Transfer 1. Week 3.

Wow! I have to say, I can't believe it's already PDay.This week has flown by faster than a supersonic jet.  


So, I will start off with Tuesday.  Tuesday, we had zone conference.  Zone conference was Carlos A Carrio, some City in our zone that's about a 3-hour bus ride away (for the record, I'm probably gonna start relating everything to bus rides because that what we use here). The conference was schedualed to commence at 9 AM, so with us being 3 hours away and the bus leaving at 6 AM, we got up at 4 AM to get especially prepared because we were going to be seeing President Hansen.  I slept for a good portion of the bus ride, go figure. Most of the ride was along some river, I have no idea what the name is I'm sure you can find it on google earth. But anyway, this river was swollen as heck, man it was huge and muddy. There were parts where I swear it must have been a foot from the road. It was so daggum swollen. And as we got closer to the city, I noticed that there were houses that were almost completely submerged in the water.  This river made the sugercane fields looked like a slightly overgrown lawn (if you dont know anything about sugar canes, thery are pretty tall!) But I just can't believe how flooded everything was. Man, I felt so bad for the people, but at the same time I thought it was cool to see a flood.  Just about the whole city had at least a foot or  2 of water.  


But anyway, we went on and had a really great zone conference. It really helped me build my faith and confidence in President Hansen, as it's always really nice to be edified at things like those.  At the end, they had us greenies bear our testimonies and it was all a really neat experience.  In my zone, there are only 3 from my generation: me, Elder Malietua and Elder Havili.  


We rode the bus home from zone conference, took some pics, and just had some fun, I guess.  When we got home, we were informed that the Elders from Carlos were going to be staying with us for a few days untill they get the flood situation figured out. Apparantly they are realeasing the pressure at the dam a little father up the river so the cit has risin in water like 38 cm a day or something like that.  So up untill last night we have had 8 Elders staying in our little house.  Actually to tell the truth it was fun, Elder Gardner, who is a marine cadet brought his guitar and, it semmed alot like scout camp at night when we came in from working.  Elder Casteñeda taught me to play La Bomba on the guitar. so that certainly was fun, we just talked and chilled and enjoyed the company.  but now president has them spread out in different areas in the zone untill the floods go down.  


SO that pretty much brings us up to conference, i gotta so What a boss time of the year it was to be able to hear from those great leaderes of our loving Heavenly Father, i done think a conference session has ever helped me soo much, man i loved.  I cant beleive how fast it went! We took a tv fromt he church and set it up in English in one of fthe classroom, so al of is american elders got to watch it in enlish wich was really nice.  BUt man i loved conference, i really like how they advised us to just be gratefull for everything and to sticlk to the basicos, man applying those things in the last few days has helped so much, it really does bring a nice sence of harmny to life.  Fam i hope all of you listend and took notes, especially on the FAMLY HOME EVENING ONES!! BUt thatr basically my week and i enjoyed it, im planning to hit this next week even harder and carry on witht his energy of conference and zone conference.  Thank you all so much for everything, i sure do love yall!

Transfer 2. Week 3.

Well, we are already going on week 3 of the transfer. There certainly is no time to get comefortable in the mission field--thats for sure. This week was definitely a learning week and a building week. Just as in sports: some years are bulding years. In the mission, some weeks we have to be building weeks. There's nothing you can do about it. I just gotta take what I get and roll with it! 


I have applied the concept of talking to everyone and so far it has worked. According to the PMG definition, we have 4 new investigators, but I don't feel confident enough to call them that yet. Spanish people are definitely easier to contact. The problem is getting them to follow up with stuff, but it's where the success is in this area so far.  


My comps are good. They like to work hard. We just gotta work on fusing our ideas and what not. It's almost like the difference between Republicans and those daggum Democrats with our different philosophies and what not. But we will work on it! 


SO, the trees are starting to change colors here! Meaning, it's getting COLD! Man its cold! But it's so beautiful. I'm really falling in love with the place. Down town Park City is a really neat place. (Thats where the family tree center is) ;) ha ha. This week I have learned some good stuff about myself and what im turning into. 


I'm still really working on getting letters to everyone in the fam, so just be patient. They will come, I promise! It certainly is interesting to have nothing but greenies in a companionship, but it's happening for a reason, and I know we can do this and that there are people here that we can bring to repentance. 


Sorry we don't have time to write a fatty letter today. Yesterday the library was closed; that's why we are doing emails today.  Dad, good luck at the horse competition. Jake, good work on your eagle project. By the way, you stuill owe me a letter after that fatty one I sent you for your birthday! Everybody, I love you. Mom, thanks for the packages. They are so great and helpful! I love the mangoes! Take care, and I love you all so much and thank you for everything! TTFN!