"sorry it's gonna be short!" June 23, 2014

sorry its gonna be short!

 

but some cool things

 

1. we live 3 blocks from mayan ruins, theyre called the ruins of tazumal.

2. goodbye meeting with president tomorrow, crazy.

3. we went to an area thats  been closed for 8 months and we put 2 baptismal dates, cause there was some people who went to church and we got permission to visit them. it was the first lesson with both of them.

4. world cup is awesome, we see the games all the time haha cause every single person is watching it. and they all tell me hey youre country is doing great. they love the US.

5. im learning tons from my comp. hes super awesome.

 

ps. can you guys send me a us jersey!!!

                                                      Mayan Ruin in Chalchuapa

                                                      Colonial Church in Chalchuapa

                                                      The family scheduled for baptism.

                                                       "The best family in Nshuizalco"
                                   

                                                                  Recent Converts

"I'm now a Zone Leader . . ." June 16, 2014

I got changed to Chalchuapa.

My new comp is Elder Soto, he's so awesome, ha he baptizes so much. He has the most in the mission. The sad part is he goes home in 5 weeks, so I only have a short time to learn from him.

 

I'm now a zone leader it's a little bit different. It's harder, but it's good that I have more pressure now so I can progress more.

 

The world cup here is pretty sweet. We see it all the time in the street.

 

Love the mission and I'm gonna send some pics of my old area, some people that have baptismal dates, the best family in nahuizalco and these two sweet recent converts.

"I find joy seeing people happy. And I can do that with two things, the gospel and my personality." June 9, 2014

Had such a great week. Here are the reasons.

1. We started teaching a one armed guy. He´s like 65 and lives by himself. hes super humble. he works in the field cutting, and he only has ONE ARM. he told us a guy cut it off with a machete ten years ago. crazy.

2. I had so many fresh fruits this week. Guava, mamones, bananas, mamay, and mangoes. all straight off the trees.

3. I ate bunny. there is a pic attached of my bunny.

4.we were teaching a lesson and it was super great. we asked hermano felipe to bear his testimony in a lesson and he started to cry and couldnt talk. and our investigator also and the investigator said with tears in his eyes God is Great. he also went to church this week and we met him this week.

5. we were at guillermos house and they have lots of chickens now. and guillermo was telling us about how his mom kills the chickens and on a sewing machine they had there was some blood stains he was showing us and his mom was super embarrased and telling him to be quiet.

6. a lady gave a super thankful prayer and they literally have nothing.

7. I find joy seeing people happy. And i can do that with two things the gospel and my personality.

8. we are teaching institute in pushtan. im the teacher. and the president of seminary and institute for all of el salvador. (also former mission president) President Alvarado thanked us and was telling us that he is super pleased with what were doing. With tears in his eyes he told us. These people will never go inactive because of you.

9. we put two baptismal dates!!!

10. sunday dinner with my converts always!

 

{I just had to do a search on what a tacuazin is}

"Our new names are trapper and killer." June 2, 2014

this week was super great for many reasons!

1. as a district we brought 26 investigators to church!

2. we went to the temple.... so great to meditate about the first year of the mission down.

3. I completed a year in the mission.

4. roberto got confirmed ( and no mom, his mom isnt a member, shes hilarious)

5. we had a ward activity for the moms of our ward and us missionaries sang the primary song "mother i love you". it was money.

6. a lady in our ward invited us over for our late birthday celebration. it was hermana carmen, the one that always gives us pupusas, she made us a surprise lunch and brought cake and everything! it was so great! we love her.

 

7. we had a cat that came in throughr our roof and it was behind my suitcase and jumped out and scared me so bad cause it was dark in the room. so we killed it.... just kidding mom haha. but there is also called a tacquazin living in our roof, its like a huge rat with claws... its creepy, we saw part of its body the other night cause it was falling out inside our house. but me and elder wiser have been hunting it, we havent been able to kill it yet but we need to cause its creepy at night.

 

8.also the new president of el salvador took his spot as president yesterday. now all the political craziness ends.

but im gonna send you a pic and the stats of me and elder wiser. our new names are trapper and killer. elder wiser is the trapper im the killer. mom you probably wont like these stats. 4 mice killed, 56 flies, 20 cockroaches, 73,935 ants. and we are in the hunt of a tacquazin which is a huge trophy animal.

also one of my converts is going to try and get me some armadillo before i leave the area. they eat armadillo here, i wanna try it so bad. anyways love you guys!!