Well, my new companion

Well, my new companion is named Elder Nobman. His full name is Ethan Nobman from Seattle Washington. He was a running back for his football team and must have been pretty good because he went to the all-state game like we have in Idaho. He wants to play football for BYU after the mission. He is a little short and chubby to play for a division one school but he’s awesome I love him. He is a little nuts about the rules I guess it’s a good thing but he need to chill a little bit. I think he might be a missionary that focuses a little too much in baptism and not in helping the ward, less active or other people. We talked and every day we are going to pass by one or two members and menos activo.  It’s fine nothing to weird with having a companion. I guess I’m used to it....

Well this week we have 9 new investigadors. So ya, things are going well no baptisms yet. I think we are going to have to drop two investigators because they won’t read or pray about the gospel. So ya that’s a little hard but we can spend every day with them if they won’t build that faith in the gospel for themselves. We have a new couple called Victor and Daniela they are judo masters and super amazing!! I love them so much they are super with to read and pray I have high hopes for them.

The only time we use a taxi is when we go to a different barrio for a zone conference. That’s once a month. So ya, we don’t use the buses. In my area its big but it’s not too big I have to use a bus. If I was in the centro area I would maybe use the buses more. It’s a ward we have 277 baptized members maybe more but every Sunday around 30 to 60 attend the church. So we have a lot of menos activo. The name of my bishop is Morales. He is super, super young like in his early 30´s. Very similar situation that President Monson was in when he was a bishop. But he has been a bishop for the total time he has been a member which is 5 years. He had one year when he wasn’t a bishop but other than that a bishop. He is super awesome he knows a lot and is super amazing with the missionaries.

 

Ya the weather is starting to warm up a lot but this week was weird some days it was super-hot I don’t know in degrees since it’s all in Celsius. but other days it was raining and cool. so some mornings I start in a long sleeve and sweater and by lunch I’m in a short sleeve and super-hot. But it’s not too bad I think after this month I’m getting transferred hopefully to the south like Batiloce. It’s crazy in this transfer one of the sisters that was in my district in the MTC is a trainer. She is probably training a Latin from a different country. So really she is just helping the Latin adjust to the area and the mission. But is crazy she only has a month and half and she is trainer. I don’t think I will be training for a awhile and when i do train it will be a Latin that already knows the language. If I train that will be cool but also very hard because you don’t want to screw up a missionary.

Oh so what’s going on with Obama and stuff I hear all the parks and stuff are closed. well tell Emma congratulations with the win and tell the others hi and that I love them.

Elder Ashworth