Nut much time

Well!!!! Like my subject says I dont have much time. But I also have some information about one of your favorite Nuts!!!!! Cashews. They are the seed of a fruit called cajuil. (CA wheel) The pronunciation.  Anyway its a fruit that I do not like. But the seed is Awesome!!!! Also Tis week we had a monkey-butt-faced-little-munchkin-muffin-eaters steal our gas tank for the house. So for two days we had no gas to cook things with. It was sad. I cant believe someone would go to that type of trouble. -sigh- what can you do. BUT!!!! More info on my comp. One thing is that he gets a haircut Every week. And I have never been able too tell the difference in the hair. NEVER!!!! Also. Is it bad to wish for your area to be whitewashed. Because that is what i wish. But my time is up. I will let you know next week whats up. Love ya all!!

ELDER GORDON!!!!

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Sorry for the delay

Hey everyone!!!! Sorry for the delay. I know another two weeks passed by!!!!!! Buyt I do have a reason. I was fighting off the hordes of Satan once again from the people of the Dominican Republic under the guise of A MISSONARY FROM THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS!!!!!!! Named Elder Gordon. Oh and many ninjas attacked me also. SO!!! HIYA!!!!

Hws everything with all of you? Here. I am still liuving as is my Companion that in and of itself is a miracle. The past two weeks have been filled with practically the same old thing. Everyone is still living. NO one is dead so everyone here in Gurabo still has a chance to repent and accept the Gospel. So once again still good. I have not had lots of success in terms of Baptisms here. But In other terms I have grown lots here.

The First Presidency Has recently released to the missionaries a new way of teaching. And a new way of utilizing the Preach My Goospel. I am realy excited for that. For us we will not have full use oof it here until April where as I believe the Eglish speaking missions have full use of it soon already. Lucky them. Anyway. I am super excited for that. But my life is still good and as always could use some good prayers. We have some really promising looking investigators but unless I stay jhere another transfer I won see any of them come to fruition. But we will see whats going on. Only one more Pday with my comp.....Is that bad to be counting down? Well Tú sabes.

Love ya all
Elder Gordon

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Super UPDATE!!!

Well This is for the past 2 weeks. So A loooooot of info I have....More or less.
So starting off the transfer.....We had no electricity in our house for four days!!!!! it was horrible!!!! There was something wrong in the main box some box had become loose and wasn´t firm but we called the problem in to the office and they called in an electrician and he fixed it in ten minutes. Then we had electricty once again!!!!! It was awesome!!!!

So as you know I now have a new comp....Wow......In all reality the first week I was the senior comp I was the one who made all the decisions. It was pretty cool. But he rarely talked. At first I believed just because he was new. I was right. He loves to teach from the Bible. I dont know why Dominicans like to teach from th bible so much. I personally prefer the BOM It´s more awesomer.

But my first impression from my first day is that this six weeks are going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG 6 Weeks. So far I have been right. Last night I almost clubbed my companion........Yeah not good  know but he did deserve it. But I didnt.....Woops Didnt mean to put italics on.

You will never guess what I found here!!!!!! in the middle of nowhere I found the best store bought frosting out there!!!!! RAINBOWCHIP FROSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo. It was flipping awsome I was really excitedWhen I was buying it I had to keep looking to make sure it didnt change into something else or dissapear. Right now its on my cake. I am happy. with that.

This morning. We were walking and I saw on a truck "sonrei Jesu Te ama" Which means " Smile Jesus Loves You" It was rteally funny. and awesome.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO My birthday. To be truthful the actual day was pretty bad. The day before was awesome. District Meeting The package from my Mom arrived bearing many awesaome goodies. And snackies. I know Have a nice time snacking. So We had a small party and I opened my moms package and ditributed some of the rice krispes and chcolate oatmeal cookies.....Which reminds me. Mother can you send me those Recipes?  Then afterwards we had our interviews with the president. Which as always were awesome.

Then I went and got some ice cream.

The next day my actually birthday was kinda lame as far as birthday goes I celebrated by myself because my comp is........Well not a very nice Elder. He does his own things. And in the morning he walked past me and kinda mumbled as quietly as he could that i barely heard it feliz cumpleañeo. Wow.....Sad. But. I had fun....by myself......But yeah now it´s Pday and I am still alive and WAYYYYYY out of time love ya guys!!!!! Saty awesome!!!!!!!
CAIO!!!!!
Elder Gordon

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2nd Nephi 31:20

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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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

26 May 2010

HEY EVERONE!!!!!!
Once again another week has come and gone. Crazy how fast they go. Before you know it I will be back and nothing about me will be too special..... Just the "special"things. :)
Anyway. All of you failed at the riddle because I have not received a single answer for that. Not a single one!!!!!!!! I will give you one more week. Then you tell me. It's in my entry two weeks ago. I will answer it next week though. So there.

Ok. So I had this thing happen to me this week. That lets me know that the Lord really does look over his children. Ok So Saturday morning I received a call from the Zone leaders saying I have a talk on the morrow about missionary work. Now if it was in English one day is a ton of time to prepare for me. Now in spanish...Not so much. So....That night I started working opn my talk. Finding quotes and scriptures from my small missionary library. But now I had to put everything I found in a talk in Spanish......JOY..... ;0. Just like that. SO at 11 30 I go to bed with my talk a quarter done...Expecting to finish it in the morning in the two hours I have before church.

So when I got to bed.I wake up about a halff hour later freazing.. SO I turn off my fan....In about another 15 or 20 minutes I was burning hot. So all through the night I was like that. My body started hurtng also. I was groaning and ugh. It was a horrible night. My head was also killing me. The 6 30 alarm went off and I got up. but really to no avail.... my head was killing me I felt ready to throw up my body hurt and everything was just a no go... So I went back to bed or went back to resting. Cause now I knew I was sick. My comp. still had us go to church. So I still had to finish my talk. In church....Sick....With a headache......It was a horrible. I was freaking out cause of my situation. I calmed down and prayed to th lord ffor help. I managed in church to finish the majority of my talk. Then when I got up to talk my senses cleared just enough to think clearly. And I did everything. I gave my talk. In pretty decent spanish. I gave it how I wanted to. I even added more when I was finished with what I had written. I finished my talk went and sat down. And my head was just killing me again. Throughout the rest of church I was practically sleeping. I was so dead. BUt I know the Lord does help when we need it. I am feeling loads better.

Also I burnt my tongue recently so....Yeah you guys know. So many things happening. Anywho. I love ya guys tons!!!! Thanks for catching up and THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!
We actually have a date of marriage and baptism for one of our investigators which is awesome. So. We are still woorking hard. Send mail. Cause you want to be cool. Send packages cause you want to be awesome!!
Thank you to the cool people who have sent mail and the awesome people for the packages....SEND more.

Have a cosmic week!!!!

Elder Gordon

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2nd Nephi 31:20

19 May 2010

Well...... Do you seriously expect something awesome every week??? Man. You people. ARe so Demanding. Its ok I love some of you still anyway the rest I only like. Sorry. But. The only big thing I have to talk about is about Sunsets.

We saw one of the coolest sunsets ever the other day. We decided to climb to the top of this apartment building and watch the sun set. All the way. There were clouds and the sky and the sun. But the sky changed from Yellow to red to orange to yellow to red. The clouds shifted from white to blue to purple to red to orange to yellow back to purple then blue then this bueish white. But it was soooooooo amazing.

We have some good investigators at the moment. We are also searching for more. for the most part we only have these people and none more. As President Lee would put it. We are searching for new cheese.  This area is so big its easy to fins new areas to contact. Just difficult to find people whom are willing to listen.

This transfer is going to be a good transfer though, We have lots of work to do. We are trying to make this transfer go by as fast as the last one. It is so interesting I think if you take The Best Two years and how those Elders act. Thats the same with us here. Its rather funny. Anyway. We are trying to do a lot here. Always working and what not.

Prayers as always are appreciated. The missionaries NEED a lot of help. Only with the help of the Lord could this work move like it does. So always keep a prayer in my direction. I think I need quite a bit of help. Especially in reading the BOM in spanish. That is tough. Anyway. Thanks for tuning in. I would have put pictures on. But like ya know. Serving the Lord is always a lot of work an fun. Stay Awesome people.

Love or Like depending on who you are.
Elder Gordon

PS Sorry Loree I found another Bad computer with no import for the camera. CAIO!!!!

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2nd Nephi 31:20

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