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Aug 11, 2010 10:56:21 AM, missionarymom09@yahoo.com wrote:

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Aug 11, 2010 10:56:21 AM, missionarymom09@yahoo.com wrote:

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Aug 11, 2010 10:55:00 AM, missionarymom09@yahoo.com wrote:

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ll safe and sound back in good old yucaipa huh? im very glad to hear that grandpa is doing well in rehab. (sounds like hes getting off of the drugs or alcohol haha). Thats a lot of therapy but its better to do it a lot so that he recovers quickly.

Just to let you know i recieved your package already! i liked how the tie was rigged to fall down haha. Great idea. Thanks for the candy and stuff. I havent opened the card yet (not until the bday). Glad to hear that you all enjoyed the stuff that i sent you. but sad to hear tht ryan already fits in my shoes! wowo thats crazy. I cant imagine him already taller than I.

So im in managua and its way different than the places ive been in. Here all of the houses are pegged together like cardboard. In one block there are at least 30 houses on each side and the blocks are only 200 ft long. Its really suprising how small but how populated my area is. We dont live in the church (its actually a chapel now) we live in a house right across the street from it. We eat about a 1 minute walk right behind the church and the sister washes our cloths too. But she feeds and washes for 6 missionaries. I buy my breakfast at a bread shop evry morning. They sell cinamon rolls and lots of breads that are really good.

well spencer stayed in his area. And he stayed with the same companion. Its really a good opportunity for him to learn a whole lot.
This last week we had a series of trainings for the zls. From tuesday to friday we were with president monestel learning basic points taht we need to change so that we can become better teachers nad have more success. MY comp and i have already put in practice some of the things we have learnd and we have seen the difference the simple changes make. Right now we are planning a stake activity called the titanic. We aer goign to build a boat out of cardboard and have a big activity abuot parents and fathers and their roles in life and how they can be good examples and leaders in the home.

WEll mom thanks for everything. I hope you are all doing great up there! Keep working hard and keep the kids with their minds on the mission!

I lvoe you all so much,
Love jonny boy
Wow so grandpas got his leg cut off oficially. Hmm thats goin to be weird to see him with a prosthetic leg. Tell him to get in good shape so nothing else happens!!!

Did i get transferred? Yes. IM now in Managua. IM in a ward thats called Las Palmas. Here the first chapel was built in all of Nicaragua. IM doing really good here so far. Just gotta adjust to having a companion thats older than me and takes more control. I was just so used to being in charge and doing the talking and stuff. Welll the decided to make me a zone leader. Its not too different so far. Im seeing that i have to worry about 18 missionaries instead of 4 haha. Thats a bit different.

We are doing good though as a companionship. My comps name is Elder Espinal. His is from honduras and has 19 months in the mission. Hes a good missionary and we are getting along great.

So your having a great time up there! I cant wait to get back ahha. You are always doing tons of stuff with out me now! I would like to go hiking with mkike after the mission for a little bit. SO the wave runners are ours or no?

Wow in four weeks jordan starts studding? thats pretty crazy! next thing hell be putting in his papers and heading off the the mision! i wonder if ill see him before he goes. So rae is going to donate her hair? thats wonderful i want to see the pics of rae bald!

Well everthing is going just splendid here. Im trying to keep my spirits up here in managua. ITs a lot different than any other area that i know and reallly really small!... well im going to switch computers so that i can send some pics!
Well just to let yall know im doing well here. We are trying to find lots of families to find and teach so that we can baptize at least a family in agust! i wanna baptize on my birthday weekend! So like i said im not sure if i will be here or not but ill find out on wednesday wats going to happen!

I love being in the mision becuase with every elder that you talk with or work with you end up learning something new from that person or you find something about the missionary work that you need to change or improve. Its going to be a great blessing for each of the boys when they go on their missions!

WElll i dont have tons of time today but im glad to read you letters always!

I love you all so much and thank you mom for your support and love.

love jonathan !!
So im pretty jealous that they got to go wakeboarding and cliffjumping! that must have been way awesome! (Jordan and Aaron went on a high adventure trip to Zions) I hope they had lots of fun up there. Tell rachel that i said that i will kill all of the bees in all the whole world just for her. tell her that shes lucky because i got stung too but by a black wasp! it scared me but i think he only bit me.

Thats good that grandpa is doing more excercises. That will help him a lot. Hope hes not always in that chair though ( im mean that he gets up in the day and walks). Wow just before you know it jordans goona be on his own up in utah! haha thats going to be crazy. Aaron will be the big boy of the house with the car and everything.. wow-- So your right my big birthday is coming right up! wow in the next change ill be 20 and have 11 months.. thats kinda weird. Well theres really not anything that i absolutely need. Just kandy and fun stuff. I sent you guys a package last week. Its got my cleats, pmg, and some gifts taht i bought yall. Youll have to guess who gets wat based on wat you see there.

The work is going well here. Weve been baptizing one or two every week. We are doing pretty good right now. The last baptism we had already got conferred the priesthood and is really excited. I really saw a true repentance in him before his baptism. He stopped drinking and went to church and is cutting back on the bad words and everything. Weve acutally kinda slowed down on teaching families. We did an acitivity and have a few self references from it but we havent been very able to contact them and teach them yet.

Im doing well healthwise. Today i broke the toenail of my big toe playing soccer. It started bleeding and everything but it really doesnt hurt too much. My pinky toe has hurt for a week now (might have broken it lol). My stomach is doing well. Weve cut off our breakfast appointment with the sister becuase we both really dont like to eat beans every morning and night and at lunch haha. We are just going to buy cookies or bread every day.

Well i hope karen will start to accept the gospel a bit more. Im not sure why its harder for the people in the states to recieve an answer and be baptized. Maybe its just that the people here are really humbled by the circumstances of their lives.

Thanks for the letter mom im doing great!
Haha ya i already knew the score (tried not to watch but there was too muich pressure) it was a really good battle for sure. Glad to hear that grandpa is doing better now. I wasnt way worried but a little bit.

Thats great that ryan had a good time over theire and did some work too! haha ç
I cant believe that jordan got a i5 of 5 Hes such a genius. Tell him congrats for the good mark.

Everything is going very well eher. Im doing well and helping lots of people not only know the church but also stay active (one of the challenges here). We did an activity ion friday and got some really good references. WE are still in the south and that is the same mission office and address. Spencer didnt talk to the mish pres but with our zone leaders. His companion really just needs a lot of help and more respect and that iis wat elder harrisons got to do. Hes gotta just come to love him and help him learn toi be a missionary.

So we fouind out that we got robbed. MY comp didnt lose his money biut it got stolen. They also took his camera a few days later. They didnt get anything from me but they also stole the dvd player from our ward. Our biship is mad and is going to get money back for each of the things lost. The people who stole the stuff were a grioup of guys hired by the chruch to paint and change some of the tihings in the church. They arent members but say that the have 10 years working with the chrurh and never had problems. They are theives though and i could ffeel it from the 1st day that they came.ç

WEll i hope the iizunigas are doing ok. its been a long battle so far for them. Kellie doing good. Shes been writing but today i didnt recieve anything. o well.

WEll ive been dioing fine here just working with lots of references because those are the people that giet batptized here.. Trying to work with a bishopthat doestn want us to baptize so much. O well im going to baptize like always.

Thansk for your prayers and your support nad love. Im going to send home a little package tommorow with some sweet igifts in it!

WEl thats about all.. I love you all. Enjoy the sumer break!

Love jonnyboy!
Wow i didnt even realize that it was fourth of july weekend haha. I was in church yesterday and one of the elderes reminded me that it was the 4th of july haha.. made me kinda trunky thinkin about wat i would be doing and thinking about the 4th of july last year and how ive had the endownments for a year now. Wow lots of stuff has passed so fast!

So today was pday and we played soccer again. Im getting pretty good at it playin with all these latins! Afterwards we went to mcdonalds and then we bummed a ride back to our area! it was pretty fun although we arent supposed to ask for rides. The guys were way chill though so it wasnt harmful. Plus my comp lost his money that we just recieved for the month. We were broke the whole month of june and now my companion doesnt have anything again. poor kid i hope he finds his money.

Im doing great here! having a lot of fun and just trying to enjoy every moment that im here. Elder harrison is havin a few troubles with his comp. He said that his comp doesnt teach and wont teach. He doesnt bare his testimony becuase he doesnt have one. Nvever read the book of mormon before the mission.

My stomach is actually doing really good. I havent been feeling sick or anything and im doing well. The people here dont eat very many fruits and veggies. The sister does try to give us salads and carrots and healthy stuff too.

So Ryan is going to scout camp?? thats way awesome! He´ll have a blast out there im sure of it. So aaron and jordan are causin trouble over there still? hmmm maybe its better for them that they are punished. Theyve gotta be more obedient thats for sure!

Grandpas not doing so hot these days huh? Hmmm thats pretty scary that he had a stroke and a heart attack. Did he realize it or no?? Theyve already cut off two toes and are thinking about amputating his leg if the infection doesnt settle down? wow im imagining grandpa with a prosthetic leg or a weelchair. Thats really good that he is alert and normal..

So here where we eat our food the sister lives next door to her mom and other sisters and cousins. One of her sisters that is 25 that we are pretty good friends with just went to the hospital alst week too. She went becasue she had a cramp in her leg. By the time she got to the hospital here whole body was cramping up and she wasnt doing too well. Shes still in the hospital as of now and sister sanchez says that shes doing way bad and doesnt respond when you talk or anyhting... She must have had some alergic reaction to a medicine or someithing that she ate.

So derek couldnt make it through the mtc? wow that sucks.. I hope he will find the strength to return and try it again. I hope hes not too traumatized by the death of ross that he cant do the lords work..

Well thats about all for now. Im doing really well here and working really hard. We baptized a little old cripple mom this saturday and we are going to get her a weel chair soon. It was great to see her get baptized. The people here are so so so so incredibly humble.

WEll g2g... I love you all so much .

Love jonny