with him, : ) and we woke up that morning and we started our day. Our schedule was that we wake up, Get ready meet at the church and then we would all have breakfast, then we would listen to the president talk to us until mid day, then we would go out and work until 5 o clock, then we would meet back in the church and the president would talk to us for the rest of the day. So yeah!!! Finished with the first day (the 13 my birthday) everything is going well soo far, Everybody found out it was my birthday from Elder Smalley, and it was another Elders Birthday also, and he was actually one of my friends from Juan Jose Rios. So it was a good day. We went back to the house after the day with our group, and then went to bed. Day #2 The 14th wake up, get ready, go to the church, eat breakfast ladi dadi dadda.... and soo forth, it comes to mid day when we need to leave and go out and work. Our area is named Nueva galicia in Culiacan, Everything this day when we leave to go out and work is bien Rojo!!!!!!! : ) Its all red because its Valentines day : ) and everyone has their balloons and their gifts that their going to give to the people they love, and all the mooshy gooshy stuff,

and we had this lesson with this mom and her 30 year old daughter and everything went great. Then after we were walking to the members house where we were going to eat, and it was a pretty long walk, we walked up two pretty descent sized hills of dirt, and then we crossed a free way type road, it had a lot of cars on it that were fast, and we passed that and then there was a gas station that we passed and after the gas station the road curved up, we were at this road, and i had seen a black truck drive up it and it had passed us and it was very noticeable because it was decked out in sticky noted hearts. besides that it was a pretty nice truck, it looked like it had just gotten a new paint job and new tires. Anyways this sticky hearted note truck drove past us and yeah i thought i would never see it again. But then when we got to the top of this road, there was the truck parked on the corner and as we were walking up a girl hopped out and then she started talking to this lady that had her little business here on the corner. She was selling stuff for valentines day, and the girl was talking to her and she was pretty loud when we had passed, i had looked at her because she was pretty loud, and then we had just kept walking and we started down the hill because we had hit the top.

The ladies place where we were going to eat was just the next block, There was also a lady walking in front of us she had a couple of bags in her hands from the gas station and she was walking home but we had cought up to her because as missionaries we have diligence! I was thinking in my mind that we could help this lady with her bags and it was one of those things that just kind of pass in your mind but you dont do it. and we kept walking Then the last thing i heard was the wheels skidding on the dirt on the side of the road, and i remember Elder Eliason yelled out my name, and then i remember waking up in the dirt. the first thing i did was i checked my leg. I had thought it had gotten broken.It was the first thing that hurt. When my eyes opened i was on my belly and i kinda remember spitting out a little dirt because there was dirt in my mouth haha. and i looked around me and all the stuff in my shirt pocket was scattered all over the placethe first thing i saw was my name tag and i reached over and grapped it : ), then i checked my leg again and i could move it by then and i figured out that it was soo bad, i kept moving it to make sure it was okay. and i thought to myself well. . . if im okay then i can probably get up. By now alot of people had run over because they saw what happened. and they were all yelling to just stay where i was, Then i heard Elder eliason call on the phone Elder Fellingham just got hit by a car, and then he came over to me and he was like dont worry everything will be okay, haha, and i was like going to get up, and he saw me trying and he was like NO dont get up so i went back down on my stomach and then i was like i want to get up! so he was like well okay, and then i got up and i picked up my things and i put pressure on my leg, and it hurt a little bit, but i was okay. . . . . Then i noticed that the lady had gotten hit also, and she was worse than me and all the people were helping her because she was worse, and i went over and standed by another car in the driveway of the house that i got hit into. well the yard. and then i felt like i should probably sit down, so i did, and i waited there and the firemen came and then the police, and then the ambulance. while i was there when i sat down i said a prayer for me and the lady,

I didnt ever really think about the girl in the truck, i dont know why but she is like the last thing i thought about, i looked over, and she had totalled the truck, there were little sticky notes all over the place, and she had went head on somehow with the tree ofter she had hit us? when i looked where everything was after and everything where they were in there positions nothing made sense, it just was a really. . . . freak accident. With the twent to thirty steps that i took after i saw the same girl on the corner talking to the lady to when she had hit us and i had tried to do the math, everything seems impossible the way it worked out. I dont understand how she hit us fishtailing and then she had time to reverse the truck again and hit the tree that was five feet in front of us head on. Everything in their positions just doesnt make sense, and i still dont know how everything happened.. . . but yeahh. . . what a whale of a tale : ) anyways, The ambulance people said that it was procedure to take me in the ambulance also, even though i wasnt badly hurt. I remember everything soo vividly. The people that ran to see what happened a few of them knew the lady who had gotten hit and they called her daughter who lived like two houses down and she ran out with her baby girl that was like three years old. She knelt down next to her, with the three year old in her arms, and was freaking out, and the three year old started crying saying abuela in spanish. . . . when i saw that it made want to cry. . . . I was just really shooken up, : / and i still have like little flashbacks of right before i got hit, I feel like i just try to hard to remember how everything really happened and it is weird because nothing makes sense.

But i am just grateful that i am okay now, and i can see progression in my healing, and im okay. The only thing that i am really worried about is my spine. I dont understand how bad it really is. It was hard to understand when the doctor was explaining in spanish. I am not a anotomist that knows all the words to the body in spanish,.... i am a missionary. but all i know as that i have been regaining my strenght quickly, and i feel like Mom and Dad that you are both right. . . my body does and has always healed quickly and i am very blessed. . . My president told me that me getting hit was a sign of something that i need to understand with the lord. Something like that, I am sorry that i wasnt persistent in having you guys know sooner. . . I wasnt sure, and i was nervous, and i just didnt know what to do. . . I figured i would email dad about it, Mom please dont be offended, but i knew that you wouldnt have taken it as well and you are scared, and still scared. But i am fine. I have been blessed by everyones prayers, and i know that the work needs to go on! I have felt lonely these past three to four days to tell the truth, and i think in the moments when we are the most (loneliest??) is when we really get close to hmmm God. I have really just gone to him, and he has comforted me in a way that i know nobody here on Earth could have. . . These past days i have had time to study, and i still feel like i need to take more advantage of it. . . I have learned a lot from my heavenly Father in these past days and it is a testimony to me.

I am still learning, and i dont think i will go home, i have just had soo many thoughts these past days, It is hard to think that if i really do have to come home, It will be really hard for me. I know it will be hard for me. . . . and i dont feel like its right. To come to a point where you are solely focused on something that is sooo great and then have to return to a level that is where you never have progressed at all. Its really hard. I really feel like i have changed a lot. Alot of things have changed for the better, and it feels like going home would just be throwing it all away.....? ha i dont even know how to explain how i feel. but im sure everyone can understand the situation. Its like someone who really loves basketball, and really loves hockey and they play both, and they have a game that is at the same time and they have to choose which one they want to do. It is like that. . . . its like, , , Mission or Health? I know that even if i did come back i still would be able to come back to Culiacan Mexico after i got better. I feel like im progressing though. I know that i will be fine, and if i put more faith in God than he will do the rest.

Anyways. . . . Everything is well. I will try to say everything i can to the doctor to keep me here. I was surprised also mom that the president didnt really take it more seriously? he didnt go to the hospital or really anything when he heard about what had happened.? that made me kind of i dodnt know. . . hah it just made me feel like getting hit by a car isnt really that important i guess. . . but i dont know we just need to understand that things are really different here in Mexico, and we just need to be grateful for what we have. We have a lot of things that other people dont have. And i am grateful for what we have. and i am learning to be grateful for what other people have. It is called humility and it is one of the traits that our savior has. : ) I am grateful for everything, My parents, My family, where i have grown up my whole life, the people that are in my life, cool friends, an awesome Girlfriend. The United States. I am grateful for everything. and right now i feel like it is just a little lesson that i am being taught. I teach everysingle day. . . . ha and maybe it is time to have a little bit of time to be taught.

I read a talk in the general conference magazine that you sent me, and one was talking about something about the cows, haha the cows. . . yes the cows, but It was someone saying that when the cows have the 10,000 acres to roam. . . why do they still find the fence and stick their heads through it to eat the grass on the other side. and that was something that caught my attention. . . When we have such little guidelines that are easy to read and obey. . . why do we still try to stick our heads through the fence. . . why do we still try to push the limits... I have been thinking a lot about this and it has helped me learn a lot about obedience. We need to be more obedient i feel like. When we have everything that we know to have a perfect life, why cant we just do it and have it. . . why is it soo hard. ? I have had a lot of humility these past days trying to figure out why this has happened to me. . . ? i have asked it over and over again,, in the beginning i feel like i know why, but at the same time i dont and i am confused. I am not mad. . . and i havent been that happy these past days. . . and people have recognized it, but i have just been given a lot of humility these past days to think a lot. and i feel like i have received a lot of peace and comfort with what has happened. i am grateful for my life and everything i have in this world. . . and i hope we can all have a little bit more humility we can humble ourselves just a little bit more, we can be touched by the spirit in ways that will help us in our lives. . . in these days. .I feel like i am just rambling. . . but this is what i have been feeling these past days : / hah and i hope everyone is doing well, David and jackie send me pics of the house. hope everyone had good Birthdays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love everyone sooo much. Pleaase dont be worried about me, i know that everything will be fine. I am grateful for all the prayers and tell the ward that they are in my prayers : ) I miss everyone, and i am grateful for the great ward that we live in. Everyone is sooo amazing to me, and i am grateful for every moment i have had in this wonderful life. : )

Melanie I love you sooo much! thank you for all that you do for me, te extraño muchisimo, yo estoy bien, y me gusto su caja por mi cumpleaños. . . haha Tambien me encanta los photos, mucho mucho gracias espero que todo esta bien con ti y su familia!! te amo y si me viene a utah voy a tener la opurtunidad a ayudarle aprender un poquito antes ira a salir. : ) te amo con todo mi corazon,!!!!!!! Oh yo necisito su domicilio en españa pór favor!!!!!!!! y yo quiero ver su mapa!!!!!!! tome un photo de su libreta de la mision por favor. Y no puedo creer haha los vasos. . . haha their cute love, I love you. Espero que tenia un buen dia de san valentin. . . yo no, , , pero esta bien. : ) todavia tengo mi vida para amarle mas tarde ; ) despues nustros misiones. Y siempre esta en mi corozon mientras. Love you take care.

<3 Elder Fellingham