You all sound so great! Love
hearing from my awesome family each week! Happy to hear that the
football team beat Bountiful, hope they keep playing strong. Hope you
all had a great Halloween! Here, we didn't do anything... in fact, I kinda
forgot it was Halloween. How boring am I? But it was cool to see
the pictures of the cookies and the pumpkins! The weather in Apaneca has
made me feel right at home at this time of year, I'm loving the cold!
Thanks for sending that package mom.
So excited for you all to head to South Dakota. I hope i'ts not too cold
and there are lots of birds. Hey Savannah, thank you so much for the
email! I bet the boys are huge now, they look like it in the pictures! I
loved the story about Hunter. Love you guys!!
SO it is now friday, its
been crazy this week. We had to take the bus ride down to Ahuachapan
Wednesday night because we had to sleep in the Zone Leaders house to be
able to wake up and get on our way to the temple by 530am the next
morning. That was pretty fun. The temple trip was awesome! Gosh I sure
love that place. Mom I was thinking of you the whole time! Did you go
on Thursday too? I hope so! We got stuck in a crazy rain storm later
that day, I'll send some pictures to show you. The streets literally
were rivers. I gave Elder Onofre my poncho to use cuz he didnt have
anything, and I had my scriptures and stuff in plastic bags so they
didnt get wet. Haha it was crazy. We found this lady this week named M.J. She is way cool and way nice. Her mom and her younger
brother were baptized about 2 years ago but she wasn't, and now her
brother is in the mission so she has a lot of influence from him. Its
like L from Atiquizaya, but a woman. She has 3 kids and 2 are
baptized, but inactive. She is the perfect investigator and says that
she just doesn't know which church to join because there are so many.
We
taught her about the Restoration and she said she would pray about it,
so were hoping things go good for her! I also found out this week that C____, the guy I was teaching in Atiquizaya got baptized on Sunday! I
was so excited to hear that, he was so prepared and ready for the
gospel. Wish I could have been there! (and elder azabache is awesome!
he
is from Peru, he isn{t my comp but we work in the same area). Haha!
That
was from Elder Azabache, practicing his english.
SO saturday
and Sunday have been some crazy days here in Apaneca. They had some
party going on saturday that had music blasting until 3am. But I still
slept like a rock. It has also been very windy lately, and has brought
the cold. I never thought I would feel the cold on my mission, but
here it is. The wind is so crazy here, and they say it just gets worse
and colder until February. I'm excited! We realized today that our
investigators aren't progressing as how we would like them to. We are
trying hard to find new people to teach, but its been kinda hard. Not
many people want to listen to you here. But I know that there are people
that are ready to accept this gospel here and we are going to find them!
I learned, again, this week that the thing that really matters and that
will give you success is your attitude. Have a positive attitude and
things just work out. So that's what we are going to work on this week.
I love you all so much! I'll talk more next week!
Elder Thorpe
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