3/13

Sorry I don't know the stories behind all of these. The bottom one I think is the little boy that had asked Seth to baptize him and then the picture above is of his family.

carta 3/14

ok aqui todo que pasa en el mundo es mas grande....mi companero es de california como te dija pero el vive unos 5 miles de la playa alla....recibi una llamada por un otro elder que me dijo que su comedor le dijo algo de un tsunami....pues me dijo que las olas de este tsunami fueron unos 70 metros de altura mi companero estaba bien preocupado todo el dia y en realidad creo que nada realmente paso a california....entonces tuvimos un poco de miedo por sufamilia pero sin razon....

ok ayer bautizamos a un nino....
se llama denilson montoya....es un nino de una familia miembro pero que estaban inactivos en la iglesia....lo encontramos reactivamos a la familia y bautizamos a el nino...no se por que pero el nino me escogio a bautizarlo...fue una experiencia calidad...pues solo es que yo hablo mas cuando lo ensenamos por que hablo mejor que mi companero..entonces creo que por eso...pero realmente todo esta bien conmigo...nada ha pasado tampoco...

pues yo estoy tratando a cambiar la situacion con nuestro comedor los misioneros anteriores solo llegaban se sentaron y comieron y se fueron...yo siento que debemos hablar un poco mas con ellos yo aprendi a hacer platanos fritos no es dificil pero estoy tratnado poco a poco y siento que hay una diferencia....mi companero dice que si porque ahora ellas nos hablan y conocemos a ellas un poco mas...sus nombres, mi companero ha estado comiendo almuerzo y cena cada dia por 5 meses sin saber sus nombres....entonces yo creo que es mejor ahora...no se...yo siento que es importante a mostrar la gente que los queremos y que nos importa de ellos....no se....te quiero

elder price

Okay here everything in the world is so much bigger… my companion is from California like I told you, but he lives like 5 miles away from the ocean… and I got a call from an elder that told me that his comedor told him about the tsunami… so he told me that the waves from the tsunami were like 70 meters high and my companion was really worried all day, but really I don’t think anything happened to California… so we were a bit scared for his family, but we were wrong.

Okay so yesterday we baptized a kid… his name is denilson Montoya… he’s a kid from a member family but they’ve been inactive in the church… we found him and reactivated the family and baptized the kid. I don’t know why but he chose me to baptized him… it was a pretty cool experience. Well it’s just that I talk more when we teach him because I speak better than my companion. So I think it’s because of that… but honestly everything is going good for me… nothing has really happened either.

So I am trying to change the situation we have with our comedor. The missionaries before us would just arrive, sit, eat, and leave… and I feel like we should talk a little more with them. I learned to make fried bananas, it’s not hard but I’m trying little by little and I can feel a difference. My companion agrees because now they talk to us and we know them a bit more… their names, my companion has been eating lunch and dinner every day for 5 months without knowing their names… so I think it’s better now. I don’t know.. . I feel it’s important to show the people that we love them and that they are important to us… I don’ t know… love ya Elder Price

3/7/11

ok so his name is definintly not moorhead...its moorhouse....he is like my brohter i dont know if you remember when we were companions in don justo?? he is awesome i talk to him like 4 timesa week....he is always on me about school and stuff like that, he wants me to take my life more seriously and plan out what i want to do....

baggy papers dont say anything like that about what time i arrive in phoenix i think that is why i have to fill them out so that they can than get the tickets and stuff like that to be able to send me home and figure all that out....im not positive but that is what i got out of it it only says the day that i go home not the time or even flight i will get htat later more close to the time i leave....im surprised you dodnt mention anything about the fact that i haqve 19 months in mission now...that was saturday....it was super good this comp is awesome he hits 8 months to be here today so that is fun i really am having a blast with this kid it is super fun....he makes it awesome...he is from cali and its just hilarious to be wiht him.....

so the other day we went to a cita and when we arrived they didnt have power they had some problems and couldnt pay so they got there power cut but it is tough sometimes to se that and not be able to help them out wiht anything....its a single mom that we reactivated and than are going to baptise the son this saturday the only problem that that wouldnt go through is because he is afraid of water so that will be interesting to see waht happpens wiht that....but we taught them the other day by candle which was intersting and a little hard to read scriptures adn stuff like that but it doesnt matter the spirit is still able to be present when there isnt power....i have really seen that when we are trying to do what is right is when the most trilas come....its intersting to see that .....i read a short story the other day about that....there was a man who say a city and saw that in the city was a devil but there was only one and he says look how strong the city is and than his friend says no that is how wicked it is because there is only one to make all do evil than he sees an old man who is surrounded by 7 strong demons and says look how wicked that man is he is wiht the demons and his friend corrects him agian and says no that is because he is so strong that it takes 7 to try to tempt him....when we are doing what is right satan is there trying even harder to make us fail.....i have really seen that in my mission wiht the people and in my own life.....

ok so that is my little insight for the week.....ill explain the pics.....ok so we were contacting and saw that this house had acaged raccoon so we asked to take a picture wiht it....
i was helping the comedor cook last night and my comp pulls oout my camera and takes a picture...
we had a conference wiht elder clark the area president and i got a picture wiht him his wife and my companion....
than we were contactingand i wanted to takea pic of the house s that we contact a lot, they are made of tin....interesting......

it was a super good week over here in guatemala.....love you
elder price

2/28/11 To David

ok so this week i had changes....i am in a new area with a new comp and that is fun....he is actaully called elder neilson..from california...good guy relativly new in the mission...only like 7 months...good guy strong testimony...we are having fun and working it was an interesting week wiht all the stuff that went down wiht being sick and than changes saying goodbye to investigators and stuff like tht.....so we were trying to set u and activity its like a free paca i kow that you have no idea of whta a paca is but its like a garage sale except they bring clothes from the states its like goodwill or soemting like that but on ascale miniature....its weird but what we were going to do in my last area i set it up so i dont know what is going to happen is that they are going to ask lcothes form members i think that everyone has stuf that they dont wnatand if you are in an area that is less money htey all need stuff and there are always people who have some money i have noticed that the members usually are part of the wealthy side normally...but we get a bunch of clothes from the members put up flyers and than basically have classes that they show up at the church we teach them and take their info than tehy are able to take some stuff from the paca...i have talked to some other elders who have found some super sick people doing that....but yea....we will see what is going to happen...i was talking to my comp and he said that they were teaching a kid and the only reason that he wasnt baptised was becasue he is afraid of water so we went to talk to him and set a fecha bautismal...i think that he will go through with it his family are members menos active so they are starting to come to church they came a couple weeks of ago i guess....they want to come back....so that should be good....and i left another baptism in my last area...so that would have been cool....but yea pops i love you...
elder price

2/28/11

ok so i will tell you a story....i got hom last monday i was feeling super bad after playing basketball i know i went to play sports after feeling bad in the morning but its the only time that i can play sports so i went to do it....i decide that i dont want to eat so we go home i was planning on just showereing and than going to sleep i was in the shower and than i freaked out.. my heart rate jsut shot up i felt like it was trying to come out of my chest and it was like everything was speeding up it was super crazy im not sure what happened it was like i was running and i couldnt catch my breath...not sure...so i called the nurse and than was like hey this this and this are happeing....she was like come in the the office so i got dressed and went in to the office she was like wow your burning up so she took my temp and it was 103.6 than my blood pressure and like my heart rate was double what it should be so she was like what else is wrong wiht you....my eyes hurt my throoat hurts my whole body really hurts....than i was like im not sure what is wrong but its been like this since saturday...she was like well fetch elder....she didnt actually say that....but she called the doctor and was like go get him trested for dengue...i was like what the fetch is that and why do i have to get tested for it....she was like well you have all the syptoms but one ...she asked if i have a rash i said that i know of no...so i ended up not getting tested i just went homw and slept for an hour than wnet to my citas but that was my experience than the next day it was a lot better im not sure what was up wiht that all i know is that i received a bleesing at p day by some elders and than teh next day it started to get a lot better....im fine now my throat still hurts a little but im fine....

ok so i am in a new area with a new companion the area is el paraiso....its zone 7 of mixco...i love it so far...i have a gringo comp named elder neilson from orange county...he is super legit i think that this is going to be an awesome change but he has some time in the area so i think that we will only be together this change that i will most likly go back to being wiht latins....but yea so im doing good.. love you

got my papers that say i go home the 11 of august...i need that info and stuff and a question answered....you all arent planning on coming down here or are you? just have to answer that on the paper.... but yea so that is something that i need to know and if i remember right i have to have the number for bishop and stake presiden.......lvoe you
elder price

2/21/11

OK so i am doing good....we find out about changes tonight...so what is up with you talking to goldsberrys mom...how did you get an email from her??? that is kinda weird....yea i had a companion from mesa arizona....his name is elder egan....he was one of my favorite companions...i dont know but why are you thinking about papers and all that stuff...i have talked to people in my group and some have already got there papers but i have not so I'm not sure what is happening with those....its definitely the 11 that we leave but i don't know times or anything like that i will need the info for the stake president its pres lewis right?? and the bishop which i cant remember the name on that one.....whats his name again? so i will need there names and addresses i think that is it.....

im sick but that is normal i think that i have been sick more in this area than my whole mission put together...super bad headache since saturday and my temperature is all mest up but ist all good....i havenet been sleeping good since saturday either i woke up at 4 30 this morning freezing i lay there till 5 15 adn than took a hot shower i was so cold...the oposite was sunday morning i woke up at 3 30 adn was dying of heat.....so who knows what is happening...yea...the pics i forgot to explaimn...district meeting but it was after we went back to get folletos out of the house of one of the elders....i found a mountain dew which is super hard to find its almost impossible...not as good as dr pepper....and the other was when jpres came to our house for interviews this week....he wastn to happy but whatever....i have no pics wiht pres so i asked to take it...


OK so i decided to read the new testament as a goal i set right and in Matthew it talks about how the apostles didn't really know what the mission of the savior is, how they were astonished when he walked on the water and they fell down and worshiped him and said truly this is the Christ.....ok so i was reading in english but also in spanish if that makes sense and i was comparinfg the verse in matt 8; 2 and 3 and in htis scriipture it is talking about how Christ healed a leper and he says in english if thou wilt or to me that means if you will...in spanish it says si tu quieres...or if you want its not a matter of if he could or not it was a matter of if he wanted to.....the leper knew that christ could heal him but he didnt know if he would....that faith is awesome to know that he was able to.....i never really thought of it that way before....so yea that was interesting to me......so yea i love you and hope that everything is going good in the valley of the sun....
elder price

Response to David

I had asked him about his current area, his companion and about what he would do differently as a young man (deacon, teacher, priest) if he had a "do over".

ok pop first of all....yea im in el paraiso or if its easier you can translate it to english paradise....my companions name is elder neilson, i know its harder to remember but its always good to feel special....

ok so what i would have done diferently. ask God if the church is true at an earlier age. you can't really do anyitng until you have that testimony...also read the scriptures more...they are awesome. there is so much goodness in there. i have come to really love reading in my mission...why did i waste so much time before....i will tell you someting that i don't really want to admit...today i woke up and said it's p-day i will sleep in...so i went back to sleep i know it was stupid to do but i laughed when i woke up and couldnt go back to sleep i felt like i was in bed forever i looked at the clock and it was 7:05....i felt bad after but i thought it was funny that i now can't sleep in....i wasted a lot of time sleeping before. how much more productive could i have been....time is a whole other thing now....so i wish that i had woken up earlier and made habits of reading the scriptures everyday...i dont know what else....love you pop
elder price

quote of the week
if we want to get wet, we have to get in the water. if we want to recieve revelation, we must go where revelation will fall. we must be where we should be and be doing what we should be doing...
jose santiago castillo