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Hector bautismo!! Another week in Texical, Nahuizalco, El Salvador

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Monday December 15, 2025 Subject: Hector bautismo!! Another week in Texical, Nahuizalco, El Salvador Que ondas family and friends It was a pretty awesome week here in Texical, had a super awesome zone conference this week, found a lot of people to start teaching, and topped it off with our friend Hector's baptism this sunday Wednesday this week we went to chop wood for a member in the branch, and I think the wood chopped me more than I chopped it, cuz I left with 6 nasty nasty blisters haha. That made the next couple days pretty sucky from a physical standpoint cuz I could barely touch anything without feeling like my fingers were getting burnt off, but theyre starting to heal so thats good. I thought the water in my last house was cold, but looking back it was nothing. But now the waters so freaking cold it feels like it comes straight from a freaking glacier. And I have to like convince myself to get in the shower every morning its so cold bro. Had some really good scripture stud...
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Colby's 2025 Year Recap

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Colby's 2025 year recap (requested by mom for our Christmas email 😘) 💙... This year has been nuts, it passed by so quick but also an insane amount of things have happened in the past 12 months. I started off the year halfway through my senior year, and the only things that I cared about at that point was the state of BYU sports and Rams football, the gym, the record of my fantasy football team, my friends, sports, and more sports. We went to Costa Rica with my parents and grandparents to visit Papa's mission, a senior trip to Moab with the boys, visited my dad's mission in California with my dad and Tate, and a Lake Powell trip with my uncle Chris and aunt Chaleh's family. Got my mission call to El Salvador, graduated from high school, got into BYU, and went off to the Mexico MTC for a month. Learned Spanish and got sent off to El Salvador to the city of Juayua and spent 4 and a half months there with a Peruvian and Dominican. Then this December I got transferred to N...
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Andamos en Texical, Nahuizalco, El Salvador 🎢

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Monday December 8, 2025 Subject: Andamos en Texical, Nahuizalco, El Salvador 🎢 Cómo han estado my family and friends... I got transfer news this past Tuesday that I would be leaving Juayua after spending 4 and a half months in the area and so Tuesday and Wednesday I said my goodbyes and farewells to everybody. It was really sad cuz this is a super awesome ward with a ton of cool members and a lot of memories. Then on Thursday I got sent to my new area Texical 1 in Nahuizalco just 20 minutes away from where I was before haha 😂 Its in the same zone just a different district, so I could end up spending almost a whole year straight just in this zone haha. I got my new companion Elder Cortez from Guatemala, so its gonna be another transfer of straight spanish haha. He's super chill I think we're gonna do good together. The 3 comps I've had in the field have all been latinos, first a Peruvian, then a Dominican, and now a Guatemalan. I think I'm forgetting how to speak engli...
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Believe that He is

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Monday December 1, 2025 Subject: Believe that He is Qué me cuentan whats up cheles We're in december already and supposedly thanksgiving already happened... I think time is fake its such a crazy concept and it moves so fast I've already spent 3 transfers here in El Progreso in Juayua, El Salvador, and its pretty likely my times coming to an end in this area, but we'll see what the transfer news is. Juayua's such a cool place, we get fed everyday by the members, its a pretty massive area, we have sick mountains and jungles, the weathers awesome, and theres some really cool people here. I dont really want to leave but I'm good to go wherever I get sent. This week we found a few new families which was awesome, cuz I feel like lately we had just been finding individual people rather than the whole family. I want to help these people not only come unto Christ but stay close to Him, and I feel like thats a lot easier to do when they have the support of their loved ones as...
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The things which God hath prepared for them that love him

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Monday November 24, 2025 Subject: The things which God hath prepared for them that love him Whats upppp chelitos Another week in Juayua, El Salvador... we ate a lot of pupusas, taught a lot of lessons, all the good stuff, mostly the same old same old. I feel like my own personal testimony has been growing a lot the past few weeks and I've felt a difference in my teaching because of that growth. I'm actually sharing and testifying of the things that I truly believe in and know to be true, rather than just saying things because everyone else shares them in their testimonies. And the thing that has helped me more than anything is my personal studies. Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Corinthuans 2:9  Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, n...
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Trust the Process 🌽

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Tuesday November 18, 2025 Subject: Trust the process 🌽 Cómo han estado everybody... Another good week overall, we're just getting back from our temple trip to San Salvador. It had been like 4 months since I'd been able to go to the temple, and it was a super awesome experience to go do endowments and go in the celestial room and refocus myself. It made me realize how much I took the temple for granted in Utah when we could go just whenever we felt like it. Make time to go to the temple this week, I'm confident you won't regret it. We helped a recent convert family, la familia Pacheco, with their harvest this week and these people are different goodness gracious. We started off by going into the fields and gathered up all their corn into giant sacks, and when we got the sacks as full as they could be we carried them back towards their house.  The sacks weigh around 100-125 lbs each, we had to carry them for 15 minutes up and down the hills and through cornfields, and we...
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My Ways Higher Than Your Ways

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Monday November 10, 2025 Subject: My ways higher than your ways What's up everybody como estamos The weeks just keep stacking up it's crazy how fast time flies, and it really makes me want to take advantage of each and every day here in El Salvador, because the next time I blink I'll be giving my homecoming talk in Layton Utah haha. We had a really cool experience this week that I consider a miracle personally. Around 2 weeks ago we had decided to stop teaching this hermana named Sonia, which was a hard decision because she was so friendly and welcoming but was obviously not progressing and wasn't keeping any of the commitments that we invited. But this week while we're on our way to an appointment, my companion had the thought to pass by hermana Sonia's house even though we had stopped teaching her 2 weeks earlier.  We knocked at the door and a boy thats about 13 years old opens it. We had just barely started talking with him and he tells us he wants to show us...
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