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My Favoritest of Scriptures. . .

alma 36:3 has become one of my most favoritest scriptures.... it says
  

"And now, O my son Helaman, behold, thou art in thy youth, and therefore, I beseech of thee that thou wilt hear my words and learn of me; for I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day."

We, missionaries, are so blessed because we have 2 years where we can learn to have confidence in the Lord.
 I don´t know where or when else i would have learned that.  we have to learn wisdom in our youth because when we´re old farts or foggies or whatever you wanna call us we are going have our habits developed and from what i´ve learned on the mission you can´t teach old dogs new tricks....  when we learn to trust in God when we´re young laddies we will be able to know where to look for support in our darkest hours of desperation.  

other than that i am still alive and still having a good time... this week was challenging because it rained A LOT. and the roads are made of dirt so we were covered in mud.... we tried to teach but to no avail because who would let two muddy strangers in their house?  haha yaaaaa

its all good though.... its a part of the mission i was the one who signed up for this....

we had stake conference.... our branch rented a huge black spy bus... that was cool..... but ya on the way home i dozed off and next thing i know the kid next to me started a puke fest.... thank goodness he didnt get any on my suit.... haha but ya it was really really chunky.... i hope u guys are reading this as u eat lunch.... but ya i helped him out and then after a few more minutes he was at it again.... yaaaaa..... poor kid.... then after that his sister decided to join the party.... that family has weird genetics... they shouldnt get on buses.... and i feel really really bad for the people that have to clean that bus up afterwards.... one thing i have certainty.... that company is never gonna rent a bus to the Mormons ever again.;... hahaha 

welllllll be good i love you all and thanks again for the support!

ELDER MAYNEZZZZZZZZ

Don't Run with Scissors!

this week was good.

not many things happened that are worth mentionin

just the same old business... that is teaching and preaching the word to all the creatures of the world

more than that idk what you want to hear.

im still alive...... we´ve been visiting schools and teaching lessons there (we teach the first vision to 20-30 kids) its super cool because now er´body knows who were are and what we´re all about....

the time is flying by

my companion is still chilean and hes doing great in case any of u were wondering

we´ve been studying the pre and post mortal life alot lately.... theres alot of unanswered questions.... but its all good... we´ll know one day.

Be good!

Dont run with scissors!

Dont talk to stranjers!  

love you all!
ELder maynez

Some Pic-a-lics

No email this week, but Elder Maynez did send some pics!

And we all know that pics are worth a thousand words...

so ya....

worn out shoes

giant pig....no seriously it was ginormica!

giant pineapple hehe jk

uhhh and a bat that attacked me one night... had to kill it... then i thought about giving pilo wings. haha

Send letters or emails! :) 

A Joke and Some Growing Up

so ya... ive got 9 months on the mission.... im learning so much and im realizing how fast the time passes by.  I´ve changed so much in just 9 months.  my priorities have changed and im living a new reality where im putting God in the first place.  It´s amazing the experiences ive had.  

I see differences in the lives of people, between those who put god first and those who trust in the material things.  Unfortunately there are so many ppl who think they have faith in God but when tried their faith crumbles... like a cookie :)

i had the coolest experience this last week... we are working in a new area called minas do leão and as well in butiá. we have 2 towns under our responsiblity.... anyways in minas theres a man (70 yrs old single) we´ve taught him several times, he has never been baptized and he wants to be but he wants to wait a little more.  He is really cool and intelligent. he studies the scriptures a lot.  But the other day he talked with us and said "i think i´ll just stay here in my church, but i enjoyed the time we had together."  i thought that was it, but then he looked at me and asked "you are always looking at me so intensely, what do you see?"  i responded "what i see is," paused and thought... "i see a man who is good, who loves god, but he is missing something.  theres a vacancy in his heart and he doesnt know where to go to fill that hole.  He searches but to no avail..." when i said that the spirit came and testified so strongly... i felt that God had just used me to speak to his child.  sooooohooo cool

it was one of those "you had to be there" experiences....

i made a grown man cry @lex... 

but ya i love the mission... the mission loves me.

it truly is a good preparation for the life post mish... i council people and i see them as my family foreals

well bye...

heres a joke u guys deserve it for reading this email,

whats black white black white black white black white black white black white black white red?

.....

a penguin falling down the stairs... haha

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love ya!

elder maynez

The Lions Mine: July 8th

Wellllll another week went down... i cant believe how fast it went by

so this week we´ve had some major success.

we´re teaching several families that are progessing greatly...

im so happy for their progress.... we have been working on having the spirit present in every lesson... so far its been working very well... the spirit is the greatest teacher and without him theres no way the people will convert...

we´re starting to open another area called Minas do Leão.;.. the Lion´s Mine!  haha we are received there very well;.. we went to a high school and the principal gave us tons of students addresses so we could go visit the families..  ITs really neat because the town is so small every one knows each other... We´ve met tons of new people and its cool to bring the gospel to people who have never even heard of it.  The only downside is that in the next week or two tons of pastors will be showing up to bible bash with us because we´re taking their congregations away hah its ok ill destory them with my scripture knowledge!

haha #nerd

I love the people here.  there are some real warriors here... people make some amazing changes to accept christ in their lives . and when they forget about the material goods and think about spiritual blessings the change in their lives is incredible.  The church is true.  Joseph smith is the prophet of the restoration.  He translated the Book of mormon.  Thomas s Monson is the ´prohpet in these latter days and i know God lives... he loves us and is always listening to our prayers

Love you all thanks for the support

for any questions, comments, concerns, jokes, or childhood traumas you can contact me at elan.maynez@myldsmail.net

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Love ya,
Elder maynez

I've Got Juice in My Blood...

Happy early independence day :)

 im gonna download the american anthem and blast it on july 4th at 630 am

thatll make my chilean comp happy haha

no but seriously i will

well im all transferred to BUTIÁ... a small town in the middle of nowhere.;..its a good thing that i have learned german because the majority of these people are german descent and the gpas and gmas are german!

haha welll nayways i had a good week.... we had a party at the "chapel" (a little house with a podium)  it was fun .... before i had to help prepare a drink called quentão... genereally its made with wine but they decided to make it with grape juice and natural orange juice.

they appointed me as official juicer... so they gave me 400 oranges and a little electric juicer... i cut all the oranges in half and started my job.... i juiced about 3 oranges and then yaaaa the juicer decided to take a break.... so i was left there by alone with my two hands.... never again will i juice something.... it took forever! i had so much juice on my shirt, tie and in my blood... all that juice diffused through my skin into my blood stream... whoa.... yaaaa...
then the party started i got to know tons of people.... then ya we were having a good time... then all of a sudden there was a lot of hub bub.... 

apparently some hoodlums entered without being detected and stole a few things from people....

we had to go search them out in a car and ya long story short the cops got involved... wow so much drama.... then ya i gave a talk the next day about charity... so ya good stuff huh?  

i cant think of much more of what happened bc so much has happened... and my fingers are cold i cant type fast...
well love ya all and take care

Elder Maynez

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