Air Conditioning & A Baptism

Well I am writing you guys a letter together for the lack of time that I have...... Well as you can see our last two baptisms went through :) They were really good, You could see a huge change in the family when we first started teaching them and when we finished. It was awesome, one of the coolest experiences on my mission so far. 
Well sounds like Kenna and Dad are going to be kicking some butt this fall.... Sounds like I am going to miss a good season. Good thing I will be home for the spring season to see it all :) Definitely should send some pictures when they start playing :)
Well the teaching is going pretty good, the only bad thing is that the people that we had baptismal dates with didnt come to church this Sunday. I guess we never could get ahold of them either to teach or talk with them this entire week either so I think that might be the reason. Well other than that everything is going good. We are moving houses tomorrow because the one that we are living in right now is too expensive..... But the good thing is that we will still have AC! hahahaha I am really starting to like this air conditioning.
Well gots to go now. Love you all and hope that you have a good week of school and work and training and everything else that you are going to do...

Love Elder Evans

P.S. Their names are Genesis (girl) and Marx(boy) of the baptisms

Weekly Letter

Hey mom :)

So this is going to be a better letter hahaha
Things are a lot better, we are waking up on time and going to bed on time, and he is even doing a little exercising with me. hahaha Well the baptism wasnt for any missionaries it was a girl that turned 8 but here we have to do it anyway... the planning that is. It is a big no no to do on a Monday and I told them that but they didnt listen to me. We have only gotten to play soccer twice and yes it was pretty fun and still the shock on their faces that an American playing soccer still makes me smile. ;) hahahaha The member support is really good. There are a lot of people, so there are those that like to help us and work with us and others not so much. It is a branch here and the normal attendance is around 135. There are four missionaries for this branch... I dont like it very much but it is o.k. the other missionaries are pretty good. :)
My finger is fine, that is what everyone else told me to about the lime and stuff. It was weird though because I usually never eat them so I didnt believe them when they told me that. But now it is mostly gone. You couldnt have picked a cleaner replacement door fo the garage... hahahahaha That is pretty funny though. Boy I am sure glad that I am not home right now hahahaha I would be run ragged. ;) hahahahaha When I read your paragraph about Bubba I laughed out loud when I got to the part "I love Horses!" hahahahahahaha I thought it was so random and it didnt make sense to me at all until I finished reading the paragraph hahaha.  (It was a typo...It should have said HE loves horses)
I have never seen that mexican fruit bar. It sounds nasty hahaha With the package that got stolen, the only things that I didnt get were the whoppers( that I was going to give to a family in my last ward), my credit card, and my pills. I got everything else though. So all I really need are the pills.
Well this week we have planned 2 baptisms that are for sure, and then 2 others that we are going to put a baptismal date on. So the work is going good and we are having fun. The only thing is is that we need to start talking with more people, it is the hardest thing to do for me, not talk to them but take time out of the planned schedule to contact people. hahaha I dont know why. I am training for the marathon every Monday running about a 5k in about 25 minutes. hahaha It is weird to go running. I think that is about it. I will send you pictures of the baptism next week.
Love you guys have a good week and learn something new about the scriptures and apply it to your lives :)

Love Elder Evans

P.S. No, I never heard from Kim..... oh well hahahaha
P.P.S. I saw a picture of everyone on the top of the Conference Center from Papa Paul, HOLY COW everyone has changed sooooo much it was crazy!!! you guys not so much but everyone else has changed a lot!!!

At least I hear from him each week....

From a good letter and pictures to this week where there was a baptism scheduled at 5:30 with now no time to write or do anything. We havent washed our clothes either..... hahahaha oops. well I am doing good, we have a couple baptisms planned in a couple weeks. Things have gotten a little better with my comp. I am in Palenque Chiapas Mexico. Well we had an interview with the president last friday and kinda scared my comp about the obedience so I think it is going to be a lot better. 

Well this is all the time that I have. Thanks for eveyrthing. Love you guys and all the youth say hi that are here with me.

Love you guys

Love Elder Evans

Much better letter...

Hey mom, just always remember that I love you ;) hehehehehe The Big set back was just a bunch of little things that happened that were kinda funky that took up a lot of time to do. About the picture of the Coke, I know that you didnt send it to me and yes that was my package. They robbed me is what I was trying to show, and then they put the coke stuff in the package so that it weighed the same and stuff like that. They robbed the whopper box and the credit card from the package. You should have told me about the rock in the package... hahahaha I just threw it away without a second thought... hahahaha I thought it was just something that they put in the package to make it weigh more. hahahahaha
HOLY COW that game sounded absolutely insane!!! USA USA USA USA hahahaha we were eating one day in the house of a member and in the other room they were watching the swimming. We could only hear the announcers. hahaha But you hear the announcer say "The Americans are very prideful in this event" and then one lady laughs and says "what are they not prideful in". Then they just ended up destroying the other teams, and I said "That is why we are prideful" hahahhaha It was funny hahahaha 
Well the area that I am now in is both big and small. Big because everything is all spread out, small because there arent that many inhabitants in my part of the city. But it is still pretty good size. They have everything that I need so I am happy, that have a store called Chedraui, which is basically a Mexican Wal-Mart so it is really good. :) The apartment I have is crazy!!! It has air conditioning and heated water. It isnt very big but with that stuff it makes up for the size. I dont like the hot water but the air conditioning is pretty nice, especially at night to go to bed. :) My new companions name is Elder L, he is from Peru and he is really short. He likes to play soccer and stuff too so this could be pretty fun. He is o.k. I have definitely had better companions but I have also had worse companions too... hahahaha Speaking of old companoins. Remember the Elder O, that I didnt like very much.... He also served in Palenque and when I got moved here, he had come back to visit everyone. hahahaha It was kind of a awkward meeting. It was also weird because everyone called him by his first name but I couldnt, I had to call him Elder O. hahahaha
About the pictures, the first two are of a weird little mark that has appeared on my finger... hahaha the members say that it isnt a problem and that I shouldn´t worry. Then the next two are of a sunset that happened here a couple days ago, it was pretty cool, and then the next two are of the place where we ran by today in the morning. It was nice to get out and run hahahaha Havent just ran to run in about 19 months... hahahaha By the way you can now count the months I have left on one single hand ;) hahahha I just realized that.
Well I hope that you liked this letter a little bit better. Thanks for everything. :() Love you guys and have a good week at camp and doing everything else for me. 

Love Buddy/Elder Evans

Last weeks letter...

Sorry I didn't get this posted last week, but there wasn't much to post!  Good thing he is really far away or I might have had to go strangle him.  Way to leave me hanging about the weird package pictures in his last letter and then tell me the had a major set back and doesn't have any food.  Here is the letter, if you can even call it that!

Hey family,  how are you all doing? I am doing really good here in Palenque, Sorry for this really short letter. We had a really big set back today and it didnt leave us very much time to do anything else, not  even buy food for the week :/ hahahaha 
I am good, you will get a really good letter next week with a lot of pictures too :) So once again sorry for the short e-mail.
Tell JD I would love to do the marathon with him when I get back. :)

Have fun with all the stuff you guys are doing.

Until next week :)

Love BUDDY