I'm seeing a pattern.

Holy cow that is so cool. that is amazing that happened to becky and i hope that the missionaries take care of that situation and teach in the manner that they need to teach so hopefully they will do good. i know they will do a good job and just keep helping becky and all that stuff. if she has questions let her know that she can come to you to ask. sometimes the investigators don't ask us because they have a fear or something but in family and friends they can always find a comfort. anyways that is really cool and that is cool about enoch´s talk i'm glad to hear that it went well. well anyways here is OUR week. haha

Thursday - anyways so you know what happened thursday pretty much we were at internet and i was talking to you and then after that we just went out and did a lot of contacting but everyone was really rejecting and we didn't really have any success that day so that was a bummer.

Friday - friday was amazing. so we woke up and we went to our zone conference. it went really well and it was the last one for president alvarado and his wife. they are so cool and so nice anyways president gave us his last counsel and it was really cool. he just told us to be really great parents and to always have love for our parents so that our kids will love us too. then he told us to be members from preach my gospel. and to always always always study the book of mormon. and to always be worthy members in the eyes of God. so that was really cool. then he shared some really spiritual experiences with us that were just so cool. i loved it.  after him we watched a missionary broadcast from Elder Holland and it was awesome. i love how you can always feel the love from that man, he is a great guy. haha i could only dream if he could seal me and my wife in the temple. that would be so amazing but i doubt it could happen. anyways after the conference we went home in the back of a truck with our whole zone. haha it was really funny. all the cars were honking at us but yeah don't worry we were safe. and that night we went on divisions. i went with elder aviles from Niagara who is my zone leader. and my comp with the other. so it was really fun and we taught some really cool people. there was this one person we were teaching about the book of mormon and i just told the man how i came to know the book was true and how he can do so too. it was really neat and really spiritual. elder aviles was teaching how we need to do our part to know the book is true and the church is true because we cannot serve 2 masters. we will love one and not the other. so we need to serve the church and love the church and love jesus and all He gives us and love Him with all our hearts. that is how we can find the true love of christ and give that to others too.

Saturday - so saturday we finished our divisions. before though in the morning we went to another elders area and we did an interview for them. it was really cool and they will have a really cool convert over there. he was really nice and just so excited. i was thinking how cool it was that literally every saturday there is another baptism in the world and that the church is always growing and that people are always receiving more blessings. so that was really cool to think about. i told that the convert all the things he will see in his life and how blessed he will be. he only has about 20 years old. so i told him to consider a mission. so hopefully he will do so. that would be cool .anyways we then returned to my area and me and my comp went back to work. we went and visited one of our investigators and she told us she didn't want to waste our time so she didn't want us to return. we went in and taught her about eternal families and bore really really powerful testimonies. mainly about the blessings that she could have through this gospel and that is the eternal families. it really hit her hard but still in the end she was telling us she needed time to think. so i gave her our number and told her to pray really hard if this is the right decision. and she said she would call us if she felt she needed us. i hope so. then that night we had our English class which went well. i have about 15 people in class. and then we had our correlation with our mission leader.

Sunday - sunday was cool, in church was a gringo named nick who apparently went to the same school as elder hardy. anyways i was talking with him and he was down visiting a sister missionary who returned from his mission and they served in the same mission. haha i think that is funny. anyways it was cool talking to him and he was a really nice guy. he gave me some good advice to just take advantage of every second i have and to make the best of my mission. so that was really cool. then after we went and visited this one guy named leonardo sanick and he is a really nice. he was telling us last time how didnt have a lot of stuff and didn't have money to do this and this, when we got there yesterday he had a new refi and computer and phone and all that stuff. so we taught him about tithings and about using money wisely. i dont know why people do that. when they get money they just go and spend it on stuff they don't need. it was a lesson for me too that i need to use my money more wisely. maybe for now i'm not suffering but if i fall into that habit, when the time comes that i don't have money, i will do something stupid. i hope to never get to that situation. i try really hard to save as much money as i can here so i can start that habit. anyways that night we also had our family home evening with some members and 2 of our investigators who are really cool. danny and glendy his wife. they are really nice and really cool and all about the eternal families. so we're really hitting them hard on that and making sure they understand that. i didn't know this but i guess the catholic church believes that after this life they will not be reunited and that we will all just be friends in heaven and that we won't really remember anyone from here on earth. danny was explaining that to me, and i just asked him, what is the point of being here on earth then? why would we make all these friendships and love  for nothing. he thought for awhile then it hit him, he was just like, ohhhhh, i see now. and it made sense to him. that was really cool. but really that got me thinking. why are we here and why do we fall in love if in the end nothing will happen? i'm so glad to know that i know that is not the truth and that we will indeed see each other again and we will indeed be a family for ever

i love you guys and i miss you so much. im so glad to be in the family that i have and to have the love that we all have. i can't wait to have my family and teach them these principles. i love you guys and i miss you so much everyday. that will never change. i love showing you guys to people and they love seeing your pictures here. well this week we have changes but we will find out tonight if we are going to stay here or if my comp or me are out. but you guys have to wait till next week. haha. alright talk to you later. love  you.

love elder shipley