July 14, 2014

Mom,

Thanks for bday wishes, it`s been a good day.. No, I didn`t see a package when I went to the office today, but it might get here late.

Yes, we talked more with the Mission president this week, because we had interviews with our zone. It was good to talk with him and I learned from the interview a lot. I also talked for quite a while with his wife, which was good, she`s cool, but it`s hard for her since she doesn`t speak spanish much yet.

During the interviews the office elder in charge of my flight plans told me that the date changed to a day earlier than expected, so that is exciting..

Well, this week, other than the interviews, we went to the temple with our investigators to talk about the temples, which was good. Tomorrow our zone is going to go through the temple, which will be good. We were going to have a baptism last weekend, but in the end we didn`t get permission for him to get baptized and couldn`t really talk to his aunt very well, but hes 17 so when hes 18 he can get baptized I guess. We should have a few more baptisms this month hopefully..

Other than that, I don`t have a ton of news.. Life`s the same. We`re working hard and staying busy..

Love,

Elder Ward

July 7, 2014

Mom,

This week we had the meeting with the new mission president, which was surprizingly pretty short, but he´s a good guy and he´ll help the mission a lot. His wife doesn´t speak much spanish though, which will be harder for her.. We have interviews with him later this week, so we´ll get to know him a little bit better then.

We didn´t do too much new or exciting this week. This morning we went to Picacho, which is a tourist place that´s in my first area, it was weird passing through my first area again after over a year of not seeing it. We played handball, which is like ultimate frisbee with a ball, and it was pretty fun.

Sorry I don´t have anything more exciting to put.

Love,

Elder Ward

Arissa,

We had 6 investigators in church.

The leader meeting was good, we met the new President, and he´s cool.

This week wasn´t all that exciting. Just more visits and appointments, just like always.

Today we went to picacho, a tourist attraction in my first area. It was weird to pass by my first area again in the bus, but it was good to be with the zone. We played handball, which is like ultimate frisbee, but with a ball that you throw through a soccer goal to score. It was fun. I also climbed some trees and some building things.

Other pdays, we normally play a sport or do something small as a zone for a few hours.

4th of July was a normal day, nothing too exciting...

Love,

Elder Ward

June 30, 2014

Mom,

That´s great that Elder Lewis has been getting better. A lot of people from the ward here keep asking about him and asking how he´s doing..

Yes, a lot of missionaries get mugged here, but most of the time there aren´t any serious problems. I´ll probably make it through the rest of my mission without getting robbed ;( no fun stories for me.. 

Yeah, I guess the runway in Honduras is pretty bad. Even Pres. Uchtdorf commented on it during his temple dedication talk last year. He was like ¨I´m glad that I wasn´t the one who had to make that landing¨. It does go right over a bunch of houses, but I didn´t notice it too much when we landed..

We had 7 investigators this week in church, but not all of my converts from here came, so we´ll have to go visit and see why some didn´t come.

We had changes in the zone, and we have some cool Elders that just came in, so it should be good. My companion and I stay the same though, obviously.

We´re in the middle of Tegus, we have running water, and a water heater on the shower, but there´s not always water here. There´s a member that´s really awesome that washes our clothes for us

BTW, one of our investigators says hi, we were showing them pics of our families and everyone always comments that you look very young, like you could be one of my sisters, I always have to explain who´s who and show that my good looking 18 year old self was me, but sometimes people don´t believe me, haha. We have members feed us a lot too, if not, lots of time we go out to eat to wendys or mcdonalds or the grocery store that sells like chinese rice or something.

Well, other than that info, I don´t have much more news about this week. Things are going good.

Love,

Elder Ward

May 23, 2014

Mom,

They asked me about setting up my flight plans today.

The weather right now is hot and sometimes rainy. We haven´t done a lot of service recently, idk.

We had 5 investigators in church yesterday, and all 9 of my converts from here, and a less active family that we started visiting and we´ve had a lot of success bringing them all to church. We should keep progressing with all the investigators that we have right now, we´ve got some cool people that we´re visiting. We have changes this week, and a lot of people from our zone should be changing, but I imagine that my companion and I will stay together.

Things are going well, we are working hard and teaching lots of good people.

THat´s about all the news that I can think of right now.

Love,

Elder Ward

June 16, 2014

Mom,

Our baptism went well, we just didn´t have members show up to support him, so that was too bad.. But it went well.

here´s a little of what happened this week that I was writing to dad:

This week we had a baptism of an 18 year old, and we´re working with his family too, but we have to get them married first. They would have to travel in taxi, bus, canoe, and walking to get back to their little village that´s like 10 hours away to get some papers from the village so that they can get married. If they do get married, it will be complicated to get all the paperwork all together and everything and get a lawyer to help us and to get the actual ceremony prepared.

We´ve been in a threesome this week, but the other elder should be leaving tomorrow, which is probably good because our house is very small for 3 people..

The zone conference was good, I thought that I would give my final testimony, but i think that they might have another zone conference next month when the next mission president comes. 

Things are pretty normal here. Not much more to talk about..

Love,

Elder Ward

June 9, 2014

Mom,

Umm, this week was pretty normal. We had a leadership meeting and after the meeting we went to the temple to do a session, but we missed the session that we wanted to go to, so we waited a couple of hours for the next one and by the time we got out it was dark, so we got to see the temple all lit up, which was something that I had wanted to see here. It was good.

We are working with some positive people right now, we have a baptism lined up for this weekend and a family to get baptized at the end of the month.

I don`t have a lot of other news right now...

I hope everyone is doing well there.
Love,
Elder Ward

heres some temple pics and my companion and I in our Honduras team soccer jerseys.

June 2, 2014

Mom,

We haven´t had much cool stuff happen this week... We had a meeting with the ward councel (counsil?), which was good, we got to talk about our recent converts and our investigators so that we can go out and work with our ward leaders..

That´s about it for this week, not much of an update... I´d send pictures, but all of the computers here don´t read my memory card...

Love,

Elder Ward

Dad,

We´ve found some people I guess, we´re mostly just working with the people that we have. I was over in a couple of other areas this week too on divisions. We went to the temple on saturday with our investigators and my companion and I brought like 5 investigators and 3 recent converts, so it was a good activity. Things are going good right now.

Well, I have to go,

Love,

Elder Ward