June 6, 2011

June 6, 2011


Hope things are going pretty well over there! things are going pretty well over here... To answer your question, there are 6 people in our house. The house is on stilts, but not like the picture i sent you, it is a lot nicer. We have running water and electricity (when there is power). And it is pretty clean! We have a lady that cleans the house. My companion is Elder Silva, everyone has a set companion. But elder silva is leaving puerto for the change conference this Wednesday! so i will receive a new companion to explore this new area. I have not received the package with contact solution... maybe my new companion will bring it with him when he flies out here. There are also rumors that we might fly out to Managua this next month for a meeting with the area presidency, so I will get it then... but yeah! things are going really well here!

There is a lot going on here.. and i dont really know where to start. So keep asking me questions! this week went well. I am getting to know the area. Its a little stressful, because my comp is leaving tomorrow for managua, and i barley know the people here. There are 70 recent convert members in my area!! But the portion of people i have met have started to warm up to me. Oh and I started studying the language of miskitu this week! NAKISMA! Anyways, i dont know if I have any crazy stories to share, but here is a little bit about the people we have been working with this week.

The first is Edger. He is pretty awesome, and actually speaks english better than his spanish! He grew up in california, but now lives with his mom (he is 30 years old) here in puerto cabezas. His family in the states send money, so he has one of the biggest houses in the area. We have worked a ton with him, partly because the first time missionaries met him, we had the impression that he would be an amazing leader here. He has been studying with the missionaries for more than a month now. Serves whenever he can and has read a lot of church literature. This last week, we have been trying to help him drop smoking. We have tried so many things and have had amazing lessons. When the missionaries met him a month ago, he was smoking a few packs a day. Now he only smokes 2 cigarettes a day! The hard part has been getting him from 2 to 0. It was a cool experience because while we were walking down the streets one day, my comp and i both received the idea we needed to make a bracelet for the smoking hand of edward. We didnt know exactly how, but we found it kinda weird that we both got the idea at the same time. So we went to the house and cut up pieces of an old white shirt. I then attempted to braid the strands.. it turned out pretty cool! haha anyways well see if the idea works then next week.

The other funny story about Edger was that he has satellite tv. I brought it up one day that maybe he has byu tv, a channel for the church. One sunday he came up to me and told me he found it! He said he had been watching it all day. When we went over to his house the following day, he showed us a evanhelist preacher channel! haha he was disappointed to know that he had been watching the wrong religion.

I love you all! you are in my prayers! I hope all is well. keep up the awesome work