08/25/2010

Hola!

Primary again huh? That should be cool! Primary is fun. Getting a new calling has to be like moving to a new area in the mission haha your excited for the new experience but don’t want to give your old calling to someone else kinda funny! Haha!

Yeah I told you three weeks ago I got a new comp named Elder Burton from Salt Lake City haha and yeah he speaks way good Spanish and is way awesome we came into the mission together and yeah we are stoked and doing way awesome! Best companion yet by far and yeah WE’RE LOVING IT! And President’s new thing is that he doesn’t want to move missionaries around anymore so we are way stoked and think we will be together for a long time. But yeah we pretty much know for sure we won’t leave the Cabo Rojo Zone until we die haha

And yeah I got the packages - they were great! That book is pretty cool but yeah so I haven’t read the other book cuz my old pres said I could read it but I haven’t asked the new one yet so yeah I have to wait and see before I read it.

That’s so awesome Brad spoke in the Spanish Branch. Haha! I remember going to Ecuador -- he had the best Spanish of the 4 of us haha! That trip was so funny and way way fun!

But yeah that’s weird that they don’t go anymore (Kyle and Tanner) and how did he find some girl in Utah kinda weird haha! I guess that is kinda a bummer for Eric!

So yeah my new mission president is way way way awesome we are doing all this new crazy stuff and things are changing like crazy! This week we had a bunch of conferences and meetings with Elder Vinas and Elder Anderson and yeah it was way awesome! Our mission is changing a ton of stuff and I'm way excited for it. In the last meeting we had it was so funny we were talking about a "bone tiring effort" haha cuz that’s one of the new things required for a mission haha so we were talking about it and president made me do all these pushups in front of everyone and yeah it was pretty funny! President Alvarado is a crazy guy but he sure knows what he is doing, he was a 70 before a mission president so I guess that’s probably why but yeah things are going great and my whole zone is full of way good missionaries now and yeah I'm way excited about it :)

I can’t believe you guys are going to go to Spain that will be way awesome and way fun haha there’s a kid in my mission from Spain he’s pretty cool he will be getting home from his mission when you guys go haha but yeah that should be fun.

About picking me up… we aren’t allowed to do that anymore. The church doesn’t want parents doing it and it would kinda stink for me cuz I would still be a missionary and here in Puerto Rico really all you can do tourist wise involves the beach and water haha so yeah I’d rather come home for a while anyways and then come back when I really start to miss it ;)

Well things are going great -- we are having fun and working hard! I’ll talk to you guys soon!

Love ya,

Elder Ward

08/18/2010

HOLA!!!

So yeah everything here is going just great we are having fun and working hard. We have found some really cool families that are progressing quite well. We haven’t really set any baptismal dates yet but we are planning to set a few in the near future. But yeah we are just doing really well.

This week starting Monday me and my comp Elder Burton had a car and he has had one his whole mission cuz he was in the East Mission. The other two missionaries in our district were having a bit of a tuff time on bikes so we decided to give them the car and take bikes for a while. It was funny cuz Elder Burton hasn’t rode one his whole mission so we were just laughing and having fun and then we were walking around the plaza and we walked by all these younger kids and they just started busting up laughing at Elder Burton and that’s when he realized that he still had both pant legs tucked into his socks up to his knees it was pretty funny but yeah we are doing great.

Sounds like everyone had fun in Rexburg how about Tanner and Kyle -- were they there? And how are they doing? And Denver and his wife? It’s been like over a year since they got married and it still seems crazy to me haha. Eric was saying that there were no kids there but tanner and Kyle and Kelsie were all there right? How come he didn’t go chasing cows?

That’s really cool about Lin and her mom. That happens so so so often everyone hates us before they even get to know us and then we try and try and try and help them and then finally something just clicks and they realize that we are just trying to help them but that’s awesome that she finally realized now she just needs to realize what that means haha. There’s a million scriptures that say all good things come from god especially in Moroni so if she realizes that all those good things that god has put in his church (like the opportunity to have an eternal family) were put on earth so she could have them and be blessed by them then shed love to be a part of it and have those blessings. But really the most important thing is that the members are friendly and really are her friends and then it’s all up to the missionaries to teach her by the spirit and help her down the path.

Well I hope you all have a great week and I will talk to you soon

love ya

Elder Ward


Letter to Andrea …. 08/18/2010
HOLA!!!!

haha so we decided that we can probably go to the light house now because there in actually no beach there just rocks and a cliff and stuff and we had a little meeting the other day about the rules so I think I will be going one week from today :) my ward mission leader said he wanted to take us out there haha.

Sounds like the reunion was pretty fun and that everyone enjoyed themselves a little bit :) what did sonny do? Did he sing? Play the guitar? Or what haha man I'm kinda bummed that I missed it. But I think your a little bit crazy about that sister missionary she is definitely not cute and I’m pretty sure a little weird haha there is just usually something funny about those sister missionaries that makes everyone wonder where they come from.
HEY HEY HEY! What is all this 9 months stuff? first off your cutting me short its not quite nine months yet and second your scaring me it goes by fast enough already from now on all we say is that I've been out for a little over a year and then we just leave it at that :)

Well you guys have a good week

Love ya

Elder Ward

08/11/2010 - Transfers: Same area new Companion

New Companion: Elder Burton from Salt Lake City, Utah
Same Area: Cabo Rojo

HOLA!

OUR WEEK WAS GREAT!! haha so I got a new comp at transfers his name is Elder Burton. He’s awesome, from Salt Lake, and we are having so much fun! It’s great. He came out with me on the mission and he is my first comp that can speak Spanish, likes to work and have fun at the same time. It’s so so so awesome! We are working great and just finding awesome people and families left and right. I’m loving it! This is going to be one of my best transfers yet for sure we are just doing great.

Thanks for sending the package I hope I get it tomorrow because we are having a zone conference tomorrow so I’m hoping it got there!

yeah I met Hermana Sitton one time. She said her parents are military and moved to Mtn. Home so yeah that’s kinda cool! I can’t remember but I think she might have served in Adjuntas for a bit and knows one of the families we baptized they are awesome!

That’s crazy your going to England again. I think you’ve been there like 3 times now right? I want to go back right before they come home and go tour around in Ireland and Scotland and maybe London or something and then help them come back so you can start looking for some cheap tickets now if ya want haha ;)

Well it sounds like the summer has gone good. Make sure you get all those cabins nice and ready for me for when I get back haha that’s probably the first places I’m going :)

Love ya

Elder Ward

08/03/2010

HOLA

So this week is pretty good! Everything is going great so I just remembered I was going to tell you - I didn’t know Stefan was going to Cuernavaca Mexico but that is awesome because remember Justin from college well he went to that mission so he might even be Stefan’s trainer haha! He’s has like 15 months in the mission already I think so yeah that’s CRAZY!

So we are teaching some really cool people right now. We have one lady and her two kids that are awesome and they have a baptismal date for the 4th of September but it will be for Florida because she is moving in a little bit. We are also teaching some other really cool families and working on getting another one married. We had a great noche de hogar with them last night and it went good and the guy is a member and the lady is progressing really good so we are way excited for that :)

That’s cool Andrea and Bill and the kids made it - sounds like you guys are going to have a lot of fun with all the kids. I cant wait to see them either. They’ve got to be getting pretty giant sized haha and Kennady, she’s got to be giant too! Man that’s crazy!

But yeah things are going great and I’ll talk to you next week!

Love ya

Elder Ward

PS: They still haven’t called to tell us if we are staying or anything yet so yeah we have no clue its kinda crazy I’m not sure what’s going on but did you ever get the package sent? and where did you send it?