Letter #12 October 14

 probably one of the funniest things of this week. A couple nights ago, i asked elder reiley ¨"como se dice pillow" and automatically he said "pillow". completely straight faced...we both paused for a second, and then started busting up laughing. haha it was soooooooo funny!!!!!! I think i am beginning to learn how to have fun in the middle of working hard and learning. 

Thanks for all your love and emails!!!!! i absolutely love all of you! thanks for everything!!!!!! Keep praying for me, i know that they help, always. I pray for you too! 

Con MUCHISIMO AMOR

Elder Pear!!!!!!!!

P.s. i bought some deraznos or peaches this past week, and OOOOOOH are they good!!! (because APPARENTLY its not mango season anymore! :O) haha and it made me think of all of you and fruit season. Love you all!!

Letter #11 October 7

Conference was so powerful. We got to watch all 5 sessions, and 10 hours has never gone by so fast. Zac, Jenna, Nic, Hy, Loge, I know that you dont feel like it, but enjoy every second you have to study, read, learn and grow, because right when you start to CRAVE it, is when you dont have enough of it! haha after working out i try to shower and get ready as fast as i can so i can have extra time to study in the mornings, ive gotten it down to 730, but i have a feeling that it is going to get a lot faster!!! why, you may ask?? well, we were cleaning the bathroom today (i REALLLY wish i would have taken before and after pictures, because it was ATROSHOUS!, and now it is NICE!!!) and guess what happened?? Elder Reiley broke the Water heater thingie majiger, so now we are going to be taking cold showers. HAHA and its so funny, because just the other morning, i just wanted to go back to bed, and i thought..you know what i should count my blessings, at least we have hot water that doesnt run out (it heats it up as it falls down) and i would kind of doze in the heat...haha ill find a different blessing to count.

The Lord lives. He is here in Mexico with me, He is with you. Sometimes things are SO darn difficult, sometimes it seems like once we finally get something to be a little bit better or under control, we do something else wrong, or figure out that there are 87 bagillion other things that we arent doing perfectly. I havent figured this out, as im sure none of us will in this life. But i know that when we trust in the lord, and just try, even though our efforts may be humble and seem totally without effect, he will help us. Our savior Jesus Christ, and our Heavenly Father live. We feel there love, we feel their light, we feel the truth through the Holy Ghost. I guess the mission, and life is to show us all our faults, in all their terrible glory, and then show us the way to try and lessen them, try to increase the strengths we do have. I think thats a key. Always remember the good. Take note of the bad, desire to change and constantly work towards perfection, but enjoy the good. Enjoy the beautiful. Love. Believe. Hope. Give. Joy. Faith. Family. Always remember these things, and let them overcome the weakness and imperfections of these life and of ourselves. Our Heavenly Father loves us, no matter what. But he also trusts us. he trusts us. 

ELDER OLSEN!!!!

PEAR!!!

Letter #10 September 30,2013

wow, this past week was pretty rough, i was soooooooo tired all the time, and the language is obviously still hard, and there are just so many hard things in this...i just hope that i am learning what i am suppose to from all these hard things. So i have approximately 2 minutes left. today was kind of crazy. So we had to do 3 loads of wash today, because we had to wash our blankets, so we got up at 5 to do that, then we have to study 2 hours on p days, and then we found a scorpion on the wall of our apartment and that distracted us for a while (ill include photos) and then we got lost trying to find the members house for comida, and then we were there FOREVER! i really dont like when the members keep us there forever...i should be more assertive...and then we were headed back to drop off our groceries and grab our suit jackets before district meeting, and lets just say that sometimes the food still doesnt agree with me too well...so that took a while. haha and so yeah, that is why this is so super short, and i havent even been able to read any of your emails yet...but next week we are going to take at least 7 hours to write. haha probably not, but i cant wait to read all your emails and all from this next week too!! thanks for all your love and support, i realllllly appreciate it. it is such a comfort and encouragmenent knowing that i have an eternal family that loves me and is praying for me, dont stop! the language is coming. i can express myself resonable well, it just is hard because its slow and people dont understand completely, but i can understand pretty much everything, even a little bit more when people are talking to me (that always makes forget every word in spanish) so dont worry bout me (especially you mom! ;) i am doing GREAT! :) i just have to get through the hard things...i am going to start thinking of something i can learn or become better in for every hard thing that i go through. today, DEFINETELY was patience... anyways, i am going to attach some pictures, ill write TONS next week i promise!!!! dont worry itll be here before you know it! (it always does!!!!!) haha i love you all!!! MOM, DAD, ADREE, JARED, ZAC, JENNA, NIC, HYRUM, LOGAN, SPENCER!!!!!!!! AH dont have time, ill attach pics next week!!! they are great!!! haha love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ELDER PEAR

i was just reading a teeny bit of moms letter, and i thought to say ENJOY GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!