chris why havent you written even a little? janice couldnt send me anything,
you owe us pictures!¨:) David congratulations on your new assignment to
serve the Lord. its great to feel useful in his kingdom. Papi im glad that
you are feeling better. i have been praying for you and my companion wants
to fast too. she likes you and doesnt know you.. funny huh? but thats how
all missionaries are. we love you even if we dont really know you. jonathan
thanks for writting me. im handwritting a whole bunch will send it today
hopefully. i would recommend that you get the process started and see what
you need on health check ups and stuff because that takes time and money so
the sooner you get started the better prepared you will be for submitting
them on time and not delaying your calling from the prophet. trust me
because i´ve already done it get started with the interviews with the bishop
and stake president and the checkups and you will be better off. read D&C
19:31-32 and 37-4. this week we freaked out a less active who hasnt gone to
chruch since 19 years his wife told us about him and gave us all his info
because she wants him to go back to church even though she is from a diff
religion. so we showed up where he worked and said man in black style well
really women in skirts style you are Jose Barcos? he said who told you that
i didnt answer and said and you are a member of our church he said so scared
who have you spoken to. and i said again without responding to his questions
why havent you gone for so long... 19 years? he said you are scaring me how
do you know this i said we stumbled upon your house and well basically God
is calling you back home. it was so funny but so true as well. he isnt on
some list or anything we just knocked and found a lost sheep. also this week
we took down porn well i did my companion says shes to scared to. but this
is how i did it...
hi brother how are you we call you brother because you are a child of God so
spiritually we are brothers and sisters he smiles and says thats true and i
said and our older brother is Christ and he loves us so much and gave his
life for us he says thats true too. he must have loved his little siblings a
lot, do you have siblings? yep sisters and brothers well would you like
seeing your little sister naked here on the side of the street? NO! well
Jesus doenst like it either may we please take this daughter of God down so
that her older Brother Jesus wont be offended either? Works every time! be
bold be valiant, stand for truth and righteousness.
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| Breakfast |
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| Eeker sassing me for who knows what! I love that kid! |
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| Gilbert - pray for him to soften his heart! |
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| One Graffiti dear to me! |
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| Our Beloved Temple |
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| Somethings I Need! |
Christopher's Letter
Dear mom and dad and Isabel,
I hope that you´ll forgive me for not writing. We have an hour to write and I try to be obedient and only write for an hour. The thing is that my companion who I´m training has never used a computer before and so I have had to help him a lot and don´t really have time. I´m sorry ,but I had to take care of that. It´s not an excuse. I´m sorry.
Also, before I forget, could you give me the addresses of Jared and Jennifer, Ted and Jenni, Amy and Chuck, Aunt Debi, Michael and Julie, Uncle Jeff and his wife, and Grandma and Grandpa. And of anyone else that I forgot.Thank you!
So, this week has been a lot of work. We´re fighting to get a family to come to church. They are good people and want to come to church, but it´s true it takes a long time to come back to church. We were also teaching to a mother of a member, Hermana Oneda. I´ve visited her for 4 months here and it´s really funny. She always said that she doesn´t need to get baptized...So I stopped visiting them! Haha. And then she randomly shows up at church two weeks ago while I was giving a talk. Haha. We went to teach her and I told her that she had to get baptized again because she was never baptized by the priesthood authority and she said in the middle of the lession, really quietly to her daughter,"I guess we have to get baptized again. "sigh."" Haha. And now she´s going to get baptized and hopefully the rest of her kids. Haha. I also promise to send photos the next week. I just haven´t taken many photos. I have some, like the one I sent you of my companion and I. Oh, mentioning my companion, this week we got a call from Presidente, during our study and he told us that the dad of my companion died (on tuesday). It has been really hard, but has strengthened us a lot at the same time. I think that my companion is going to be fine.
I´m getting nervous because I´ve been here for a while and it´s possible that they might take me out of Siguatepeque! It´s really beautiful here and people don´t get killed often. But the Lord´s will, not mine.
I´ve been learning a lot and I promise to share it all with you in some near time. I really, really, really, really, really want to baptize a family. Almost all of the converts have gone inactive, from what I heard. Families stay in the church, individuals don´t very often.
Congratulations, dad. That´s pretty fantastic. I really liked both of your letters.
With lots of love,
Elder Hill
This is the crazy worrisome Mom - but would you all pray for Chris' companion! I can't even imagine to be away from your family and to lose a parent or to send my son out on a mission and not be there when he returns. I don't really know him, but I feel Christopher's love for him and my heart aches for him and his family! His name is Elder Arevalo. Thanks - until next week!
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