Ethan's Mission to Nicaragua

  So it sounds like your week went pretty well or at least that´s what the pictures seem to say. I´m sorry that I don´t have any good photos to send you for this week, but next week I should be able to send you some. I don`t have on me my driver´s license number right now but I`ll have to email it next week. I hope that that`s okay. But I hope everything turns out well for Mom in her work. This week we spent a couple of days in divisions with the other missionaries in the zone and it is still taking me a while to adjust to being alone on the bus between the districts here. We just have to plan it really well so that one of us doesn`t get there waiting for the other while he gets there. We did have our multi mission conference on Friday though. We got on the bus really early Friday Morning and made our way out to Managua where we waited with the North mission in the chapel for the Elder Ochoa his wife, Elder Soares (the President of the Quorum of the Seventy) and his wife and the ...

  Que tal familia bever, enserio quiero agradecer por su interes en mi y por su amabilidad al enviar un paquete para mi fue algo muy especial  y gracias en serio saben elder bever fue un gran compañero para mi estuvimos juntos 4 y medio meses pero fue un tiempo muy bueno pase por muchas cosas cuando estaba con el hace poco el me conto que les habia estado contando a ustedes sobre lo que a mi me estaba pasando y gracias por preocuparce por mi sepan que elder bever es uno de mis mejores compañero y lo que ams admire de el fue que siempre fue atento y se preocupo por mi ademas de hacer muy bien la obra del señor el me ayudo mucho y bueno pues gracias por su apoyo y tambien me conto que habian dejado mi nombre en el templo muchas gracias por eso no les conosco en persona pero les aprecio gracias y tambiene stoy para ayudarles y bueno les admiro fue un gran detalle en serio muchas gracias,    elder kevin velasquez

 Thanks for keeping me posted on what´s going on there at home, it sounds like things are going well and aren´t too out of the ordinary. So everything´s just about normal here in my area with Elder Tadiello and Elder Hernandez. Today we just went and bought food at the store and are writing now so its pretty boring I suppose, but the next Preparation Day will have to be better. I got a call from Elder Velasquez and he said that he received the package that you sent. He was very grateful and I think he´ll be sending an email your way so you´ll just have to translate it. We have some really special investigators right now and we´re excited to be teaching them but it was hard yesterday because no one came to church. I love them a whole lot and sometimes I´m not sure how to feel giving everything for someone that I just met and who has a posibility of not getting baptized. I suppose that in the end its just faith that we have to have that the people that we teach will make it in th...

  Its good to hear from you all and it sounds like things went pretty well during the week. I had a really good week too it was just really busy. First of all, I got your second package! It was funny because they were both sent on the same date (Nov. 20), but one got here in the first part of December and the other now a month later. Thank you for all of the Christmas Candy, it was a little old but I lovingly ate it anyway :) I also got the Gunter´s Christmas Card. Tell them thank you for me and that I was very grateful for getting it. I hope they are doing well. So this week we made our crazy trip out to Bluefields! It was really interesting and fun to be in a place so different. The motor boat ride was a little sketchy but it sure made the trip more interesting. I never want to ride another bus again... but that´s the way it is here after our 4 hour bus ride out to the river we went up. Bluefields is full of narrow streets/sidewalks with the majority of those who live there hav...

 Hi Dad! I haven´t got a lot more time to write, but I wanted to let you know I got your email. I think everything else I was going to write is in the other email. I hope you have a great week, and yes I´m holding up very well. Love Elder Bever   On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Jim Bever < jsbever@molalla.net > wrote: Buenos Dias Ethan, I had an opportunity on Saturday to accompany 3 Spanish speaking Elders Saturday who needed a ride to a baptism in Hillsboro.  It was a long drive Saturday evening and the baptism was an hour late due to the late arrival of the baptismal candidate.  The service was held by the Spanish Ward in Hillsboro.  I was amazed at how well I was able to comprehend and speak where needed.  The mission president and his wife were also in attendance - they sure are good folks.  Notwithstanding the late evening I sure enjoyed it all.  I look forward to being more involved where possible.  I think I/we can do...

  That´s too bad that Thomas already headed back to school, but it sounds like you all had a pretty great vacation. Emily shouldn´t worry too much about BYU because we all know that she´ll be going there in the end, but the Utah State visit should be good too. I hope Audrey has a nice time running, just so you know when I get back I think I´m going to be a running finatic to be able go get back into shape. Going vegitarian is a little over the top, but I´m definently going to have to do something about my Nica-diet. I hope Mom´s work does well and that she´s not too stressed out over it. Well this last week went by really fast because Elder Tadiello and I have been working reallk hard. We really want to baptize and baptize a lot of people. President Russell set some standards of excellence for the mission and we´ve been keeping right up there with them. I´ve learned a lot about hard work as a missionary. Something that President always says is that he has never ever worked, until...