May 4, 2015 ... May the 4th (You are my Father)

Hola

Its great to hear that you all had a great time in Disney World!! I can only imagine the sunburns that more than likely occurred. 

How have you been?? My new Companion´s name is Elder Gámez with an A. The Panuaya that you found is the correct Panuaya. its a lot different than Zumpango. There´s a lot more farms and the houses are a lot more separated. Yes we had a Baptism last week!! The convert is named Jacqueline, she´s super great! Right now we are teaching her sister and we hope that she can progress as well!! The reason why I have slowed down with the weekly rundown is because earlier I was just copying and pasting the letters that I wrote to the president and now that I have six months in the mission Its a rule that i have to write him in Spanish!! haha, but all is well!! I´m still doing missionary work here!! trying to help my companion and to have more success in our area!! I don{t know what your plans are this Sunday, we will be able to call, i have an hour in total, I can call 30min to you and Tammy and 30min to my mom or if you all wanted to get together i could do 1hr with everyone!! It will probably and hopefully be skype again!! so when you have the plans all together, let me know!! Love you tons Dad!! I miss you tons as well!! Love you!

Elder Paynter

p.s. Elder Bednar is going to give a talk in our mission in like two weeks!! Pretty cool right!!

Fotos of Our District and Divisions with Elder Marquez

 

 

April 27, 2015 Panuaya

Whats up dude!!
How has it been?? how was Disney World? My new area is pretty good,
I've got a lot of work to to here!! I love the pain in my feet/legs
from the walking/bike riding/soccer playing. It's pretty good here! the
new companion is pretty good, The missionary work is pretty good!!
I've been working a lot harder recently! The apartment is pretty
great!! Its little and yellow and on top of other houses! It´s been
going pretty good!! I completed 6 months about two weeks ago, wow!! it
goes by too fast, I've promised my self to make the most of the rest
of my time here!! Like i said there is a lot of work to do here in
Panuaya!! p.s. that's the name of my new area!! I´m sorry I haven't
emailed in a while.  Lots of things have happened and right now I'm
trying as hard as I can to move on and keep working and give all my
"heart, might mind and strength".   I think I heard that we will be able
to skype again on may 10th, so I look forward to the opportunity to
talk again!! Love you tons dad!! I´ll talk to you as soon as i can!!
Love you tons!!
Elder Paynter

April 13, 2015 Panuaya...little yellow apartment

i hope disneyworld is super great and that you are all having a great
time!! Here are a few pictures that i took this week, I hope you
enjoy!!
Elder Paynter

March 30, 2015 Almost Easter in Zumpango

Hola
Go Kentucky, I guess, haha, Ill keep your knees in my prayers;) The
little girl in the fotos is named Valerie and she is the daughter of
our convert, Dolores. They are all super cool, and the kids say that
they want to be missionaries when they are older!! woohoo! We will be
able to watch Conference in the stake center, but i might have a few
struggles trying to find it in English, haha, This Easter weekend
should be great, I hear that here in mexico they do like a reenactment
of the crucifixion of Jesus, so that seems pretty fun (and a little
bit of apostasy haha) The people are so religious and coocoo here!! 
My comp is leaving to his house tomorrow and we have a lot of stuff to do before he leaves;) Ill talk to you more next week!!Thanks for always supporting me and loving me!! I love you tons Dad!!
Stay strong in the faith, this church really is true!!
Love you!!
Jordo

March 23, 2015, Zumpango Rocks

Hola Amigo!!

How have you been?

We survived winter time and now we have pouring rain!! woohoo! We are all good, My companion is awesome just a little stressed because he finishes his misision in a week!! We have 6 missionaries in our ward, My comp and I and 2 sister companionships. Its pretty great!!

I´m glad everything is alright with your work, I hope that things will keep getting better. Sounds like the paper route is all taken care of right now, if only Kyle would pick up the slack and start driving, haha just kidding! I´ve been trying to take more pictures, but its hard because I dont want to have my camera get robbed... haha, but I´ll try to start taking some more, I´ve only got one this week!!! Don´t miss me too much for march madness, we´ve still got one more to go, haha!! Thank you so much for all you support Dad!! I love you tons and wish you the best of luck in everything!! (work, disneyworld... etc.)

Te Amo mucho!!

Elder Paynter

p.s. another pic of my bff

 

 

Hola ¿cómo has estado?

I really do love serving!! I wouldn´t want to be anywhere else for the next 100 years (because I never want to come back) I really think that serving a mission is for everyone, and really for (girls) it's only 18 months and the time flies by faster than you can think, Education can wait, but I´m absolutely sure that there are people in all parts of the world being prepared to hear what we have to say, It´s an opportunity that we cannot give up!! Plus, being a missionary is super chito (mexican slang for cool) 

I honestly don´t know what I can tell you... were here in Zumpango, its super fun, but we haven't been having super success, and have been having a few struggles, because I think my companion is thinking too much about going home, but all that we need to do is "Work, Work, Work" -Ezra Taft Benson ;)

Good Week:)

Right now we have a goal in the mission to read 11 pages of the Book of Mormon every day, so my personal studies have been a little bit full of Book of Mormon reading. Btw- I´m reading it in Spanish, so it takes a little bit of time to read the 11 pages:) but I´m pretty happy because I can practically understand all of it!! I´m surprised because I have learned a lot from reading!!

5 months.... I almost cried..... I´ve been away for 5 months!! I really never ever want to come home, I´m sorry, but its the truth... I honestly don´t want to waste a single minute here!! We are working on the Lord´s time! To think that 5 months have gone by this quick is insane! It makes me sick, "I don´t ever want to leave this town." 

But it's been great!!

Yes, I am wearing my retainer (when the water in our house is working!!)

Elder Paynter

p.s. Foto: It wasn't our baptism, but the baptism of the Hna´s (hermanas)!!

p.s. the water goes out every day from 6 at night until 7 in the morning....

March 16, 2015, Bend It Like Beckham

Pretty fun week!!  We had a lot of rain and its been a lot colder!! p.s. we play soccer Every day!! not just on pdays, I´m gonna come back like David Beckham!! Handsome, good at soccer and Brittain... or maybe just good at soccer!! And the spanish has gotten a little bit easier, but I can´t take the credit!!

 The ward is huge!! we have like 700 members, but only a little less than 200 attend church:) the boundaries are huge and everyone has money and transport problems... My comp is great!! struggling alitttle bit, with the whole end ofhismission and everything, but heis awesome!! p.s. the space bar doesnt work very well and I´m just gonna leave that sentance like that for proof:)

Good luck with your tooth, "I want to be a Dentist." (with a lisp of course) ... that was for my Dad, a little random but i hope you both get a good laugh out of it!!

I´ll talk to you asap (1 week)!!

Love you tons!!

ElderPaynter

March 9, 2015 Tora Cubana Sandwich

Hola Amigo!!

How did Meghan like her email in spanish? I´m good, and surviving!! Right now nobody is on my weekly email list, I´ve gotten a little bit lazy, haha and I havent taken very many pics either, haha!! The weather is great here, its been pretty sunny, but on saturday it started to rain super hard, we were leaving with the sister missionaries from the house of the ward mission leader, when it started to rain, and a member saved us with his taxi, we squished all six soaking wet missionaries into one taxi, I had to continually wipe the windshield from the inside with a rag, because we were all breathing super heavy haha!! pretty cool experience!! Ya i had to buy a new bike and now i lock it up everywhere we go!! we've started playing soccer at 6 in the morning everyday so Ive been staying healthy!! We've been playing with our convert, Dolores, an investigator, Lucelya, and their kids! And Dolores is super cool!! my companion sent the friend request from her phone, and don't worry I´ll return with two bags!! She´s more interested in Elder Gomez, and dreams about marrying him, 'lol jk. haha, its all good!! here in mexico those girls are called Piñas or pineapples, i don't know why,haha! Thank you so much for all that you do Dad!! I love you tons!!hope you have a super duper week!!

Love you

Jordo

p.s. the fotos are of the Torta Cubana, its a giant sandwich with everykind of food on it, and the others are of me in our house and Valerie, the daughter of Dolores;)