Hill, Alex (Landry)

Wow, here is the last email of my mission. I first want to thank everybody who has read these emails. I hope they have been of help and that I haven't been forgotten haha. I also want to thank everyone that has prayed for me and for the missionaries, it really means a lot, and it works. I will not officially be done or released from being a missionary until the night of June 22nd, that's when I'll be flying home. But you know it's kind of sad to think about it sometimes, but other times I also get excited. But I truly will miss being a missionary, I really think it's going to be tough to recreate the joy and experiences I've had during these past 2 years, I'm still going to try to be my own little missionary in a way, but not through knocking every door haha. I've enjoyed this last transfer (6 weeks) . It has been very fulfilling and a great way to end. I can't remember if I talked about my new and last companion, his name is Elder Poulsen, and he ha...

Hola Everybody! It has been awhile since you have heard from me. I hope life has been well for all of you and all your wildest dreams are coming true. It's been a good time here in Frederick, lots of latinos. But, I have found that many of them aren't very interested. They kind of have a beehive mentality, all they can do is just work, and they don't have time for church. So that is frustrating when they can't get to church on sundays. But, we have a baptism scheduled for this sunday, her name is Dalia, she is 9 and a lot of her family are members. We were able to go to the temple on friday with her dad. I love going to the temple! The spirit is always so strong and I always hate leaving. I'll definitely be excited to go more often once I am back home! The end of until I come home! I definitely feel the pressure and excitement of it but I'm trying hard to keep going strong and still talk to everybody I can. Not too many crazy things have happened since I've ...

Hola que Onda? Hope you all had a good Easters! I'm officially in my very last area on the mission, or at least I think I am because I don't think they would send me to another place at this point. I thought I was going to be staying in Hagerstown, and continue speaking in English, but my mission president has sent me back into Spanish work in Frederick MD! I'm super happy to be here though, because there are so many latinos and it's going to keep me busy for the rest of the time I am here on my mission. My new Comp is named Elder Johnson. He has been out for 8ish months and he is really good at making food so hopefully I can not get fat hehe. I really enjoyed my time in Hagerstown but I know the lord needs me here in Frederick now. I have been put here to do something important and to end my mission strong.  While I was doing English work in Hagerstown I crossed paths with a lot of interesting people! Someone who thought they were black jesus, another person calling us...

Hello everybody! The mission is going good, the mission is moving quick which is exciting and sad because I know this will be one of the biggest chances I have to learn and grow in Christ. So the title means (English Now) I was moved to English work haha. There were a few changes with leadership and they put all the spanish leadership in English so it's been very different, I've enjoyed it thus far it's been about 2.5 weeks, my new Comp is Elder Hansen another super tall companion, idk why they keep sticking me with the tall guys it makes me look so short haha. We are in a 4 man and that's been fun, we share a car among us 4 which isn't fun. So on the days we don't have it we bike! :( I haven't biked like at all on the mission so my legs aren't preped for it but it's good excerise so I can get home in better shape. I have just 3.5 months to go so I'm going to try to grind it out and come home in super good shape! I'm going to try real hard no...

Well well well, I bet you're wondering why you're reading this! I imagine because you love me, and miss me soooo much hehe, sorry idk why I even put that. But anyways hope you've all been well. This week was pretty solid. And these past few weeks have been fun. But the interesting thing is, my new companion went to another area which we didn't think would happen, I am in a trio again! My third trio now, but I'm enjoying it. They are (Elder Croft, Elder Killpack). Elder killpack actually swam a lot before the mission so we Relate on that. Elder croft is pretty goofy, and they were actually companions in the MTC (missionary training center) which was around 4 months ago for them haha. So it was kinda weird that they got put back together again with me. They have a few inside jokes here and there. I can't remember if I talked about our Nicaraguan friend before or not, but I found him on facebook just adding latinos in our area and I invited him to Xmas Eve church a...

Hola hola, cómo andan? Merry Christmas everyone I hope you had a jolly christmas yesterday. Mine was great! On Christmas for lunch, we went to a senior missionarys house and for lunch. We later went to a Bishop's house for another Ward and it was very fun in each each of those we played lots of games and we got lots of presents. And on Christmas Eve we had dinner with peruvians and they gave us this amazing drink called Inca Cola and we had some great roast beef, overall a very fun time! Recently there has been a big focus on the Savior and how we can become converted to him. I'm sad this time of the year closing! Christmas as a missionary just hits different. Been having a fun time in my new area and new companion, it's been tough to find new people recently but we out here grinding.  Aight spiritual message! I love the song "Little Drummer Boy" because of the lyrics and I want everyone to read it and think about it! I'm gonna take out the rum-pum-pums.  Come...