Short & Sweet

Hey so I dont have a lot of time this week. So I will only be able to answer some of your questions and in a combined letter too.

Well my new comp is good, he doesnt talk very much in lessons so I am going to try to get him to talk more and stuff like that, he only has 3 months in his mission so it is kinda normal. Like I said he is from Guatamala and he is fun to be with too. So everything is going good with the companion side.

What color are you painting the basement? You are painting the ceiling too? I started to paint a house but then the lady didnt want us to come back... hahahaha she didnt like that we were trying to preach to her while we were there. She is Catholic and her daughter in law is a member so she is the one that invited us but the grandman doesnt want us to come back.

Speaking about changes in the mission, there are four new requirement for the missionaries in order to baptize someone now. 1. They have to attend church 4 times and at least twice alone. 2. They have to obey the Word of Wisdom for 30 days, and if they break it the 29th day they have to do it all over again. 3. They have to have an assignment before they are baptized. 4. We cant baptize little kids unless they have someone over the age of 15 to help them progress spiritually. So there are the changes. Also we arent allowed to contact anymore, we have to ask for references and we are going to be working with the real growth of the church with the less active members and bringing them back and baptizing any parts of their families that arent members.

Our investigators are doing good, we have like 6 right now that are doing good, they just need to attend church once more and they are good to go. I am doing good and happy.

 

Hope you have a good week  this week. Love you guys!!!!

 

Love Elder Evans

 

P.S. GET BETTER JESSICA BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO WALK TO ME IN THE AIRPORT WITHOUT LIMPING!!! :)

Letter & Pictures

Well in order to write you both I am going to only write one letter to the both of you... hahaha

WHAT!!!!! I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT JESSICAS KNEE, Everyone said she was hurt but they didnt say how bad it was... holy cow its her flippen ACL!!! I also didnt know it was because she played in the Powder Puff thing... hahahaha Hope everything goes well....

Well here is the conference Story: Saturday we get to the church and there is no internet to get to see the conference and there was quite a few people there to see it. So we (my companion and I) were running around trying to get the Internet to start working. Then my companion said lets go outside to see if there is something wrong. So we go outside and see that is disconnected from the powerlines. So we go and get the ladder to see if we can fix it. My companion tried to go up first but when he got up he hurried and came down and said he felt sick up there hahahaha so I go up and he kept telling me to do things that didnt make sense because the things he said to connect werent there... So there was no way to connect the Internet because the other part of the line wasnt there. So we go back inside and sit down because there wasnt anything else to do... but right when I sat down a thought came into my mind that said "something isnt right outside" and I thought afterwards ya there isnt something right outside. . .  there is no cable to connect it to. Then the thought came again "something isnt right outside" and then I said, O.K. and told my companion to follow me and I walked outside and looked at it and then felt that I needed to look down the street. And when I did I saw the cord that we needed. I dont know what had happened but only our cord was broken and it was halfway down the street.... hahahaha So we went and brought it and I climbed up the ladder and hooked it up again and we then had internet! hahaha it was such a cool experience!!! One of the other Elders took a picture of me up the ladder fixing it but I just need to wait for him to send it to me and then I will send it to you.

Softball I dont want to talk about because we didnt end up playing... I was super super super super frustrated! so we will leave it at that.
So I am now in a part called Ciudad del Carmen and my companions name is Elder A, he is from Guatamala. We are specifically in the area called Carmen and the ward has the same name. It is pretty nice. There is a beach but we went today and the sand is horrible. I would not recommend it to anyone. It was pure seashell and beer caps... hahaha Well we have some pretty big plans for this area. We are going to baptize 12 more people before the end of the year. We already have 3 or 4 people that are ready to be baptized. :) But something crazy is happening in the mission right now. They are now changing it so that the investigator has to attend church 4 times in a row!!!, if they have problems with the Word of Wisdom they have to be clean and not used one of the things for 1 whole month, and they have to have something to do in the church before they can be baptized... That is crazy!!! hahahahaha it is not official yet but they are trying to put it in soon. Well I dont have anything new to write about. Except my birthday is this Wednesday and no one knows about it here.... hahaha In my last area they were planning a party and people were making me presents. So that made me really sad when I left, I might have even shed a tear or so. But oh well hahaha They said that they would send me the presents when they finished making them... hahahaha I really loved it there. :)

Well I think that is about it. Hope everything goes good with Jessica and everyone else too. hahaha Have a good week and make sure to give her a blessing :) Love you guys :)

 

Love Elder Evans or Buddy in 71 days (no I am not counting down I just did the math right now) hahaha

Ruby's Baptism

Me & a dolphin

Home-made sandals

Members of our ward

Our Pitbull Pet...Apparently he lives with them. 

Beautiful Sunrise

Short & Sweet...and I don't have a clue where he is!

Well I got transfered so I dont have any time to write because we are running around and doing a lot of other things. We are going to play softballl right now, I am excited

Next week ask me about the conference story and the softball and my new area. Thanks for the letter. Love you guys have a good week.

Love Elder Evans

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Well you sent me a giant letter but I dont have much time to send you one though. Did you tell them that I should come home the 31st? About the missionary comment, I dont know if I like it..... because when I get home I am going to be looking for girls of that age to go out with. . .  hahahahaha But now they are all going to be on missions!!! HAHAHAHA

The baptism this Saturday went really good, She is from about 4 hours from here but she grew up in a town that spoke a dialect of Spanish. Well I dont have my camera with me so I cant send pictures, but next week I will. Sorry for the short letter. Remind me to tell you a cool story about the Internet and the Conference, I dont have time today to tell you but it is really cool.

Love you guys and have a good week.

 

Love Elder Buddy

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Dear Family,

     I am doing good :) This week was good and we saw lots of good things come out of it. We have a baptismal date for this Saturday and we are really struggling to teach her. We are struggling because she doesnt speak Spanish very well. She knows a Dialect and is learning how to speak Spanish right now. . .  hahahaha weird. But she loves going to the church and she told us she liked it better than the other places she had visited.

     Glad you had a good time on your cruise. I am still jealous! hahaha Hope it was everyhing you guys were waiting for. Hope grandpa and grandma liked it too. Yes the pin number worked and everything went good. Well today I got a call from the offices letting me know that they are getting ready to buy my tickets for the return flight home... that wasnt the greatest feeling... hahaha But they wanted to know if I had any school things planned for when I get back I told them that I didnt think so and that they were going to call you and make sure. If you want me to start when I get home tell them that you have plans... It really doesnt matter to me that much if I start or dont start. So you can tell them what you want. hahaha If I dont go to school I will be coming home January 7 and if I am going to school I will come home December 31.

     Well this week we have a pretty good week planned out and the Conference to end it so it should be a very good week. :) I am really excited. We have lots of things to do. 

     Well this isnt a very big letter either... hahahaha I dont know what to write about, there hasnt been anything new. Oh, I gave a talk on Sunday and that is about it for the new.... hahahah

 

Love you guys, have a good week

 

Love Buddy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Thanks and I am glad that this card made it to me this time hahaha. I dont know if you already sent my birthday package I thought of three things you could add: Licorice, Sunflower seeds, and allergy pills.
Well this week went o.k. We havent had baptisms in a while but we are working hard to ffind them right now, we have a lot of people to teach but they just dont keep their commitments, like any of them. They like to listen to us and they do something like once every four times we go. They say they received an answer but then they dont do anything afterwards ..... hahahaha So we are going to talk about the faith with them and tell them it needs works to work... hahaha I think that might wake them up a bit.
Well I am going to send another e-mail with a ton of pictures so I am going to end this right now.

Love you, hope you have fun on the cruise.

Love Bud

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Hey mom I am doing good. No the house was not as dirty as the other house but it had a lot of dust and other stuff that were making my allergies go crazy and the bathroom was stinky so we cleaned that too. Things with the companion are going fine. He does like to play soccer and apparently all the other sports too, we will see just how good he is at them too ;) hahahahaha That is where I am competitive not being the first to get to the house or be in front of him to walk. We went to the ruins today and I took a lot of pictures for your class :) I will send those next week for you.

The work is doing good, we just didnt have any success this week in bringing people to church. We have lots of people to teach and most of them are really good and keeping their commitments and everything. They just overslept or something on Sunday hahaha But next week will be better dont worry. The members feed us and we do our laundry in the house of a member, but the member does not actually do it for us.
Have fun on your cruise. Sounds like it is going to be really fun. TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES to send to me hahahaha And make sure to give everyone a hug for me when you see them all. Also have lots of fun. Well Sounds like you have had a fun day, I never want to have to get a shot in my heel!!! I just cringe at the very thought of it... hahahaha yucky!!!! As for my package, could you send like 8ish AA batteries, one more thing of Peanut butter, goldfish(original), and just other snacky stuff..... I dont think I really need anything else, because it will be hard to bring things home.... hahahaha you know how I am a pack Rat.  Oh, they told us that our flight plans will be out in the middle of October.
Well thats it for me, love you guys hope that everything is going well. Have a good week

Love Buddy

Trying to figure out how to climb!

Kinda figured it out...

On my way up!

Tastes better fresh!

I'm a PRO!

The tool and the prize!

Roasting Marsh mellows

YUM!

Cutting the grass with a Machete

Weekly Letter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I have not heard anything about a release date, you will probably know faster than me, and when you do know will you please let me know. :) Thanks Souds like the sports are all doing good right now, Eagles and BYU won and then Utah lost! wahoo :)
My new companions name is Elder S______. He is really good, a bit competitive and kinda funny in that aspect. But he is really good, He might just be my favorite Mexican companion. I just taught him how to do the rubiks cube. hahahaha He is from the north of Mexico, right below Texas. I dont know how to spell his city´s name but when I do I will let you know. He has 7 months in the mission. Money has been fine, There havent been any too big problems.
As to my birthday request, well I would like. . . . . I really have no idea... hahahaha I will think of some things this week and let you know next monday.
Well this is all I have time to write. Sorry Love you Guys. We got late because we cleaned the house, it is awesome to have another companion that likes a clean house. :)

Love Elder Evans