Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

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

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

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

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

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)  (+)