See you on Saturday!!

Hey everyone
Thanks for the emails. Everything is great. See you on Saturday!
Elder bailey

So far we have set 4 baptismal dates!

Hey everyone!!

Another week gone and i guess one more to go. It will be great to see all of you!! I don't have too much time today, so this will be a short one. So far we have set 4 baptismal dates here in Antigua. By the way it's the little island with the Rastas and everything. It has been way fun to be back here. And yes i will be going to Colorado when i get back, i need to make money. A dentist appointment would be great. I don't think there is anything else. I hope everyone has a great week. I love you all a bunch!

-Elder Bailey

Hey Y'all!

Hey everyone!!

Sorry i wasn't able to email yall yesterday, the library closed because they didn't have any water. So there have been a few changes on my end. Tuesday morning i found out in district meeting that i would be going to Antigua later that evening. So here i am in Antigua again! We have a sweet apartment where you can see the ocean and everything. But i will only be here for only 2 weeks, my comp is Elder Sinclair from England, i was with him a little while back for a week and now we are together again for a couple more weeks. So this came as a little surprize but its cool to see my old area. No, i never had a black eye. Im super excited to see yall, Lagoon will be way fun especially because we all will be together. Well, i love yall a bunch, have a great week!

-Elder Bailey

Transfers today...I'm not going anywhere

Hey Everyone!!!
Today is transfers but I'm not going anywhere. We have some cool families that we have been working with. The guy we set a baptismal date with hasn't been at his appointments. So, that's a bummer. We had a bunch of people committed to come to church on Sunday but none of them showed up. It's coming down to the wire and i hope we can prepare some families to be baptized before we go. I appreciate your prayers always! Funny story: So my comp and i are walking around in our area and this dude in a van drives by and yells, "Are you from Utah?!" And he drives away. I guess they get a big kick out of that. ha ha. Even though it is a completely legitimate question. But apparently it's funny if they say it to us in English. Then later he drove by and yelled it at us again. So i don't really have any big ideas for the day i get back. It just would be nice to see everyone. And i of course want to go to the full block of church. That wouldn't be such a good idea for an RM or any other member of the church. It doesn't matter to me when i do my homecoming talk. By the way do they want me to talk on anything specific? Also it would be nice to know if i will be released Sat. night or Sunday. Well, i guess that's all i have to say this week. I love you all a bunch!
-Elder Bailey

We set a baptismal date yesterday it was awesome!

Hey everyone!!
Another week passed and gone. I had a pretty good week, we set a baptismal date yesterday it was awesome. The spirit was so strong. Then we found another family of Dominicans. It was awesome, they don't have a baptismal date yet though. So we had a pretty solid week. I don't think that you will have to send me any money. Because im planning on putting one of my suitcases inside of the other one. I think i will throw away a lot of junk that i have accumulated over these 2 years. Well everything is well and good over here. I hope everyone is anxiously engaged in a good cause. ha ha. Anyways, i love you all and have a great week.
-Elder Bailey

Yo

Hey everyone!!
Another week passed and gone. I had a pretty good week, we set a baptismal date yesterday it was awesome. The spirit was so strong. Then we found another family of Dominicans. It was awesome, they don't have a baptismal date yet though. So we had a pretty solid week. I don't think that you will have to send me any money. Because im planning on putting one of my suitcases inside of the other one. I think i will throw away a lot of junk that i have accumulated over these 2 years. Well everything is well and good over here. I hope everyone is anxiously engaged in a good cause. ha ha. Anyways, i love you all and have a great week.
-Elder Bailey

This is a marvelous work and a wonder!

Hey everyone!!

Sunday was sweet talking to everyone. Thanks for the emails as well! Well, this past week was pretty good. We continue to see miracles everyday here in the mission field. Yesterday we walked by this guy working on his car and as we walked by i felt inclined to talk to him. We turned around and i gave him, "The Family: A proclamation to the world" pamphlet. He said that he loved the commercials from the church and liked the message. But he didn't know where the church was around here. So we told him and we set up an appointment to teach him. And i also noticed that his family was also in the car. So, it's a family as well!! Woooo! That was pretty cool. I hope we continue to find more families and set more baptismal dates with them. This truly is a marvelous work and a wonder. Well, i love you all so much! Stay classy.

-Elder Bailey

El Dia de la Madre

Hey everyone!!!!

This past week was pretty good. We are finding more and more people to teach. We found this really cool guy the other day that we will be teaching tomorrow. We started talking to him about the family and how families can be together forever. And he told us of how he recently went through a divorce and he only gets his kids on the weekends. He had been wondering what had gone wrong in his family. It was so cool and it felt so good!! The Lord truly is preparing people for the gospel. So we are starting to see some miracles here, its been great. So this Sunday i will be calling at about 5pm your time, so like 7pm my time. It will be great to talk to you all!! Then the next weekend we will be heading out to the islands for like 4 days i think mainly to find investigators for the senior couples to teach. Well, Happy Birthday Ashlyn!! It was great to hear from everyone! Talk to you on Sunday!!

-Elder Bailey

We had a Luau for Easter

Hey everyone,

This week was pretty good. For easter we had a mission Luau. We ate pig that they cooked underground, an elder from hawaii knew how to do this fire dance thing which was sweet. So, as of right know we have 3 baptismal dates for next month. Im hoping they progress! And we are running out of time to baptise 2 families and rescue 2 as well. The weather actually has been a little bit rainy. But when the sun is out it is way hot. It was great to hear from everyone, i hope Easter went great and everyone is content. I love you all a bunch. Keep it real fam!!

-Elder Bailey

Live Strong -- Lance Armstrong

Hey everyone!!
Thanks for the emails and everything. It's always good to hear from everyone. Excellent work Dad on Robie!! I will for sure do it when i get back. Sounds like everyone has been busy with a bunch of stuff. I have too, we cut our p day shorter today so we can get more work in. Because we have an activity this weekend as a mission. And we still need to get 14 lessons to families and 100 contacts to families to go to it. So we will be working hard. Plus we didn't have a chance to work Monday and Tuesday because we did some ministering to other missionaries in 2 different zones. Which was pretty cool because i got to visit Ponce again. We will be doing that every week now. Well, that stinks about school... I guess i will just figure it all out when i get back. But i for sure want to do the alarm selling!! Well, i guess that's pretty much all that happened. I love you all a bunch. "Live strong" -Lance Armstrong
-Elder Bailey

Last Transfer

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the emails. Im doing good. I dont have much time to write, because we are pretty busy getting ready for this last transfer. All 14 of the missionaries that are in my group are all going to be working in one area, Hato Rey. We will also be visiting the islands twice and doing some ministering around Puerto Rico in the different zones. Im super excited!! We'll all be living in the same house too! Well, as for school... I wanted to go to BYU. And what mom said confused me. So, lets just do the original plan. Take the spanish equivalency test during the summer and try to get into the Y the Fall semester. And i guess during the summer i can do the alarm selling to make money. Well, i love you all a bunch!

-Elder Bailey

Conference Was Great

Hey everyone!!!

This week was pretty good, conference was awesome, thanks for the birthday packages as well!!! Nothing new to report this week. We are still working with the family from Florida, just the wife isn't baptized. We also have some good refferals that we will be contacting soon. Hopefully we find some success in those. Next week is transfers, i don't know entirely what i will be doing but i guess i will find out when it comes around. Something to the effect of visiting old areas but i dont know yet. So, i didn't get accepted to BYU? Well, maybe i can get into UVU as a backup plan. Isn't that what everyone does when they get rejected from BYU? ha ha. Can you look into that for me? I guess for the summer i will be working for that alarm selling business hopefully. I don't know how else im going to make money. Yes, i trained the friend of Dr. Hess' son, but he's not from Boise he's from Las Vegas they just went to BYU together. I guess that is true what they said in conference, that after you serve a mission the next step is to get married. "...men are that they might have joy." 2 Ne. 2: 25. Joy is found in the family, Adam fell so that he might have joy in his family. He couldn't have a family without the Fall. It's the purpose of life and central in God's Plan of Happiness. Well, I love you all a bunch, Amber and Brandon, have fun in Mexico. Everyone else, stay classy.

-Elder Bailey

"Warning Carbon Monoxide!"

Hey everyone!!

Thanks for the emails and updates and everything. So today i got an email from the mission office, i have to give them some information about my flight home. :( Im pretty sure i will fly in Boise on the 18th. The office will probably let you know once they have the flight information. I did get the package last week, thanks for the cookies and stuff! So, here's the update of the week: We haven't been able to return to teach the family, which stinks. Our baptismal date fell. Still haven't been able to contact him. But a family from Florida just moved here and the wife isn't a member yet. So we will definately start teaching them and baptise her. Also, early Monday morning at about 5 we woke up to the sound of, "WARNING: CARBON MONOXIDE!" My first thought, "What the heck is carbon monoxide?" I ran out of the bedroom confused, looking for something wrong in the apartment... nothing. My companion suggests that the fire/ carbon monoxide alarm is just running out of batteries. So, during the day we bought some new batteries to put in the alarm. But to our surprize 12 am Tuesday morning comes around and the alarm goes off again. At this point we are a little scared, what if it really is carbon monoxide? So, we take out mattresses out of the bed room and move them into the living room next to the front door and we bring the alarm with us. We also turned on some fans and opened the front door to "air it out." 3 hours later... "WARNING CARBON MONOXIDE!" "What the...? Still confused, maybe a bit more now. We barracaded off the kitchen, maybe it was something in there. The bedroom as well, maybe it was the AC. We go back to sleep. It goes off again 3 hours after that. Wierd how it only goes off every 3 hours. We call the senior couple in charge of housing and it turns out the alarm has to have a certain brand of battery and that has been on the shelf at the store for less than a year. We felt like a couple of fools, barracading off the kitchen and stuff. ha ha. So that was the event of the week. Im glad yall enjoyed the photos i sent last week. Aubrey sorry this computer im on wont let me see the ones you sent. Well, i love you all a bunch! Have a great week!

Elder Bailey

After a short spaz and freak out moment...

Hello everyone!

This week was pretty good. We discontinued working in Ponce two days during the week, so now we can focus more on our own area. This past week we found a cool family that we are starting to teach. We will be teaching them again today. It's a mom, dad and 3 kids. So that's exciting. I got the package yesterday, thanks for the goodies and stuff! I sent some pictures i hope you like them. One is when we went to get Frappes. They are super good i got banana and coconut, YES!! The next one is an iguana, they were all over the place at the park we were at. The one i was holding was actually a smaller one. The last picture comes with a story... So my companion and i go to visit a refferal of a family that the Bishop gave to us. It was at night time and we go to their house to see if they are there, no luck. So we turn around to go back. I was walking a little in front of my companion and we walked around a corner and i hear my companion say, "Whoa, that's the biggest spider i've ever seen!" "You almost stepped on it!," He tells me. But stopping to look at it, we find that it has disappeared! My companion starts looking around on the ground and says, "I think its on you." Me, "No!" Thinking my companion is joking i look down at myself... I look down to find the "biggest spider my companion has ever seen" on my crotch. After, a short spaz and freak out moment i brushed the spider off onto the ground and we took pictures of it. That was a for sure unique experience. ha ha. So, that's what has been going on here in Guayanilla. Thanks for all the updates of everyone, i love hearing from yall. Brandon, that selling thing sounds better and better, that would be sweet if i could do that to save up some money. I can't believe it snowed over there, Boise is crazy. ha ha. Alexa, congrats on getting your braces off, it feels good to be free doesn't it? ha ha. Well, i love you all a bunch. It's wierd it seems like 2 years is a long time but it seems like it has gone by way fast. It gets harder and harder to stay focused. But i need to endure to the end!! Ustedes son la mejor familia en el mundo! You're the best, keep it real!!

-Elder Bailey

Guayanilla has been sweet

Hey everyone!!

Well, this week was pretty good we set a baptismal date with one of our investigators, Angel. It will be for the 9th of April. Guayanilla has been sweet. We are starting to get some good potentials. There was one event this week that was pretty funny. We were talking to this student of Jehovas Witness and we was like getting angry because we wouldn't say that Jehova is God. He was like, "why wont you say it?" They always seem to bring that up. And Bible bashing with them doesn't get anywhere. It was funny though. Then when i was working in Ponce we set a baptismal date as well. We talked to this Sociology professor who is writing a book about religion. This was the 2nd time we talked to him and he seems pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. We left him with a copy. The first time i talked to him he wanted one as well, but i didn't feel like he would read to find out if it was true, but that he would just read just to know about it. But this time he seemed different. I hope it turns out well and he reads, ponders, and prays. But that is pretty much all that has happened. I haven't gotten the package yet. I did hear about Japan, sorry i can't see the video, White handbook says i can't. Also, i can't enter into the bracket thing because it's another website besides myldsmail.net. Thanks for the pictures of the kids they are way cute. Parker is getting so big i can't believe it. Well, i hope everyone is well, i love you all so much!

-Elder Bailey

Guayanilla!!

Hey everyone!!
Thanks for the emails and the updates, its always good to hear from everyone. The work is going steady. We have 2 investigators that aren't progressing. Right now we are working on finding families as always. We need to teach 20 lessons to families every week. It will be difficult especially in Guayanilla because its a small town. But i hope we find families soon. In Guayanilla we were walking around contacting people one night and we got hugs from 2 drunk guys. It was funny, one was a Cuban who had a slingshot with him and we asked him what it was for and he said it was for anyone who was talking bad about him. And he gave us an example and pulled it back but it broke when he did it. And he was like, "it broke!" It was so funny. Apparently were like his best friends with him now. ha ha. Finding people to teach has been difficult. It seems like the belief that all churches are good and it doesn't matter where you go just as long as you believe in God, is pretty popular as usual around Guayanilla. It seems as though every single person we talk to says exactly that. But i wont go on more about that because then this letter would be very long. That topic gets me going. So, i am still going to Ponce Mondays and Tuesdays and i'm actually there right now doing internet. But my companion changed on those days from the Latin to this one elder from New York. Elder Black, this is his 2nd transfer. But everything has been great! I cant wait to get the package. Let me know what happens with my BYU application. The mission is the best! The Book of Mormon is amazing! I love reading it! I love you all so much! 
-Elder Bailey

Off to Guayanilla!!

Hey everyone!!

This past week was alright. We still haven't found anyone here in Ponce. It was fun working with a missionary that doesn't speak english. I mean i don't speak the language perfectly but it worked out. And i wont be working with him 2 days during the week anymore. I will be with a different missionary. What President is doing with that is everyone in the zone goes to Ponce for 2 days during the week to strengthen that area which is the center of strength. But today im going to Guayanilla, which is still in the same zone but in the countryside. My new companion is Elder Gordon from Magna, Utah. It should be good im excited to work there. President told me he wants my new comp to train in the future so i will be working with him to prepare for that. We have a car but i think im going to use the bikes as much as possible, because we can talk to more people that way. Well i hope everyone is doing good. Sounds like that alarm selling is sweet. I would love to do it to save up some money for college. I got my ecclesiastical endorsement and everything done so tell me if i get into BYU! Well, only 2 transfers left! time is going by so fast!! But im not going to get trunky. I hope i can keep working hard till the end. Let me know what's going on in the sports world. I love you all a bunch. You can send me a package if you want with some goodies in it. That would be fantastic! Well, i hope all is well. Remember D&C 122:7. Maybe just read the section, im not quite sure on the verse. I love yall, Peace!

-Elder Bailey

End of Transfer

HEY EVERYONE!
Finally got a pic for you all. That's in the plaza of Ponce, its called, "El Parque de Bomberos". Its an old fire station that is now a museum. Ponce is a cool place, but the work is hard. We don't really have any investigators right now. The guy with 6 fingers and toes says he wants to stay catholic, haven't heard from him since. We do have some potentials but nothing solid yet. The other picture is of Elder Zepeda, my companion Mondays and Tuesdays, he's from Honduras and doesn't speak any English at all. Also, doesn't know how to ride a bike very well, he learned here in the mission. Its kind of scary to watch him ride especially when we are right next to a freeway! Well, i haven't filled out the BYU application yet, I'll do it today. Congrats Brandon on making it in the PR program. Also, i was thinking maybe you could check out some schools in Utah, just in case. And see which ones have a good med program. Let me know what you find. I love you all a bunch! 
-Elder Bailey

We have 2 investigators!

Hello Everyone!!
This past week was alright, sorry i still don't have pictures. We have been struggling to find families to teach. We have a couple investigators that we are currently working with. No baptismal dates. Hopefully we find a family soon! We have 2 investigators that said they want to be baptized. But they want to wait like 2 months. So we are still trying to work with them. It all depends on whether they receive an answer that the Book of Mormon is true. Because if they receive their answer they wont need any time to prepare, because they are prepared. So that's what is going on with the missionary work. Dad, i was wondering if you ever resolved my debit card problem. What's going on with that? Do i have money on my card? Keep me updated on sports and the BYU thing and anything else that goes on. I was also wondering how i am going to pay for school and stuff. I might have to take out a loan or something. Maybe you could check that out for me. I love you all a bunch!!!
-Elder Bailey 

Ponce es Ponce los demas son parking

Hey Everyone,

Well another week has gone by. We have been working hard to find families to teach and baptise. So far we only have one that we have been working with. We had one baptismal date with this one guy that has 6 fingers on both hands and 6 toes on both feet. But he told us the other day that he doesnt want to continue with us. He said that he wants to stay catholic. We think his wife had some influence on that. Well, we are going to continue searching, I want a family to baptise!!!! That's pretty much all that's been going on, and yes they still speak spanish here. It is still part of Puerto Rico. I still dont know the address but we live near the church. So maybe you could look up the church building on the church website. Its on the street Las Americas in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The ward is Ponce 1. So, if you look that up, that's the area where i live. I still haven't received any information on the application to BYU. Sorry i haven't taken any pictures of the area yet, maybe next week. Bikes have been good it has been getting pretty hot down here. Its the hottest area in the mission. So far everything is good! Aubery, that's crazy that you met a guy that served in Puerto Rico. Do you remember what his name was? Well, let me know if anything else happens. I love you all a bunch!!

-Elder Bailey

I was sick yesterday!

Hey everyone!
This past week was alright. I was sick yesterday, but im all good now. We had district meeting in the morning yesterday and my stomach hurt but i thought it was because i hadnt eaten. We came back to the apartment after the meeting and i almost threw up but we decided to head out anyway. We came back for lunch and right when i got off the bike i threw up, Choco Kong cereal all over the front yard. It was just as chocolaty the second time. Yesterday stunk though, my body was super achy and weak. But im much better now. Oh and it turns out i am district leader! They divided the old district into 2. So thats cool. We only have one baptismal date so far. We just got to work on getting him to church. We also have some other people that we have been working with.  Ponce has been good though. Its the 2nd largest city in Puerto Rico. And we work in the central part of it. It has been pretty different than the last areas that i was in, because im in a different zone and we ride bikes. I dont have the address for the apartment, but i will send some pictures soon. I dont really need anything right now, and my contacts are still good they should last until i get home. Keep me posted on sports and how the BYU stuff is going. I love you all a bunch. 
-Elder Bailey

Im in Ponce

Hey everyone!!

Transfers were today and i got transfered to Ponce. I dont have a car anymore, we got bikes and we are walking. Im super excited though! Im not distict leader anymore. My companion is Elder Kenison from Utah. Thanks for researching the school stuff for me. I want to try and get school going as soon as possible. I guess the visiting student will be the best so i can work to get credits to be a transfer student. I dont remember what my Net ID is. Thanks for doing all that stuff for me i really appreciate it!!! Well i hope everyone is doing well! Thanks for the emails i love you all a bunch!!

-Elder Bailey

Some Pics!

Hey everyone!!!!

Thanks for your emails and stuff, its always good to hear from everyone. I attached 2 pictures, one of a waterfall in El Yunque and the 2nd one is a puertorican parranda. President arranged all that for our Christmas party. It was super sweet! This past week was alright, Sunday we only had 2 investigators in chruch, which was a bummer cause we were expecting 11. Thanks for updating me on college football. That's awesome that BSU destroyed Utah. Well, i hope all is well with everyone i will keep you in my prayers!! Amber and Brandon, sounds like Disneyland was sweet, im sure the girls loved it. On the BYU situation, just let me know what happens with my transcript and see when i need to have everything done by so i can get in for the fall semester. Well, everything is chill here, we're going to be playing ball later so im excited for that. We also have another leadership meeting today and tomorrow, it should be good. I love yall a bunch. Talk to you next week!!

Elder Bailey

2011!!

Hey everyone!!

This past week was good. We had a less active family come to church on sunday. They have a son that needs to be baptized so we have been working with them. But none of our other investigators came to church, that was kind of a bummer. So yesterday we had our interviews with president. Im going to be staying here in Guayama this next transfer with the same companion. We also talked about something that the group that i came out with and i will be doing at the end of our missions. So, my coming home date has changed from the 25th of May to the 18th of June. We are all going to extend 4 extra weeks. We are basically all going to be together the last 10 weeks in the same area. And we are just going to tear it up in there. Everyone in our group has been leaders so im super excited for it. And the 18th is a Saturday so that will be a little wierd but it will have to work. Also, i wanted to check with yall to make sure it was alright i dont know if you had any specific plans or anything. Let me know. Also Brandon, hook me up with some info on BYU!!!! I give you permission. ha ha. I love you all so much! Stay classy!

-Elder Bailey

Feliz Nuevo Ano

Hey everyone,
So, this past week was sweet! It was great talking to everyone and also getting all the packages for Christmas. This week was actually pretty as far as the preaching of the gospel goes. We set a few baptismal dates, but on Sunday we didn't have any investigators in church. Which was kind of a bummer but we still have a ton more potentials as well. So i think we will be having quite a few baptisms coming in the future. We are reactivating a family who seems pretty cool. And one of them hasn't been baptized yet. So everything is going good here. Our apartment has been falling apart recently. Our washing machine broke today and our air conditioning broke as well. At least we still have our car though. So, did yall ever find out any more information about BYU? Maybe i could get into the summer semester or fall. I dont know, get me some info. on when my application needs to be in. Well, i love yall a bunch! Have a great new year!!
-Elder Bailey

Navidad

Everyone!!!

Thanks for your emails and i did get the packages. Im in the mission office right now. This day has been crazy fun! We woke up at 4 in the morning and we have been doing tons of stuff all day. We went to El Yunque which is a rain forest in puerto rico. And we hiked around in there and there was like waterfalls and stuff it was way sweet. Then after that we went and did like a spontaneous choir in a mall. We were like eating and stuff and when we finished we got up spontaneously singing, all 200 and something of us. Then we came back here and played some basketball. Tomorrow we are going to do some more activities. But ill talk to yall on saturday. By the way you guys can just go ahead and call me at 4. Because we were told we could do that. So here's our number 787-553-4471. Cant wait to hear from you! I love you all and Merry Christmas!!!!

-Elder Bailey