Ethan's Mission to Nicaragua

  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 4:14 PM To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: HEY! To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: HEY! Hi family! It was so good to hear from everyone and know that everything is going well, and please don´t worry about the emails not making it through, I knew that was what happened. So after spending about a half hour reading through all the emails, I hope I have time to reply to them. First off, I am so proud of BOTH of my little (not so little now) sisters who can run really fast, apply for and get into leadership, uphold my high shandards for accademic excelence and who have also enherrited some of my good looks. Audrey: the secret is love (to get into leadership and succeed in anything that we are going to do in live). This week I worked with a missionary that has more time than I do and is struggling to find motivation and not be so concerned with the things that are happening around him. After working with him for a day, he learned that what he really ...

  Sent: Monday , April 22 , 2013 4 : 06 PM To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: Hi from Managua! So ... I had transfers! I thought I was just going to stay i n my old area but last Tuesday I was told otherwise . I really liked Granada and the people there. Now I'm back in Managua, just more in the city than where I was before . I'm in a suburb part where its not so dangerous and the church i s a little more established . I have a great companion : Elder Gomez (also from Guatemala ... there ' s a bunch of them here). He has about 6 months in his mission and all of this time has been spent here in this area . He's a really hard worker and we · re going to get along really well. I'm a district leader here and have a district of 1 O missionaries in total. That means that 1 • m normally up pretty late calling everyone and getting their numbers for the day. 1 ·m really excited to be here and am sure that we · re going to have success here like I did i n my last area . S...

 Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:07 PM To: Jim And Sandy Bever Subject: Hello! So today we found a cyber that has air conditioning so that's always a good thing. Well I hope everyone had a good week and that everything is going well. I had a pretty good week, no baptisms but we went all over Nicaragua. Elder Paz and I got a call that we were needed to go to another zone in the mission to work with the missionaries there for a couple of days this week, so we went and spent the day in Juigalpa on Thursday. It was fun to get to know other elders and see the sights a little bit. We had a pretty long 6 hour bus ride to get there and when we got there we found out that Juigalpa is built on a bunch of hills and its really steep in places, consequently the missionaries there stay fairly fit (might not be such a bad place for me). But the drive there reminded me a little of eastern oregon because it was so long and everything was so dry. Then today we went to a volcano as a zone that's r...