September 22, 2014

Lacey:

oh Klay klay, you are mistaken :) haha This month only marks 17 months! So I still have another month! haha but I already got my answer, so imma just open it when I get it ;) hehehe My mom said, "if you get a letter from klay does that mean you will come home to visit??" haha I am glad they miss me. I miss them too, but I'm afraid my car will explode if I try to drive it that far. It's a piece of junk. ha  Anyways did Yanina get baptized this week? :) I hope so! If not, keep working with her :) 

This week was alright, not the best but not the worst. I am still trying to keep up in school... Once I feel like I am all caught up I suddenly remember all the things I have to do for another class...it's neverending. but it's alright, I'm surviving. haha I got 80% on my chemistry test! you prayed didn't you? haha usually I would be upset with an 80...but with this class i'm feeling pretty good ha thanks for praying for me klay :) OH! Tiff moved in this week! I like her, we talked for hours the other night! haha we will have fun I think. She says to tell you hi :) She said, "one day I was sad about something and he kept bugging me until I was happy! and he said, one day you're gonna miss me tiff. He's right, I miss him" haha oh klay, you are great. :) and don't worry I do brag about you to everyone...all the time :) I did talk to elder seiber's girly friend! We can hang out with them when you guys are back, she seems sweet! :)

Quote! This one is from Elder Holland, "When we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with-here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. Some of them gave birth to us, and in my case, one of them consented to marry me. Indeed heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind." This reminded me of you, you have shown me the love of God through your words and your actions, you are an angel sent from heaven. :) Thanks for all that you do Klay, I love you! have a great week! :)

Klay:

these are a few pictures, one has a catostrophic story :( but! it will make you felizzzzz later :) paciencia.  . .but that does make sense. .  .i will be home in six months but i only have 17 right? i am losing my mind ;) but this is a banana bread cake that i made to make my hijo happy. yes it was delicious. haha we cook so much! dont worry i will be doing some better exercises as of now to get into prime shape! haha. i have a challenge for you this week! i want you to search for chapters of the scriptures with prayer so that they are chosen for the purpose of raising up your room mates and to closen them to Christ and during the week, read with each one of them that chapter. challenge accepted? return and report - - - this is yanina, and elder parada is the silly child taking the photo. he was in my first pension. :) what was your answer ??? tell me pretty please? well . . .seeming that you said that you were going to open it right up, i would imagine a yes ;) hehe i love you lace. i will write you a little more in a minute dont worry :) one momentito. hey there!!! i am back! so ya. this is pretty exciting, i have a bunch of people lined up with my hijo that should be baptized, so we are pretty pumped. the hardest part is certainly time distribution. i cant wait to have my wife and my children so that i have them all in one place and i can edify all of you!!! it is so difficult when my responability is an entire city and thirty new converts that live in all sides. i want to strengthen them but it is extremely difficult. but this is wicked practice for the family. im not getting trunky, well. . .any more trunky than i have been my entire mission haha. but i surely want to be prepared for what is to come. i hope that you search for that personal inspiration daily as to what needs be done and that you try with a sincere heart to be able to fulfill such preparation. i am very aware that it is impossible to achieve everything in such little time and quite frankly i want to do the majority with you and not leave you alone. but i desire you to look for small preparations that will make the road a little bit easier in the future. . .i am an eagle scout  you know? haha permanently prepared. for that, i hope that you can be on the constant search of things that would come in handy later, write down goals and plans, keep writing in our journal, reading your scriptures Daily pri-please :) and this life will be a beautiful ride. thank you for trying so hard in school.  you can bet that i prayed for you every night :) i always give myself a good think about you right before bed, and a cry to our heavenly father for you in all that you do. i am okay lacey :) i know that makes you feel better inside to hear it from me and i love hearing it from you, i know that the things keep coming, thats the purpose of progression. it is not good for the woman to be alone either. i will come home and help you. i will teach you all that i have learned and i would like to take a bundle of the same classes as you so that we can help each other. keep working hard and if you arent a visiting teacher, please talk to your president, it is your chance to represent the Lord and act as He would to lift others, we are born out of the water with that responsability. we are not set apart nor sustained, it is part of our blood with the promise of sumersion. thank you for your shining example to me my little hero, i try to make these letters rich so that you can meditate on the words. you have no idea the gratitude i have for you and your support that holds me up though so far away. never have i felt such love. thank you for asking God if i am the indicated. now, wait for your surprise. . .i dont know when i will be able to send it . . . but. i sure do love you. and i know that shes not perfect, but she tries so hard for me, and i thank God that she isnt, cuz how boring would that be?hehe. keep working hard in the work of the Lord, lifting up those that are around you, remember that i love ya always okay? hehe, the Lion of theLord elder KLC hehe

i dont want to sound ungrateful. . .but, can you send me more of your pictures, even some we took together when we were younger? i kinda like em a lot. . . :) hehe

Yanina

September 15, 2014

Lacey:
Hola! how was this week? I am going to remind you before i forget...your dads birthday is on thursday!! the 18th...so tell him happy birthday :)
I didn't end up taking the futon...cause my bed fit in my room :( lame huh? and my mom was lazy and didn't want to go get it when i was moving....i still love her though :) i would love if you got me a horse!! oh my goodness i want to ride one so bad!! i miss chip :( i just miss a lot of people and memories... i wish i had a picture of every day of my life and the people that i interacted with that day that made me happy. Haha then i could remember all the good times. I am sorry that Marcos didn't get baptized...keep working with them and encouraging them to stay good, it's important that they get married the right way so that they can have all the promised blessings that come with being sealed.
Everything is going ok here. Not super great, not gonna lie, but it's alright and i feel like things are starting to get better! i have my organic chemistry test on tuesday...pray for me i need all the help i can get. Thank you for reminding me about what you taught me in high school about prayer and tests. I needed to be reminded! i love you klay! sorry this email was short...nothing very exciting happened this week.. but i am excited to hear from you tomorrow :) have a great week!!! 
quote! "Your future is as bright as your faith"-president monson.ALWAYS have faith that your future holds something better than you can imagine.
I love you!!!! :) :)

Klay:
:) hey! my comps girly friend said that you told her a bunch a stuff about me! haha she said  you are cute and that i am a lucky guy :) i know. . .hehe. here are a few voicemails :)
this week was pretty good, i will be praying for you for your tests lou, thank you for trying so hard for me :) but remember, if you try your best but dont do as hot as you wish you would have, i will always love your guts, just do your best. dont stress more than is necessary and work hard in all that you do. thank you for bragging about me. . .i hope you do it to everyone :) hehe. pride isnt good unless its about your helpmeet, then it is alright.  . .we have a baptism this week of a girl named yanina, she is like 15 i do believe, she is reading a ton but i will pray for your tests if you pray for her so that she can receive a testimony and be able to perservere to the end. . .i luyaguts bug, i am grateful for your example in my life. you are doing great, dont forget to help others as well, buy a random dollar treat for a not so popular girl and just chat with her and lift her up, make her feel good, invite her to seminary with you and make friends with those that are avoided by the worldy jerks that dont realize. thank you for the many things that you do, keep working hard in all that you do, i wrote you a letter today! its a surprise one! full of awesome stuff!!!! one second, i have to send those recordings to my comp. i will keep writing in a minute. 
can you send this one to my family? hehe i love you :) you can listen to all of the recordings if you want haha i wanted to play mind games with my mom on this one hehe. but lace, remember that you gotta stop and smell the roses as well, dont forget to breath :) just work hard and the Lord will make up for what  you dont have. you will see it in your tests, you will see it in your life, you will see it in your heart. listen to the spirit always. keep learning other languages with your free time, i know you wont have a ton of time to master it, but practice and i will teach you the rest when i get back, please please please read, i know if you read daily your scriptures and apply to yourself those things that there is no way that i wont end up with you in the kingdom of our God :) will you wear your spiritual seat belt and read? cuz i love you and care about you a lot :) also dont forget to write in the things and to save our letters and stuff. . . they are precious to me. i hope that you have went to the temple and asked cuz you can open your surprise in 8 days. . .:) but not if you havent asked. i love you little my beautiful faithful friend. from your Elder. klay.
fear not and be of good CHEER :) you are fantastic to me!!!!!!!!! SMILE!!!!
hahaha dont laugh too hard! remember that comb? i hope so :) this is me messing around love your guts!

September 8, 2014

Lacey:
KLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! GUess what guess what guess what!!!!!!!!!! ONLY 7 MONTHS LEFT!!!!!!! :) I'm excited can you tell? School is still crummy, but hey what you gonna do about it?  i went to every class...except two ;) jk I went to all of them don't freak out :) I am convinced that some day school is going to get easier ;) haha but anyways, I added sarah lott on facebook....and sent her a message and i think she is not real, your comp is lying to you about her ;) haha jus kiddin elder seibers. but fo real she didn't accept my request, so yeah, i tried. haha Did marcos get baptized?? With his amazing (i'm sure ;)) hair cut??? i hope so, now go for the woman! Get macarena baptized! :) What about Gabriel? Did he go to church so that he can get baptized? 

I enjoyed your piano playing, song singing recordings :) really, i did, they made me smile :) I love that you sing for me now!! remember how you used to never sing for me? well, I'm glad that you do now :) And I am super impressed that you made home-made noodles from a bag ;) hahaha you are silly.

Also, my answer to your question about if I was fat. haha I would probably be pretty hurt if you said, "lace, you're lookin fat." haha so.... don't say that... unless i'm like prego or something, then it's just a part of life. haha but I wouldn't like you to lie either... so idk. haha just say, "i love you, you look great!" ;) haha unless you are actually repulsed... then you should probably tell me so that i can work out so that you are attracted to your wife. haha so that is my long drawn out answer. Also, i feel like you never told me the thing that your comp kept saying, "i can't remember word for word" haha WHAT WAS IT? 

Quote! "Good timber does not grow with ease, The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." -unknown. So just remember this when you are going through hard times! The Lord is only making you stronger and preparing you for things to come :)

This week in relief society we talked about the second coming. I feel like i must not be fully prepared because I'm not as excited about it as the teacher was saying we should be... haha idk i don't think i will ever feel like i am fully prepared to meet God, unless somehow I become perfect in this life... ha i think once we understand more about it, the more excited and ready for it we are.. Like I used to think that it would be this scary thing...but now i think of how everyone will be better and there will be no sin or wickedness, and everyone will know that there is a savior, it won't be an opinion anymore. so, i am excited :)

I am excited to hear from you :) Every monday is a blessing. :) Have a good week, I am happy to hear your voice recordings cause i can tell that you are happy :) You are amazing, keep up the good work! i love you!! :)

Love lou

Also...this week i am grateful for being able to go to school :)

Klay:

hey you lou bugga !!!! i love you like a crazy guy ;) this week was alright, we filled the font, and had all the talks ready, then he came a few minutes late and then. . . .everything fell. macarena moved back to his house. cuz her parents are nuts. so..  .ya. but they are getting baptized together now. . .i guess that that is alright. i just dont want him to get baptized and then fall off the horse. i want them to have the same blessings that we are going to have. speaking of that, have you prayed yet? :) did you go to the temple ? fasted? i have had a lot of joys in knowledge this week. it was an interesting week having to do with the gospel. i have understood greater the importance of scripture study, fasting and prayer. lace i feel that i should tell you that you need to pray out loud and alone more often. use your voice and listen to your voice when you talk to God. it will change you. also, "i will not know better then, than i do now, that he is my savior. our job is to know him before he comes. because his sheep recognize his voice and follow him and those that dont know his voice will follow in their way. the study of scripture and constant improvement in purity and righteousness with a diligent study and a constant labor in the vineyard make a man or a woman recognize him. i love you little one. study diligently, push yourself to more than you think you can stand and your preparedness will follow. remember, God loves to hear "i am trying but i dont think that i can do it", because he knows that we are about to end a growing phase and start another... i love you lou. i am so excited to be the man you deserve and desire, when we getting married? 9 months? is that it? hehe. i am ready to rob your last name ;) you are my greatest hope and desire. i hope you can tell. ask God. i told Him. i will never be repulsed by you! i dont care if you look like a balloon ;) keep that baby food dang it! hehe they gotta be healthy and strong and they cant do it without it! we need workers and soldiers in this great and marvellous work! you make me happy lou, gabriel has been gone for two weeks, and didnt get baptized, its sad. . .we are working with a big group :) send me more pictures please. . . and also i need you to keep writing every day, studying every day, sending my mom a text frequently if not every day to express our love for them and also to momma C, please :) dont forget them. i will keep working hard here. trying to overcome my weaknesses and difficulties. i want to plant a garden and have a bunch of animals :) okay? i will get you a horse :) and i want you to get thinking up awesome family home evenings and writing them down so that we can do them later on and develop your talents, deepen your love for the Savior and me. remember that a ten in testimony isnt achievable without the everlasting covenant and the confirmation of the Holy Spirit of Promise. for that, dont worry that you dont feel prepared. . .its because we arent. ha. i love you. i will be with you and we will prepare as one. you are my sunshine. thank you for going to your classes for me. it helps us out so much, remember what i told you in high school? prepare as much as you can, pray, and watch the Spirit work within you. God organized intelligence. He will help you in all if you are diligent. i am so proud and grateful for you. you are making this time ever so pleasant for me to know that i will soon be able to apply in its fullness that which i have preached for almost two years in a very short season with you. you are my hero, just keep swimming little one. develop talents, write down everything, save the voice recording and cards :) and thank you for your example to me. SoulMate ;) luyaguts little one. you are my everything you know . . .Elder KLC

for the whittle one :) write down all the animals that you want, look for stuff we need! prepare yourself for the bridesgroom cometh! hehe. im funny. no. but seriously, get the stuff we need if you find stuff on sale and all ;) and prepare yourself, also, if you need money for something, you know where to go, my mother. :) did you take my futon by the way, if not, tell my dad to take it apart for you in a sweet voice and then take it the next time that you are in town. he is a very gentle and serving man. love you little one. 

thank you. . .:) for just. . .being part of my life with me.  .. i am so happy with ya!

September 1, 2014

Lacey:
hey there turbo ;) how are ya? I'm glad that you had a wild goose chase trying to find victor :) hahaha you found him! good job! um... i dreamed with you this week! last night ;) ha it was a very good dream, probably the best one i have had since you left! so that is some good news. Did Max stop drinking tea? Chi never would stop drinking tea... she never understood that... she would say, "i'm not addicted, I don't need it" so she thought that since she wasn't addicted, it was ok for her to drink it on occasion.. yeah idk i still love her but that was so frustrating. I'm so glad that you are learning how to make good pancakes and stuff! I am expecting some delicious breakfast when you get home :) Oh, i haven't sent letters for like a month... because i keep forgetting to go to the post office.. so! the next letter is going to have like 5 letters in it haha so don't think i stopped writing! Don't you dare! ;) i will never stop writing. Be careful with ticks!! don't get lyme disease! ;) haha that's cool that you squished one though, but kinda dross. Hey! tell your comp that I am not old enough to be a grandmother! haha he's making me feel old! ;) jus kiddin. You guys are silly. Are you already getting transferred? Didn't you just get transferred? or maybe time is just passing quickly.. i don't know :) college is hard. just saying. But! i can do it i think. with your prayers...and my prayers... and institute. haha hey where are you going to go to school? Weber? or Utah State? I know you were going to go to weber...but now you want to be an architect...so maybe you changed your mind. Anyways, school is ok. I have been busy this week so that is good! Whit's birthday is tuesday, she doesn't think you are going to remember, so I am reminding you haha she will be 15 and she is going to get her driving permit...scary! When I moved in my landlord thought she was in college... hahaha she looks like a woman. She is sick with a cold...so sad. I am home for the weekend already haha for labor day and birthdays. Your mommy brought my dad some candies for his birthday, she is a sweet woman, i love her :) I hope there's never any contentions between our families...cause i really like that they are all friends haha Quote!! "If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you really aren't ready to be successful." -Kevin Hart. This week I was walking on campus and I just wanted to give up. Already, only a week into school. ha because of my chemistry class, it's just extremely difficult. But i just thought to myself that I have to push through it. I have been praying about it, and today i got this overpowering feeling that with the lord I can do well in chemistry. So my message to you this week is, when you feel like there is something you can't do, you can't give up. Because the Lord is always there to help us with what we need to do. He will help us to be successful, he won't leave us alone. I love you and I miss you so much! I am grateful for the respect and love that you give to me each week :) keep up the good work! 

love lou

Also... you were right! I forgot a quote last week! So here it is :) "The only real mistakes are the ones we don't learn from" -unknown. Mistakes are to be learned from. That is one of the reasons Heavenly Father gave us our Agency! He loves us enough to let us make mistakes so we can have a sure testimony of what is right. I believe that if we are making mistakes it should mean that we are improving, because we are learning. But if we keep making the same mistake....it's really a mistake and is tearing us down. Pray to be aware of mistakes that you are making so that you can improve and constantly become better than you are :) i love you! :)

lou

Klay: lou bugs, remember that not going to class doesnt help the situation ;) turkey, go to the class every time you have it. it will take a lot of the stress away. this week has gone well and we are progressing towards a few baptisms. i cut marcos` hair today for his baptism this saturday and i told him that it was in my blood haha. cuz my momma cuts :) so he trusted me :) i did it all with scissors! it was super intense and difficult. i want you to push yourself in school, but never forget the end of it all. i just want you to do your best and make a difference in our life as you have always done. work hard in this time of school and the next time i will be there with you and we can take some of the same classes ;) so we can practice together. and compete!!!!!! and then i will kiss your hair again accidentally ;) you will beat me in everything as usual. just be a virtuous woman and act as if we are already sealed. that will make things real easy :)hehe. be righteous little one. i dont care about your grades nearly as much as i do your progress. i will write to whit and tell her happy birsday :) lace, you are a champ. just keep working hard, i know that its difficult for that it tries you. but negligence is never the best answer, no man can be saved in ingnorance, but with God if we fall fighting, He exalts us. dont ever use negligence as a route. it will bring you to misery. be diligent in your studies and obsess yourself over it, if you have to just focus yourself in on the gospel and your studies, do it. dont worry about the world that surrounds you, it is a pit. you are my hero lou and my gratitude for your example grows daily. please continue to talk to my mother and tell her she is beautiful from me. i have been attacking her with compliments ;) attack her with me? :) love you my lou. you are awfully terribly beautiful as well. read your scriptures and avoid slothfulness, negligence and pray often to learn self control. i will also pray often to find my faults. even though the lord beats you to the ground. but i need to do it again. he will lift us. i love you little one. work hard aight? elder your hubby :) um. kelsey :)

missya :)

Lacey:

hehe you are sweet. missya2 :)

August 25, 2014

Lacey:
Dear elder kelsey :) that sounds so formal. Haha what do you like me to call you? Elder kelsey? Elder klayton seldon kelsey? Klay? klay klay? Hubby? Hahaha what? We're not married yet.... ha I remember when I would clean and rigby would say, "where's your hubby??" Haha and one time someone was like, "you're married??" Oh good times.
News....hmm...graham came home...not sure why? I heard it was something to do with his health, but that's just a rumor. But yeah I haven't seen him yet so hopefully he is well. Other news...I am moved in to my new home!!! How wierd I have a house. The address is 3456 Iowa avenue, ogden utah 84403. So if you would like to start sending letters here that would be just peachy :) One of my roommates is tiffany christensen...pretty sure you were friends in high school ha but she hasn't moved in yet, she moves in the 1st of September so that should be fun. More news! Ogden has a new temple!!! And I am so excited. Now I wont have to drive to bountiful to go! I am going to the open house in september, everyone has said it is so beautiful so I am excited :) I am thinking that I will probably receive my endowments there!! But yeah I am planning on going to the temple a lot once it is dedicated. Do you get to watch the dedication?
More news!! Tonight elder ballard came to our institute to speak! It was so good. I was going to just write about it in an email but it's kind of a lot so I will just write you a letter :) good? Um...my dad's birthday is in 4 days, what an old man ;) jk not really.
I went to britlees 3rd birthday party on monday. She is possibly the cutest thing ever haha at dinner I had her convinced that there was a snake outside and that it was coming in under our table. She kept whispering, "lift up your feet!!" Haha and earlier, after she was done swimming she sat at the table and ate frosting off of her cake, she said, "come eat my cake with me!" Ha so I ate frosting with bwitwee. Have you gotten ty's letter yet? I sent it with one of my letters...I told him that you should be getting it soon.
Did victor get baptized on his birthday? I am happy that you guys are having a lot of success, I am so proud of you!!! :) and them for making the decision! Keep playing futbol :) haha I am sorry that you dont like it a whole bunch, just write me a letter instead ;)
Ok so there is this dumb thing...but it's for charity so I guess its not that dumb haha it's called the ALS ice bucket challenge and it's to raise money for lou gehrigs disease. So people video dumping a bucket of ice water on their head and then you nominate others to do it and they have 24 hours to do it or they are supposed to pay $100 to ALS. So my mother and whitney have challenged me to do it so I guess I am doing it tomorrow. And since you can't see the video..I nominate elder kelsey and elder seibers, you have 24 hours to dump a bucket of ice water on yo heads! Haha and video it if you can! :) love you ;) ha I hope you have a great week!!!!
Also, happy 24th! :) only 226 days left! :) I only glanced at the stars ...cause ogden scares me at night haha love you!!
Also today I am grateful that I found a house to live in :) what are you grateful for? :)

Klay:
these are a few of the experiences that i have had hahaa. i also took a good peek at the stars :) i hope that one more month has been a blessing for you little one :) you can call me turbo or hoss ;) hahahahaha i am funny. i am glad that you had spent some good old time with my family. you know that that is the greatest blessing for me while i am here. keep falling in love with the little ones and know that their cuteness is in my blood stream :) hmm hmm, this week was good, we spent it hunting down that kid that got baptized! haha. he is awesome, going to be a great priest i do believe. in college, remember, be an example, tiff is a great friend but be apositive influence and a blessing, help her to be strong and she will follow. you guys can practice anatomy together too!!! tell her hi for me, give her a hand shake and all, haha. brag about me a little. if she talks about how dumb i was in high school she is lying . . . :) just remember, be an example. you can save peoples lives. read your scriptures more now that you are gone, pray more and do it with tiff :) tell her that it is a klaymandment :) hehe read the BOM together and establish each other., invite her to go to the temple with you and help her get there. also your other room mates. keep getting your hair cut by my mom :) i love ya little girly. you are my hero! keep writing me erthing :) i didnt play today to write you a letter ! a big one! haha. love you little one.you didnt give me a quote this week unless i read too fast. . .i have one! im not the brightest pickle in the jar :) haha i said that to my comp :) it was very late. thank you for being my special girl! 24!!!!! after this conference i will be coming home fast! wow! swim swim swim! work hard in school, get a ton of friends so that we can invite them all to the wedding and get a bunch of free stuff!!!! from you dear cheap skate street smart future husband hahaa. i love you. our baptisms name is victor avila. be strong and stubborn. stubborn woman is spanish is terca. sea terca louchadorcita. keep swatting them flies ;) if you can send like a message a day to my mom or a couple a week to make sure shes alright, i would truly appreciate it :) dont forget to get people in your ward to get assigned to to do visits! bless them! love you bug :)
hey, and dont forget to keep writing and saving letters, and coversations, sending voice recordings to my family ;)hehe i hope you like that i keep you busy :) thank you for your support lou bugga :) be an example. live a higher level than others. the gospel is a way of life independant of circumstance. we do it or we dont. we are saints or we arent. hard times are there to see our faithfulness to the lord. i love you more than anything my little faithful friend.   there are only two types of latter day saints. good ones and great ones. the rest arent latter day saints. 

August 18, 2014

Lacey:
hello soulmate :) want to hear something funny? and pretty precious? so me and whit hot tubbed tonight and i started telling her stories about when we first started dating..and when kierst set us up and stuff and whit kept saying, "tell me more!" Haha but to be honest i can't remember that much.... which makes me sad. But then she asked me to tell her about when we said goodbye before you got set apart. Well i got about 5 seconds into the story and we were both bawling. Haha and after about an hour i finally got the whole story out through my tears. I think that is the first time i have told anyone out loud! it was hard, because that was the hardest thing ever, i don't think i will ever forget that. You are my hardest goodbye and most favorite hello :) anyway, i just want you to know that whit is cheering for us :)
i am back from wyoming!!!! yayyy! we will never live in wyoming haha i refuse. I am glad to be home, but next week when i am emailing you i will be in ogden again!! What?? already?? yeah, i'm excited. I got a house!! So that's cool, i will be living with 4 other girls...one is megan hall...i went to nashville with her, and i dont know who the other 3 are ha but it's a "mormon girl" house haha so they should all be good girls, i will send you pictures :) oh hey! can i still use your futon? :) i don't think my room will be big enough for my bed so i need a futon. If not i can use whitney's...but i would rather use yours :) if yes you should tell your mom that i am going to take it so she knows it's ok with you :)
i am in the process of asking that special question, dont worry :) i haven't forgotten. I have been praying, i fasted today and i am planning on going to the temple on tuesday. Don't worry, i will only open the package if i have a clear answer :)
how is the teaching going? swell? heyyyy macarena ;) haha i hope her and marcos can get  married and baptized so that they can  be happy!!! work hard with them :) i am excited to read this poem that your comp is writing...it sounds entertaining :) haha oh and i looked up his band! but i dont know if it was the right one.... do they have a song called freight train?
today i am grateful for my memory. It reminds me of all the things you said and did that make me want to wait for you, it reminds me of all the fun we had. I can't remember everything, but the little moments i do remember are very special to me. What are you grateful for today?
quote! "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -marcel proust. So thank you klay :) you make me happy. I recognize myself more when i am with you, i am less lost and confused, life just comes easier with you. So thanks, for making my soul blossom :) love you klay klay. 

Klay:
hehe i love you little one, i am happy that you are happy with utah, we will be living there for a while ;) ya, my dear mother will be chill with it all, use all my stuff :) haha she will help you take it out ;) you will probably need to take it apart, and put it back together, put something soft on top, i slept on it all senior year unless i was in the hammock haha. but whatever your little heart desires. yes they wrote a song named freight train hahahaha. bunch of nerds if you ask me, we are going to be creating a song next p day for yall. we had a baptism!!!!!! BAUUUUTTIIIISSSMMMMOOOOO!!!!! her name is rosa micaela martinez de thames. now it is time to convince her stubborn husband. i am having a lot of baptism that have the name micaela no? haha. i was thinking, when we are married, i want to make a family day like your family has, but we need to get it down to a science, we need to figure out which is the lamest day of the year and then make it our family day where we invite all the family! and make it the coolest day! we will plan deeper later haha. keep telling all the stories that you can remember of us, and as you think them up, write them down so we dont lose em. this week we also have a baptism. named victor, it is going to happen on his birthday! sweet huh! thank you lace for choosing to love me :) i am glad that i make you feel the way that you feel. i feel as if God is helping me out on this one. i truly see that God works upon ones faith and the desires of his or her heart. be the example of the examples in your house. dont hide your light under a bushel nor be the sodden salt along the way . si pasas y no dejas huellas ? porque pasas? if you want by and dont leave foot prints, why do you walk by? people remember the examples of light and try to forget the examples of darkness. leave your legacy with those of the friends you meet. and push yourself in the gospel continually. focus. i love you little one, you are a precious pearl to me. your elder. 

hey lou, can you send this to my family and tell them we love them :) thanks you bugga :) work hard in school! make us cash money! haha but more, prepare for the family ;)
LuYouBug

August 11, 2014

Lacey:

hello dear :) oh how i love you :) i am so happy that i have wifi here so i can email you!!! work is going pretty good, we have all of the field installed, except for the letters! so we should be done by the end of the week! it will be good to be done. Haha it has been good to work a lot but i am really tired, 11 hour days every day isn't fun! we even worked today... no one should have to work on sundays haha that's all that really happened this week. oh! oh my heck they have tons of horse flies here!! and they are so evil!! they just bite you as much as they can ha so i just spend all day trying to kill flies. we started wearing long pants and long shirts so they couldn't get us as much.

How have you and your new companion been this week? get lots of work done? I thoroughly enjoyed your voice recording :) it sounds like you are doing well! how are nahuel's sisters progressing? did you make another goal in soccer?? :) i am gonna have to call you messi if you keep it up! ;) i love you! oh i was gonna remind you...remember that companion that you had that would get so upset at you when you were learning spanish? i just want you to remember that while training your son ha just be patient. Idk how good he is at spanish yet, but be nice to him! :)

quote! "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses"-abe lincoln. I'm not the best person to talk about not complaining...because i feel like i complain a lot, but perspective is everything! we have so much to be grateful for! i think when we are married...what? that we should say one thing a night that we are grateful for! and we should write it down in a book! then when we have kiddos we can have them join in on our tradition :) good idea? but for now lets just do one for every email :) i will try to remind you every week :) this week i am grateful that my mom is a good cook :) ha everytime i leave home for a while i realize how much i miss her cooking!! mama c is a professional chef.

anyways i love you so much!!! and miss you so much. I think of you all the time (no exaggeration) and hope everything is going so good for you! have a good week darlin!!! ;) love love love you!

love lou lou

I am sharing this picture of this coke with you cause the can told me to ;)

Klay:

he he i am grateful for my little soulmate :) have you prayed? in the temple? by the temple? in your night prayers? day prayers? :) i sent your 18 month gift. but you cant open it unless you prayed, asked of God, and He said yes. so .. .please pray :) then you can open it freely as you will. i am grateful that you try so hard :) i am thankful that you support me in all of this, i have never realized the importance in being involved in the kingdom, i realize now that the kingdom of god is what we make it, then christ comes and perfects it and those that have dedicated themselves to it will rejoice with the lamb and reap their reward. i am grateful for your letters and for your sincerity. for you pictures especially right now :) for your inspiration that seems to always give me a sudden deepened understanding :) for your desire to do what you do and do it will and for your patience with yourself :) dont worry lou, i have a ton of patience now and its almost strange. you will be surprised i am sure. i was the most impatience punk back home. . .wowohaha. keep praying and reading. prepare yourself for us okay? i know you arent perfect, thats part of the plan and purpose. i am glad that you are working so hard. my comp is writing you a poem by my command. i feel that you will enjoy it haha. its about flying creatures and hammocks. like those dang flies. . .i will take care of them. write down their addresses, i will hurt them later. :) marcos and macarena came back to church!!!! i am so happy! i want to help them get married and baptized so bad and to go to the temple so they feel as happy as i feel and stop being sad ! you make me happy lou! i am sending you a letter with a letter to my mom too cuz i want you to hug her when you give it to her okay? gracias :) thank you for your example to me. you are my hero, pray for marcos, macarena victor rosa and soledad. they all need to be submerged :) i love you lou, i have less than eight months left. . .wow. prepare. put your drops in your lamp the husband comes quickly hahahaha :) continue steadfast in holy places and help others around you to do the same. dont seperate yourself from them, but be the example and the teacher. they will look at what you do and will try to act like you. you have a great influence of those around you, for that, make sure that your example is in righteousness. love you soulmate!

August 4, 2014

Lacey:

Another week :) hallelujah!!! :) weeks go by pretty fast. I have some sad news... i might not be able to write you for a couple weeks :( i leave for wyoming tomorrow and idk if i will have wifi or anything for my email to work. So if i don't write...that is why. If i can find wifi i will definitely write though, don't you worry :) i am making bank laying turf haha but sadly, school is the devil and it takes all my moneys. Haha and rent. So don't plan on me being rich when you come back haha i will probably have to donate my precious plasma again when i go back to school haha oh well, that's life. I still don't have a place to live and school starts in less than a month so there's that haha i am kind of a mess right now.

Today was my last day teaching my primary girls... they are sweet, i am going to miss them!! it was a good experience for me. I got them their rings as you wished :) and we took pictures cause we had extra time. I taught them about david and goliath today, first time i ever heard that story! ha i tried to tell the story super exciting like so that they would remember it haha they were actually quiet today so i think they were interested. In primary we sang songs and stood in silly positions while we sang haha none of the teachers ever stand up and do the actions with the kids ha but my girls make me get up and do it with them. Sammy said today, "you're still a teen, you have to stand up!" haha it was fun. Oh! my cousin livi got baptized yesterday!! i will send a picture. She is probably the silliest girl i have ever met, i love her :)

2 more baptisms!! that is exciting!! Did you get a new comp this week? if so i hope you are working hard to train him :) teach him that the ll sound is "y" not "ch" hehe ;) Klay!!! i don't want to make you trunky or anything...but HOLY SMOKES!!! You come home in 8 months and a few days!!!!! ahhhhhh!!!!! i am freakin out with excitement :)

Quote!! "Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way" -Gordon b. Hinkely. I think this goes along with choosing how we feel. One of the hardest things i am trying to learn is how people can't "make" me anything. Someone can't make you angry or sad or offended, they can't even make you happy. You decide how you feel in every situation, so i am trying to make that decision happy, every single time! i love you klay!! I am really excited for my voice recording tomorrow! Good luck this week :)

klay klay i got them their rings :)

Klay:

hooorah! love you lacey kelsey :) oh . . um. . .;) those will be some great missionaries because of your example ;) and wives.  . .later. . .

hehe does she still hate me? that little turkey girl? try to talk to me but if you cant, just write me lots of letters :) i am sending your 18 month surprise this week :) i dont have  a lot of time to write today so i am sorry for that. a bunch of punks were playing video games and this is the only place that we can write. but i want you to know that i am raising our first son correctly ;) haha i wrote a lot of letterage to you and i hope that that can make up for the short time that i have to write in the internet. i know that the end is very close. . . every time i write in the night and circle one day closer i cant believe my eyes. just keep swimming lou. did you ask God what i asked you to ask? do it sincerely with all your heart. i love you my little one. i will keep working hard if you keep working hard ;) dont forget your scriptures on your trip and read and pray every night. you will need it. i love you little one. dont get lost in working my dear, keep your heart set on the future and keep your highest priorities in line. know i love you. just keep swimming little one. you are my hero.

Lacey:

i just got to listen to your voice recording...and it made me extremely happy to hear you and your son so happy :) love you!

July 28, 2014

Lacey:
Hey klay, this week was alright. I want to go back to school haha i have no friends here...it is pretty lonely. But yeah school will be good, time passes super fast when i am in school. Good job on the two baptisms!!! that is so sweet!!! i hope nahuel goes on a mission. After edgar got baptized i started talking to him about going on a mission, and last i talked to him he was planning on it!! so that is exciting. It feels so good to know that more people could be brought closer to christ because of one person that you shared the gospel with. So i understand why you want to baptize more boys :) haha but remember the women are just as important, they are the mothers of those missionaries :) which reminds me, the quote! "think of the power of our future missionary force if mothers (and fathers) considered their homes a pre-missionary training center" -julie beck. It was said at a young women or releif society thing so i added in "and fathers" because it requires both. I love this! because i feel like a lot of people wait until the last few months to all of the sudden prepare for a mission, maybe that is why so many come home early. I want our home to be a place to prepare for 18 years of their lives, we need to teach them how to teach, have them give us fhe lessons, teach them how to love, how to be responsible and obedient. Everything that they need to learn before they go :) 
I am going to wyoming to lay turf haha sounds so fun i know. Hopefully it shouldn't take more than a couple weeks though! Klay...i am indian now. My skin is brown. Hahaha seriously though i am probably darker right now than some mexicans. don't worry... my feet remain white. 
Thanks for reminding me to read my scriptures. Remind me every week please. Because honestly i suck at remembering. Usually if i remember i will read...even if i am tired, but i forget. I read almost every day this week though, and it was good. I am reading the bible right now, cause i feel like i don't know any of those stories. I didn't even know why noah parted the red sea..... ;) haha i am funny. Moses :) 
are there mosquitos in argentina? cause if there isn't....we might just have to move there ;) they are so bad here. Hey don't get attacked by any dogs ok? are transfers soon?? i have bad news...i am running out of baptism stickers to put on my countdown sticker page... cause you are a baptizing fool!!! :) jk that is good news, but seriously i am going to have to start drawing in the baptisms, good work klay :) i love you!!! can't wait to hear from you tomorrow :)

Klay:
my dear and precious lace babe ;) you are such a stallion working so hard. my little indian :) you make me happy. read your scriptures. if you do, the sins are very limited. read in the morning. so you can use it during the day. at night there are only dreams and should haves. i am grateful for you. your 18 month surprise is ready. i am sending it in a few days.  when i go to the offices. . . .to pick up my. . . .first. . .  . .. . . ... . . . .  . . . . . hijito!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaa ima be a papi lou babes! finally i will get some high quality practice for the real deal :) it is going to be awesome! i already got a few baptisms lined up for the sprout so that he can start off well. its going to be good. i love your ideas always :) we shall make our home a missionary training center. :) but first off we must be missionaries . . .we cant teach what we dont do. we should try to baptize like once a month! :) put family plans in family home evenings! are you getting bank laying turf? are we ardy going to have our house when i get back? are you rich ? wow. im not. haha. but the mission world is going well. wear your seatbelt when you travel because i love you and care about you a lot. :) keep punting guys :) and when you go back to school, stand in holy places and be not moved. you are my sunshine. i didnt have time this morning to make you a voice recording. be patient for next week, i will send you one that is a little longer. have you written to micaela? send her an encouragement message :) you sent me a message of what i wanted you to do to prepare for me. lace, you are already perfect :) i just want you to be constant. work on always reading your scriptures. pray with God and never the wall. learn of Christ. i trust more in the way that he will form you than i could ever suggest. i want you to focus on us. prepare all that could be necessary. you are working so hard already and none has passed without me seeing. i am so grateful for every step you take towards me. i want you to just wait wait wait :) so that i can have you. remember, the majority of progression takes place together. there is a slight progression with such a distance, but the largest growth will be side by side. hand in hand. i want you to sing a lot and help me be a dedicated servant of the Lord so that i can have you forever. cuz without that, its not possible for a man. the men that work in the church dont do it for themselves, its cuz the help meet makes it all worth it. keep working hard little one. dont forget who you are. do a fast and pray for what God wants you to do to prepare. then take a pen and write, then send me the results :) i love you little one. you are my favorite rib ;) go get cash yo! keep praying for me. pray until God tells you that you are done :) i love you lou bugs you are my hero. i look up to you. keep sending messages to my mom and tell her that we love her. she needs it. if you see her, give her a big hug :) i love you little one. i dont want you to only read the scriptures, but i want you to try to use every scripture in a family context. and write down what the spirit guides in a notebook so that you arlways remember them. then we will apply all of your beautiful inspiration. but for now. just keep swimming ;) and i will too . . . .in the BAPTISMAL FONT!!!! hehe. wish me luck with my baby boy! baby girl a wucho name ;) hhaha remember elder ricks my papi? love you lou. be an example of the believers and make the Lords doctrine yours. live the gospel and dont just have it in mind. luyaguts lou 
you cant open it unless you ask and receive your answer about me. . .:) sry :) hehe. 18 month surprise. . .then follow your answer. 

July 21, 2014

Lacey:
hola dear :) how was your week? i haven't gotten any news that you were killed this week so that is a good sign :) it scares me that you are in a dangerous place... can you get transferred soon? ha no...i believe you are protected :) 
this week... my car broke again, imagine that. I am selling it soon i think, it just makes me so mad. But i got to spend the day at a womens center retreat and i got to hang out with my friend hailey so it was an ok day :) i wrote you a letter about it. Oh, and i got to go to subzero so that was awesome :) it reminded me of you!! 
And that is about all the exciting news that i have, other than that i worked, ate, slept, and wrote you letters :) i taught my primary class today...it was a good lesson, but they talk too much so i really don't think they learned anything. I am learning a lot of patience with them haha they are good girls but holy cow one direction has nothing to do with ruth and niome. Ha oh well i guess the ones that wanted to learn, learned something. i am going to be in wyoming for august so i probably won't be their teacher anymore. I am still going to buy them those rings though don't worry!!
I don't have time to go get my haircut so i cut my own hair today... hahaa i just cut the split ends off....oh goodness. I also cut my puppy's hair today :) hehe i think he looks cute. 
Did nahuel get baptized this week?? i hope everythig went well with that :)
Quote for the week, "in a eorld full of people who could care less, be someone who couldn't care more." the world is in need of people who care... who give their time to others. Who comfort with those who stand in need of comfort, who mourne with those who mourne..i figured out the other day that all people really want is to feel loved. If you don't feel loved by anyone...then that is a sad lonely life. So make people feel loved. Even if you think they could care less, cause they will feel your love and they will listen :) i love you klay, i miss you more and more every day. Don't stop trying :) happy 2 years and 4 month anniversary this week :) and 15 months down!!! wahoo!! don't forget to look at the stars :) 
And p.s. your moms birthday is tomorrow...the 21st... so today when you get this email! just reminding you in case you forgot :)
p.s. it is very attractive when you speak spanish ;) hehehe

Klay:
hahaha thats money :) we are buying one of those liquid nitrogen tanks. :) a little expensive but we will find a discount. 
hi my lou bug!!! how are you! i found your quote last week by the way :) sorry if i was rude ;) i am happy that you are working so hard :) and with your friends and all. keep them close to you and keep yourself close to Christ. remember. if your hand may cause that you should sin, cut if off. if your eyes might cause that you should sin, pluck them out ;) we had to teach that with nahuel. he has a few rebellious friends so we told him he needed to break it off with them. remove the things from your life that distance you from the truth and light. the dog needed a trim ;) haha. you didnt. . .i like ya hair. but rita also got baptized!     it was sweet! we entered into her house for the first time two weeks and a little ago. we said a prayer and she said that her whole life changed from that moment. she was converted by the spirit and she doesnt even know it. but she is great. she stopped smoking before we taught her the word of wisdom because the spirit had been working with her and she is humble enough to listen and submit herself to the will of God. why are you going to wyoming? are you coming back? are you becoming a cowgirl? be careful with the bulls :) theyre fisty :) dont forget your scriptures and something to write on so that i can hear all about your experiences :) our president of the relief society got robbed during the baptism. what the heck. i ran to bust a cap! haha. but lace, i love you like crazy. i hope that you are growing closer and closer to christ daily. are you reading your scriptures daily? if you arent, do it please :) and if you do so i will help make all of your wildest dreams come true ;) you are a stallion. my little hero. my louchadorcita! :) just jeep swimmin! be careful in your travels :) i will be praying for you. im sorry about your car. . .dont forget the hammock rope when you sell it! or the salta sticker haha. remember lace, righteousness, righteousness. i love you little one. take care of yourself. you are loved. Your elder.
luyoubugga!