tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21654609718000932992024-02-18T19:30:00.851-08:00Elder Parker Hendricks Missionary BlogJlHendrickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229460716654575835noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-74408680240424151042015-06-08T08:00:00.000-07:002015-06-15T06:58:28.180-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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Things are going pretty good here in Santa Ana. Looks like
the wedding was super sweet and that Zack and Spencer are growing out their
hair jaja. The rainy season has started and it rains just about every day! It
had been raining about every night but we have only come home soaked about 2
times. Now it’s raining during the day and it feels like October. It’s been
pretty cloudy during the day and then about 2 o clock to 4 it starts raining.
Saturday it was super cloudy and basically sprinkling all day which was super
awesome because the weather was perfect but the work is not perfect. It’s a lot
harder to contact people or get members to leave with you when it’s cloudy and
rainy... nobody really wants to do much and with a fast you gotta avoid the
people who always give food jaja jk. Anyways this week was super fast and full
of stuff. By the way I got your letters! Thanks! I got a huge group of like 8
letters on Friday when we had our district meeting I think that there had been
a back up on letters but everyone was pretty jealous jaja. Its sweet I love to
get letters even when Brynlee is just rubbing Florida in my face jaja --but
seriously don’t hesitate to send them jaja. Also, thanks Granddad and Grandma
it’s great to hear from you guys every week! I got the reception invitation
Friday and it’s too bad it didn't come earlier because I might have been able
to go jaja, but I had already made plans. It looks sweet but I’m a little
confused at why I wasn't invited to the wedding? jaja jk jk. Anyways its super
sweet to have conference and the song of hymns of our Savior --Come Thou Fount
is super awesome. Are there more songs on the album or more like that song? If
you just send it through email I can prob put it on the MP3 but it might be
easier if you just send it to me although it takes a lot longer. Oh and the
talk by Elder Holland is super awesome he really pulls out the machete jaja.
The talk his grace is sufficient is super sweet also. I had listened to it
before but it’s sweet to have it on paper. Anyways this week we moved! We
weren’t living in our area before and we still don't live in our area jaja, but
now we live a lot closer. We were walking like 15 minutes to our area and
20 to the church. Now it’s like 5 minutes by bus if we are lucky and 10
walking and like 3 blocks to our area which is way better although the house we
are in now is Huge! At some point there were 4 missionaries in this house but
now only 2. The thing that happened with the house is that the missionaries
that were living here one ended his mission mid change. I’m not exactly sure
why but anyways he ended mid change and so they closed this area which put no
missionaries in this house. Well the house is much closer so we asked if we
could move to the house and they said yes which was sweet. although when we
showed up the house was super dirty so we have been spending the mornings and
nights cleaning and yes I did what all of my brothers have done I went into the
shower dumped straight bleach and now its white and not black. Now the house is
pretty clean and its super sweet. Anyways this week was pretty sweet although
we are finding a lot of investigators which is awesome they aren't progressing
very fast. Although we have a family that’s a reference of a member that we are
gonna have a family night with them. They were gonna come to church, but then
his brother died so we are gonna throw down the lesson 2 which will help him a
lot. The family is super awesome and he is super weak from what happened to his
brother so hopefully he can find peace. We have been teaching the mom of
Claudia who is still attending the other ward but the prob is that it is
earlier and she is super busy in her work right now. She goes to church and
then goes to work but she said that it is going to calm down and that she will
go at 10 the next week to our ward. but anyways we have been teaching her mom
named Adela and she is super great but she owns a pupuseria and makes pupusas
in the morning in the market and so she is super busy Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays because these days are the most busy. We went Sunday and she gave us
pupusas as a gift which was sweet hopefully it’s not against the Sabbath. jaja.
Anyways she was super busy and said she might be able to come but then wasn't
able. She has seen the changes in her daughter since baptism and this really
makes her want to be baptized but the big problem is the work. We have taught
her to have faith and the Lord will prepare a way but its super hard. We are
gonna try to keep helping her and do what we can and rely on the Holy Ghost so
that hopefully she can receive the blessings of the Gospel. She has accepted a
baptismal goal but if she can’t go to church it’s hard to keep it but we will
see what will happen. The Ramirez family is starting to activate super well which
is super awesome. They have been coming to church the last three weeks and 3
weeks ago she received a calling. The bishop said oh look all she needed was a
calling and I was thinking this is what we have been saying since February! But
it’s all good and she and Steven went to all 3 classes which was super awesome!
Anyways I hope we are gonna have a sweet week. And you guys have fun in your
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Jimmy Jethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793253826424104379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-23093477710858653782015-04-20T09:10:00.002-07:002015-04-20T09:10:23.784-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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This week was freaking sweet here in the S.A. of E.L. It sounds
like everything is super sweet in the Lou. When are you guys gonna send the
Elder Holland CES devotional talk? Could you also send the Book of Mormon audio
in Spanish? That would be sweet! School of the Prophets by Joseph smith it’s
like 7 lessons for the missionaries in the 1800s something like that... I think
there is a mission Facebook page... you guys should check it out I could be on
there ... jaja send the blue small oil vile also that’s in the house. Thanks
for everything talk to you next weekkk... jaja jk <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week was super awesome though. We don’t have a lot of
investigators but the ones we have are progressing like crazy which is awesome.
Monday we ended P-day at 3 because we were going to the temple on Wednesday
which was super awesome. Monday started the rain and it stormed like crazy! We
got soaked which was great after a nice hot day. But the other nights we were
in houses when it rained or back in our house. One night when we were planning
we heard a lightning bolt and then thunder super loud it was crazy! And I was
super glad to be in the house. Wednesday we got up a 4:30 to go to the temple
which was super awesome. The spirit was super strong and it felt like I was
home. The temple was super beautiful also. We went to taco bell after which was
sweet because there is no taco bell in Santa Ana. Sunday was awesome. Carlos
and Kevin were confirmed and I gave a talk which I took like 20 minutes and not
10 jaja whoops! I talked about leccion 3 and like every point and used sweet
scriptures. It was there first time I gave a talk by only an outline but went
super well although Elder Lopez didn’t have time to talk... I talked about the
missionary purpose and each point which is lesson 3. Elder Lopez and I were
waiting outside for investigators when Claudia walked around the corner from
out of a class we had not expected here to be there because she had to work but
she came to the ward before us which was way sweet and a huge miracle. She received
answers to questions and when we taught her that night we were able to set a baptism date for the 30 of
abril!!! She said she wants elder Lopez to baptize her and is way positive! Its
super awesome! Last week we tried to set a date but she didn’t want anything
before June. Its super cool to see the change the gospel has in people’s lives.
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Jimmy Jethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793253826424104379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-34790864243805605462015-04-13T10:00:00.000-07:002015-04-14T20:08:53.887-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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How’s the brood? I’ll start with last week because I didn’t
have time to write everything. The temple trip Friday was super awesome. I was
a guide and Elder Lopez taught in a class although it wasn’t really much it was
an important assignment. I just took all
the people in my group to different stations I felt like a church history
missionary jaja. But it was super awesome. Anyway the temple trip went like
this-- we all met at the church and took a bus to the temple all free for
everyone. When we got there all the people went to the chapel where they
watched some videos and president spoke to them. Then they went to different
stations and different missionaries taught different things like auxiliary organizations
like Elders Quorum Relief society and young mens and young womens. Also the
missionaries gave “For the Strength of Youth” pamphlets which was sweet cause
this explains super well the standards and the whys for them. Claudia our
investigator really liked this. Her friend and nieces are young but she is like
40 but it’s still awesome that she brought people and learned a lot and its
progressing. Anyway the other stations were the Plan of Salvation, Family
History, Angel Moroni and the doors of the temple, Conferences, and After
Baptism. It started in the church and goes outside circles around the temple
and then after they leave the stations goes back into the temple. It was a way
spiritual experience and I had hoped that the members would have brought more
people but we didn’t have many from the members. Afterwards Elder Lopez was
asked to help drive Hermana Spjut’s car back but there is a tradition with the
office workers to do different things after the temple trip because they are
super stressed all day trying to put all of this together and keep it running
smoothly so our group left and there was one more group so we helped with
whatever thing they needed and then after we helped the office workers clean up
the church and we left to see an area of San Salvador. I would have taken pics
but left my camera in the car but hopefully I can get some from other people.
It was super cool they had like photos in the road of Christ and other things
cause it was Good Friday. they made it with like salt or sand and then later in
the night I guess they have like some sort of parade and walk through it down
the street it’s kind of crazy but they are super crazy about their religion
here. Afterwards we went to Chilis! jaja It’s like a tradition with all of the
office workers they work super hard all day and since Elder Lopez was going to
drive home we got to go which was awesome! Yes I know what you’re thinking...
Presidente did take a group of missionaries to eat at a restaurant that has a
bar. But it was super sweet. So I guess when Colton was eating at Pappy’s after
the temple I was eating at Chili’s after the temple jaja. We are going to have
a mission temple trip the 15 of april which is going to be super sweet! I’m
stoked to be able to go and enter! I think that they have like 2 temple trips a
year for the mission and if one of your converts gets their endowment you can
go I’m pretty sure one of Elder Lopez’s conversos is taking a temple prep class
right now and were hoping that she goes before changes so that we can go also!
It would be super sweet! Anyway Saturday started conference we felt like we hadn’t
talked to anyone after conference because it had been so long and we hadn’t had
time to visit some people. Claudia came to the first conference session and
really like it which was super awesome we visited her later that day and she is
really positive and we are starting to be able to see how God is preparing her.
We went into the house and there was a photo of the temple on the wall. Which
means she totally felt the spirit of the temple there and the power of temples.
It was way sweet! Hopefully we can get her to church and help her to accept the
gospel more in her life. Anyway conference was way sick! We had three
investigators there and Pablo came to Priesthood session and all of the ones on
Sunday. Elder Lopez watched in Spanish and I watched in English in another room
because Its way hard to understand the translator and its wayyy!! better in
English jaja. I’m pretty sure Saturday Cameron was glad he was engaged... they
really laid that one down jaja. It made some missionaries that are close to
going home start thinking about where their biggest priorities should be.
Anyways I really liked the talk by Pres Eyring. It had never occurred to me that fasting is a
commandment of God! Also it made me realize I need to not think of myself and
pay more fast offerings because there are millions of people out there that I
could help with that. Some other sweet talks were Elder Holland... Wow that was
a super awesome story and application to the atonement of Jesus Christ. His
atonement is amazing! The other sweet thing is that I get to see his atonement
everyday as it works in people and helps them to overcome their problems in
life. Another talk well there were so many sweet ones but, the 70 that talked
about Leadership in missions and how it doesn’t matter. What matters is that we
are the missionaries that God wants us to be, if we do that we are going to be successful
and have no regrets. The other talk that about the guy on his mission and his
comp got off the bike and he was wondering what he was doing and complaining
and after heard a voice that said compared to me there’s not much difference
between the two of you... WoW!! That was super crazy and humbling. Many times
you think you know better than someone else but everyone needs to be humble. it’s
like the talk about pride by Ezra Taft Benson about pride man that talk really
makes you rethink yourself and your pride problems. The other talk by Brent H.
Nielson was super awesome also. The way he compared the prodigal son and the
story of his sister was way powerful! It’s a good application to use with part
member families is that you need to keep loving them. Tons of families give up
and don’t show love and this is completely wrong! Do as Jesus would do and
things will all be alright and you will feel better about your relationship. Anyway...
what’s up with Pres. Monson? He barely spoke in like all the conference and he
looks super sick... Maybe he is working on delagating more? jaja. After conference we had a baptism by
Kevin and we had a friend in the ward baptize him it was super sweet but he is
a lot taller than his friend and the water was low so after 4 tries they went
to the knees and after like 2 tries they went sitting and after we got it!
jaja. It was a little rough but all good. This week was good we are working on
working with the member because we need more investigators. Also the family
that went to the temple doesn’t live in our area so were probably going to pass
on this reference. This is the problem with the church in Latin America nobody
goes to their correct ward! It’s terrible because if someone goes inactive the
missionaries can’t visit them! But last night there was a Meeting for the
Endowed and we were curious of what this was for. It’s a stake meeting. Apparently
the president of the stake had revelation for this during conference and this
is what the area 70 said to do. but in the meeting he said (we didn’t go but
heard it from members) if you are attending the wrong ward and don’t change
they are going to start taking away calling and not giving temple recommends to
those who don’t live in the area. We have a ton of illegals in our ward and
some may go inactive from this but it’s like who’s going to stand faithful in
the end. We are prepping for the second coming. anyways this week was super
good. we had the baptism of Carlos he lives out of the area but lives with his
grandma who lives on a mountain where nobody knows what area it is. Also his
mom and Dad attend this ward. But eventually many people are going to have to
return to their own wards. Which will make missionary work soooo much better! Anyway
I continue to work hard with Elder Lopez and I am learning much from him. I
really hope to be ready to work without him after this change. His is not baggy
(trunky) and is trying hard not to end his mission that way. Anyways all is
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Jimmy Jethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793253826424104379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-76269454592992372652015-04-06T09:00:00.000-07:002015-04-14T19:50:47.648-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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This week was super sweet and I hope I have time to write
about all of it. Conference was super awesome. I’m pretty sure Cameron is glad
to be engaged --wow they really put that down hard. Jaja! (Saturday’s
sessions). It is way important to have questions at conference. I had like 6
but only two were answered clearly. I bet if I look through and study the talks
and my notes the answers are there. It’s so awesome to hear from the apostles
and prophets, I feel bad for the people who believe they only need the bible.
Think of all the revelation they are missing out on. The bible only contains part
of the fullness of the gospel. It’s like the story of the person in conference
that started to read the bible, but found herself back reading the Book of
Mormon. We have one investigator that I want her to know this is true and open
her heart to the word of God. She is a great women and I hate that she is
living in ignorance to the word of God. The true word is in front of her and
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The temple trip was super awesome. We had 7 Inv there. 1
family who has a son on a mission in Panama that I’m pretty sure I met in the
CMM. We have been teaching this family that I feel sure we are going to baptize
the 25th. The only prob is that they live outside of our area, but they have
friends here. This was a prob yesterday. We had a baptism of Kevin after conf.
Well he lives in Pyramidal right on the limit of Independencia. The bishop of
Pyramidal found out and kind of got mad at us and told us not to. We told the
bishop to send members to visit him, but he didn’t. So during the baptism he saw
we were baptizing him and called president. Who called the ZLs, the other
problem is that he has been attending church in another area. We have been
working on getting him friends here and one of his friends in the ward baptized
him yesterday it was super sweet! He is way taller, so I felt bad because he
baptized him like ten times before it was right. The water wasn’t high enough
so he went to his knees and it didn’t work. So then they went to sitting and we
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At the temple we had an investigator there that’s called
Claudia. She brought a friend and 2 nieces to the temple trip and one wants to
get baptized! She lives out of the area so we are going to pass the reference
on and hopefully she can! It’s super sweet! The temple was way awesome. Claudia
is a hard investigator but she learned a ton and came to conference the first
session which I wasn’t expecting. We have noticed a change in her since. The
investigators learned a ton at the temple and the spirit was awesome. Ill
explain a little bit more next week about the temple trip, but it was way
sweet! Anyways I’ll talk to you guys next week. Sounds like everything is sweet
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want us out of here ASAP. So basically when the time is up they kick us out.
But I can prob do it another way I will see. This week is changes and I am
staying here in Indepencia with Elder Lopez. This means that He is going to die
with me. Yes it is his last change. We are going to work hard in making sure he
doesn’t leave the mission baggy. That’s sweet for Colton to be in the office.
Elder Lopez only trained for 6 weeks instead of 12 and after his first 6 weeks
he went to the office and hasn’t been just a normal missionary since then. He
went DL, ZL, AP, ZL, Trainer. Which is pretty crazy, but I’m glad I have a
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How much money did you guy put in my bank – 50? Could you
take out 5.20 from my account and pay tithing. This week I’m super stoked about
Friday we have an excursion to the temple with investigators. We go up there
and about half the day. There are two groups one in the morning and one in the
afternoon. But we are going to be there all day because my comp is Elder Lopez
and he is driving one of the vans back in the night. It's gonna be sweet.
President talks to all the investigators in the chapel and after there is a
bunch of stations where they can learn about the temple. After Saturday and
Sunday we have conference it’s gonna be super sweet. I hope we have a bunch of
investigators at these things. There are 6 things so they have no excuse not to
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Sunday we had two people confirmed in church which was
sweet. Steven and Noemi were baptized, but Steven and the family didn’t come to
church. Pablo and Noemi were confirmed this weekend and we hope to have a
baptism with Kevin... yes another! jaja its super sweet. Kevin has 16 years and
he wants to be baptized he lives on the limit of our area, but it’s super close
to the chapel. He is an inv from Molino that Elder Lopez brought over after
changes the last time. He is a super good guy and wants to serve a mission
also. He has had many challenges in his live and he lives with his grandma who
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From this last week the work continues to move forward. We
have a new video from the church that we have been watching with member it’s
called GraciasAQueElVive prob something like that. “He Lives” in English. It’s
super awesome. This video is amazing and we have pass along cards with it. It’s
kind of like “He is the Gift” from Christmas. Members are the best for
references. All of our next baptisms are references from members and our old
baptisms. Our bishop is super happy with us. I don’t believe this ward has had
many baptisms is the past and the last two weeks in a row we have had 5 --the
hermanas had 2. It’s super awesome! The
members are necessary for the work. Without them we wouldn’t have any chosen
people to teach that are progressing. Anyways this week should be super awesome
and I am way excited. We had dinner with members Saturday and saw a part of the
women’s conference jaja. In order to improve the relationship between members
and missionaries we have made a food calendar which is super sweet. The future
missionaries are gonna love us jaja. Anyway, take care. Thanks for all the love
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Things are going good here. Seems like the party is over and
back to work. Yesterday Pablo was baptized! It was super sweet and I did the
ordinance. It was super cool and afterwards the spirit was super strong. We
didn't baptize Steven because he didn't come to church. The problem with him is
he is young and lives with a less active family that doesn't really understand
the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy. Which makes it super hard for
us to be able to get them to church. But, hopefully we can reactivate them and
baptize him next Sunday. He understands the importance of baptism and wants to
be baptized which is super sweet! At the baptism yesterday the mother of Pablo
and his sister came and his sister has a little girl. I’ll send pics. But the
mother has been inactive for a while and is a super nice lady. We are going to
try to teach her also and reactivate her --vamos a ver. After the baptism Pablo
shared his testimony and talked about how Alma had been racked with torment,
but through Christ he was able to overcome. Pablo has faced difficulties but he
has overcome them and made one of the greatest decisions in his life --to take
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Some different things -- people peeing in the street.
Churches everywhere. Dogs in the street. Cars that have huge speakers on top
that drive around super loud advertising things. But it’s all good. Jaja. This
Saturday we have another baptism. This is with Naomi. She is the wife of a
convert of a year. He is a super good guy and is a counselor in the Elders
Quorum. She supposedly was baptized a year ago but there is no record of it so
we are teaching her. We always teach at members houses with her cause they live
way out of the area. It’s really common with converts here, because they become
comfortable in this ward so they stay here. But she really wants an eternal
family so most of our lessons have been focused on that. But it’s going super
well and my comp is great. I am having fun and learning a lot from him. As far
as the area we had splits with the ZL´s and DL´s this week and I have been
humbled and seen a lot more of the poorer areas. But it’s all super
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How was the vacation? I really hope you guys enjoyed the
beach. I wish I could go swimming. It’s super hot! But, it’s all good. Thanks
for all the birthday wishes! Things are going super good here in Independencia.
I am learning a lot. We had 3 Investigators at church yesterday which was super
sweet. We are hoping for 2 baptisms this coming Sunday -- Pablo and Steven.
Pablo is the Brother of a member that we met the first week and have been
teaching. He is a super good guy and was a miracle. The first week here we went
to mutual and there he was sitting on the couch and wanted to be baptized. He
is super accepting to the lessons and struggled to get to church the first
couple weeks but yesterday he was sick and still came which is super great. He
only came to the first meeting but its super awesome that he was there. He has
various addictions and problems but we have been working really hard with him
and he has been reading a lot and praying. We are going to have a fast Saturday
and Sunday to help him with his problems so hopefully all will go well. He is a
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A funny story about fasting Saturday as started a fast for
Pablo and another man in the ward. They were going to fast with us, but Pablo
was sick and so we decided to change the fast to next Saturday. We had already
started so we continued on and fasted with the man in the ward. We went to the
first house where we had an appt. There the lady offered us fruit and we said
we had to go so we bagged it and saw the sister missionaries and gave it to
them. Then afterwards we had an appt with Pablo and his sister was an about to
make us drinks (not alcoholic), but we had Pablo remind her we were fasting.
Anyways we continued after and realized we had a dinner appt at 7 and it was
6:30. We realized we couldn’t cancel and so we had to go and eat... I felt so
bad. Because I want to help these two guys and do what I can so the Lord and
the atonement can strengthen them in their problems, but we couldn’t be rude.
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Steven is another investigator that we have been teaching
from about the first week. He is 13 years old and lives with a less active
family that we have been trying to reactivate. They are a super nice family and
the Mom always feeds us. Anyways Stevens Mom is not alive and his Dad lives in
the U.S and from what I can tell he doesn’t really want much to do with him.
But, Steven is super excited to be baptized. We really need to find him friends
in the church in order to strengthen him especially with young people. For my
birthday the work continued to move forward jaja. Pres. called in the morning
and wished me a happy birthday. Were gonna probs buy some pastel today but who
knows. But, we ate lunch with some members that we usually eat lunch with on
Sundays they are super nice. We had carne asada and it was super delicious and
cake and they smashed my face in the cake jaja. I’ll send some pics it was
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Quick question --did you ever turn in the DTG paper? I hope
cause now I can’t get it. As far as questions I think you guys have... I’m in
the city so most people aren’t super poor although there are some. Cameron made
it seem like they would have nothing. They don’t feed us like they do in
Mexico. The food is meat or something. Salad, if it’s washed its fine and bread
or tortillas. We have only ever eaten lunch with members and they only eat
papusas for breakfast and dinner. It’s illegal to eat papusas for lunch jaja
Jk. Yes, El Salvador is ripe and ready for harvest. The mission goal is 1600
baptisms by the end of the year and two per companionship each month. The culture
has fear of saying no. We met a man from Belgium the other day and he wasn’t
very accepting to even a pass along card. The people will say yes though and
then won’t be there or will hide when we show up jaja -- it’s kinda funny. We
had inter changes with the ZLs this week and I stayed here. I thought we were
going to get lost or I wouldn't know where to go or what to do with all the
investigators but all went super well. We didn’t get lost and I led the lessons
really well. There are papusarias almost everywhere. The Zls don’t always go to
the office so I have no Idea if I got my cards. I’m trying to do the best I can
to be healthy I've been a little sick, but let’s hope I stay good. My stomach
has been adapting though. Yesterday we had sacrament meeting and it was
missionary themed. The ward mission leader called an hour before church and asked
me to give a testimony (yes, I can bear my testimony in Spanish) and my comp
gave a talk. We are in the city of Santa Ana and about 45 minutes on bus to the
mission office. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How’s the beach? You guys are in Florida correct? I should
expect letters from all of you then because I know you’re just sitting around
eating junk and watching rubbish. Did you guys get my pics from the mountain? It’s
pretty sweet! I´ll send some other pics later. What’s the deal with the BYU
app? Should I wait for later or what? Maybe I can write the essays here and
send them to Keisha and she can finish the application. That would be great but who
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Cameron had after his mission_ from Landon or whatever_ I’m curious of the best
way to organize my scriptures for lessons and stuff... I’m pretty sure my comp
has all of the scriptures memorized. As for Grandma and Granddad I received the
letter from that’s in the envelope that’s the first that’s not in pouch or
folded. I think it’s the first one to be sent to the mission that’s why it came
faster or maybe pouch is slower... anyways as for this week it went super-fast!
it was way good though things are slowly getting normal and I´m getting more
and more used to the people and the language although some days I´m lost when
people talk or during lessons. Monday we found a lady to wash our clothes which
is super sweet! I think were spoiled being in the city but who knows_ all I
know is that if we had to wash our own clothes apparently it would take all
day. After we wrote we met some other missionaries in the centro and went to
this restaurant called pollo campestro it was pretty good but it was like a Latino
kfc but we just went to have lunch and see some other missionaries. Afterwards
we met this man who is a Jew outside who some of the other missionaries had
tracted into before. He was a super nice guy and told us Pollo Campestro wasn´t
clean ja ja. Anyways, I´m pretty sure he works here. He is from Israel but
lived in the U.S. for like 30 years. He knows Hebrew, English, and Spanish.
Afterwards I got a watch! I hated asking my comp all the time what time it was.
I didn´t want to wear my other watch because I didn´t want to attract attention
to myself so I´ll prob just pack it away until later. We had a 2 Noche de Hogar
which is FHE here and I thought it was so cool how the Church is the same
everywhere you go. People talk, teach, and learn, all the same with the church
no matter where you are at in the world. It’s so sweet! Wednesday was a rough
day. We had tons of appointments fall through. People were kind of rude but it doesn’t
matter they´re all children of God and if he can love them I can too. Anyways,
we even had a Lady who is super good and came to church last Sunday we taught
her and she was super accepting to the Gospel and she loved church. But, she
said she was too accustomed to her own church. It’s a shame that she’s now a
member because she is a great lady but, maybe later she will open her heart. We
had taught her a great lesson about the Plan of Salvation and she wants to live
with her family again but she is too accustomed to her own church but maybe
later. A lot of the time when people say no you just have to realize your
planting seed and hope that later they will accept the Gospel. Anyways, I was
getting pretty down but we were walking down the street and saw a Man walking
with his Daughter and I said to my comp lets go talk to him. I went and started
talking to him and we explained who we are and what we do and he just started
crying and said I want to change. We asked if we could teach him and we went to
his house and to his Family and taught them Lesson 3. His wife is pregnant and
they have 3 kids 1 is Over 8 which is sweet. Families are so great. Because our
message is so focused on them and families are usually more open to the Gospel because
they are humble and want to live eternally together. Anyways He was super
accepting to the Gospel and when we invited him to Church he said yes and
looked at his family and said vamos which is interpreted to mean let´s go. It´s
so great to know how God is preparing chosen people to hear the Gospel every
day and We can´t give up when times get hard that’s when God tests us If we can
make it through that’s when he blesses us. Thursday we had a Multi'Zone meeting
it was super long but super good! Elder Lopez and I prepared a sweet lesson
about Circulos de influencia or circles of influence. We drew circles on the
board and had 3 people shoot at it with a toy bow and arrow from differing
distances. We showed after how each point in the target is a member or someone
who relates to the church less active, inactive, leader, anyways each of these
people has a circle of influence and the majority of the time your investigators
will live in these circles of influence. These areas are the best place to work
because the neighbors are people that see them recognize a difference and we
can use these member to receive references to teach. We talked how Ammon and
King Lamoni met his father at first he said to kill him when he said no and
other stuff happened jaja) I explained better in the lesson= after the father
desired to learn about this religion. Not because of the missionary but because
of his son. The Member. It was a great lesson none the less. Also at the
multizona all the missionary companions got cell phones which is so much better
for missionary work. Many times we will go somewhere and an appt will fall
through or something this will help so much to be able to confirms lessons in
the day. But things are going super great here. The man and his family
got sick and wasn’t able to go to church but there’s always next week! Yesterday
we went and had lunch with a family in the ward and they asked when my birthday
was I told them the 15 and they freaked out and invited us to lunch next week
jaja. I honestly didn’t think I was going to do anything for my birthday and didn’t
really care. Maybe just buy a cake or something Saturday night. You guys should
check out the Satan’s rebellion and the doubts and questions part of the Liahona
this month. They are super good talks! My Spanish continues to improve and
things are getting better. We had a man at church we have been trying to get to
church for a while and finally came. So now we have a date for the 22 and
hopefully 1 for the 15. Elder Lopez really knows what he’s doing. But it’s hard
because sometimes I get caught up in greeny pride. Hahaha anyways what do you
guys want to know? Have fun in Flo Rida! I have like 20 more minutes if you
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I have a video for Brynlee to watch: the Mormon message about the little
boy and the scorpion. Tell her to write me about it and apply it to her own
life. Things here are going good. I can understand more and more each day
although there are some days I feel like a take a step back. I do feel like a bag of sand
in each lesson although I bear my testimony and can say some memorized things
like the how to begin teaching. I had it all down in the CCM but here my mind
is blank. It's super hard but other than learning the language I also have to
learn to teach the gospel in that language. I need to think the gospel in Spanish. It's super hard because at times I feel like I'm losing my understand
and abilities, but it will get better. As Elder Bednar said once-- most people
don't realize the strengthening ability of the atonement along with the healing.
The only thing i really need to understand is when the spirit talks to me. In
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Anyway we had a talent show in
our ward and I almost had to play a song and was gonna play it but I didn't have
to. Another sister in our ward played the guitar and the four of us sang "I am a
child of God". I hope you got my mas Cerca Dios de Ti song I sent. Anyways the
people here are super great. We have only ate lunch at people's houses and they
don't eat papuses for lunch only breakfast and dinner. Although all the ladies
here always make tortillas and so you always eat tortillas at meals and they're
not American tortillas jaja. they always offer refresco to us though and the
drinks here are super delicious. there is a soda here that is super popular only
here its called Kolashanpan you guys should look it up and try it its super
good. As far as letters-- all letters go to the mission office so you don't have
to worry about my address changing. Thursday the new people went to San Salvador. It was cool and I got to see the temple. There is an activity with the
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Anyway the van broke down on the way
there and we had to take a bus back. 4 new missionaries I had no idea what to
do but we made it safely back. It was an interesting experience because in the
city every time we stop salesman get on the bus and sell to us jaja. I slept
basically the whole time. We got to the mission office where my comp was and we
got on a bus to go back with another set of elders and did a bus contact It was
super cool. We just told the bus who we were and asked if anyone wanted to make
changes in their lives. We got a couple references and handed out cards it was
cool though. Sunday we had 3 baptism dates set for the 15 but only 3 people
came to church and 1 from that group. Hopefully we can have more. When we
found out one of the guys wasn't coming we left the church 5 minutes before to
go get him. I thought of the scripture to leave the 99 and get the one. It was
a great experience for me as to what is missionary work. We have to leave the
99 and get the 1 although he wasn't able to come it was a lesson to me. the first
week here we went to mutual and here everyone goes. We met a man who was the
brother of a member that wants to be baptized he has missed 2 sacrament
meetings but he is super excited to learn and hear of the gospel. anyways
the peanut butter has been great i eat it about everyday jaja.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wow! that was a lot of reading. It's all good. It was a
lot because I had no time last week to read we had like 5 minutes to write a
letter but it's all good. I miss the CCM it was so nice and air conditioned. It's way hot here! There are not many mosquitoes but we will see. I haven't been sun
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Today we hiked up the mountain by the city. It was super
beautiful but really dry. It hasn't rained here in like 6 months. People here
are always burning their trash in the street or the sides of mountains or
something who knows? It was super awesome but took a lot of the P day.
Hopefully you got my pics and hopefully I can write a little more next week but
we shall see. you guys were pretty accurate on guesstimating what I was feeling but if you have been their before it's easy to empathize. Man missionaries
in the states have it way easy! It's hardly a mission. This is way harder than I thought it could be. As I said with empathize. Each experience is different
but the same so we shall see. So the end of the CCM was good. Monday night our
district went to President's apartment in the CCM and watched "Meet the Mormons" with president with popcorn and soda. It was way sweet! Sunday night president
came to us after a devotional and said a man who works at the temple had a
stroke and they need guys to give platelets. (Landon will understand) anyways
we went at like 10:30 and didn't get back until 2:30. It's the latest I'll ever
stay up in my mission. Anyway we went and I almost passed out during the
sample so i couldn't do it haha. 4 guys from our district came with us and 2 had
too small of veins so they just had other people give platelets and we gave blood. I didn't give cause I didn't want to pass out. Another guy passed out haha it was
all super good though. I found out I have B positive blood. Hopefully the man
that had the stroke ended up okay. The whole time I was thinking about how I want to help this man I don't know and do all I can so I was bummed, I could give
blood but I was thinking of Mosiah 2:17... only in the service of your God. We
said in our district we came to spiritually save lives but hopefully tonight we
can physically save a life. Anyway the bus ride went super well and was only like 3.5
hours. We got Santa Ana and street contacted a little then met the office Elders, had
some lunch, and then we ate dinner at president's a papusa (of course) haha and some other
stuff. My trainer is super good! He's only been a member like 3 years. But he
works super hard. He's been an assistant for like 8 months--zone leader you name
it haha. everyone at changes said they were super jealous cause he's like the
best in the mission. I'm pretty lucky and want to learn all I can. The Spanish
is coming along pretty well. I'm kinda useless right now though and feel pretty
bad cause I can't do much and never know what's going on. It will get better
though. Our ward is super good and they want to work which makes it way easy. I've had papusas twice and they are super good. ones with garlic and cheese are
way good also! anyways hopefully i can say more next we. but we shall
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We are happy to announce that your son, Elder Hendricks, has safely arrived in
our mission. The night of his arrival, we enjoyed getting to know him during
dinner at the mission home, and we can tell that he is going to be a great
missionary. We are grateful for the sacrifices you and your missionary have
made that allow him to be here. We pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will pour
out his blessings upon your family. We are very happy to have your son with us
and we know he will bless the lives of many people here in the great country of
El Salvador.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He has been
assigned to the area of Independencia in the Modelo Stake. His companion is
Elder Lopez from Guatemala. He is a determined, hardworking missionary
who is diligent in the Lord´s work. We expect to see great success from this
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February 17, 2015 at 1:40:40 PM CST<br />
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don't have much time to write this week. I will write monday with all the
details or from what I can remember from the rest of the CCM and my first week.
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This week was great. I leave Tuesday for Santa Ana. I will
miss the hospitality and the people here but I’m am excited to finally get to share
this great message. Monday I got your package. Thanks! It’s been really nice to
have! And I got a letter from Granddad
and Brynlee a couple days ago. I think mail from Utah takes longer but Idk.
Tuesday we got to leave the CCM and see the City. It is a beautiful city. The
architecture is amazing. We went to the central commercial which is a market
and I was feeling great when a guy ran up to the new nurse lady who had only
been here a week and snatched her necklace. It was really freaky. He ran off after
that. I immediately put my watch in my pocket. We walked around the market and
saw some stuff. I didn’t have much Guatemalan money so I didn’t get anything.
We went to Wendy’s afterwards and it was great to finally have some “American”
food. After we went to this plaza and began talking to people. It was harder
than I thought. Especially to get started. I felt like I was in the movie “The Best
Two Years”. But as we began to talk to more and more people it became easier
and at the end a guy came up to us and started talking to us while I was
talking to someone else so my comp started talking to him and I continued
talking. I only gave out 2 pass along cards cause time was a little short. But
a friend in my district gave out 4 LDM. It was a sweet experience even if I
could understand much of what they were saying. We heard a great talk about the
atonement on Sunday by Elder Holland from June 2006 and a great Devotional with
our president that got us fired up. We now say “fuego arriba” to our mission
president all the time haha. He says much of how we need to smile because
people don’t want to listen to sad people.
That kind of reminds me of your experience dad haha. Yesterday elder
Jose Alonzo from the area 70 of Central America came to the CCM and talked to
us. Our district had a great a capella special musical number of mas cerca Dios
de te. It was a great experience and brought the spirit in really well. He
talked to us about Enos and prayer. He also talked about D&C 11:21 and if
we desire something we can have it through Christ. We had an amazing district
meeting after but the spirit constrains me to talk about it. It’s just a lot and it was a pretty emotional meeting
because our DL told how he had a friend die of cancer who was one of the
happiest people and best friends he had and how his grandma died just a week
before he left. Later he said it’s just as hard to lose a family member as it
is to have one fall away from the church. Which is pretty true. Although with
your family member you know you can see them again if you and they are
faithful. But things are going great here. BYU needs to pick up some slack. oh
yeah we got like 20 new American’s it’s crazy and one came all the way from New
Zealand. I told him my dad went there on his mission. I can’t remember what
part. He didn’t say much about Wellington but he seems like a great guy. He is
going to Coban Guatemala. Which is the jungle and they speak q’eqchi. It’s the
native language of Guatemala. A guy in our district taught us a little he is
one of my best friends in the zone. And our ZL. He is going to Qtalcenango and
his dad went to the same mission which is crazy! Anyways I’m excited to leave Tuesday.
I’m pretty sure I take a bus. I’m going to miss some people here. Hope things
are going good at home. I can’t believe you are disgracing my room like that. I’m
pretty sure that I write Monday but not 100 percent. Anyways peace and love,
Elder Hendricks. Keep up the letters and tell my home boys from the Lou to
write me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jimmy Jethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793253826424104379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-25851014390785815402015-02-15T09:07:00.002-08:002015-02-15T09:07:33.991-08:00Letter #5
February 2 2015
Hey Fam,
Things are going good here in the CCM. It looks like everyone figured I would be writing tomorrow or Wednesday. Jaja (He has had a different p-day or time to write every week and this week it was Monday) Yesterday was a good fast Sunday. I think it was the first time in my life I went a whole 24 hours exactly jaja. The Latinos and 1 district of Americans leave tomorrow. In the morning we are going to the temple. And in the afternoon we have to be out of the building for cleaning so we are going to the central market. I’m pretty excited. So is the rest of our district. I’m picturing a really dirty and unsanitary Soulard (St Louis Farmers market) but who knows? We get new Latinos Wednesday and Tuesday. I think it’s all the Latinos that will be going to my missions because I haven’t met anyone else going to Santa Ana. We must come 4 weeks earlier than the Latinos.
We are learning a lot here. I’m pretty sure my teaching skill has improved a ton. But compared to the teacher we are pretty bad. Our evening teacher is a Guatemalan native. He is super cool and speaks really good English. He served his mission in Salt Lake City. All the guys in our district think he is one of the three Nephites. One reason is because last week we all went to the temple and he was a worker there. He is only like 22. it’s crazy but he can teach with some serious power. Yesterday we watched 2 videos. Usually we watch a video of a devotional and then go to president’s apartment. Only the North American’s go which we pretty lucky to get close to our president while in the CCM but it’s the other North Americans last Sunday so they only went. So we watched the Joseph Smith story which is a great movie and a MTC devotional with Elder Holland from March 2008. Man, that guy will singe your eyebrows off! It was a great devotional. Tim Perkins said the opening prayer haha. Elder Holland said “Don’t you dare go home with regrets”. He also talked about how we are God’s investigators. If we want our investigators to pray he wants us to pray. It was really good. He also told us were apostles with a lower case “a” but don’t said to not misquote him on that. We had a health lesson yesterday. It was pretty gross but really good to hear because I don’t know how much they are going to tell us in the mission field. I hope I don’t get bit by any Chuchos. Basically they said some vegetables you want to buy pre washed in packages and fruits you want to clean and spray your house for bugs. The other two 70 (not the highway) that were at the devotional were elder Anderson and Elder Kevin Duncan and Elder Craig C. Christensen.
It was a good devotional but I told you about it last week. umm... well I only got old emails so I didn’t have much to read and I have like 30 minutes left so I’m prob gonna start writing about random stuff. I know what happened in the super bowl. Pretty lame I missed it. Sounds super exciting. Patriots won 28-24 Seahawks threw an interception with 20 seconds left in the end zone. Poor Richard Sherman guess he is no longer the best in the league. But I hate the patriots less than the Seahawks so I’m glad the Seahawks lost. Especially after last year that they are in the rams division. Does the patriots winning show that they deserved it or what? I guess this will go down as a controversial year. We heard about it last night from President haha.
Poor thunder losing to the Cavs. Dang LeBron thought he was gonna be out longer. and how does BYU lose to San Diego? They must be falling apart. Our president said that when he was a mission president in Mexico Leon his brother (I think its Tyler?) was his assistant for a time haha. Scripture for the week: Alma 22:18 O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God, and if thou are God, wilt thou make thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day. And now when the king had said these words, he was struck as if he were dead. I read this this week and wanted to share. It’s a powerful scripture from a man who wanted to hear about the Gospel and had never believed in God or even thought he existed but from a simple prayer with real intent and having faith was able to learn much. Anyways I think that’s about it for the week Love, Elder Hendricks
Jimmy Jethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793253826424104379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-26505220806735125532015-01-25T12:11:00.003-08:002015-01-25T12:11:42.813-08:00Tue 1/20/2015 12:15 PM<br />
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Week 3 here in the CCM. Things have been getting pretty routine here. I bet you guys don’t even feel like I'm gone. I forgot to ask why Mom didn't write last week except for 2 forwarded letters. Whelp whatever. The computers weren't working so I’ll prob sent out my letter in two parts. We have lunch and then we are going to the central market it’s going to be sweet I hope. This morning we did a temple session in the Guatemala City temple it was way cool. We did it in English and like 2 ladies had translators. It’s pretty quiet here cause all of the Hispanic Elders have left for their missions there is 2 American districts here and we have all been doing different stuff together for today. During sports we started playing volleyball after the Latinos leave cause we have sports 30 min after cause it overlaps and now in order to get ripped our mission president is ripped and does these work out videos so me and another Elder are going to do them cause he told us to start to jaja. We going to get super ripped. After though we play volleyball with our district and its way fun. I forgot to tell you the first week here they gave us all haircuts so now my hair is super short but it’s starting to grow back to normal but its makes my head look all round jaja. I also forgot to make sure you guys tell Jackson happy birthday for me. I wish i had addresses so I could write letters but i guess not. I bought some colored pencils at the store but I still have to wear my glasses and shave without a handle but I’ve learned to live with it. What does the mission book in my room say about contacts because people coming to Guatemala said not to use them but I don’t remember that. I haven't seen anyone else wearing contacts. So I’m a lot better now. The nurse gave me a traveler’s diarrhea pill. And now I’m a lot better although someday the food in the cafe in gross and sometimes its good. In church they always make me play the piano and don’t let me choose the song I guess it’s just a Latin thing they want to do whatever they want idk. Plus its super hard cause if you lose your place you don’t know where you’re at. Cause it’s all in Spanish. I wish I had stellar piano skills but i don’t and the Latinos don’t like some of the American favorites but whatever I do the best I can. The other day i had to get a tetanus and a typhoid shot. i guess we messed up idk. one missionary in our district told us this funny story about how when his Dad was on a mission they taught a lesson and he had one job to do that was to read 1 Nephi 3:7 he said his Dad accidently read 3 Nephi 3:7 and I’ll let you guys read that one ha its pretty funny though. But things are going really great here. I’m starting to understand what it really means to study before the mission i would just read to learn and stuff but as a missionary there is so much to study and look up because you have so many resources and so much they you want to study and learn but you don’t have enough time. We also have been improving our teaching skills our last lesson went super Good lessons should be way more personal and the only way to do that is through asking inspired questions. You start to realize people that are so ready for the Gospel when you teach and know what they need and how you could teach them like the lady at the food pantry. Anyways I don’t think I’ll be writing later so I won’t see your emails if there is any :( so I better hear double. ha-ha<u></u><u></u></div>
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P.S. someone should tell Elder Anderson that the chocolate milk here is gross<u></u><u></u></div>
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P.S.S They took our cameras and MP3s when we got here but ill have the camera at the central market today so hopefully I’ll have some sweet pic next week<u></u><u></u></div>
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JlHendrickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229460716654575835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-33247442219511963352015-01-25T12:08:00.004-08:002015-01-25T12:08:54.101-08:00Wed 1/14/2015 11:00 AM<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
How’s it going!? Sorry if my typing is bad but these Keyboards are really annoying. It has the layout of a regular keyboard but the letters on the keyboard show the layout of an American keyboard. Anyways things are going real good here. When did Mike get home? Oh and thanks for the scores. I was gonna be real upset if I logged on and didn't hear one thing about the playoff game. Seems like Ohio state’s 3rd string QB was too much for the Heisman winner . But I cant believe no one has told me about the NFL??? Seriously?<u></u><u></u></div>
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So this week has gone by really fast although the first day was stinking slow. Even though we slept like half of the day . I think it was slow because that night flight was so long it stunk. But things are going real good. Besides the fact that everyone here feels like they are in prison . So everyday I get up and make some toast it’s delicious. I love it. My life is good. jk we get ready for the day have personal study then language study. (and I’m just gonna give up on punctuation now cause this keyboard is annoying sorry) but then we get taught lessons like all day we have lunch at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1288766296" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12:30</span></span> sports at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1288766297" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:30</span></span> which is really funny because the walls around the sports area which is outside is like over ten feet tall so it’s like playing sports in jail. And somehow two elders have managed to hit a basketball and a volleyball over the fence . Now the sisters can’t play volleyball anymore. But there is a gym area next to the basketball and volleyball courts that have ellipticals and weights to use. Usually I just play basketball with the Latinos and then run once they leave cause we have sports 30 min after them. But it’s sweet. The weather here is amazing but some of the Latinos think its cold I’ve heard a lot of people say El Salvador is hot but I’m pretty sure that’s all relative... idk but Santa Ana is in the mountains I’ve heard and most people are from San Salvador and not Santa Ana and it’s hotter in San Salvador. The food here is pretty good but lately it’s been making me sick... I’ll get to that later ha. We have a teacher in the morning and a teacher in the afternoon evening. My companion is Elder Kesler. He is from Oregon and he is a super nice guy. Only the sisters here are from Utah and I didn’t see them on the plane we all met up in L.A. which is Huge. The airport and the city from what I saw on the plane. We had a sister from New Jersey that lived in Mexico and she is only here for two weeks so she isn’t in our district. And an elder from California who is in the Latino district who knew Spanish. Our district is just the Americans that all came in at the same time. There is three elders from Oregon who didn’t know each other before and they are all going to the same mission Guatemala este. And another Elder who is from Washington who is going to qtalcennango. And the sisters are all from Utah 3 are going to qtalcenango and 1 is going to my mission. Anyways, every night we teach our second teacher as a mock investigator. Which has gone really well. He has said our lessons have been getting better but he says that to the whole group so I hope they are getting better. After our fourth lesson we got him to commit to baptism which was super awesome. He is getting baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1288766298" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> at 7 (haha). My companion knows Spanish pretty well so it makes our lessons really easy cause we can both talk and understand what our teacher is saying during the lessons. So anyways now to make my letters like Cameron. Yesterday I woke up and my stomach was hurting. I had diarrhea and food didn’t seem too appetizing. I had some fruit and yogurt for breakfast. We went to study and I couldn’t stay awake. After falling asleep I woke up and my stomach hurt really bad and so I told my comp I needed to go to the bathroom I went down there and puked like 8 times in the toilet and went back to study. Later I asked the zone leader if I should go to the nurse to get Gatorade and 7 up which is what the card says so do but the nurse wasn’t there so I got some pepto and tums from the ZLs I couldn’t eat anything at lunch but after we went to the nurse and she gave me a pill and Gatorade and crackers and by then I was feeling pretty achy we went to distribution and while I was waiting I had to sit down. I couldn’t hold myself up. That was before lunch. Oh and the temple is closed now but apparently we get to go every morning on P-day which is sweet. The only thing separating the CCM and us is a gas station and there’s guards in front of it holding shot guns which is crazy. Gas here is like 20.20 which is i guess like 3 something dollars in American money. I exchanged some money for Guatemalan money so when we go to the central market I can get something if I want to. anyways after I went to the nurse she said if you need to sleep do it so I went to sleep and slept from like <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1288766299" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1-7:30</span></span> and I was feeling better the other elders came in and said there was an apostle here so I was like I’ll get up for that but he was actually in the Provo MTC and it was broadcast here which was lame but it was a great devotional David F. Evans spoke along with sister Nelson and Elder Nelson. But, an apostle is really coming but not until the 26th I think its Elder Anderson. Anyways. It’s really sweet to have Latinos here we talk to them at lunch breakfast and dinner. Oh and I’m feeling better today. We are getting to know the Latinos and stuff but it’s going to stink next week when they all leave and we have to meet new ones. there is another district here that’s is like a week and a half ahead of us that has Americans-- they came a couple days after Christmas I’m pretty sure and I think we will get more North Americans next week. But time flies pretty quickly when you only have an hour anyways <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> peace and love, Elder Hendricks.<u></u><u></u></div>
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P.S. If you want to send stuff they said don’t put stickers on it of the virgin Mary or anything just put elder Parker Hendricks p.p.s i forgot my shaver handle and contacts case so I have been wearing my glasses. Oh and hangers would be nice if you guys want to send them although I can buy them here. They said it takes 12 days. Anyways I’ll talk to you guys later.<u></u><u></u></div>
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JlHendrickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12229460716654575835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2165460971800093299.post-3805548893366167692015-01-25T12:07:00.003-08:002015-01-25T12:10:23.978-08:00January 7th 2015<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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This is your son Elder Hendricks. Just writing to tell you I made it safely into Guatemala and I am in the CCM now. We are supposed to tell you that my P day is on monday and not wednesday. Things are going pretty good here. We arrived at 6:30 this morning got to the CCM had some breakfast met the President who is pretty awesome. Then, we took a nap. We got up for lunch and then now we have started our day. Well we only have 5 minutes so all is good here. Have fun in lame ol' missoura jaja.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Peace and Love,<u></u><u></u></div>
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