Dearest Family,
Hello once again. I did the math and on April 22, one eighth
of my mission was completed. I was talking to Elder Johnson and he said that
this May 26 will be the end of this transfer. We did the math again and at the
end of this transfer, one fifth of my mission will be over. Once we were done
with that short activity we quickly went back to work because we realized we
are running out of time. Him more so than me.
Elder Johnson went to West Lake High School in Utah I believe and has been in the mission for 17 months now. His birthday is this
Wednesday. Elder Johnson is one of my Zone Leaders. We go on Divisions or
Splits from time to time. It's nice talking with another Gringo from time to
time.
So I've been talking with my companion, Elder Estrada about Mother's
Day. He says he has no idea how to plan for it. Luckily Elder Johnson called us
later with info on it. We will be going to a members house were both Elder
Estrada and I can talk via Skype with our families for 30-40 mins. The plan
right now is Sunday some time between 3-5. The people here suck at planning. I'm
sorry but that's the best information I can give you at the present.
Patricia, (The tico Jeanine) and her husband, Juan Jose,
will be being baptized and confirmed members of the Church this Sunday as
well!! The best part about baptizing people in your first year, is that you get
the opportunity to attend their temple sealings in one years time. Obviously
you cant attend those after the one year mark because you'll go home before the
sealing. But I'm so happy. Easily one of the happiest experiences in my life is
teaching them and seeing the change. They started off as a kinda ,"Ok we
will listen, but you can't make me give up our coffee" Well, when
investigators actually keep their commitments, ie reading the Book of Mormon
and praying about it, conversion happens. Last week their conversion has been
so thorough that they began teaching us the discussions because the study so
much about the things we ask them to read. No joke. They legitly taught us the
entire Law of Chastity. Super cool.
So I want to talk about to rumors I've heard through word of
mouth but I can't look them up. One is about a disaster in New York that
happened last week? If you could keep me updated on disasters that happen
around the world, that would be very great. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes.
You know the signs of the times verdad? The other is very cool. Apparently, in
Guatemala, ancient ruins have been uncovered with the names Laman and Lemuel
written all over the place. Super cool. Please do some research on that for me.
As for Corbin, dude, you're living your High School years
right. Lots of people sit around doing nothing. But you're constantly doing lots
of activities and are actually enjoying life. I look back on my High School
experience and I loved it because I went out and did the fun things that
brought me joy. I pray for you and the rest of the gang everyday.
The Kiosk was a major success. Usually we can talk with
about 15 people a day and share a few principles. But with the Kiosk we easily talked close to 50 every 2 hours. It's super successful, but we would rather be in
a house teaching.
Anyways, I see posters of Amazing Spiderman 2: Rise of
Electro. (Correct name?) Is it good? I miss movies.
We finally got the package in my hands on Saturday and we
did the activity last night. Elder Estrada wants to use it to explain the
Expiacion or Atonement sometime. He thought it was super creative and cool. He
asked if you were the Relief Society President. I laughed and said yeah. But
even if she wasn't we still would've gotten it.
Tell the Warners Hi for me. Ustedes son super tuanis.
Siga Adelante,
Elder Neider
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