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

Na no worries about me mom im feeling better since last week. Im not sure if i had parasites or not becuase i had the simptoms but now i feel better. But everyonce in a while i feel bad in the stomach like i felt before too. O well just have to live with it until i get home!! haha. Tell ryan i said thanks for his good luck with the parasite. Lately im not too worried a bout that becuase im worried about my wieght! ive gained 10 POUNDS : ( IM getting so fat here in nicaragua hahah.. im pretty sure its from all of the dang rice we eat here.. rice at every meal ! its horrible. The sister even gives me less and i still get fat and feel so full haa.

Well spencer still is in my zone but they put two more missionaries out there where he is and made those two sets a district. But i still see him the same amount. Its pretty fun bieng with him..
So zack is officially married and tied down? bummer hes not going to be as fun as he was before. Probably going to have some kids really fast hah. Where are they going to vacation?

So grandpa isnt doing very well these days ?? is he still going out and working or is he just in the house all the time? Wow i hope he gets better really soon. What is it that makes him dizzy and faint? is it because of the diabetes? Thanks for the update ill definitely keep him in my prayers. Tell him i love him a lot and miss listening to his stories from the mission and from high school.

TEll jordan to keep at the piano becuase he will use it in the mision. My companion plays the piano and right now he is going to start teaching the young women how to play. IM pretty jealous and im pretty sure taht im going to join in on the lessons. Tell those rascals to do all their chores and play the piano and be obedient and youll let the go see their movies.

Everything is going well here. We are trying to find a few more families to baptize becuase we almost dont have any families that we are teaching. Im thinking after this change they might send me to a different place and i want to finish here with at least one more family thats very positive. All else is going well. I kinda hurt my kknee last week and today it was hurting again when i played soccer (im getting way way good at it). Well thats about all really. About the ties i dont need many only a few. Just a few 3 or so that are new so that im not so bored hah.. The sun has been coming out more and im absolutley loving it even though its blazing hott. I have more energy and ganas when the sun is out versus when its raining a ton.

So i decided that im going to send you a package. Im going to send home those cleets and some gifts for everyone ; ) Youll just have to wait and see whats in store!!

So right now we are teaching some catholics that live right in front of the caithlic church and go there every week. It will be way hard to convert them but well see how it goes. I have not tried this before so it wll be interesting haha.

WEll i think thats about it.. Everything is just fine here exept the big beer gut ive got going on.
I love you all so much. Thanks for all of you love and support!!
Love
Elder thorpee

Wow thats pretty luckky that she brought over an ifone and a laptop! how nice of her lol.. Im pretty jealous to be honest! i dropped my fone yesterday and now the earpiece sounds really funny when i talk on it.

Well anyways so things are going really well here. Today we had another super pday ( think pres. is trunky haha!) lol but today was fun we went to the volcano of Masaya! we couldnt see any lava but there was a lot of smoke coming out of the crater. It was cool but i got way burnt. I look like a tomato now. but i got to hang out the spencer the whole day! aha it was really fun. Im sad we didnt hang out before the mission. weve been talking so much about how we are going to hang out soo much after the mission and that i might be his best man ( hes always trunky talking about his girl hahahha).

Other than that its been going really well here . WE had two baptisms here on Saturday and we are hoping for two more this saturday. We are looking to finsh the change with 14 baptisms! my recent converts are way awesome too. 3 of them are men that are going to prepare to get the priesthood. They are really excited and i bought them little notebooks to take notes in the class that they are taking. Its way sweet to see the desire they have to progress! I just hope that they never fall that their baptism means a lot to them and that they stay strong in the church here. ITs a bit different in this ward because there isnt a lot of support from the ward in the mision work.

Im doing really well so far you were right that i shouldnt worry about being district leader or about numbers. Ive had a really good change this time and i really dont want my companion to leave! i hope he doesnt go yet. Hes a good kid and we are having fun and baptizing. Well i hope all is going well there. Hope you are completing your goal to go to the temple 2 times a month. Just remember the privilege it is to have a temple so close!

Well tell everyone i said hi . Tell rae that i love her and cant wait to see here again!

Oh hey i was gonna ask if you had sent that package with batteries yet.. If you havent sent it yet maybe you could find me a few more ties and mail them to me! i really liked that red one that you sent me it was pretty awesome. Im just feelin like having a few new ties to change up the norm ya know! and i wanna leave a few with converts here so they have ties to wear to church!

Well thanks for everything mom. I love you so much and i really do appreciate everything you do for me. Love you dad and jordan aaron and ryan!

Dont forget to read your scriptures as a family!

Wow thats pretty crazy that its already summer break over there! Here it feels more like winter haha cuase its been raining and raining and raining so much. Yesterday it didnt rain but its been like a week straight of clouds and rain here.

Well this past week went really well for us! We prepared a lot of people for their baptisms and it all went really well! On friday we married 3 couples and saturday baptized 9 people including 2 couples. It was really awesome so we ended the month with 10 baptisms. We were pretty excited yesterday and saturday but im really really tired from the weekend.

Thats great that those friends of the youth are getting baptized.

I cant believe aaron will be 16 ahah.. he can actually drive legally now thats pretty scary. Tell him i said happy birthday punk! Thats good that hes been changing his character. maybe home school wasnt a bad deal after all huh.

Well im doing really well here mom no worries about me. I havent had much time to eat the candy and food from that package you sent me because we eat at 830 and when i get home im not hungry, maybe ill start carrying the food in my backpack to eat it during the day. Im getting a little bored of the ward taht im in. The people are cool and all but most of them are all really rich people. All of our recent converts are poor people that are really humble and ready to do the lords will. I just hope that division doesnt cuase people to reject the church. The night of the wedding and the baptisms our converts said that many of the people were laughing at them ( at least thats what it seemed like to them ) and ive seen that some of the members dont even want to support them as members of the church.. its rediculous. o well. I dont understand the pride of some peoples hearts. WE are going to bring this up in the Ward council...

Well hope all is well there! everything is good here im doing great and just working hard like always!!!