23 June 2010

I am sooooooooooooooooo tired. Last night us four elders stayed up till midnight. the other three getting things ready me......watching writing in jpournals. and the other stuff. Also talking a whole bunch. Everyone left. Except me. I am now in Gurabo all alone with my new companion. Elder Perez.

So there is now tons of wok to do here in Gurabo.  Lots of work to do. I believe I will have to be pushing my comp. It should be fine.....Hopefully. There is a lot to do. When Elder Verzello learned that he was leaving he kinda died. But the monday afternoon after we learned transfer we went to a funeral for a kid in our ward. He had died the night before of a heart attack at about 10 pm. Its so crazy how fast they put that together. They didnt embalm the body at all. Just pút it in the coffin then sealed it up in the cemetary they have.

In these next six weeks I turn twenty. I bet it wont be that much different. Because nothing will have changed. I will still have the same comp and everything. In the same area. doing the same thing. LOTs and Lots of working. In this transfer that happened only 4 companionships out of the 94 stayed the same. It will be just as crazy next transfer because even more missionaries are going home then this group.

The biggest thing that I hope for this transfer is for my spanish to improve lots. I need it to improve lots. And I also hope to survive. This will be a very interesting transfer for me. wish me luck. I will Need it. Anyway. Have a fun time everyone be safe and do only the slightly deadly things like rock climbing parachuting scuba diving. You know High Adventure. Love ya all lots. BYE!!!

Elder Gordon
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2nd Nephi 31:20

Another Awesome update

Wow. I am really dissapointed in you family! I HAVE 6 MONTHS TODAY and not a single congratulations. I have survived .25 of my mission. Still having my same comp....Same area....same district!!! Not for six months for 4.5 months. But still. Oh and all of us living in the same house. We have had some fun times though. I will be sad to see us go. But I am excited for something new.

So I had a really awesome thing happen this week. Yeah thats right I RECEIVED MY BODY PILLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whew. Thanks goes to my dad who did everything to get it to me. Thanks goes to Mom for being the person encouraging him to do it. Because as we all know parents work together. So everything thats done always has two parts to it.

Actually there are some other really cool things that have happened this week. Like yesterday I and my companion received fresh hot milk. We were tracting and we encountered this old lady. We were just giving part of the first lesson and she being a nice old lady just starts going off and talking. Then she asks if we want milk. We say sure but ask if we can wait till the end of the lesson she said ok. She randomly got up and checked on the milk. Then. when she came back we finished. With a prayer then she gave us this hot milk. But it was the best milk I have tasted here. It was delicious.

Sometimes it just goes to show that the mission isnt bout numbers. In the past two days we have already matched our numbers for last week. Sometimes things just work better for you. It is strange how that works. Carlos whom Elder ver4zello and I met cannot be baptized this week because he didnt make it to church. Which is really sad for us. Becaus we really wanted to see him be baptized. But its up to him to choose what he wants to do. So hopefully he will choose everything it takes to get baptized.

Its close for everything to come to a close here. Elder Verzello and I know that they are closing our area. Reducing it from 6 missionaries to 4. So. we are trying to make everything in order for when the other missionaries start doing the entire Gurabo again. Pretty much thats this past week. We have also been given rides just random rides. Which is nice because our area is huge and takesa lot of walking. I know the lord watches out over us. Anyway. Love ya guys!!!! Just remember 6 months today!!!!

Love,
Elder Gordon
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2nd Nephi 31:20

09 June 2010

Well this is week 5 of this transfer. I have one more P'day with my comp and then Boom, Se va! So. Yeah. This week we have been working just as hard. Trying to get people to listen to us. trying to find all that we need.

This morning My district went and played Basketball with a few other districts of the zone. I can attest when score is keeped it just spells bad news. Because everyone gets upset and bad feelings.
I also rolled my ankle when playing this morning. This was before tensions i jumped up to try to block a shot and I came down and landed on the elders foot. so i threw off my landing and my ankle rolled. So....Yeah.
Another cool thing is the east ZONE in santiago got jerseys. Black and Blue,. With Santiago East symbol on the front. and on mine MIKEY 13 its sweet.

This week we found another American. He was born here grew up in New Jersey. Moved here not to long ago. And now he already wants to go back. But Before he does Elder Verzello and I are trying to re'activate him. He is a pretty cool guy.

This week we are trying our best to work together and work hard. It will work. I am really excited about my Body pillow that my dad sent to me that I should be receiving within the next few days or next week. But soon. I WILL HAVE IT!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

We still have not gotten our May copies of the Lioahonna which has all the conference talks. I am excited to receive that. That last conference was one of the best! The mission flippin rocks!!!! Its so muc awesomeness. I have learned and am learning so much. I am trying to develop myself into a better leader a better person. I am trying to mix both seriousness and goofy and stuff to make a really fun awesome leader guy whom the mission can use. Even if I never become a DL or ZL or anything like that I can still be an example in the mission.

So just trying to do my best to be a good missionary. Trying to learn everything I can. I wont be coming back until my two years is up. Around the 22nd of December of Next year. Many of you should still be awesome. Especially if you take my advice to STAY AWESOME! Thanks for catching up with me. HAVE FUN and Dont die.

Elder Gordon

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2nd Nephi 31:20

(I also posted some pictures below. Don't forget to scroll down and take a look.)

Zone Conference Pics

You just gotta love cake

A whole buncha goofs at Zone Conference.

02 June 2010

Whew!!! So much to do and so few people who will listen. First of all I want to tell you about one of the scariest experiences and most fun at the same time so far on my mission. Well. Ok. (Celeste you will laugh at this) So my comp and I decided to trust each other and cut each others hair. The other American in the house Elder Bertlshofer has an electric razor that we borrowed. I can just picture both celeste and Ann sighing and saying "oh no" right now. I bet I am right. And I can picture other people just start laughing. Anyway. So we trusted each other on our haircuts. because we didn't want to pay 100 pesos to get our haircut. Let me tell you right now.....Yeah it was a good idea. Both of our haircuts are really good. We both enjoy them and we saved 100 pesos. I will send pics if this comp will accept my camera.

These people love to give me put downs then compliments. They always tell me my spanish is horrible...Then they tell me I am learning really fast. I will be happy when they know I have only been speaking for a year or 9 months. Or a small amount of time. and they will think I am from A spanish place. Thats what I am working towards.

Ok. So we also have one of our investigators. She accepts the Book of mormon. her husband is  a member they are getting married in 2 weeks. But anyway. We were teaching her stuff. The last of the first lesson. and we are going along and my comp throws in a bible parable. OH WOW.....She gets up and starts all getting all crazy excited at that. It was really funny. She was just so excited. These people and their Bible. It was so entertaining. She jumped up out of her seat. She was just that excited about it. So it's all good. Anyway. Yeah those are my stories. Keep praying for us. We need all the help we can get. Love ya all. BYE!!!!

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2nd Nephi 31:20