Areas and Companions

ELDER BRADY LESTER – AREAS AND COMPANIONS

1^st Area:  Huacaltzingo :  January 28, 2011 – May 30, 2011

1^st Companion and Trainer:  Elder Villaba, from Chihuahua Mexico – January 28^th - March 7^th

2^nd Companion:  Elder Lumbreras, from Mexico - March 7^th – May 30^th

2^nd Area:  Castillotla:  May 31, 2011 – December 2, 2011

3^rd Companion:  Elder Rojas, from Peru - May 31^st – August 22^nd

4^th Companion:  Became Senior Companion to: Elder Escamilla, from Sonora Mexico - August 22^nd – December 19^th

3^rd Area:  Centro – Center of Puebla:  Elder’s Lester and Escamilla were transferred on December 3, 2011 – December 19, 2011

4^th Area:  Apizaco – District Leader: December 19, 2011 – March 20, 2012

5^th Companion: Elder Estevez, from Tijuana Mexico

5^th Area:  Chignahuapan – Branch President:  March 20, 2012 –  June 18, 2012

6^th Companion: Elder Cano, from Sinaloa Mexico – March 20^th – May 7^th

7^th Companion:  Elder Rojas, from Peru - May 7^th – June 18^th (not the same Elder Rojas from Castillotla)

6^th Area: Tlaxcala – Zone Leader:  June 18, 2012 – September 2, 2012

8^th Companion:  Elder Nuncio, from Mexico - June 18^th – July 23^rd  

9^th Companion:  Elder Lopez, from Ecuador - July 23^rd – September 2^nd

7^th Area:  Puebla – Assistant to the President, AP, with Elder Lopez:   September 3, 2012 – Present

Mexico Week 87: Numbers of Excellence

Hey Family!

Thanks for your kind letters and words. I love you all and sounds like you all had a great week! Sounds like school is going great and work too.  Congrats Kolby for getting your job, hahaha. Hey Kasey, where do you work again?  Hahaha I forgot. Well anyways sounds like everything is doing just great. 

Well not a lot has been going on in our area. We have planned a lot so that we are working in our area at 6-9 pm each day.  We are going to be working every single day with the Missionaries in the Mission to help them and see what we need to help them and better the Mission. We have a lot of plans going down. We have Zone Conference coming up and my topic is the Atonement. It’s going to be difficult but I have been doing a lot of study and a lot of learning. It’s been fun. 

We are going to be talking a lot about putting numbers of excellence. We are trying to work hard on bettering the numbers in the Mission. We hope that we can get a lot of work done. This Mission is going up and up each week and we are really excited for what is going to happen in the future. 

Well I am sorry I don’t have a lot of time. I don’t have a lot to say either. I love ya tons! Hope that everything goes great!  Can’t wait until we see each other. Time is going by really fast. I love the Mission! It’s great here. I am learning a lot but I have learned that time just flies. 

Con Amor, 

Elder Brady Lester

Release Date and Travel Itinerary

We have received Elder Lester's Release Date Letter from the Mission President and his Travel Itinerary. I can't believe that I have this in my hands and our Missionary Boy will be home so soon.

 

Mexico Week 86: AP Work and New Investigators

Hey Guys!!

Thanks for your letters!! It’s always great to read them and learn new things hahaha...like Brinkley having a boyfriend ;)  Sounds like everyone is doing great.  Sounds like everyone is working hard and making money hahaha! Awesome! I am glad Braxley is keeping up with the saxaphone.   

Things here are going pretty good.  We have some more work going on in our area now. Hahahaha, we have 2 investigators and actually they both want to get Baptized, we just need to keep working with them so that they are ready to make this Covenant. Their names are Juana and Linda. 

Well this week has been pretty busy.  We have been working hard trying to get some new stuff going on in the Mission like training meetings and stuff. We are really trying to work on planning here in the Mission. My comp and I will be working with the Zone Leaders the next couple of weeks to help them plan good and train their zones. This week we found out that in the whole Mission we only baptized 40.  Hahaha, we are the second smallest Mission in Mexico now and we don’t Baptize a lot.  That worries us a lot but we are working on it. It seems like this month we are going to Baptize quite a bit as a Mission but we still need to get better. 

This week we will have a lot of work to do. Tomorrow an Elder is going home for some stuff. We are getting an Elder back who went home for surgery.  On Wednesday we are going to lose another Elder who is going home for surgery too on his foot.  Hahaha, we have a lot of moving around and we need to organize it all and take some Elders to their new areas. We are also planning on dividing a zone that is really big. That means we will have 6 zones in our little Mission hahaha, and each zone will have their own Stake. A lot of good things are going on right now. 

Well there is not much else to report.  I am happy and loving life. Hahahaha, soon I will be home which will be exciting but I am getting nervous. I hope things will keep going good. I just need to trust in God and do what my heart tells me.  I hope everything is good back home.  Love you all and hope that you have a great week!!

Con Amor, 

Elder Lester 

Last Package

Last week Brady did receive a very expensive Fed Ex package with his drivers license and a tie. Brady had his wallet stolen last year and I forgot to order him a duplicate drivers license. When he was called to be an AP he needed his license so he could drive the Mission vehicle. I paid for an expedited drivers license and on September 5th went to Fed Ex and paid to have it sent overnight to Brady. Since it was Brady's Birthday the next day, I also put a tie, a pair of contact lenses, and only had a enough weight left for one gatorade drink mix packet. I was so excited for him to get the package on his Birthday, and in less than a week from when he notified me of needing his license. But the expensive overnight delivery didn't work because the package was stuck in customs in Mexico due to the fact that I had the contact lenses and the gatorade packet in the package. So I had to email a letter to Fed Ex International in Mexico and give them permission to open up the package and to remove and abandon the contact lenses and gatorade packet. This took several days and then finally Brady was able to have his package delivered to him on September 14th. It was still quicker than using the regular US mail service but it was very expensive and apparently you can't send packages to Mexico with those items because health paperwork is required.

I'm glad to say that not one US mail package that we have sent to Brady has had an issue being delivered to him with all the goodies and such, and I'm hoping this last package has the same good results. It may take three weeks to arrive to him but it's always been in good condition and nothing has had to be removed.  

This is Elder Lester's last package:

Popcorn - I haven't sent him popcorn for the microwave before even though it's his favorite because he hasn't had a microwave, but I was hoping since he's an AP now maybe there is a microwave in the Mission Offices or Mission Home close by. Oatmeal, Coconut Chocolate Chip Clif Bars, Gummy Worms at the request of the Office Elders, Protein Bar, Pistachios, Peanut Butter M&M's.

Brady's favorite Lindt Chocolate Bars, a Razor, Beef Jerky, Protein Bar, Gatorade Chews and Gatorade Drink Packets, Jelly Beans, Contact Lenses and Case, two Toothbrushes and Paste, A Backpack Rain Cover which he has needed his whole mission - haha! Jolly Ranchers and his favorite Hot Fries that goes in every package.

Kolby's Note

 

 Braxley's Note

 Kasey's Note

 And here's to hoping the Virgin Mary protects this last fun package for Elder Lester.

 

Mexico Week 85: Assistant Agent Lester

Hey Family!!

Thank you all for your letters and for the bday wishes last week. It’s been a fast week but very tiring. Really not alot got done on the teaching side of things. We started the week off with the new Elders who got here. We were in the mission home all day Monday and Tuesday training them with the President. It was a great training. I learned alot about the importance of being a good example for the new Elders because they need it! We got 3 from Mexico, 2 from Guatemala, 1 from the Dominican Republic, and one from Ecuador. We also got 14 from the US on Tuesday. The great thing about this is that we got to eat and sleep in the Mission home for 2 days hahaha. We also said good bye to the 2 Missionaries who finished their Missions and are now home! 

This week, just to sum it up has been like an FBI kinda week. (Brady told me that his companion made Agent name badges as a joke for him and Elder Lester because of all the investigating they've had to do this week). We have been dealing with alot of disobedience and we have been working real hard to help out the Elders. We had to break into an Elders home to look for some stuff and he might be going home soon. I don’t want to write about all the details but I am sure that when it is like this I won’t be writing much because I can’t...it’s better not to know about it. We hope to start working real hard. We have no investigators so we are starting from scratch hahaha. I hope that we have alot of success. I hope to be able to have better stuff to write about next week. 

I love you all and hope that you all have a great week!! Just to let you know I am getting hemorrhoids but I am watching it carefully. I have had some blood while going to the bathroom but nothing too serious. I will be fine so don’t get too scared hahaha. I love you all!! 

  

Con Amor,
Elder Lester