tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037365217446048912024-03-19T10:38:19.658-07:00A Honduras Call...Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-73004313480758419962015-04-20T13:44:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:45:14.639-07:00SUPER BAUTISMO!<div class="p1">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPEyj-GeBgkx_kwpdFgs7WCWI8T_jxSukcDrY_mKx-me_gcPvkxVLvjT25CRzN8h_5DxxgfhFo0k-VOX2CNSM7LMfPeJRiRpL39BsI3v-kCUFnP8NoI7SKuoj98WouNiRmwLumDBY9yw/s1600/PTDC0452.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPEyj-GeBgkx_kwpdFgs7WCWI8T_jxSukcDrY_mKx-me_gcPvkxVLvjT25CRzN8h_5DxxgfhFo0k-VOX2CNSM7LMfPeJRiRpL39BsI3v-kCUFnP8NoI7SKuoj98WouNiRmwLumDBY9yw/s1600/PTDC0452.JPG" height="301" width="400" /></a><span class="s1">What a week this week! We started off by getting a trio of Hermanas here! A bit wierd to see trios haha. We started running because my comp has gained a lot and wants to go home skinny haha. We actually woke up super early this morning and went running with a member! Its awesome to be running again! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyway, we had four baptisms!!!! Francisco, Francis, Katerin, and Steffy!!! We had what they called a SUPER BAUTISMO! All the missionaries in the stake have their baptisms in the stake center, but we ended up being the only ones with baptisms. I baptized Francisco and my comp baptized the rest! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The other picture is a game of chess we played on our floor with stuff form the kitchen and bathroom haha. (we are in a battle of chess, but I am winning 9-5) Other than that we had a normal week with great success! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-76320027430487435572015-04-13T13:42:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:42:20.408-07:00Week 20<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Hey Everyone! This week was pretty great! We had a good amount of success and I am definitely wiped out each day from all the walking! We have had a bunch of lessons with four children, Francisco, Francis, Steffy, and Katerin. They each want to baptized next week, but they have had some problems with coffee haha so hopefully they can kick that habit! We will be having a giant baptism next week with each investigator in the zone so I think their will be a ton of people! That will hopefully work out! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I will try to send a letter home this week, but it will most likely take a long time to get to you guys... so patience. haha! Not too many crazy things happened this week, just getting out and doing the Lords work! I love being and here and being a part of all this! I am doing great health wise and everything else wise. Love hearing from all of you and I love this gospel! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-6925189316874102742015-04-06T13:41:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:41:44.101-07:00Conference was great<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Well, conference has come and gone and how great it was! Priesthood sesh was easily my favorite! How great those talks were! Even though I could not understand everything, I could feel the power in their words! Fantastic to hear from everyone! We had a pretty slow week, but we were able to find someone that the Hermanas before us left in the carpeta. Apparently after two lessons, he left for a work trip and came back about a week ago. He told the Hermanas that he had recieved his answer and would be baptized before he left. When we talked to him he told us he had a few questions that he got from his work associates on his trip, but we were able to correct all these and we committed him to baptism as well. We recieved two new Hermanas so we pretty much spent all our time setting up appointments for them with members and helped them get to know the area. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Also, There is not really easter here. They call it Semana Santa. Which is basically just that they all get off work and go to the beach and eat this really weird food called Miel. Super different! Haha Well That wraps up this week! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-22780399773370126702015-03-23T13:39:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:40:43.309-07:00Weekly Stuff...<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">This week I finished reading the Old Testament! Yay! Never want to do that again haha... Just be thankful that we have the Book of Mormon... So much better... Now I am reading the New Testament. If you havent read it, I would advise you to read it! It has helped me so much to realize what it means to be Christ- like and what are his characteristics! It is fantastic.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Not sure if you remember Maynor, our really cool investigator, but we had a lesson with him on The Restoration and he told me immediately that he is going to be baptized. He said he felt something he hadnt felt before while reading from Nephi´s bold promise in 2 Nefi 33: 10-12! He has so much faith and it is awesome to be a part of all of it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I recieved the credit card finally! haha after four months... Anyway, that is about all for me this week. We are working hard and loving it! Love all you guys! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-25149577505332869232015-03-09T13:19:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:19:57.133-07:00Happenings of the Week!<div class="p1">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdIVR4mIwqUgqRNwPcztucCRIX-alTSQaGi8yzN5eXclJHTa9MNbsoHae8hmMaMsmDQrzO_JvAugm1n6Np1GX9pzognVHJna8m6Yj1iB5yxuil2ElT6mGMU8_uISGJp_MLyUfFji32yY/s1600/PTDC0380-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdIVR4mIwqUgqRNwPcztucCRIX-alTSQaGi8yzN5eXclJHTa9MNbsoHae8hmMaMsmDQrzO_JvAugm1n6Np1GX9pzognVHJna8m6Yj1iB5yxuil2ElT6mGMU8_uISGJp_MLyUfFji32yY/s1600/PTDC0380-1.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span class="s1">Well, this week was pretty great! To start off, on tuesday, Elder Zitting (the ZL) and I went on divisions to an area called El Chile/ Episcopal. We had a day of contacting here because we don´t have a single investigator there. We had a ton of success! One of the best parts of the day, however, was when we were walking past two guys playing basketball. The wife of one of the guys was sitting on the bench watching. Elder Zitting started a conversation with her and she was pretty shy. The husband noticed two guys in white shirts and ties interrogating his wife and he quickly came to the rescue.His name was Minor. Once we had a chance to explain who we were he seemed interested. We asked them if they would like to be baptized and start their journey back to Christ. They said they would love to. We were excited about that as we left, but we forgot to ask them where they lived. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyway, love you guys so much and hope the best for this week and all it contains. Especially Shaynas wedding! Also the tennis team in Saint George...</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Hey everyone! Another great week here in Honduras! We combined the Puerto Cortes Zone with the Choloma zone, so this week we were on the bus a lot! We had to take a bus to Cholome which is about 45 minutes away for Zone meeting on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, we went to San Pedro for a multi zone meeting! That was really fantastic! Hermana Dester can't really speak Spanish so she gave a talk in english and President Dester helped translate. They talked on the importance of being missionaries at all times. Elder Ochoa took pictures with all of us and gave a talk on personal study. Really great!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyway, other than that we had a good week with plenty to do! We made a cake for one of our investigators with a birthday! It was on Saturday night so we were fasting which was highly disappointing, but we love seeing them enjoy it! We had a service project on Saturday as well just machete-ing a hill behind a members house to plant cacao trees! We got some pretty nice blisters, but were hoping by the end of the mission we with have callouses on our hands so we don't get them anymore... Anyway time is about up for me here in Puerto Cortes and its time to head back to Campana! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-87311931737389107672015-02-23T13:10:00.000-08:002015-04-23T13:10:53.963-07:00Cambios!<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Well, changes have come and gone and I did, in fact, recieve a new comp, but still here in Campana. Elder Tomas is from Guatemala and is super great! He has a super strong testimony and I think we are going to have a lot of success! Also, obviously he is latino. So that has been fun! This week we have a member of the seventy coming to speak to us in San Pedro! I am super excited to hear from Elder Ochoa! That will be on wednesday.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week was a bit difficult just with showing my comp our area, that I was still learning. We have a really large area so we had a bit of a slow week, but I am ready to really work hard this week! One of our investigators will be getting married pretty soon and the day after be baptized! They asked us to help with the food. I hope we can, but I would understand if president doesnt think we should. That would take a lot of time and a bit of money. We have another investigator who is really progressing quite quickly and already has a testimony of the truth of the Book of Mormon! Both those investigators names are Carlos haha so yeah.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We didnt have mail becuase of changes this past week so I will tell you next week if it has come! I would plan on like two more weeks at least, but who knows... </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week was a really slow week up until friday. We had a couple service projects fall through and such, but we still had a pretty good week! On saturday, Mireyli was baptized by Hno. Santos, a convert of three years. It was his first baptism so he had to take three tries to get it right, but no one is perfect.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">On sunday, Francisco and Lourdes were baptized! They were my first real converts, from the first lesson all the way to baptism! They are absolutely fantastic and they will have the chance on friday to go to the temple for some baptisms for the dead! I am so happy for them! They were my comps favorite investigators he has had as well. He has almost read the whole Book Of Mormon and has already started in The Pearl of Great Price!</span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-67481884877349380122015-02-09T07:11:00.000-08:002015-04-03T07:12:33.589-07:00Week 5...<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Well... it is already the last week of changes. We are hoping that Elder Jones stays so that he can see all the wonderful investigators we have had be baptized. This week was a whole lot of trial and success, but I have absolutely loved the five weeks I have had. The person that said that you will learn more about yourself and the gospel in the two years on your mission than twenty years of normal life was absolutely right. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Last monday night we made a huge pan of macaroni with real cheese and gave it to some of the families that did not have anything to eat that night. I always love doing that kind of stuff! We had a ton of citas with our investigators that fell through, but the really faithful ones always are open for our lessons. One of the biggest trials of this week was when Jose Antonio, one of our top investigators started avoiding us. He would pretend not to be home and send one of the neighbours to tell us that he was out. Then, he finally came out with the Book of Mormon in hand, (which we noticed he had clearly read because of his book mark in a completely different chapter) and told us that he could no longer see us. His wife was strongly opposed to us and his daughter refused to be present when we were there. It felt just like how Alma describes it when those he had taught were decieved "my soul was racked." </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After that, we had a great last lesson with Mireily, who will be baptized on saturday. We also had plans to baptize two others, Francisco and Loordes. They are absolutely fantastic and love the gospel so much already. We told them that they could go to the temple on the 21st and do baptisms for the dead if they were baptized this saturday. This would also mean that they would have to go to church on sunday because of the rule that you need three church attendances for baptism. They decided to go for it! However, they did not come to church this last sunday. This means they will not be able to make it to the temple for a long time... We got pretty upset about that, but we couldn't stay upset because every time we visit them, the spirit is so strong! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-59281807250475960922015-02-02T07:10:00.000-08:002015-04-03T07:10:14.312-07:00Good Week<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Well, this week we had some really good days and some really bad days haha. One day we had nine referrals! All of them are really good too! But, the next day was really slow and unsuccessful.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">So we went up to Familia Calderone for lunch, but this time they are super excited to see me especially. They kept calling me chef and cook and then they pointed to the chickens. They also gave me a machete... So we had chicken nuggets for lunch! Pretty crazy.</span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-45750227939214660472015-01-19T14:21:00.000-08:002015-02-02T14:32:16.971-08:00Sarcasm, as it turns out, is not universal<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Hey guys! This week was an awesome week! We had a bunch of success! First off, one of our investigators, Francisco, that I have been here the whole time to teach, has committed to baptism! He came to church yesterday and loved it! We took over an area from some former Hermanas so we have so many investigators/ inactive members that we need to visit... We haven't had to go contacting because we already have like a hundred people on the list. So really awesome, but really confusing and stressful as well. The other day we took Gloria, an awesome member that lives near us, to some of the lessons. They went awesome, but the thing about Honduras is that there are a ton of churches! There are like five different churches on our block! So these churches love to sing and play guitar and clap. The only problem with that is how terrible EVERYONE is at singing around here! Not even kidding, I sound like Josh Groban compared to these guys! Whenever we hear them we have to ask, is that a bar or a church? So I say "Oh this is my favorite song" while they are singing and my companion laughs, but all the natives we were teaching were like, "Wait really? It sounds terrible." So we spent the next ten minutes explaining what sarcasm is... so yeah... </span></div>
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<span class="s1">To answer your questions, my zone doesn't include San Pedro Sula. I am what the other Elders call a "Jungle Rat" because I am in the jungly area. My area is called Nueva Campana. We mostly eat Baleadas down here which are tortillas (corn or flour) with manteca (an almost sour creamy thing,) frijoles, eggs, and if you are lucky, chicken. We have these almost every meal with the members. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Have fun at the dance Kaitlin! Just hope you don't get sent to the fairgrounds like we did... haha anyway have an awesome week everyone! I am doing great here! Love you guys!</span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-65825891824614210652014-12-31T09:35:00.000-08:002014-12-31T09:35:04.080-08:00MAIL addresses!Wade will be leaving the MTC in Mexico City next week, but his mailing address for the mission home is: <br />
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Misión Honduras San Pedro Sula Oeste<br />
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San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras<br />
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C.A.Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-23577333568028387792014-12-30T09:07:00.000-08:002014-12-31T09:07:58.711-08:00Last Week Here<div class="p1">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPknzmQ3g9jJOTSWEzWXAMGk-Qylp1SwnkJTyJM7BHHma2QTl0-8n0COsheelogFxpqUWDt5RwwOijxwysfstMlB5rI5HjkG26qEANbRibPR-8aM6HMOideEH-Af70RljkcvqV8u_LSoU/s1600/PTDC0043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPknzmQ3g9jJOTSWEzWXAMGk-Qylp1SwnkJTyJM7BHHma2QTl0-8n0COsheelogFxpqUWDt5RwwOijxwysfstMlB5rI5HjkG26qEANbRibPR-8aM6HMOideEH-Af70RljkcvqV8u_LSoU/s1600/PTDC0043.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a><span class="s1">Well after I talked with you on the phone, we had three Devotionals right in a row! Followed by Meet The Mormons! It was probably my favorite day so far! Christmas was great! Our teacher wanted to do something for us before he left for the States. Everyone was saying churros. He brought Gringas, which Clay might be able to tell you about... not sure. They were the tastiest things I have had in a month and a half haha! This last sunday I gave a talk on repentance and it went really well! I did not have to read anything I wrote down! That was the miracle of the week haha! After that we watched the Mountain of the Lord. A fantastic movie on the Salt Lake Temple! I have absolutely been loving the time here! One week left though, kind of sad about that. </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-5008178714393476362014-12-23T09:00:00.000-08:002014-12-31T10:28:32.747-08:00Feliz Navidad<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">This week was pretty slow, we welcomed all the new missionaries and took them to their casas, and Elder Gevas was one of them so that was pretty cool. Oh if you haven't seen it yet, you need to see the video "He Is The Gift"! We've seen it a bunch and I don't get tired of it! Also there's a sweet video with David Achuletta (for Kaitlin) in it on the nativity! Can't remember what that one is called and also one called "The Reason Behind Christmas" All of them are great! </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-31226605093217679552014-12-16T08:59:00.000-08:002014-12-31T08:59:56.705-08:00Mexico City!
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5U3kGUjUSAGY4l3Ke5g1OMudUJXHNxUsG3Lz1fwUS3l4O4AG1aMB48mPjzWqe-WJfDTg3HwmgMqJZ1ej9TAYtO7tTtK8TbO2WMgSFuYFsLUI3oy2mUIz8GbU8OW9JD2veTqPXIq3iLnw/s1600/PTDC0026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5U3kGUjUSAGY4l3Ke5g1OMudUJXHNxUsG3Lz1fwUS3l4O4AG1aMB48mPjzWqe-WJfDTg3HwmgMqJZ1ej9TAYtO7tTtK8TbO2WMgSFuYFsLUI3oy2mUIz8GbU8OW9JD2veTqPXIq3iLnw/s1600/PTDC0026.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a><span class="s1">It has been quite a week here in the Mexico CCM! I taught the district how to play poison in basketball because we can't really play basketball with the hermanas... Anyway it is pretty much all we play now as a district. We fasted Thursday for someone who was thinking a lot about going home and such, and luckily they have gotten better since then. We had a super awesome event on Friday that was a Christmas production about Christmas in Mexico! It was a play type thing that showed how the natives saw that night, there was a bunch of dancing and singing! They had some pretty sweet costumes including the three amigos type costumes haha! They also danced while doing a bunch of crazy moves with espadas and stuff! It was cool. Today we got to go to the temple! Even though it was under construction and we didn't actually go inside, it was awesome! Very beautiful! The ride through Mexico City is crazy! You are almost always three inches from another car here and people just j walk making it so much more difficult! haha That pretty much wraps up things here! Glad to see I graduated! haha So clay wasn't as awkward as Brenden was? too bad... got a couple pictures this week... hope they actually send haha </span></div>
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Tonia Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15296338887081449085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303736521744604891.post-25880361904333645492014-12-09T13:11:00.000-08:002014-12-15T13:14:50.043-08:00Warm Weather<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">Mexico is fantastic! I don`t know where to start! So the plane ride was long, but when I got off in Atlanta, it was so flat! It was scary how flat it was! haha anyway, when we got off in Mexico, We had a long bus ride ahead to the CCM. It is surprising how big Mexico city is! It was a pretty dirty city, but somehow it was also really green. There were trees everywhere! We pulled in and went straight to dinner. Yo creo it was a chicken Parmesan. Anyway, we spent the rest of the day getting situated. I actually had no problem at all getting situated with the schedule, pero the language is pretty tough. Which is why some of these palabras will be in español. I`m trying all I can to use it todos de los dias even on p-day. Anyway, we have great food here and the weather is actually quite fantastic! It is cool in the morning and around tres de la tarde, it starts getting hot. It is way beautiful here! WOW! Las montañas es muy bella! I`ll get pictures next week, but for now you will have to trust me. I never thought I would be so agradecido for any second of study time I could get! I am learning so much more from El Libro de Mormón than I ever have! Thank you guys for supporting me while I am out here! It is such a great experience and it has only been five days! (feels like two months) </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I have such a great District! We have got the District Leader Elder Allen, y Elder Murphy the one who can literally memorize anything. He already memorized the first vision en español! Elder Stromness who (pretends like he) knows all haha with Elder Mccarney, a football guy. There is Elder Skoubye who is a pretty legit guy, reminds me of Brenden with Elder Burke, a more introverted kinda guy, but once you get to know him, he really is pretty cool. Hermana Pace, who, ironically, reminds me of Mariah Pace, with Hermana Hansen yes mom the Hansen girl you know. Then there is Hermana Failner who we call Hermana Fresa porque her hair with Hermana Hansen, the other hermanas sister. Finally there is Elder Higginson a soccer lover who hates running so he won`t run in the mornings. He is companions with this really weird kid who usually just sits in the corner and cries the whole time, I think it was Elder... Oxborrow. haha most the natives call me Eldere Owburow or even "Eldere.... whatever" haha. Speaking of the natives, what they lack in height, they make up for in speed! Learned that one in basquetbol! Anyway, It is now time for some volley ball championship so I guess I will talk to you guys next week! Con picturas! Me amo mi familia!</span></div>
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So many people came to support Wade at his talk in Garland. He was only left with 5 minutes to speak, but I'm sure he'll make up for it once he gets out in the field.<br />
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