carta 5/23

Jenna,
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!
ok entonces realmente no hice nada para mi cumpleanos...fui a la iglesia..pero este famila esta bien, llegaron a la iglesia entonces los vamos a bautixzar el sabado que viene...estoy muy emocionado para esto...ellos son pilas....realmente ellos accepten todo sin dudas...la unica cosa que ellos no quieron acceptar es acerca de el baile...piensen que la biblia dice que no debemos bailar entoces no lo deberiamos hacer....pero este es la unica cosa....a ver que pasa...yo digo que ellos estan preparados.....solo a ver que pasa este semana....

ayer en la iglesia despues de las reuniones la presidenta de la primaria se acerco a mi y me pidio a quedar unos minutos mas....yo le dije esta bueno....ella salio y llamo a nosotros verdad y entramos al cuarto y ellos empezaron a cantar feliz cumpleanos....y todos me dieron una tarjetita..
estaba calidad.....pero how didjared dislocate his knee what was he doing?
love you too
elder Price

Okay so I didn’t really do anything for my birthday… went to church… but that family are doing good, they came to church so we’re gonna baptize them next Saturday… I’m really excited for that… they’re awesome… they really accept everything without a doubt… the only thing that they don’t want to accept is dancing… they think that the bible says we shouldn’t dance therefore we shouldn’t do it… but that’s the only thing… we’ll see what happens… I say they’re ready… we’ll just have to see what happenes this week…

Yesterday at church after the meetings the primary president came up to me and asked me to stay for a few minutes more… I told her that was fine… she left and called to us and we went into the room and they all started to sing Happy Birthday… and they all gave me a card… pretty cool…

carta 5/16

ok entonces.....mi comedor en este area me ha impactado mucho....la familia sil....ellos son increibles....nos cocinan cada dia almuerzo y cena.....con ellos fue que yo tenia que cambiar la realacion entre ellos y los misioneros....y me ha afectado....no se porque...

hay 2 personas, tienen el mismo nombre de rafael....en diferentes areas pero los 2 me han ayudado a ver que puede pasarcuando alguin esta haciendo lo correcto....contactando encontrtamos a uno y el otro nunca estuve en su area solo en ls pday ensene a el....pero los 2 quiero hablar con ellos despues de mi mision.....saber....

sergio dubon....el era lider misional del barrio Don Justo....legit....nos ayudo en la obra cuando queriamos....miembros asi ayuden al trabajo bastante.....queiro ser un miembro asi que ayude a los misioneros.....vamso a ver....

Elder Price

Okay so the cook in this area has influence me a lot… the Sil family… they are incredible. They cook for us everyday lunch and dinner… it was with them that I had to change the relationship between them and the missionaries… it really affected me…I don’t know why…

There’s two people, with the same name Rafael… in different areas but those two have helped me see what can happen when someone is doing what’s right…while contacting we met one and the other I wasn’t ever in his area so we taught him on pdays… but I wanna talk with those guys after my mission…

Sergio Dubon… he was the mission leader in the Don Justo Ward… legit… he helped us in the work when we needed it… members like that help the work so much… I want to be a member like that that helps the missionaries…we’ll see

carta 5/11

jenna,
i think that the guatemalan people have helped me be more sensitive to how people are in general...they have really opened my eyes on what it means to see what they are doing or how they are and to be able to help them...but at the same time they have helped me realize the importance of studying...i have seen people who have nothing and its all because of what they are doing in their life or better said is what they aren’t doing...they drop out of school and then they want to know why they live like they do...i know that its a lot easier in the states to be more intelligent and just we have more opportunities in our lives..its true....but work is important i don’t know if that is the mission or the guatemalan people...you know what i mean.....im not sure in if that answers your question I’ll put more thought into it and give you a better answer next week...i love you and hope you’re doing good....
elder price

ps so i met a bunch of students from byui today they were on some trip through mexico to guatemala and then to beliz and they stopped at the temple which I just walked out of today in the morning....temple is awesome by the way...so cool....

5/2/11

first of all i most definitely ate that fish......ok so i am sending a picture of a tipical guat thing to do.....its called buy a shirt and have no clue what it means.....this is my ward mission leader and he is absolutley clueless as to what his shirt says so that is funny....in a kind of weird way.....so yea....

ok so here is what i am thinking about skype....so if i understand what you are saying than i wont be able to see you guys if i talk on sype?? is that correct???
ok that works.....so just call me at the time that we already said...which would be 3 30.....i was jsut not understanding wlhy that would be i thought that you caould atalk to how ever many people as you want..

ok momma....so this week i have been super tired......it all started with divisions i think....we staye up lat talking and waht not so it messed up my schedule of seelping and what not...its crazy...im not liking it but i think i am going to be ok and i think i have tyo do more divions this week so we will see waht happens with that and waht not.....

so we have 3 fechas....there names are leticia milton y velveth....so tha should b fun.....we are really worinkg with them to get them all to church and than they will get dunked adn what not they jsut need some more friends they live in a cuarto that a member owns but he is not any help..... he is actuallly more ofa problem that anyhting else...not a fan of that maje....but whatever.....

ok so the other day we were talking to this crazy old lady....she was like im evangelica and i believe in christ y el espiritu santo...we do too lady....but she was like i believe in him as a person and a body.....and he isnt electric i was like whta does that have anything to do with anyithng ....but i learde taht tehree are some crazy people in this world....i was shocked at how loca she is....but wow...good golly.....

not much happened over here....looking forward to talking this weekend and waht not but yea so i guess next week will suck for letters and waht not because we will talk on sunday but hope everythihng is goood for you guys...lvoe you
elder price

4/25/11

so this week....

last monday i had an accident and my toe was really messed up i will try to send a picture of it they are loading right now so we will see what happens....also i took a picture of a fish that i just ate it was weird seeing the head while eating the body...im not a big fan of that...its really weird....so yea we wil see waht is up ......
ok so these are the pics...
toe
fish
baptism....i look like a cheesy salesman.....but it was fun...

so yea i lost my train of thought....we had a sweet activity but i got super burned...it was a multi ward activity we sharea building...so the zls and us were there...it was a semana santa party but wwe had some investigators there and we weree preaparing for the baptismes they had one and we did too so we did tehm together...it was super good...fun day but i looked so red after that day....

ok so i was thinking....i am trying to set up a skype call the presidnet of the chrurch gave permission so i want to do it but i dont know how to skype so you would have to set it all up and let me know what to do and what not...smae time that we planned but i dont know exactly, what do you think.... jsut a thought....

so i have done a lot of divisions with the zls....they need interviews and im the dl so we just need to be on divisions a lot for some reason...it was fun though....i got to know the zlsa lot better than ever before....its good though...

so this week we were teachinga lesson and it was awesome becasue they actually understood everything that we taguht and what not so when they understand everything it is just super sweet...but yea nothing really happened this week....love you
elder price

4/18/11

tell lydia that it doesnt matter what we eat...i havent had food like you guys eat for a while....its all good though...im glad that lydia enjoyed that....i am worried about our realtionship as a family.......we are seperating....it sucks....im not too happy about that at all...like i dont know what im saying....im jsut stating that from where i am it looks like we are goig apart....i think that is why i wrote lydia..i feel that out of all the kids i know her least...this time in her life is super important to decide who she is...i guess that is stupid to say though....i was jsut thining about waht you said and i was reading my blessing again and it says to always keep your family close i dont know if that is my responsibility or waht but i think that if it is i am failing...

ok so this week we put a fecha for baptism....her name is paola and she is the last in the family that lives in that house that needs to be baptised....so we are going to havea baptism on saturday...that will be fun....
we havea couple more investigators that are making steps...this guy marcos and su mujer are making huge progress with his divorce...so that will be happening soon too....
there are others but noone that is progressing at real speedds...

happy birthday old lady....

hey you should update the blog..after the trip i guess.....

ok so i forget to explain the pics i probably shouldnt but oh well..i was on my way to an interview and that was the view of it....but th ohters are hanging on the back of a short bus out the open back door...it was scary i felt like the door want too solid but it was good times in guatemala....haha....


so i love you. hope everything is going good wiht all you
elder price

4/11/11

ok so changes are good....i am still en el paraiso but with a different comp....his name is elder walker from west jordan utah...so i am now the district leader which i dont wnat but whatever..i cant do anytthing to change that....my district is a little frustrating rgiht now i dont want to deal with all this crap that will most likley happen so that is not fun...but everryhing else is good trying to gett oknow wlder walker and stuff...he is a good kid super entusiastic...but we will see what happens now.....yea i had a lot of fun cooking and yesterday i got a picture with the hermano and than his daughter...so that was fun....
but yea nothing really hapapened this week...we are working wiht the members a lot more so wwe wil se what that leads to.....

we found this sweet family this week so that ws aweome...we were talking to a member that has been home from his mission for 2 months...he said hey i remember that i took some people to church before mission that live over by this member like in from of there house but a couple over...so we went to that house and they are sweet...they are super busy so that is going to be a problem right because they are going to have to change there schedules around and stuff to be able to go to church we ll 2 of them are.... but its super awesome to be able to teach them and know that they understand but we will see what happens with that..we also taught this lady who is the family of members she is the only one in the family that is not baptised and the reason is she hasn't stopped drinking coffee....we found that out and went over there to teach the palabra de sabiduria....so we committed her to stop drinking coffee and she said she would pray about it to know tat it was a commandment....so than we go back and she says she doesn't know if it is a commandment....so than we explain it again....and she is now committed to not drink coffee!!!!! i was stoked....so happy, now we are going to pass by later to see what is up and if she is keeping that commandment of God....so i was super excited for that....well that was a really good lesson i thought.....it makes it worth it when they accept the commitments...so yea....the first was William, Hilda, Manuel, and Nancey....the second person was Paola.....that was cool for the week....well i love you and hope that everything is good at home....
elder price

4/3/11

so yea i had a good week not sure what is going to happen with changes as you already know...not till tonight....which is kinda lame so yea but who knows....we think that my comp is leaving so that will probably happen....he has 6 months in thsi area.....

so who is rachel?? and what prom did adam go to the mormon one or the other one??

i know what its like to have your comp sick not for a long time but yea my comp was sick for one day and it was terrible...he was throwing up and had bu so that was not fun for him i was fine just really bored....he is better now not throwing up butstill with bu....

conference was awesome...super good and waht not...i liked those talkes to and the guy thta was kinda confusing but it was good...on being and doing and stuff like that i dont have the quotes like you do all prepared and what not but it was good....so yea, i also liked the talk by l tom perry abotu the sacrament..how it is a time for introspection and changing for the better i liked that...it gives a better focus to the sacrament to know that...when we are changing for the better and that is a time for becoming who the lord wants us to be....i cant think who it was that said it but he said that marriage is not about marrying the right perosn but about being the right person...its on us to be that peroson....im not sure what all the marriage stuff was about but it was good too for future reasons...hopefully in hte very distant future but if i follow the prophets council that cant happen that shouldnt be about it...we shouldnt wait..craziness....

time is ridikulous...i knowthat you know already but tomorrow i hit 20 months...i have no time left...fetch mom...that is insane...but who knows...

ok so the pictures are probably the last you will get of me and elder neilson from california. he is a super funny kid i wish that you guys could get to know him...it would be super awesome..but the pictures are of us cooking our dinner. somtimes we like to give the hermana a break from cooking that is what she does for work and everything else so its just a nice break for her you know waht i mean???well i love you hope everyhing is going good for yall up there...
elder price

3/21/11

ok so pics we had another baptism he is the son of a member who was not baptised at 8 im not sure but it was like baptise me basically...super cool family...me and my comp decided to make a cake the other day during our planning session so i was licking the bowl and stuff....than the comedor said that she would teach us how to make tamales so it was me celebrating that i did it good...i am basically a professional tamale maker now.....

ok so yea the one last week was the one that was afraid of water he was super scared but it was fine as soon as he entered i freaked out a little bit when he first came out of the water i think he panicked and so that was a little like oh fetch what do i do right....but it was super good....this week his dad baptised him and everything so that was a little less stressful just to organize and everything like that....but i was chosen to lead the meeting so i led it and stuff my comp says that i wasnt entusiastic enough i should have been more crazy like i supposedly am i guess i dont think so but im not positive i think im a pretty tranquil person but i was told otherwise by elder neilson, honestly we are having so much fun i love him..in a non gay way....he is super aweome....im not sure what dad says about me changing i thin trhat im the same i feel the same i feel better and truthfully i feel happier but i think that is just because i know waht im doing adn have a legit purpose in my life......

so it sounds like everything went good with adam....he is crazy..do you have pictures of that or waht?? ijsut decided to get onthe blog so i saw videos so i answered taht question.....

ok so i need to turn these papers in to the office and i need to know if you guys are coming down here or not....so please let me know...

ok so this week we were contacting in a place that we just found out was our area so we were over the re on this dirt road and stuff...adn we find this family and they say that they will come to church.....so we pass by to get them on sunday morning and waht happened saturday night??? the kid fell and broke his teeth....so they couldnt come to church...i really hate satan...i do im sorry if that is not good to say but i really hate him....always there to step ain and put something in there so that they cnat or something.....same day that we found thsi family we taught a lesson i felt the spirit so strong...they felt it i know they did but than they make excuses why they we cant pass by agin...so yea i was frustrated...i cant remember what pres monson called him but it was funny and i know waht that is like know....i was like fetch man....it was intersting.....
but overall it was a super good week....so yea let me know what is up and all that...love you
elder price

3/14/11

ok so here are some fotos of the baptism of a huge procession that the catholics had adn of my crazy ward mission leader...i was in the comedor and thsi crazzy little lady walked in so i was like wow she is awesome looking i wanta pictures so i asked jher for one she looks likea troll its awesome....

ok so thsi week i was walking down the road and hear a car...my comp is in front of me....i see the car a nd think of fetch my comp is in the road i look up and make a sound to try to warn him and than he gets hit in fromnt of my eyes...i was like crap man are you ok.......he was on the ground and was like shaking right....it was probably the single most scary moment of my life....i was freaking out and i didnt know what to do they dont prepare you for that kind of crap we called an ambulance well some dude did...than i was like waiting right and the cop that hit my comp just had taken off...so we went to the hospital i calll pres he is super mad at me becuase i let my comp get hit...i was like what could i have done and than......i ant play this out any longer he did get hit but it was just he got clipped by the mirror tht is on the side right and the cop that hit him stopped and i dont think he even was bruised....so yea i hopoe you guys were freaking out pretty good....

so the catholic procession was pretty awesome...they got kinda mad that we were taking pictures but it was just so random its not easter yet theis is what they do during semana santa or holy weekbut yea so its not the time for that.....but yea so this week has been good we are working hard here wiht elder neilson.....so i was doing stuff thsi week to help out the realationship with our comedor it was awkward over there cause the last elder didnt talk and my comp couldnt for most of it and was just like accustomed to go eat and leave now we talk while were eating and stuff.....so its been better not as awkward....

so we get home from p day last week.....and than we remember that in the night we dont have water but we hvae a pila right so my comp has the genius idea to stand in the pila that is in our kitchen and jsut shower there....so we showered naked in our kitchen not together or at the same time but it was just like i was in the other room and we were talking jsut like normal if we were in ohter rooms you know what i mean....so yea interesting story of the mission having to shower like that because we couldnt go to our citas smeeling like we did...well that was my week in a nut shell....love you
elder price

carta 5/2

ok entonces este semana fue bien dificil.....todo se cayo....yo estoy bien no se solo tratando de seguir pero es mas facil cuando todo esta bien con los investigadores pero no se....entonces tenemos este familia...la mama y sus dos hijos...leticia y sus hijos velveth y milton....ellos estan progresand o y tienen fecha bautismal pero es dificil a veces porque ells es madre soltera y todo entonces a veces es dificil a ensenarla....realmente odio estos situaciones pero por lo menos el les esta ayudanod...en mi mision he reconocido porque es imoportante la ley de castidad...antes entendi pero he visto que hace a las personas cuando estan con otros y todo..destrye la familia...me enoja...pero esta bien como dice jacob verdad....
pero ellos no llegaron a la capilla...fuimos a traerles verdady no estaban....pasamos en la tarde y los encontramos...ellos tenian que salir para recoger pisto del papa para los ninos....son pilas solo tieneen unos desafios....todo empiece con la ley de castidad....pero no se estamos enfocando mucho en ellos.....pero si...vamos a hablar este semana...creo qe a las 3 30....enotronces estoy listo y emocionado para hacerlo...hablamos este semana....te quiero
elder Price

So this week was pretty hard… everything fell apart…I’m okay I don’t know, just trying to follow but it’s much easier when everything is good with the investigators but I don’t know… So we have this family… a mom and her two kids Leticia and her sons Velveth and Milton… they’re progressing and they have a baptismal date but it’s hard sometimes because she is a single mom and all so sometimes it’s hard to teach her…Really I hate those situations but at least (he?) is helping them… in my mission I’ve recognized why the law of chastity is important… before I understood but I have seen what it does to people when they have relations with others and all… it destroys the family… it makes me mad… but it’s all good just like Jacob says right?

But they didn’t come to church… we went to bring them and they weren’t there… we went by that afternoon and we ran into them… they(the kids) had to leave to get a ride with the father… they’re cool they just have some challenges… it all begins with the law of chastity…but I don’t know, we’re focusing a lot on them… but ya…we’re gonna talk this week… I think at 3:30… so I’m ready and excited to do that