Ethan's Mission to Nicaragua

 Hi there! It was great to hear from all of you throughout the week and I enjoy hearing all of the updates on life outside the MTC. Everything's going well here and it's been another fantastic week. Just a note, it is easier for me to read and look through your e-mails and letters when they're given to me as a "DearElder". I can get those every day right away and they seem to make my day a little more interesting. So feel free to send those whenever you would like and/or send one on Thursday so I can get it and reply on Friday. Not a big deal, but this way we're all on the same page. Speaking of, I'm still keeping up on the Book of Mormon reading and the chart Emily sent is helpful.   But as far as news here goes... I saw Thomas the other day between the missionary fields and the Temple. He just yelled at me so it wasn't to distracting to my experience here :) Grandma and Grandpa Hansen sent me cupcakes from that cupcake place late last week,...

  From: Ethan Bever [mailto:ethan.bever@myldsmail.net] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 9:46 AM To: jsbever@molalla.net Subject: One week down! Well hello there! I'm already a week in and everything's going as well as I could have hoped. I would have been more clear in my last e-mail , but I was a little rushed for time ifl remember right. So, today (Friday) is P-day and it should be this way for the next 8-9 weeks. I'm now in my regular schedule and things are a little more predictable now. To answer your questions ... Audrey: my companion (Elder Willis) will be serving in Panama. He's excited to go and he's doing really well with the language. The food here hasn't been so great for the last couple of days because they only gave us half of the cafeteria so that they could feed the Mission Presidents and their wives. But it's okay, it's pretty much like eating at the Cannon Center at School. I did get an orange sticker and Elder Willis calls them "dork d...

From: Ethan Bever [mailto:ethan.bever@myldsmail.net]  Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:45 AM  To: jsbever@molalla.net  Subject: Hello from the MTC!  Hola mi familial So I'm three days in, and it already feels like a week. We're super busy and spend a ton of time studying and preparing to teach in Spanish. It's great to be here and it's amazing how much I am remembering and learning already. My companion's name is Elder Willis, he's from Tuscon Arizona. He's a good guy and I have a lot to learn from him. He likes drama, sarcasim, and to work hard studying the language. We actually get along really well. We're in an intermediate language district and have a great teacher. We speak a TON of spanish almost all of the time and I'm beginning to see how much I have to learn before I can speak my mind.  I realize that I completely forgot to give you my MTC address while I was home, so you can now send the mountain of mail that you have prepared fo...