July 21, 2014 - Letter to Mom

Hey Momma!!!

Hope you are having an amazing week!!!  Things are going alright here, and overall I'm doing pretty good!  I´m not sure if you and dad share emails or anything, but I wrote him the funny story that happened this week and I´ll share like the summary of it with you too!  Soo we were down in the south in a trio, because one of the other guys was in Madrid, and one of my buddies locks the keys to the car inside, sooo we were all stuck in like the worst part of the island late at night with no way to get home... We end up taking a bus home, and getting back there super early so we don't get ticketed!!!  We tried breaking in without breaking anything, but after a while it didnt work out and we ended up having to break a window, but all is good now! It was even worse(funny now) that like just two days later my companion forgot to bring the keys to our piso, so we got locked out of that too!!  But we were able to pick the lock and got in without any further expenses or problems haha So that´s that!!  I´ll answer some of your questions first I suppose...

1.  I actually don't really talk to them that much it makes me sad, but from what I hear most of them are doing good!  Mario the dominican guy has had trouble getting to church because his work schedule got changed, which is a bummer, but I hear he is still doing really good :) 

 

2.  We´ve been to some, but president ended up telling me to to go as much as I was planning on.  He said we should like stay in the highly populated areas of our area, if that makes sense, so I guess thats that!  

3.  I´ve done a couple since I got called as the district leader, and then this past week was a ton!!!  I was down working in Vecindario on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, then I had an afternoon here in telde with a zone leader from tenerife, then on Saturday I was back down in vecindario again for a baptismal interview!!

4.  Well i guess I just answered that, but ya I gave my first one just a couple days ago to a guy from Peru.  Really nice guy and he is going to be Baptized this Saturday in Vecindario!!!

5.  Not exactly sure... I suppose its a natural pose of mine??  No I reall dont have any logical answer for this question haha sorry?? :)

Sorry I wasnt able to write barely anything last week!!  We were up in the Larsens house, and like all the missionaries take turns there, but we had to leave early to take another guy to the airport, then drive all the way down south and by the time we got there we only had a few minutes to write, buttttttt oh well it has been a decenmt week here in Telde as welll... The guy with the water, his name is Primitivo and he is doing really well!  We are always able to meet with him a lot, and he came to church again this past well yesterday!!  I bought a pizza for him cuz that's what he wanted, but he ended up making us a spaish tortilla to eat after church yesterday, so it all sort of balanced out!  If all goes well we are going to invite him to be baptized this week and we´ll see how that goes!  Hopefully well!!!  

Sounds like you guys are having a busy week as usual!!  Justin sure has a lot of baseball games nowadays, and I hope he is doing good!  He hasn´t written me in a REALLY long time, like a month I think and I miss hearing from him, but I hope he´s doing good!!!  I miss all you guys, kara wrote me and it sounds like she is doing good, but stressed about a talk she has to give in church.  I'm going to try and think of any story idea I can send over to her.  Kendal didnt write me, so i´m pretty sad about that, but I guess she is in the philippines and who knows what's going on over there.  Hopefully she's all good and safe and everything, I'm sure she is.  Well let me see if i have anything else noteworthy to share from this week....  No I didn't have any meetings this past week, but this next week I'm going to teach a lesson, and I think I´ll be trying to focus on conversion.  And like teaching off of a quote that I have no clue where it is now but I'm going to find it, it basically says we can't convert people more than we are converted ourselves.  ALSO I wanted to share how conversion isn't just a point we get to, but something that is continual and even though we are missionaries we should continue converting ourselves to the gospel and getting better day by day :)  I think it should turn out pretty well, but we´ll see!  I´m glad you found the Larsen's blog!  She told me that you left a sweet comment on her blog when I saw her on Thursday!  The Larsen's are the best, and ya she cooks a lot!!  But she cooks way good! hahah Maybe she´ll post more pictures of us this wednesday, cuz they are coming to my district meeting, so we´ll see !!!  Well I think that´s just about everything!!  Hope you have an amazing week, and good luck with work and everything!!  Love you Mom :)  You're the best!  Really :)

Love,

Nate