NEW IPAD - TWITTER?

I got those shoes returned last week at the Nordstrom and it was really simple! They put the money back on your card! And one really important thing, that drivers record thing that I sent in the mail to you guys when I first got here, did you guys get that filled out and sent to the Mission office??  And that is so crazy that Chase is leaving! His whole call time has been since I have been here in Chicago, it seems like I haven't been here that long but back at home tons of stuff has gone on!

But this week has been great! We got our Ipads on Wednesday so we have been trying to get everything figured out on that all week! The church has it super restricted and everything so I unfortunately can't get my twitter back up and going but I guess that's okay. ;) We have wifi in our house too because of the members that live underneath us so that is really convenient because we can just do our facebook from here but it is a big temptation! We now are putting our area books onto our IPads too and that literally sucks. We have to upload all the information from it into our Ipads and it is taking forever. It wipes us out and we aren't even out working! It sucks now but once we have it all done it will be so convenient!  But all this sitting around has gotten me kind of homesick because it has been pretty boring here.  I hate just sitting in the house but we have to do it! Early in my mission I was just like I just want to relax and read the BOM but now I would much rather be out teaching and walking around! It is freezing outside some days but I love it for some reason! It is dumping snow outside right now and it just brings a smile to my face for some reason! I am beginning to love the snow and the cold weather!

But Liz’s family came to church yesterday together for the first time! She has been progressing so much but there were tons of time conflicts so we could never get them to come and we finally did!! She loved it and she cried during relief society she loved it so much! Her kids made turkeys in Primary and Oscar stayed with us!  Their whole family is doing so great and they do family home evenings every Saturday and they are learning so much! Liz says she wants to get baptized we just need to put her on date! Their whole family is amazing and I love them so much!! They treat us so well and they are so happy so bringing this joy to them is the best feeling!  

But we don't teach as much as a lot of my friends in other countries but that just makes me more grateful for the everyday little successes that I am having! I am working my hardest!  And I love everyone that I have come in contact with here!

The members take care of us so well!  For thanksgiving we are going to a member family named familia Armendariz. They are so nice and they are a great family! They have two kids, a daughter who is a little older than us and a son who is just younger! They told us if we had any food that we always ate at thanksgiving to tell them and they would make it for us! They are so nice and I am so excited for thanksgiving so don't worry about me, I will be in a great home! It is really weird not being with you guys for thanksgiving but we will be together for eternity! I love you so much though! Have a great week and stay healthy!!

Love Markell I mean Elder Eichers

DUET AT NOCHE INTERNACIONAL

Hahaha I loved that you took Hermana Culotta and her companion out! She said she loved it and that you ate really fancy! But I got your letter this week and I am sorry that it made you sad that I don't need anything but I am just kind of overloaded.

But this week has been great! Things just clicked this week! I think your fast helped even when I didn't know about it! L's family is amazing! I love them so much! Yesterday we went over for her son’s birthday, and I loved every second of it! She is doing so great with the gospel too! They are having family home evenings every Saturday with her husband’s parents who are members, and they really enjoy them! We were teaching her before the party yesterday and her husband (Who is less active) was reading about repentance and after he read it she was like when he was reading that I felt something, I don't know what it is but I felt something! It was so great, we explained to her that it was the spirit! She is progressing so well and we love their family so much! While we were teaching too we asked the husband why he was baptized and he shared his experience and how he felt the spirit at another person's baptism and wanted it for himself! It was a perfect testimony for his wife! Everything just went perfectly!

But another great thing this week was on Saturday we had Noche Internacional that is this giant party that they do at the church to try and invite people to come! There is a big performance and tons of people would do their cultural dances and things and there were rooms all around the church that were different countries! In these rooms the members from that country decorate everything and bring food for everyone to try from their country! It was all so amazing and I loved trying everything! The activity was combined with another ward. As missionaries we had to perform and we did a super funny random skit! And then we had to perform with the young men and women and I had to sing a duet for one of the verses with one of the young women. I don't know how I got roped into that because I haven't sung since like 6th grade but I did it. I was thinking though even if I messed up I could have just emergency transferred out so I wasn't way nervous hehe.  But this fiesta was packed and it made me so grateful to work with all the Hispanics, I love them all so much and the cultures are amazing!

But I am returning my shoes today just to the Nordstrom here because there was no paper with the shipping stuff like you said, I searched through the boxes so many times and I couldn't find it.  I love you so much Mom and I miss you more than anything! Oh and I will send you tons of pictures next week because I took a lot I just forgot to bring my camera here today!

Oh I forgot to say! We get IPADS this week!!!  Provo monitors it all but still we have IPADS!  Kind of sad that we can’t have angry birds and teach lessons to the little pigs, but I am excited:)

las banderas para la Noche Internacional

Mi Distrito  me, Elder Gomez, Elder Dominiguez, Elder Dean

Elder Gomez, me and Elder Dean

Elder Gomez, Liz and Oscar Reyes and family, and me

FAMILIAS PUEDEN SER ETERNAS (FAMILIES CAN BE ETERNAL)

Hahaha Jamakunu I just made that up so it doesn't actually mean anything! Haha I love that picture (from U of U game)!  And I miss that so much!  That is great you are going out to Dinner with Hermana Culotta!  I love that, I told her you would when she got to Provo!

But my favorite part of Chicago is probably the Magnificent Mile! I don't buy anything there but I love seeing it! I just love downtown so much!

But this week we are on buses and we spend so much time walking because of the timing of the buses and yesterday we thought there was a bus on this one street but there wasn't so we ended up walking like 12 blocks. We have it pretty down by now but we still make mistakes with the buses!

But L is doing great and her family is great too! On Saturday they had a family home evening with O’s parents (Her husband). (His parents live down south and L’s parents live above them, Os parents were the only parents with them on Saturday).  His parents are members and his Dad works in the temple here. His mom (Step Mom) taught the whole lesson and it was about temple marriages and eternal families so it was perfect. She said she wants to be baptized so I was so happy! We are going to try and get her a date this week some time! But after that lesson we played a game called headbandz with them and it was so much fun! I just love being with their family and you can just feel the love so strongly between them and just the spirit of joy that they have in their house!

I am learning so much though everyday! Everything is so hard but that just makes the good times so much better!  The hardest part is finding people to teach and having them keep their commitments.  If they would just give our message a chance the spirit would do the rest for them but it is hard to get them to try things out for themselves! When we are busy and have appointments I love it!  I love the people in our district though! Elder Gomez and me get along really well!

Love and miss you all! Have a great week and stay healthy! Love you!

Elder Eichers didn't send any pics this week, so I'm attaching a few that did not come from him:

Hermanas Hernandez and Culotta at dinner in Orem.
 Hermana Culotta was in the same District as Elder Eichers in the Mexico City, MTC

Elder Eichers at his own baptism, with Elder Josh Stephens (Mexico City, Chalco) and
Elder Jackson Rose (Mexico City MTC then to North Carolina)

THIRD FAST SUNDAY

A lot of our investigators aren't really progressing but I am learning so much! We are focusing a lot on trying to get members to our lessons right now because we can teach the investigators, but the members will astonish them and we are trying to have them be like Amulek like in the story of Alma.  But my Spanish is getting better but it is still not great!

But we are trying to teach S but we haven't been able to find her lately. But L and O are doing amazing! They live in the same house as L’s parents. Most families all live in same house or next door here. But we had always talked to her parents but they had never really loved us until Wednesday we were just dropping off an invitation to a birthday party for the family to go to of a member in our ward.  We had something right after so we were just going to drop it off and leave and then her mom and dad were just so nice to us and were like oh please come in and eat and everything! It was amazing and it is such a miracle! We were talking with them too and the mom was like "you guys are going to still talk to us when you guys leave right?" I was about to cry I just love them so much and I was like yeah just adopt me right now!!!!!  But I didn't say that because you are my family ;) But I love this family so much and they are doing great and are progressing so well! I am learning so much and always figuring out new ways to try and be a better missionary! Be safe and be healthy! Love you guys!

 Third Fast Sunday.  Wearing the matching tie with Brad.

Halloween