April 14, 2014

Escazu 1 cambio mas!

so yeah. after changes. ill be here for 6 more weeks at least. and my companion too. haha i love that. hermana delgado too so that rocks. haha and elder hoover my MTC comp will be the comp of my DL so yeah! super excited about that! 

 A little bit of troubles with my companion. he is a little boy. haha where he lived he couldnt leave the house cause it was dangerous. so he played on his computer all day. which i understand but he never did anything else. so he acts like a little kid. he gets excited about pokemon and weird stuff. haha and he always trys to talk to me about weird shows he loves. and i dont ever understand the spanish he uses so he gets mad. haha sometimes. i want him to stop talking. haha just for a minute. haha 

 but we are good. we teach well. we have the spirit. and i love being here with him. sometimes i get annoyed. but we never fight. and we are best friends. and we are having a blast. haha so im happy. kinda. im kinda negative right now...

 because we went to a country club today with our zone it was soo cool and so beautiful. it rocked. but! we played some good football. soccer. than pool. than we played basketball. i loved it. we played real hard i was winning. haha latinos. im huge. its easy. haha humble i know. and i went up to lay it up. and i came down on a latino kinda. and i twisted my ankle real bad. but i made the lay up. haha

 so yeah. went to the doctor. at the club. and she said. i cant do anything for a few days. its a minor sprain but it hurt so bad at first i was scared. but im working through it. i will probable rest today. and tape it up tomorrow. to work. so im a little annoyed with limping everywhere. hurts to walk. but ill be good. im strong. 

 so this week i saw a chicken so i chased it. hahaha yeah. than it climbed a freaking tree. what? haha than i went closer to the tree and like 6 chickens fell out and started attacking me hahahaha fetching chickens.

 so yeah. good week one baptism. he is super cool. it was. strange i dont really want to talk about it. haha i dont feel like he was ready. at all. none of us did. but pres said he has waited long enough. so we will see. i trust him. 

 this week was great. i loved it. saw the spirit so many times change people. one morning i sat there waiting for 8 to start my studies. just writing and eatin. and i thought. read that pamphlet. it was of the temple. i didnt know why. but i did. i didnt even know i had one. than at church. i felt the need to go get one in spanish. that night i used it to testify to an investigator what he is searching for. he will find. and the spirit was stronger than ive ever felt it.... i prepared for him. wow. i love it here. i am an instrument in the hands of god. i dont know why or how. but i was saved for today. this time. to help these people. this is my time to be here. im serving the lords mission. wow. i love it. this just doesn't have words to the miracles i see. or the things i feel. i just wish all of you could experience it. i love you all. i miss you all. and i will see you all soon. 

 Ps i now have 4 months. more than. haha finished my training. now. its time to just rock. =D 

 Love elder evans

dogs! its ours. hhahah kinda. he is so shy. but so funny.

baptism.

and our trip today!

April 7, 2014

 
Bad day to have no time to write. hahaha i want to re quote all of conference haha so yeah. i will just add a little note of one talk every time i can. so here is my note.

in conference an apostle and the prophet said this phrase

courage not compromise brings a smile on gods face. what. and another said something about how not having faith makes god frown. haha so what face does god have when he thinks about you. haha think about it. guilt trip. make him smile!

so yeah. good week. conference rocked. ate a lot of crap so i feel horrible. its so hot here. haha next month starts the rain. that will be fun. and the rains last till dec. so yeah! haha excited but not. haha we will see how that goes. we got new zls this week. on April fools. i had played many jokes that day. cause im a horrible person. hahaha i told the hermanas i had changes. they started crying hahaha i told my dl. i couldn't find my companion. haha he freaked out. and i told me zls. my companion was vomiting blood. haha i told them after they freaked that it was all a joke. i guess latinos dont understand April fools. cause theirs is in December. woot. dos dias of jokes. but. after all my jokes the new zls said they were the new ones. and no one believed them hahaha but its not a joke. tis true. hahahahha my bad... who did that?!?! hahahhaha

hermana wilkinson. wife of the pres. checked our apartment. good thing it was super clean. oh and hot water broke on April fools. but its fixed as of yesterday. so that rocks. =D

saw a guy poop in the street. i had to ask if that was normal. don't worry its not. haha

in mcdonalds today the tv had the DUCK COMMANDER 500 hahaha woosh. jeff gordan was winning. my favorite race. and racer. haha nascar. i didn't watch or anything... don't worry im not a sinner. ill just repent. ahahaha

anyway. awesome week. we don't have any baptisms for this month. kinda sad about that. and changes are next week and thats when i end my training. so i can change... scared! but i dont think we will have changes. we got work to do. if not we will be baptizing a mountain  of people in may. haha working hard.

so the lords vineyard is so great i love it. work hard everyone. have faith and courage. show your faith. help those missionaries.

and i love you all! thanks for you prayers and your support. until next week.

hey this church is more than true. its perfect. =D

Elder Evans

Mar 31, 2014

WORKING HARD...FEELING LIKE IM HARDLY WORKIN

Woosh. hola familia =D im here. another week gone by. its April. what. haha who put that here. haha conference. so so so excited. a little home sick. no one to snuggle with haha only my family will understand that weird reference. hahaha but! my companion rocks. and we bought tons of junk food with the hermanas today... so i think we are set. I think im going to watch it in spanish... =D i will try... haha 

 so funny story. sad. kinda... haha my companion from Guatemala said one time it snowed in Guatemala like the first time in ever. and it snowed for 2 days like 3 inches. and 41 people died. hahahahahaha wait. that so sad. but not. hahaha oh im horrible. haha he doesn't understand why I think that's so funny. haha 

 this week was so good! it was so fast. my companion is perfect. humble, obediante, and so nice. its a competition to see who can serve the other more. I love him so much. I don't want changes... haha but. we will see I hope I get more time with him. he is helping us change this area. 

 so did divisions with members.. 13 lessons in one day. woot haha record breaking here. haha but its not about numbers. we met a 91 year old man. who seems like he is 50 he looks old but acts young. its so weird. he is so excited to learn more. his house has 2 rooms. one is normal the other. is slanted down... like a lot. like 1100 north slanted. my companion says. that that house is still there he is still there by the support of angels. cause god needed him to hear the message of the gospel. now. haha what a miracle. he is so nice. I freaking love him to death. 

 the ward is starting to help us. and I have the trust of the members i've been working so hard. haha i guess that they can see im trying my best. with everything. and I just love them all so so much. =D this work. wow. 

 so I think i'll add a picture of hermana delgado. my favorite person here. haha she is my mom here in the mission. ahha she gave me a letter in my journal. I have one the missionaries write in, its an answer to my prayers. it just said what the mission will mean to me. for me. it was powerful. but I want to share a part. it says.

"A missionary is someone who is going to learn and share a lot for a few short months, someone who will gain much more than he or she will EVER be able to give."

 How true is that. i cant give enough. and when i try to give more. god just pays it back to me. in everything i do. it doesn't matter what. its hard it hurts. and god blesses me so much more than i could ever give. i love it here. at times i miss home. and i want to come home. but im not ready. i have more to give. i need to push forward. im scared to give up my blessings. hahaha im so blessed i love it. 

 I want to quote the rest of the letter. just cause. it means the world to me. 

 ¨"You grow a lot on a mission, your feet grow flat, your leather book cases grow mold, your clothes dont fit, and your heart grows bigger. you learn a lot of things you didn't know before, like how to live without milk (that scares me., i need my cereal) how to make exotic noises while walking down the street. you become better acquainted with Nephites, Israelites, and Parasites. and through it all. the study sessions in the candle light, the rain on your bed in the middle of the night... your thankful to be there, and thrilled at all the things you have to write home about as you try to put into words the best two years of your life.

 what or who is a missionary? a missionary is someone who is going to learn and share a lot for a few short months, someone who will gain much more than he or she will EVER be able to give.

 This is the labor of love, and an opportunity to represent the Savior! ¨"

 Then she wrote... if i realized I only had 18 months to live I would live them serving my father in heaven.

 I started thinking not. I almost have 4 months. to I only have 20 left! what a blessing. she is worthy and listened to the spirit. to answer all my questions i asked god. she doesn't know why she wrote that. but i do. cause it was what i needed. i got a work to do. and i invite all of you to be worthy that when god needs you to answer someones prayers, that he can do that through you. In the two years im gone. what can you learn. what can you do. how can you be better. im changing. not by myself. but by the spirit. im becoming the man I have always wanted to be... i love it here. I love these people, the culture, and my mission. I am so grateful to all of you for helping me get here. for being a part of my life. I cant do this without your support and love. im proud of each and every one of you. ill be home before I know it and now I must get back to work. I love you all. and until next week. =D love your favorite missionary. Elder Evans.