hey hey family!! all is going really well here!

We did have the opportunity to baptize this wweekend and we completed
a family in the church. The man that we baptized is the husband of an
inactive that we just reactivated by teaching him. Its great! Ill
send you a picture. Even more great is that not only did he hget
baptized but also brought a whole family that is their neighbors to
his baptizm. So now we are going to work with that family also.

Well here they really dont celebrate halloween. Actually there were
even rallys and people with signs against halloweeen becuase its
satanic and stuff like that. Tommorw they celebrate the day of the
dead here so its a free day for everone.

Wow its pretty exciting to hear that aarons drving and that he is a
lot more calm than you thought. If he understands the seriousness of
driving hell do just fine. Glad to hear that hheys obeying a bit
more.
Ummmm. in the package i just need that stuff. The shirts are size 15
and 1/2. also it wouldb e great if you could send me twizlerss that
are filled with gushyness.. theyre great! and of course watever stuff
you want to send ill receive it.

Wow thats great for dawn and richard. Tell them congradulations!

Well everything is going just great here. As ive said now we are
reallly really focused on baptizing families more than anything so
that they can prepare to be sealed in the temple for time and
eternity. President has made us realize that offering the gospel to
families should be our main focus. Ive now put a goal to baptize
families in my mission and i shure am going to fight to achieve it!.
. .

I hope all goes really well this week and that all is safe. I love
you all super much.
Tell grandpa richey that i got his letter and thank him for it! hope
hes doing fantastic in the rehab.

Jonny boy

ell hey ehy how is it going?

Everythings going well here. Ive been in this zone for 3 months and
now at the begining of dicember it will be 4 and a half. We are doing
alright here. We only have 5 baptisms in the whole month and we are 9
companionships. I still havent baptized this month but we are going
to complete a family this saturday (weve reactivated the wife and we
are going to baptize the husband.) Im pretty dang excited for this
baptism cuase the husband was really prepared bythe lord beforehand!
hes a great guy and understands and lives all the commandoments. We
announced his baptizm in the church yesterday (that ususally dosnt
happen very often here in Nicaragua). So ya we are pretty excited for
this Saturday.

The families we are teaching are progressing a bit but a lot slower
than we would like. They are really receptive but habvent taken the
iniciative to go to church. One of the fathers drinks every saturday
night and then they dont go to chirch on sunday morning. The other
family is evangelica but they dont go to their church at all. The
husband has a ahrder time acepting the book of mormon as a legitable
book of scripture.

Wow i cant believe that rae is acutally going to be out of the
pirmary,. Thats pretty cool cause i also was a bit anxious to get out
haha. But ya great for her!. . Well at times a feel that same thing
mom like i dont have the motivation to work but i always go out to
work cuase its wat i have to do. I just try to remember that the lord
will provide a new family or new people that are interested in the
gospel.

Well mom stay excited and dont get disanimated!! i dont have much time g2gg

Love you alll

Lvoe Jt

P.s. Love you dad thanks for everything!!

hey hey.

well just to let you know i couldnt see the football laces just the brwon background. So im kinda jealous to know that you are watcvhing football!! iwanna be there haha. I saw the dolphins playing the patriots a few weeks back on the tv of one of the converts here haha.

Well sadto hear that brother zuniga pased away. Thats just a shame to have to hear about. How is the family doing?? As i said before its hard but the family has the gospel knowlege of eternal families and mor ethan anything that should help them in this moment. Send the my regrets and best wishes please.

Um just to let you know that i dont write on sundays always on mondays haah. So your looking to set up my cristmas package already??? wowo hahah.. Well just to let oyu know dont worry about the garments becuase here they sell garments that are way away cheap here. They havent gone bad yet ive had luck. IF you want you could send me a few shirts like 2 or 3 of the Stafford size 15 1/2. Othere than that im great. Maybe a tie to change things up ;)

Everything is going good here. We are working hard and focusing uourselves a ton in the families here. We broght 2 families to church this week and we are preparing them real good for baptism. Changes are this week on wednesday but i found out to day who has them and who doesnt. They told that my comp and i wil stay together another change. Im pretty excited for that becuase of the families that we have been preparing.

Wow so kaylie is getting married? thats great that shes found a good mormon guy to take her eto the temple! dang you should tell here to write me haha. Well thats good luck that aaron didnt pass his driving test haha just kidding but ya hes gotta focus alot on the road. Hell be like dad and grandpa. SEeing the sights mor than the road.


WEll my family ive got to go for now. Thanks for everything for all the support and lvoe and i hope this week goes great!!!

Love Jonny"!

Hey hey hows it all going?
Well today we decided to write early to havfe more time in the
afternoon to do other stuff so ya. Well all is going well here. IM
doing great but im still fat and yes i have that food gutand no i dont
think ill grow taller ;( . ITs a rather disturbing site but i plan
to get rid of it when i get home hahaha. Tell sister little that im
doing great just working hard and having as much fun as i can without
breakiung the rules! I didnt feel or know thtat there was anearth
quake in costa rica and es im doing good healthwise. Just feel a bit
sick becuase i decided to buy chocolate milk this morning and ive
never done well with milk haha. Well just so you know im pretty sure
that the rainy part of the year has ended because its been blazing hot
with clear skies fr the last 5 days. Now stats the summer season here
oh boy.

No you hadnt told me that jesicas is preparing for a mision. That
will be way great for her and for her family. O speking of mission
calls there is a girl here that just opend her call and is going to
mesa arizona!! i told her tha my grandparents live ther and that they
work in the temple. I might send a letter to grandpa through her
haha.

WEll thats all. I hope Grandpa keeps getting better and also i hope
that brother zuniga dopes alright and especially his family. Its a
terrible losss becuase he is a great person. Well just keep me in
your preayers. ç

I love you all!!!
Lvoe me

Well hows it going?

This weekend went really well. I liked the conference a lot had a
good time watching it. There were some really good talkes and i did
liek that one bout parenting he is sooo right. Im rather jealous that
jordan went to the conference that wuold be really neat.

Im doing really good here. I havent been sick or anyhting for a while
(jinx). I am pretty bored of the beans and rice but oh well gotta
live with it for one more year. Tell ryan that im proud of his
progress in scouts and that he should be very thankful becuase here
they dont have it.

Right now we are actually teaching a lot of new people. Weve put
aside a few of the people that just werent progressing and we have
found some new families to teach. OUr new presidente is reallly
really focused in families. We try to teach at least 3 families a day
and we try to find various throughout the day. As a leader im trying
to make the zone understand that we really shouldnt be baptizing
anything other than familias and of course the people that are single
but truely repentant and prepared. Its a great experience teaching
and helping al these missionaries.

Ive only got a year but im one of the old people in the mission.
Everyone is really new and green still. For that reason i hvae tobe a
good leader and help them as much as possible.

Today was great. WE palyed volleyball for a little while. I was
thinking a lot about vball and my buddies like alex.

Well i g2g. Not much time when you have to report lots of numbers and
everything.

I lvoe you all soooo much.
Love jonnie

Hey hey mom!!! i hope all is going reallly well up there. Right now
we are doing well here. Thanks for your prayers for eda i think it
helped out becuase shes getting baptized this Saturday!! it was really
good experience becuase wen we passed by her house on sunday morning
she wasnt there and no one answered the door. I was a bit bummmed out
but then i called her at 930 to remind her and she said she was going
to go. aWe waited at 10 and she didnt arrive. We waited and waited
and i just keept hoping. We had the sacrament and i almost gave up
when she walked in with her daughter after the sacrament and i got way
happy. She stayed for the 3 hours (missed 30 of the RF becuase she
left becuase of the cough that she had haha) but she liked it alot.
We went to visit her later at night and she said it was good and liked
it and then she told us that she wants to get baptized on saturday!!!

Well just to let you know we do get the conference at the same time on
the same day. Its from satelite and the chapels here have satelite.
im going to watch it in inglish!! im prertty excited for that.

Well i hope all goes super duper well. Cant wait to see yall again
heres some pictures of the activity we did on friday to teach the
investigators about the tempple and the sealing it was awesome.

G2g... hope all goes well. Study hard kids thats all i can say to
aaron is just focuse and seek gods help through prayer.

Love jonny!!

Hey family!
Im doing really well other than the fall that i had today! we were
playing soccer and i stopped a goal but i stepped on the ball and
slipped and hurtt my elbow a bit...IOther than that its going alright.
Our zone in stuggling to baptize right now and the presidente is a
bit worield but weve got some good posibilities for this week. I know
that im bieng a good leadedr and everything but i just feel that im
doing bad cause we arent doing so hot lol..

Wow so i officilaly have a yaer in the mision!!! thats way way crazy i
cant belive it at all. Its gone by so fast and ive learnd a lot but
ive got a whole lot to learn still. Ww thats coold grant is in
mexico and phil is going to romania! haha wow. Glad to hear yall had
a great time in Pendleton! Too bad dad didnt get anything. And i
agree with you the bufallo meat is way delicious.

Good that grandpa is doing alright but sad for the zuniga family i
hope that they can have a lot of faith that he keeps going strong.

Well everthing is going great here im enjoying every minute of it and
im trying to be the best i can be. Right now we are working with an
investigator that is really really interested in the gospel and liks
the lessons we teach and keeps all the commintmnets that we put and
she tells that the shes searching for spirituality in her life and she
says wattch out you guyts are going to baptize me. Maybe you could
just keep her in your prays so that she can join us at church. Her
name is eda.

Well other than that not much else. LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN!!!! hahahahaha

Happy Bday Rae. I love you!

Love jt

Good Afternoon!

How are you all doing?

Everything is going well here. My comp did get switched im sad about
that!.. They sent him to the office as a retention missionary. Hes a
great elder and i miss him haha it was way fun with him.

Now im with Elder Moran. Hes from guatemala and he is going to
complete a year wit hme on thursday! i think we are going to burn a
tie or shirts together or something cool. Anyways hes a really great
guy and really tries to worry and help the missionaries in our zone.
Theyve left me as a zone leader and im thankful for the opportunity to
help leading these missionaries. We are doing really well and we get
along great. Weve been able to go on divisions with our zone to help
the missionaries and are seeing good results of it.

Sounds like everting is pretty calm in the house huh? i hope all is
going well. Rachels bday is coming up sooon! hahha shes going to be
wat11 right? Thats crazy.

So did dad get an elk? i hope hes not bummed out if he didnt get one.
Im kinda jealous that youre going to the rodeo id like to see that
again. Only in Pendleton huh? haha Say Hi to everyone for me. Ben
Alex Kyle and the Petersons and everyoneª!

TEll Ryan im proud of him for all that he has done with his scouting!
soon enough hell get his eagle and be done! haha wow i can believe
that eather.

How is grandpa doing? remind him that i love him a lot.
Well i g2g not much time today mom.. Love you!

Love Elder thorpe!ç