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1/23/12

Hola bandita!! como estan?!

we finally got a snow storm this week!! yeah a whole 4 inches!! it was

so cool though, it was enough to make a snow man as tall as me!!!

well....thats not that tall, anyway you getthe point!! soy

chaparito!!!

so i dont know if you remember a guy named Sam Torres....he was a less

active that elder freeman and i were working with back when i first

got here 8 months ago!! well we finally got in contact with him!!

yeah! he is doing good, he is working still, his divorce is still

going through the process but man it was so good to see him! saturday

we helped him do some renovation on his house, he has to make another

apartamento out of it so he doesnt lose it, so we put up drywall,

knocked out a couple of walls, painted, and it was so much fun!! in

the process we talked with his bro in law who isnt a member and has a

REALLY bad past, but he really respects the church with his wife being

a member and he wants to really be one, but its been a really big long

battle so we are giong to see if we can baptize him, it would be

really sweet to see that happen! but anyways we are going back over on

tuesday to share a message about faith with him!!

We also had a sweet noche de hogar, FHE, with noe and elvys and a

member and it was so good! elvys and noe are just on fire and they are

really learning, doing what they need to in order to recieve the

blessings! i love when less actives go active! they are so strong and

are so dedicated! its all about love! for 8 months ive worked with the

both of them, and now we have finally been able to get them in church

consistently and doing what they need to in order to prepare for the

priesthood, and the temple!! i love it!!

i also had an exchange with elder lopez and we had a blast!! he is so

humble and we learned a ton together!! such a diligent and hardworking

misionero and i really look up to him! the district meeting that i

planned this week taught us all a lot! i dont know how i did it, but i

related studying for our investigators to a game of baseball, and

demonstrated it in the gym! it was so sick!! we all kind of just blew

our minds as a district, and the spirit is really strong! i know that

as a missionary, i dont study for me, i study for them and as i am

doing that, i will always learn more! the lord is good!!

we started up futbol on friday nights again and it went great!! we had

a good turnout of about 25 people there!! it was good, we all had a

good time, and have 3 new investigators from it! man john and luis are

just a 2 man battle ship! they are bringing more members of the family

to the church, so there is real potencial there! actually, john gave a

talk yesterday en la iglesia!! it was so good! on the libro de mormon!

he has such a strong testimony and everyone was saying and asking if

we helped him, and we didnt do one thing! he prepared and everything!

gotta love recent converts! Maximo also was assigned to speak, and

hahaah basically preached a sermon of the book of mormon!! we kinda

have to let him know about that...he did great though!! :)

as for all of that, everything is going great! jorge lopez, fransisco

borrero, fransiscos perez jr and sr, victor, vivian, yuriana and

jorgito are all preparing for baptism on the 12th and 19th de

febrero!! we are seeing the blessings of the lord here and i love it!

got 9 months left to save souls!!! the work is true, god is good, and

the savior loves us! i know it. and ill never deny it!! DyC 122:7

Elder Gallego

1/17/12

Hey everyone!! ok this week was super nuts! the weather has gotten

just tremendo with all this winter thing and no snow! i dont like it!

but we just keep working! it got super cold this week, i have been

sleeping in pj pants and a lava lava wrap like normal, and am still a

bit cold! but we are surviving.

i just got out of the dentist and got my teef all fixed up and my face

is in a great amount of pain i dont like the dentist, anyways, we have

2 more people ready for baptism, Victor is 10 and his sister vivian is

11 they will both be baptized on the 12th of febrero which is the last

day of the transfer! time is seriously just flying out here, and i

know that my emails have been super boring lately with all the things

that are on my mind and all the things to do, it just super gets hard!

one thing that i have learned this week is the rehabilitating power of

prayer, and how it helps us no matter where we are at and what we are

doing! i have so much faith in my savior jesucristo and i know that he

is there for me and helps me whenever i need him! have the faith to go

to him and ask him for anything, he wants to know!

i also learned something really cool about a testimony, that

testimony- real testimony said by the spirit and confirmed by the holy

ghost- changes lives! it is so true and it is so real! one time, my

mission president just got up and bore his testimony by simply saying,

"He Lives". one of the most powerful experiences with the spirit i

have ever had in my entire life! i feel that my testimony is strong

and firm and founded on jesucristo because i feel his presence in my

life, and i challenge you to do the same. there is nothing better than

this feeling, and that is the truth! he loves us and no matter what

the case is, wants us to know that before anything else.

as we have been looking for more people to teach this week, we set a

goal of getting 4 references de los miembros, and then having 5 new

investigators, well we got the 4 references and we had 9 new

investigators this week! totally insane! the lord blesses us when we

want it and are doing what we need to to get it. i know that he lives,

and because he lives, i live and i live to learn how to get back to

him, and will help as many people as i possibly can in order to do

that, this is his work, i love being an instrument of that work, with

my companion, we are helping change lives, and the blessings are

indescrible.

la obra del senor es grande en si mas si nosotros pensamos que el

adversario se nos pueda controlar- es falso! los quiero muchisimo!

Elder Gallego

1/9/12

Que onda!

this week flew by like no other!! the time out here seems to go by fast and fast every week! we are having a lot of success and have found lots of new people to teach, also something i realized that is my english is getting really really bad, i dont know why, but i am really trying to get a grip on it, it hard when you talk spanish all day long!!

this week, we had about 200+ people in church! pretty insane! we are having success with the less actives, and our retencion with our converts that are new was really good, 11/12 came to church!! oh, happy anniversary mom and dad!! we found 9 more people to teach, 5 of are referencias de los miembros!! the members are the key to having success as a misionero!

also, the new elder in the district, elder flake is so tall!! but he is from AZ and it was so cool to talk about muddin and all that cool stuff, az people are so cool :) oh! so maximo, yeah studd!! he got called as the new ward mission leader in our barrio so we are super stoked about that, he is going to help us a lot, and we now have someone who actually likes their calling! always magnify your calling to the best of your ability, only YOU are called to that posicion and it is because the lord wants to help you learn something! 

there is still no snow here, have no idea what is going on with the weather, but we are just going to keep working hard! it was cool to see all the missionaries on tuesday at transfers, i saw my old comp elder de leon, he is doing good, and i realized the my soa and i are the only companionship that has stayed together for 4 transfers in a long time! my comp is going to be training soon, i know it!! he is a powerhouse!

as for more bautismos, we got the 3 fransiscos preparing, yuriana and jorgito, isaias, and possibly a couple other new ones. THe lord is just pouring out blessings and it is so cool to be a part of it! i love this work, i know that it is true, and that as a missionary i have been able to grow by serving others, and i know that is the part most important because we are instrumentos en las manos del senor! hope everything is good back in AZ and wherever you are!! i love you and thank you for your prayers and support!!

Elder Gallego

1/2/12

Well, here we are in a new year!! philly is crazy on new years!! haha everyone had fireworks!! totally nuts! we had a great time together as a district and it was really cool!!

this week we worked our butts off and had a lot of success with finding new people and working through the new and less active members in our ward but we also had a really amazing sunday! first of all, we confirmed maximo and luis and they were really touched by the spirit! maximo told me that he had never felt anything so strong!! it was so cool and we had a great experience with him and luis!! luis turned his papers in to the bishop and so they will start all of the doctors appts that he needs to get him ready for his mision!  

i also was asked by manny butler, the father of alessandra who we baptized in oct, to bless his brand new baby girl in church!! what a crazy powerful experience!! i have no idea what its like to be a father but i love that little girl (alyanna) like she was mine :) it was such a strong experience with the spirit!! also, they arent moving me yet so i will still be here!! with the same companion too!! this will be our 4th transfer together!! totally crazy!! we are really excited!! 

sorry this is so short we just have no time!! gots to go eat in an hour!! but the new direction to the mission office is

721 Paxon Hallow Rd. Suite B 

Broomall, PA 19008

i love you all and i hope you have a happy new years! make sure to make new goals and write them out! 

Vision-Goals-Plans-Actions            thats what its all about! i love you all!!

Elder Gallego

12/19/11

HEYY!!! que onda mi familita?! estoy tan animado para hablar con uds esta semana!! orale chale calcetin bandita!!

this week was really super busy, we had a ton of stuff that went down!

tuesday was zone conferencia and it was so BOMB! the testimony meeting was so powerful, and i had the oportunidad to compartir mi testimonio! i felt the spirit so strong, and i was able to testify of the reality and the power of love. We have been super blessed to love everyone, and its really hard, but as my soa and i have talked, we have narrowed our success down to love. Its all about LOVE! AMOR! jesucristo es nuestro ejemplo perfecto! i sure do love my family and friends, and i am so glad that the salvador has given me the oportunidad to be a misionero! we watched the movie, 17 Miracles, it made me want to cry like 20 times, i hope i never see it again! bromas, solo hasta despues de la mision! it was super good, so sad, and the reality and sacrifice of those pioneros por nosotros, wow it is so increible!

On wednesday, we didnt have too much, just normal teaching and getting the people prepared for their bautismo! Jeamie was so prepared, and her baptism on saturday was amazing! she was confirmed yesterday, and we really felt like we had done something so good for that familia, the lord worked through us and we were able to accomplish what we had planned, and she will be strong! Also, this sunday we will have 3 more bautismos, Luis, john will be baptizing him! then fransisco borrero (the colombiano) i think im going to, not sure yet haha, then Maximo Saldana (the 52 year investigator) and mi soa will be baptizing him!! it will be so sweet!! we had a sweet christmas party on friday night, had a ton of people show up, and we were able to get in touch with some more new investigators, with some serious potencial!

On thursday, district meeting was awesome. it never goes as i plan it, but man the spirit sure does a lot better haah, we found scriptures that apply to each one of the 10 how to begin teaching points in PMG. great spirit was felt! then we moved, in the rain! it was awesome!! i love getting dirty!! we packed like hillbillies but thats all good we didnt have to go too far! the new apartamento isnt bad! new painted walls, heaters, and its so good! under john too!! awesome! oh, we started the papers for luis to go on a mision! they are going to make an exception for him because he will be 26 before he leaves but its ok, he is willing and will be ready to serve!

saturday, we met an old man in the street, his name was jim, and he said as he saw us he immediatemente felt something different, like what he called an ora of the love of christ as he saw us, great guy he really was so cool, so sincere, i love meeting people like that! its all about love!! he was given a card by mi soa and he let us grab the bus to get to our baptism, ill never forget that comment though, always helps me remember that there is power in our example!!

Yesterday we were able to have 11 investigators in church, i had to leave with elder zegarra, to give a blesssing to a member , and my comp got his jacket stolen out of the church, philly is so ghetto. 2 weeks ago, 4 guys came in with guns and were just walking around the halls, its so dangerous here!! nothing bad happened though, the police were called, but of course they never came. barbaro. Anyway, i hope you all have a great christmas! i got to bless the sacrament with john for his first time yesterday! it went great! he is so excited we live under him! anyway, im out of time, i love you all and Feliz navidad!!

Elder Gallego