July 18, 2011

This our dryer. it jsut spins the clothes super fast to get most the water out then you hang dry it. but ours is jacked up as you can see its been broke on the inside since i ve been here but the other day it went on a rampage and broke a whole in the side of the drier. It'll be wierd to wash clothes in the states. Not doing any work just putting it in and walking away.... enjoy it. It really is no work at all. oh and dish washers haha enjoy em... so easy... and microwaves.... i think I'm going to have culture shock when i get state side. I almost had it here when i moved from the campo to the city. So much more here in the city even though its still nothing. I saw aircon today haha it was legit. enjoy your many many blessing. we lived very blessed lives and dont even realize it. enjoy them, say a little pray gvining thanks maybe as well hmm... I think we forget Him to often in our lives.

I bought a sweet tie for josies wedding day its her fav colors black and purple. It'll be sweet though she wont see it I'm going to be supporting her down south.

these are my shoes

this is the house

this is PB and honey, they had a sweet deal I couldn't pass up.

ok so i just called presidente and it sounds like i can call but, he said to call the proximo lunes para. dang, I'm not going to lie english is starting to slip from me all latinos for to long.

um... this week... so you know how i wrote last week about what i think my job will be because of all the rain... well we were walking in the rain the other day and i got thinking about it again.. and i thought of something way better. I'm going to be a dad/yms leader! hahaI'm so going to be camping out all the time in whatever whether rain snow all that jazz with my kids and my boys(YM) it'll be sweet!I cant wait. haha but nothing new really happened this week. Me and my comp have been having a little problem getting a long but lets just wait and see how well it works. but yea. I think I'm really starting to focus more on the work it was slow to get to it but im starting to be happier with my self with my work ethic and how hard we work. I feel more like a missionary every single day.

For people who are going on a mission don't waste time, be obedient, don't care what others think. Just get out work hard, player harder but, always remember you're a missionary. Sometimes work comes in during the play but, its still play and some times work turns into play. But, you're still working its just a little more fun. It's always fun it surprises me what's fun. If you just work hard and forget about yourself. That scripture is true those who lose themselves for gods sake shall find there life. It's great this work were doing out here and over there and way off in other lands. All over the face of the earth. Nothing else I'd rather do right now. It's awesome.

Yea sorry I didn't write much but I'll talk to you all next week,
les amo

Elder Zelasko

Jul 8, 2011

"Rain, Rain go away come again an other day!" You know I often hear that your mission preps you for later in life, right? Well if all this rain is a sign of that with my future job, I'm going to be wet a lot.... haha I'm gonna have a pretty sweet job. So far I've thought of tornado chaser, national gaurd person who jumps in the water from helicopters to save people, underwater treasure hunter, or dolphin trainer.... haha man oh man I'm gonna have an exciting life ;)

wow the reunion is here already?! wowza, San Antonio... cheverré esto! I have some friends down there in texas though I think there a bit far if not say hey to em will yea ;) I hope you all have a blast! oh and tell everyone I saw hey how do you do? oh or more approiate, howdy howdy howdy. like woody from toystory. oh so I just decied right now the first movie were going to watch as a family when I get back is toy story 3 and were going to have a nice big 10$ bucket of chicken and rootbeer. and well have a blast togther it'll be great fun just you wait and see :) oh wow it'll probably just be the 4 of us! haha how wierd is that!? oh but your all use to that. soon itll be three ah! so you wont be used to four becuase jd's going down south soon. well not south but to the left but no importance.

But this week was great. Turns out, we have one part of our area thats BOOM super campo. like wow. and on the way the other day we were walking on over right, mud hole everywhere, you go around hopin on rocks to avoid the mud. so we were hoping and hopping( two p´s there rest dice hoping lol) But yea so were were hopPing and well hoping not to step in mud ha and well I go to hop for this one rock and PLOP turns out it wasnt a rock, hahaa ganster stomped that mud. Had a nice mud boot for a while after that :)

But this area wow... its crazyness, but in a good way. I´m learning a lot here. oh i gave a talk yesterday. it went well i thought.

But nothing really happened here you know just working hard. oh so this house guess what it has? youll never guess! ok you might have, but it has a PULL UP BAR!! hah im loving it! Though I can't do nearly as many as before. well if i dont do them right i can get more. but yea. got to remind my self i got thirty more pounds to pull up. though i still look twigish. hah when i tell people i gained thirty in the mision they always say two things, the first! diantre! before you must have been like a pencil, and then youre really taking advantage of the mission eh?

But yea the people here are great. though city people are a different breed. wierdies they are. For examp`le on the way here some guy went zooming down the street singing an opera note super loud hahaha super strange. Though he sure had that note down:)

but yea nothing much really happened just trying to work hard with my compa and yea.
Loove you all a ton and hope the best and travel safe ya hear? haha
Elder Zelasko

July 4th, 2011

wow that totally passed me, its the 4th of July!!! wow Amazing It passed me because I'm now in a new area! A day before transfers and I now have an other new companion!

ha my old comp Elder Pimentel was cool but I'm past him now I've moved on. hahah now I have Elder Hernandez an other Dominican and I´m in a house with more then two people!! I´m so Happy!! It has four, all Dominicans also so my spanish should be getting better! I Hope so!
ok so this new area is close to the Capitail and its not in it but, its in the capital group so ive gone from a campocino to a big ol´ city boy. oh! but get this, they have this store here its called La serina or something like that.In my old area, remember it had NOTHING all you could really buy is rice and beans and corn and yea there was nothing! haha But in this store... WOW i was just smiling and like WOAH WOAH this and that and my compsions were like "You act like a lil kid in a candy store" hah and i definatly was. Wow it was almost exactly like a walmart. I bought lil debbie snacks! yea! hmm soo good. and wow they have so many thing! so many! I feel like I'm back in America when i'm in that store it was wow....
haha but as soon as i left and got in the cab i quickly realized where i was. here with the cabs in the front passenger seat they put two( and theres no hump to sit on just the one seat) and in the back there four people, when you know its like a normal car barly fit three at times. oh and on the way there i think i accidently put the moves on this one girl who sat next to me. i promise i didnt mean to but, I was in the back with two huge guys and she came in and I was like haha ya right. I tried making myself as small as possible even almost sitting on the guy who was sitting on the guy by him. but yea my arm was just in the wierdest postion and almost elbowing her so i had no choice, half way through the ride i put my arm behind her, behind the seat there was suprisingly a lot more room with one arm out of the way but it almost looked like i had my arm around her.;) hah not my fault.
But back to the work here my comp says this area is amazing.. oh you know what is lil unfair my last area as dead as a door nail, I thought. Turns out it was because guzman was dead and going home. Pimentel comes in and we work our buts off for a week and we have a couple people coming to to church and they even went to the activities and they were even asking about baptism!! talk about a choosen one. i was looking forward to seeing how they progressed, but its not important who helps them progeress so long as they progress, right? right. hah but yea he saw this area is super great our house isnt acctually in our area but, its within a mile. He says in 5 weeks he's had 8 baptisms and has some lined up for next.. this saturady? I dont know but soon. oh and because I left today I didnt get to say goodby to any of the families in Don gregorio! I was super bumed about that some of them were like my mini family here in the DR it was a bummer.
I'im pretty sure there some kinda storm here its been raining NON stop for ever and hard too. On the way here it was crazy!!! but fun hah we were in on a ride with the assitants and you could barly see trees where fallen right and right( it was a one way street the other side was road so it only fell on the right:) and we were at times driving through rivers because it was that flooded and we even saw a pretty big accident. it was crazyness. but now im safe and sound here in the city. should be a great transfer here in Los alcorrizos? I still dont have the name down.
oh so we have a new mission president, he seems SUPER cool during the confernce instead of telling us all that we need to repent and all that he actually inspired us and was very motivational. He's cahnged alot already but its starting to feel more like what i thought the mission would feel like and more orginized and correct and i like it, i like it a lot. Haha thats super funny that dad wants jordan to get married too! im sure that wedding isnt cheap. if you want ( dont tell josie) you all can take 50 out of my account to help pay for it i know it ant too much much it should help a little. soo pumped for her getting married. have you met the other? is he cool is he dominican? haha

ok this is a pic of my old comp when we were about to leave to my new area() raingin like carzy) and then my new comp.

and this is Julio, hah ok so this was Elder Guzmans last day julio picks up a shaving cream can and is like what is this? ha so we told him it was face smoothing cream and that you rub it all over you face and youre face will be smoother and healther and look better hahah oh man at least he was a good sport about it when we told him what it really was. haha julio imma miss that kid.

and the other is the reast of my Zone i spen t 3 months with them, bunch of studs. but new area! "ill go where you want me to go dear lord" and that ill do if He wants me to be a city boy then imma try to work my buhooky off out here and do what we gotta do! yea oh i have to write president about the phone call next week its a new pres so i dont know if hes as willing as the other , i certainly hope so but you never know right? welp i love you all and i hope the best for you and all that jazz;) but seriously i do:) but remeber to go to church in all that craziness and to read the scriptures especially the book of mormon, if you read at least two cahpters a day every day you can finish it in three or four months i dont rember which. but im about to finihs it up in english then im reading it in spanish lets see who can finish it first you all in english or me in spanish dun dun dun. im about 10 - 20 pages short of finishing english. so you have a small head start.
oh and hey can you figiure out what i need to do about getting a new pair of shoes who do i send the pic to you all or do i need the email of missionary mail.. because my shoes are getting pretty damaged and i think ill need knew ones soonish. next week ill send a pic.
but i love you all and choose the right!

oh ps... I´m now Senior companion (only by about a couple months), no longer, junior comp, I know you like to know those little things. So yea oh one last little funny story, ***warning gross story to follow*** so you know diariha, its a dangerous thing you can't do nothing with it. haha So this morning I didnt know I had it and the assistants called and said hey instead of leaving tomorrow were going to come pick you up in a couple hours to take you to your new area. So I was like woah! what? and I started packing and moving quick. I crouched down to unzip my suitcase and bum bum bum I had a little fart and well with this little fart... ahh yea you know... then I was like woah! Did that just happen. hah I'm sure I had a stunned face like what? then an other one followed I was uh uh! The damage was dun but still ran to the bathroom, didnt want to make to big of a mess you know, haha;) So yea now I'm offically one step closer to not being a greeny, I now have two out of three accomplished. I've pooped my trousers, left my first area, and all I lack is my trainer going home and he goes home next transfer. Its fun stuff this mission.

hahah Funniest was when I was in the bathroom my companion didnt know what happened and I was like compa.... yea? Could you bring me some of my Garment bottoms... oh.... hahaha his ohh hah but yea stuff like that happens, just got to live and learn. Learn in this sitituation that some time you just can't avoid the wierd stuff in life. Just roll with the punches and laugh as you do it. Like Charley says in the movie charley, "you have to laugh while you work, there's no time after " or something to that effect. yea we watched charley at the branch activity. super super good! and my investiagtor went!!! woot! hah but yea thats all now...
love yall