New Companion and Work Is Good

Hey Family!!

Glad to hear everyone had a good time in Utah. Well, it has been another week in good-old-stinky-hot-Nicaragua! Everything is awesome though and I’m loving it! Okay about all the health stuff, my health is good, sometimes I will get really bad headaches but I think its because I’m in the sun for most of the day, but other then that everything is good. I don’t know how much I weigh but we get fed a ton of food by Hermana Gladis.

Spanish is coming faster then it was before, we have been having a lot of meetings real early in the morning so I haven’t been able to do personal study or language study at our regular time so my Spanish right now is "okay". My goal each day is to memorize thirty words and so far I have been accomplishing this goal so my vocabulary is pretty big.

They had emergency changes to make with companionships, so I am no longer with Elder Garcia who was awesome. We had our differences and I have had to develop patience and self control cuz one time I wanted to punch him in the face! BUT I didn’t....I just walked away into the other room and prayed for help and not to have contention in our companionship. But I will miss Elder Garcia when we were getting along and we were doing an awesome job.

My new companion is Elder Alonso, he is from Guatemala and is really cool! He is quiet, really smart and hard worker, so I’m thinking this is one of those really good companionships. I’m expecting a lot out of us this change. We’re going to do AWESOME! I can tell. Ha-ha He is only 5’3” in height so we look like David and Goliath. We think a lot alike as far as goals we want to accomplish and set, and he helps me a ton understanding things in Spanish. We have only been companions for a day too! Ha-ha.

Right now we have 5 families and baptismal dates for those families set on the 11 of July so I’m really excited. These families are awesome and really interested in the gospel, they all worked last Sunday so they couldn’t go to church but as far as I know they are able to go this Sunday. One Family (its pretty sad) their 3 month old daughter passed away like a month ago and they have this book of her death, with pictures of her dead (which isn’t good, its better to remember them and see them when they were alive) so we taught them the Plan of Salvation. Everyone in the family was crying by the end of the lesson and thanked us, so after that I felt awesome.

I DID RECIEVE THE PACKAGE! I got it last night, so it took about 2-3 weeks to get to me. Thank you for everything, I pray for you all everyday, hope all is well, money is flowing and everyone is happy!

Love,
Elder Buck