Brothers

Thanks Pray for me if this is all I get to type haha sorry I just got down reading all your emails I teach two families tomorrow one abut lesson2

OK sorry i will say one story this family we taught all of lesson one last week and they want to know more and it was a really great lesson and we want to do the best we can sorry I will do the big family email next week first my next email is in Uruguay!!!

Elder Fitzgerald

Ok Crozier I think you should dress up as a prophet! That would awesome set an example for the rest of the school. hah jk You can be whatever you want. That is so cool that the play is going good so far when is opening night?

Jason I am so proud that you ate the Big Jud that is something i never accomplished before my mission. Everything is going good down here :) It is weird that this is my last week here in the MTC. I only have five days left I think and Mom we dont get to call home :( Sorry. Well Jason I cant believe you are in highschool that is so weird and you have been there for a few months now! Is Chris your best bud there?

Christopher I am so glad that you won your football game! I remember how it felt to win our football games in 5th grade it was a great feeling. How was the Halloween Dance with corrine? Argentina is great! We have taught alot more people recently. Chris I want you and Jason to practice sharing one of the lessons in preach my gospel at least every month for family night I think that would have helped me so much! Mom Dad crozier you should come up with different situations for them do it the second monday of every month :) if you want but it will be so good for ya to do. I am so excited to be out in the field and meet my first companion I hope that I am a blessing and not a burden. Ok brothers see ya I got to write my letter to the whole family now :)
Thanks for writing me and Melinda. Oh Chris tell the guys I am doing Great and Tell Paul Tim Ryan and Troy that Spanish is fun and Tell Ryan and Troy that argentina was a great experience. Tell Craig that Denmark I am sure is just as awesome. ok Bye

Elder Fitzgerald

Press Forward With Steadfastness in Christ!

Well that was so nice to hear about David and his wife Brandy. Sounds like it was a fun and inspiring trip :) Well last saturday was kind of hard when we went proselyting. We went to visit Guillermo and he said he didn´t want to listen anymore. We told him what a difference it could make in his life but he just walked away from us and went with his friends and he looked like he knew it was true but his family is Catholic and his friends are Catholic. My companion said it pretty well. During the Vision of the tree of life there were some who had eaten of the fruit and they still went and joined the ones in the great and spacious building. Well I know one day that he will be a member of the Church and I hope that day is soon.

Well good story our other Cita went through and it was great!! it lasted about 30-40 min. long and we taught all of lesson one and it was to a a guy who had been a catholic minister for 10 years!! When he siad that I got really scared I was like this whole conversation is going to get weird, but the spirit was there and we went through everything he was really interested in the Book of Mormon and he is going to receive lesson two because these next two weeks we are going to a different area.

Mom I leave not this tuesday but next tuesday and I don{t think we get to call :( but maybe I will tell you for sure in my next letter! Ya so I dont have alot of time left here it is so weird!! I am excited to do this everday! Well thanks for your support and I love you all I am so glad to do this work for God and for the people and bring them the restored gospel. We are so blessed!! Love ya Family!!

Elder Fitzgerald

Guillermo

Hey family it is nice to speak with you once again :). So I have exciting news this is the best thing that happpened in this week. The appoinment went great!! It was actually really intimadating. Guillermo was there, but his friends were there too. They all had piercings and stuff and just dressed like they didn´t want to hear anything we would want to say. But we started and I was thinking ok don´t mess up and I don´t know what it was but every time I talked They started laughing I don´t know if it was accent or if I was saying things wrong and some people told me that when I teach my eyes get really big and so maybe it was that to. I felt so bad though that they would always laugh when I talked. Guillermo though he told them to stop laughing and to knock it off basically then he looked at me and smiled and that made me feel really good. I then bore my strongest testimony on the book of mormon that I could with my knowledge of spanish. So did my companion. Guillermo commited to reading the Book of Mormon and he wants us to come back this week!!! We get to teach lesson two I am so excited I really hope everything goes ok :)!!

Melinda I loved your experience with your investigator. I hope Guillermo has that same feeling that yours had. I love your excitment for the work as well.

Thanks Mom and Dad for the home you raised us in. Really you are the best family guy could ask for :)

Chris got asked by two girls!!! Chris haha thats awesome! I hope you have a blast! You will have to tell me how it goes whos in your group?

Oh Ummm I don´t know what I want for christmas? actually ya I do haha ok so other short sad funny story. So you know how I brought my glasses well the other day we were playing soccer and the ball hit me in the head and the frame broke. They went and fixed it but it is bent still and is crooked on my face and stuff for eyes is expensive down here. Is it possible you guys could send me some more contacts? I have been using my one pair of contacts. So that would be nice. I like Sister Fitzgeralds Idea everyone send me your testimony about Joseph Smith though and Why and How you developed that and in Spanish haha ok not the spanish part. But that is what I would want.

The Language is coming great I think haha. We have had only Latino companions for the past six weeks and the new group just came in and we have latino companions once again. We talk to them for about a half hour every night so it helps alot.

Thanks for Everything Family,
Elder Fitzgerald

The Work Moves On

Mom thanks for the letter. Ya we got to listen to conference it was a very great day I really liked all of the talks I really liked Elder Hollands and Elder Bednars and Elder Uctdorfs talks they were so good I thought. I loved Elder Hollands testimony about the Book of Mormon. I thought it was very powerful and Elder Uctdorfs about love and Gods love and how love is what keeps everything going. That is what me and my companion are focusing on now is love for the people and so that talk was really nice and helpful. I love Elder Bednars talk to about families that was really good. It made me think of all of you :). Oh mom I am ok I dont have have any problems right now. If I do though I will be sure to let you know.

Well this week was great! We got to go preach the gospel last friday, and the Lord had alot of success. The mission president told us that some guys before have gotten baptisms before they left the mtc. So one of our goals was to baptize a family before we left the mtc. We set up a few appointments for saturday. I am kind of scared we still havent really adjusted the lessons for them yet and we have our test thing tomorrow as well. Well last friday this one guy had a really sad story. He was 96 years old he had been married to his wife for about 65 years and she died last year and he told us to stop wasting our time on him he had nothing left to live for we started talking about the plan of salvation and he just smiled and he said go give this lesson to someone who is younger and has their life ahead of them. He wouldnt let us talk to him. I wish that we would have made a better impact somehow. Ok now a funny story We were walking down the street and there are alot of people down here that clean driveways and little alley ways that lead to apartments off the road. So we see this lady cleaning this alley way and she is pretty far down and we were thinking ok lets yell down to her and teach her the gospel we started saying hi how are ya! she looked down at us turned around picked up her broom and walked into one of the apartments and slammed the door and she didnt say a word it was kind of more funny at the time because that was the first time that ever happened to us haha. Ok now a good story. We had given out all our book of mormons and all our pamphlets except for one and we see this guy painting a sign on the street and we went up to him and he said no dont talk to me i am working and we said sorry but we have come to share a message with you about Jesus Christ. he still didnt act all that interested at first, but then somewhere his countenance changed and I got to talk about Joseph Smith and the first vision and I was looking into his eyes and It really hit me that I really wanted him to believe I really wanted him to know that this was true I told the first vision with feeling and he looked at me and we bore our testimonies and we have an appointment with him in two days and he really wants us to come he said so I am excited :). Mom happy birthday!!!!! Thanks for making sure I get a letter every week and all the love and all the words you put into it. Hopefully my letter gets there soon :) sorry my time is up but thanks for everything family, and Mom you are the best!! Wish me luck!!

Elder Fitzgerald

AREGENTINA!!

Hello family!! I feel bad there isnt really anything that is all that exciting that I have done this week but I did find out that we get to listen to Elder Bednar out in the mission field!! Also one of the missionaries got sick and he had to get sent home to the states and he cant come back out for 6 months. So I havent spoken english for the past three days that was really hard. We called it an english fast. We didnt get to go proselyting this week because our schedule is really messed up sorry :( I wish I had a really inspirational story. umm Everytime the new guys come in we do this thing called the ugly tie draw we all put our ugly ties in a laundry bag and pull them out and I cant believe how ugly some of these ties are haha, but this week I actually got a better one haha.

Chris that is exciting about your Mr. Madison experience haha ya I liked being in junior miss more as well haha. Sarah Erickson is that Jakes sister? haha that is cool everyone had to steal your answers haha. I am glad that your talent went good :)

Jason football huh and being homecoming duke. Whats happening with the football team this year? You were homecoming duke that is so cool!!! I am glad that you are getting to know my old friends :)

Crozier what is happening in your life? Are you excited they got the wii haha

Tara happy birthday!!! I would send you a letter but I dont have any envelopes!!! Mom where did we put them? Tara I am so excited for ya!! Thanks for all your letters I am sorry as soon as I get envelpoes from someone I will write back to all of them I promise haha.

Sean Kim hows it going whats happening in your lives?

Candace Evan how is your life and Clara?

Haha sorry sister Fitzgerald I think I forgot to mention that was all my companions work I cant communicate really yet haha well fluently.

Sorry family I cant spell in english or spanish anymore haha.

Oh Richard is going to live at our house? sorry is that what you said? I am totally fine with that thats awesome!!

Family thank you for your support you are so nice and awesome!!! thanks for everything that you do for me. I have almost been here for half my time in a couple days so it is kind of wierd haha. Well my time is running out again. Everyone keep telling me what is happening in your lives so that I still know ya by the time I get back :)