Hello dear Family!
This week will be a great one!!! We are preparing for a baptism that will take place on the 5th of June! Happy Late Birthday Dad! I___ has decided that this is the church he will join. It has been a long study/search/prayer! He is very inteligent in respect to the gospel and will be a great member!
Plexiglass could be an issue of swimmers or just the same issue as our roof... regulations! There are too many sometimes but just like the commandments, they help protect us. As far as remodeling here, I finished this morning with my tetious darning of socks! It´s been a long work in progress but now I´ve got a full week and a halfs worth of socks again. :D We also have a good weeks worth of... you guessed it, Chicken Soup for the Soul!!! hahah It´s good stuff! We are going to do some lentils sometime this week! We got a great recipe from one of the member´s sisters. We baught all the stuff today and will do it soon. We won´t have to buy any food for a while now!!!
Thanks for your take on my question. I will have to send mine next week; however, I think it will base around the same experience. I will also spend the week and fast sunday thinking about the school issue! Thanks for your confidence that I will make wise decisions! That means a lot to me and to anybody really!
So if Aunt LeNell is down there and hears about her husband through his parents... is there a problem that I should be praying for them for? You left that very unclear and now it´s going to bug me for the rest of the week... please answer that for me!
It´s not quite as hot here as it is there yet but we are sure getting warm! :P However, I have not yet used the AC but once this summer! I do have some requests, if you haven´t sent the package yet.
1. I want some zebra refills and a new pen itself.
2. ... well I don´t need new socks and as I am finished with the darning... I don´t need the seweing machine anymore! haha ;D
3. I want you to put a few things on the usb drive...
the Clyde Bawden CD´s... they aren´t on the iPod
some of the 1856 music
Appropiate Chorale music or Encore music!
the song "I can go the distance" the original from Hecules.
Pictures of the house and family! :D
Any Music/Thing that you want!
4. A new foot! it´s still in a bit of pain
5. another bottle of Spice for life!
Success story about that one. Last night we were getting a ride home from a young married couple and the wife was having issues with the throat. After a while I told her that I had something that might help. I gave it to her, told her how to use it and that I wanted it back after she was done with it. haha She thanked me this morning because it was already working! :D
Well, I love you all and I´m off for the week!
Elder Heywood
Monday, May 31, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Quinto Pino
We have about 6 primary kids in our branch. Thanks for all the ideas. I will get them to our primary leader. The only one that I con´t see working is the flag etiquette one. The Spaniards don´t have much of a love/respect for the flag like us Americans. It was really weird in the CCM when my teacher told us to buy a Spanish flag and have each one of our companions sign it. We were all appalled that someone would even think of such a thing. But that´s just how it is here. The flag doen´t have real meaning to them like it does for us.
My foot is still in a little bit of pain but it´s getting better. after a long day of walking it hurts and I can´t wait to get back to the piso and take the pressure off. In all, though, it´s fine and I´m getting by alright! I was lucky that I didn´t have the temptation to play soccer on saturday. We normally play every saturday but this week we went to visit some members out in the ""(middle of nowhere). It took an hour and 45 minutes to get out there...in car. If we took the bus it would have taken about 4 hours. Their home teacher was going out there and heard us say that we were going out there so he offered to take us. Their house is sweet! It´s an 200 year old... and a little restored... house about 3 miles away from anybody. it´s clear up in the hills of Jaén. You can look it up. Cabra de Santo Cristo, Jaen is the name of the nearest town to their house. I´ll also send a picture of the rolling hills out there. It was amazing. Oh yeah, the house reminded me of exactly what a farm house in the mountains should be. It was amazing!
*never mind I won´t send a picture this week. I forgot the connection cord for my camera.*
My interview with president went well. It was probably the best one I´ve had so far. When I asked him, "What is the one thing that you as a mission president want us as missionaries to learn?" He responded, "I want to help you reach your devine potential." He also said, "I want to teach you to be able to access the light on your own. I don´t want to be the light, because I can´t be with you all the time." He expounded a little bit more but that´s what I remembered and was able to write down afterwards.
The ratio that the missionaries gave you is very resonable and we received a promise about member missionary work. It was directed to our area but I´m sure it would make some kind of difference in any place in the world. We were told that if every member in spain gave out one pass-along card every year we would have 50 more baptisms every year. And if every member gave out one pass-along card every week we would grow by a stake in convert baptisms every year. That is quite a few baptisms! And in reality, giving out cards is easy. I remember the story of when Bishop LeBaron helped someone get their truck unstuck and then gave a card to them. The trick is to have the card in your possesion in the first place! Get some!!!
We had an FHE the other day with a member family and they shared a story about a little boy that got stuck under a garage door and died and then came back to life and shared his experience. It was given by Loyd Calenn and in spanish the title was Librar los Pajaritos. In english the best I can think the title might be is Free the Little Birds. It was an awesome story and relates to temple work. It´s worth looking for and sharing with the family.
The baptism did not go through but she is going to continue visiting with us. She brought her mom with her to church this week! That was huge! We visited he mom on saturday and met a whole new person. From the first time that we met with her till saturday she has turned around 180º!!! We actually enjoyed being in their house this time! hahaha So I think that we should be getting somewhere with the both of them soon.
Apart from that we are trying to get a hold of I... He has been working and hasn´t been able to meet with us. But on the bright side... S, the less active member, came again. And this time his little sister came as well. She is also a member but she expressed her desire to come back to church. She will be the only young woman in the branch. It´s a little hard but there are some good newly-weds that are more teenagers than anything so she will have some friends in church. :) Even better... Her and Elder Hafen were talking about something to do with her and her brothers and the youth... She wants to play frisbee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
I´m going to be sad when I leave this area and don´t have any more access to a good frisbee... unless you want to send me one!?! But you´d have to send it in a different package because it wouldn´t fit in the envlopes that you use. ***hint!!!!*** haha jk
Well, I can´t send you any more pictures this week but I hope you enjoyed the ones you got last week!
Love you all,
Elder Austin Keith Heywood
My foot is still in a little bit of pain but it´s getting better. after a long day of walking it hurts and I can´t wait to get back to the piso and take the pressure off. In all, though, it´s fine and I´m getting by alright! I was lucky that I didn´t have the temptation to play soccer on saturday. We normally play every saturday but this week we went to visit some members out in the ""(middle of nowhere). It took an hour and 45 minutes to get out there...in car. If we took the bus it would have taken about 4 hours. Their home teacher was going out there and heard us say that we were going out there so he offered to take us. Their house is sweet! It´s an 200 year old... and a little restored... house about 3 miles away from anybody. it´s clear up in the hills of Jaén. You can look it up. Cabra de Santo Cristo, Jaen is the name of the nearest town to their house. I´ll also send a picture of the rolling hills out there. It was amazing. Oh yeah, the house reminded me of exactly what a farm house in the mountains should be. It was amazing!
*never mind I won´t send a picture this week. I forgot the connection cord for my camera.*
My interview with president went well. It was probably the best one I´ve had so far. When I asked him, "What is the one thing that you as a mission president want us as missionaries to learn?" He responded, "I want to help you reach your devine potential." He also said, "I want to teach you to be able to access the light on your own. I don´t want to be the light, because I can´t be with you all the time." He expounded a little bit more but that´s what I remembered and was able to write down afterwards.
The ratio that the missionaries gave you is very resonable and we received a promise about member missionary work. It was directed to our area but I´m sure it would make some kind of difference in any place in the world. We were told that if every member in spain gave out one pass-along card every year we would have 50 more baptisms every year. And if every member gave out one pass-along card every week we would grow by a stake in convert baptisms every year. That is quite a few baptisms! And in reality, giving out cards is easy. I remember the story of when Bishop LeBaron helped someone get their truck unstuck and then gave a card to them. The trick is to have the card in your possesion in the first place! Get some!!!
We had an FHE the other day with a member family and they shared a story about a little boy that got stuck under a garage door and died and then came back to life and shared his experience. It was given by Loyd Calenn and in spanish the title was Librar los Pajaritos. In english the best I can think the title might be is Free the Little Birds. It was an awesome story and relates to temple work. It´s worth looking for and sharing with the family.
The baptism did not go through but she is going to continue visiting with us. She brought her mom with her to church this week! That was huge! We visited he mom on saturday and met a whole new person. From the first time that we met with her till saturday she has turned around 180º!!! We actually enjoyed being in their house this time! hahaha So I think that we should be getting somewhere with the both of them soon.
Apart from that we are trying to get a hold of I... He has been working and hasn´t been able to meet with us. But on the bright side... S, the less active member, came again. And this time his little sister came as well. She is also a member but she expressed her desire to come back to church. She will be the only young woman in the branch. It´s a little hard but there are some good newly-weds that are more teenagers than anything so she will have some friends in church. :) Even better... Her and Elder Hafen were talking about something to do with her and her brothers and the youth... She wants to play frisbee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
I´m going to be sad when I leave this area and don´t have any more access to a good frisbee... unless you want to send me one!?! But you´d have to send it in a different package because it wouldn´t fit in the envlopes that you use. ***hint!!!!*** haha jk
Well, I can´t send you any more pictures this week but I hope you enjoyed the ones you got last week!
Love you all,
Elder Austin Keith Heywood
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Talk to you Sunday!
Hey Family,
Ok first things first... I want people to write down comments, stories or questions that they have for next sunday. That way there´s no dead time as we are thinking of things to say. I also want Mom... or anyone for that matter... to send me a file of the story of the 3 rescuers at Sweet Water. I love that story and want it in print. It can either be sent with my card or by email and I can print it off.
This week was really good. We ended up moving our baptism back one week so it will happen on the 15th instead of on the 8th but she´s still set to get baptised. I know that´s sounds like weird information to follow the opening comment. The real good news is that we got a less active member to come to church. I think I may have mentioned him already. He is 21 and hasn´t come to churhc in about 4 or 5 years. But he has changed a lot in the last three weeks. A lot of it is Elder Hafen´s ability to follow the spirit. This last week he has prayed to know wether the church is really true and received that answer. He tried taking off part of his tatoo... I guess we might call that "Home-attempted Self Surgery." But his desires have completely changed. He was happy to be in the church yesterday. He didn´t get up and bear his testimony but that will come. I told President Mellor, "I can see him with a chapa(name tag) on his white shirt soon." He would make a great missionary. At the end of the lesson we all started to fast together for him. It was amazing!
Today we´ve been cooking... and cooking... .... ... and cooking.... ... you get the point. We cooked up some chicken noodle soup but I had so many vegetables and the chicken was big enough that we now have two 9" x 5" pots sitting in our fridge full of chicken noodle soup!!! :D on top of that we cooked a pound of black eyed peas and have yet to figure out what to do with that yet. And we made some Mrs. Fields cookies. Oatmeal Raisin!!! Nothing better!!! :D We only did a half batch of those! However only one sheet of them turned out decent. :( Better luck next time! I think my comp must have added to much of something wet and so I tried to compensate a little and they would have been fine if I kept better track of time! jaajaajjajaa. oh well! We have enough other food to last us the week!
So Kristalyn said that Kashawagi says hi... which one? hahah But that reminds me... We are having an FHE with one of our members and our two kids to be baptised... and we are throwing a frisbee around!!!!!!!!!! :DDD So did all these people just say hi or did they send some life changing advice? ;) hahaha
I would have loved to be have been at the concerts of Kayla´s. Those sound so cool!!! Kayla I hope you are still doing this stuff when I get home!!! If you aren´t then I might have to write your teachers and tell them to make you reetake you classes next year!!! ;)
We have not been able to meet with this blind girl yet. I hope to be able to soon. We did have our Zone Conference on my "One Year Left" day and I did where my half tie with Elder Hafen. It was fun! That was the only place that we could even think about sporting them. I also got a little note from a returned Sister Jensen. No relation to my comp. She said that her and her family are moving to Mesa Phoenix area from Ohio soon. She was way cool.
Just a reminder... write things down for this sunday.
I love you all!!!
Uncle Elder Austin Keith Heywood
Ok first things first... I want people to write down comments, stories or questions that they have for next sunday. That way there´s no dead time as we are thinking of things to say. I also want Mom... or anyone for that matter... to send me a file of the story of the 3 rescuers at Sweet Water. I love that story and want it in print. It can either be sent with my card or by email and I can print it off.
This week was really good. We ended up moving our baptism back one week so it will happen on the 15th instead of on the 8th but she´s still set to get baptised. I know that´s sounds like weird information to follow the opening comment. The real good news is that we got a less active member to come to church. I think I may have mentioned him already. He is 21 and hasn´t come to churhc in about 4 or 5 years. But he has changed a lot in the last three weeks. A lot of it is Elder Hafen´s ability to follow the spirit. This last week he has prayed to know wether the church is really true and received that answer. He tried taking off part of his tatoo... I guess we might call that "Home-attempted Self Surgery." But his desires have completely changed. He was happy to be in the church yesterday. He didn´t get up and bear his testimony but that will come. I told President Mellor, "I can see him with a chapa(name tag) on his white shirt soon." He would make a great missionary. At the end of the lesson we all started to fast together for him. It was amazing!
Today we´ve been cooking... and cooking... .... ... and cooking.... ... you get the point. We cooked up some chicken noodle soup but I had so many vegetables and the chicken was big enough that we now have two 9" x 5" pots sitting in our fridge full of chicken noodle soup!!! :D on top of that we cooked a pound of black eyed peas and have yet to figure out what to do with that yet. And we made some Mrs. Fields cookies. Oatmeal Raisin!!! Nothing better!!! :D We only did a half batch of those! However only one sheet of them turned out decent. :( Better luck next time! I think my comp must have added to much of something wet and so I tried to compensate a little and they would have been fine if I kept better track of time! jaajaajjajaa. oh well! We have enough other food to last us the week!
So Kristalyn said that Kashawagi says hi... which one? hahah But that reminds me... We are having an FHE with one of our members and our two kids to be baptised... and we are throwing a frisbee around!!!!!!!!!! :DDD So did all these people just say hi or did they send some life changing advice? ;) hahaha
I would have loved to be have been at the concerts of Kayla´s. Those sound so cool!!! Kayla I hope you are still doing this stuff when I get home!!! If you aren´t then I might have to write your teachers and tell them to make you reetake you classes next year!!! ;)
We have not been able to meet with this blind girl yet. I hope to be able to soon. We did have our Zone Conference on my "One Year Left" day and I did where my half tie with Elder Hafen. It was fun! That was the only place that we could even think about sporting them. I also got a little note from a returned Sister Jensen. No relation to my comp. She said that her and her family are moving to Mesa Phoenix area from Ohio soon. She was way cool.
Just a reminder... write things down for this sunday.
So if any of you readers have any specific questions for the missionary, send them to me and we'll be sure to ask him. Then if you're lucky we'll remember to get the answers to you :-/
I love you all!!!
Uncle Elder Austin Keith Heywood
Monday, April 26, 2010
Half Way Day
Dear Family,
I send you half a thanks for my half of the package and Elder Hafen send the other half. I loved it all! And surprisingly enough there are still some halved pecans left. (some... not 1/2 ;). You did indeed come up with some great ideas. Thank you.
To answer some questions, no you have not sent any updated house photos. How was the weekend this time trying to sell it? I try to remember to pray for you for that. So you can´t upload the pictures from the camera card? Do you want me to send my broken one home. I guess that is one thing it would be good for! haha
I also am wondering what to do about my iPod... The batteries ran out the other day like normal and then I charged it. However, when I tryed to play music again it was completely empty. Supposedly we´ve gone back in time and it´s June 7, 2000. grrrrrrrr. So I have nothing more than a couple cd´s. :´( I could either send it home to you or give it to the office elders and have them put music on it. The only problem with that is it is all formatted horribly. :P I don´t know what to do... or I could do both. idk
I also have been thinking about buying a european suit to bring home... when they are on liquidation... but I think I just changed my mind the other day. I finally found a spanish Astana biking jersey and "bib"(the shorts made in a different way). They cost 113€ together. I´m going to ask President this wednesday at zone conference if the bike shops ever do "rebajas"(massive sales...liquidation). If they do I am going to buy it this july-ish. I changed my mind because I don´t plan on ruining my suits that I´ve got. They are holding up really well compared to what people make them out to. Then again I did buy the higher quality missionary suits.
I´m going to send this and then keep writing in the hopes that you respond to this.
Elder Heywood
So about the area and my Companion. Elder Hafen and I are getting along well. We had a discussion as we were walking yesterday and it really made us decide to do everything we can to make this both of our best one or two transfers in the mission. He is staying tighter to the mission rules than ever before and I am as well except sometimes in the morning I don´t have quite as much time as I´d like to study. (I know it´s hard to believe that I want to study...More. Go ahead and sit back down. Don´t call president and ask what the secret is). jaja
So far in the mission Elder ___ was my best and favorite companion but I can see competition here. With time I think we will be able to do great. Elder Hafen is great at working with the members and I am just trying to keep up with him. I have a lot to learn from him. He´s great! The change in the presidency has changed a lot in our branch. I can see a lot of things happening here in the near future.
Yesterday we were at a member´s house and they said that two of their friends are coming over. One of them is blind and maybe has interest in the gosple. That generally is a problem as far as giving them a book of mormon, but it just so happens that one of our recent converts is also blind. The branch ordered her a triple in Braile and the mission ordered a Book of Mormon in Braile. Well, she doesn´t need both so we still have the Book of Mormon in our piso. We weren´t able to meet this girl yesterday but in due time I believe we´ll have a taker for the extra Book of Mormon. :)
I love you all Happy belated birthday to Kayla!!!
Elder Heywood
ps. Thanks for the invitation to her birthday dinner. I wish I could have made it! ;)
I send you half a thanks for my half of the package and Elder Hafen send the other half. I loved it all! And surprisingly enough there are still some halved pecans left. (some... not 1/2 ;). You did indeed come up with some great ideas. Thank you.
To answer some questions, no you have not sent any updated house photos. How was the weekend this time trying to sell it? I try to remember to pray for you for that. So you can´t upload the pictures from the camera card? Do you want me to send my broken one home. I guess that is one thing it would be good for! haha
I also am wondering what to do about my iPod... The batteries ran out the other day like normal and then I charged it. However, when I tryed to play music again it was completely empty. Supposedly we´ve gone back in time and it´s June 7, 2000. grrrrrrrr. So I have nothing more than a couple cd´s. :´( I could either send it home to you or give it to the office elders and have them put music on it. The only problem with that is it is all formatted horribly. :P I don´t know what to do... or I could do both. idk
I also have been thinking about buying a european suit to bring home... when they are on liquidation... but I think I just changed my mind the other day. I finally found a spanish Astana biking jersey and "bib"(the shorts made in a different way). They cost 113€ together. I´m going to ask President this wednesday at zone conference if the bike shops ever do "rebajas"(massive sales...liquidation). If they do I am going to buy it this july-ish. I changed my mind because I don´t plan on ruining my suits that I´ve got. They are holding up really well compared to what people make them out to. Then again I did buy the higher quality missionary suits.
I´m going to send this and then keep writing in the hopes that you respond to this.
Elder Heywood
So about the area and my Companion. Elder Hafen and I are getting along well. We had a discussion as we were walking yesterday and it really made us decide to do everything we can to make this both of our best one or two transfers in the mission. He is staying tighter to the mission rules than ever before and I am as well except sometimes in the morning I don´t have quite as much time as I´d like to study. (I know it´s hard to believe that I want to study...More. Go ahead and sit back down. Don´t call president and ask what the secret is). jaja
So far in the mission Elder ___ was my best and favorite companion but I can see competition here. With time I think we will be able to do great. Elder Hafen is great at working with the members and I am just trying to keep up with him. I have a lot to learn from him. He´s great! The change in the presidency has changed a lot in our branch. I can see a lot of things happening here in the near future.
Yesterday we were at a member´s house and they said that two of their friends are coming over. One of them is blind and maybe has interest in the gosple. That generally is a problem as far as giving them a book of mormon, but it just so happens that one of our recent converts is also blind. The branch ordered her a triple in Braile and the mission ordered a Book of Mormon in Braile. Well, she doesn´t need both so we still have the Book of Mormon in our piso. We weren´t able to meet this girl yesterday but in due time I believe we´ll have a taker for the extra Book of Mormon. :)
I love you all Happy belated birthday to Kayla!!!
Elder Heywood
ps. Thanks for the invitation to her birthday dinner. I wish I could have made it! ;)
Monday, April 19, 2010
Clean Piso!
Elder Hafen is from Winnemucca, Nevada. He´s a character of his own. He knows the scriptures really well and uses them boldly. He likes to exercise and that wil be good for my blanket of insulation around my gut. ;) His mom lives in Cedar City, UT... fyi the parents are divorced. Her email is ... We have a perfectly clean piso now, so instead of just being the best and most American piso in the misison, it is also the cleanest and probably the most organized. It makes it so nice to have two people that like to clean.
On wednesday we got back on the bus and went to english class. Four new people came!!! That made a total of... 5! haha On the way back to the piso I got a nice little present from a confused child of God. I´m guessing by the angle and speed that the orange hit my face that they were in the 4th or 5th story of the building next to us. The orange hit my face, knocked off my glasses and the hit Hafen in the side. It left Him a nice red mark! I don´t know if I got a red mark but I sure felt it. I luckily only had to bend the nose bridge back and clean the lenses off. I worked hard to control my temper. I´m sure it was a lot easier not having them in front of me so I wouldn´t look like an idiot screaming at the air. (I didn´t do anything) Just picked up my glasses and kept walking.
On Friday we take a handicap man out for a stroll and game in the park. the weather was great and we got back to their house, shared the message and left. We stepped out the building door and it started drizzling. We decided to continue to our next cita that we go to every week... farther away from home. We got there and we were soaked!!! Of course she didn´t bother to tell us that she was going to the temple!
We did have better times of the week though. We met with a 21 year old guy from the ward that doesn´t go much... almost never. We had a really good lesson and we are going to try to get him on the mission!!! He has hopes of going on the mission, but first he has to start coming back to church to regain his testimony.
So I have a question about the hydrogen peroxide that you buy there. What is it´s percentage. The stuff that I can find is only 3% and it seems to me to be a little weaker than normal. Is it?
I totally forgot to thank you for the package last week! I made the pecans last a little bit this time. haha I absolutely love those! THANKS!!! As far as the questions about clothing from last week... I am fine for now on garments and socks. I found a piso find rain coat... one of those same ones that pomeroy´s sells. And it the perfect size. along with the pants that I found as well. :) I just have to clean them all before I use them. Thank you for the music! I´m going to try and get her address and send it to her still because she would still want it and she is still in contact with the missionaries down there. Thanks a ton for that! Now I am just waiting anxiously for the next package!!! :)
Well, I hope you all have a great week and can get that house sold!
Love you all,
On wednesday we got back on the bus and went to english class. Four new people came!!! That made a total of... 5! haha On the way back to the piso I got a nice little present from a confused child of God. I´m guessing by the angle and speed that the orange hit my face that they were in the 4th or 5th story of the building next to us. The orange hit my face, knocked off my glasses and the hit Hafen in the side. It left Him a nice red mark! I don´t know if I got a red mark but I sure felt it. I luckily only had to bend the nose bridge back and clean the lenses off. I worked hard to control my temper. I´m sure it was a lot easier not having them in front of me so I wouldn´t look like an idiot screaming at the air. (I didn´t do anything) Just picked up my glasses and kept walking.
On Friday we take a handicap man out for a stroll and game in the park. the weather was great and we got back to their house, shared the message and left. We stepped out the building door and it started drizzling. We decided to continue to our next cita that we go to every week... farther away from home. We got there and we were soaked!!! Of course she didn´t bother to tell us that she was going to the temple!
We did have better times of the week though. We met with a 21 year old guy from the ward that doesn´t go much... almost never. We had a really good lesson and we are going to try to get him on the mission!!! He has hopes of going on the mission, but first he has to start coming back to church to regain his testimony.
So I have a question about the hydrogen peroxide that you buy there. What is it´s percentage. The stuff that I can find is only 3% and it seems to me to be a little weaker than normal. Is it?
I totally forgot to thank you for the package last week! I made the pecans last a little bit this time. haha I absolutely love those! THANKS!!! As far as the questions about clothing from last week... I am fine for now on garments and socks. I found a piso find rain coat... one of those same ones that pomeroy´s sells. And it the perfect size. along with the pants that I found as well. :) I just have to clean them all before I use them. Thank you for the music! I´m going to try and get her address and send it to her still because she would still want it and she is still in contact with the missionaries down there. Thanks a ton for that! Now I am just waiting anxiously for the next package!!! :)
Well, I hope you all have a great week and can get that house sold!
Love you all,
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
New Companion
Semana Santa is over an the work is in fact picking up. We set a fecha yesterday!!! We also had, for the first time since I´ve been here, an investigator in church. I__ is one of the three references that we received during the Hora de oro a couple weeks back and he is "de oro"!!! I think he could be baptised within a few more weeks! He is so prepared and everything is going great... with the two discussions we´ve had with him. I was hoping to set a fecha with him after church on sunday but he had to leave quickly. He´s going to have a fecha the next time that we see him!!! His parents in Bolivia are members. When we met him he was with his girlfriend that wouldn´t hardly even talk to us because she was evagelical and didn´t want to argue. I think she mistook us for JW´s. haha But when we met with him he had broken up iwth her because they didn´t agree with many things concerning religion. But I think that he is in agreeance with what we´ve had to say so far!!!
As far as I could tell we have a strong posibility of having 5 or six baptisms in the time that I am here!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I know that that was more than one or three exclamation marks!) ;) S is the one with the fecha right now. We set it yesterday and I am not sure if she will get baptised on that date or not but you never know. She set it for the saturday in 4 weeks. the 8th of may. We´ll see how everything goes with that.
Other than that we have s´s "member" friend, V, who was supposedly baptised in Columbia but nobody can find his record. We also have that M that I think I have mentioned before. Then we have an excommunicated member that is working towards rebaptism and should be free to go in june. And his wife will get baptised with him!!!
This area is exploding!!! And on top of all that, the branch presidency just got changed yesterday... and I think that will be good for the branch!
I would agree that the leak never happened for a reason, but the "Granola Bar incident" did. By small and simple things are great things braught to pass! This may have been a little bigger than what we might think is small but in reality it was a small test of listening to the Spirit so that greater things in the Lord can be brought to pass later on. I really enjoyed that experience... well, the learning that come from the experience.
I want you to send me the mission address for Kyle´s mission. Also you should read the newsletter that we got this week from the mission. if you don´t remember how to get on ... new.myldsmail.net and use my LDS account login information.
Don´t worry, I´ll be careful burning the shirt. I´ll be sure to throw a bit of extra gas on it just for you! ;) jk I´ll be smart! But don´t think I´ll make it boring. jajaj We are going to have a big barbecue at J and M´s house today to say goodbye to Elder Pitts. Oh yeah, I´m getting a new companion! Elder Pitts is going to Puerto de la Cruz, tenerife. So he gets to change missions. He´s excited about it. I think it´s prety cool! My new companion is Elder Hafen! He was also Elder Bytheway´s companion. You should have a few pictures of him on the card I just sent home. And the video of me laying down with birds on top of me you can hear his voice. He´s cool! I am way excited to start working with him!!! He knows the scriptures really well and teaches really well. We are going to have fun too!
I have been debating whether I should buy some flat concrete play "sala" soccer shoes or some running shoes to replace the ones I´ve got. Now that I know he´s my companion I am going to buy the running shoes. He loves to work out and run so I will be using the running shoes for running a lot more than I would right now. The shoes that I´m going to buy are 50€. Elder Pitts is also leaving behind a pair of sala shoes. He wore out the left toe from dragging it as he kicks so I will find some way to patch it and see how they work out. Speaking of reapairing shoes... I got my black shoes repaired and it was only 1.50 euros. Baratísimo!!! And as far as I can tell they are going to work out quite fine.
I don´t have much more to say about what´s going on here. I´m doing well and can´t complain about anything. Just kind of waiting for the next few days to get over so we can start working again rather than the focus being on saying goodbye to everybody! Well I hope you all have a great week.
Con Mucho Cariño
Elder Austin Heywood
As far as I could tell we have a strong posibility of having 5 or six baptisms in the time that I am here!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I know that that was more than one or three exclamation marks!) ;) S is the one with the fecha right now. We set it yesterday and I am not sure if she will get baptised on that date or not but you never know. She set it for the saturday in 4 weeks. the 8th of may. We´ll see how everything goes with that.
Other than that we have s´s "member" friend, V, who was supposedly baptised in Columbia but nobody can find his record. We also have that M that I think I have mentioned before. Then we have an excommunicated member that is working towards rebaptism and should be free to go in june. And his wife will get baptised with him!!!
This area is exploding!!! And on top of all that, the branch presidency just got changed yesterday... and I think that will be good for the branch!
I would agree that the leak never happened for a reason, but the "Granola Bar incident" did. By small and simple things are great things braught to pass! This may have been a little bigger than what we might think is small but in reality it was a small test of listening to the Spirit so that greater things in the Lord can be brought to pass later on. I really enjoyed that experience... well, the learning that come from the experience.
I want you to send me the mission address for Kyle´s mission. Also you should read the newsletter that we got this week from the mission. if you don´t remember how to get on ... new.myldsmail.net and use my LDS account login information.
Don´t worry, I´ll be careful burning the shirt. I´ll be sure to throw a bit of extra gas on it just for you! ;) jk I´ll be smart! But don´t think I´ll make it boring. jajaj We are going to have a big barbecue at J and M´s house today to say goodbye to Elder Pitts. Oh yeah, I´m getting a new companion! Elder Pitts is going to Puerto de la Cruz, tenerife. So he gets to change missions. He´s excited about it. I think it´s prety cool! My new companion is Elder Hafen! He was also Elder Bytheway´s companion. You should have a few pictures of him on the card I just sent home. And the video of me laying down with birds on top of me you can hear his voice. He´s cool! I am way excited to start working with him!!! He knows the scriptures really well and teaches really well. We are going to have fun too!
I have been debating whether I should buy some flat concrete play "sala" soccer shoes or some running shoes to replace the ones I´ve got. Now that I know he´s my companion I am going to buy the running shoes. He loves to work out and run so I will be using the running shoes for running a lot more than I would right now. The shoes that I´m going to buy are 50€. Elder Pitts is also leaving behind a pair of sala shoes. He wore out the left toe from dragging it as he kicks so I will find some way to patch it and see how they work out. Speaking of reapairing shoes... I got my black shoes repaired and it was only 1.50 euros. Baratísimo!!! And as far as I can tell they are going to work out quite fine.
I don´t have much more to say about what´s going on here. I´m doing well and can´t complain about anything. Just kind of waiting for the next few days to get over so we can start working again rather than the focus being on saying goodbye to everybody! Well I hope you all have a great week.
Con Mucho Cariño
Elder Austin Heywood
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