Conference Number 3

What's up? This week was nuts. Monday we had p-day and did nothing. 

Tuesday we had zone conference and it was awesome. We learned some great stuff. We also started divisions with the zl´s. 

Wednesday we put a fecha with Saidy. The daughter of the family we reactivated. So she should be getting Baptized this Saturday! 

Thursday we just worked. 

Friday we taught the family we are reactivating and it was awesome. 

Saturday it was conference!!! Yes! We ate with the Bishop of the area of the stake center cause, we are like 40 minutes away from it. We also ate with all the Elders before Priesthood. We slept over in the zone leaders house. 

Sunday we Watched conference and that's it. Conference was awesome. It is better and faster as a missionary. I loved so many talks - I'll share a few things. Lorenzo Snow once said it is our job to try to be perfect. That is true. We will never be perfect, but we have to try. Edward Dube went hard. Never look back. He also said when you accept a call you accept it with all your commitment!!!  It's true. Please fulfill your duties! I'm sick of people not doing their jobs. He also said it's not about where we have been or what we have done, but where we are willing to go. That is so true. 

Bednar said we need to change our own circumstance and not expect others to do it for us. I loved that more than ever. 

Gifford Neilson just had a great talk.  Holland said we have been chosen to live in a fallen world. Pres Uchtdorf told us that sometimes we need someone to look us in the eye and say, you can do it, get up. 

The Church is true. 

Love, Elder White

Que chillero vos

Ey que onda family? How are you all doing? This week was fast as ever. I don't even remember last week. 
On Monday we went the the border of El Salvador for our district activity. It's in our zone so it's was only like two hours in a bus... huge zones outside of the capital.... I told everyone it would all be closed cause other Elders told me it all closes at 1. So we get there at about 1:30 and there is nothing. No one listens to me I swear. I also used a quote that Russell sent me in our meeting so that was good. 

Tuesday Nothing

Wednesday we met an inactive member and her husband and daughter who are not members. Yes! Things started to look up in Monjas. We also taught a lesson in the Church with our investigator with a Baptismal date. He loved it and has been reading and praying every day. 

Thursday we read the Book of Mormon with Rodrigo. The man from Wednesday and he was loving it and asking questions. 

Friday nothing

Saturday it was Elder Walton's birthday!!!! We had tons of lessons and such. We were teaching one and the two women we teach live right next to the river and don't leave too often. We read about the Sabbath day and I asked her what she got out of the verses. She said the laying on of hands..... We then read them again and explained them in detail. When my comp said the last prayer I somehow started thinking of the sister and how she moves her hand in front of her face and yells during our prayer. My companion paused and her whispering and he almost laughed. It was bad. I shoved my entire tie in my mouth and did not laugh. He couldn't finish... so he ended by saying in the name of Jesus Christ Amen. in English!!! They didn't hear cause they were so busy praying still so he yelled amen in Spanish and we finished we had to compose ourselves before they ended. It was weird. Other than that it was a good lesson. They didn't noticed that part. 

Sunday the inactive sister and her family came to Church! Well just her and the daughter and the little son that's 3. But it was her first time in 8 years. Our other investigators with baptismal dates said they were going to visit their aunt so they couldn't go to Church. But in the afternoon they went to an activity in the Evangelical Church. The members of their church fellowship... so that is how they are beating us in Monjas. The Church is true and I love being a missionary. I love you all. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen. 

Love, 

Elder Nicholas White

P-day with the District

Beautiful Monjas Sunset

Nuns

Hey family how is it going. If this keyboard let me I would send a question mark. This week was pretty fast and not too exciting. I feel as if we have invited half of Monjas to get baptized this week. In literally every lesson we popped the question.  So in the mission when I entered we had to do 10 contacts a day for each missionary. So twenty a day in companionship. 140 in a week. About 7 months ago we only had to contact five men and five families everyday. Now we have to do 35 everyday. 245 every week. And it is hard. We did it this week, but it is definitely challenging to do them all and have all the lessons and everything. 

Monday was p-day and we didn't do much. Outside the capital there is literally nothing to do. So we just ate. And I saw a guy wearing a junior jazz jersey. 

Tuesday we had to go to Jutiapa for a capacatation meeting for district leaders and it was pretty good. I learned a lot of good stuff there. We have been putting in all to practice this week. 

Wednesday was a day filled with fallen appointments and lots of contacts. Not the greatest of days. 

Thursday we put a few baptismal dates. So that was good. We also went to a little village that is part of our area. It's called Las Palmas and it's about a 15 minute tuk tuk ride from Monjas. There are members there, but we couldn't find any of them home. So that was a bust. Also it got dark and we couldn't get a tuk back to Monjas. so we walked. 

Saturday we taught a great family. They don't know how to read so it is harder to teach them. But they are cool. We put some dates with them so we will see what happens in the future. Also one of the two baptismal dates we put on Thursday is never home anymore so I'm pretty sure it fell... 

Sunday was Sunday. We went to Church and the Branch President couldn't come due to a death in the family. So the Sacrament wasn't ready or anything. We prepared it and started about 20 minutes early. A woman that we had contacted came in right before we passed the sacrament and it was great. She stayed all three hours and we are visiting her tomorrow. So we hope to work with her. 

Well the Church is true. I heard about the BYU/Utah game.... that's solid. Everyone knows I'm a Buckeye fan.

 I love you all. 

Love, Elder Nicholas White

Riding in the Tuk Tuk

This reptile was loose in Elder White's apartment

Hitting walls and stuff

Hey everyone! This week as pretty good. On Monday we did nothing. Turns out that p-day outside of the capital is awful. It's just sitting in a bus all day. 

Tuesday we had Zone Conference so that was pretty good. We learned about the new standards of the mission and rules and everything. We also did divisions with the Zone Leaders. I stayed in their area and we did an activity with the elders from this part of the zone. We set up tables and stuff in the park and contacted a bunch of people. It was sweet. I then did my first interview as District Leader. It was sweet. It was a little 9 year old girl and she was the cutest. 

Wednesday a convert took us to teach her friends. So we went there and taught them a lesson. We then realized we were in the area of the sisters so we gave them the reference. Lame right? It also poured rain all day. 

Thursday I completed one year in the mission. It's crazy how fast that happens. It was a solid day of hard work. We helped  a family move, contacted a lot. And taught some lessons. I also burned my shirt and my comp burned a sock for his 3 months. Haha! 

Friday we did divisions with the other Elders in our district and not much happened. 

Saturday  I got onto the bus to end divisions and 50 cent in the club is bumping. So I look up and there is a huge TV playing music videos. Outside the capital is weird... We also had some interesting lessons that I will tell you about after the mission...  We also saw a dog get hit by a motorcycle and our investigator went to the branch activity. 

Sunday was a weird day. No one went to church cause it was Independence Day. Literally we had an attendance of 26. We also worked hard. It was a long, long long day. I love you all and I am grateful for the time I have had so far and the time I still have. 

Love you! 

Love, Elder White

ONE YEAR!!!

With Elder Steed

Remembering 9/11

Elder White burning his shirt to celebrate 1 year in the mission field

Celebrating Guatemala's Independence Day

Monjares Jalapa at its finest

District Leader and New Area

Hey fam!!! How are you doing? This week was pretty crazy! On Monday we had a huge hole in the ground in our house.. so that was weird. I also had to say good bye to everyone in Las Lomas. It was pretty hard saying goodbye although I was only there for 3 months.
Tuesday we woke up and went to changes meeting. I am now in Monjas, Jalapa! It's way far away from the capital. I'm also finishing my comps training. My new comp is Elder Walton from Alpine, Utah. Cool right? That never happens in our mission. So I was surprised as ever. I am also the new district leader out here. And something funny is that Elder Montenegro, who was my DL when I started the mission, is now my ZL and I'm his DL. What? The area is now full of Americans. Literally. Us two and the sisters - one is from Utah and the other from Arizona! Crazy huh? They all have very little time in the mission too. Like  my comp has one change and one of the sisters has a good week, and her trainer 5 months... It's nuts. But don't worry about it. I only speak English in the house cause I'm scared of not practicing Spanish at all times.

Wednesday nothing really happened. We just met some members and helped the sisters move into their new house.

Thursday we taught some lessons. I met the 2 investigators that they left me. Yes this is the third time I've arrived to an area with nothing. It was a good day.

On Friday we were contacting trying to get some investigators. I saw a family standing in the doorway of a house and walked up to their mom and said, we are representatives of Jesus Christ and God has sent us to your house to teach you the restored Gospel. We taught them the plan of salvation and she accepted our invitation to go to Church. We also went to show the sisters some members in their area and we went in tuc tuc. I'll send a picture at some point. It's like a little go kart thing they drive around in. Anyways. it started raining like crazy and it was not good.

Saturday we went to teach the women we found Friday, her name is Alma. So she was not home, but her brother Rodrigo was. We went back in the night and taught them both about the Sabbath day. They agreed to come to Church.

Sunday we went to Church and it was weird. We first went to bring a bunch of investigators and members that are converts or less actives. We then went to Church in a house. Weird's right. Turns out I didn't get sent too far away form a branch..... I blessed the \Sacrament for the 15th week straight. Yes I do have it memorized now. In the night the second counselor invited us over and made us fries on a fire. It was solid. Alma and Rodrigo went to Church!!! Rodrigo stayed the whole time and he loved it. We are working with them! We hope to put some Baptismal dates this week! 
Well the Church is true and I am gratefully for this year I have had to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ! I look forward to my last year. Happy birthday tomorrow to my beautiful angel Lilly! I feel like just yesterday I was holding her in my arms. Thursday I complete a year. What? 

Love you all. 

With love from Jalapa.... Elder Nicholas David White 

This Sister Missionary is from Orem

Yummy Fries

Monjas, Jalapa

ONE YEAR!!!!

Rio

Elder White's best shoes

Riding in the tuc tuc

Friends from Montserrat

Ward Mission Leader from Montserrat

Jello Sacrament

What's up? I don't have too much time today, but I'll try to make it good. Yes that means you will have to correct my grammar a lot I feel. This week was fast as ever and it was pretty good.
Monday we got invited by a member of another area to go bowling. So he payed and everything. It was really fun.
Tuesday we had divisions and I went with Elder Hughes to his area. He is in his first change. He locked his keys in the house. I was like, you should of got a less safe house so we could get in. We had to go to the other house and stay with the zone leader and the assistant cause, they were in divisions too. haha. 

Wednesday we were ending divise in the Temple. I was walking and heard my name! We saw  another zone and lots of my friends are in it so that was awesome to see them again! I saw my boy Elder Wootton who was with me in Montserrat for 6 months. It was a good day. 

Thursday we carried water and taught a lesson in the sister area to an investigator they are having problems with. We also had dinner with the new family from the states! It was cool. 

Friday we went to visit a man who lives in the mountain of our valley in the area. The thing is we never found his house. But it was an adventure. 

Saturday we did service in the morning and worked the rest of the day. 

Sunday there weren't sacrament cups.... so the branch president's son ran to the store to buy little jello shot things to use. Hahaha. It was quit an adventure. It was testimony meeting and it was awesome to bear my testimony there. I also found out that I have changes. So I will let you know where I am next week.

 

Love you!

Love, Elder White

 

 

 

Elder White & Elder Wootton

 

 

Jello Sacrament

 



 

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Week 5...

Hey family whats up? This last week was not too exciting. It was not too great. But it is now over. 
Monday we had p-day. Right after we finished using the Internet the power went out 5 times on the other district while they were writing. It was pretty funny I won't lie. We also stopped by the office and found the senior couple from our branch there. They went home on Wednesday, it was one of their last days. We reminded them that they never invited us to dinner... so they took us to Wendy's. Awesome right? We also went to a Family Night with a member that invited us over. We shared a lesson from the Ensign. A talk from the Prophet and it was awesome. 

Tuesday we had divisions and nothing happened. 

Wednesday We had some good lessons. One with an investigator that can't get baptized cause of her mom. It was a good lesson however. 

Thursday we carried water in the morning. Also after lunch the little girl that lives in the house where we eat didn't want to take a bath. So her mom told us to throw water on her. It was way funny. She came back for revenge, but didn't get me. We also taught our baptismal dates about the word of wisdom and they have some problems there. They also didn't come to Church so it looks like they will not be getting baptized on Sunday. 

Friday we visited a family that never progressed and asked for references. They took us to their neighbors to introduce us. It was good. 

Saturday we went to take pictures at the ceremony in the Church for the 15 years of the Branch Presidents daughter. 

Sunday was alright. I gave  a talk about missionary work and we also ate cake at lunch. We taught the family with the baptismal dates and they have problems understanding the Priesthood Authority. So it will be much more difficult than it was.  

The Church is true! 

Love, Elder White

John 3:16