Elder Collins

Hello Family, friends neighbors and enemies..

I had i very interesting week. So my comp really likes doing exchanges lately and its just so he can party with some of the other missionarys in our zone. We had two last week and i have one tomorrow. Also he planned the last one on my last day with him. Not going to lie it kind of hurt my feelings. So this week i was with two new missionarys. It was kind of wierd taking charge for once. So one appointment i had this week with another elder (menacho) I wasnt looking foward to. The guy is super hard to teach and has a million questions. I dont think i have ever been so mad during my whole mission! We start teaching this guy and he is just throwing off every possible question but the answers to them are all in different lessons so i kept saying just let us do lesson one and over time we can answer all of them. So the new missionary doesnt know quite yet how to teach well so he just went off and i eventually just stopped him and was like take it easy. So this guy keeps telling me he knows the bible and that he only believes in the bible. He wouldnt except any verses from the Book of Mormon. So we were doing the lesson just with the bible. I already knew that this wasnt going to work out because of the feeling i got when he said he didnt want to read the Book of Mormon. The president of the CCM said if an investigator doesnt want to read the Book of Mormon dont waste your time they are not ready to recieve the gospel. Im trying my best to do this lesson and he just randomly throws out the most ignorant questions and comments. One really ticked me off. He said he doesnt attend our church because the members listen to music other than church music. He said a lot of it is bad language and lyrics. I said that was true and that the gospel is perfect not the members. He said its our gospel so its not perfect. After finally sharing the first vision he says "i dont believe that happened" and i said well thats our invitation to you to just read these verses in the Book of Mormon and pray and we promise you that you can no its true. He said that he wouldnt read but that he wanted his questions answered. Freaking idiot. He then just started bashing on the Book of Mormon and that just set me off. I was ticked. So i told him thanks for your time and that we cant teach you if you dont want to read the Book of Mormon. I started to leave and the new missionary with me panicked and just started whipping off scriptures to try to save the lesson which was already impossible. The investigator looked and me and said he knew that i knew the Book of Mormon wasnt true and thats why i was trying to leave. I wanted to kill him, i was so mad and all i wanted to do is beat the crap out of this ignorant man. One funny thing about the lesson is that he kept saying he knew the bible, so i gave him a scripture to read. After he read it he said this was true because it was out of the bible. Well he didnt know the bible because i gave him my Book of Mormon that had a cover on it so he didnt even know. I never realized what Joseph Smith meant by saying "the Book of Mormon is the Keystone to our religion" until my mission. If a person will just read, ponder and ask God if the Book is true then thats all they need. If the Book of Mormom is true then Joseph Smith was a prophet, this church is true and it is the church of Jesus Christ who visited the Americas and established his church on this earth again!! Well I am baptizing that boy on Sat. who is my number one fan and on Sunday we are going to baptize that girl who has the baby and lives with her boy friends parents. Today I just want to relax, its Carnival so the last two nights there have been huge parties outside our house with the loudest music in the world and just a ton of drunk people so i havent been able to sleep!  Tell Myles to sacrifice 80 bucks for the limo, next year he doesnt have to but junior year he's got to go all out. Think more of the girl then yourself, unless your not going to get a kiss then you should just walk her to prom! Tell him to find out the color of her dress as soon as he can and I will try to send him a cool watch to match it ! Well I have to go, but I Love you guys and hope you have a great week!

 

The one picture is of me on top of a mountain after a service project and the other one is of the party going on outside my house.

 

Elder Crump

Familia!!

 

Well this week has been a busy one!!  It seriously flew by!!  Its so crazy just yesterday i hit my 4 month mark!! What the!!!  I swear that I just got out here!! Haha  So how are all of you?  Your letters, emails, and packages are amazing!! I am always so happy to hear that you are all doing good!!  So this week was amazing!!  We have 3 people with dates for baptism!!  But its not any of our investigators we have been teaching!  They are all new!  The first one is Kelly.  She is a reference from the ward.  She is amazing!  She has attended church 3 times before we started teaching her, but she didnt really understand, so thats where we come in!  Our first lesson was awesome! We taught her about the gospel of Jesus Christ, and she loved it!  She wanted to whatever she needed to do.  So right there we commited her to baptism.  She said yes!!  And at first when we commited her for March 10 she was a little nervous, and asked if we could move it back.  It was amazing the spirit was so strong.  I was able to say you know not everyone is fully ready to get baptized.  No one is perfect, and no one knows all the doctrine.  But what you can do is pray to our Heavenly Father for an answer.  We can sit here all day, and tell you all these things, but when it comes down to it, you need to pray and ask God for yourself.  That is the only way you can know if it, is all true.  It was intense, but so spiritual. She then said ok.  Yes lets do it.  I´ll pray tonight.  So we commited her to pray, and to read the pamphlet on the The Restoration for our next lesson.  So met with her 2 days later, and one of the most amzing things had happened.  She followed through on her commitments, and Prayed to our Heavenly Father.  She said without a doubt I KNOW THIS CHURCH IS TRUE!  She said she couldnt explain how wonderful of a feeling she recieved, and she is so ready and cant wait for March 10!  I was so amazed!  It was incredible.  She has gained such a powerful testimony, in such a short period.  And not only did she read about the restoration, but she took notes, and looked up scriptures.  She pretty much knew the whole lesson, probably better than i know it!  Haha she loved the first lesson, and the Book of Mormon!  One of the greatest things i love to look for, is their eyes when we give them the book for the first time.  They light up, and for just a split second you see them get a little watery, because they know what they are holding in their hands, is powerful, it is true, and it is directly from God.  She is the perfect investigator!!  Thank you Barrio Independencia!!

So Our next one with a date, is Gipsi!  She is the daughter in the Marcos family!  (The family we had the flour fight with)  She was a little confused at first, but when we taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and how it was restored, she loved it!!  Hopefully she recives an answer like Kelly!  But she is preparing for March 10 as well!! 

Our Final is really new!  So this past thursday we were on cambios again, and E. Castro was with me in our area.  We were just doing some contacting, and we met this kid, Juan.  He is 17 years old and is kind of a rebel, but he wants to be better.  He is an Evangelico, Sorry i dont know what the name is in english.  But anyway we taught one lesson with him, and he loved it!  The spirit was so strong, and right away we were promted to ask him.  He really wants be baptized, but learn more!!  The only problem is his parents are being very difficult. Everytime we call him, his dad answers and starts yelling at us, and says to leave his son at peace.  Ugh its frustrating!  He really wants to learn, but his family doesnt let him!  Hopefully their hearts will be softened.  I am praying for him more than ever!!  It really has been such an amzing week!!  Our other investigators are progressing, but very slowly.  Only 2 came to church this past week, so we really need to focus on attending church!

So more about whats going on!  So my comp is awesome, him being new has really given me the oppourtunity to step up and be the leader.  I now do all the paperwork for the investigators, and the paperwork for the ward.  Its been difficult to learn, one its all in spanish and i have to write in spanish, and B no one taught me so i had to kind of figure it out.  But its all good!  Dont worry mom everything is all good!  Im feeling better!!  It was just something i ate.  Haha

Oh yeah so just this past saturday we were contacting, and we really werent having any luck!!  But then we came to this one house and the lady was like yeah lets talk!  Where are you from!  You speak english?! Let me go get my cousin!!  Ahh snakes!!  haha but it was good we had there other guy cousin there as well when we taught them the lesson!!  It turned out really good and they want to learn more! 

So to answer some questions!

Creamy peanut butter please!!

Thank you for the addresses!!

I havent gotten anything yet, but ill keep my eye out!

Not even the christmas card!

Im so happy korbs doing good!!

Hey guys i really love you so so much!!  I am so grateful for all of you!!  I learn more and more everyday!! I have been so blessed and i truly love being out here!!  Pray for our investigators, they need all the help they can get!!

I love you so much!  You all are always in my prayers!!  Good luck Bren with the interview!  Im praying for you bud!!

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

 

Elder Crump

Hey guys!!  How is everyone doing!  Im so happy to hear that Mom had an excellent birthday!!  Dad you are so good to her!!  Im jealous, Massage, movie, shopping with lots of presentsssss, jazz and sushi!!  Ha ha what could be better!!  haha  So last week sorry i couldnt send pictures, my computer froze!!!  I was so mad!!  It cut my time by like 15 minutes!!! Ahh so hopefully it will work this week!!  So this past week has been awesome!!  Elder Olguin and i have really been working well together!!  Its been a little stressful, because he gets a little distracted, and doesnt really talk to people. So since they know me they talk talk talk, and i can only understand about 70 percent of what they are actually saying!!  Haha its getting better though!!  Haha i dont know why he wont talk, he actually speaks and understands spanish!!  Haha ill work with him!!  No but i love the kid!  I know he is my trainer, but sometimes i feel like its the other way around!!  Its definatly been a great learning expirence, taking on more responsiblity!  I learn more and more everyday, and now it has come to the point that i dont have fear to talk to people.  I may not know the all the words, the correct grammer, or even how to pronouce it right, but that doesnt matter, as long as the spirit is there our investigators will understand! 

So funny story.  So yesterday we were walking back from our lunch, and every sunday carnival is crazy.  So we were walking down this one road filled with tons of people, and all off a sudden everything goes quiet.  We stop and look around, and everyone is staring at us.  Then one kid yells, GRINGOS!!!!  And seriously about 50 kids, teens, and even adults start chasing us with buckets of water, and water balloons!!!  It was so funny!! They chased us for about 3 blocks!!  Haha it was so intense!!  They best part was how they though elder olguin was white as well!!

So our investigators, are being difficult!  They are progressing on the teachings, but like i said before they arent coming to church!!!  And this week, we had a lot of cancelations so we really didnt teach many lessons this week which is a little frustrating!!  But on the plus side it gave us more time to contact, and recieve new contacts.  So about isabel.  We found out some interesting info on her, and its gonna be a while before she can get baptised.  Stuff with chastity and other things.  They didnt get married, because i guess they actually arent together.  They dont sleep in the same bed, but they live together.  Its confusing but we need to know more information before we can set dates!!!

Maritza and nelson dont have a date set. Maritza went out of town so she didnt attend church, and nelson hasent accepted a date, but he has attended church 3 times!  He loves church!!  So hopefully tomorrow we will have a date for both of them!!  So they date we are really striving for is march 10.  Our whole zone has baptisms set for that day, and we are doing one gigantic baptism service, and its called Noche de Blanco.  If we have enough baptisms our leaders want to take a picture and send it into the liahonna and have them do a story on it!!  Hopefully we will have baptisms set! 

So this weeked was a little bit hard.  On Friday i felt a little sick, and it really was hard to get up and work.  I could of slept in but, i know that by being obedient i would be blessed, and heavenly father would help me.  It was a difficult day, but i made it through!!

So to wrap it up, the other day we met with the contrellas family. Eduardo and Regina.  They have been investigators for 2 years.  It was good because we were able to find out why they havent been baptized yet.  They have doubts, and really havent been taught a lot.  2 YEARS!!  I looked through their progress sheet, and they hadly have been taught anything!! So we really are going to work with them and get them so start making commitments!  They cant be investigators forever!!  Thats what has been difficult about being in this area.  I look through the area book and i see a lot of investigators, but the problem is they have kind of been forgotton.  I look at the dates, and some say last lesson was 9 months ago!!  What happened? Even just the ones that havent been taught in 2 months are sad!!  I read what the elders have said about them, ¨This family is amazing!¨ ¨They have such powerful testimonies!¨ i cant wait for whats next with them!¨ So many great things were said, and a lot of lessons were taught, and then one day they just stop!  I understand that people move, or other things happen, but i want to find out for sure!!  It doesnt matter if they were my contact, or a contact from 2 years ago, we are all special, and are Gods children, and deserve the oppourtuniy to learn of these things, and come unto christ.  I wont let these people be forgotton.  I know that Heavenly Father will bless us to find them, as well as new contacts. I truly am loving it here.  Its amazing that even in one of the hardest weekends, because i was sick, i still had the spirit with me and i was able to realize and find these people in the book!  I truly do love it here!!

Im so glad Mom and Kenzie had great birthdays, im sad i missed them! 

Also i am soooooo jealous of dads birthday present i have always wanted to go to those two things!!! 

I love you so much!  THank you for everything!!!  Stay safe, and know you are always in my prayers!!

Also look out for my letter, there is some good stuff in there!! 

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

 This is the lady who my Uncle Kent baptized from Nick's last email.

Elder Collins

Family,

Hmm..lets see this week. Well we went to the beach last Saturday and got lunch and took pictures and let me tell you. Lima south is where its at! Its exactly like California down there! i honestly thought i was in new port the whole time. Well i had my first dream in Spanish. It wasn't much i just was at some house and i was talking to people then i said the opening prayer so it was kind of cool. So I don't know whats going on but we just found out the Garcia family have been separated this whole time and pretend like they are together when we come visit. Kind of bummer. But they still want to be able to get baptized so we will see what happens. We have this other family with a mom and her daughter and son who were hard core catholic and they just liked arguing with us and we were going to tell them the next lesson that if they don't want to keep our commitments and pray then we cant teach them anymore. Well they were at church this last Saturday and the mom said she prayed and had the most amazing dream of her life and she wants to be baptized! crazy! Speaking of church yesterday, during the second hour the bishopric came in to our room and said you guys know your speaking in sacrament meeting today right? Are you kidding me!? Well long story short i panicked, prayed and gave a really good talk. Im sure you could tell i was nervous by my voice but the talk itself was good. Well we have a baptism this Sunday. She is 19 and she has a baby and her boyfriend is a member, but just recently decided he doesn't want to marry her and her mom kind of kicked her out so she is living with her boyfriends parents who are really supportive and help her out. Its incredibly hot here right now! I sunburned my neck I guess I better start using sunscreen! We are playing soccer today on a real field! I am excited One of our investigators Eric works there and is letting us in, he is cool I hope we end up baptizing him! Oh I promise I will send my card this week! Sorry I just keep forgetting! Max thanks for the letter! Anna thanks for the skittles! Myles thanks for finally asking that girl,( the picture of me giving a thumbs up is for you!) Sam whats up baby! Do anything cool lately? I'm glad you liked the coins! Just know that I love you guys and hope you have a great week! Love Reg

Elder Collins

Family and others who decide to read this magical blog ive heard about!

Que tal? First of all Happy 21 years mom and dad! So this week..honestly i cant remember a whole lot from this week. I know we are like so close with 8 people to getting baptized we just have to teach a few more lessons and give a interview or two. So this week Elder Araya straight up told me he is trunky. Ive have just been trying to push along and get him out of the house and make sure we dont go back to our house until dinner or else he falls asleep super fast. I just told him ¨look your going home after this transfer and im staying here so im going to have to be the one who explains why we didnt get baptisms¨. I told him i want at least 6 this month. It rained here for like the first time in like two years or something and it really was just a little sprinkle but everyone here was like freaking out and talking about it! Half of our zone is different now and all the new kids are just waiting for there visas so this isnt even there mission. We played soccer with all of our zone and some other members this week. I am the only white one and I had 6 goals, ya, im a pretty big deal. So i have been doing most of the lessons myself lately i dont know if he is doing that to make me better or because he doesnt want to or what. I talked to a funny drunk guy yesterday, he just randomly pulled out a dry razor and started shaving his inch long beard. He only did about half of it and his voice kept getting really high! haha i was laughing so hard. I said thanks to a member for lunch and the drunk guy told me no problem at all. it was his pleasure! haha crazy guy. So some fun stuff about here, in the news paper they show pictures of dead people from car accidents, the little kids love saying the F word to me, hobos like to sit in during sacrament meeting and im still freaked out when a women pulls out her boob and breast feeds a 3 year old during our lessons! Thanks for the corn nuts and beef jerkey loved them I was really craving that kind of stuff! Elder Hiu ( I cant spell his name) wants to send you a letter, he sent Araya a text saying that he needed to get our address he got your package and he was so excited! I hope these packages are not costing you too much, I do love getting them I tell people its your addiction!!! I got the Truscotts Package I just sent them a letter off, in fact I am wearing the shorts right now, Thanks Guys!!!  So you havent got my package yet? Well I have sent you two now so hopefully one of them gets there. No I dont need another disk I will just buy one here. I am going to send you my other one after today because we are going to the beach to play some soccor and maybe bowling so I thought that I could get some good pictures there. Well I hope you all have a good week!  Happy Aniversary and Valentines , Love you sooo much and miss you!  Reg

Elder Crump

Family!! how are you? I cannot believe its already p day time has flown by!!! So i got a new companion! His name is elder Olgiun, and he is from chile!! He has been out for a year, and he is awesome!!! He looks like hes white though!! Everyone thinks he is from the US! haha! So Tuesday was our cambios, and i had to go to the offices with Elder Blas, and then wait for my new comp. At this point i knew nothing about him, only that he is coming from being the the jungle for 7 months! So the assistant paired me up with another elder to wait with because the flight from the jungle wont get in until later that afternoon. So i went with Elder Herrnadez, and guess what he is in Reggies Zone!! I wanted so bad to see him, but his house is really far away!! So i didnt get to see him, but we talked about him, and he says he is doing good, and i told him to give him a big hug for me!! SO here is the crazy story!!! So when i was with elder herrnandez, we went to his pensionistas house for breakfast. When we walked in we just sat down, and started talking with one of the kids, and then his pensionista came in and she said hola, and looked at my name tag, and sreamed, and grabbed her heart!! I was like what the! She then asked if my dad had served a mission, and i said yes he served in uraguay, she said An Elder Crump Baptized me when i was 14 years old 31 years ago!! I was like in Uraguay? She said no in Columbia. She is orginally from Columbia, and she said his name was Sherman Kent Crump!! I was like thats my uncle!! She started freaking out!!! She was so happy!! She said that because of him her life has been so blessed for being a member of the church. Her whole family is now members, all very active, she is in the primary presidecy. How AWESOME is that!! Who would of thought that the person who baptized her, his nephew 31 years later would be in the mission where she lived!!! It was the coolest thing ever!! We spent the next hour talking about Uncle Kent, and she said that she has been trying to find him for years, but she could never find im anywhere!!! She went on about how unclel kent was so dreamy, and his blue eyes were to die for!! haha SHe is so happy to hear he is doing good, and has a family of his own!! Way to go Uncle Kent!! SHe really want to talk to you so here is here info: Facebook: Consuelo Narvaez Baptized in Barranquilla Columbia Nov. 10, 1981 4:30pm Your comp was Elder Lee, and it was Rama el Cevillar. Isnt that crazy!! it was an awesome day!! So after that Elder Olgiun arrived around 4 and its been going good ever since!! Its a little difficult because i kind of have to be the senior comp because he really doesnt know anyone still, but its getting better!! Its been a great learning expirence because in the future i will be the senior comp, and now i will know what to do!! So our investigators are going great!! They are progressing with the lessons, and learning about the doctrine, but their attendence in church is not good!!! We really just need to focus on getting them to church!! We still have our one baptism set, that is if she still is getting married this weekend!! Pray for her, Hermana Isabel. Also we are commiting 2 more for the end of this month the 25th Nelson, and Maritza. I truly am loving it here. This week i have really been blessed, i was so nervous i wasnt gonna remember where people lived or where, our lunch appointment was, but through a lot of praying, we found our way everyday, and we havent gotten lost!!! Oh yeah Happy Late Birthday Kenzie!! I hope your birthday was the best!! And Happy BIrthday MOM!! I love you so so much! I am sending a letter for you today so hopefully you will get it on you birthday!!! I hope you have the greatest birthday EVER!! You mean so much to me! As well as all of you! Thank you for your prayers, your love, and your support!! I am so grateful to have all of you in my life!! Oh so yesterday i had to give a talk in sacrament!! AHH scary, but i actually did pretty good, elder olgiun helped me with my grammer!!! Haha I love you guys so much!! I cant believe korb, and bron are leaving that is so crazy!!!! Im so glad landon did good in his talk!!! I miss you guys everyday, but im loving it so much being out here!!! I dont know if ill be able to do the walmart thing mom, sorry i just
dont have too much internet time, but ill try next week!!
 All my Love,
 ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

Elder Crump

Hola familia y amigos!!

 

How are all of you??  So this past week has been crazy!!  But first off ill answer some questions: I got the valentines package, and the one with the faris bueler t shirt, haha i loved them!!!  The pictures were awesome!!!  Thank you so much!!!  Elder Cieza got his visa, sorry i forgot to tell you!  I am actually NOT being transfered!! Only Elder Blas is, which means i have to be the one to know the area, the people, and where everyone lives!!!  Im so nervous!!  I have only been here for a month!!  But I know this is for a reason, even if it is right in the middle of my training!!  So im getting a new comp tomorrow from the Jungle, i dont know him yet, but im excited!!  As nervous as i am, it will be a great expirience, and help me become a better missionary!!  Heavenly Father will bless me, i have nothing to worry about!!  So back to this week!  So since elder blas knew he was leaving he has been really trying to get me to feel comfortable to be the leader!!  Which was really frustrating!!  He pretended all week that he was a new missionary!!  So in lessons, planning, and contacting he hardly said anything!!  Im not gonna lie, i was really mad a him sometimes, but whenever i felt that way, i just said a prayer, and just remember to always love your companions no matter what!!  But as difficult as it was some days, it really was a great training expirience!  So we commited 5 people to baptism this week!!  2 of them actually have dates, and the other 3 were working on that!!  Hermana Maritza, and Hermano Miguel, both are planned to be baptized on Feb. 25, that is if they come to church this next week!  And Pedro, Tomas, and Nelson all want to be baptized but want to learn a little bit more!!  But this week we´ll have dates for them!!  Also we got like 5 more investigators.  Magaly, and Paolina (Sisters) Hermana Milagros, and Gipsi, and Joshua (Siblings)  It was a good week!!  So we this week we visited the marco family!  Hermana carmen, has like 4 daughters, and they all have kids.  They havent been to church in 9 years!!  They are so funny, all of the ladies have such diva personalities.  Haha so we had family home evning with them, and after we played games.  We played the flour game, and right away i lost, so i had to stick my face in the flour to get the Skittle out, haha they loved it!  So when i was in the bathroom cleaning up, i heard that Hermana Rosa lost next so i ran out to see her have to do it, and all of a sudden she throws flour in elder blas´s face!!  So we all got into this huge flour fight!!  It was so funny!!  We were covered in flour!!  It was the best Noche de Hogar!!  Haha and to top it all off, guess who came to church the next day?  The Marco family!!!  They have been inactive for 9 years, and all it took was a family home evening, a flour fight, and of course the spirit to inspire them to come back to church!!  Heavenly Father is truely blessing us out here!!  Oh yeah also so on our way to church we were going to pick up Hermano Nelson to come with us,and when we turned the corner to his house he was outside waiting for us!!  He was all dressed in church clothes, hair combed, had a tie on, and holding his B of M!!  I have never seen such an amazing sight!!  A new investigator, actually excited to attend church!!!  THis week has been awesome!!  Also its carnival this month so its a constant water fight with all of peru.  Great.  Im tall, im a missionary, and im white...I am going to be the main target this month!!  Haha yesterday i got hit with a waterballoon!!  Its already begun!!  haha but it felt good, its soooo hot here!!

Mom im sorry i didnt tell you i was sick, in the ccm  i didnt want you to worry, and dont worry i got all the medication from the ccm presidente´s wife, and i got better!!  I promise i wont keep secrets from you again!!  I havent seen reg latley just at our training meetings.  But we are emailing eachother!!  I truly am loving it here!!  Im so happy the GIANTS won, haha i hope all of you are doing good!  And are safe!!!  Your always in my prayers, and i miss you all!!  Im sad to hear about Hudson, i hope hes ok!!  I love all of you so much thank you for everything!!! Have a wonderful week!!! 

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

 

Elder Collins

Family! Wow that seemed like the longest week of my life! I wont lie my comp is extremely trunky! at the beginning of the week i took advantage of it and wasnt getting up right when my alarm went off, not really studying and just let was lazy for the first two days. I felt like crap! Never again. Its hard because i know when i only have 6 weeks left im going to be probably the same way. But i decided to go elder Calhoon on his butt and go to work. there was one moment during the week were i almost just gave up on the day because of my stomach was so bad and just wanted to sleep. I remembered we are happier doing Gods will rather than our own so even though i wasnt too excited about it i got my comp and we went to this guys house we met the other day and he ended up being sooo cool and he can speak english because he worked on a cruise and he wants to be baptized and change his life. Right after we walked out of his house some guys chased us down and said his brother wants to be baptized. Then later we got a call from the office who got info from a lady who just walked in and said i want to be a member!! what the freak!! are you kidding me!! Elder Araya said he´s never had anything happen to him like this before and to think i almost just gave up on the day! We have a potential of 10 baptisms this month!! The Garcia family is awesome and they are working to get married this week. I decided they remind me of GMA and GPA chase. they just have some of the same characteristics as them! maybe thats why i love teaching them. well this week i still have explosive diarreah and im not liking it at all! It is soo  hot here right now! Today is transfers (my first one!) there was a rumor going around i was getting transfered to the Jungle but im staying here til araya leaves but some of the guys in my zone are going to the jungle today. The only other white kid with me is getting transferred to the jungle so we are all going to this plaza thing and there is a Burger King there so we are going to eat all the fast food we can get! I wish so bad that they had Coke Slurpees, wow I could use one! Tell sam I am so proud of him and I wish so bad that I could of been there Sat. I keep thinking about him all day Sat. So the Picture I have for you is me on my roof it kind of shows a little bit of the city I am in. I live in an area called Payet. Did you guys get my package? Thanks for the valentines packages I love all the stuff!   Question? are you and dad planning on picking me up? I wont lie it would be awesome but at the same time there isnt really lot to do here, but maybe when I get to the Jungle I will change my mind, I would love to show you the people but its really expensive!  Well I am off to eat all the fast food I can find today! Have a great week! Tell everyone I love them so much! Reg