May 4, 2015
Dear Mom and Dad!
Well it sounds like you guys had a great week, minus for the
crappy soccer game! I think Mom planned to buy that Gord as well... ;) hahaha
KIDDING MOM! :) I love you and your love for Gords! :) Hey I will be sending
photos this week for email because drop box is STRRUGGGLINGGGG for space right
now, so when you guys get a chance to get those photos changed out that would
be tots awesome! :) It was super awesome to see those two ex missionaries the
other day! They were my zone leaders when I was in Miraflores, and helped me
out a lot there! I look back now, and realize that that area was my first Gethsemane of the mission, and those two missionaries
helped me out a lot, especially with my companions that I had. But it was super
awesome to see them, and they sent you
that photo! I gave them that email because I figured you would have liked to
see it! :) I want to see the Avengers as well! They have some billboards with
the new batman movie as well! That will be coming out when I'm home, thank
Goodness! :) But the Avengers will be a must watch when I get home! :) Sounds
like The Auction was super great, and hopefully Lauren made a lot of money! Texas Road house
sounds so good right now haha! Our lunch appointment is struggling as well
right now.....#Only Rice And Beans hahaha but we are surviving! She will
usually give us a tiny bit of meat, but it is a guaranteed pound of rice, and
the other half of the plate are the beans haha :) YUMMMMM Oh by the way, one of
the packages made it today, which is perfect timing because the rainy season
has just started. The Nicas say around the 20th of May is when the unstopping
rain begins, but the Nicas are like how I was before the mission.... a little
over exaggerative :) haha but last week it rained cats and dogs in Managua, gratefully we
were not there for that. One the news channel it showed people walking up to
their chests in water!!
I'm going to plan on talking with you guys around 7pm! I
hope that works for you guys! I'm so excited to talk with you and see you
again! I feel like we just talked like a few weeks ago though for Christmas!
crazy! :)
Funny story time though!
So last week on Thursday night, Elder Sacalxot and I had to
deal with some zone problems, so we were up till about midnight, and so we hit
the sheets super hard that night. But as I fell asleep for about an hour, I
realized it got really hot in the house, and I try turning on my fan, but it
wont turn on, and at the same time I hear the other Elders doing the same
thing. We all realized that the Power had gone out.... at home that is not too
bad, but here it gets so hot at night time, and the other thing a fan is good
for is to keep the mosquitoes off of you. So we all are exhausted, and we go
out on to our balcony, and sit there for like 2 hours in the middle of the
night, waiting for the power to come back, but it never did... so we went
inside and fell asleep, and got EATEN alive by mosquitoes! and because of that
we did not sleep at all. We woke up the next day and were so dead... the lights
did not come on till 11 am that next morning! crazy stuff!
Elder Sacalxot and I had to go down to Rivas this weekend
and help make sure people would get baptized! That was exciting, as well as our
zone meeting was awesome! I attached two videos you guys can watch tonight! The
first one is about atonement. We used that to help the missionaries understand
that as they do not work as hard as they should, they are rejecting
little by little the atonement of Jesus Christ. The video so awesome, and brings
the Spirit so strong. The second video we watched at the end of the zone
conference, to help pump the missionaries up. This is by far one of my favorite
pump up videos! If Laubs needs help getting pumped up for a game, this is the
video to watch with her! Its is from the movie, Facing Giants! Super awesome!
:)
We have seen a difference in the missionaries after the zone
meeting, and that showed on Sunday, when as a zone we broke the record for
investigators in church in the history of the zone! We brought 94 people as a
zone! that was so great! we worked so hard for it, and the Lord blesses for
those that work! :) we brought 11 people to church! We are still trying to find
more investigators, but we are finding people little by little! There has to be
a secret to do it! Every area has a secret, and I have found it in all my other
areas, but this one. I know I will find it though through the help of the Holy
Ghost! :)
I love you guys! Thanks for everything you do for me!
(Atonement)
(Pump Up)
