conference was remarkable!

Morning Family!!

Conference was remakable!! :) I will attach my letter to president to show and express my feelings in regaurds to conference! :) I want you to know I love you all, I pray and hope for the best for each of you! We potentially could be having more missionaries in the family now!

New Area . Vientecuatro de Diciember (24 de Diciembre) or 24th of December in english! It is located in Tocumen on the outskirts of Panamà City! The Lord has also entrusted me with the opportunity to serve as a Zone Leader. I pray I may have the Lords help as I embark about in my new assignment. :) My Campanion is Elder Vallecillo from Hunduras, he will be headed home in November (end of this change), and he is a Champion. I pray I may learn as much as possible from him before he has the grand opportunity of Meeting his family again :) I am thrilled at all the changes taking place, and all that is going on, an excitment in the air!

I pray conference impacted your hearts :) and that we may continue to recover the material shared this weekend, in the next upcoming months! The Youth of this Church are going to be incredible, I feel honored to have three sisters that will be invovled in this :)

I also want you to all know I know Life is very real, but I know through the Savior, things can be made right, and happiness can be found :) Conference gave me a fire, to go and play even harder in life. I pray for all of you at home in Utah, to continue to Know, Live, and Love the Gospel as was stated by the new Young Womens President!

Some of my favorites?? I loved the talks given by Elder Holland and President Monson in the Sunday morning session. Just blew me away!

I love you all! :) I really do :) You will be in my prayers :) Including you mom, each and every one, I miss you :)

Take care, I invite us all to Act, leave the past behind, and Act today :)

With full love in my heart,

-Elder Kyle Tucker

to climb on top.

Goodmorning!!
     Well to make note on the work. Together with Elder Tzep (native from guatemala) we are heading into quite a battle! The work is going to be tough but it will be quite rewarding if we can climb ontop! PLease keep me in your prayers and in your hearts! AS you are all always in mine :)
Really the mission is changing my life, the situations placed before me, and what it takes to climb ontop :) To do the will of the Lord is everything! :)
Love you all! More than you can all imagine!!
 We will be learning as we go, but praying even harder to recieve guidance and strength here. The Ward is not the strongest, but we understand that and we have begun to work with the bishop, and Hno. Estrada to do all we can to strengthen and help rescue the ward. Like today, for p-day we are going out with the bishop, to get to know more the Area and all we can do to strengthen it here. Along with that we are striving to obtain the new standard of 5 new fechas and 5 in sacrament meeting. Working our hardest for the people here and how we can help bring the gospel of Jesus Christ into their lives. Elder Tzep is a champ. Love the Mission. take care-
from Lassande, from the battle ground -
-ELder Tucker

morning morning!

Morning Morning! :)
      How is everyone doing?? repoting from Panamà this morning! As for the mission we are doing good, seeking and looking for improvement, but that comes little by little. Keep me in your prayers as I continue in this great work!
     Well this past week, we have spent a bunch of time with our Ward Mission Leader, who was set apart last night as a Missionary. He will be headed to Dominican Republiuc for the MTC, then to Puerto Rico to serve. He is a stud. Someone I have learned alot from. some very important things, and it came from his actions. Someone I know will be a great Missionary. A 21 year old Engineering student who has put his life on hold to be a Servant of the Lord. I love it. The Mission is incrdible!
     As for me, I am doing good. Fingers still in recovery, but don´t worry. Middle finger free and in the air, healing well. Index finger still sleeved and recovering, but doing good :) Patient needing process, but doing great! Doctor today :) hope for stiches out soon! .so there is the update!
     Well I love you all. I have been putting a lot of effort in to grow spiritually lately. and have been loving it! When I read and study, its about applying it directly into my life today. Putting the advice or principle learned directly to work. Its Very powerful. and I love it!
Love you all! hope for the best. Praying lots for each of you :) your son, and brother,
-Elder Tucker

healing process

Hey!
     Yes No Infection, that is my highest goal right now. I will do what is necessary to prevent infection. And I will follow doctors orders. as for therapy, I am not sure, I have not heard a thing, so I assume it is not something they do here. but I am not worried because I have a lot of movement, so ill continue to progress there. I am doing good, just will be a healing process, Thanks for all your love and support :) We will keep takin care of it!
      Trek. Sounds great, oh the memories, and testimonies formed. I am so grateful for them. Tell the girls to write about it if they can. You are all so blessed to have things like that so close to home. Well I am glad they enjoyed, I pray they can continue to grow as young women. I pray my sisters are happy! :) let them all know I love them!
     well, things are going great here. really this past weekend we had a successful ward activity. Unity formed, Investigators befriended, and testimonies grown. I enjoyed it! Also We spoke in Sacrament meeting yesterday. That was a upifting experience :) Always love that opportunity! I Shared about the Love for one another, and If we have it the Lord will strengthen us with the rest. Testimonies shared. - Also kinda sad,our ward mission leader will be leaving for his mission this next week. so this is our last week to work with him. He is a stud. I am grateful for his example!
     We are here for a reason. and we ill continue to work hard. We are working on Lifting this ward. and we are on an uphill climb :) I am grateful for the gospel. I love you all. The Olympics Started! woot woot!
     Elder Kyle Tucker

story time:

  

      I was cutting Palms off a Palm tree during a service activity, and I would bend a palm with my left hand and cut the palm where it roots from the core of the palm tree, with the machete that I held in my right hand. Well as I had made way about half way around the palm tree, preparing to cut the next palm off, with my left hand bending the next palm down, I had disturbed a habitat of bees.
      I stepped back to seperate from the situation and to rid the bees from my body. As I brushed them away from my arms, I unfortunately caught the tip of the blade with my index and middle finger. And that is where the cut was formed.
      I ran over towards the Bishop where I was quickly helped. My hand was then washed, then we headed to the Hospital. Hospital Chriqui. Kind of a different experience there, a little frightening, never having had an accident in the past before. But I put my trust in the Lord, and just being fingers, knew everything would be okay.

So details: and to answer questions.

     Yes I had cut through the tendon on my index finger, but not affected the deeper tendons below (fortunately) but yes it was to the bone. and on the middle finger, no tendons cut and not to the bone. The Hospital was very neat and clean, and yes a professional Doctor. (I was in good hands - expensive Hospital) Doctor Tortosa, Orthopedic Surgion, performed the operation for me. Very nice man, who speaks english and spanish. I was knocked out for the Surgery and woke up later with Blue wrapps on my fingers. All had gone well. I spent the night at the hospital, and was reviewed and released by the Doctor in the morning.
     With a Miracle story, we arrived at the Baptism held at 12:00 at thew end of church in the Chapel of Lassonde. I was put in right there for Photos. It was a special experience to be a witness for these two baptisms. To watch these two young individuals arrise out of the water, was incredible. The Spirit testified to me of the great work we are participating in.  :)
      From there all is well. President and Hna. Ward are helping me out and making sure everything goes okay with the recovery. Don`t worry about me, just my two fingers, I`ll be fine!! :) As for that, any questions? :)
     Well I am glad everyone is doing great. I went back and finished chopping my tree after it had been sprayed. haha! Im not going to let this experience affect me or slow me down in this great work.
Tell everyone hi, and I am doing great!
Love you all, take care
-Elder Tucker

new area!

Goodmorning!
     Well, I have arrived in my new area. Lassonde. It is Located in Panama, providence of Chiriqui, city of David. It is a ways out from the city. A Seven hour bus ride is the journey we took to make it out here, A little bit relaxing. From there an arrival at 11:00 at night, I was taken to my area by my new comp. Elder Cruz. He is from El Salvador, He is new in the mission with one change, so I will continue to Train him. so the Training doesn´t stop! haha but as for the area, its very nice, I did not know how much I missed nature, Located here are trees and yards, and just open fields, and what not. Its a nice feeling to walk on the streets from day to day. Reminds me more of home :) As for the ward, we can help here in Lassonde, and I pray that the Lord may help us do that. and I know he will.
    Being out here in the ¨intirior¨ is a different feeling. The people are very nice. and just seem to be more relaxed, and happy. I pray I may enjoy my time here, weither it be short or long. and that the Lords work can go Forth.
    My comp is young, he is tight. He was a preivous gangster. has a huge scar on his wrist and up his arm from a knife wound. and he has a bullet wound on the back of his neck. He feels God has given him a second chance, the ability to live, and it has given part of the testimony he has to him. He is a champ. I hope I can be a champ to him, a brother and a friend, always.
   

Well Thatll do for today, time is running out. I love you All. Year mark this week! and we will have the opportunity to listen to a Seventy speak this week. fun fun.
Mission Panamá awesome. take care.
Elder Tucker 

last of june!

Hi!
     Well sounds like things have been full and have been fun. Love hearing about all the news and all thats going on. Continue to smile and continue to love all that is going on!
      We are very excited. We will be holding a baptismal service friday for five individuals. A Baptism of women. The ward will be very involved, a night of fun. We invited the bishopbrick to perform the baptisms, and they gladly accepted. The Ward is great here in Don Bosco, and we are doing all we can to strengthen it.
      With these individuals, that will be 24 converts in this ward.... I feel so blessed to be invovled in this great work :)
      And yup, your right, President said I will be headed out these next changes. It will be quite unique to go from this place. but part of the mission right? just glad I could be here and be part of the work like I have. I think the hardest part will be saying goodbye to my bishop... He´s like a father to me. but all will be well. :)
. Its been another good week in Don Bosco. We continue to work hard and see miracles. We are working with the ward and seeing many fruits of the work. We will see five more individuals enter the baptismal font this week and three more next week. Finishing strong. Tomorrow we will be traveling with various intestigators to the temple for our stake temple day. They will have the remarkable opportunity of feeling the Spirit of the Lord that is present there. We are invovled in planning a youth activity in the ward as well - a challenge to read the Book of Mormon this year. The area is doing great and I am doing all I can to strengthen it before I leave. It will be sad to go, but the time was good and with the Lord we were able to see many mighty miracles. I am grateful for Elder Shaw, he is doing great. I left him in the area(I went on divisions) to do the work, and He did phenominal. I continue to pray for his strength and progression.  The mission is incredible. The Lord's work goes forth. In the name of Jeus Christ. Amen.
I just love everything going on right now in my life. thank you. take care.
-Elder Tucker

the gospel is remarkable

Goodmorning!
     Its good to be able to write. Thanks for all that you do. Especially your support while I am here on the mission.
Strawberry Days, How fun. I remember last year and just Lovin it up. What good times. Classic Pleasant Grove. Oh how I miss the Home town. :)

Well Love you All, We are doing great, and we continue to see success. I love how last week My comp was able to Baptize, a week into the mission. We continue to Laugh and Enjoy. and continue to walk in the Sun and the Rain! haha.The Gospel is remarkable just want you all to know that! right now we are working with a family, helping them get married so they can be baptized, I love it. I love helping these people. Its the work of the Lord! well just know we are happy, and we are workin at it!
  The Lord is blessing his work here in Don Bosco. To have Elder Shaw here and to train, there is a reason. We continue to enjoy each day as we have the opportunity to view individuals grow and progress. It was Amazing, on Sunday, I was able to be in Sacrament meeting and 13 of my recent converts present in the meeting. What a Blessing it is to see, the time, and the fruit of the work. I continue to Pray for the Individuals in this area, including this Ward. It is great to be here at this time, and I know where ever the Lord takes me, I am ready. As for me and Elder Shaw, we will keep working hard here. Pray for the Mission. Pray for everyones success. This Gospel is Remarkable. I know its true, and I know it changes Lives. In his name, Jesus Christ. amen.
-Elder Tucker

praying for you all here in Panama

Goodmorning!
     Well what to talk about, I sent Pics that should tell some story for you! Kay- changes this week, we highly anticipated that I would be going and Elder Cerrato would be staying, but we heard rumor, that I could be staying in the area to train a new missionary. so now we have no idea. Me and Elder Cerrato are both fully preparing for a change. so just stay tuned :)
    Okay , just have to say this baptism of Alexis and Emiliana Perez, Remarkable. and guess what?? I had the opportunity to Baptize Hno. Alexis, and he is a worker in building the new sections of the Canal.  He drives a big Tonka Truck. The big giant ones, Thought that was so unique, because of my love for tractors when I was younger and driving the loader and what not. He is a Champ -definately a baptism to never forget. The Family is Incredible, they made a lot of sacrifices to make it to the baptismal font. and for that they will be blessed. Keep them as a Family in all ya alls prayers. Thanks :)
    P-day, paintballing, that was nuts. got popped right in the mask ¨dos veces¨!
    Well thats how things are doin - Sounds like the Fam is doing great. Blessed. - Keep wrappin it all up, and prep for a terrific summer! Thanks for all you All do. really. Keep Working hard and bein Great!!
           Well Love you All
Praying for you all here in Panamá
               Take Care

             Elder Tucker

IT IS AMAZING

Good afternoon  :)
         Well I am soakin wet and ending a P-day right now. Wow we went on
a big travel into the Ïnterior¨and visited a place called ¨Valle de
Anton¨it was gorgeous. visited a zoo. climbed a mountain. and thats
when the rain hit. came all the way down in the pouring rain, it was
nuts!
   As for the work - IT IS AMAZING :) we continue to work hard, and
this past week we had a family (a couple) accept baptismal dates, and
we are helping progress towards it. They are amazing, The Father´s
name is Alexis and the Mother Emiliana. We Love them. He works at the
construction of the New Segments of the Canal site, driving a Giant
Tonka Truck. I love it! haha! Well as for them and others, we are
helping them progress toward baptism. We have a Neighbor named Briyan
he is 15 and we as well are helping him progress towards baptism as
well. He´s definately a teenager, but when we are there, he stops, and
he Listens. I feel he can and will improve from the lifestyle he was
raised in, if he follows the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
   Well I still wonderin what we will do with the call, I wont stress
to much, I just want everyone to be happy. and have the opportunity to
share with me. I will put my trust in the Lord and see where He takes
us.    
I love the Mission and I love the time I get to have here. itll be over before we know it. I had
interviews with President this last week, loved them. :)  Well Love
you All, from your Elder, choa.
-Elder Tucker

Morning :)
   Well I just sent a ton of Photos! hope you enjoy that! :) Well I have a package sitting infront of me from my dear family :) I have yet to explore it, but I am eating Laughy Taffies right now, haha, love it!  - So just want to start off, Grandma Friendly, tear came to my eyes with the news. I pray what ever the Lord has in store for her, it may be carried out. wether she may heal, or pass on to her dear Owen. Most importantly I pray she may be Happy. I am so very grateful for the time I was able to spend with her. if you get the chance let her know I love her.  gosh hard to hold back tears when writting about it..
    As for everything else, Awesome! haha ive had a lot going on in this Area, and I am just Loving my time Right now! The Gospel is Amazing and I love it! The Photos tell alot of the stories, we are lovin it :)
    Yeah I hope I can skype for mothers day, I am going to try and figure out the best thing I can do for that day. so don´t worry! just a little harder in the Area I am in with the technology.
   As for Rainy Season - its from March to December, and the dry season is mid December to mid March, but no Biggy it hasnt rained a ton, but it has begun. :)
    Well Loving everything. Know the Lords Work is Amazing. and You have a Happy Son :) Love you all, take care.

-Elder Tucker

good morning america!

Goodmorning America! Hope you are all doing wonderful this week of April :) -As for here in Panamà, we are doing great. We have Changes this week. And my comp and I are both hoping to stay where we are at. but we are fully prepared for what the Lord has in store for us. Individuals in the area are progressing and it is Amazing to see. I hope I can stay, because there are individuals who want me to baptize them! Baptisms are the Best :) Well I love you all, and just want you to know, rain or sun, the work goes forth!

Well Love you, tired today, but thats no worries, we conquere that everyday!
The Church is True, Christ Lives.
-Elder Tucker

 

this life is remarkable!!

Good morning! P-day today, bright and sun shinny day! So i am sending photos of the great work here in Biancheri! The work continues to go forth :) I had the opportunity to Baptize that little girl, her name is Loremis :) she is 9 years old and she is adorable, shy as can be! There is a story with that baptism too! A father Baptized his son the same day as well :) Then more baptisms this past week, I had the opportinuty to Confirm the young lady in the Photo with me and Elder Lopez!  - goodness just so many opportunitys to use the priesthood, and to help this great work, i really am so greatful for this remarkable opportunity :)  i just want you to know i am Happy, yes the mission is difficult, but the Lord is there to help!
 - This past week heard from and meet Elder Russel M Nelson... Absolutly Incredible experience.... one to always remember... :)  The spiritual presence of him and his wife... wow... thank you :) This Life really is remarkable!! - i dont feel like my words can do justice, but just know, I am strengthened more by Their teachings, and more or less, teachings of the Lord.... :) I pray we may all continue to strive to be a force of good in this world, and be there for others, to help in all times!

Have the opportunity to travel with a Family to the Temple this week, i am excited :) We worked hard this past week, we met a difficult goal that was set! - Also come and gone 6 months of the mission, wow! hehe well I love you all - know that! -hope everything continues to be great at home, you are all in my prayers, w/ love
-Elder Tucker

happy new year!

Goodmorning!! Happy New Year, welcome to 2012! its very exciting news, haha and i am excited to work in the work of the Lord this year! - for the past week we had three baptisms, a family to be more particular :) Loved the Experience, really was Absolutley amazing to walk into the water with them and to be part of this incredible experience for them :) The Work continues to progress forth, i found out individuals from my first area were baptized this past month, and all is well! I am Loving it here in Panamà!! - Ahh really the Baptisms were Beautiful!! :)   you are all really very spoiled in the United States! (and p.s. i am even in a more wealthy country down here). You are all very blessed, so be very thankful for what you have, as for me down here, ill keep workin hard with what ive got, definately learned to find Joy in the Journey and not in the destination! - tomorrow we have the opportunity to travel to the Temple again and then some sites afterword, i am very excited :) haha Love the Temple!
Well i Love you all, I continue to have spiritual experience, and see Miracles... :) I love my Family more than i can express! and my friends as well.. :) My gratitude defenately has grown in 2011, and i know 2012 will only bring more!  - I continue to try and work hard with the Language, thank you for the prayers!
Love from Panamà, take care!

-Elder Tucker