Hey Mama :)
What awesome news from home this week! I´m soooooooo psyched for Adam. He will be a great missionary in Madrid Spain! We´re going to speak with COMPLETELY different accents haha. That's so awesome. He's going to speak Castellano (that´s what the Spain accent is called) and I think I´m going to end up speaking like a mix of a bunch of different states here because I talk like my comps. But anyway, I´m really really happy and excited for him.
Ok, so I don´t have time to write much anymore because I was sending the pictures, but basically we spent a lot of time this week preparing the area and the house of the hermanas, who got here this week. We now officially have cut our area in half. But that´s ok. :) The branch is super excited to have them and things are going great. We had 103 people in sacrament meeting last week, which apart from our branch conference (and about 20 people from other branches in the district attended our branch conference and it totalled at 103) is more people than have attended since I´ve been in Chahuites. So, we're psyched! The only problem is we don´t really have any more investigators. But that´s ok, we´re going to Tuxtla for consejo today and tomorrow, and when we get back, we´re going to devote all our time to help the members be missionaries, and that way we find wayyyyyyyy more investigators than we ever did alone. That´s about all I have to report this week. I´m so excited for the news of Adam´s mission call this week. I´m going to miss seeing him by less than 3 months, but that´s ok. The Lord needs him in His harvest field :)
I love you all so much. Have an awesome week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Andrew Nickerl
This is Elder Reyes and I with Elder Jensen, another good friend who had been in the zone with me for the last 6 months or so. He was Elder Stucki´s comp and this is in the bus station just before he left to go to his new area in Tuxtla.
This is us with Elder Stucki again. This place is in Arriaga (the closest "city" to where we are--that´s where we do the transfers from and everything), and it makes awesome hamburgers and tortas (giant sandwiches on hogie-type bread) and licuados (kind of like a crumby milkshake). So we went there while we were waiting for the other Elders to get to Arriaga to make sure all the transfers happened without problems.
This is Elder Stucki and I pulling water out of a well. I pulled it out and he poured it into the giant water bucket next to it. That´s how a lot of people get their water here. They don´t have running water sometimes. Elder Stucki has been my district leader here in Chahuites since I got here, so he´s my good buddy. He was with us this Tuesday while we were waiting for his new comp to get here. Mom, I don´t know if you know his mom, but if you don´t you should try to find her on missionary moms or facebook or something. But yeah, he went to BYU beforehand too and he finishes his mission in June of next year (a couple months after me), so we decided with Elder Reyes that we´re all going to be roommates there fall semester of next year.
After we pulled water out of the well, we played soccer for a few minutes with these kids (they´re the same ones that got baptized the week before last). We usually do something like this with them because they have short attention spans so we make deals with them that we get to teach them for 20 minutes and if they behave well afterwards we play soccer with them for 20 minutes or something like that. I´m not sure where the ball is in this picture but that´s what we were doing :)
Another action shot playing soccer... I think Elder Stucki totally stuffed me about a half second after this picture was taken... haha we don´t play that often so I´m still not that great at soccer.
One of the miracles of the week. I found bottled root bear!!! I´m not going to say that it was like "IBC" or anything, but it was pretty awesome after not having dranken (or is it "drinken"?) root beer for like a year and a half. So, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I had root beer and I did something that I very rarely do: I bought ice cream (it´s valued here at about the price of gold, which is why I almost never buy it). And I had root beer floats. And it was incredible.
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