January 24, 2011

January 24, 2011


Hola mi familia!!

Things are awesome down here. Im glad you liked the video. We were not the ones that put it on internet, we gave it to some members to put it up and then they gave us the links... its good though, our house is actually bigger than the other house my comp said. but we love it. Thats cool amanda was able to translate some of it. I did buy a backpack here, at a small corner store for 11 dollars! haha i thought it was an awesome buy, its pretty cool looking and comfortable for wearing all day. It has already started to rip though but oh well.
(He sent us a link to watch a short video he took with his camera. email me for the link if you would like to see it.  It is a tour of their house)
My new companion is Elder Dokos. He is from kansas city and has been out here for about 9 months. The first couple days I could tell he was kinda bummbed to have been taken out of his zone. but we have gotten together really well. Iv had a good time with him, and together we have been getting to know our area, Our area is huge!! we did a little exploring the second day, just trying new roads and contacting. I thought we had walked at least 5 miles away from our house. We got a map of our area the next day, and we had not even made it halfway through our area!! This week we are gonna take a bus. Its been good though, Iv been extremely blessed with the spirit this week. We have been kept safe from robbers and Iv been able to direct us to places in our area Im not sure If I could have done all by myself.

We also had a crazy experience this week were we went to an area in our zone for interviews, and we were heading back to our house around 5 and some members of the church offered to give us a ride. they said they would take us down to where we could get to a bus route that would take us to our home. so we climbed in the back of the truck. The members ended up taking us the wrong direction! they dropped us off telling us route 116 was in the corner (route 116 takes us back to our area, all the buses go by route numbers) and when we got to the corner, it was a different bus route! We ended up having to ask a lot of people (good opportunitys to share the gospel) and we finially after a series of buses made it back to our house a few hours after!!

By far my favorite experience this week was we had a mission conference with Elder Christofferson last friday. It was very good. It was all in spanish too!! It was very personal too. He personally shook every single of the missionaries hands and spent a good portion of the conference just answering questions. His spanish is extremly good.

Also on friday, our stake had a conference with Elder Jenson in Villa Flor. It was also very good. All the wards took buses down to the stake center to get there. I was amazed at how many sacrificed to make sure they were there for the conference. The conference was packed! We ended up standing for the whole conference because there were no seats, the overflow was full and so was the stage. The funny part is Elder Jenson speaks spanish really really well. We could tell his wife had put a lot of practice into her spanish, but was still learning. Two sentences into her talk, she had Elder Jenson come up and start translating for her!

Anyways things are all good down here. I love it in Nicaragua. Hope things are well back at home!!