Hike up Apante Mountain

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Dear Family,

I am doing well and have felt good for a couple of weeks now. The teaching this week was a little discouraging for us...I had some Scotland experiences like you had Dad...lots of rejection. My companion and I were not able to do much teaching this week. The mission has high goals for us to reach each week: We should have 30 contacts a day. Make teaching appointments with 4 people each day. Commit 3 people to baptism each week. It is hard to reach those goals every week in this area, when people do not want to talk to us.

My companion and I are getting along better....he is trying to stop making smart alec remarks about me and everything he sees or experiences. I will start to look for unique items to buy and bring home from my mission. I have seen Nica things for so long nothing is really unique to me anymore but I will start to buy things I would never see in the states.

We went sight seeing again today...we went on a cool hike up a hill called “Apante's”. There were a lot of cool plants that I took pictures and video's off. We did get flooded out...we had a huge storm come out of nowhere and rained us off the mountain. It was so cold! I slipped in mud and fell down a hillside but I lived...it was kind of scary. Ha-ha I took a video of a plant that looks like a fern but when you touch the leaves it curls up and dies. I will try to down load the videos of the plants and rain storm...it takes forever to download videos from the simple computers here.

Thanks for the information about Matagalpa and the area around me. All I know is what I can see, teach or missionary work. I actually don't know much about Nicaragua, that is why I would like to come back after my mission as a tourist and visit the places I lived and visit the converts and follow up on them. I have realized that I'm not as intelligent as I thought I was coming out on my mission or I don't have a wide knowledge of a lot of things. School is really important! Ha-ha One good thing for me is I have learned a lot about the gospel on my mission and I love it.

Wow, Carly is already a senior...that is crazy...I hope she has a good year.

I am doing well and loving the mission. I hope everyone is happy and safe at home.

Love,
Elder Buck