March 26,2018

Well weeks just keep going  by and I don't understand where the time keeps going. Like I wake up and feel like it should be Tuesday or something like that but it is freaking Friday or Saturday... I don't get it... But we just keep pressing on. This week we have a week called the week of faith. The goal is to find a lot of new investigatores and put a lot of fechas bautismales. The new investigatores is easy but the fechas are harder. But we have put a couple. They are pretty cool. On Saturday it was funny, we woke up did the norm than went to work. We went to a new place contacting and we found a place that we hadn't been to before. So we started walking, and kept walking, and kept walking and we got to the point where we were only an hour away from Honduras... Like ya... We walked a ton.... Then we taught a lesson and had 8 news in one lesson. hahah we walked so much that my shoes blew open. Like ya that is how much we walked. But the best part is on the way back a Catholic Priest gave us the ride into town. Hahaha who would have guessed. So then on Sunday we went to church and not very many people showed up... But we had some cool people show up. President Duran and Hermana Duran! Wow it was pretty cool they talked and macheted hard. So I hope that these guys got the message and will start working with us again. Because we really need their help. But really that is all that we did this week. Just Excited for Semana Santa this week! We are going to see the biggest Alfombras in the country on Friday!!! WOW We are going to have a week full of success!! Love you!!!

March 19, 2018

So this week was alright. We were working hard and saw some success but always there is something that doesn't go right during the week. This week we had a baptism planned and it fell threw because the mom doesn't want to give us permission. We aren't sure why but we will work with her this week to see how it goes. So we found someone super awesome it is just that they don't go to church... Man it is so hard to get people to go to church... They always have an excuse... It sucks. But you just gotta deal with it right? So we started working with a kid well he is 20 years old. His name is Ricardo. He is a member and we are trying to get him to go on the mission. So we leave with him when we can and we visit him a lot. His mom isn't a member so we are working with her too. He is a great guy. I am helping him with english too. So we also had interviews this week. President is just a great guy. He helps me out a lot. He talked about a few consepts when he taught us and wow they are great. I hope this week we can start ripping the area open again and find the news that the Lord has prepared for us. Well that's it for this week! Love you!!! 

PS I met the salvadoraño style Nick Dokus

March 12, 2018

Well another week down and in the books. Hard to say that the time just flies by... I have no idea how it does but man it just doesn't stop ticking. So this week had its ups and downs. The downs were only 5 out of 7 days of work... And Saturday there was an activity in the church so really only 4 days of hard work. It really messed up our week... It started on Wensday when we had to go to another área to work. We were in the capitol working. I had the chance to work with Elder Roundy in his área. It was nice to see him again but sad at the same time. There has been Little to zero progression in his spanish. He has almost 8 months in the misión.. I am getting worried for him... He is really lost all the time... But Thursday we went to the capitol to listen to 2 70's. One was the 1st counseler in the área presidency, Elder Zeballos, and the other was Elder Gong. One of the Presidents of the quorum of the 70. All the talks were mainly centered on the spirit. It was an awesome experience to listen to their talks and inspiration that they had recieved for us. Haha a funny part was that there were only 2 missions there. The West and the East. The West showed up late hardly anyone was in a suit, and almost all of us were in suits. It is just kinda disappointing that those missionaries were not as well behaved as our misión. But what ever. I shouldn't judge but it's hard not to. Anyways, we had a very good lesson with the mom of familia Lopez. She told us that her companion doesn't want to recieve us anymore and all sorts of stuff. She decided to leave him. Now she has been looking for a job to move out with her kids. We talked to her about  trials and it was a very spiritual lesson. She really has so much faith. it is incredible. We are struggling with finding people to go to church. Well new people. We always have like the same 5 come but it's time for new people so we can keep baptizing. We found some families that are really good. We will just have to keep working with them. So ya that wass my week! Love you!

March 5, 2018

Well this week was a good and bad. We just worked hard I would have to say. I don't really have much to say, just that we had interchanges with the zone leaders. I worked with Giron. It was super fun to work with him again. I love the guy. I am sad that I was only with him for one change. But we found some pretty awesome people in the interchange. We found 11 investigators just in one day. It  was pretty fun. The elections for mayor were on sunday so we only had 27 people in church... Ridiculous. Then only one investigator. Rough week but this week we will work harder to get more success. Love you 

Feb. 26, 2018

Well another week gone by. Another change has started and we stayed together!!! Elder Mateo and I will be rockin and rollin until at least April! Dope right? So this week was really slow. We found a couple pretty cool people, but it was just an alright week. We didn't have a single progressing investigator... I mean we tired. A lot read and all but they don't come to church so they can't progress. Because they need to do something new to progress. Anyways, this week we had people actually invite us  over for lunch! Wow it was cool! And a ton of people gave us dinner too. Hahaha I know sounds kinda dumb but it was nice. Last Monday we went to the beach. I think that was the coolest thing that we did this week, to be honest. I might have sent pics but I'm not sure. But yep there you go my week. Love you.

Feb. 19, 2018

Well you could say that it was a good week buy the look of the numbers. However, I didn't like this week to be honest. Well like what happened was Tuesday just normal work day. Wendesday is when the problem came. So we had an area attack. That is where the whole district comes to your area and works to help you out. So everyone came here. Then we went and split up worked hard. The plan was work hard until night time. Have a Noche de Hogar with Familia Lopez so that we could see if they were going to be baptized. And it was one of the daughter's birthdays right? So we show up with a cake and sing and just having a great time. Then the mom's companion comes in. Real pissed off he starts swearing up a storm at us and tells us to get out and never come back... The daughters were in shock and the mom was crying... He said he was gonna throw away the cake and I about lost my cool in the house... I did say a few bad words in english... But we were about to baptize them and now this happens... I left heartbroken and destroyed... We finished the day off eating pupusas. But we also all slept in my house and we threw all the matresses on the floor and had a wrestling UFC match without punches and kicks. I destroyed everyone. Hahaha The first kid a Dominican thought he was hot stuff so I ankle picked him and threw him in an arm bar and he was crying for mercy. Hahaha that was my favorite match. The first one and the shortest one. So Thrusday came around and we had a rough day. We were heartbroken for what had happened and we just couldn't find anyone. Then we went to give english classes and Familia Lopez was waiting for us and we are always there early!!! Wow I was really happen to see them. They felt bad for what happened and they just said that they were going to come to church and even were going to come to the baptism we had on Saturday. So Saturday rolls around. We are filling up this worthless piece of crap you have to put together baptismal font that someone lost the plastic so there is a freaking tarp that you put in it... Like ya really bad... Water was going out everywhere. We baptized Victor but Familia Lopez didn't come. They weren't even home to answer the phone or anything. So Sunday comes by real fast and they show up, Familia Lopez, and tell us that they couldn't make it to the baptism because they were taking the mom's companion out of jail... The neighbors called the cops when they heard him yelling at us but he kept going even after we left... So ya they didn't get baptized... And I had to translate a conference that was Area wide. Like all the central american countries heard it today. There were 2 talks that weren't translated so they made me get up to translate them. The first one I butchered the heck out of it, but the 2nd one I did pretty dang good. Everyone said I did good. So I either did good or they were brown nosing pretty hard on me. But there are changes this week. So we will see what happens. I would love to stay with Elder Mateo one more change. But if not it is okay. Well that was my week. Love you!!!

Feb. 12, 2018 Happy Valentine's Day

A picture of a door 

Hey!!! So this week we had fun again! But we didn't get the 2 baptisms that we wanted... However, on the bright side we are going to baptize a kid this week. He is a little crazy. But we are going to baptize him. We have a chance to baptize the familia Lopez this week too. That would be a miracle that we really are waiting for. Anyways, we keep finding baptisms with less active members, it is awesome. We found 2 more this week. A miracle this week that we had is that Humberto, the son of the recent convert, quit his job and is going to work for another member hahaha. He is going to learn how to weld and he is going to weld with the Branch President. Awesome right? We totally set that up. English classes were pretty fun this week. We got a less active who is super cool to come. He wants to go on a mission, but he is going to finish in the university. Good thing he is finishing this year! He is a super good guy. He even invited us over and gave us dinner one night. So when we thought that we were doing good with the attendance in the branch with 2 weeks above 50 I figured that we were going to have 60 this week.... I was wrong. We had 35... UH.. The lowest attendance that I have had in my entire mission. But that means there is a lot of work to do this week!!! Haha just a shout out to the sis-in-law with the birthday that went past and also shout out to mommy because in 3 years you are half a century old hahaha happy birthday mommy yesterday! I love you!!! Well have a great week!

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Side note from Mom-- Really-- What a jackwang!!  Apparently we didn't teach Jackson any manners about talking about a woman's age ???? What the Heck!!??