Dear Mom and Family,
Whats up?!! How are things back in Utah. Things are pretty awesome here in Gualan (hot like always but loving it). This week was incredibly busy. We had an awesome turn out at church 70. The branch presidents son leaves on his mission thursday so may that helped alot but it was really cool to see the church so full.
Saturday we moved into a new house and it is awesome. I really dont like moving and packing and stuff but this non member friend helped us with his truck and we were able to move really fast. Truthfully our new house is probably the nicest house in the mission. It has a big bathroom, a big kitchen and a big room where we sleep with its own closet and Air Conditioning. We dont really use the air conditioning though b.c electricity is expensive here. I´ll try and send you some pictures nxt week.
Sunday night we got a call from the asistants telling us that this week that the area presidency asked us and the other district in the zone to go to Puerto Barrios and translate for a medical mission that is going to be there. So yesterday we went as well as the rest of the week we will be there working with them. Except today(because its 2 hours away and my comp has to pack) and wednesday because of changes. So i will be doing alot of traveling this week and will get very little time to work in my own area but its all good i can share the gospel wherever i go.
Yesterday when we went it was really awesome. It is something the the US air force and the Navy are doing as a joint mission on a huge medical boat. They are traveling all over the world to various destinations to provide these medical services. I really really respect the armed forces and what they do. It was really tempting for me to go and play football at navy but i knew the mission and family was my number 1 priority. If you remember i translated (or tried mostly running errands) last october in my 3rd week in the field. It was really awesome to see my progression with spanish in translating for these peple (even though medical terms aren´t my specialty in spanish). Sometimes i was sitting there translating wondering why the english speaker couldnt understand b.c it just seemed so easy and natural. This mission (because its run by the military) is alot more organized than the first one that i translated for. Also something cool is that there were 3 members of the church working there. One was in the navy and her nephew served a mission in Equador and the other two lived in heber ( on lives in woodscross now) the two of them were volunteers and the guy new Bruce which is cool. I´ll try and write you more about how it goes next week and send some pictures. We didn´t write yesterday b.c we got back from the mission too late last night.
Last night we also got our changes call and my comp has changes. I was really hoping to stay with him more then just 3 weeks but he´s been here 4 changes already so it is probably his time to go. I think im going to break a mission record for the most companions ever though. Haha. Elder Rodriguez only has two changes left so he´ll probably be going to his last area. Also every area in our zone has changes so there will be alot of new areas to work with which i think will be a good thing.
Thank you for all your love and all of your prayers. Please pray for the people here. We need to find more families that can progress. I love you and thank you for emailing me the pictures.
Love,
Elder Vincent
PS tell badger good luck for me and try and get me hayden and his addresses if you can.
Whats up?!! How are things back in Utah. Things are pretty awesome here in Gualan (hot like always but loving it). This week was incredibly busy. We had an awesome turn out at church 70. The branch presidents son leaves on his mission thursday so may that helped alot but it was really cool to see the church so full.
Saturday we moved into a new house and it is awesome. I really dont like moving and packing and stuff but this non member friend helped us with his truck and we were able to move really fast. Truthfully our new house is probably the nicest house in the mission. It has a big bathroom, a big kitchen and a big room where we sleep with its own closet and Air Conditioning. We dont really use the air conditioning though b.c electricity is expensive here. I´ll try and send you some pictures nxt week.
Sunday night we got a call from the asistants telling us that this week that the area presidency asked us and the other district in the zone to go to Puerto Barrios and translate for a medical mission that is going to be there. So yesterday we went as well as the rest of the week we will be there working with them. Except today(because its 2 hours away and my comp has to pack) and wednesday because of changes. So i will be doing alot of traveling this week and will get very little time to work in my own area but its all good i can share the gospel wherever i go.
Yesterday when we went it was really awesome. It is something the the US air force and the Navy are doing as a joint mission on a huge medical boat. They are traveling all over the world to various destinations to provide these medical services. I really really respect the armed forces and what they do. It was really tempting for me to go and play football at navy but i knew the mission and family was my number 1 priority. If you remember i translated (or tried mostly running errands) last october in my 3rd week in the field. It was really awesome to see my progression with spanish in translating for these peple (even though medical terms aren´t my specialty in spanish). Sometimes i was sitting there translating wondering why the english speaker couldnt understand b.c it just seemed so easy and natural. This mission (because its run by the military) is alot more organized than the first one that i translated for. Also something cool is that there were 3 members of the church working there. One was in the navy and her nephew served a mission in Equador and the other two lived in heber ( on lives in woodscross now) the two of them were volunteers and the guy new Bruce which is cool. I´ll try and write you more about how it goes next week and send some pictures. We didn´t write yesterday b.c we got back from the mission too late last night.
Last night we also got our changes call and my comp has changes. I was really hoping to stay with him more then just 3 weeks but he´s been here 4 changes already so it is probably his time to go. I think im going to break a mission record for the most companions ever though. Haha. Elder Rodriguez only has two changes left so he´ll probably be going to his last area. Also every area in our zone has changes so there will be alot of new areas to work with which i think will be a good thing.
Thank you for all your love and all of your prayers. Please pray for the people here. We need to find more families that can progress. I love you and thank you for emailing me the pictures.
Love,
Elder Vincent
PS tell badger good luck for me and try and get me hayden and his addresses if you can.
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