whats up family!! April 11, 2011

This week zoomed by pretty fast... im starting to type but I cant really think of any stories or anything. its been a good week though, we have worked really hard. we have a pretty big pool of investigators, almost more than we can handle. right now though we are focusing on 4 specific families and trying o get them to progress! things are well with my companion,he only has two weeks left in his mission. sometimes it is hard to get him to work, but for the most part things have been positive wih him.

today we learned that chenandega is officially the hottest city in central america! im starting to get accumstomed to it though haha. i have also learned that if idaho is the land of potatoes, nicaragua is the land of mangos. especially at this time of the year, everyone has mangos falling from their mango tree. there are mangos being sold everywhere, mangos in the streets, and all of our investigators offer us mangos! i love the mangos here, but i can only take so many. there was actually a new kid in our zone that got really sick this last week for eating so many mangos. i think the best is, a lot of the families will give us mango juice drinks. those are really good!

the cool story from the week, is i have gotten to know a family of members pretty well in our ward. marvin and his family are one of the poorest members, but also one of the strangest. the father bikes X miles to the church with his wife and his son on the handle bars every sunday. they will always offer to feed us and have us over. this past week i got to go over to dinner and learn a little more about him. he is actually from ogden utah! he grew up in ogden utah, where his family still lives there today. his family was membrs, but he kinda fell away from the church. he went to high school in the states, but ended up gettng deported because of having problems with the law. so he was forced to live here in nicaragua with nothing. it has ended up being a huge blessing for him. here in nicaragua, he got reactivate in the church, recieved a very strong testimony, and now he is married with a son. talking to him, he said he would trade all the money he had in the states, friends and everything else, to live humbly here in nicaragua with hardly anything... he has been working for the past few months to save up money to recontruck his house that is made out of wood and tin right now. were gonna get an awesome opportunity to help build his house this next saturday! i am pretty excited.

things are pretty awesome here in nicaragua! i love you guys. thatnks for all the updates and everything. hope all is well over there. see you all next week!

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hey family! April 18, 2011


Eder Aguilar wrote a quote in my journal thats been on my mind this past week... whatever you do, don't get disanimated, because thats when you loose faith, and there are no miracles without faith. I have faith things will work out. I hope all is well over there. I love you all.

This week has been hard for me .... its been different though. I don't feel as spiritually down. I feel spiritually high! Maybe its because ive had your prayers this week. We had huge plans for the start of this week, we were finally going to have everything set up to have our own sunday meetings in Belen and Grasca, we had a fun family night planned with all the members in an area, and we were planning on baptizing in the ocean this saturday. We were especially excited to go to the ocean because we had two families preparing to be baptized this week. It was also going to be a cool experience and the whole zone was planning on going. I ended up getting an eye infection on tuesday, it was a lot like pink eye. Things kinda fell apart from there. I wasnt able to leave the house, so didnt see any of our investigators for a few days. Both of our families kinda fell apart and did not end up getting baptized. The meetings for this sunday fell through too because the couselors of the ward were out of town. It just seemed like things fell apart at the wrong time. We had one baptism lined up for saturday, but the lady never showed up. The day after she called us on the phone and told us she had to leave for her mothers last second.

One thing i have learned from this week is that heavenly father gives us aflictions to help us get lost in the work. Maybe reorganize our priorties. The eye inflection kinda put me in a slump, but help me realize how blessed i am. It was kinda a hard week, but iv never spent so much time on my knees than this week. I have never had such an easier week to get lost in the work. Remember family Ticay from last week? the story about the guy that lived in ogden utah? He was out of work this week from being sick, and just found out his wife needed an operation and would use all the money they were saving up to buy supplies to rebuild their roof. We had an amazing experience with giving the wife a blessing. Meibol, one of our recent converts lost her job this week too. We knew she barley had money to feed herself, but when we stopped by to give her a lesson, she had cooked us a simple meal of platinos and cheese. I dont think platinos and cheese has ever tasted so well in my life, only because we knew the sacrifices within it. The members in our ward here have so much faith. I was so greatful for their example.

Im greatful for your examples too!

Its also cool to hear dad is helping coach lacrosse! being a faceoff coach would be fun.
I love you all. my prayers are with you this week. Thank you for sending a package, im excited to recieve the package!

have a good positive week! thank you for your example