Week 13 - Rain in Los Mochis and the Best Shrimp Tacos Ever!

Hola

So this week was a little new because we had intercambios with the zone leaders, except this time, I was the one that was staying in our area and elder Lowry was going. I was pretty nervous about it because they only told us the night before. So I had to do the planning and the contacting for two days with one of the new zone leaders. I was mostly worried about the planning because I had never planned before. But it all worked out great. I was with Elder Aleman and he has only been a member for about a year and a half, but he knows so many scriptures. It is kind of amazing. In our lessons, for pretty much everthing he had a scripture he could share and testify of. He is a great missionary, and I am so glad that he is our zone leader. But yeah, I made it through all the planning and we actually had a very successful intercambio. We even found a new investigator. 

It has been raining a lot the past few days, so luckily that means that it has been a lot cooler. But unfortunately because it was raining there were not as many people at church on Sunday. On Saturday night, all of our new investigators told us that they were going to come to church and we had visited 4 less active families who all said that they were going to come to church with us too. We even saved a big row for all of them because we had faith that they were going to show up. But then the time came and not one of them showed up. It was so sad. We hope that it was because of the rain that they didnt come but our goal is for them to come despite the rain. 

I'm not sure what else to talk about, so I am going to tell you about the food. On Sunday, we had the best shrimp tacos of my life. A member in our ward made fryed shrimp and the "salsa" which in Spanish means sauce. (Spanish is very unspecific. For example the drink that is on the table is called agua. It doesnt matter what it is... it could be juice, lemonade or something, but it is always called agua. And if you want just plain water, you have to ask for agua natural.) It was basically pico de gallo with avacados in it and without all the liquid. Oh, it was so good! And she made fry sauce with mayonesa and chipotle. It was all so good!

Sorry, I don't have as much to write. Oh and forgive me for not having any new pictures to send this week. But I am sending pictures of the scripture case that I bought in the CCM. They are pretty sick and I thought that you might like to see them. I love you all so much and I am so grateful for our family. Keep me posted on what everyone is doing. Gracias for all the pictures of everyone. 

Love 

Elder Snyder

Week 12 - Mexico City Temple Rededication and an Earthquake

¡Hola gracias por tus cartas!

Well I have officially finished my primer cambia (first transfer). Me and Elder Lowry are both staying here in Los Mochis Barrio Macapule. I am grateful that I still have more time to train and hopefully I will be able to understand everything by the time it is over.

On sunday it was awesome because we got to see the rededication of the Mexico City temple. It was so awesome because two of my favorite apostles were there, Eyring and Holland. And because they dont speak spanish I got to hear their talks both in spanish and english. It was really awesome. My favorite part was when Elder Holland bore his testimony in Spanish. It was very simple but powerful. It consisted of the spanish that you learn your first week in the CCM. "Sé que Jesucristo vive y esta Iglesia es verdadera..." and a little more but I dont remember. (And he said it with a complete gringo accent so it was pretty cute too.) But I just loved how even an apostle can have a testimony as simple as that and it can still be powerful. It was also really funny at the end when President Eyring was thanking a certain stake in Mexico and right before he was going to say the name of the stake he just stopped and smiled then looked at the translator. Then the translator said the name for him and he just said "gracias" and everyone just started to laugh. 

So this week was a little sad because hermana Pech was finishing her mission and going back home to Yucatan, Mexico. She was one of the sisters in our ward and she was just such a great missionary. She always helped me with my Español and she always had a smile on her face. She would also always make jokes and was laughing all the time. So we became great friends through the district meetings and ward council. So I will miss her... she really was a great missionary. 

This week we have been teaching hermana Mirian. She has 4 kids and they are all very young.  The oldest is 9 I believe and she has already had the missionaries visit her before she moved here. So we have started teaching her, but it is really hard to teach her and involve her kids so that they dont start going crazy and distract her with whatever they are doing. So that is a little difficult. We didnt have sacrament meeting this week because of the temple rededication so she was not able to come to church. It is a little inconvient because here in Mexico the investigators have to attend sacrament meeting 5 times before they can be baptized. Alot of times the president allows them to be baptized after 4 if they are ready but it is really hard to get people to go to church. Especially because the building is so far away and most people dont have cars. So, for a family to go, they have to find a ride or try and get their whole family on a crazy bus to get to church. 

This week was the last district meeting before cambios so me and Elder Lowry decided to wake up early and make french toast for everyone in the district. We got to the church at like 6:30 and we forgot our spatula so we had to use a spoon to flip them all. But in the end it worked out great. Everyone was so grateful and it was so delicious. 

As for the earthquake here, I had no idea we even had one until the sisters told us in the morning. They told us that their beds were completely shaking. But ya, I had no idea. Elder Lowry also told me that all the thunder last night kept him up, and I was like, "uhh it was raining?"

Oh ya funny short story. Me and elder Lowry were taking the bus to the church building the other day and we both got air on the bus. We were sitting in the back of the bus when we hit a bump and I swear I got at least a foot of air from my seat. My legs completely left the ground and my butt was sore for a few minutes after because the landing on my seat was not soft. Mexican buses! 

So ya if you would like to study something this week for me please study the importance of keeping the sabbath day holy and the blessings that we recieve from it. Of course we study this for our investigators, but I would really appreciate your help with this one. :)

Love you all so much. Thanks for all your letters and pictures you send. It is one of the things I look forward to every week. To hear the words of all of you. Take care this week.

Love 

Elder Snyder

Making French Toast with a spoon

Goodbye Sister Pech

Week 11 - The Burning of the Shirt!

This week Elder Lowry had his mission B-day where he completed one year of his mission. So, yes, we burned a shirt in honor of his one year mark, but it was so much better than we could have ever imagined. So we went to a member's house to do it, and we dropped the shirt off in the middle of the day and Elder Lowry gave Carlos and Lolita 15 pesos to buy a liter of gasoline. We invited the hermanas in our ward to join us as well. So when we got back to the house at night to commence with the burning, the hermanas and Carlos and Lolita had put the shirt on a broom stick and had stuffed the shirt with newspaper. And it got all decorated like you saw in the picture.  We then poured a bit of gas on the shirt and made a little trail that lead to the shirt so that we could light it. Then when we lit the gas, the most magnificent thing happened. Instead of the shirt just burning, it exploded!! It was literally gone within seconds! 

Also this week, we found a man named Javier. He was sitting in a chair on the corner of a block and we decided to talk to him. He wanted to know if he would be able to see his mother who had passed away again, so we left him with a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and set up an appointment for the next day. The only problem was that he said that his wife is very catholic and that she does not like any other church. But he said that we could meet with him the next day because his wife would be visiting her mom. So we then had a great lesson with him the next day. He asked a bunch of great questions and when we finished our lesson we asked him if he would pray to know if these things are true. He then said, no, that he doesnt need to because he KNOWS these thing that we taught were true. It was so awesome. We then talked a little about the restoration of the gospel and gave him a pamphlet to read. But when we tried to set up another appointment with him, he told us that he didnt want to meet because he didnt want to upset his wife. We then asked him if he would want to meet somewhere else, but he concluded that he would call us when we could teach again if his wife was out. We were both like dang... we were so close. 

I wish that I had more to tell you, but that was basically it. I am so happy that Uncle Chris and family came for a visit. It's about time!!  haha! Thanks so much for the pictures. I loved seeing all the pictures of the family and especially the one of the sunset on the ocean. It just makes me smile for some reason.  It wasnt until I got here and started teaching the plan of salvation that I realized what an amazing gift the plan of happiness is for us. That we can live with our families forever and the happiness and hope it brings us. I just wish that I could say things like this in Spanish when I'm teaching lessons. I hope to be able to communicate my emotions with the people soon because now I just feel like I am saying words and they just nod their head saying yup like they dont really care what I have to say. But I am still trying really hard to learn the language. And I am hoping that it will come with time and prayer.

I hope that everything is going well back home. Tell everyone that I love them so much.

Love

Elder Snyder

Week 10 - Topolobampo and Paul's Baptism

Paul's Baptism

Hola!

So this week was actually pretty fun. 

I got to start of the week by going to Topolobampo for inter cambios (exchanges). And I was super excited to go there because I got to be near the ocean. Topo is a pretty nice pueblo. It is shaped kind of like a bowl. Our house was on one rim of the bowl and our investigators were always on the opposite side of the bowl.

One of the best parts was that I was participating alot more in the lessons because I could actually understand the people of Topo. For some reason all the people there speak very clearly even though it is a very poor pueblo. But it was super fun to be able to live in a different house and be in a different area. The only thing that I did not like were the cucarachas. There were always a bunch of cucarachas in the house and I would always see them at night when I was too tired to kill them. I remember getting a drink and seeing one of them run across the counter at night. But all and all Topo was a lot of fun. It is about 45 minutes from Los Mochis so we had to take two buses to get there. 

This week we had zone meeting and it was awesome because we got to have the mission president at our zone meeting. One of my favorite things about our president is that he knows everyones´ name without having to look at our tags. So he was able to talk to all of us and call us by name, and I was really impressed with that. But our meeting was about how we can teach in the manner of the Lord. I was able to realize that we are Christ's representitives and because we represent Him, we have to try and teach in the way that He would.

So I am alot more confident in my Spanish than I used to be. In zone meeting, I was able to tell everyone what our investigators are stuggling with and afterwards the sisters said that my Spanish is very good. All of them said that I am learning really fast, but I know that I owe all that to the Lord and his help to learn this language.

Elder Lowry gave me some good advice. He said that if I don't know what I am going to say, I should just open my mouth and start talking. Because if I am prompted by the spirit to talk then I will receive help with what I am supposed to say. And I know this is true because I have done it multiple times throughout this week. I can actually understand the people fairly well, at least enough to be able to follow a conversation and ask questions to see if they understand.

We are in the Macapule ward and we have another set of sisters that helps to cover the area of the ward because the boundries are huge. And yes, we do have cell phones. Everyone in the mission has cell phones. It is actually really funny because the people here all have two phones. They have one really cheap one that they use for calling and then they have a smartphone that doesn't have any service but they use it as a computer because it is way cheaper. 

Paul's baptism went really well. However, Elder Lowry and I had to scrub the font before because the last ward that used it didn't empty all the water, so there was mold all over the bottom and it smelled like death. So that took like an hour and then we had to wait for it to fill up before we could continue with our day. But the baptism went well. His brother-in-law baptized him and the only thing that was disappointing was that we put the baptism at 3 so that his mom could come and then the day before, when she was signing his permission to be baptized, she said that she wouldn't be able to come. That night everyone called us asking if we could change the baptism to 5 instead of 3, so we did. And on top of all that, we did not have comida because the sister that was going to feed us was sick. But then we had a little miracle. As we were walking with plans of basically fasting all day, we visited a less active member and as we were leaving she told us to come back to have comida with her. We were so grateful for that.  

Also yesterday, I had to give a talk and because I literally had no time to write it I only had less than half a page of bullet points prepared. But I had faith that I would recieve help in my talk to know what to say. And it was true. I went up and was actually able to give a decent talk to the members. I could tell that I was being inspired with what I should say because I have never spoken that long continuosly in Spanish. :) After my talk, all the ward members said that I did a very good job and Elder Lowry was also impressed. He said that I had said pretty much everything perfect in my talk. 

So, my talk was about "el obra de salvación" or the work of salvation. And it started with preaching the gospel. Now the most obvious part of this is that the missionaries teach. But the point is to recognize that the people in the ward are supposed to be buscadores or searchers to find people for the missionaries to teach. One of our mission rules is that everytime we enter a house we have to ask if their is anyone that they believe should hear this message. Because in all missions the area is too big for the missionaries to find everyone and we need the help of the members. 

The next part was about perfecting the saints and how we need to do all we can to be converted so that we can strengthen others. Especially in Mexico, there are so many people who get baptized, but then later they forget why they got baptized and the feelings they had to know its true, so they fall away. We spend alot of time with the less actives in our ward so whenever you have the opportunity to help strengthen someone... do it. I like to think about the example of the Savior. After he died on the cross...a lot of us forget that for those three days before he was resurrected, he was ministering to the people in the spirit world! He never stops working to do his father's will. He is our inspiration that our work is never finished and that we can always do more. 

And this leads in to the last part of the "obra" which is the work for the dead. To find names and people that need their ordanances done in the temple. Just because we may not think there is work that we can do here there is always work that needs to be done for those that have passed on. 

So that was my talk. I don't really remember everything I said, but it went something like that. I am healthy and well. We are still looking for new invesigators to teach but we know that we are going to find someone this week. I love you all and wish you all the best. 

love 

Elder Snyder

Topolobampo

The apartment with the cucarachas at Topolobampo

Week 9 - A Rough Week

Hola,

So, the language is coming better. If I really try to listen and stay focused, I start to understand more. I also stay more awake instead of drifting off to sleep. ;) We will be having another baptism this week. Paul is 11 years old. His sister is a member and his mom is not, but she finally gave him permission to be baptized. So that will be happening this Saturday. But as for people to teach, that is what we need help with. We are currently trying to find more people to teach because we dont have that many investigators. Now in mexico, no one goes tracting from door to door, it just isnt something you do in this mission. But we do alot of street contacting because everyone walks everywhere here. So when we pass people, we tell them who we are and ask if we can come by another day to share our message. And alot of the time, the people say yes... the only problem is that when we come by, they are either not home or they can't meet with us at the moment, so that is kind of hard. We also spend alot of time with less actives because alot of people get baptized, but then they never end up coming to church. 

Now this week was especially rough for me, and I'll try to spare many of the details, but  I was really sick with something. I think it was food poisoning. But on tuesday, we ate tacos de Marlin with a member and wednesday morning was when everything started. We worked throughout the whole day, but by the end of the day, like 9:30 I felt terrible. I asked Elder Lowry to give me a blessing and then I went to bed or at least tried. And then the hell began. I was pretty much up all night... my stomach was hurting, I had a headache, my body hurt, and ontop of all that I had a fever.  My body was really trying to get rid of something because I threw up until nothing was coming up anymore. After this my body was just shaking because I was in so much pain and I was completely covered in sweat, and for some reason, I thought of the Savior and that even though I was in so much pain, my suffering was nothing compared to what He went through. 

The next morning was a little better. I was able to sleep most of the day. The only thing was that I hadn't eaten anything because I was just scared that I wouldn't be able to keep it in me. Then the mission president's wife told us to go to a doctor. And by this time, I felt so much better... the only thing was that I was super hungry. So as we were waiting for the doctor the zone leaders walked in because one of them was sick, so it was kind of funny to see them. The doctor was then asking me alot of questions and thankfully I had Elder Lowry to translate the words and things that I didn't understand, but the next thing I knew, I was in this room and the doctor was holding a needle to give me a shot. So I sit on the bench and then the doctor motions for me to lay down and then says that this one goes on my butt.  My companion starts laughing and says " uh… I'm gonna leave" So here I am in Mexico where I can hardly understand the language and this Mexican doctor gives me a shot and I still don't even know what it was for. All I know is that my left cheek is still soar when I sit down. :( Later, the doctor gave me some pills and told me that I had to rest for 5 days. And I was like, What?! 5 days... I feel fine right now. I am just hungry. So the next day, we rested until noon and I ate some food, and then I told Elder Lowry I feel fine, let's go. So we went to work and I have been better ever since. I was so grateful for that blessing to have been healed from whatever I had. I truly am fine, so don't worry too much about what happened. The worst is over, and I am alive and healthy again :)

We also had our zone activity today so that was fun. We played volleyball then we played volleyball with water balloons where you have to catch them in your towel with your companion and launch it back. It turned out to be pretty fun. But that quickly turned into a water fight, so everyone ended up being soaked.

This week we have district inter cambios (exchanges) so I get to go to Tompolabampo!! I am so excited because this area is by the ocean. I am so excited to go see it. And that is tomorrow. 

Wish everyone the best of luck in all their activities and as they start school this week for me. Thanks for sending that pic of Elder Snyder and Elder Lowry back in 1989. haha!  I love you all so much and wish you all the best.

Love

Elder Snyder

Elder Snyder and Elder Lowry in 1989 and their sons in 2015

Week 8 - Enrique's Baptism

Hola,

So we had our first baptism with Enrique on Saturday. Enrique was the man who kind of stutters and I can hardly understand anything of what he says. But his baptism went very well. And like 5 minutes before, Elder Lowry asked if I could give a short talk on the gift of the Holy Ghost. So I was able to talk for about a minute or two on what the gift of the Holy Ghost is, and I thought it went decently well. The next day, we confirmed him a member of the church and all went well. We just hope he continues to go to church because he is moving this week, and right after sacrament meeting, he had to go work, so hopefully everything works out for him.

I also learned why we don't drink the water. No, I did not drink it and find out. It was when we were filling the font with water and what looked like little green leaves were coming out of the faucet. I then asked Elder Lowry what that was, and he told me that it was mold from within the pipes. Pretty nasty, huh. All the mold leaves just end up all over the bottom of the font. And the on going joke here is that those are the persons sins that got washed away.

Our ward is small. I'm not sure how many members there are, but there are usually like 47 people in attendence. The members are very good to us. We get comida everyday except Pday. And what they feed us varies, and it is hard to describe because I don't know what anything is called. But the past few meals we have had gorditas.

And Dad…your former mission companion, Adam Lowry...is Elder Lowry's Dad!!! His Dad confirmed it because he wrote Elder Lowry back saying he had a companion in Montreal named Paul Snyder from Thousand Oaks and he was very musically talented. What are the chances?!!

I'm glad you shared your experiences about your struggles with the language because trying to understanding everyone is so hard and tiring. But this week I have improved so much. About 50 percent of the time, I know exactly what people are saying, and then the other half, I just try to make an educated guess, and it works out pretty well. I usually have at least one part in the lesson that I get to share besides just bearing my testimony. But I am alot more confident in talking with people now, however, I still don't like to lead conversations. I can pretty much say anything I want, but it is with the limited words that I know, so it is a very simplified idea of what I am trying to say.

So on viernes (Friday), we had ínter cambios (exchanges) with the zone leaders because Enrique needed to be interviewed for baptism. So, I went with Elder Adams to his area in Del Valle, and Elder Sican stayed here with Elder Lowry. Now the zone leaders have a house that they live in. The bottom floor is bigger than our entire apartment and they have a whole second floor too. So from there, we started our day, and we taught a lesson with a recent convert, and then for like the rest of the day, we could not find anyone. All of our appointments fell through. Now their area is a pueblo, so it is very poor. We had to walk very far to get to this one part of their area and the houses are literaly like shacks. There is a concrete floor, but the concrete wasn´t set right. So it is like someone just poured concrete on the floor and then it hardened over all the little bumps and things so the floor is not flat. Also it just looks like wood is built around the concrete and then there are just a bunch of metal sheets that make up the walls. Also, all the houses here, even the nicer ones have no insulation, so it is literally like the people are living in an oven. But after we had no luck and sweating more than I have sweat here so far, we saw a family sitting on their porch, and we decided to talk to them. They then gave us their chairs and told us to sit as they went in to get more chairs. We were then able to teach them part of the first lesson on why there are so many churches and how they can discover which one is true through prayer. They are a really great family, and I wish that I could continue teaching them. 

Then we had an appointment with this man that the zone leaders met the other day. They weren´t even planning on contacting him, but the man asked them if they were thirsty and if he could bring them some water. So we had a lesson with him, and he is just great. He has two little kids and when we asked him what he really wants in this life, he said, he wants to be an example for his kids and be a great husband to his wife. Perfect missionary answer. He also has a strong testimony of prayer, because it was through prayer that he was able to stop drinking. And to bring it all together, he accepted our invation to be baptized. Again I am really sad that I don't get to keep teaching him, but I am thankful for the experience.

We then returned home after acquiring some dogs. One of the members in that area owns a hot dog stand, so alot of the time he gives the missionaries free dogs. The hot dogs in Mexico are AMAZING!!! They are always wrapped in bacon and are just topped with so much magic it is pretty much indescribable.

When we got home, I just started sweating so much because the house was an oven. We finished planning for the day and in just that half hour, my shirt was drenched! It was nasty! I then thought how the heck am I goining to sleep in this heat and being so sweaty. But then when I opened the door to the bedroom, I was pleased to find that the room was freezing cold! There was an AC in the tiny room! 

Well, that's all. It's sad that Scott and Dawna are moving. I know everyone is going to miss them. And sounds like things are busy with all the before school activities. I love hearing everything that is going on and thanks for all the pictures you send. They always make me smile. :) 

Love,

Elder Snyder

A Mexican cat

A Mexican dog

The sisters decorated my daily planner.

Our kitchen

Week 7 - The city of Mochis...Let the sweating begin!

¡Hola!

¡Feliz cumpleaños para mi favorito hermanos! (Happy Birthday to my favorite brothers!)

Thank you for sharing everything that has happened this week. I love hearing all the stories that are happening back home. That sounds so awesome that Parker and Matthew got to ride in a McLaren for their birthdays. And the pictures too... it is nice to see everyone still looks as I remember them. 

Girls camp looks super fun. I am kind of jealous, it sounds like everyone had a great experience even though there were bison roaming around. haha!

So I apologize because I was not very clear as to where I am in my mission. But to be fair, I didn`t really have any idea either. So with that, I am in the state of Sinaloa, in the city of Mochis, and our area is central Mochis or Macapule B. As for the name of the city, I don't know why it is called Mochis, my companion and I joke that it is the city of backpacks (mochilas). 

So our mission is very hot! Big surprise, I know. After being outside for about five minutes, I am soaked in sweat. A lot of people here carry around rags just to wipe the sweat off, so I plan on investing in one of those. The worst is when you are in someone's house and they think the fan is pointed at you, but its actually not. Then you just wish you had a rag to keep the sweat out of your eyes and from dripping down your face. It sounds pretty gross, and it is, but it is normal here. When you shake someone's hand you don't have to worry about your hands being sweaty, everyone just expects it. (And you know me, it is quiet a relief because my hands are always sweaty.) :) Oh, and because we sweat so much, we get to drink this really great drink called Suero. It is basically this drink that has different flavors such as apple, fruit punch, or coconut. The only catch is that it taste like someone has poured a bunch of salt in it. So basically it is like drinking a slightly less salty ocean. So it brings back memories of swallowing salt water. But the reason is because we sweat so much, we lose a lot of salt, and if you lose too much, you get dehydrated even if you are drinking a lot of water. So in order to get back those salts, we drink Suero.

As for my first week... it was hard. I am glad you shared your times of difficulty on your mission, so that I can know that it is not easy for everyone. 

So, my very first lesson. We went to one of our progressing investigators houses, Enrique. Enrique will hopefully be getting baptized this Saturday if everything goes as it should. So we sit down to teach Enrique. Now I left the CCM with a decent amount of confidence because I could understand about 70 percent of what someone was saying to me. Now I can honestly tell you that I understood absolutely nothing of what he said. I did not recogize a word. Even when he said the prayer! There are specific words that we always use in a prayer, and I heard none of them. This is mainly because Enrique speaks kind of quietly. He does not open his mouth at all and he stutters at pretty much every word. I think what makes it really hard is the stuttering, which at times makes it difficult to understand what someone is saying in English, but in Spanish it is pretty much impossible for me at the moment. So my companion takes the lead in all of our lessons. And the only way that I know what is going on is because I can understand my companion. 

Now most of all the other lessons go in a pretty similar manner. Except I pick up a few words here and there, but not enough to actively participate in the lessons. I get to share my testimony and I can give a little insight but that has been pretty much all I have been able to do. I rely a lot on Elder Lowry to carry the lesson. And I am extremely grateful for his patience. 

So missionaries are supposed to eat one large meal with the members. Now in the U.S. that is dinner, but here in Mexico it is Comida, which starts at 2:30. But Comida is one of my favorite parts so far... the food is always sooo good! So we eat breakfast, then we have to wait until comida at 2:30 to eat, and then because we don't eat dinner with the members, we work until we get home at 9:30. Then we do our daily planning and with the time left, we have to scrape up some dinner and get ready for bed at 10:30.

Oh, and another thing that I was not expecting was that I have had to help give two priesthood blessings. So I was the one who annointed the oil. But the problem with that was that it had to be in Spanish, go figure. But not that that was bad... what was really hard was that the people here have very long names and I pretty much have no idea what they are saying. So the first blessing my companion repeated the name to me as I was giving the blessing. Then the other time, we were giving one to a hermana and she was nice enough to write her whole name down for me. So that was fun. :)

So to get around, we mainly walk everywhere...so we sweat a lot!! We are always sweaty when we go into someone's house and it is very nice when we get invited inside because they usually try to make sure the fan is pointed towards us. But to get to our church we take a camión or bus. The buses are always fun because each one looks different but they all drive the same. The bus drivers stop for anyone on the road (because you have to pay 7 pesos each time you get on) so the bus stops when you least expect it, and you can tell the bus driver to stop pretty much anywhere. Also there are no traffic laws in Mexico. So people are crossing anywhere in the road that they want, and a red light only means stop if you want to.

I love you all so much and thanks for all you prayers and everything you have done for me. This experience in Mexico is really testing my faith, but I know that with the help of the Lord, He will make weak things become strong and help us after the trial of faith. 

Les amo

Elder Snyder

The city of Mochis

The Washer...

and Dryer

Dinner