I Got Me Some Bathin' Apes

I am in Sacsuha' right now, and it is so great. We have a house that's really good, 'cause the bathroom works and there's almost always water (oh, there's always power in this house too). We also have a microwave, and we're getting a blender next week. I took elder Goodwin's spot, and now I'm sleeping in his bed every night and eating all his food he couldn't pack. My church is sweet. It's the Stake Center, so it's really nice and has air conditioning. (It's that one that you saw a picture of me standing in front of with the construction workers... and Mom, just because they're brown doesn't mean they're construction workers). So my companion is Elder Gonzalez, and he's a... nice kid. I like him just fine. He's from Nicaragua. He's been in Polochic for almost nine months and he cannot speak a lick of q'eqchi. I teach everything. He's DL here. I think I'll be in this area for 4 1/2 to 6 months, so I'll be learning a lot here. Conference was great! I liked the Saturday sessions better. Especially the talk that English General Authority gave. In my notes it says : wear shoes. That was in priesthood I think, so sorry if you have no idea what I'm talking about. That's cool Adam went to priesthood w/out his date, but with his date group. Only in Utah, right. All the missionaries slept over at our house 'cause everyone lives unreasonably far away. There were like a trillion people making food and destroying my house. Seriously destroyed. I cleaned from 4 30 am this morning to 8 00. My new thing is waking up early though. My new thing is waking up at 5 30 am every morning so I can study an extra hour of q'eqchi. I have to do it, or I'm not going to be able to do anything. My comp knows nothing. He has a 50 word vocabulary. Love the kid, but 9 months COME ON!!! That's crazy Sharon Neville is getting married. I played with her when I was 3. All these people are getting married no me llega esta casaca. That's really cool you're taking an institute class. I really loved my Preparation for Eternal Marriage class, probably just 'cause Dr Marcas Martines is the man. I'm happy though. My new area is going to be awesome! The members are still pretty crazy and apostate, but it's WAY better than St. Domingo. Now I have to use all the q'eqchi I don't know, and do and say everything and its crazy. Anyways nekexinra k k k
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Admittedly, I'll probably take it Subliminally

What am I doing? GOING! Yeah, I got a change. I'm out of that apostasy. There will no longer be missionaries there 'cause of how bad things are. This may or may not be the best coming change of my life. Right now I don't know anything 'cause they do changes on Wednesday now, so I'm going to go back to my area tonight and pack, give my area and my comp. a big five-fingered hand, and leave forever. Today I packed one of my suitcases and hopped in the back of a truck, ate breakfast (beans, eggs, cheese tortillas and a strawberry smoothie). Then I went to district meeting to talk about how there is nothing going in my area. I played Bible Memory with Jeff G and Adrian G. Now I'm in this great internet place ('cause the owner kid has a great taste in American gangster hip hop.). Seriously, I looked at that picture of Matthew and you in front of the Frank Lloyd Wright house and recognized it before I read your letter. I'm a be an architect when I grow up, and build the biggest buildings. That's so crazy my friends are all coming home now. Braden gets home in less than a month, Cody in three months. Smart move, Paul, to rent out the condo, btw. Thats cool you got to go to that General Soc Soc CH'UTAM so close that if the prophet sneezes you have to wipe your glasses off. It'll be December before I get my November Liahona but I'll check his talk out. Sounds like you had a great time in Chicago. Sorry, I never have much to say, and it's usually complaints, but seriously, my area and companions have been ridiculous ever since my third change. La Laguna hadn't had a baptism for 7 months before I got there and Santo Domingo has only had 4 baptisms in the last 12 months (NOT NORMAL). I'm lookin' up though, seeing the light.. better and better timil timil. So these pictures are me: wanting to go skiing (by the destroyed road) 15 miles away from the church, after sweating off 10 lbs of water, jumping off a waterfall getting soaked etc...

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I MAKE MY WAY TO THE USA...I KNOW, I KNOW H.E.L.L.O.

q' tranza Hey, so I'm not getting back at you for not writing me the other week. There was just this capacitation meeting, so all the zl's and dl's were in Senahu. We couldn't have our combined p-day district meeting until today (Thursday). So that's what's up. I'm still in the same area. I was just in Elestor ( the area by the lake ) for p day. This picture is of me drinking an amazing shake thur. We have changes next week. YES! and I'm set up for the worst to happen. (At least I won't throw over a table when I get bajared from DL to senior comp: like my current companion). A prayer of mine was answered the other day though, when I was told that I was to be senior comp for a week (in Santo Domingo, my current area) with E. Minero. Elder Lara went to his area and I was senior comp with the coolest Salvadoranian I've met here. This kid is hilarious, and he acts just like Jack Sparrow. He is being accused of making out with some member, so he's having crazy problems. I don't know what to believe, but I had the best week ever working with him. We got every member in the church to come teach a lession with us, and it was crazy. I baptized my first Q'eqchi on Saturday. (He was 8, so it wasn't ''my baptism''), but it was cool, 'cause E. Minero and I just got to the church to put some stuff away, and my branch pres. was like, ''Hey, we have a baptism but nobody know how to do it and nobody has clothes so would you mind doing it? O. K. cool, so I learned how to baptize in Q'eqchi. Elder Lara is my companion. Regarding Cody's letter, that sucks he has bed bugs that are killing him, and that he broke his shower. However, I don't have a shower right now. I use rain water collected in a garbage can, and I've had fleas and all sorts of animals biting me my entire mission. Thanks for sending me those letters, though. Thanks for the positive advice. muy agradacido. Next week will be good. Things are lookin' up. Send me some pics of Chicago. I think my area is going to be closed, 'cause of how crazy people are, and how no one I have ever taught has ever come to church 'cause it's just too far away , and the living conditions are really really xiik'ob'a bad, no power or water. My comp is becoming crippled 'cause of his bed, (the bed I slept on all last change) which really screwed up my back and I really want to go to a chiropractor now ect ect... Anyways, sorry for not writing for so long but ,what a do¿ luv Aaron

Automatic Supersonic Hypnotic Funky Fresh

Hey, sounds like you had a lot of fun playing with the birthday girl. Happy Birthday Rossignol! And sad September 11th. Even people here know about that, surprisingly. Did I tell you that I sowed a corn field? If so, sorry. I'll recount the experience. Woke up at 5 something, walked to someone's house a couple miles away, and then we went to the guy's cornfield. We broke the corn and threw it into a pile in the middle of the field. Then we threw the corn into giant burlap bags and grabbed our TAP and threw these 200 pound bags on our necks and went to the house. I think I already told you that, so sorry. Not a lot happened this week that was cool 'cause my shadow was sick and then I got sick as well. I don't think that I got a good chance to recover 'cause my comp was singing crazy Q'eqchi children's songs so I couldn't sleep. There are problems in my area, but I'm doing good. Right now I'm in the nicest internet cafe in the world, in Elestor, and enjoying the air conditioning and fast loading computer. I'm in the place with the big lake. I just found out that one of my favorite members in La Laguna (Alvin Cotòn) got his call to Perù so I'm stoked for him. Check you guys l8tr HAVE FUN in Chicago (don't know how to spell anything). Listen to some Frank Sinatra for me. USB'I ARN

You can have whatever you like.

HOW DARE YOU NOT EMAIL ME?! I burned my finger the other day 'cause the tip of a match broke, and it fell on my finger. It was dark 'cause we didn't have any power. I didn't notice that my finger was being burnt, and now my finger really hurts. My shadow is crazy! He made me laugh when he threw off his backpack, handed me his camera and said ''me voy a bañarme, toma fotos''. He jumped in a river in all of his mission clothes and was sitting beneath (I don't know how to spell that, but it's RUBEL in K'ekchi) a waterfall. He was just being dumb and crazy 'cause he completed 15 months, meses, EB LI PO'. So that's what's up. Nobody came to church yesterday. There were 28 people there, which is crazy 'cause the church is so huge it could be in the States, but still nobody comes. There are just so many churches around here it's hard to sleep at night 'cause they just go till like 2 am. So I bought some more powerful sleeping pills today. Hopefully they work out. Saritas is open today (the only franchise that made it here) (ice cream shop) so I'm a go get some. Oh I guess you're probably in Rocklin. (Why you didn't write me?) no tegan pena its cool, as long as you send me some pictures. I'm making a K'ekchi verb list that will never leave the mission 'cause it's flawless. My name will just be in the front pocket of every gringo missionary to come here for the next 100 years until this language dies ('cause it will (due to TV)). Next week I'm going to a really cool place, I think, for p day called Rio Dulce. Nobody has come to church or been baptized since I've been here. lastima I'm dying, but I'm feeling a lot better about learning K'ekchi I figured something really important yesterday XINTAU LI RU but KAK'AJOM A'AN XB'EENIINKILEB LI KRISTIAN CHAALK K'AJEL RU LI KRISTO RE NAQ TE'XK'UL LI EVANGELIO LI KOJOB'ANB'IL WI' CHIK RIK'IN XPAAB'ANKIL LI KRISTO UT LIX TOJB'AL RIX LI MAAK, LI JALB' A-K'A'ULEJ, LI KUB'IHA', LI XB'EEN SUMWANK NOKO-OK WI', UT LI MAATAN RE LI SANTIL MUSIQ'EJ UT KUYUK TOJ SA' ROSO'JIK.
take kare one and all loVe Aaron