So Caitlin made the softball team? What position¿
What’s the deal with the girls both getting brand new phones and there I was suffering with mine for 2 years. Not only that, but they received cellular devices 2ish years before I did...¿ What gives? What kind of phones did you get them? And I would just like you to know that I expect an iphone for when I get home now... no, really though you guys have gone soft. I didn’t start driving in the parking lot till after I was 15... not before.
demmciado injusto. casi no lo puedo creer. houra you se que ningun miembro de mi familia intiende el español entonces la persona que lee esto tiene que dicir a my familia que me deban. y que todavía espero sus fotos para sus forros de las escrituras. gracias por traducir. ¿¡no fue divirtido!?
So Three days ago we found a house, and today we are in the process of moving, but the small hitch is that they haven’t finished painting the interior. So we had to dump all our stuff at the church, where we may end up sleeping today. In the process of moving I was going to show my comp how awesome my suit is and to my wonderful surprise I opened the bag to find my suit half covered in mold. Yes, mold. I have no idea what I can do. I’m gonna look for a dry cleaner, but I’m not so sure I’ll find one here. So ... any suggestions¿
So right now we have 7 with a baptismal date for this Saturday. The family Zelaya, but not the parents yet, and two other people. The deal with the parents that we didn’t know is that the dad is only the father of the three youngest (3, 5, 7) and the rest with dates are all step children. The other thing is that the mother has two sons that live on the mainland, but are coming out here soon. And they’re really rebellious kids. So the dad just want to make sure that the sons will recognize him as an authority figure, and that the wife to be will take his side on important issues, and not the side of the two rebellious sons. Tonight we’re gonna go talk to them about it, but the marriage is set for this Friday (pending a little bit on the outcome of tonight). (But the thing is this, my comp and I have agreed to split paying the boda (basically the taxes that they haven’t been paying and need to be paid before they get married) and it’s about 50 dollars so if you guys could go ahead and put an extra 25 or 30 bucks in my account that’d be just swell!)
I’m way excited for Steve and Tyler. I’ll be honest with them if they read this. At first I wasn’t too sure about the whole mission thing. And the 2 months in the MTC are... bad. I liked saying that it’s like spirit prison: you can’t leave until you know all the gospel. But after that this life here actually in the field is incredible! I’m already a little scared ‘cause a quarter of my time is gone and I’ve completely forgotten normal life. Let me know where they’re heading!
I’ll try sending pictures next week. Love you guys!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
February 23, 2009
The familia zelaya todavia se va a bautzar- oops... the Zelaya family is still going to get baptized, but they want to pay for their marriage and it’s really expensive ‘cause they haven’t been paying taxes for living on the island (almost no one does). They also want to move out of their house first. And I offered to help pay the marriage, but they said no. So were just gonna wait.
My area isn’t primitive by any means. It’s more commercialized than my last area for sure, especially on the west side where the resorts are.
The books (copies of the Book of Mormon) with testimonies are all over the Ceiba right now. I couldn’t bring them with me on the boat, so I had to leave them with the whole zone. I would expect that they are all with investigators already. The elders loved them.
If anyone says hi tell them I say hello back. But a really a special thanks to the Morgan family. They were the only people to send me anything for Christmas (at Christmas time) and I was forgetting to thank them. THANKS!!
Yes, I keep a journal. No os preocupaís. (don’t worry)
Love you all!
My area isn’t primitive by any means. It’s more commercialized than my last area for sure, especially on the west side where the resorts are.
The books (copies of the Book of Mormon) with testimonies are all over the Ceiba right now. I couldn’t bring them with me on the boat, so I had to leave them with the whole zone. I would expect that they are all with investigators already. The elders loved them.
If anyone says hi tell them I say hello back. But a really a special thanks to the Morgan family. They were the only people to send me anything for Christmas (at Christmas time) and I was forgetting to thank them. THANKS!!
Yes, I keep a journal. No os preocupaís. (don’t worry)
Love you all!
February 16, 2009
La Cieba is the city on the mainland where the yaught lands (in Spanish the word is a lot easier... only yate...) and it’s the name of my zone. The whole island is my area, but we live kinda close to the airport you can see on google earth; on the side closer to mainlands. The town is called Coxen Hole. The multi zone was good and from there we started with week-long divisions so I’m still here in the Ceiba with a ZL (some crazy stuff happened today so we got permission to be on internet this late...) and I’m here until interviews this Thursday. Weird huh?¿ On the island we have a chapel, but right now we don’t have power or water, so if we baptize anybody soon it’ll be in the ocean.
Speaking of baptisms, this Friday were going to marry a family of 7 and they’ll all be baptized on Saturday. The only problem is that the dad still has smoking problems, so we´ll see. We have faith that he can quit all the way by this week. They are called the family Zelaya, and they love going to church. They have progressed so, so, so much. In the lesson that we challenged them to get married we didn’t talk about the law of chastity (we had previously) we were just talking about commandments and we asked the dad what were the commandments that we needed to follow. Now, usually people say, ¨go to church, don’t kill etc...¨, but the first thing he said was ¨getting married¨. It was so, so awesome because it means that he really understands and knows what he needs to do. Just quitting smoking is kinda hard.
Dad asked about service opportunities: right now we are in the middle of painting the house of any missionary’s dreams. It’s on stilts above the water. No other houses near it really (except a few members) and we paint every week. We actually got permission to move there, but the already had found a tenant. Oh, well. We’re still looking for a house ‘cause ours right now pretty much doesn’t have running water, but we get by.
Everything is incredible here. Working hard and loving every minute of it!
All three packages got here. I received them the same day, but i don’t know when they all got here. So thank you for the candy and ties!
Thanks for all your support! Love ya!
Speaking of baptisms, this Friday were going to marry a family of 7 and they’ll all be baptized on Saturday. The only problem is that the dad still has smoking problems, so we´ll see. We have faith that he can quit all the way by this week. They are called the family Zelaya, and they love going to church. They have progressed so, so, so much. In the lesson that we challenged them to get married we didn’t talk about the law of chastity (we had previously) we were just talking about commandments and we asked the dad what were the commandments that we needed to follow. Now, usually people say, ¨go to church, don’t kill etc...¨, but the first thing he said was ¨getting married¨. It was so, so awesome because it means that he really understands and knows what he needs to do. Just quitting smoking is kinda hard.
Dad asked about service opportunities: right now we are in the middle of painting the house of any missionary’s dreams. It’s on stilts above the water. No other houses near it really (except a few members) and we paint every week. We actually got permission to move there, but the already had found a tenant. Oh, well. We’re still looking for a house ‘cause ours right now pretty much doesn’t have running water, but we get by.
Everything is incredible here. Working hard and loving every minute of it!
All three packages got here. I received them the same day, but i don’t know when they all got here. So thank you for the candy and ties!
Thanks for all your support! Love ya!
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