Ethan's Mission to Nicaragua

  Monday, October 29, 2012 4:14 PM To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: Hello from Nicaragua! Hi its your favorite missionary, Thanks for the e-mails, I'm still in the process of writing some letters for you but I have yet to find a place to mail them ... but I think I can do it through the mission office. I haven't received the package yet , but I'm sure its in the office and the elders there are a little behind as they always are in getting mail out , but I should get it here soon. Thanks for thinking about me . I know that I have a lot of people behind me here in Nicaragua even though most of the time its just Elder Lopez walking slow. But really thank you. So this week they celebrate Halloween too, but I'm sure its with a little less candy and more "fireworks". We have a couple of service projects lined up so we'll see how that goes, and hopefully we'll have another baptism here in the near future ... we'll see . So Saturday we finally baptiz...

  Well Hi There! Good afternoon, evening, or morning depending on when you get a chance to read this! I always wanted to write down some of the random things about my mission but I never had time , so I wrote this first. Here are a few of my observations over the course of the last months here: 1. Aparantly the news here announced that all Americans will receive a chip in their wrist with the number 666 engraven on it... don't know what that's about. .. 2. Chocolate really doesn't exist here 3. They eat ketchup with everything, but it's really sweet and tastes more like BBQ sauce 4. They idolize and worship all things from the United States including but not limited to "Nyk" (Nike) , Snickers, and all music popular or not 5 . Snickers are now my favorite thing, mostly because they're the only thing I can find here and they're chocolate (but you don't have to send me any, I do just fine here) 6. Nica's love Tang. And ther...

  Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:30 PM To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: Hello from Nicaragua! Hello, I hope this email finds all of you well. Thanks for your email, its always nice to hear how things are going at home. And thanks for sending a package, I can't wait to get it! I'll try sending some letters or something here in the next couple weeks. Things are going well here in Ticuantepe and I'm still learning a ton. So this week we are for sure going to baptize Moises. We had to wait for a couple of weeks because of the last time he drank, but he's well on his way to being a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. So this Saturday at 4:00 we have his baptismal service planned. Sounds like fall has finally come there at home , the weather here hasn't changed a whole bunch and from what I've heard it really doesn't change a whole lot throughout the year. Supposedely, December is the colder time of the year with April being...

From: Ethan Bever [mailto:ethan.bever@myldsmail.net] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 4:17 PM To: jsbever Subject: Re: How are you doing? Hello! Sounds like things are busy at home and I hope everything is going well for everyone. I pray for you all every day (which I think counts for double because I'm a missionary). Conference really was amazing for me yesterday and Saturday. We had the opportunity to attend both days if we were able to bring an investigator, so I was able to watch all of the sessions (in spanish of coarse). Its not quite the same in Spanish as English, but some of the apostles translated their own talks which was kind of neat, after all I am called to speak Spanish for the next two years. I learned a lot over the last week and especially over the last two days. I have a testimony of divine callings and the love that we can feel as we fulfill our potential here on the earth. It was pretty cool to hear about the age changing now for elders and sisters, I t...