AMAZING MISSIONARIES!

My husband and I are Senior Missionaries at the Mexico MTC.  We have enjoyed getting to know and love your wonderful missionaries!  We miss them already!

I thought you would enjoy seeing their district picture and departure tribute.  The music on the power point is the EFY Medley.  Sometimes the music does not come through.

Thanks for raising such outstanding missionaries!  We love them all!

Robert and Sue Jones

Dear family,

Your son is now with us in the mission field and he is ok, we are grateful to have him here.

This is a picture of him.

Elder Call
Secretario Ejecutivo
Misión Chile Viña del Mar
4 Norte 1112 | 68315332

Hola todos,

This week has flown by.  I have recovered from my illness and I am no longer delirious but I did get a sinus infection but it is not impeding my domination of others on the cancha y campo.  Everyone has to get another haircut the last pday so I am bald once again.  The weather has been quite lugubrious this week.  I taught everyone in my district that word and the one thing I dont like about spanish is that it doesnt have huge awesome words like that.  There is the loudest thunder in the world here it sounds like atom bombs and itll rattle your bed at night and make you cry.  And its very frequent its crazy but I love it.

    

 Im the only that hasnt spent all the pesos that they gave us cause Im a frugal little boy.  Im going to splurge and by splurge probably just buy some toothepaste and some bueno bars.  I got my itenerary and our flight leaves at 1155 monday night.  And its an 8 1/2 hour So thatll be fun.  Theres rumors that we miht get to call you for a second but i dont know... rumors run rampant  around here.  Apparently last week Stave Nash shot Kobe in the leg.  

   

Dad I actually do know that Jared Cannon kid.  Hes pretty cool he was wearing a hamilton shirt and we talked for a while and we talked about how we both dont like qualen cunningham.  I know he plays rugby and went to Hamilton did not know you were his dads boss.  

   

We play soccer everyday now with this other district thats really cool and thats where I was given the moniker the Venitian Hammer.  They call me funky beats fresh master cause I always tap on the desk and make funky beats and Im really good at it so yeah...

    

The funniest thing is when the latinos try to say Gardner.  They cannot handle the three consonants in a row.  It almost kills them.  They literally explode.  All the mexicans say that the Chileans speak so fast that they cant even understand them so the first couple months will be fun in Chile.  I am most excited to start eating real food and to not be sitting in a class all day.  I am going to miss though my district especially Elder Ammarait and Ashcraft.  and also the devotionals.  On sunday we watched a devotional by  Elder Holland about missionary work and it was awesome and later that night we watched the Joseph Smith restauration video and Ill admit these blue stone cold emotionless eyes shed a few tears.  I know Joseph Smith was a prophet.  Im excited to leave and I only have a few days left its gonna be awesome.  Heres a picture of the GIlbert crew.  Me Mclane and Ryan. Also Taylor Fish and Kaden Fulmore are here now and I see them everyday.  And heres also a picture of this crazy moth called Mothra thats the size of my head that attacked us as soon as we opened the door this morning and tried to eat our faces off.  I really miss the guitar and carpet.  Havent seen carpet in months and I miss it.  

I love you guys and miss you guys.  Also shout out to Oneil Filloon and Nate Mclaws for being the only ones that consistently write me.  Next time I talk to you guys Ill be in Chile Woohoo!!

Love

Elder Gardner

The 3 Gilbert Amigos ... Elder Gardner, Elder Marshall and Elder Edwards

Mothra of Mexico

HOLA

Sup

This week went by pretty fast.  It was really good except for the weekend.  I got a virus and had a bad fever and Montezumas revenge got me pretty bad and I spent all those two days quarantined in my bed, I was given 3 meals a day and I went insane staying in a room for over 48 hours.  There were 4 of us and yeah not very funny.  

  

I did get your letter mom and weve gotten donuts 3 times so far.  I ate 6 of the ones you sent me and I had a crazy sugar rush and one thing lead to another and I ended up banging my head against an ironing board...  I dont know why it just happened.  Someone in the room next door is playing pirates of the Caribbean on the piano and im typing so fast right now pretty crazy hdfjksdjkfd

    

Everyday after lunch we go sit in the mail room and watch people receive letters and love and when kids dont get anything we tell them that Jesus still loves them.

   

Theres nothing really fun to do on pdays so we had a nice photoshoot this morning lol.  Ill attach the pictures cause they are quite something else 

     

Im still learning a lot but it seems like its starting to slow down and Im tired of the MTC but only 2 more weeks.  Yo se que la iglesia es verdadera y yo se que Jesucristo es el Salvador y redentor del mundo.  Estoy muy agredesido por la opurtunidad para servir un mision.  Yo se que el libro de mormon es verdadero y Jose Smith fue un profeta de Dios.  Etsoy mu agredicido por La Expiacion en mi vida.  

    

 I love you guys and miss you guys.  Thanks Mom and Dad for being the best parents in the world.  I miss you!  Have fun doing stuff without me haha jk I know thats not possible.

Love

The Elder Gardner

aka the Venitian Hammer and Funky Beats Fresh Master

you think im joking but Im not....

 here's the road I walk down every day like a million times to and from mi casa 

Here are the pictures of my bed.  I sleep on the top bunk cause I'm the alpha male

I honestly have no explanation for these... Don't judge me! 

Thanks for the donuts you sent me! and happy belated bday pops.  This last week 3 elders in my district had their bdays so we partied.  Today for pday we went to the Mexico City Temple but we could only go to the visitors center cause it is closed for renovations.  MY spanish is coming along well and my lessons are getting better and better.  

ME and Elder Ashcraft are absolutely unstoppable at bball together, we played king of the hill, where first team to score stays and another team replaces the team that didnt.  We won over 20 games in a row and stuffed some 6´5 kid from Alaska. domination.  I feel great andI am doing awesome.  This week flew by and I honestly cant even remembered what happened.  

I see Mclane everyday, but we dont have the same pday so we cant really hang out :(    On the way back from the temple today one of the presidents that was with us stopped the bus and bought us all bananas from some dude on the side of the road... They were really good.  My day goes like this Wake up a little before 630 and breakfast is at 7. Then we go to our classroom and we do personal study from 730 to 830.  Then from 830 to 12 we stay in that same room and have class with a teacher and we teach our investigator who is one of our teachers.  Then we an hour for lunch.  Then we have an hour to study the language in our classroom and then from 2 to 3 we have gym time.  We usually play some sport.  Then from 330 to 430 we go to the computer labs and do TALL which is a language learning thing.  Then we study and plan until 530. Then from 615 to 930 we go back to the same classroom and have more classes.  We do that exact same thing everyday except for pdays (on pdays we have from 830 to 5 and then classes the rest of the day) and sundays.  

On sundays we have a ton of study time church, and 2 devotionals and we watch a video at night.  We watched the video about some nephite guy during the time right before Christ comes and his dad goes blind. I forgot what it was called but I really liked it and on Tuesdays we have a devotional at night.  

I know the church is true and the book of Mormon is true.  I miss you guys and I love you!

Adios

Love 

Elder Gardner