February 17, 2014

Mom,

We normally don`t go anywhere new, our area is pretty small. We do sometimes meet new people, but I don`t know, it`s not anything really worth describing..

Yes, I can print out sheet music if you send some to me from email.

Well, that`s it for this week I guess, we have been busy with a meeting in Tegus and interviews with the mission president where we had to go with him to each of the missionaries houses while he did interviews and house checks. So we had a busy week again, but not with just going out and working. But we have been contacting quite a bit recently, so we should have some new investigators soon. Changes are this week, but I doubt that anything will happen with me or my companion.

Love,

Elder Ward

Dad,

Things here have been alright, we were still busy this week with another trip to Tegus (no surprise there) for a meeting, we also had interviews with president and we had to acompany him to each of the missionaries houses, so that took up a whole work day, so we were down like 4 work days this week. We have lost most of our investigators now because nobody wants to get married, plus the prices here to get married just went up a lot. But we`ve been contacting a lot too, and we`ve found a few people more to teach. This week there`s changes, but I doubt that we`ll have changes here. It`s been hard here in my zone because our cell phone tower is out of service and they aren`t going to fix it any time soon, so we cant call or receive calls in half of our zone. That`s been difficult, especially when president wanted us to gather up the zone for a surprise meeting before interviews and we had to go in taxi to round up all the zone early in the morning.

Well, that`s my little bit of news for this week. Life`s good!

Love,

Elder Ward

February 10, 2014

Mom,

My life is straight up just boring!! I have no idea what to say, everythings the same every single day now.

Today we played football for pday and we also played a little bit of ultimate frisbee at the church. It was pretty fun. I also played the piano for a while while we were waiting for everyone to show up, and I`m enjoying playing a lot more now. I`m learning winter wind and that`s helped my sight reading a lot, so I`ve been able to slowly read some new hymns too. I still remember the 2 hymns that are engraved into my finger`s memory: God speed the right and Choose the right. Mishelae said that you might have some sheet music for Hall of the Mountain King that maybe you could send me. I`m looking for new music to play, because before district meeting every week we wait for everyone to show up for awhile at the church.

We don`t have that many investigators right now. Nobody is progressing very well, and we lost the baptism that we would have had this last week, the day of the baptism they said we couldn`t, because the mom of the 11 year old girl we were teaching changed her mind and said no even after she had initially given permission. That was frustrating. Saturday was a pretty crappy day and both my companion and I were pretty depressed that day.

We are trying to leave with members more. We`ve had a few more lessons with member and we`ve been working frequently with some youth getting ready to go on their missions, so that`s been good.

My companion is cool, I get along with him pretty well, he is a hard worker and always motivates us to keep working hard. It`s been good working with him. I think that we`ll stay together an extra change.

I guess that`s it for now. Life`s pretty good, but things have been moving really slowly lately, but hopefully it will pick up soon.

Love,

Elder Ward

February 3, 2014

Mom,

I bought a hammock this week, I put on some pics.

We go to tegus because we have meetings or stuff like that. We went up twice this last week, 1 time for a meeting, and another time so that I could renew my residency here. Both times were kind of boring.

We found a few new investigators and if all goes well we should have a few baptisms these coming weeks.

hmm.. what else. my companion was sick a little this week. That`s just about it. idk what more to say.

Love,

Elder Ward

January 28, 2014

Mom,

Well, we didn`t have our baptism this week. That family has been avoiding us and not coming to the door when we pass by, even when we know they`re home. We have found a few new positive investigators though.

I am getting sick of trips to tegus though. we went yesterday (which is why I am writing on a tuesday) and I have to go again friday. There are too many meetings and stuff to get done.

Today we had a new eating adventure, we ate a delicious combination of chicken inerds (spelling?) feet, heart, kidney, lungs, liver, and neck. I think it`s called soup of giblits in english. Either way it was pretty gross, but I just kind of ate it without complaining much, I just kind of did it.

Yea. I don`t know what else to write. I`m boring, sorry. We`re working hard and staying busy, no worries.

Love,

Elder Ward

January 20, 2014

Mom,

here`s the update I sent to dad this week:

I am doing well, weve been pretty busy this week doing random stuff, but we haven`t had much time to visit our investigators or teach lessons. Monday we went up to tegus and stayed the night and tuesday morning we had our mission leadership meeting. Then wednesday we travelled to a different part of honduras to get some papers for a wedding that some of the sister missionaries in our area had this week. Then thursday, we went back up to tegus to go to the temple, and that was nice. I finally got to see the new temple video and it was good. Then friday we had our zone meetinga and then we went around and did interviews for missionaries in our zone`s investigators. Then saturday we started working a little bit, but we also had to help with some of the baptisms and the wedding of the sisters. So we didn`t have a great chance to work in our area this week, but we had a couple of investigators in church yesterday. We will probably still have a baptism this week, next sunday, so that`ll be good. It is for a youth. She is pretty positive, and we`re still working with her family to get baptized. Other than that, we don`t have a ton of investigators. 

We are working with a lady that has been an investigator for a long time, but was an investigator of the other elders in our ward. We challenged her and she may want to move out instead of getting married to the guy that she`s living with. We`ll see how that goes..

Things with my companion are good. We`re working well together and we`ve stayed busy like I`ve said.

Yeah, I was on a bus way too many hours this week. Probably a whole 24 hours of bus rides. It was painful. But at least there were no chickens, I`m not sure to which movies you would be referring.

Other random thought: yesterday we ate pigs foot with some non members, that was a little gross. They also accidentally gave us tea, because they thought that iced tea was okay. we just tried a sip of iced tea mixed with pineapple juice, but then they told us so I stopped drinking it. haha. pig feet is gross though.

I guess that`s the news for this week.

I`ll send some random pics for the last few weeks, I don`t remember if I`ve already sent some or not...

Love,

Elder Ward

January 13, 2014

Alright everyone, I guess I`ll send another group email out to keep you all at least a little updated about my life and stuff.

This week we had changes and my companion left to Tegus to end his mission. I learned a lot from him and he was one of my best companions.

My new companion is cool too, and we`re going to keep working hard together. He is from Ephraim, Utah and he has a change less than me in the mission, so like 16 months.

We`re staying busy here in porvenir, choluteca, were trying more than anything to get people to come to church, but we have a few investigators that are progressing and we normally have at least a few that go to church each week. We`re also busy running around helping the zone out with everything, there are lots of weddings and stuff that we have to get ready before the families can get baptized.

That`s about all I`ve got for this update. Sorry it`s short.

Love,

Elder Ward

Mom,

Sorry about not wishing you a happy birthday last week. It`s hard to remember when you only have like an hour a week to write you.

I hope that you did have a good birthday though.

Thanks for your pictures of Mexico, It looks like fun work.

Our investigators are like 20-25 minutes walking away from the church. There`s buses too, but sometimes people don`t want to pay.

Today we`re going to go up to tegus for a leader meeting. I went up last week too for changes, and I`m sick of the 4 hour bus ride both ways.

That`s about all the news I have, this keyboard I`m typing on hardly works to type with, so I`ll finish I guess.

Love,

Elder Ward

January 6, 2014

Mom,

That´s good that your trip to Mexico went well and that you were all safe. 

Things here are about the same. as always. we´re working hard, but it´s not easy to bring our investigators to church every week. nobody wants to go because it is so far away. This is probably my last week with my companion, which is sad. Changes are this wednesday, and we´ll see if we have big changes with the zone and stuff.

I´ve been on divisions a few times this week and been away from my area for a bit, but it´s been good. New years there were a lot of celebrations and they lit of a ton of fireworks. They sell big dangerous fireworks really cheap here, so new years day was loud, but it was cool.

That´s probably about it for this week, but here´s some pics.

Love, 

Elder Ward

(to Averianne)

well, things here in honduras go well. This morning we went and played baseball with our zone, which was alright. I also jumped off of a roof that I climbed onto, I keep wanting to do more parkour stuff already, but I guess I´ll just have to focus on working out to get huge so I can do even cooler parkour later. I twisted my ankle playing football today too, and I thought that it was going to be pretty bad, but it very surprisingly got better as soon as I tried to walk on it and now I haven´t even noticed it, so that was cool.

I think that that´s about it for this week.

-ME