A Much Better Week!

Elder Alonso from Guatemala
They grow big caterpillars here!
The lush green countryside.
Pineapple field - they do not grow on trees! LOL
Julio, church member

Hola mi Familia!

Thank you so much for all of your love and support and your letters!

Carly, I first want to start with answering your letter. That is an awesome dream you had and that is an awesome way to think of the Savior. Carly you’re going to do awesome, your spirit is so strong, and you’re a hard worker in school. You keep it up. I love you. You keep doing everything your doing, listen to Mom and Dad they know what’s best for us. If anything I have learned, in these 5 months I have been out, is how kind, loving and supportive our parents are.

Thank you again for all your love and advice! This week has been a lot better, still having a real hard time with our investigators but I love being here. I have been in Nicaragua for 3 months and I can pretty much understand what everyone is saying and they can understand what I’m saying (finally!!) ha-ha

Oh it was so cool yesterday, we were over at the house of Familia Moya. They have a huge family but the mom she goes to church every Sunday and knows a lot but doesn’t want to be baptized. :/ She has 3 children who are baptized Geovany, Scarlet, and Henry. They are awesome, Scarlet is inactive right now but I found away to get her interested again in the church. Okay, so you know how I love spelling bee stuff. Ha-ha, it’s even funnier in Spanish. Since I know the Spanish alphabet I can spell the words, so yesterday we were over at their house only visiting. It was the Mom, Geovany and Scarlet, my companion and I. Before when we visited, I never really talked so they were kind of surprised when I started talking in Spanish. I was asking them questions of what they like to do to find out what we could do for family home evening next week. The mom was kind of interested in family home evening - not really, and Scarlet didn’t even want to do it. When I asked her what she likes to do she said "deletrear" which means to-spell and I was like "Oh cool, spell the word "dispensacion" which is dispensation. She spelled the word quickly and so I gave her a harder one. Then I told her I like to spell words too, so she gave me a word to spell and I did it quickly so they were really surprised. Ha-ha

Then we were having this completion with a list of words to spell and I got all of them right. I suggested "Hey, we should do a game next week for Noche de Hograr (family home evening)” and she was excited for that. I thought that was awesome, because during the spelling bee her whole family gathered around us to listen and watch us. They all want to participate next Monday night which is awesome cuz they didn’t want to participate before! I’m excited for next week!

Yesterday, Monday, was amazing we went to this awesome area outside of Managua. In a place called Jinotepe which is Beautiful. It’s so green and its how I imagined Nicaragua, I have included the pictures. We had a guide his name was Julio he’s really cool and a member of the church. That was awesome, we climbed this gigantic mountain, ate wild pineapple from the bush (ha-ha I thought pineapple grew on palm trees :P and watched the wild monkeys in the trees. It was amazing and the weather is perfect!

After the hike I got a haircut from a lady who is a member and she hacked the crap out of my hair ha-ha so I need to get it fixed. But that’s all the time I have, thank you again for everything, I love you all!

Elder Buck
p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENDAL!