Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

welcome back to the elder Grilliot weekly email. I´m really hungry. but we are going to make this a good email. we will eat in about an hour. in my internet cafe there is a good smell. it smells like mashed potatoes. i dig it.  So! i really haven´t told you guys very much for a few weeks! and that´s not because i don´t love you all. i just was having a bad time. honestly honest, if i´m speaking honestly, this was a tough cambio. i did not get along very well with my companion. The details aren´t important! the important part is what i learned! ... it was tough, but i chewed that thing down and i swallowed it. and i learned a lot probably. i hope.  I learned about dealing with people. about conflict resolution and about service. not everyone receives love in the same way! like some companions are just happy as heck if you cook for them, other comps just need encouragement, or hugs, or love letters haha, but not everyone receives love in the same way. Elder ...

533, we made it to the cita! 538, me with brayan, he got in a fight 554, counter selfie 555,558, playing with the mirror in a members home 590, a handsome guy with a fish

468, a real day of the dead altar! this is actually really cool. they put the photos of their loved ones that have passed away on an altar and put food and things that those people liked there so that the spirits of the people can carry the smells with them to the spirit world. Just like in Coco! 472, a handsome guy in a graveyard 498, during interviews, the guys grabbed my camera and made art. 516-522, fotos with the flag

So on tuesday we had zone conference and we went to torreon and president spoke to the mission. after the conference he sat down and talked with me and elder librado and told us that we could ask for emergency cambios right now, but pretty much implied that if we didn´t ask for cambios, it would be likely that we would have another 6 weeks together after this cambio.  So we thought about it, and the next day called and asked for cambios. President said that he would do the cambios in a day or two. once we knew that we would have cambios things died down a lot. It´s a weird thing. But we have basically had peace this whole week. On friday president called the zone leaders and said that we would have cambios, but they would happen next monday, when the regularly scheduled cambios are, instead of just doing them imediately. So we have one more week together and then either me or elder librado will get sent to another area. This week we are going to do intercambios and some other t...

we had a mexico conference this week. rasband and other general authorities spoke to all of mexico. some interesting things from the conference.. lynn g robbins gave a talk about the importance of a temple reccomend. he never said, "if you have a current temple reccomend when you die, you are garenteed to enter the celestial kingdom" but he came really close to saying it. he compared it to a "celestial diploma" that shows that you are qualified for the celestial kingdom, and he said that the oil of the 5 wise virgins is your temple reccomend, and he told a joke about how in the kingdom of heaven they will ask you to slide your temple recommend under the door. after the story, he said, "that´s a joke... but seriously it might really be like that". and the hna michel d craig had a quote that i really liked, she said "god guides our steps when whe move our feet." the whole conference was in spanish. the only person who used ...

man it´s really been a noteworthy week. but i don´t think i can share all the dirty details. but in short, shedding much blood and tears, we resolved the problems in our companionship. but that problem has been replaced with another, i feel like we are not fighting, but we are still not together, and we are kind of dead. last week i talked with an elder who was finishing his mission. a very good missionary who i respect a lot. a very humble guy. very smart and in tune. i asked him, "is your mission the hardest thing you have ever done in your life?" and without thinking he said, "yes. the mission is the hardest thing i´ve ever done in my life." and i thought, "man, that´s good that i´m not the only one" haha. missions are wonderful, and hard. i don´t think i really understood that before my mission. or like, i thought i would be immune to the hard parts of a mission. I have learned so so much. I have learned things that i couldn´t even imagine before t...