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You can send snail mail: Elder Aaron Daniel Howard, Mision Guatemala Ciudad Norte, Apartado Numero 951 A, Guatemala, Guatemala C.A. OR www.dearelder.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hates me, Never put my banger on safety

(...) These three dots are called ellipses (commonly mistaken for two dots or four)... so this week wasn´t exactly as ¨up beat¨ as the last week, unfortunately. I don't feel like I´m doing anything (especially 'cause everyone is watching the world cup). That's is so cool Peter and Laura got a dog (jealous). I am getting your letters and pictures; just send them to my gmail 'cause it sends it to myldsmail as well as my gmail (when you send it to my gmail). I´m really glad to see Adam is wearing the best Nike shorts I ever gave them. Nothing is happening... I´m eating with my favorite family tonight... my bishop's wife washes our clothes. I´m tired of so many things, but I´m fine and healthy.
Have a great week!
AIR

Pictures from June 2010 Zone Conference


Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Drivin´in my Peugeot ay ay twenty inch rims w/da chromed out play ay aytes

Sup? So that's funny Adam. haha Just watch out for the "good" photo shoot offers if you really want to make some money. hahaha, Those are some cool pictures, btw. Thanks. How are you feeling Mom? Are you doing alright? Are you eating healthy? I´m just wondering, 'cause this lady in my ward that was my investigator DIED yesterday, and her son is the only member of the church, and he´s serving his mission in Honduras so .. it got me thinking, wow, what if you died? That would be just terrible. So you already heard that we did service and it was GREAT. Zone conference was good... oh, my interview with President Torrez was good.. I told him I want to learn Q'eqchi' ... so we'll see what happens ya ..'so what your telling me... is that you are interested in learning a third language" so we'll see. There are five different languages in this mission. Three weeks until I'll see. So, did I tell you that our mission vehicle was stolen? hahaha A brand new Toyota Helix (like a Mexican Tundra), but it was a cool truck and it was stolen. jajaja The only other interesting thing that happened since I last wrote was it was my comp's birthday. We ate pizza for lunch and played Uno with my district, and then we ate at a member's house and had some killer milhojas (million layer cake). Good. k I'm mailing a letter home pretty soon. k love your favorite son Aaron

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Helping Hands for victims of Hurricane in Guatemala

You can be my Cinderella

Hey, whats up? All the pictures worked out great (that you emailed me), and I got your letter. Gracias por desanímarme vos no, but the sd card works! So this week was an enormous waste of time 'cause we had zone conference this week (snore), but there was a hilarious doctor that came and talked to us and told us that all animals come from hell. My mission president told us that President Falabella was complaining about missionaries having too ugly of ties, so my mission president gave him permission to cut them off of missionaries if he sees them. (Too bad I´ll only see this man once in a blue moon.) We did service in zone 9 the other day. We just broke down a ton of boxes and loaded them with toilet paper, food, tampons, water, etc... for all the dying people in Quetzaltanango. Fun. Hey I FOUND WENDY´S and I ate the most American thing ever - frosty and fries with a spicy Baconator - there´s some sick vandalism in the central mission but everyone says its the worst mission in Guat. Um, it's raining a lot.. What's new? I really want to go to Polo Chik. Tomorrow I have an interview with Papa T. so we´ll see what he says. Um, my amazing family that I was going to baptize (in two weeks) MOVED!!! my family of ten!!! I have nobody to baptize now. Oh, p day was moved to today 'cause of all the really unproductive things we´ve been doing this week. It´s my primo's birthday tomorrow. That was a nice picture by the way Adam! You can email me as many pictures as you want 'cause they just show up at the bottom of the email and I don't have to open them. For real it doesn't waste that much time. I´m fine, the volcano didn´t burn me too bad. k lov aaron

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Get you in the Georgia Dome on the Fifty Yard Line

A VOLCANO ERUPTED AND IT RAINED VOLCANIC ASH/SAND FOR HOURS!!! It was the craziest thing, and the streets and cars were all covered in it. It's the closest thing to snow that I can get I guess, but it was INSANE. PEOPLE DIED!!!!! They closed all the churches yesterday 'cause a hurricane was going to hit Guatemala!!! There also was ACID RAIN, and my arms kind of burned the night that it happened. It destroyed one of my favorite white shirts. All the schools are closed this week. There was some really insane rain the other day and we were walking in a river. The streets were rivers! It was ridiculous. We baptized this little kid last Saturday (even with the tropical rainstorm), but almost nobody came. The kid we baptized was super funny though. I was going over the baptismal questions, and I asked him about the word of wisdom and what things we can't use. He said this,¨Um.. tea, coffee, cigars, gallo (beer)..... and.... cocaine.¨ Haha! It was pretty funny. Anyways, maybe I´ll stop praying for snow because I get volcanic ash when I do, and people will die. I´m fine by the way... as far as I can tell, but I´m sure I´ve contracted some type of cancer from this filthy air I´ve been breathing. A reporter died, who was filming the volcano, 'cause a volcanic rock hit him in the head, and his camera man got burned (almost to death). Then the flooding killed like 13 people in the zone next to ours. A drain pipe broke and there was a 30 metro (like 130 foot) sink hole, and some houses fell into it. One of the chapels was like twenty feet away from it. Roads are being destroyed. Oh, and they turned off all the water because the pipes would have got clogged with volcanic ash, so we didn´t have water for like five days. We were using rain water to flush our toilet. I also went on a division with this kid who´s in my group, and I was in his area. We were contacting, and I talked to these two ladies that were just standing outside of their house. I asked them how they were, and they told me they were sad 'cause their neighbor just DIED. We told them it would be o.k., 'cause God has a plan for us and we can live with our families again, or whatever. Anyways, we kept walking and we saw this lady crying. There was a taxi in front of her house taking people to the hospital. We talked to her and we told her who we were. We asked her about what had happened, and I told her that we have a message that will help her and her family. She told us, ¨You can help us? How are we going to pay for the ambulance, and the funeral? She has four kids she left behind! How are we going to be able to afford this?!¨ It started to rain, and this woman clearly was more concerned about the loss of money more than the loss of her sister, so I told her we would just come back another day to share our message. But it started to rain hard, so she told us to come in her house. We went into the worst house ever, full of twelve people (all crying), two chickens, four dogs, and a duck. Anyways the lady told everyone that we could help them, and we taught the plan of salvation. It was pretty much the worst circumstances ever, and they probably didn't hear one word. I really had an interesting week, and I´m fine along with everyone else.. that didn't die. K, have a GREAT week! Lemi know how Colorado iz, k? love airn

Volcanic Eruption and Tropical Storm