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Monday, May 24, 2010
05/24/2010 (Cabo Rojo)
Wow that’s awesome they had their baby. (Brad (Matthew's cousin) & Brittany had a baby boy on May 21st) Let me know when they name him :) Pretty exciting -- but is he considered my cousin I don’t know how that works or is he my second cousin I’m not very good at that haha!
So Puerto Rico is awesome! Cabo Rojo is great! The guy I was teaching is getting baptized this Saturday and the other one had to go to the states for a couple weeks so he will be back in not too long and then he should get baptized as well (He’s talking about people he was teaching in his old area, Mayaguez).
But yeah so I’m way far away from the mission home about as far as I can get. haha The mission home is in Bayamon like right next to San Juan. Cabo Rojo is a cool place there are two wards in this area and they are probably the strongest wards in the island which is awesome our bishop is a pretty cool guy he was like way way way inactive for a while and then someone reactivated him and two weeks later he was called to be a Bishop. It’s pretty cool, he’s an awesome guy.
Zone Conference is just a big meeting with the whole zone and president talks and we learn and Zone Conferences are awesome.
I love being here in Cabo Rojo we are doing pretty good we have an awesome family that will be getting married on the 12th and baptized on the 19th and then we also found some others that are really awesome as well and should progress really soon. I love living with 4 elders! It’s pretty cool except it means that our area is way far away so we have to ride our bikes super far just to start working in our area but yeah its good it keeps us on our toes haha :) but yeah the mission rocks we are doing great and I’m excited for the family we are teaching WAHHOOO!
Love ya
Elder Ward
ps: stay out of the snow and thanks for ordering that I’m excited to see how they are haha :) (I ordered Matthew some Polyester Ties off of Ebay! The small and simple things that make a missionary happy!)
So Puerto Rico is awesome! Cabo Rojo is great! The guy I was teaching is getting baptized this Saturday and the other one had to go to the states for a couple weeks so he will be back in not too long and then he should get baptized as well (He’s talking about people he was teaching in his old area, Mayaguez).
But yeah so I’m way far away from the mission home about as far as I can get. haha The mission home is in Bayamon like right next to San Juan. Cabo Rojo is a cool place there are two wards in this area and they are probably the strongest wards in the island which is awesome our bishop is a pretty cool guy he was like way way way inactive for a while and then someone reactivated him and two weeks later he was called to be a Bishop. It’s pretty cool, he’s an awesome guy.
Zone Conference is just a big meeting with the whole zone and president talks and we learn and Zone Conferences are awesome.
I love being here in Cabo Rojo we are doing pretty good we have an awesome family that will be getting married on the 12th and baptized on the 19th and then we also found some others that are really awesome as well and should progress really soon. I love living with 4 elders! It’s pretty cool except it means that our area is way far away so we have to ride our bikes super far just to start working in our area but yeah its good it keeps us on our toes haha :) but yeah the mission rocks we are doing great and I’m excited for the family we are teaching WAHHOOO!
Love ya
Elder Ward
ps: stay out of the snow and thanks for ordering that I’m excited to see how they are haha :) (I ordered Matthew some Polyester Ties off of Ebay! The small and simple things that make a missionary happy!)
Monday, May 17, 2010
05/17/2010 New area: Cabo Rojo (7th Transfer)
Transfered to: Cabo Rojo
New Companion: Elder Simons from Pocatello
05/17/2010
Ok so to start everything off they ended up sending me to Cabo Rojo on Wednesday so I've been here for a while! Kind of crazy hu? But i'm way excited this area is so awesome. I love it here! It’s an awesome Ward and just a really cool area. My new companion’s name is Elder Simons and he is from IDAHO WAHOOO!!! He’s actually from Pocatello and I’m pretty sure he graduated the same year as Nate -- cool hu?
But yeah so I don’t know if they baptized anyone in my old area but I will find out tomorrow :) cuz tomorrow is Zone Conference. We have a really really cool family that is going to get baptized on the 19th (June) and they are going to get married on the 12th . We are so stoked about that! They are the coolest family ever! They have 5 kids and two of them are older than 8. It is going to be great. I’m pretty excited about it!
O yeah - I’m living in an apartment with 4 missionaries now too and it’s so much cooler! I love it – it’s pretty fun. So what is dad taking a class on? I didn’t understand that word you said (Mediation)! Haha but sounds like fun I've never been to Moscow AND I WAS BORN THERE!!!
Sounds like things are going crazy but yeah I better get going sorry I cant write much today and I still haven’t sent you those pictures but I’ll do it soon :)
love you guys
Elder Ward
ps don’t have anymore parties with the druggys and did you find some ties? :)
New Companion: Elder Simons from Pocatello
05/17/2010
Ok so to start everything off they ended up sending me to Cabo Rojo on Wednesday so I've been here for a while! Kind of crazy hu? But i'm way excited this area is so awesome. I love it here! It’s an awesome Ward and just a really cool area. My new companion’s name is Elder Simons and he is from IDAHO WAHOOO!!! He’s actually from Pocatello and I’m pretty sure he graduated the same year as Nate -- cool hu?
But yeah so I don’t know if they baptized anyone in my old area but I will find out tomorrow :) cuz tomorrow is Zone Conference. We have a really really cool family that is going to get baptized on the 19th (June) and they are going to get married on the 12th . We are so stoked about that! They are the coolest family ever! They have 5 kids and two of them are older than 8. It is going to be great. I’m pretty excited about it!
O yeah - I’m living in an apartment with 4 missionaries now too and it’s so much cooler! I love it – it’s pretty fun. So what is dad taking a class on? I didn’t understand that word you said (Mediation)! Haha but sounds like fun I've never been to Moscow AND I WAS BORN THERE!!!
Sounds like things are going crazy but yeah I better get going sorry I cant write much today and I still haven’t sent you those pictures but I’ll do it soon :)
love you guys
Elder Ward
ps don’t have anymore parties with the druggys and did you find some ties? :)
Monday, May 3, 2010
A Spanish Email to Matt's Dad!! 05/03/2010
(This is for those of you who know Spanish!)
CHACHO PAPI
Estoy viejo ya! estoy llegando a un ano. pero me encanta mayaguez en verdad es bien chevere. nuestros investigadores son buenisimo y tienen fechas bautismales este 15 de mayo. el verano esta viniendo y van para las montanas eso es bueno. ya pranto van a cazar wow es estrano que ya hace un ano. suena que Brad este bien y que vayan a tener que trabajar bien duro para cabar mi casita alli en las montanas. pero si aqui los miembros son bien chevere in nos invitan a comer y todo y siempre salen con nosotros para trabajar. en nuestra mission nosotros tocamos puertas un monton pero este translado no he tocado muchas puertas porque a mi companero no le gusta pero estamos trabajando con eso y tocamos algunas hora cada semana pero si todo esta bien y tengo animo para llamarles este domingo
les amo
elder ward
CHACHO PAPI
Estoy viejo ya! estoy llegando a un ano. pero me encanta mayaguez en verdad es bien chevere. nuestros investigadores son buenisimo y tienen fechas bautismales este 15 de mayo. el verano esta viniendo y van para las montanas eso es bueno. ya pranto van a cazar wow es estrano que ya hace un ano. suena que Brad este bien y que vayan a tener que trabajar bien duro para cabar mi casita alli en las montanas. pero si aqui los miembros son bien chevere in nos invitan a comer y todo y siempre salen con nosotros para trabajar. en nuestra mission nosotros tocamos puertas un monton pero este translado no he tocado muchas puertas porque a mi companero no le gusta pero estamos trabajando con eso y tocamos algunas hora cada semana pero si todo esta bien y tengo animo para llamarles este domingo
les amo
elder ward
05/03/2010 (Mayaguez)
HOLA FAMILIA!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM AND DAD!!!!
Haha! Sounds like you guys had a fun little college party haha did it remind you of the old days? So Women’s Conference was pretty good huh? But you’re not allowed to say that you didn’t teach us enough because we’ve all gone to the temple so far and me and Jase are on missions so you guys had to do something right haha ;)
But anyways last week was really cool! Crash Boat last p-day was pretty awesome except I saw all the people body boarding and I was like wow that looks really fun so I decided a long time ago that after my mission I'm coming to Puerto Rico to surf and go to the beach!
But after p-day the week was really good as well we taught some really good lessons and we have two investigators that will be baptized on the 15th so we are pretty excited about that. I can’t wait! I just hope I don’t get transferred next week – haha! But yeah what else … pretty much just the same we are working hard and doing great.
O yeah so I’ll probably call Thursday and if not Thursday then Friday to make sure that everything is working like I did on Christmas and then we can set up everything for Mother’s Day when I call you for real!
O yeah I was also going to ask if you checked eBay again?
Well I think that’s about all I got for this week I hope you are all doing great and I will talk to you soon!
Love ya,
Elder Ward
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM AND DAD!!!!
Haha! Sounds like you guys had a fun little college party haha did it remind you of the old days? So Women’s Conference was pretty good huh? But you’re not allowed to say that you didn’t teach us enough because we’ve all gone to the temple so far and me and Jase are on missions so you guys had to do something right haha ;)
But anyways last week was really cool! Crash Boat last p-day was pretty awesome except I saw all the people body boarding and I was like wow that looks really fun so I decided a long time ago that after my mission I'm coming to Puerto Rico to surf and go to the beach!
But after p-day the week was really good as well we taught some really good lessons and we have two investigators that will be baptized on the 15th so we are pretty excited about that. I can’t wait! I just hope I don’t get transferred next week – haha! But yeah what else … pretty much just the same we are working hard and doing great.
O yeah so I’ll probably call Thursday and if not Thursday then Friday to make sure that everything is working like I did on Christmas and then we can set up everything for Mother’s Day when I call you for real!
O yeah I was also going to ask if you checked eBay again?
Well I think that’s about all I got for this week I hope you are all doing great and I will talk to you soon!
Love ya,
Elder Ward
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