Elder Jesse Kevin Stauffer

Hey family dang it has snowed a ton, thanks so much for all the pictures mom that is great...  And ya I would like them in my packages now too.  Now we will be gettng all of our packages on tuesdays instead of mondays, so that is something new for ya.  And i wont be getting a transfer for at least six more weeks maybe even 12 weeks.  But we will see you never know.  That is awesome that you all got to go to dinner together at the  praie scooner.  I remember that i used to always bug you guys with the light that they have there, i would turn it up and down. haha hope you all missed that ...  i still can remember the food there, and miss a huge steak so bad, it is unreal, i could use a huge 32 oz. steak right now.  Today  for p day we are going to be cooking things from our country, so all the gringos will be making brownies and something else and then all the elders from guatemala and costa rica are gonna make something together and then all the south americans are gonna make something together, so it is like a day when all the parts of america are gonna make their type of food, so we will see how it goes.  This week we didnt have church so we couldnt baptized anyone kod to answer your question because when someone gets baptized it is better if the next day they get the gift of the holy ghost, and we didnt have church because of the president elections so next week we will have like 11 baptisms, and we have one.  Man i am so excited for her though, because on thursdsay we did our fast as a zone and then on friday we went to the temple and then on saturday we went to carlas house to talk to her mom and see if she would finally give her permission... because carla is angels sister that i baptized with elder vasquez, and then angel said hey why dont i just take the form up and see if my mom will sign it now, and man she came down with the signiture.  It was awesome, and the Lord answered our pray that same day.  Man I have learned to pray more often in my mission, before the mission it was just like ya i gotta say my prayers to say them, and always recieved blessings but never recogized them, I have learned to recognize the blessings now.  And man it was awesome.  So carla is so happy to be able to get baptized, so I will try and plan the baptism really good for her.  That is funny about the driver that quit, but hey thats fine, no big.  Alot more people that are looking for jobs.  And thanks for all the pictures again, it was awesome to see how chubby payton is still, hahah she has grown up a ton.  And bt smiles like his mom haha so on fridays we always play soccer at the stake center and there is a little bit of extra grass there.  And a convert to the church that is like 18 came to play soccer and then when we were all leaving he said hey stanford, cause that is what they all call me because there is a notebook company down here that is called stanford and they all have to buy like 15 notebooks each for school so they all know that name and that is what they call me, but he said hey stanford when are we gonna play football,  (futbol americano)  and i said right now ill teach you how.  And then i sat and taught him and he was like ok lets go. I taught him his 3 point stance and how to fire off the line and just try to drive the other guy back.. Well he wanted to play, and so I said okay and we went and I just went like half speed and he kinda got a little fired up and was like okay im ready and then he wanted to go again and so I was like okay whatever you say and we did it the second like and still went like 50 percent and threw him to the ground and man he was like okay this is mine, lets go again, and man he got kinda fired up for this one, and man i said if he wants to do it 3 times Ill show him on this one.  Man I gave it to him.  Everyone was watching us and were like dang he just got his butt kicked, it was so funny and then I helped him up and he humbled himself a little bit.  So my companion was laughing so hard at me, he was like man you killed him..... hahah but you know me, when someone wants to go, they have there personal agency right?  It was awesome to feel the football juice again, and now I can make it for another year without playing.  haha thought that I would share the story with all of you.  So the mission is awesome and flying by, feels like yesterday that I just wrote you all ..  Elder armijo is elder armijo, known in the mission for being the most un humble missionary ever, and I have to deal with it, but it is teaching me alot and how I dont want to be... haha and just trying to make it through it, without doing anything that would affend the Spirit.  And he thinks that he is the next assistent so we will see if that happens.....  but yesterday we went to bello horizonte to eat lunch with our old pensionista, Claudia, she made me my favorite, fried chicken o man her fried  chicken is something else.  And we watched a show that is called one good man, you have to see it.  It was a awesome show, you should all watch it as a family, so you have to watch it as a family, not just mom and dad but ALL OF YOU....  do that for me...  well I love you all very much, finished up my package and I am going to send it today, so be looking for it please, it is like a white brick, so love you all very much thanks for everything mom...  write me... jesse. ps i forgot my camera again, sorry :(