Shark Boy In El Salvador

  Hey everyone! Here's the update for this week: First week in the office we had 3 zone conferences. Tender mercy there was on the drive over to Ahuachapán for the final conference, we happened to drive by my old area Casa Blanca, and we happened to drive by right where Daniela works so I got to wave hi over at her the day before she got married with Samuel. And then they got BAPTIZED SUNDAY YEEEAHHHHH  Theres also a tropical storm hitting the country right now thats gonna make it keep raining hard for the next week. So the El Salvador president called off school for the week, and the area presidency asked us to try not and go outside for the next couple days. Today we got to send some busses over to bring one of the zones to a different city because they lost power and water in one part of the mission. If I learned anything from American quarantine we should probably head out and buy all the toilet paper in the town. Someone I gotta introduce you to is a man named Lazaró...

  Hello mis amigos It's been a long time. I don't have time to tell everything going on but to sum up I got transferred from Casa Blanca to Paraiso. Im now gunna be trained to be the general secretary of the mission yeeeeahhhhhh 7 years of online school bout to come in handy with a lot of computer stuff. I got to leave Casa Blanca with 3 weddings being planned along with baptisms for those people which was super super cool to be a part of. Never had a wedding in my mission and for some reason this area just had a LOT that needed to be done with weddings. So I'm ready to be a wedding planner when I get back. I think that all mightve happened because the Lord saw I wasnt going to be able to be there when my older brother got married, so he just sent a bunch of weddings to plan here haha One of them is the Familia Coc who I talked about last email. They're all ready to be baptised, hno Coc already proposed to his wife Yanira and everything, they're just in the legal pr...

I really haven't had a lot of time to journal in the past weeks, so this email is kind of going to be my opportunity to journal down the most meaningful things for me in the last month while I have a computer for a few hours. Enjoy! Carlos and Sarai I think I told you guys about how on our 2nd day here we found a crazy guy on the street named Edwin who brought us over to his family. Well now we've found that his sister Roxanna is an inactive church member who was baptised when she was about 15, and stopped going when her daughter was born. She was converted when she was given a Book of Mormon and chose to try and read it even though she didn't know how to read before. But with that book Roxanna not only learned how to read, but she felt the spirit testify to her heart and mind the truthfulness of the gospel and was baptised!            Well anyways that was like 30 years ago, but now when we found her family thanks to Edwin, we started meetin...

  Hello, just would like to write this to say that I have reached 500 pupusas. Thank you for all your love and support. I think we can say this was a successful group effort. For a quick recap of the week, it was BUSY AS HECK. The only full day we had in our area was Sunday but we survived so it's all good. Monday : P-Day, FHE w/a drunk guy, then took a bus to APs house in El Trebol to stay the night there. Tuesday : Took a van from El Trebol, to the capital city of San Salvador for immigration papers now that I hit a year in the country. We ate at Burger king for lunch and it was incredible. Wednesday : Some epic Zone Conferences, and then Elder Harward got parasites and was really sick that night. Thursday : Visited a little bit in the morning and then went to the Hospital in Santa Ana in the afternoon to destroy Wednesday's parasites. Friday : Exchanges with Magdalena. Elder Ricconi and I found two families of 7 and we invited 28 people to church in one day. That was AWESOM...

  Wazaaaaaap Update on life here: I'm about to complete 14 months in the mission. Three days ago I got transferred to the area Casa Blanca, where I got my new companion Elder Harward, who also just got to the area at the same time as me too. He's really great, he's from Rexburg Idaho/Provo Utah. Another cool thing is this is his first time being zone leader, and he has the exact same amount of time I had when I became one too. It's been a little crazy with both of us being new to the area, but we both have an eye of faith looking forward to good things to come. Probably for this email, I'll mostly just finish up some stories I never wrote from when I was in El Congo Waterphobia I know i've talked to my family when I call about the Lemus family, but I don't know if i've ever written about them here. But to make a long epic backstory short, the Lemus family was found when we knocked on a random door on our way out of a tiny colony in a corn field, and it e...

  HelloooOOOO Its been way too long to posibly share everything in sufficient detail. Most weeks I honestly dont even comprehend all of the things that happen here until I have to start explaining some of it in english to my family on mondays. But heres some short recaps. Im still here in the area of El Congo. Ive been here since like octoberish I think, so like 5 months. A lot has happened here and I have definitely learned a lot. Random things: - Bought dinner for a very drugged gringo man with a recently homemade ear piecing out of a metal screw who somehow was in the middle of El Salvador without money or spanish skills or a car or place to sleep, who aparently was German just escaped a venesualan prison for flipping off some police officers who gave him a parking ticket and then chucking dog poo at them. I would like to know his life story and how the heck he got there or where he is now.  - Prayed for a ride while running to our final appointment and out of nowhere, the ...

MURRY CHRISTMUS I hope you all have a great christmas. Its a pretty awesome time to celebrate the day the Savior came, the one guy who made the entire Plan of Salvation work by killing death and also paying the debt for all of our sins so that through him we're all going to live forever. Also if we choose to, we can live that forever in eternal glory with him. Also not to mention he helps you here in this life to have peace and joy and a ton of blessings. Jesus is the best. Where the heck am I - Still in El Congo  - Completed 11 months in the mission 2 days ago. - Elder Ochoa went home (along with Hales, Chase and Adcock, so now all my past comps are offically dead) - Recieved new comp Elder Frias. He's from Argentina and he's really great. We've had some really good experiences just in this week and a half together. - Went from only having american companions my entire mission to now being the only english speaker in a house of 4. Its awesome, I love speakin spanish. S...