tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44256824073017676502024-03-12T18:01:47.362-07:00Elder Vogel takes NicaraguaKristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-36354623035522582892014-05-20T17:41:00.001-07:002014-05-20T17:41:04.503-07:00 From the mission field MAY 5th<br />
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Wow!!! So this week, we had a little miracle. We originally planned to only have two people baptized this weekend, but as the week went on, it turned out to be 4 baptisms!!!<br />It's so cool being a missionary. hahahaha</div>
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And Mother's day is this weekend!!!! Don't you worry, I'll be a callin. hahaha Can't wait to see you all on Sunday!!!<br /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03889229545271709422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-23427642312898052892014-01-21T16:13:00.004-08:002014-01-21T16:13:35.134-08:00Week of Jan 13 to 20, 2014<br />
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Soooooooooooo......pretty normal week. Actually, no.....not that normal of a week. Elder Cooper is a District Leader, so we had to go do a ton of different interviews for the district, so we really didn't get a whole lot done. but we're doing great!! </div>
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All of our investigators are awesome!!! Like, they ask us when they can get baptized and when they can have a book of mormon and just crazy stuff like that!! it's so cool to see them want to progress!!! and one of them wants the bishop to visit her in her house. it's kinda freaking me out how awesome these people are!</div>
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This week has been pretty awesome! I'm having a ton of fun with Elder Cooper and we're working really hard! We found a couple of really cool investigators this week. This one lady told us that the night before we found her, she dreamt that she received a visit by 4 guys. One of them was a black guy and the other 3 were white. It kinda freaked me out, but the Lord does strange things for us to find the chosen people that are just ready to receive us. But she's so awesome!!!! She reads the pamphlets and studies them and has questions ready for us when we get there! She went to church on Sunday and loved it! It's so cool to see the Lord's hand in these things.<br /><div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03889229545271709422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-51984976073054998552013-06-15T17:01:00.000-07:002013-06-15T17:15:47.602-07:00June 3rd... 8 MONTHS<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I complete 8 months today!!! Time goes by so fast! and the <i>miracles don't cease</i>.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This past week, we were contacting and trying to find more families when we see this family walking ahead of us. So we catch up to them and started talking. One of the things we try to do here in Puerto is to invite them to baptism in the initial contact. So when we did that, they said yes. So then we asked if they would like to do it that day. They then said yes again! So we took them to the church, married them, and baptized them. I later learned that my companion was just talking and that he surprised himself when he asked if they wanted to do it that day. So this family was literally a chosen family. We were guided by the spirit to find them and baptize them that day. Another awesome thing is that we found a less active family living in the same house as the family we just baptized! <i>The Lord works in mysterious ways</i> here in Puerto Cabezas.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The second miracle that I came across is actually a funny story. There is this girl in my Branch that left for a month to go visit family and friends in other parts of Nicaragua. When she got back, she brought a guy with her. They wanted to get married. He wasn't a member, but had been to church a lot. He actually helped build a lot of churches in Central America and the temple in Honduras. He lives in Masaya which is a part of the Nicaragua Managua South Mission. So when he got here, we talked to him and he wanted to get baptized! He is probably one of the most prepared people I have ever met. He knew so much and had the greatest desire to follow Jesus Christ. So what did we do? We baptized and married him on May 30th! Now here's where the story gets funny. The goal for the mission in the month of May was to baptize 100 families. At the beginning of the month, we weren't doing very well. In fact, we were doing terribly. So we fought hard and were getting closer and closer to the goal. So then we had 99 families. Then this guy showed up. When, for example, the wife is a member and the husband isn't, it counts as a family to complete. In other words, a family. So we find out that the missionaries in the South Mission put a baptismal date for him for June 8th. I promise you, if they asked him if he wanted to do it that day, he would have said yes, so that was a pretty dumb move on their part. And we also found out that the South Mission missionaries like to talk a lot of crap about us North Mission missionaries. Probably because they're jealous they aren't in the better mission. :) Anyways, long story short: Thanks to the South Mission, we got our goal of 100 families for the month of May! And even better than that: It was my baptism that counted for number 100!!</span></div>
<i><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Miracles exist! Every conversion is a miracle and God is a God of miracles. This is so much fun!!!!! I love it!!!! And I love all of you! Have a great week everyone and keep making miracles happen!</span></b></i></div>
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Things aren't going so hot here in Puerto Cabezas. We are supposed to baptize more than any other zone in the mission. We only have 7 families baptized for this month. And that is not good.....not good at all.....The good news is that 2 of those are my familes, so that's good. hahaha But seriously....President threatened that he would take every single missionary in Puerto out and only put 3 companionships before he leaves if things don't pick up. Nobody has any idea what is going on. We've tried so many different things and none of them seem to work. So right now, everyone here is Puerto is kinda freaking out because at any minute, they can call us and tell us who is leaving. And nobody wants to leave Puerto. The people here are amazing.<br /></div>
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The awesome news is like I said before, 2 of the 7 are families I baptized. The one we had this week was a contact by my companion when we were reminding people about church last Sunday. The guy actually contacted him! He told my companion that he wanted to get married and baptized. So what happens when someone has a desire?? You do it! So this week, we brought him and his wife to the church, gave them an interview, and got them married and baptized! The coolest thing happened in the font right after I baptized him and he was waiting for his wife to come in. <b><i>He looked at me and thanked me</i>.</b> Never in my life have I ever seen anyone thank a missionary for baptizing them. <i style="font-weight: normal;">This really struck me hard</i>. It completely caught me by surprise. All I hope for in my mission now is for someone to thank me for baptizing them.<br /><b><br /></b></div>
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<b>This place is awesome</b>! I would love to stay in Puerto for the rest of my mission. Like I said before: you will never see a people more ready for the Gospel than these Miskitos. They have almost nothing, yet they have everything they need. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03889229545271709422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-51090385627453524982013-06-15T16:36:00.002-07:002013-06-15T16:36:45.399-07:00From May 13th (running only ONE month behind now!)<span style="background-color: white;">This week was kinda cool. On tuesday, everyone in the zone switched companionships for the day. So I was with Elder Byers, who was my companion for only one day when I first got to Puerto. We practiced a thing called Inspired Questions. It's really difficult to explain so I'll just say that it's awesome and it really works.</span><br />
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Having the time of my life in the best mission in the world!!!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03889229545271709422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-31832012152453434572013-06-15T16:14:00.000-07:002013-06-15T17:19:06.879-07:00Finally... an update from APRIL!!! April 22 to be exact... <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So the first half of the week was kinda boring. You know. Just</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and be clean through marriage and baptism. And many times, they</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">never come to church again. And yes, sometimes it happens, but only if</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">to church and want to learn more. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Our President says that if they really</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When I went to </span><span style="background-color: white;">their house on Sunday to see if they were really going to do it,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> they </span><span style="background-color: white;">were all ready....2 hours before they needed to be. That to me is</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">get dressed, but they did it by themselves. So we took them to church.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And also 2 more families!! And after church, we gave them their</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">interviews, baptized, and confirmed them! It was quite the thrill. And</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">miracles! Like the scriptures say, God does not cease to be a God of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">miracles. And like the prophets say, every conversion is a miracle.</span><br />
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I have been teaching a family since I've got here to Puerto. They really are amazing. The guy wants to learn English and he knows that Joseph Smith is a prophet and everything! His wife is just as cool too. So we talked about baptism a lot and they just said they needed more time because they had these doubts that we could never really figure out what they were. So on Thursday, we went to talk to them after we put a date for this Saturday. Now this Saturday, we planned on baptizing in the ocean as a whole zone! It was gonna be super special because we don't get to do that very often. We need to have permission for it. So on Friday, when we went to talk to them again, and they backed out, claiming they didn't know enough. (even though we taught them everything we could have). So we called the ZL's and they came and talked to them and they were all good for Saturday after that.<br /></div>
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I guess I've learned that Satan really works super hard on this people. Since they are so humble, Satan just has a ball. Every time we have an activity, it rains and knocks out the light and the satellite signal...so as missionaries, we try our hardest to try to get the people to understand the difference between things of Satan and of God. A lot of the people don't understand the difference and that makes us really sad. But when they do understand, they are so ready to follow Jesus Christ and keep the commandments. It's quite amazing really.<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But that wasn't even the best part! I baptized my first family this weekend!! We contacted them on Wednesday and after we explained baptism, we asked if they would like to be baptized . Without hesitation, the husband asked when they could do it! My companion (Elder Palma) and I were kind of taken by surprise at this statement. It completely caught us off-guard. So we said Sunday after church and they agreed!! So we went back and taught them everything the next couple of days and after church yesterday, we married and baptized them!! It was really cool. The water for the baptismal font here is green. hahahaha And at times it was difficult because they don't speak very much Spanish, so we had to get a translator for Miskito. But it was really awesome! I also confirmed them members of the church. And I also conferred another guy the priesthood. Pretty Awesome!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love it here in Puerto Cabezas. The people here are soooo ready. General Authorities have said that if the missionaries have enough faith, every single person in Puerto can be a member of the church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So yeah that's my week. The zone of Puerto Cabezas has baptized 20 families this month of March. And last time I checked, the mission was at 75 for this month. </span></div>
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So during this week, some craaaaaazy stuff happened. Me and my companion Elder Patterson were just chillin. Doing what we need to do. On Tuesday at our zone meeting, we just got finished and I was just laying down while everyone else was playing a game when my Zone leader told me that I had to go to the office at that very second. When I got there, I talked to President in his office for a minute then he took me over to his board of all our faces and the areas and zones. Then he told me that he's sending me to Puerto Cabezas. </div>
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Puerto Cabezas is on the Altantic coast. That means that I had to take a plane to get here. Puerto looks nothing like the rest of Nicaragua. If I didn't know I was in Nicaragua, I would have thought that I was in Africa. It's just completely different than any other place. And most of the people here speak Miskito. It's an African dialect only spoken in places in Honduras and Puerto. So now I have to learn that as well as Spanish. Ok. back to the story. So I'm kinda freaking out because Puerto is one of those places that every missionary would love to go to or they fear it. But once someone goes there, they never want to leave. Puerto baptizes more people in a month than most missions baptize in years!<br />
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So yeah. I was freaking out because I didn't know what to think about me going to Puerto. I knew I was gonna go eventually, but I didn't know it would be this soon. I was told I could be leaving the very next morning or on Thursday morning. So I had to pack. When we got back to the house i packed up all my stuff, but didn't leave that night. I went 2 days anticipating leaving at almost any minute. On Wednesday night I get the call to go to the AP's house at 9:30. We found it...at 10:15. Were they there? Of course not! We had to wait with all my bags just sitting outside. An hour later, they finally get there. We went in and everyone got ready and went to bed except me and Elder Estrada, who I replaced in Puerto. He was packing to go home because he was finishing his mission and I was trying to get my bag down to only 30 pounds to meet airline requirements. Stayed up until 1:15 doing that. The next morning, I put all my stuff on the truck and we first went to drop off Elder Patterson and some others at one of the churches for a multi-zone meeting. Me and 2 others from the office went to the airport. They gave me my ticket and my stuff and left me at the airport alone because they had to go to President's house. So I go into the airport and got my bags weighed....34 pounds....scale in the AP's house was wrong! It weighed 29 pounds at their house. Then, no one ever told me that I only could have 20 pounds in my seat with me. There was a total of 44 pounds I had to check. And I couldn't leave anything cuz the guys from the office already left.... I had to pay $20 extra for baggage. Which is a lot of money here. Then I sat in the airport for 3 hours waiting for my plane. Once on it was smooth sailing to Puerto Cabezas.<br />
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Elder Vogel had a good, normal week full of the typical missionary things. Tracting, eating fresh caught fish... you know... the usual!<br />
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We've been asked not to copy/paste his emails here so Cindy's going to take over I think (Mama Vogel) and give you updates as they come!Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-54024718299460796822013-01-01T17:58:00.003-08:002013-01-01T17:58:37.596-08:00Volcano Ash! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-26876554483760760652013-01-01T16:40:00.002-08:002013-01-01T16:40:42.093-08:00Week 4<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Sorry for not writing yesterday. My companion had to get his Nicaragua ID in Managua. So yeah. We had to wake up at 4:30 to get on a bus to Managua. Then we spent all day in Managua and didn't have a chance to write. So here I am! Hahaha</span><br />
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This week was kinda normal. We found 2 new families to teach. One of them went to church and we're working on the other one. Our first family is still going to chuch, which is awesome!! And we're working really hard to get one more family to go. So right now, we have about 3 families that we're teaching.</div>
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I love this work. These people are super difficult to teach because everyone here is either Catholic, Evangelical, or Jehovah's Witness. They all think that the Bible is the one and only and there's no way we can convince them that there is other scripture. But, I'm getting pretty decent wth the Bible.Hahaha</div>
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For New Year's here, the make an old man out of old clothes and fireworks. Then they throw him in the street and light him on fire! So that's what we did. Except we were on the beach. It was really cool. And if you think the people in the US are crazy about their fireworks......It looked and sounded like World War 3 was happening. La gente aqui es loco! But They're all really nice and almost everyone will talk to us about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his teachings. </div>
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-30765698107654711372012-12-30T19:57:00.000-08:002012-12-30T19:57:40.055-08:00Week 3 (Day before Christmas)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Hola everyone!! There´s really not much to write this week. Just a normal week in Nicaragua. Of course I had some Christmas activities. We made cookies and went caroling and today we are exchanging gifts as a zone and a couple of us will be singing somewhere tonight. I don´t know all the details, but I will try to have pictures.</span><br />
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-4877892990536733322012-12-30T19:56:00.000-08:002012-12-30T19:56:05.962-08:00Week 2 in Nicaragua!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px;">Where do I start??......Oh yeah, I had my first baptisms on Friday and Saturday!! It's a family that the Sisters before us taught, but they got transferred before they could do anything. So it kinda counts, but at the same time.........Oh well. I'm just excited!! I performed my first baptism ever! Of course it was in Spanish as well. But the spirit when I was in the font with that family was amazing. It makes me wanna go and find more people!!! </span><br />
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We're teaching this other guy named Julio as well. He told us that when he was younger, he wanted to know which was the true church. Golden! We brought him to church and he liked it a lot! So we need to teach him a couple of more lessons and he'll be baptized soon! We're also teaching another guy named David. We're trying to teach his wife and daughter as well, but they're never there when we go. But we're trying! And we're also teaching a family that the Sisters before us contacted, but never came back.....Don't know why, cuz they have a baptism date for the 29th. So yeah! Hopefully, we can get at least 2 more families in the water before the year is out! </div>
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The work here is moving forward! and I'm so grateful to be apart of it. Like Graham said earlier, it's so much hard work, but so much fun! Like today, we played soccer on the beach and I found a bunch of cool seashells. </div>
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-78908139371282893402012-12-14T12:31:00.001-08:002012-12-14T12:31:27.090-08:00Live from Nicaragua....<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px;">Hola Everyone, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px;">I'm finally in Nicaragua!!! This place is insane! There's so much going on at the same time. Of course I can't understand anything anyone is saying, but I'm getting better. But anyways, the people just seem not to care about anything! For everyone reading that thinks the drivers in Utah are bad.........They're professionals compared to these people. The honk at EVERYTHING! If you don't go as soon as the light turns green, they honk. If they're passing you, they honk. Oh, and they pass whenever they want to. They'll see an opening and take it. They never follow the speed limit. They go pretty much as fast as they can. There are no crosswalks. You just cross the street whenever you want. People are everywhere. No matter where you go, there's people walking or sitting outside. Everything is really cheap too. They have their money in Córdobas. 1 dollar is about 24 Córdobas. You can get a ride on a bus for 2.5 Córdobas, a ride in these tricycle things for 10, and a ride in a bus for about 13. But, we don't recieve very much money, so it gets kinda expensive. And everyone rides bikes everywhere!</span><br />
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The people here are extremely poor. I haven't taken pictures of some of the neighborhoods yet, but a lot of people live in houses made of sheet metal and wood. Some of these houses down here are actually pretty nice. I honestly wouldn't mind living in some of them. What confuses me is that most of the people here have satellite TV. Even the sheet metal houses. An a lot of people also have plasma TV's. I don't know. It's confusing. And most of the food and drinks we get come from shops people set up in their homes. We just walk up to their house and buy what we want. There are some clothing stores like that too.</div>
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The food here is surprisingly good! I've only had gallo pinto once. Gallo pinto is literally rice and beans. I've had a lot of rice and a lot beans, but not gallo pinto. I've had a lot of chicken and fried platano. Platano is kind of like a banana. And the drinks here are AMAZING!! The 7up is soooo good! As well as Fresca. And I've had Chia juice and Piña con arroz. Which is Pineapple and rice juice. It's surprisingly good. I've had mango juice and the orange juice here is great also.</div>
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We never make out own food. We have something called a food cita, or food appointment. It's a member that we pay twice a month to cook food for us.</div>
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Everyone in the mission is way cool though! I'm in Corinto! It's about 15-20 minutes outside of Chinandega. It's on the Pacific Ocean! I can walk 5 minutes from my house and get to the ocean. It's awesome!! My companion's name is Elder Barrantes. He's a native from Costa Rica. He's way cool. I got lucky too. He speaks perfect Englsh. Hahaha. And he's only been here for 3 months. He just finished his traning and now he's training me. But yeah, more about my area. It's on the beach like I already said. It's really long. Like, probably about 5 or 6 miles. And we don't have bikes. So we walk everywhere. And we know no one. They took 2 sisters out and put us in. So we have to figure everything out. We don't know where any of the members, less actives, or non actives live. It's kinda frustrating cuz the Zone Leaders are getting mad cuz we're not doing anything, but we're trying really hard. </div>
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My very first P-day here was yesterday. It also happened to be the mission Christmas party thingy. We went to Managua (Which is about a 2.5-3 hour drive from Chinandega) and played a bunch of sports in this sport complex. I kinda learned how to play rugby....kinda. Then we went to the chapel and had this very nice catered dinner and got presents from President Arrendondo and his family. (Who are awesome by the way.) And had a nice devotional from them.</div>
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I've literally only taught one lesson since I've been here so far. And I just sat there the entire time. Except when I recited the First Vision cuz I had it memorized and I bore my testimony at the end. But I felt the Spirit, so that's all that matters. And I understood basically what was going on.</div>
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One thing I really don't like is that everyone focuses on numbers too much. We are one of the highest baptizing missions in the world, but I feel it's because everyone just wants to have those numbers. A family only has to go to church once to be considered progressing and can be baptized that day too. I don't know. It's really weird. </div>
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But yeah! Everything is going great! I'm pretty sure I've lost most of my MTC weight already because all we do is walk in the blazing sun all day. Oh, I forgot to mention that my area is the hottest area in the mission. It's probably a good 80 degrees right now. Probably more. Fuuuuuuunnnn.....And I really only eat lunch everyday and snack randomly.</div>
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Yep! The work is moving foward! I can't understand anything right now, but it's coming little by little. One thing one of my teachers said in the MTC is that God speaks Spanish, so i don't have to worry about a thing. I just have to keep doing what I'm doing and I'll be ok.</div>
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I love you guys! And I miss you as well! Have fun in the cold! :)</div>
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P.S. I AM allowed to email anyone I want that's NOT in Nicaragua. </div>
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P.S.S. I don't really have an address, so everything goes to the mission office in Managua and it stays there until we have a mission conference or transfers, so i won't get letters from anyone until January. Same with packages. They WILL get here, but I will only get them every month and a half. And that's AFTER they take about a month to get here. But just in case, my address is:</div>
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Edificio Discover, 2do piso</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> Managua, Managua NICARAGUA<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> </div>
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-63292344033584606312012-11-26T12:38:00.002-08:002012-11-26T12:38:30.820-08:00Get ready Nicaragua! <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">I've got 10 more days left in he MTC!!! This week has been pretty exciting. On Tuesday, Elder Paul B. Peiper came and talked to us. Don't know if you remember, but he talked to us at stake conference a couple of years ago. So that was pretty cool. On Wednesday, we got our travel plans!!! It's finally getting real! I'm going to Nicaragua!! So excited. But what made this week even better was Thanksgiving. In the morning we had a devotional by Elder Holland!! It was so good!! His wife and some of his grandchildren talked as well. Pretty legit. And in the afternoon, we made care packages for kids in Mali. That was a lot of fun. October 3rd was the greatest time to come to the MTC in my opinion. We had General Conference and the huge announcement, Elder Bednar on the next Tuesday, and Thanksgiving and Elder Holland! It's so cool!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Yeah. The food here is alright, but I don't have the opportunity to get enough exercise to work it all off.....so yeah....I've gained a couple of pounds. And it doesn't help either that on Wednesday, I sprained or rolled my ankle playing volleyball in gym time. So yeah. I'm not gonna be able to do anything for the next couple of days. But yep. That's my week! Hope everything is going awesomely! Love and miss you guys!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Elder Vogel</span><br />
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-87648065934455392852012-11-12T14:24:00.003-08:002012-11-12T14:24:30.093-08:00Pics from Elder Vogel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I made a Snorelax out of sticky tape"<br />He must be bored people, better write him!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planking. At the MTC. Some things never change...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">"Elder Boegarts is from Belgium. He knows Dutch, French, English, and a little bit of German. He's going to France speaking Spanish. Hahaha"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">"Our Narnia hole. exactly how we found it. underneath the chips is the 40 something cans of soda"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">"the obedience sprite is something that elder cooper and i are starting. it's just a can of sprite, but it's going to stay in the room or zone unopened for as long as possible. elders will write their names, where they're going, and the date on the can."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Me and Connor Moody! On his way to Peru!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">"before the temple. me and elder patterson don't have umbrellas. haha"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">"some of my district at the temple today while it was snowing"</td></tr>
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<br />Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425682407301767650.post-74278764926302389322012-11-12T14:10:00.001-08:002012-11-12T14:10:20.302-08:00¡¡Hola!!<br /> <br />¿Comó estan? Estoy excelente! Esta semana, tenemos Elder Zwick del Setenta nos hablado. Fue super chivre. Ojalá, obteneremos Elder Holland durante Thanksgiving. Pero, cosas esta irando a la bien aquí. Lo siento para me Spanglish. It´s no como está irando a la entender it anyways. :) Pero, there is something I have to say in English. Probably the coolest thing that happened this week. In the MTC, we have these things called Narnia holes. These are places that missionaries will hide candy, toys, or whatever they want in there for the next missionaries that are in their room. Well, we didn´t know about this one Narnia hole that we had in our closet. So when we finally checked, we found over 40 cans of soda, a bag of tortilla chips, and a bunch of candy with a note attached to a box of Ritz! The missionary before us put that there for us to have and to make it bigger and better for when we leave. I will enclose a picture with this email. But yeah, that was awesome! Own progressing investigators that we are teaching are going really well too. I don´t remember if I said, but we are teaching our teachers who are acting as investigators. We now have a baptismal date for one of them, so that´s going great. Although, I am starting to get a little tired of this place. It´s fun, but very physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. Got only a couple of weeks left and I´ll be in the jungle. I´´m gonna miss the snow. It´´s actually snowing right now. The second time since we´ve been here. Well, that´s about it for this week! ¡Hasta proximo semana!<br /> <br />Con amor,<br />Elder VogelKristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208145599339670127noreply@blogger.com0