HEY! Now I just feel funny writing a letter to y'all knowing it’s just
Going to go to a blog, ha-ha weird feeling like I feel like I cant be my
self ;) hah but we know that’s gonna happen regardless once I get into
it... see I'm even talking to y'all now! Ha-ha but seriously my week was
AMAZING we found 4! New families!! Yolanda, Caesar y Ategracias,
Yackaline y her husband Carlos? Don’t judge me we only met him once or
Twice once on random contact at someone else’s house and when his wife
sent him to church but he left soon after sacrament meeting. And the
fourth is Gladi. They are all amazing!!
Though we picked the worse spots to be working at the same time! Were
working three different peaks. When you’re at the top of one you can
literally see the house of our next investigator on the next peak
they're pretty close but the only way to get to it is go all the way
down and then hike all the way back up the next one. And it seems to
have a nice little valley in-between each peak. But yea 3 of the 4
investigators happen to be on the highest peak of the three mountains
Ha-ha our star people are always in the highest most obscure place to
get to that you wouldn’t want to walk to. Ha-ha but yea I think I told
you about this last week now that I think about it... did I? I know I
told you about the mountain people.. the mountain people is Gladi she’s
at the top of the highest peak, but the rest of her family just walks
by stands listens for a while then walks a way... in one lesson I
counted at one point we had 7 children there and 4 adults. And that
was at one point they’d just switch off on who was there ha-ha its
ridiculous up there.
Though for a while my comp was starting to think Gladi is a Jehovah
Witness just trying to waste our time. Because first off my comps
pretty positive they’re following us and talking to our investigators
Because everywhere we go and teach a few days latter we see the
"watchtower" in there house and that’s there magazine. And when we
talk to people in our area that we’ve been teaching they’ll ask how
many missionaries we have in the area because we’ve been teaching that
area and they’ll say they’ve seen another missionaries of ours walking
around that weighs about 400 pounds. There is a Jehovah witness that is well on the
hefty end and all of our missionaries are pretty flaco. Everyone
confuses us with Jehova witnesses but yea we have people in super random spots
all far from each other we teach, but each one now has a watchtower...
And my comps convinced because they say they did the same thing to
him in hyna. But I'm sure it’s just a coincidence I think there’s a lot
of them and there’s 6 of us so its bound we run into each others people
at times. But still Ocao is huge with all its subdivisions and we work
the surrounding areas as well.
Oh so we’ve defiantly spoiled ourselves this week ha-ha we got pizza
Hut!! And burger king!! SOOOO good but SSOOO expensive. We figured we
we're about to get more apoyo so we'll be good. When we were in BK it
seriously felt like you were back in the States super clean, aircon,
SUPER SUPER nice bathrooms wow... and yea when you looked out the
window you had a Texaco... it was crazy though the menu was in
Spanish and pesos. But I still got a crown and everything. I know
it’s weird but that’s seriously the nicest bathroom I've seen in forever!
Super clean and nice and aircon.
What else happened this week... had my first Zone conference. President
gave a few bouches and said that numbers are super important and if
you say numbers aren’t important you need to repent now. Ha-ha in my mind
he has a small good point because he said there needed to keep track
of how the area is progressing and stuff which is super important too.
So yea, but the way he was talking was like yea focus on numbers and
the way he acts about numbers he seriously ahs people paranoid about
numbers. And he doesn’t count lessons without members and apparently
we're also supposed to have a member for first lessons, which are
about 70% of the lessons anyone teaches. And here the members are
super unwilling to go, which I don’t blame them this is literally
rock climbing where we are. So this week we had 0 members
present up till Thursday but, we had 23 others. So all wed report is a
big old Zero. We were working hard, we thought. At the end we had 7
and 27 our best week yet. But we don’t even report the other. So
everyone’s paranoid about being special transferred out of an area
Because pres has done that before for low numbers and because we
taught so many lessons our number was down for contacting so its looks
even more like we weren’t working.
So it makes it hard to think people not numbers. or people not
lessons. Yea enough ranting It’s bad to rant. Like my comp says
Pres has the keys for this area and is entitled to revelation for
this area and knows best for it
It’s been a good week, though Manuel is slowly becoming less animated,
it’s super saddening but were got a plan to re animate him it’s gonna be
good.
There’re coconut trees here, mostly banana trees though and stuff like, that.
Platinos, bananas a few coconuts here and there and a bunch of other random fruit tree
things. And a TON of avocado trees, I still need to try those. One day...
I think all my pants are 32” but all of my G´s are 30” and well all the
32s dont fit excpet this one that is strechty. I’m not getting fat though
I’m just filling out. I just look a bit fuller. but yea I think I’m
going to have to buy new bigger G´s these ones are getting really
uncomfortable...haha and pants I’m having a few made in bani they’re 700
pesos each so cheap for handmade pants but I may end up sending back
those other pants. So maybe JD can use them for something. But as of
now only one pair really fits me I think the others are too tight.
They put a nice red lines in me after wearing them. I´m NOT fat
Though. hahaha I’m just filled out. haha not fat haha ill send you a
profile or something to prove it ha-ha but seriously I'm seriously not. I was just
super small before I left. Oh I kind of don’t want to send you pics to
Leave you in the dark of what I look like :) I looked at the one I
took right before I left the mtc and the one I took today at BK I
think I look way different, well just older. or something. I'm going to leave you in the dark. ;)
But yea I love it here.
Hmm… Orchid, he started emailing me in the CCM but stopped.
I wonder why he doesn’t want to get to know me more. Maybe I offended
him.
Yea it’s not hard to love the people here, they are seriously
SUPER amazing and super humble and generous, I’m pretty sure I've said
it before but, they have casi nada but when you come to their door
they’ll give you their seat and everything. And if you need help, most
of them will drop whatever there doing to make sure you get where you
need to go and good to go. I love em' SO much they're awesome. ha-ha got
their own unique sense of humor and all. Oh no I haven’t sent that
CD yet I’m still working on that. I kinda forgot to do that. I'll
look for it today. if I have time. But yea love y'all a ton!
Elder Zelasko
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Jan 24, 2011
Hey family!!
Hows it going!? pero first off what's every one's Bdays? I really dont want to forget anyone while I'm out here, I mean anyone and everyone I know, even if you think I know it, send it please:) That would be a great help! no joke
But yea so this week was SUPER hard to work, they had patrinalis going on, its a nationwide holiday and EVERY one was coming down to Ocoa. Because famous singers like secreto y omega and all them where coming down, huge party in the park every single night, and this park is huge. Like I don't know how to discribe it, it's like 4 blocks squared? But it was packed with people every single night and they all were wasted out of there mind, so no one wanted to listen during the day. Super hard week to work. No one progressed, not one. Though it all improved as soon as it was over. Yesterday we had 17 citas lined up and 10! of them were there!!! That never happens! Usually when we have it like that, only like 4 or 5 show up the rest left all day to the campo or something. Whats even more amazing is 6 of those 10 have a return cita!! Truly AWESOME! And about 3 of the 6 where SUPER super animated and nice. But you never know those other 3 as well could change or that's just there personality and they actually really want to know more. I really hope they all progress.
So, the area we're tracking in now is literally up this super mountain. I thought the last couple mountains were steep but this one, hahah I guess God was just prepping us to be strong enough to climb up this one. The houses are in rows up the mountain and well you get bored out there, so somehow me and my comp started calling it like world one and world two, like in mario. And occasionally there would be paths that lead up to the next one before it was finished those would be pipes. And the house at the very top was bowsers castle, which is actually progressing! We went up there and it was just 3 people sitting in chairs. Then slowly more and more people kept coming out until there was like 13+ people there. Not even joking, we ask if there was more house for you but they said nope. So now we call them the mountain people. They say mormons and decided to all come out of the mountains to listen. We also had a star world it was a super steep stair case with a gold railing like was about a foot high. haha super pointless, no one in there wanted to hear more.
Oh yea so, yesterday we were tracking and we were teaching this lady and in the back ground on her tv we see this movie and its some anti mormon movie thing. Where apparently mormons gang up with Indians and kill pioneers? I guess its a true story? I've never heard of this though. But as we went tracking we saw the same show on a couple people's tvs. haha, just our luck to contact when the anti mormon show was on...
oh and so, apparently I know how to cook. haha, raro eh? Yea I made garlic butter noodles a few times and all the guys love it. hah and their like, , hmm and when I make me mac and cheese I let em try it. They say it taste better then when they make it by far. They want to know what I do different but, I don't do nothing different. They also call me king of the french fries, oh man i love french fries now. Potatoes are pretty cheap 1 pounds is about 16 pesos so I've been hitting that up a lot lately. Making lots of wedge style fries and man yum. But I think there just trying to boost my cooking ego. It's probably just because generally, they just make ramen. And have been eating just that for a while. Who knows eh?
Manuel was confirmed this week!! But just like maunel to give us a scare, he told us not to remind him this week and he'd show up on his own. So we didn't and it was like, 9:05 and he usually shows up at 8:45. So we were super worried and Smith was convinced he wasn't showing up. So we went in and like 3 mins later we're singing opening hymn and manuel comes in and sits by me. What a stud... haha.
Oh so we've now down two special music numbers in church. Whenever pres needs a time filler he just ask us to do music number and we sing a hymn. I guess we sound good or something. haha
But yea that's about wait! no, The best part! I got a package today!!!! Woah! from Scott and Nichole! It was AWESOME! Two jars of peanut butter and a bag of m&m's peanut butter, peanuts and peanut butter haha, with all the regualer picked out hahaha and also Reese's peanut butter cups white and reg. OHHH so AWESOME LOVE em so much! I was just about to give in and buy some peanut butter today. haha But yea it was awesome. Amazing made my day.
Oh so how is everything? Is everything awesome? How is everyone?
LOVE y'all a ton
Elder Zelasko
Hows it going!? pero first off what's every one's Bdays? I really dont want to forget anyone while I'm out here, I mean anyone and everyone I know, even if you think I know it, send it please:) That would be a great help! no joke
But yea so this week was SUPER hard to work, they had patrinalis going on, its a nationwide holiday and EVERY one was coming down to Ocoa. Because famous singers like secreto y omega and all them where coming down, huge party in the park every single night, and this park is huge. Like I don't know how to discribe it, it's like 4 blocks squared? But it was packed with people every single night and they all were wasted out of there mind, so no one wanted to listen during the day. Super hard week to work. No one progressed, not one. Though it all improved as soon as it was over. Yesterday we had 17 citas lined up and 10! of them were there!!! That never happens! Usually when we have it like that, only like 4 or 5 show up the rest left all day to the campo or something. Whats even more amazing is 6 of those 10 have a return cita!! Truly AWESOME! And about 3 of the 6 where SUPER super animated and nice. But you never know those other 3 as well could change or that's just there personality and they actually really want to know more. I really hope they all progress.
So, the area we're tracking in now is literally up this super mountain. I thought the last couple mountains were steep but this one, hahah I guess God was just prepping us to be strong enough to climb up this one. The houses are in rows up the mountain and well you get bored out there, so somehow me and my comp started calling it like world one and world two, like in mario. And occasionally there would be paths that lead up to the next one before it was finished those would be pipes. And the house at the very top was bowsers castle, which is actually progressing! We went up there and it was just 3 people sitting in chairs. Then slowly more and more people kept coming out until there was like 13+ people there. Not even joking, we ask if there was more house for you but they said nope. So now we call them the mountain people. They say mormons and decided to all come out of the mountains to listen. We also had a star world it was a super steep stair case with a gold railing like was about a foot high. haha super pointless, no one in there wanted to hear more.
Oh yea so, yesterday we were tracking and we were teaching this lady and in the back ground on her tv we see this movie and its some anti mormon movie thing. Where apparently mormons gang up with Indians and kill pioneers? I guess its a true story? I've never heard of this though. But as we went tracking we saw the same show on a couple people's tvs. haha, just our luck to contact when the anti mormon show was on...
oh and so, apparently I know how to cook. haha, raro eh? Yea I made garlic butter noodles a few times and all the guys love it. hah and their like, , hmm and when I make me mac and cheese I let em try it. They say it taste better then when they make it by far. They want to know what I do different but, I don't do nothing different. They also call me king of the french fries, oh man i love french fries now. Potatoes are pretty cheap 1 pounds is about 16 pesos so I've been hitting that up a lot lately. Making lots of wedge style fries and man yum. But I think there just trying to boost my cooking ego. It's probably just because generally, they just make ramen. And have been eating just that for a while. Who knows eh?
Manuel was confirmed this week!! But just like maunel to give us a scare, he told us not to remind him this week and he'd show up on his own. So we didn't and it was like, 9:05 and he usually shows up at 8:45. So we were super worried and Smith was convinced he wasn't showing up. So we went in and like 3 mins later we're singing opening hymn and manuel comes in and sits by me. What a stud... haha.
Oh so we've now down two special music numbers in church. Whenever pres needs a time filler he just ask us to do music number and we sing a hymn. I guess we sound good or something. haha
But yea that's about wait! no, The best part! I got a package today!!!! Woah! from Scott and Nichole! It was AWESOME! Two jars of peanut butter and a bag of m&m's peanut butter, peanuts and peanut butter haha, with all the regualer picked out hahaha and also Reese's peanut butter cups white and reg. OHHH so AWESOME LOVE em so much! I was just about to give in and buy some peanut butter today. haha But yea it was awesome. Amazing made my day.
Oh so how is everything? Is everything awesome? How is everyone?
LOVE y'all a ton
Elder Zelasko
Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday January 17, 2011
So you´re right, I definatly dont like that you wont write back right durning Pday. But If theres any thing i guess the mission has taught me to deal with changes or stuff i really dont like. so thats cool. But for that no pictures this week! haha. That and we went to the internet center that doesn't send em... I Don´t know why, I think it's becuase Elder McMahan wanted to come here and Elder Smith loves to go Where Elder McMahan goes or does.
But Something Super cool this week, Maunel got BAPTIZED! IT was AWESOME! Though at first he gave us a scare earlier in the week. Around thrusday we went to his cita but he wasnt there, his Gma was like "he should be back by now im sure i just saw him". So we thought it was just like eliane all over again. But luckly he was just at the capitail for an apoinment and just hadnt got back yet, and was super strong as always the next day! He even came to his baptism super early and brought TWO friends. Now we're teaching them for a while. We thought we were going to have to get him (Manuel) baptised next week because the whole branch was at the carribin conference and not back yet. They were supposed to be back by 630 but at 7 said they wouldnt be back till 8. Manuel, however, wanted to go now and was kinda happy at the fact he didnt have a TON of people there. But we still had Dianna, Stephanie and a couple others so it was just us 6 missionaries and 4 other people? but it was awesome he was super pumped and yea just a boss about it.
Um... I dont know what to talk about i was going to talk about a bunch of pictures I was going to send you, or ask questions wait for response have like a lil convo but thats out... oh so i´m through my first trnasfer! Got the trnaasfer call to see who was going where... Santa'hilare is going to the captial and jimenz is getting his padraste elder something. And the rest of us are staying here in Ocoa. Smith was almost positve that he was leaving here. To the point he was a bit paranoid. saying stuff like "Ive seen it happen to other elders, they wont see it coming then the guagua will come take em away that night wont get a chance to take a pit with the members or anyone." But what they´ve been telling me the whole transfer is that almost always someone whos transfering is with them for two trnasfers and SUPER SUPER rare that its only one and its usualy 2-3 trnasfers so yea i Dont know what the was worried about. but yea your heart gets suprizingly pumped durning that call wondering if youre going, staying or what's your fate or still the same comp a new one. Everyone was like dead quiet. Trying to find out. It was intense.
oh so we took a pic with a bull becuase elder McMahan had a pretty legit one with a donkey where there both staring down the camera. So I wanted one with a bull so it would look tougher, but once you're actually with the bull or decidng to get close its a differnt story. We walk by them all the time in the road and they'll be loose too, doing there own thing but once you accutally want to get close they become scary. They don't do anyth more to be scary they just are. So I was joking when we passed these two bulls like lets do it. We got some space between these two citas, then erick a member who was with us was like cool yea. Then I was like no, but then he was like "hey can we get a pic with yours bulls" to the owner. and he was like yea but I definatly was not about to do that. So the owner was laughing and said go for it they're nice just walk up slow and put your hand on them they wont do a thing.
But I still said no, so he came down and was like see nothing. So erick did it, then smith. So i had to do it but, I thought I was super close to the bull. The bull didnt stare down the camera at all. Instead when I looked at the picture I look SUper Gringo just grinin ear to hear leaning way over with my hand on a bull like yea look at me im touching a bull:) haha what makes it worse is the bull wanted nothing to do with the pic so it was trying to pull away and its nose ring was pulling because it was tied off i think the bull was more scared of me then I it. but ya in the pic it looks super funny becuase its pulling away so it looks crossed eyed with buck teeth and haha ya so my super tough manly picture looks like I'm a gringo with a silly bull. but I love it all the same! haha
(in reply to a comment about bugs in the potting soil of his plants.) oh that super stinks about all the bugs A TON. but thats awesome about my plants! hah though move here you'll get use to those bugs quick especially ants, you cant get rid of em no matter what! And flys, when your teaching a lesson phew so annoying but once you get into it you kind of forget about them. They'll be crawling on ya and ya wont notice even your face and be like yea. I know this is true, while the fly is just crawling all over you;)
(the names in this section have been changed to protect the inocent, if you don't know what this about ask mom she'll tell you) oh tell Drolley I´m SUPER sorry that he got a boche for doing that! that stinks a TON. who'd he get yelled at by? You should tell 'em to grow up and not yell at people for a SUPER harmLESS joke. Beside what does it matter as long as my thing is up there. Most places dont even have plaques here they just have a pic of the person. If that. I dont think he should of gotten a boche for that, at all. Tell him I'm sorry he got in trouble for that. Who yelled at him? Who told? Who cared? Cant mess with Drolley! Speaking of which whats his address and Walley's also?
You should tell em both, Sorry for the trouble and good job but secretly so they dont get in trouble for me applauding them.
ok so you got so lucky. The generator died at the other place so we came here and it has picture ability and yea so this is my awesome bull picture with the scared bull.
And this is manuels baptism! so awesome! It's smith, aguero, manuel, me in back, manuels friend mcmahan, almost everyone that was at the baptism. hah but man was it an amazing baptism i loved every second i hope this kids sticks through it. til the end he'd make an amazing misionary, no joke.
so yea this one is with erick and maria erick is marias son and there both members both super AWESOME yea. there cool thats at marias house and ima get one of the full family later,
this one is of us and our awesome work out equipment. yea you could say were really men or from the misionary hood. haha
That reminds me the power has been out for a while and I really need to wash my pants because they were nasty so i washed em by hand and a bunch of other clothes haha ant yea proud of me?
haha but yea It was interesting, just an other thing I can say I've done by hand I here there's some areas where everything is by hand even showering hahA. Not like washing your self by hand because, duh! But like having a bucket by you and pouring it over you with a ladel then soap then ladel they've had to do that a few times here because ocasionaly the water leaves too. They said it was gone for a week once so you'll wait patiently for that to come. But yes, this is a nicer house in the mision has a water heater. When there's light there's usualy water and a washer and a new fridge so yea were lucky here. It should be fun when I go to an area where you manual shower and handwash clothes all the time not just every 6 weeks, makes ya realize how well off we are state side. Because we really are super well off. Especaily in some of the investigators houses we go to, we started tracking in the one place I call hyna valley its a valley with two super steep hills on either side. And it goes for a long time and on each hill there's tons of houses going up and for stair steps, they use tires put in the ground and the house are made of tin and tires and its super poor area but the people are as kind as ever. Love em but there super poor.
This first one is of the photo grama marge sent me and I made it a photo frame with a ziploc bag she sent and a ceral box,
speaking of which you should get apretty legit post card in a couple weeks :) just saying but yea its says flakes because were flakes haha i think. I'm not exactly sure what flakes means in that context but i like it. hah So I'm sticking with it haha
This picture is of an other place were tracking its one of the better off areas I've seen. I liked the view so i took a pic.
hah but yea thats that and im out of time. So Love you all and hope youre doing great and even though i should never be promoting rebelion or anything even remotly close to something like that. I think you all should combine as a 9th ward force and put my plack back in 9th wards but keep Drolley out of it so he doesnt get an other boche. Nevermind that's really immature. Still think it was super imature of who ever got mad at Drolley just for something as smal as that. Tell him i got his back, no that sound super unmisionary like. But still thats was super wow of whoever got mad at a harmles act right? Why does anyone care who did it? Who gave him the boche? give em the dominican finger! before you get the wrong idea its nothing like the american finger. It's just you waging your pointer finger and it just Means no, like someone asks you a question you just wag your finger, or in a convo you want to say no you just wag your finger it just means no thats all. They are lazy here. To say no, wag the finger. To point, point with your lips thers a few more. but I can't remember them they a bit more rare but everyone does the lips and finger. I love the finger especially. I do it now all the time. I love it.
Love ya!
Elder Z
But Something Super cool this week, Maunel got BAPTIZED! IT was AWESOME! Though at first he gave us a scare earlier in the week. Around thrusday we went to his cita but he wasnt there, his Gma was like "he should be back by now im sure i just saw him". So we thought it was just like eliane all over again. But luckly he was just at the capitail for an apoinment and just hadnt got back yet, and was super strong as always the next day! He even came to his baptism super early and brought TWO friends. Now we're teaching them for a while. We thought we were going to have to get him (Manuel) baptised next week because the whole branch was at the carribin conference and not back yet. They were supposed to be back by 630 but at 7 said they wouldnt be back till 8. Manuel, however, wanted to go now and was kinda happy at the fact he didnt have a TON of people there. But we still had Dianna, Stephanie and a couple others so it was just us 6 missionaries and 4 other people? but it was awesome he was super pumped and yea just a boss about it.
Um... I dont know what to talk about i was going to talk about a bunch of pictures I was going to send you, or ask questions wait for response have like a lil convo but thats out... oh so i´m through my first trnasfer! Got the trnaasfer call to see who was going where... Santa'hilare is going to the captial and jimenz is getting his padraste elder something. And the rest of us are staying here in Ocoa. Smith was almost positve that he was leaving here. To the point he was a bit paranoid. saying stuff like "Ive seen it happen to other elders, they wont see it coming then the guagua will come take em away that night wont get a chance to take a pit with the members or anyone." But what they´ve been telling me the whole transfer is that almost always someone whos transfering is with them for two trnasfers and SUPER SUPER rare that its only one and its usualy 2-3 trnasfers so yea i Dont know what the was worried about. but yea your heart gets suprizingly pumped durning that call wondering if youre going, staying or what's your fate or still the same comp a new one. Everyone was like dead quiet. Trying to find out. It was intense.
oh so we took a pic with a bull becuase elder McMahan had a pretty legit one with a donkey where there both staring down the camera. So I wanted one with a bull so it would look tougher, but once you're actually with the bull or decidng to get close its a differnt story. We walk by them all the time in the road and they'll be loose too, doing there own thing but once you accutally want to get close they become scary. They don't do anyth more to be scary they just are. So I was joking when we passed these two bulls like lets do it. We got some space between these two citas, then erick a member who was with us was like cool yea. Then I was like no, but then he was like "hey can we get a pic with yours bulls" to the owner. and he was like yea but I definatly was not about to do that. So the owner was laughing and said go for it they're nice just walk up slow and put your hand on them they wont do a thing.
But I still said no, so he came down and was like see nothing. So erick did it, then smith. So i had to do it but, I thought I was super close to the bull. The bull didnt stare down the camera at all. Instead when I looked at the picture I look SUper Gringo just grinin ear to hear leaning way over with my hand on a bull like yea look at me im touching a bull:) haha what makes it worse is the bull wanted nothing to do with the pic so it was trying to pull away and its nose ring was pulling because it was tied off i think the bull was more scared of me then I it. but ya in the pic it looks super funny becuase its pulling away so it looks crossed eyed with buck teeth and haha ya so my super tough manly picture looks like I'm a gringo with a silly bull. but I love it all the same! haha
(in reply to a comment about bugs in the potting soil of his plants.) oh that super stinks about all the bugs A TON. but thats awesome about my plants! hah though move here you'll get use to those bugs quick especially ants, you cant get rid of em no matter what! And flys, when your teaching a lesson phew so annoying but once you get into it you kind of forget about them. They'll be crawling on ya and ya wont notice even your face and be like yea. I know this is true, while the fly is just crawling all over you;)
(the names in this section have been changed to protect the inocent, if you don't know what this about ask mom she'll tell you) oh tell Drolley I´m SUPER sorry that he got a boche for doing that! that stinks a TON. who'd he get yelled at by? You should tell 'em to grow up and not yell at people for a SUPER harmLESS joke. Beside what does it matter as long as my thing is up there. Most places dont even have plaques here they just have a pic of the person. If that. I dont think he should of gotten a boche for that, at all. Tell him I'm sorry he got in trouble for that. Who yelled at him? Who told? Who cared? Cant mess with Drolley! Speaking of which whats his address and Walley's also?
You should tell em both, Sorry for the trouble and good job but secretly so they dont get in trouble for me applauding them.
ok so you got so lucky. The generator died at the other place so we came here and it has picture ability and yea so this is my awesome bull picture with the scared bull.
And this is manuels baptism! so awesome! It's smith, aguero, manuel, me in back, manuels friend mcmahan, almost everyone that was at the baptism. hah but man was it an amazing baptism i loved every second i hope this kids sticks through it. til the end he'd make an amazing misionary, no joke.
so yea this one is with erick and maria erick is marias son and there both members both super AWESOME yea. there cool thats at marias house and ima get one of the full family later,
this one is of us and our awesome work out equipment. yea you could say were really men or from the misionary hood. haha
That reminds me the power has been out for a while and I really need to wash my pants because they were nasty so i washed em by hand and a bunch of other clothes haha ant yea proud of me?
haha but yea It was interesting, just an other thing I can say I've done by hand I here there's some areas where everything is by hand even showering hahA. Not like washing your self by hand because, duh! But like having a bucket by you and pouring it over you with a ladel then soap then ladel they've had to do that a few times here because ocasionaly the water leaves too. They said it was gone for a week once so you'll wait patiently for that to come. But yes, this is a nicer house in the mision has a water heater. When there's light there's usualy water and a washer and a new fridge so yea were lucky here. It should be fun when I go to an area where you manual shower and handwash clothes all the time not just every 6 weeks, makes ya realize how well off we are state side. Because we really are super well off. Especaily in some of the investigators houses we go to, we started tracking in the one place I call hyna valley its a valley with two super steep hills on either side. And it goes for a long time and on each hill there's tons of houses going up and for stair steps, they use tires put in the ground and the house are made of tin and tires and its super poor area but the people are as kind as ever. Love em but there super poor.
This first one is of the photo grama marge sent me and I made it a photo frame with a ziploc bag she sent and a ceral box,
speaking of which you should get apretty legit post card in a couple weeks :) just saying but yea its says flakes because were flakes haha i think. I'm not exactly sure what flakes means in that context but i like it. hah So I'm sticking with it haha
This picture is of an other place were tracking its one of the better off areas I've seen. I liked the view so i took a pic.
hah but yea thats that and im out of time. So Love you all and hope youre doing great and even though i should never be promoting rebelion or anything even remotly close to something like that. I think you all should combine as a 9th ward force and put my plack back in 9th wards but keep Drolley out of it so he doesnt get an other boche. Nevermind that's really immature. Still think it was super imature of who ever got mad at Drolley just for something as smal as that. Tell him i got his back, no that sound super unmisionary like. But still thats was super wow of whoever got mad at a harmles act right? Why does anyone care who did it? Who gave him the boche? give em the dominican finger! before you get the wrong idea its nothing like the american finger. It's just you waging your pointer finger and it just Means no, like someone asks you a question you just wag your finger, or in a convo you want to say no you just wag your finger it just means no thats all. They are lazy here. To say no, wag the finger. To point, point with your lips thers a few more. but I can't remember them they a bit more rare but everyone does the lips and finger. I love the finger especially. I do it now all the time. I love it.Love ya!
Elder Z
Monday, January 3, 2011
3 Jan 2011
my week has been great, long but great. We're still teaching Megalin, Wilson and Maunel frequently. We're pretty positive that Wilson is into it now becuase we though his wife megalina just made him go to church but she was gone this week end and he still came to church! All by himself!! which is a huge step for him we think... however we still have to find a way to get him his papers to get them married. Thats the only thing stopping 'em from being baptisied. Maunel he's just a star investigator, we contacted him a while back then he wasnt there but later he found us in the street and was like "hey why didnt you stop by my house again?" he got the times mixed up or we did . So since then we´ve been teaching him and he has been awesome were pretty sure he's an inactive member just messing with us or something. But his date is the 15th de enero so well see if he is really into this or not. I hope he is.
hah the rivers good no more rashes or nothing. I'm sure thats long gone now. The river we crossed it yesterday and got some night crossing pictures but elder smith was like wait i need to take an other one this ones bad, and hes like, act like your falling or going against it so i was there in the river for a while, hah and this river during the day is chilly, but wow at night woh, lot colder.
but have a great week email back if yea can talk to yea later have fun choose the right and all that jazz:)
love yea
Elder Z
one is of us in an ATM booth it was super hot out and Elder Aguero needed money and the booth had AC so we all took advantage of that oppertunity for AC haha its kind of a rare deal. haha so yea though im sure all the people on that corner all think mormons are weierd now...
This one is of our apartment, it doesnt show the one of the bedrooms and the bathroom. but the one from the study room the room kind of off to the side is the bathroom and across is the other room. which reminds me we got a new shower curtain! we defiantly need a new one the old one was a torn up sheet of plastic it was nasty and probably got more things wet then preventing it getting more wet.
ok river crossing durning the day,
that pic somes up our relationship as a companionship:) pretty much he's a strange man that elder... very strong mindset on following the rules but when it comes to following em... I usually get the line ¨ we really shouldnt be doing this¨ or ^¨normally we wouldnt do this¨ haha yea its a bit back and forth
hah the rivers good no more rashes or nothing. I'm sure thats long gone now. The river we crossed it yesterday and got some night crossing pictures but elder smith was like wait i need to take an other one this ones bad, and hes like, act like your falling or going against it so i was there in the river for a while, hah and this river during the day is chilly, but wow at night woh, lot colder.
but have a great week email back if yea can talk to yea later have fun choose the right and all that jazz:)
love yea
Elder Z
one is of us in an ATM booth it was super hot out and Elder Aguero needed money and the booth had AC so we all took advantage of that oppertunity for AC haha its kind of a rare deal. haha so yea though im sure all the people on that corner all think mormons are weierd now...This one is of our apartment, it doesnt show the one of the bedrooms and the bathroom. but the one from the study room the room kind of off to the side is the bathroom and across is the other room. which reminds me we got a new shower curtain! we defiantly need a new one the old one was a torn up sheet of plastic it was nasty and probably got more things wet then preventing it getting more wet.
ok river crossing durning the day,
and chirstmas morning just opened presents and got our swords and went for it. I believe we also got the nativity in there. Loved the tree a ton! Especially the ornaments.
that pic somes up our relationship as a companionship:) pretty much he's a strange man that elder... very strong mindset on following the rules but when it comes to following em... I usually get the line ¨ we really shouldnt be doing this¨ or ^¨normally we wouldnt do this¨ haha yea its a bit back and forth
oh and tell me to be responsible with my money, its super early in the month but I want to buy a couple boxes of american cereal they look SOO good but, they are a bit more expensive then the other cereal, 20 oz of flakes for 129 pesos? or 16 for about the same price thats acctaully not to big of a difference... hmm but i do like my cereal, I prob eat way more then I should in the morning but i do it anyway. Plus with all this walking i think i easly walk it off and I've started workin out like im supposed to do. So nevermind I think I'll buy it. Though PB captain crunch its like 169 dont remeber how much it has in it. I think 16, though for some flavored honey ghrams its about the same as the corn flakes. They have other off brand american stuff for about the same looks like cinoman squares... idk but they look good haha.
oh yea and im starting to learn how to cook. The lady that cooks our food for lunch lives next door so I've been going over helping and watching with my comp she tells us how to do it and we do. Ok its taking an amazing long time to load these pictures and it looks like my comp is done so i just send only the christmas one I think if it hurrys. If not this is still the last email for this week.
hope all goes smoothly love you
I decided to wait... though its going soooo slow! hah I'm about to give up on it. Though when I type it seems to go faster... maybe if i kep typing ;) hah or maybe its taking my mind off how slow its going because yea it stopped moving again... I'm gonna give it 5 more mins or so yea. oh moved aghain yea its speed racer now YEA its done loves you bye!! enjoy more pics next week yea.
Elder Z
hope all goes smoothly love you
I decided to wait... though its going soooo slow! hah I'm about to give up on it. Though when I type it seems to go faster... maybe if i kep typing ;) hah or maybe its taking my mind off how slow its going because yea it stopped moving again... I'm gonna give it 5 more mins or so yea. oh moved aghain yea its speed racer now YEA its done loves you bye!! enjoy more pics next week yea.
Elder Z
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