Amino

December 10, 2012

Hey There Fellow Gringos,

Can someone send me the music and lyrics to "If you could Hie to Kolob" in english, and spanish. Cause its not in this hymnbook, and that makes me sad.

AHHH. I was so happy to get all of your emails! And i will be even more happy to read them. But i did just spend the last ten minutes adoring your baby girl Chony. SO CUTE. Ah. She is so lucky to be born into such a wonderful family. Nuclear and extended. What an angel.

Laynie, your letter last week was incredible. ha. I love it. Yes, my companion knows how weird i am. and yes, i do serenade him with song. Daily. The whole of Jimenez really. I kind of just belt it in the streets. Ha. And you need to stop spoiling that baby girl. ha. A laundry basket! Make sure you dont give her a swiffer duster for christmas. I wouldnt want her thinking she was better than the other children. I cant wait to hear more of those mission stories of Grandpa Hansen.

Mom, the work is just grand. This week, we found a lot of really great people. We have a bunch of pinholes on our map in our house. but now teaching records in the area book (misisonaries before us never made any). So we have been searching out these pinholes, and every time we do, we find someone awesome. Even though most were not the formers that were indicated on the map. Jimenez is actually pretty small. Idk how much i walk...a lot. I dont know how to describe Jimenez. Google images will probably do a better job. But sometimes i feel like i am walking down a dirty street in Paul, Idaho, then i turn the corner, and feel like i am in Antigua. It is really cool actually. Some parts of the city are hundreds of years old, and others are 2 years old. So it is just a wild combination of architectures and styles. I like it. Now we just need street sweeper. Even though everyone sweeps the section of road in front of their house anyways.

Our little branch here is still super excited. They are still visiting the less actives every week. And two weeks ago, the results showed. More than 75 people in attendance. But yesterday...only 40. I could see that everyone was bummed, and losing excitements. It also just so happened that Elder Ledezma and I spoke in sacrament meeting. My talk was prepared with the less actives in mind, to help then understand that we cannot use adversity and afflictions to diminish our faith (i relied heavily on Jeffrey R. Hollands talk "An High Priest of Good Things to Come,"). I translated large portions of that talk and just kind of drove it home. And, in reality, in that moment it applied more to these bummed out members than to any less actives (zero of which were in attendance). But this talk also really helped me to keep up the excitement. Cause the work is hard. But if we trust in God in our trials, we will see the blessings.

Well, i am out of time. Tell Grandpa i love him. Tell Tess to hang in there. And pray like crazy. I can actually email her, (family, booyah), so send me her email address. OH, and also, a little confusion. I can only open an email if it is from a family member. But i have had some friends email me. So just to clarify, if it is an emergency, maybe you mom can email me on behalf of a friend. But if i am not related to you. DearElder or handwritten please. Otherwise i cant open it.

Love you all.

Love,

Elder Romney Vonhansen