More pictures

This is the back of my Name tag!!!!! It rocks and all of you are jealous!!!!

 number 2 this is the Ninja poses on the beach

This kid is named jesus Peña he left on his mission for Santiago Chile and My comp Elder Marte

This is just a glimpse of how everyone loves my body pillow.

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LONG TIME!!!!!

Wow.....I have not updated this thing in AGES!!!!! Let me tell you I do have excuses. Many of them. Such as Demons and Ninjas attacking San Fransansisco. A giant came and was playing with the cars like toys. and clifford the big red dog came to chase off the giant after I called him for help.

So you know......ok most of you dont but when you are in a completely foreign place and you are surrounded by people who speak a foreign language when you here your own language it attracts you in a second. But mostly now. I just ask them to stop speaking English in my mind. My native tongue has become something precious to me. and when I hear people speaking it I like to hear it correctly. And these people all thjink they can speak English but they can´t. Usually you can tell in three or four words if they can speak english well or not. There are many who know the language really well. There are two types of spanish here. Pure dominican or you have the Bronx spanish. Which is Spanish with a heavy new york accent. But I am coming to love these people more and more. Sometimes Its a little hard. But I really enjoy it here.

So this past month we had the President of the Area Elder Viñas of the 70 come to the stake. He gave the stake a giant Botche which is a giant reprimand. Simply this stake is more or less in Apostasy and they need to fix it. But!!! Us Elders are doing our best to bring new and old souls back and into the church. So there souls can be nourished by the pleasing word of God. 

As I was in an Intercambio this transfer We were contacting and we met this guy who turned out to be this crazy catholic. Apparently not to long ago the other Elders had contacted him about a month ago. And the guy got super extremely upset and then started talking to us about how we dont have the right to tell a person his baptism was not correct and all that jazz. Then after that we asked him if we could close with a prayer and he told us no. Went into his house and kept talking to himself. I was like.....wooooow. But thats how life goes.

About 2 weeks ago we went to Nagua. Which is about an ohur away on the bus. To play go play basketball then to go cook a bar b que on the beach. Let me tell you I was once again reminded by my poor basketballness that that sport is not for me. then we went to the "beach" wow....... It was...decntly ok. If that. We all enjoyed it. It was really hot and the sun was brutal and almost all of us Americans were burned.  But we had the best time that we could.

Just recently I finished the Book Of Mormon in Spanish. WOW. I never thought I would read another boook in another language. Wow. I would like to testify to you all that I KNOW without a SINGLE doubt that the Book of Mormon are scriptures from God. That the Prophet Joseph Smith is the prophet that translated that book and restored the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I love serving in the Lords Work. And being an Instrument. I pray to become more powerful a tool in his hands. I love you all. Stay strong and stay awesome. I will continue updating next week.

Con Cariña
Elder Gordon

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Pictures!!!!!!

This was with Elder Verzello it was a tiring morning.

Horabeous Corpus 6 month tie burn. No mom it wasnt one of mine and yes mom he did give it to me. :)

A Gorgeous Gurabo Sunset

WOOT POPCORN!!!!!!!!!!! BUT I found an even better way then the oven!!!!

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SAN FRANSISCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone!!!!! I am back!!!! -Hoorabeus Corpus- Right now I am in my new area the of San Fransisco. NO I am not lying. The mission of santiago also has San Fransisco within its area. Its really cool so far. Well. I am just glad I am in a new area with a new Companion. His name is Elder Marte. To describe him Elders say Elder Marte you know the one with No chin. I had no clue. But now now I understand. Apparently when he entered the mission he was really big or to be straightforward. FAT. Thats his words. But he works out everyday. And he doesnt eat a lot. So. Yeah. He is pretty cool. Really friendly. I love the guy. We have Companionship study. and everything. We do it all. Its really good.

Like I said I am loving San fransisco.  We even have beaches as part of the zone. I am not near one. But there are beaches in the Zone. The church is extremly close to our apartment. We are right in front of the church just about. It takes about one minute leaving our apartment to walk to the church.

Right now the area is a little hard just because we dont have a lot of stuff happening in the church or the area. We are trying to find and a lot of people dont want to listen to our message. We try contacting and people are never home or leave 10 minutes before we get there and all that Jazz. Its difficult just cause we end up contacting most of the day which gets us nowhere. Which is sad. BUT!!!! This transfer will be awesome!!!!!! It already is! We are going to work a lot more on finding FAMILIES. And Priesthood members. We are going to do a reversal at church. We are going to re activate members and baptize many more. Thats my goal for us.

Right now though I am in a rare Trio. Our companions are the DLS in this zone and there are only three districts in the Zone. They are going over new material that we have for teaching and finding people and bringing them into the True gospel. So they are in Santiago for two or three days. So it will be interesting...... Well it has been interesting They might return tonight or maybe not till tommorrow sometime. soooooo......Yeah. I caught myself a Tiger this past week though. It was really difficult. Especially because there is practically no wildlife here in the DR. But Right now I am training him to Clean the house. Lately the normal wild dogs and cats in our area have been deacreasing as well. I am still trying to figure that one out. But its been pretty good.  Thank you for all your prayers. Stay awesome and read the word of God and the modern scriptures which you should all receive monthly. LOves allya!!!!!!

Elder Handsome
AKA
Elder Gordon

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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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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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