"I told you my friend is bigger than your Dad." February 24, 2014

This week was super great!! First off we had 12 investigators in church!! We're hoping to baptize all of them!! Also this week we killed a turkey, our neighbor was getting married and so they had to kill like 10 turkeys! So I literally killed one, it was pretty hard to do. I'll try and send pics!!

But the other day I was thinking about how much I love this country!! It's so cool! The culture, the people, the Spanish! There are so many trees, trees that have fruit. Right now the mangoes are coming in and they are green, but we eat them green and they're really good actually. Lots of people like them green better than ripe. Also this cool fruit we eat that comes in a pod, its hard to explain. Also the pupusas I love them so much.... the hermana in our ward that gives us free pupusas everyday, so yum. I got one this week called the pupusa loca, it has all the ingredients and its huge. It had chicken, cheese and jalapeño, garlic and cheese, ayote (like pumpkin), frijoles, ham and cheese, and I think there was one more ingredient!  But this place is just the best! I can tell it will be hard to leave!

Also I told Don Miguel about that you guys liked the mat thing and he was really happy!!
 

Guillermo was super funny this week! We were saying a prayer and he comes over and starts tickling me during the prayer. Also, he got all this candy at school and he gave me and my comp like all the candy... we felt bad taking it, but you cant reject stuff here or they feel bad. Also his mom was telling us that his teacher was saying he's a really smart kid... but he's really active and likes to talk a lot. Also ha-ha, we were walking to teach his neighbor and he walked with us and there was another kid his age with his dad, and he says to the kid, "I told you my friend is bigger than your Dad."
 

Just this. We're working super hard. We haven't baptized for like a month and a half...... so were getting anxious. We're about to put lots more dates though. We've got faith!
 

-Elder Tanner

                                Jordan with Guillermo and his sister.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Jordan with his new companion Elder Gonzalez from Guatemala, and their mission presidents the Cordons.

February 10, "I don't have very many stories this week!"

 

I sent a pic of my new comp! hes really nice... and hes cool!! hes from guatemala! i dont have very many stories this week! but i sent some pics of guillermo!! love you tons mom, hope you have a good week!!


[Note from the Mom:  I just left it raw and untouched this week!  Guillermo is the little boy that Jordan loves so much, who lost his baby brother.]

"You can't spell FECHA without FE" February 3, 2014

I only have a few little things for this week! Oh, and I got my package!! I'm so pumped I have clean sheets and all that stuff. Thanks so much!! And, can you try and find a photo of me and my friends on Christmas from last year in the snow!

So yesterday was the elections for El Salvador and it was pretty nuts at night, lots of people just like yelling and doing fireworks and marching. There is 3 parties FMLN, ARENA and UNIDAD. FMLN and ARENA are the big ones. Unidad is small, they're like Ron Paul. so I always tell people I'm from unidad when they ask. It's super funny.

Funny Guillermo story. It was really hot one of the days and we were late so we were walking super fast. We got to his house and I was just dripping. He comes up to me and talks to me for a sec like always, but then like mid sentence he just walked off and came back with newspaper, he ripped off a piece and handed it to me. I asked him what it's for and he was like,"for your forehead, you're really sweaty." I just laughed and thanked him for the great thought. Also, we brought him and his family to church, his parents want to get baptized! We probably will the end of this month or in March!

I'm staying in my area and I will be training again, so we will see who my new comp is Wednesday!

Also money scripture, Genesis 18 verse 14. "Is anything too hard for the lord?"

Also I made up a quote.... READY.

"You cant spell FECHA without FE."

Fecha means date... like baptism date. and fe is faith. I was pretty proud of myself!