The new basketball hoop for the district.  They look very threatening!
                         

  The Garcia's baptism

                                                     A view from an early morning hike.
                                   

"Also a less active families baby died. It was only 30 days old." November 24, 2014

I'll try and send photos later of everything but this week was really awesome.

Haha first off... another confession. I accidentally drank tea again.... the word of wisdom is killing me on the mission haha.

Also yesterday I directed the hymns in Sacrament Meeting haha, The chorister was there but the

First Counselor is super funny so he called me up to direct the hymns. After everyone was telling me they loved it haha it was really funny. The Stake President's wife took a pic of me haha.

We had a baptism and wedding. We baptized Mario and Marisol Garcia. It was super crazy because their baptism was on saturday and on friday we had nothing ready for the wedding, we didn't even have their birth certificates or ID´s. So that was a mess, luckily we know a lawyer and she can do it really fast. But it's fine! So that was super great that they could finally get baptized, again we had President Sanchez baptize them.

Make sure and send me pics of thanksgiving.

Also a less active families baby died. It was only 30 days old. They were having a viewing in their house and sadly thieves came in and stole lots of their stuff. Those people have no heart..... really sad.

love you guys... happy thanksgiving!!!

"Hermano Lopez is super nice and brought us donuts we were so grateful." November 17, 2014

I'm sorry today has been super busy and I might not have time to write a long letter.

But I might be able to when I get on later in the afternoon! I'll try my best, but this week was good.

 

Hermano Lopez is super nice and brought us donuts we were so grateful. He does lots for us. Here's a photo with my comp and the donuts. Also a dope flower that was by our house.

 

Elder Tanner

"loving the mission. only got 6 months left... crazy." November 10, 2014

This week was great. We had our stake conference yesterday and it was really good. President Sanchez is so awesome haha he cracks me up. He's a really good speaker. After his talk I was talking to him and I told him that I liked his talk and he was like, "I liked it too", then started to laugh. Every other sunday they invite us to lunch and it's always super good. And everytime we pass by just for something they give us food. They are so funny and kind. This week we had a family night with them and a family we've been taking to church, the Garcia Family. We set up a date for their wedding and baptism for the 22 of this month!!

 

Also we are teaching the girlfriend of the son of president Sanchez. Three weeks ago he gave us the reference and then brought her to church. In our second lesson she accepted a date for baptism!! She's super prepared.... her parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and she's grown up in that. But after the lesson on the restoration and the book of mormon she accepted a date. She read the chapter we left with her and said she prayed and felt the desire to keep learning more and she took that as an answer. We are really excited to help her progress even more. Her date is for this sunday!! So she has already progressed so fast. Her name is Karen. 

 

loving the mission. only got 6 months left... crazy.

"I was talking in Spanish and fake sign language" November 3, 2014

This week was super great!

First off this week we taught a deaf lady. It was really cool cause I was talking in Spanish and fake sign language, lots of pointing and drawing in the sky but it was super awesome!!

Second, This week I got to go on interchanges to Colon!!! My first area. It was so cool to see some of my converts and some of the members. The people that have baptismal dates in the area, me and Elder Bonilla were the first ones to teach them so it was cool to see your work isn't for nothing. Wilfredo, one of my converts from here is so cool. Sadly he's inactive right now but we visited him and his family and he told me it's time to go back to church. He's so cool, he's probably my favorite. He's already planning for when we [our family] come back, his wife was telling me about his plans and that he's really excited. He's not like most Salvadorans, he's got lots of money and he was telling me next November he wants to come visit Utah, and his wife said maybe they should get sealed there and I can go and I was dying!!But first they gotta get more active to do that!!

Third, Happy birthday this week Mom. Love you and miss you. Thanks for always being a great example for me. 

love you, Elder Tanner