January 21, 2013

Well family everything is going great here in Mexico...Elder Vega and I are doing just great.  He’s a great elder and always has a smile on his face.  That’s one thing that I like about him how he is always happy and always brings a smile.  We are working hard still with this family and hopefully they can be baptized this Saturday if the Dad has received his answer or better said if he wants to do it.  It’s tough to let people have their agency because they can know that these things are true. But if they don’t want to, well, then that’s all we can do.  I learned today, pues really this week, to be a successful missionary is being obedient worthy and inviting people to do these things.  Because our purpose of being missionaries is to invitar a las personas a venir a cristo al ayudarlas a que recibir el evangelio restaruado mediante la Fe en Jesucristo y su expiación. El Arrepentiemietno, Bautimso, la recpion del don del espiritu santo, y perseverar hasta el fin. 

Translation:

Our purpose of being missionaries is to invite people to come to Christ to help them to receive the gospel, restored through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement. The Arrepentiemietno, Bautimso, recpion the gift of the holy spirit, and persevere to the end.

That is my purpose to be worthy and do the things to invite people to be part of the Church of Jesus Christ.  The real news about this week…when my generation and I arrived here in Mexico they gave us a card that said we have to renew our VISA in 180 days...instead of 360...well these 180 are about to run out and so sometime in the near future the three Elders Vick, Elder Anglin, Elder Evans, and I have to leave Mexico for a little bit to start the papers over again and hopefully have the VISA in about two weeks.  So, I and the three Elders will be in the US for a little bit.  We don’t know where or when we are going...so mom you can’t come visit me if I have to stay in Texas for a little bit or if I’m in Arizona haha.  I’m not worried just a little down because I don’t want to leave Mexico...but I guess it’s just the plan that God has in store for me. 

Here are the fotos from Xochicloco or algo asi.  fue super chido allá...estuve en la tierra de los lamanitas y la

verdad era bien bien chido.

Les Amo con todo de mi corazón Elder Park

Translation:

Here are the photos from Xochicalco.  It was super chido there ... I was in the land of the Lamanites and the truth was well chido.  I love y’all with all of my heart Elder Park

Elder Park and Elder Hernandez

 

January 14, 2013

On January 14th, a ward member took Elder Park and Elder Vega to the Z. A. Xochicalco (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃot͡ʃiˈkaɬko]) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Municipality of Miacatlán in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the (place of the) house of Flowers". The site is located 38 km southwest of Cuernavaca, about 76 miles by road from Mexico City. The site is open to visitors all week, from 10 am to 5 pm, although access to the observatory is only allowed after noon. The apogee of Xochicalco came after the fall of Teotihuacan and it has been speculated that Xochicalco may have played a part in the fall of the Teotihuacan empire.
The architecture and iconography of Xochicalco show affinities with Teotihuacan, the Maya area, and the Matlatzinca culture of the Toluca Valley. Today some residents of the nearby village of Cuentepec speak Nahuatl.

 The main ceremonial center is atop an artificially leveled hill, with remains of residential structures, mostly unexcavated, on long terraces covering the slopes. The site was first occupied by 200 BC, but did not develop into an urban center until the Epiclassic period (AD 700 – 900). Nearly all the standing architecture at the site was built at this time. At its peak, the city may have had a population of up to 20,000 people.