JUST A FEW PICS FROM THE MISS!!

 my new companion is from bolivia.. he's like an Indian. haha! weird' but he's pretty chill. i'm staying here in Alamos ward for another transfer!! wahoo!! 2 years 4 wards. i am special!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOGOTA!!!! SCARY!!!

 bogota is scary!! haha i forgot how scary it was till i got here.. but the thing is, i am a lot smarter now than i was when i started... can you belive that a year ago i was here in the big city?? i am in the alamos ward.. it is to the southeast of where i started the mission. it is a lot bigger and there are lots of scary corners and such... haha. oh i forgot to tell you that we went to a farewell for president hacking and sister hacking... they both cried a ton... but we all got a minute to talk to president... he told me that i was doing very good... that i am a great missionary and that i am a natural leader.. and that he is amazed with the condition that i left yopal... new members... and the ward loved me... i felt really good to hear all that.. he also said that i was now a zone lealder because i have been obedient and always worked hard.. and he knows that the others will follow my example. so that was cool to hear

hlopñe you are doing good.

elder hall.

2 weeks... 4 baptizms. Wahoo!!  I thought you would like a few pictures.We do have the truth Mom, so when someone comes knocking we know what we´ll say. There are other religions here that are convinced that their church is true. They just say that they just have some traditions that aren´t quite right...Well, I don't think that a church with bad traditions would be the church of Christ. Mine is!!

 

 

And yea... so this week has been good... I have just been so tired lately... I am tired when I wake up like I just ran 10 miles while I slept or something... We go to work, and after lunch, I am dead... and then we continue working till night and I am terribly dead when I get in the house... I just wish I had energy like the energizer bunny... haha! we really do work  hard here... I kind of think it is the lasting effects of the "Dengue".  I know it will get better though.

 

April 9th, 2012

 

YOPAL CASANARE AGAIN!!! DISTRICT LEADER!!

COMPANION: ELDER GONSALEZ from MEXICO. 25 years old. LEFT HAND DEFORMED. THEY SAY THAT NOBODY HAS SEEN HIM LAUGH... AND IF YOU MAKE HIM LAUGH YOU WIN 100 BUCKS. HAHAHAHAHAHHA.

HERE WE GO.. HOT HOT HEAT.

ADIOS

 

 

April 16th, 2012

 

Hello mom! I love you. I dont really have a lot of time to write today.  I will tell you however that I am happy. I have arrived here safely even after traveling to Bogota and around Bogota all alone, haha. I also had to travel to Yopal alone! It is so cool!  I feel so cool to be able to do that.

My companions name is Elder Gonzalez.  He is way cool! Everyone told me how wierd and serious he is and that he never smiles,  and I get here and I love the kid!  He´s cool.  He likes to work hard and that´s good. We got a lot done this week.  I got here at 4 am on Friday, and walked into the house, and it was all good!

Tell the family that I love them and that I am happy and that I will write more next p-day.

I love you Momy!  Goodbye

Elder Hall

Where are our Exchanges?!

Hey! So no one has gotten their exchanges yet. We are all still waiting to hear from President Hacking, so I'm not sure where I'll be going yet. But, if I go anywhere, it will be tomorrow. I will let you know later today what I find out, but for now, I am still here in Pamplona!  Haha, I love you!

Mom! Ya freak! You started planning how you are going to come find me huh?!  We still haven't received our freaking changes yet. We´re all still waiting! Obviously, something weird has happened with President Hacking and they are changing things around, but we don't know what. The assistants, secretaries, and Pres. and Hermana Hacking won't answer their phones today,  so something is going down! Haha. 

I am still waiting for word on our changes Mom, but stop worrying about me, I own this place!  Hahaah!

I love you :)

That is so scary about Rob!  Tell him I love him and that I am praying for him. Tell aunt Kamee to quit acting like a high school cheerleader and write to her nefew! Haha. Tell Mcoy, Kayci, and Kohler to write as well!

Sad to see friends go home!!!

Elder and Hermana Boulter

This is Hermana and Elder Boulter. They went home to St. George on the 31st of December.  They were very sad to go, and were very good friends of mine.  Mom you should look them up and talk to them on facebook or somthing.  I will miss them! 

Elder Horquera

This is Elder Horquera, from Chile. He is an awesome missionary and one of my best friends in the mission. I am sad because he will be going home next month. I will miss him as well!

Cucuta Conference

This is what I ate for Christmas dinner with the Hackings and our zone in Cucuta. I don't know why the rice is green, it´s best not to ask. Haha!

 

 

 

I sat here with my companion Elder Quinonez, to eat our Christmas dinner. The others are: Elder Mesa from Colombia, Elder Melendez from Peru, and another Elder from Peru. Peruvians think they are the coolest.  That is all I must say about that! Hahaha

Angela

This is Angela and her mom. We are trying to get her baptized, but her mom is preventing it because she doesn't think she is ready. We are the missionaries, and we know when she is ready, so we´re working on this still. It won't be long.

 

Look at this freaking Huge-A spider! I am so scared of them it´s sad. One night I woke up and felt something in my hair. I put my hand up there to see what it was and I felt the big ol' body of some kind of insect in my hair. I karate-ninja chopped that puppy out of my hair so fast you wouldnt believe it!, and I didnt dare turn on the lghts to see what it was cause I was afraid that it was a spider and I didnt want to find it again. Anyway, here it is. 

Crazy Spider's in Colombia!

Saturday Baptisms! November 28th, 2011

This is our family. Mom and Dad aren't married, and this was the Dad´s first time in the church. It was a little step toward getting them married.

Here are the little girls, we love them so much!

 Here are more of our friends here in Pamplona, Colombia. As you can see, I am tall here. I am also the "Michael Jordan" of basketball here too! HaHa!

November 21st 2011

Hello my mother... so... we have two baptizms this week... Brenda and Nicole. both picked me to baptize them so im doing the dunkin ha. ill send some pictures of it after... haha. i´m pretty excited. and i feel a little piece of the love god has for us. really i love these girls and their family. it´s hard to explain but i know they want to be happy. and they´re getting there.

 

dad told me about the house... that is gerat mom. count your blessings that someone is renting it. i was worried. dad says theyér good people i hope they are. i wrote tawni a letter. i was talking to nicole about tawni yesterday adn got emotional. ha. i miss you guys. really i do.

 

 

i´m going to write dad but make sure you rub it in his face that the ravens are palying the niners thanksgiving. i am here in colombia without thanksgiving. its sad. i miss everyone. what i want for christmas is letters from everyone. i miss my family!!!!

 

i´m glad ty is wrestling. tell him to write me.. oh and could you give me president kellers email and also bishop egley. i want to write them... ha i taught tawni everything she knows in basketball... haha she better remember it. i cant wait to get home and watch her. she is an angel really. the way she helps you and is nice to everyone. i know she is a blessing to us all..

 

i hope you all have a great thanksgivving. i miss everyone. and these holiday months are going to kill me haah. get your butt cleanng mother dear. you have people coming over. know i am thankful for my family and for my savior jesus christ. and that i am able to be here while the rest fo the world does their thing. i am blessed to know my god and have him and his spirit play a part of my life every single day. i love you. and i am thankful for you.

 

elder hall

NEW AREA-Pamplona Colombia



Who Dat Sexy Man!



HEY! So after 32 hours of buses and travel. I am here in Pamplona Colombia. It is two hours from Cucuta, and I wish I had time to tell you everything about it, but i have to make it short! It is beautiful here! I love it! Today is my first day here and already I don't want to leave. I am writing to say I am here and everything is okay, just so mom quits worrying about me, haha. I will write on Wednesday and tell you all about Pamplona, and my companion. I will take some pictures too if i get the chance. Know that I am happy and I pray the you are happy every day. Be safe, and hakuna matata...  (means no worries for the rest of your days) ^jajaja... ciao los amo mucho!

Elder Hall!

That building in the middle is the church, it's the one with the green roof. There are only about 20 people that go to church on Sunday. I am teaching English classes and that is bringing in over 20 people every Saturday. I get nervous teaching alot of people. I don't know why, but it is fun and has improved my Spanish alot!

These are a couple chicos playin chess on top of the mountain.

More Pictures

This is my companion as we climb to the Cristo Rey. It is super high and so killer to walk,. but cool and yes that is Elder Quinonez, my albino. He´s super wierd. Ha ha! 

This is the cool little thing I did the other day. This is Jesus.
We hiked up to take a photo.

This is the inside room under Crist. Pamplona is the second most Catholic city in Colombia. Ha, makes work a little tough!

Pamplona Colombia

This is a picture from up on the hill. We have to climb so freaking high to get to our investigators, but the sights of this city are amazing.

 

This is from the other side of the mountain looking away into the canyon to Cucuta. The clouds are flying lower than I am.

This is a little of the city in the nighty night!

Going Away Party!

We had a little party because we are all leaving Yopal.  :( super sad.

On my way to Cucuta!! Leaving tomorrow!!

This little white special is the Virgin of La Pena. We climed up the mountain to her, and yes, it was a climb!

Virgin La Pena. 

Looking out over the city.

Pictures of The Day

I love eating coconuts straight from the shell.  They are so good!  Especially when you get them from the tree yourself with a stick!  It is kinda hard because they stick to the tree like iron!  Haha!

Gettin' Transferred

So today was super crazy!! Number one, I found out last night that I am going to Cucuta, Colombia.  This is so far awayfrom Yopal. The road there has a road slide, so I was going to drive to Bogota on a bus, then another bus to Cucuta, but they said I might not get to drive a bus, so I will fly to Cucuta.

My new companion is Elder Quiñonez. He is from Equador. He is an Albino, yes Albino, white everything, haha. They say he is very wierd. I got a call from our assistant and he said that he is very hard to get a long with, but President Hacking says that he knows that I will help him out a lot, and that this is a special exchange for me. That is cool, usually I would be like bummed, but im not!! I am so excited to go change! I know the Lord is putting me in these situations to change me for the better, and I know that I will be better, because I just went through it with my last companion, haha. I am happy to be away from that "little demon", haha. But, I feel myself changing and I love it. It is so hard and I am super stressed but I know that it is worth it.

Cucuta is big, and hotter than here. Ha, I am excited! My church there is a house chapel, with about thirty members. I hope that they like me. I am going to try hard to make things go great in the "little chapel".

SOME PICTURES FOR YOU!



It rains Super Hard here!




This isn´t a snake or an animal that we don't have in the US. It is simply an EARTHWORM,  but you could catch a SHARK with it.  It's a little more than what our TROUT can handle!