Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

PHOTOS SENT IN EMAIL  SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 I think I told you last week about fixing the roof of the house, these are the pictures! look at this mexican vending machine! me and la hermana valtierra The freaking coolest little kids ever. they were really fascinated by my camera Art They grabbed my photos and took photos of my photos haha (i carry around photos of my family to show people) Rosedelia and Rosedelia and her kids Taking pictures with important people outside the church before i left madero Me and elder Miranda trying to sleep on the bus to Torreon Aurora and Pedro, they are more or less going out, they are both leaving on their missions Halloween day. Brayan and his mom

okay kiddos. herés the stuff i promised from last time. i´ll try to get through it all. the story of Elder Grilliot, Chess Legend. i´m a chess legend here in the mission. I don´t even think that i´m the best player. Elder Saico beat me about half the time, and this one kid elder godinez beat me one time. But really. In the mission gossip travels really fast, and the gossips about elder Grilliot is that no one can beat him at chess. It´s because one time everyone in the zone got together and we played chess and no one could beat me. and now people come up to me and say, "i heard you are the best chess player in the mission" and sometimes they challenge me to a chess match. it´s kind of cool honestly. A heart touching story about a man who went to church with us. Jose Manuel. My first day here in nuevo linares we were walking around at night and I guy came up to us. I don´t know if he contacted us, or if we contacted him, because it kind of seem...

me at that weird church activity when the ladies danced like babies. you can see some of the ladies there in the back. You can also see how small the room was where they danced. man it´s been a wild time. I have a lot to tell you guys. mexico week this week we had the day of independence of mexico. it´s the 16th. we had a cool church activity celebrating it. There are two branches here in chaves, some investigators of ours went to the activity of the other branch so we went to sit with them. and then next week our branch will have there activity. We are going to try to invite people in all the houses that are close to the church.  Also, we are in charge of another branch called purisima, it´s way out in the middle of nowhere and it´s a really small rancho town. We have to hitchhike to get out there. I´m actually saving a lot of money in this area because we almost never take buses, we do almost everything through the power of hitchhiking. The mexico day activity...

wow it has been a big week and i feel like i have a lot of things to tell you guys about. nuevo linares is a small town about 30 minutes outside of torreon. it is a lot less developed than durango or torreon and there are dirt roads and horses and junk. This week it has rained a lot and they are not very prepared for it here and there is a lot of flooding and other problems. It rains way more in durango, but here it´s like litterally on disaster alert just because they had a few heavy rains. but it is pretty ugly, a lot of streets are blocked off and everyone had water in their house. we got a little bit of water in our house two but it´s all good, we just use a broom to sweep it off the porch, we live on the second story but the house isn´t very well made so water gets in throught the sliding glass door. treasure house story oh man this is a sweet story that a member told us this week. Her name is celia, she is from a large family, she has nine brothers and sisters, they a...

hey boys and girls. today we have cambios. Elder saico is staying in madero and i´m going BACK to nuevo linares. the same area that i got sent to for three days and then they changed me. I´m writing from the offices. I´m waaay tired because i haven´t been sleeping very well and we also didn´t get the chance to sleep much last night. packing and stuff. anyway, here in the offices i ran into president and he just said "the lord really wants you in nuevo linares elder." i´ll write agin tomorrrowww  elder grilliot every time i change areas it feels like a rebirth. no one here knows me and i have a totally blank page. it gives me a lot of hope and motivation to be able to do something cool. I´m in nuevo linares again, and my new companion is elder quiroz. He is from equador, he has 3 months in the mission, and is from the same generation of missionaries as elder saico, that is, he and elder saico started the mission at the same time. Elder quiroz had a really bad...

his was a pretty good week. things between me and elder saico are better than ever, i actually really like the guy. me cae bien. we are understanding eachother a lot better and laughing a lot more. i think we have both improved a lot in these weeks and i feel like my spanish has gotten pretty good here. We think that i´m going to get transfered this week. and so i´m kind of looking at all my time here in madero and all i´ve acomplished and i have to say that i´ve really loved this area, maybe we accomplish all the stuff i wanted to, but i´ve definately left the area better than i found it and helped a good deal of people, and i´ll be leaving behind some awesome investigators for elder saico and his comp.  righto this week someone told me that they caught trump? that he did a bunch of bad stuff and his lawer is going to spend 64 years in jail or something. and that they want to impeach trump. man, people hate trump here. I don´t know what to think about it but i hope that justic...

PART 1: ELDER SAICO DELETES ALL MY PHOTOS OF MY MISSION it´s true. so last week i gave elder saico my memory card from my camera so that he could send some of my photos to his family because he doesn´t have a camera yet. So I let him borrow that bad boy and he did his dirty work, and gave me back the memory. and then three days later i went to check my camera, and it said that i didn´t have anything on the memory, and i was like "wut". and elder saico has no idea what happened. And yeah we checked on a computer and it was all gone. Every photo that i´ve taken on my mission, so the only thing that is left are the photos that i´ve sent to you guys. that´s justice i guess. in the end, i only get to keep the pictures that i gave. I don´t feel that upset about it actually, i understand that things happen and i don´t blame elder saico PART 2: GOING TO CHURCH so we had a lot of success this week in the church, that is to say, all the people we wanted to go to...