July 19, 2011

Before the wedding! I wish my backpack wasnt on in eighty percent of my pictures. Either that 

or I am holding my camera case.

We have lunch every Friday with this lady. My companion told her that her birthday would be on a Friday this year and what Hermana Abreu heard was that her birthday was the next
Friday we ate with her. So she got a cake and we celebrated three months early.

Before the baptism! With their current missionarys, which I was a little sad I wasnt one of them. In my interview with president I almost begged him to send me back to my first area, but I will just keep praying and let God tell him. 

Right before they confirmed Juan! There where a ton of people there!

July 11, 2011

 Two of the kids of a recent convert family from Honduras! They are really great! They just took Elders out of this area and replaced them with Sisters the transfer before I got here and people aren't very happy about it. But this family is really nice and they love us! They are really eager to learn and every time we come over they sit the whole family down and want to learn! Its very different from everyone else who would like us to just come over and "hang out" and eat again.

My companion loves cooking. She said her first companion (who was from Bolivia) told her all Americans don't cook and are always on diets and wouldn't like it if she cooks. So I wanted her to know that's not true so I eat a ton and I made pancakes and pasta so far, which I call cooking.

July 05, 2011

Seeing the Ayons! I know I look like a homeless man, but it is super hot here. Like I didnt understand what being hot meant until being here. I wasted all my "ding, ding, ding"s because now is when I really need help getting cooled down. And you will be happy to know I am learning to be a nicer person when I am hot and also when I am hungry. And sometimes both.

This is the only picture I have with my companion so far. She is the one on my right.

June 27, 2011

 I am second from left and I am proud of my tan.

Welcome to Mesa. Where if the scorpions dont kill you the temperature will.

We hiked to the top of a mountain this morning at 5. Its ugly here and not worth the view. Not all of our zone went either because they are chickens.

Going away party because we are both moving out. This was my room. My new zone is the same as the senior missionaries I used to live with. Small world.  

June 20, 2011

Every other house in our area has this little sign. They think it makes us believe they are rock solid in their religion and there is no use knocking but it actually helps us identify which houses are Hispanics and is a time saver. Go figure.

Happy birthday to a less active! We had carne asada and then they almost pushed me in the pool as a joke. I am glad my companion saved me because satan would of drowned me for sure. And do I or do I not fit right into this picture? The older ladies in this picture told me how there grandchildren dont know spanish and how they are so impressed that I am learning it. Then they continued to compliment me and I started thinking I was good and then I couldnt understand anything else they where talking about. Heavenly Father is good at that whole humbling thing.

 This is at almost 8 p.m. There is not a single ray of sun and it it hotter then five foxes fighting a forest fire.

Some random canal by our house. We had to walk our bikes home with the fourth flat tire we have had in six weeks and so I went a little crazy. Luckily there is a bike shop we found that fixes them for free! My first flat I went to a members shop and he gave me a ten percent discount, this other guy isnt even a member and he charges nothing! He says "Your out there in the heat, working for God and getting your conversions and what not." He's really great. He tells us to send all the other missionaries too.

June 13, 2011

These are all the Hermanas in the whole mission. Excpet two who couldnt come down from Payson. And when I say Hermanas I mean spanish sisters, because there are a lot more english sisters too.

Hermana Lopez who Casey met in the MTC and told to tell me Hi. You can sleep soundly knowing she fullfilled that and she is in my zone so I see her all the time. 

May 31, 2011

 Birthday party dinner for Hermana McKenna! Four of us always eat dinner together every night and the other two join us sometimes. Its really fun but hard to remember not to be rude and speak english.

Baptism! The guy kneeling on the left is our ward mission leader, Hermano Pimienta, one of the most interesting men I have ever met. The branch president is the taller one in white

No birthday party is complete without a brinca brinca. They had us over for dinner and then made us jump so we would have seconds. Just kidding, but it worked.

And also no birthday party is complete without a pinata.