Okay before I start writing, YES DAD I DID GET TO SEE THE PICTURES, THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING UP THAT WEBSITE FOR ME! ha-ha
Buenos, it has been a pretty good week. My companion is from Guatemala and he is AWESOME, literally it is a blessing to be serving with him. He is the nicest, most caring person I know out here in the field! He is so cool and always positive and hard working! He is my trainer, (he doesn’t know it though) he has been serving for 7months and its his first time being a trainer and District leader since he took the place of Elder Garcia.
Okay, this week has been a tough one. We started working at trying to teach discussions and had a lot of appointments drop out, so we had all this extra time, so we asked if we could go to the Ward Mission Leaders house to meet him and get a list of recent converts. Well, Hermano Monson lives like 2 miles away so that was a pretty long walk and no one has telephones to be able to see if they are home a head of time. Luckily he was home, but didn’t have the list, so that didn’t help to much ha-ha. He told us that every Thursday we have a meeting with the Bishop to discuss how things are going. Well later that night we went to the church for the meeting and waited for an hour but he never showed up.
As far as contacting people daily, sharing a brief part of our message with them and inviting them to church; we average about 25 people each day, but as far as lessons we don’t get a lot of teaching. We find a lot of people who are interested and we teach them 2-3 principles from lesson 1 The Restoration and then make an appointment to come back to teach more but it is usually 5 or 6 day later visit, so that kinda stinks. Some families, we are teaching, are not there when we arrive to teach and everyone lives so far away! So after walking about a mile and a half from one house to another and finding out their not home, or busy, or have some excuse to why we can’t teach them, its pretty discouraging at times.The family, Correa, we do have a baptism for them this week, and other then that I’m doing the best I can!
Yesterday I got really discouraged, when we walked from house to house and nobody could visit, everything was dropping through, it was so hot and humid, I had a head ache from the heat, I was super tired and grumpy! Yeah, I didn´t have a smile yesterday or have a positive attitude and my companion was shocked too. I am working on that and my attitude harder.
Wow Monson leaves soon, HOLY COW that’s awesome! I sure hope Tyler doesn’t feel left out, I miss him and hope he´s doing good.
I don´t think Nicaragua is affected by the economy, there have been riots and protests but that’s about it. Sorry I don´t know much about economy here :/ My health is okay, other than I have been having headaches from being in the sun all day, and it doesn´t seem like I have enough energy, but if anything happens I’m well taken care of here, no worries! The weather here is always the same, its rainy and kinda of cold, or humid and really hot!
Yeah as far as the Spanish language there are days, like in the early morning, when my companion is speaking to me and my brain can´t seem to figure what the heck he´s saying to me! ha-ha But when I’m fully awake and my brain is working I can pretty much understand him. As far as talking about church or the Gospel I can pretty much understand everything other then a few words not in my vocabulary yet.
Thank you so much Mom and Dad for everything! Mom for all your love and support and Dad for all your love and advice! Carly for your goofy little letters! Yeah I definitely need to work on the three pillars a lot more, Dad. Prayer, reading & study, plus writing in my journal.
Love you all!
Elder Buck
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Elder McCoy Thomas Buck
Nicaragua Managua North Mission
A/P 3600
Managua, Managua Nicaragua
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I cannot write back to everyone especially outside of my immediate family, this is a mission rule, so please know I appreciate all of your letters and emails to me even if I cannot always respond with a personal note.
Anything like a card or letter in an envelope or package is express mailed through the postal system directly to the mission home. A card or letter may take 1-2 weeks to get to the mission home and it may be opened by custom officials. A package no larger than a shoe box is best to mail for delivery in 2-3 weeks. If it is a larger box it may take up to 6 weeks or longer to be delivered. All packages are usually opened and contents examined by the custom officials. To lessen the chances of theft it is best to tape pictures of Jesus on the outside of the box. The box contents will likely be left alone if the package looks religious and it is addressed to a mission.
Elder McCoy Thomas Buck
Nicaragua Managua North Mission
A/P 3600
Managua, Managua Nicaragua
It is not wise to send money by mail, so all money gifts should be given to my parents and they will see that I receive it.
I cannot write back to everyone especially outside of my immediate family, this is a mission rule, so please know I appreciate all of your letters and emails to me even if I cannot always respond with a personal note.
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