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I've been home now almost a week

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hey yall, i love you and think you are the best. Last thursday on the 4th i got home from the mission. When i got off the airplane and came through the gate and saw my family it was sooo sooo surreal. the whole experience was ultra surreal. like, i felt like i was watching a movie of me getting off the airplane. Everyone was hugging me and crying and i was like "whaaat where am i??" afterwards we went to president Johnson's house and we had a short talk about goals and retaining good mission habits, and then all of a sudden he looks at me very seriously and says "Elder Grilliot, I am officially relieving you from your service as a full time missionary, please remove your name tags." and i took them off. very very very surreal. That is the best word for it all, surreal. Now i'm home in Illinois with my family that i love and i've been able to see my friends from high school and it's been a good time. Coming home from the mission was not what i expe

i'm going home

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wow i love all of you.  i'm here in the offices of the mission. on thursday my flight is scheduled and i should arrive at about 8 o clock at night in the bloomington airport. me and another elder that is going home have a few days left here to say goodbye to the people of torreon. it has been two years already. i remember all of it. i worked hard serving the lord for two years. it's been hard honestly, and very rewarding. every mission is different, and every missionary is different. i've learned to be much more humble in mexico, and much more understanding. I know that God answers prayers. i know that we can trust in him. i'm not sure how to feel honestly. i'm excited to go home but at the same time i feel a little stressed about saying goodbye and everything.  i'm stoked to see all the people who love me in america. i love my country with all my young boy heart. remember me

big righteous email

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man! we had emergency cambios! sorprendente!  on tuesday in the morning president barret came and visited us in our house, he did a small interview with my companion elder osorio and then sent us on our way, everything was cool and fun and then that night we got the call. elder osorio went to industrial, a different area here in gomez, to be with the assistants for the rest of the cambio. and i get to end my mission in a trio! i feel really blessed honestly. i hadn`t thought about the ideal way to end my mission, but god has haha. i`m in a trio with two really cool elders, elder salazar and elder garcia. i get along really really well with elder salazar. he is a great friend. he made me a HUGE list of spanish indie music.  . he is also very open and kind. great person. and elder garcia is very funny too and very patient and i love both of them a lot. yesterday we had a baptism. a young woman of 9 years of age chose to enter the waters of baptism and follow christ. very cool. she is a

weekly love sent from torreòn mexico!

buenrs homies. things are going well. it is a daily battle and a weelky one too. but it is a good fight and we are content. this área bosque, is a good área. i`m happy to be here. i don`t know the rest of the missionaries in the zone that well, but they are good guys. it`s a big área, we walk a lot to get to citas. Elder Osorio is the most patient comp i`ve ever had. he is a very good person. my respects. he is also very inteligent and driven.  _I love all of you. Elder Grilliot

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alrighty kiddos i´m elder grilliot and i´m going to write you an email about how things are going here in the mexico.  for those of you who didn´t know, i´m going to finish my mission soon. i have 3 weeks left. it´s a really interesting experience finishing a mission. a lot of people want to help you to not think about how you are going to finish your mission. the ideal is that you just go ham and kick trash and work super hard up until the last day of the mission, and if you think about your home too much then you could get distracted and fall apart. Every mission is different i think. i feel about the same. I don´t feel the need to speed up, or to slow down. hold her steady boys. me and elder osorio had a good talk about a week ago, and from that day on things started to change for the better. this week we worked much much better together and contacted a ton man. the harder we worked, the better we felt and the better we got along. elder osorio is a really reserved perso

a big email for all my big boys

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okay big boys, here is your big email, the one you have all been waiting for. well we will see how long it really is because i don`t think i have that much time. but i will write without stopping to correct grammer or think so that it becomes a big fat email that you will all enjoy. boom first big thing. the most important big thing. rreally the most noteworthy thing. WE WENT TO THE TEMPPLE the temple that we go to here in this mission is in monterrey, and it is really beautiful. i love the city of monterrey. if i lived in mexico i would probably live in monterrey. it is green and beautiful and the mountains are huge and very awe inspiring i really love the city. on friday i went to the offices and met up with elder parra and rogers who are my homies for life. elder parra is legitamately one of my favorite people and elder rogers seems nice too. very humble guys both of them. so we got on a bus and went to chaves, where all the accion happens. it was cool to go bacck

Elder Grilliot's Flight Home

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Good afternoon all; Here is the itinerary for Elder Grilliot who goes home on April 4 th .  I’ve known him personally for most of my mission and he’s been a faithful servant of the Lord.  Elder Bruner Secretario de Misión Misión México Torreón 8712652251 Calle Ernesto Breede #301 Col. Ampliación Los Ángeles 27140 Torreón, Coahuila México   American Airlines AA 3622 (Operated by Envoy Air As American Eagle) Departure 04 April 01:48 PM Torreon,  Arrival 04 April 04:40 PM Dallas,  (+) Departure 04 April 06:40 PM Dallas, (Dallas Ft Worth Intl)  (+) Terminal: 0 Arrival 04 April 08:36 PM Bloomington Normal, (Central Illinois Rgnl)  (+)

fun in the sun in Bosque

i dont have that much time but i``m doing really pretty alrighto this área is really big and we walk ALOT i`m getting used to it but the first couple days were rough, also the sun is starting to get pretty strong and i`m getting a Little burnt on my face, i need to get a hat. this week some members are most likely going to help me out with an old hat that they don`t use anymore. this área has potential, but for the time being we don`t have that many people in teaching who are really progressing. last night a member gave us some soda that had caffiene in it and then right after that we went home to sleep and i couldn`t sleep at all lol oh another really big blessing is that i`m going to get to go to the temple this week with Elder Stevenson! that`s so awesome, really a big blessing, we are going to go with some converts from my last área, we Will take a big Fancy bus all the way to monterrey, i think it`s like an 8 hour trip, we Will sleep most of the way. it Will be really refreshin

Mmm man I'm hungry (New Area/New Companion Bosque in Gomez Palacio with Elder Osorio)

me and my comp got sick on saturday i think, and i threw up and i didn`t eat very much after that and i haven`t had much of an appetite and now i`m super hungry but my new comp, Elder Osorio, from yucatan, we had cambios, he is talking to his mom on video chat and i`m waiting for him to get off so we can eat together  we had cambios, Elder Stevenson stayed in nuevo linares, and Elder esparza, my old comp is coming in with him, i left and came to bosque in gomez palacio, with Elder Osorio, he is from yucatan. i think that is poetic because i`m getting to have my first and last áreas be both in gomez palacio, which i love, and my first and last companions are both from yucatan. real special. bosque has the reputation of being one of the best áreas in the mission. and so i am hoping to work really hard during this time with Elder Osorio and have a lot of success with him.

all around a good birthday

it was my birthday this week howday hay. the sixth of febuary i celebrated my 24th birthday and it was really a blessing and a good day. i threw my own dang party. i bought my cake, i bought really nice quesadillas from the best quesadilla place i know of. and i shared my cake with the guys from san pedro cuz they are the bomb and we had to go over there for an interview. they had two really special baptisms this week and we got to do the interviews and man it is really cool to see how the gospel changes peoples lives. one unusual little detail. this lady, maria, from san pedro. she drunk alot a lot of cofee. she learned about the word of wisdom and stopped drinking coffee entirely and read the pamphlet a lot and made other changes in her life like eating meat sparingly and eating more fruits and vegetables. one month later, she had lost 7 kilos! which i think is like 15 pounds. she´s not a very large woman either, she has like a normal mexican mom bod. and she lost 15 pounds!

i'm gonna be old

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good week boys and girls, thanks for all your love and support. i know that god hears all our prayers. i know he lives. I know that death is not the end. We will all live again and be together! (i´m a missionary!) this week i´m going to turn 24 years old. on febuary 6th. get ready for it. send me a nice vibe. elder grillliot

to all my friends

all of you! thank you for being my friends! things are well. i´m still here in mexico. my companion is elder stevenson. i´m in the area nuevo linares. i´ve been here for a while, about 5 months. just so you know where i´m at. this week my glasses broke again! twice! i think the new frames that they got me are kind of cheapoes because they broke really quick. i´ve glued the big break and so i can wear them still. they work fine and i´m really grateful to have them. the first time they broke i just adjusted them slightly and the lense broke out of the frame, i think that the guy who did the glasses really forced the lenses into the frame and it was a tight fit and so it broke easily, and the second time was on friday i think, and we got back to the house and i was like, i´m gonna eat a carrot. and i opened the fridge and boom! i smacked myself in the face with the fridge door! it wasn´t even that hard, but my glasses broke and fell on the ground. and i got pretty sad. i didn´t

laughing it up with the goofy dog, elder valenzuela

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this week some very nice members fixed my glasses for me, i really needed that. my glasses broke and i couldn´t fix them! they had already broken like 6 months ago in durango, but i´d always just glued them together and sometimes they would break again, because the glue isn´t that strong, but i´d just glue them again and it was all chill. but this last time that they broke, i tried to glue them together and i couldn´t! and i went without glasses for like a whole week. and while i was in a food appointment with sister zamora, i showed her my broken glasses and told her the story and she took them from me and the next day i came back and they were as good as new! in a new frame! wow! i´m grateful to these good people. also we had a missionary conference this week with a setenta, the president of the area of mexico, elder valensuela, he is an amazing guy, i was really impressed by the considerate way that he treated all the missionaries. and his testimony was really strong. i also g

a very heated district wide tag team push up contest

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it's been wild

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 la familia vazquez the cursed cat   a cute dog we found just a handsome guy man, so this week we saw a doctor about the itchy curse that the cat gave us. he said that it´s a fungal infection similar to ringworm. he gave us pills for the itching, and a cream that kills the fungus. we are using both of those and i think it is going away but it is kind of slow. we also washed our sheets and blankets and put them all in the sun to dry. it´s been kind of awful. elder stevenson has been getting kind of discouraged and we are suuuper tired because we have not been able to sleep very well because of the itching. but it´s getting better. i think i´ll sleep a lot better tonight. but it´s been rough honestly. we have banished the cat from our porch and our crazy neighbor lady has taken her into her hut. we can´t see the cat in there, but we can hear it crying through her door. in other news, i´m an uncle x3! my sister renae had a baby! his name is cash, he is healthy an

2019 is gonna be a good one

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Okay ladies and gents. let me just tell you that 2018 was a good year and we are all grateful for him and the good things he did for us, but we are all happy that he is gone too, because 2019 is coming up hot and man alive he is a good one. we started off the new year with a blassst. we got invited to eat dinner with a few different members to celebrate with them. and we were going to go but then elder stevenson was feeling kind of sick and so we went back to the house and played monopoly instead. and when 12pm came around we began to hear loads and loads of pops and bangs outside of the house. In mexico, kind of like in america, the custom is just to blow everything up as soon as new years hits. in mexico they shoot guns into the air. i ran to the porch to look out the window and man! there were soo many fireworks and gunshots and it was really pretty wonderful.  i don´t know why but i got kind of emotional. like, i felt like all of mexico was just shouting in grati