Monday, July 29, 2013

I loved getting your last emails! Thanks, Cade, for taking the time to write me.  It sounds like everything is going good with football and NCAA 14!  Dad, I loved the photos you sent me of your mission! They made me laugh a ton and I loved the glasses that your companion was wearing.  Good times! 

You asked for the address of our church and our apartment.  The church where I go to is on the streets of Camino Carrasco and Cambay.  It's a new church and is really pretty.  Our apartment is located on Camino Carrasco and Yrigoyen!

Monday, July 22, 2013

It was great to hear from you guys! Its sounds like the beach was awesome and a lot of fun. I´m super excited to go to the beach with you guys next year. It's going to be a lot of fun! It feels like I haven´t been there for a long, long time.  I´m also excited to start hearing about football!  I love this time of year and can't wait to hear how everyone is playing.  Keep me posted!

Well Mom, in answer to some of your questions, we have two couple missionaries in our mission. They are both in their 70´s, I believe. One of the spouses speaks Spanish but the other three don´t speak any Spanish!.  It's super interesting because even though they don´t speak any Spanish they get around just fine and it's obvious that the Lord is blessing them and taking good care of them. They

Monday, July 15, 2013

Elder Briones and I had a great last week! It's been super fun being here in Camino Carrasco! I absolutely love it! This last week all the zone leaders had a meeting with President Armstrong and the assistants. It was awesome! Two missionary couples made us breakfast and lunch and it tasted amazing! I haven´t had a good, homemade American meal in a long time! We had biscuits and gravy and a lot of salad and fruit! At the meeting we also got to talk to our incoming president, President Newsome, and his wife through Skype! It was really cool to see him and hear his voice. He´s super excited to come here and will get here August 7.  At the meeting we also talked about our zones and how we are all doing and some goals that we each have.  After the meeting we went outside and got a photo of the temple. I´ll make sure to send it.  Anyway, it was a lot of fun!

Monday, July 8, 2013

Well, my new area is AWESOME! I absolutely love it!  And yes, Mom, I have McDonalds in my area! I feel like I'm in the United States - it's super weird!  Our area is really, really big and sometimes overwhelming because it's hard to even know where to begin, but it's been great!  There is a ton of traffic and people in the streets.  This is a whole new lifestyle for this country elder from Noblia!  My zone is awesome and I have a bunch of cool elders that I get to work with, so it's been fun. 

It's been kind of weird being a zone leader because we´ve been doing stuff that I'm not used to doing. For example, our area is right next to the mission home so we work with the assistants to the mission

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

We had a great week here in Minas! It's been loads of fun with Elder Ipson.  He has me laughing all the time.  We also had a blast teaching this last week. 

Laura came to church on Sunday, but not her husband.  We love him to death, but he just wants to do the things we leave with him at his house to do.  Some of the members of the branch are going to stop by and visit him.  Also, Camilo and his wife came to church again!  They are awesome and have come to church like seven weeks in a row!  I love Camilo to death!  I got a photo and will try and send it.  However, right now the computer that I'm using is super old school and for some reason it can't read my camera.  I´ll try to figure it out!