"This week has been much better"

6-1-09
Hi my friend,
I hope your day is better than last week, and your baptisms were great! I wish I had some great wisdom to share with you about your first weeks in the mission field, but you know me, no wisdom here. Just remember you have only been out in the big world for 3 weeks and you only have 24 hours in a day, you can't do everything in that amount of time, all you can do is your best, as your earthly father I have seen you do that, and I'm so very proud of you! I can only imagine how proud your Father in Heaven is of YOU! Take time to enjoy being a greeny, smell the roses, look at the flowers for soon it will all be over, it goes fast. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all day every day, we are there with you, we feel you, just take a breath and you will feel us, and more importantly your Father in Heaven.
If you read this email before you send us ours, just send a quick note telling us you are online, then write your letter to us that might give us time to get on with you and we can talk back and forth some more. I love you, your a great man, just enjoy being new,
Your biggest fan and Dad
be super!
Are you there?
I'm on line
Anybody there
Hi Jordan, I'm here, how was your day/week? (I sent him an email catching him up on the latest at home and asked him some other questions, it is just way long and I am not going to include it here:))
This week has been much better, we have five baptisms lined up for this week and today as a zone we went to Nanciyaga, next week if President Hansen approves of it we will be going paintballing. I don't know what kind of cable I need for the camera but I will wait for the card reader to see if that works. I see the other Elders twice a week, sometimes three times if we need the district leader to conduct baptism interviews.
We live close to the church building, and this is the address "Meichor ocampo esguina 16 de Septiembre tiene un techo color verde".
It doesn't rain much, it's mostly sunny, I have big blisters, there is a lot of fruit that members or even investigators give us,
I want to cry when I see how some of these people live, then I think about how they don't know of any better way then what they have.
I don't print these emails, but I am going to start to
One tiny favor, I will tell you when I am online, but please don't send me three emails asking me if I'm here yet.
I am really excited for Landon, tell him I love him and that he needs to send me a letter
I have not received any mail yet but that's okay, there is not much time in a regular day to read.
This week we are baptising a family of three, a mom, her daughter, and son. These people are a reference from the branch president's daughter and they are Golden. We found out yesterday that the husband who is working in Guatemala wants to join the church too, we are really excited,
Any Questions?
Are you taking lots of pictures, how is your stomach liking all of the different foods, what's your favorite/least favorite so far?
Dad was just on the phone from Mt. Green and says hello and he loves you, be spectacular!
Your clothes, everything wearing okay, besides the shoes and blisters
How close are you to shopping?
I am taking as many pictures as I can, and all my stuff if fine, I still have a while before I need to buy anything.
My stomach is doing fine with the food, my favorite so far was an omelet, my least favorite the pork tacos because they gave me diarrhea.
The name of my branch is Lerdo, or Lerdo de Tejada
We found out last week that Jeff had to come home because of an injury to his knee, he is getting medical help from here and hopefully will go back out to Mexico, if not there, state side, we will keep you up to date as we get more information...
You have $200.00 on you card, so if you need it use it okay
How is your farmers tan-we talk all the time about how you must look like a native already?
Have you needed a haircut since in Veracruz? We just did them here and missed not doing yours:)
How about showers are you in a shower, a barrel, someones hose?
I know silly questions but I'm Mom:)
I look the same in my opinion except I have a mexy mustache, we have a shower head, but simply fill up a ten gallon bucket and wash off with that. I hope Jeff will be okay and I am keeping him in my prayers. I haven't had to use my card yet and I still have 42 dollars in American money that I haven't traded yet.
Are there lots of women who make things to sell on the streets or are you in a more rural area? The eggs for your omelet are they fresh? Do they let you grow the mustache or you just can't keep on top of it?

It's been a bit longer, are you still there? Are you emailing from a members home or from an internet cafe? We miss and love you and being able to chat like this makes it feel like you are not so far away! When you get a minute read D&C 84:77-91, Love you tons, Mom and Dad
I'll keep chatting if you are still there!

Hi Jordan, it's still Monday June 1rst and a 1/2 hour from your last reply, I haven't gotten another reply, hope all is good and we look forward to hearing from you next week-love you so much-Mom

90 minutes after his last response came this, so relieved, all the things that run through a Mom's mind....
I have to get going Mom, love you, we only stay at the church from ten to one, and yes our baptisms attend. We could probably fit the whole branch in the Relief Society room back home.Love you and will talk to you next week, Your oldest Stripling Warrior. Elder Weaver

Congratulations Landon Weaver-he is going to serve in Buenos Aries, Argentina he leaves on September 23, 2009-we are so excited for you!