30 May 2018

Jordan's email today....he now has 111 days until he comes home!!!  We can't wait for that day!

Hey there everyone. So, its been a really good time here in Jutiapa. Just like when I was back in Catocha something always goes wrong in the house. Back in Catocha we didn’t have water for some days. Now here in Jutiapa we don’t have any power. We lost our power Saturday night and we still don’t have anything. Kind of crazy but that’s the life of the mission right haha. Loving it here. Its been kind of hard with the work not going to lie. The missionary’s here before us didn’t do anything with the area book and they left us with nothing to work with. So, we have been contacting like crazy trying to find some people. It really sucks… so for all you who read my emails and are planning to go on a mission please write in the area book to help the next missionary’s that will show up after you. It will be a big help. So anyways we have been contacting a lot we haven’t been seeing the most fruits. Its hard you know I have 20 months and its still hard sometimes. I’ve been here in the mission for a long time, but I still have my hard times. so, if you think I’m as hard as a rock or you think that missionary work is easier for me. in the mission you will always have times where it seems really easy but there are more times where its harder. But that’s the nice thing about the mission. There is a little bit of everything. 

So, this area has been really interesting. I remember when president said to me that I was going to be training. He told me that I was going out here to Jutiapa to reopen the area because it was it needed help. And I didn’t understand why but I was like okay cool. But Now that I have been here for a little bit and I have talked to the members its because the missionaries here before didn’t do anything. The members where not very big fans of the missionary’s that were here so they were all happy that there was changes here in the area. As well I know a lot of the members here in this area. There is one member that met me a long time ago and when he first seen me he was like, Wow elder your Spanish has gotten a lot better. it made me laugh because it makes me see that there are people that still remember me from about 20 months ago. Kind of cool. 

As well we had an activity here where we had all the youth from all the areas close by here come to Jutiapa. so, I heard that my first area was going to be coming here. The youth in Catocha was probably one of the best things I remember from that area. It was really cool because when I walked into the church I seen one of kids sitting there. and when he looked up he was like hey man where have you been_ It was cool because the kids from Catocha that would come out on visits with us were all there. It was really great to see that they still had that drive to help and do missionary work. It was always great to see all my old friends.

So that was pretty much the week here in Jutiapa. Working hard and doing the best we can here in the middle of no where haha. Its really really hot out here. But I’m loving it. Hope you all have a great week and that everything goes well. Love you all.

Elder Nelson