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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, September 14, 2010

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

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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

And while I'm at it,, throw in a couple a G's, yeah!


Hey, did you get all those pictures I sent you or what? Um, props Adam boy genius. Calvin is the man, btw. Happy birthday SOBRINA ROSSIGNOL. That'll be fun going there. What I want for Christmas... well, the only thing I really want is Harry Potter 7 on dvd.. oh wait... I'm in Guatemala. That shouldn't cost more than 5 quetz ... jaja.. so other than that ... I would like some Harry Potter ties. You know, not like stupid graphic ones, but like a red and gold Griffindor tie, green and silver Slytherin algo así k.. that's all I can think of... or some Rossignol S7's or some Volont Spatula's. Yeah definitely Volont Spatula's. My shadow is ridiculous. He wants to be an AP, so I don't know what to think of him. He's a good guy, but I feel like he does a lot of things for the wrong reasons. I'm such a liberal person, and he's so conservative. Anyways that whats up with that.. we are teaching a bunch of people that lie to us... and nobody comes to church. We woke up at 5 something to walk 5 and a half miles to bring these three people to church (one of which has a baptismal date) and nobody would go with us. All the members are joining other churches, and I feel like we should just dust off our feet and leave this area. Someone died (who lived RIGHT next to us) literally 15 feet away from the church, and so I couldn't sleep all night 'cause someone was CRYING SO LOUD. Then in the morning, they had the craziest, loudest funeral I've ever heard of. It was louder and more obnoxious than any church that I've heard, and the coffin really sicked me out. Speaking of deaths.. a bird was found dead in my toilet... attached is a photo... I don't know what else to say about my life. My comp is always telling me that with how much we suffer, we are going to receive so much more in blessings. I was thinking about the blessings I would like to have after my mission. Right after the ability to telaport, I want to be a pro skier. I want to be taken up to the top of the mountain by helicopter rather than walking like I'm doing now. Anyways hope e'ry thin's good in da hood. check yah l8ter la walal AARON

Monday, August 23, 2010

to it to it so do it do it

If you are reading this message, I do not want to hear from you until you take a cold shower. Get in your shower tomorrow, and don't even touch the hot. Full blast cold. So my life is a lot better, and my new shadow's the man. He kind of reminds me of the Green Lantern. So... we had this activity, and it was super sick. I didn't think anyone was going to come, but they did. That's one thing you can always count on around here. The Guatemala hour is about 1 - 2 hours late, so maybe if we unofficially changed the hour of church to 11:00, tons of people would come. Anyways, it went really well (2:22 make a wish). There was like more than 250 people, and I was really stoked. K'ekchi's coming. I can't teach like the first fourth of lesson 1 right now and tell people they're mad etc etc. Kekchis are really annoying, and it's kind of part of their culture ¨Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going???¨ ¨BAR XIK AWE BAR XIK AWE BAR XIK AWE¨, funny. So, what's going down in da hood? Adam's a JR. Ben's in school, new office, Dad, new pants ¨SIXTY THREE hundred dollar pant COME ON¨ Hey, I was thinking about Harry Potter the other day. Has the first half of the 7th movie come out yet? Or, the Arrested Development movie, and if yes, how were they? Sorry , I'm talking about stupid stuff 'cause I don't really know what to say, YES, I don't know what Cody's mom is doing for him, but do it for me... I'm glad you're friends with my friend's mom. Now we can all hang out together when I get home. Right. Oh, I was wondering if Tom Ostler ever left on his mish, and if so where? Crazy, Randy's home... Taylor wrote me just to tell me he has a year left (d-bag) jaja. This picture is taking forever to load, so now I'm just writing a monton de casaca but, ok re-trying...ink'a it's taking forever, sorry..
HAVE A GREAT XAMAAN!!! luv Aaron

Tuesday, August 17, 2010


Some people say I've got clouds in my eyes 'cause I set my goals so high

My toe is fine. I'll live. So, changes are this week, THANK GOODNESS! I don't have a change, but my comp is supposed to be incredible at K'ekchi. Word on the street E. Lara XK'AB'A', so that will be great. I went to this really boring place today called Agua Caliente, but it wasn't cool. Just a waste of 10 Q's. We're going to have an activity this Saturday, and there are going to be like 300 people there I guess... I really have no idea, but I guess if food is involved everyone comes to the church, so it will be good. Changes are the only thing that are really happening right now. Best thing that happened to me is I got my camcam and it is incredible. I can tag peoples names to the individual pictures, date, time location, ect... 14 megapixlz, 5x zoom. It's black, and I'm looking at it right now. Its a Kodak EasyShare M575 High Definition. It's my new most expensive thing, but everyone around here are buena onda, so I don't have to hide it. I can take pictures of people in the streets and whatever. That's too bad Adam has to go to school, but on the plus side ,he's goin'a get all da ladies rollin' up in the toyota, haha. No mejor con un METROPOLITAN va!! AYU k you didn't tell me about Laura's Jeep adventure, so hit me up with that. k..kk let me know what's good in da hood.
LOVE your FAVORITE CHILD LIZA.. oh, I mean aaron