My change was nuts. My new companion is from Guatemala named elder Gomez. We are Zone Leaders of the biggest zone in the Mission. And just as Dad said the area is in rough shape and there aren’t very many investigators. Time to work, but wait... I can’t work in my area because I have to work in everybody else's so much. Yeah, it’s nuts.
Today I didn’t have a p-day really ‘cause we had to make some sacrifices to get a family married and baptized by this weekend. So we took a 4 hour bus ride to get a birth certificate, and then came back. My new area is in the department of Yoro, and the city is called Progreso. It’s pretty big and my area is just outside of centro.
Everything is going well though. Just gotta keep workin’ like always.
Love you guys!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
November 16, 2009 E-mail
The joke of hotel colon is that it should have been spelled hotel colón (which means Columbus--like Christopher Columbus) but without the accent it’s the same in Spanish ‘cause everyone knows what it means, but in English it’s colon like your backside. Hahaha. Very funny.
Nothing actually bit me, it was bad peanut butter, but it didn’t hurt at all. I got a Benadryl shot and by the next day you couldn’t even tell. So anyway, this week we baptized again, 15 year-old boy that’s been coming to church for a while now. And that makes 4 weeks of straight baptizing. We have 2 more that are going to be baptized this weekend, a sister and an aunt of recent converts. And then we have a bunch of investigators that will be baptized for the next weekend. We want to start up a baptizing streak, and we´re going strong. My companion is named Elder Hausen, and he’s all right. He’s a hard worker; we work well together, but we aren’t the best of friends like I was with Elder Clinger. There was no huge story of this week. Sorry. Oh! My shoes and pants got here! Thanks! There are changes on Wednesday, but they still haven’t told us if we have changes or not, so I’ll be letting you know either later today, or next week if I have a change.
Love you guys!!
Nothing actually bit me, it was bad peanut butter, but it didn’t hurt at all. I got a Benadryl shot and by the next day you couldn’t even tell. So anyway, this week we baptized again, 15 year-old boy that’s been coming to church for a while now. And that makes 4 weeks of straight baptizing. We have 2 more that are going to be baptized this weekend, a sister and an aunt of recent converts. And then we have a bunch of investigators that will be baptized for the next weekend. We want to start up a baptizing streak, and we´re going strong. My companion is named Elder Hausen, and he’s all right. He’s a hard worker; we work well together, but we aren’t the best of friends like I was with Elder Clinger. There was no huge story of this week. Sorry. Oh! My shoes and pants got here! Thanks! There are changes on Wednesday, but they still haven’t told us if we have changes or not, so I’ll be letting you know either later today, or next week if I have a change.
Love you guys!!
November 9, 2009 E-mail
OK, last week there was no time ‘cause we were recording a rap song. It’s called "We Be White." It’s about being a white missionary in Hondo. It’s pretty sick.
So we baptized the last three weeks in a row, and for this month we have 4 baptized, and like 8 with baptismal dates. We’re on fire up in here. So as for stories, I have a few. But first I thought of some small details that I don’t believe I’ve ever shared, like showering out of a bucket every single day of my life. But here’s something you’ll really enjoy: I have learned to make flour tortillas with my bare hands. I’m pretty good actually. Another random fact: they drink something here called Avena. Ring any bells? It’s oatmeal, but like a cold juice. I’ve been drinking it for a year now and love it, but I wasn’t sure if you all knew or not.
OK, here's the story of the week. I’m gonna do a quentin terrentino on it. She screamed, "POOOPPPP!!!!" Let’s go back to the beginning. We were sitting teaching some of our coverts and one has a 1 year old, very needy, boy. Big time attention seeker. He always wants to be breast-fed when we are there just to prove that he is more important than we are, but this time she was kind of ignoring his crying for ten minutes or so. My companion was teaching, and I was watching him when I did a double check that they were all paying attention, and I see the little boy trying to touch his mother’s face with something--something that looked an awfully lot like poop. It was. So I said," pooop..." and pointed at which point the turd falls from the boy’s finger and on to his mother’s lap, and she screamed, "POOOOOPP!!!" and freaked out and went and bathed the child (who had pooped himself and only wanted his mother to change him). And I almost puked.... that’s the story of the week.
I have a favor to ask though. ¿Could you guys email me some pictures of the bug? I wanna see how the progress is coming. Thanks! Tell everybody that asks about me that I say hi specifically to them!
Love you!
Oh, I almost forgot. Something bit me this week and my face swelled up like in Hitch! Wait till you see!
So we baptized the last three weeks in a row, and for this month we have 4 baptized, and like 8 with baptismal dates. We’re on fire up in here. So as for stories, I have a few. But first I thought of some small details that I don’t believe I’ve ever shared, like showering out of a bucket every single day of my life. But here’s something you’ll really enjoy: I have learned to make flour tortillas with my bare hands. I’m pretty good actually. Another random fact: they drink something here called Avena. Ring any bells? It’s oatmeal, but like a cold juice. I’ve been drinking it for a year now and love it, but I wasn’t sure if you all knew or not.
OK, here's the story of the week. I’m gonna do a quentin terrentino on it. She screamed, "POOOPPPP!!!!" Let’s go back to the beginning. We were sitting teaching some of our coverts and one has a 1 year old, very needy, boy. Big time attention seeker. He always wants to be breast-fed when we are there just to prove that he is more important than we are, but this time she was kind of ignoring his crying for ten minutes or so. My companion was teaching, and I was watching him when I did a double check that they were all paying attention, and I see the little boy trying to touch his mother’s face with something--something that looked an awfully lot like poop. It was. So I said," pooop..." and pointed at which point the turd falls from the boy’s finger and on to his mother’s lap, and she screamed, "POOOOOPP!!!" and freaked out and went and bathed the child (who had pooped himself and only wanted his mother to change him). And I almost puked.... that’s the story of the week.
I have a favor to ask though. ¿Could you guys email me some pictures of the bug? I wanna see how the progress is coming. Thanks! Tell everybody that asks about me that I say hi specifically to them!
Love you!
Oh, I almost forgot. Something bit me this week and my face swelled up like in Hitch! Wait till you see!
November 2, 2009 E-mail
Hey all!
I don’t have a lot of time to write today but all is well. I’ll fill you in next week on all that’s going down.
Love you, peace!
I don’t have a lot of time to write today but all is well. I’ll fill you in next week on all that’s going down.
Love you, peace!
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