Hello once again to all of my family and friends out there, I hope that you are all doing well and especially thank you for all of the birthday messages that were sent out to me. I haven't quite received the packages yet mom, but we'll see how long it takes for me to get them right?
Well..once again it has been a week of extreme work and extreme heat. Today is the start of Holy Week as they say around here, or basically Spring Break as you know it there. Spring Break is the biggest holiday in Central America, bigger than Christmas and all of the other holidays, and it is also the hottest week of the year. We'll see if I make it out alive right? Quite a few special events happened this week, and I have short amounts of time to tell you about them, so I'll get rolling.
This week for service we went back over to the house of the Hno. Santiago to help him out. I feel really bad for the guy because he literally doesn't sleep. He works on his house all day, then goes home to eat and shower, then heads off to work all night. On Wednesday we carried up an immense amount of wood up the very large hill that leads to his house. It was pretty fun, but definitely the most tiring service project we have been doing. We just ran up and down the mountain about 50 times carrying wood up, and sprinting downward to do it again. I left in much pain and sweat, but it was a good experience! The wife of Hno. Santiago is really awesome, her name is Ana Maria. We haven't been able to teach Santiago because he is never home, but Ana always listens to us and is really close to accepting a baptismal date. We have been talking about baptism and everything and she tells us that she is already decided to be baptized in the church, but we haven't been able to put a secure date yet. We still have a lot of work to do with them, we need to get them moved into their other house, help them get married, and then teach them the rest of the lessons before the baptism. I seriously doubt I'll be here to see the baptism, but I'm going to do all that I can in order to help them out.
We have been spending a lot of time these last few weeks in a neighborhood that's called La Sabaneta, and we are receiving a lot of reception from there. So consequently we decided to have a small fireside in the home of a member with all of the people from La Sabaneta. We spent some time planning and setting up, and we showed a small film called On the Way Home. I really love this movie it is one of my favorites from the church. It talks about a family that has been plagued with problems, and their decision to be baptized, and all of the things that led up to their great decision. We spoke about baptism afterwards, and are looking to put dates with them this week. Afterwards we made (or tried to) make a cultural food called Catrachas. It's fried tortillas with a little bit of sugar, beans, and a special kind of cheese on top. With the large help of the Hna. Rosaura, the member who hosted, we made them! Haha they tasted really good and all in all it was a really good experience!
I know I said that I was going to try and put a lot of baptismal dates this week...but I still have a bit of work to do with them. But we did put 1 baptismal date this week! And it was a great miracle. We placed a date with the Hna. Sara Torres. We had many interesting experiences with her. She has been an investigator for quite some time, but never went to church. We were about to drop her about 3 different times, but we always felt that it was important to go back. One day this week, we asked the Hna. Juanita, our neighbor whose mom always cooks for us, to come with us and help her mom out. Her mom goes to another church and is seriously considering baptism in that church, but is scared that it's not right. We went over there to talk to her about that, and on the pathway there, we found her walking to our church....she had lied to us. Well...Elder Hansack and I went to the appointment regardless, a little bit disappointed, to teach Sara, who we thought was already dropped and uninterested. During this very spiritual lesson, we found out that Sara had received an answer to her prayers, and knows that the gospel is true. Hna. Juanita, former missionara, helped us out with her amazing testimony, and she ended up coming to church on Sunday! It was amazing.
My birthday was a pretty normal day, since it was Sunday, not much celebrating happened. The present I got was I had to give a talk! Yikes huh? I gave a talk about the Restoration of the Gospel through Joseph Smith, and then afterwards all the missionaries sang I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go. It was a tearful experience since I consider the people of Juticalpa my family, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to give a talk. All the other missionaries were really nice wishing me a happy birthday and everything. The only person that didn't wish me happy birthday is my companion haha, but like I said before he is a little bit of a grinch. I'm used to it, no problems there. But it was a decent birthday!
Anyways, that's all I've got for you guys this week! I hope you enjoy conference! My second one ALREADY in the mission! I'm so excited to be able to hear the voice of our beloved prophet whom I love so much. I hope you all can learn a lot from these great people. Until next week!
Vaya Pues!
Nos Vemoshmm
Elder Tinkham
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
March 22
Hello once again to all of my family and friends out there in the world. Once again it is a great pleasure to write you this week, and I have a lot to talk about.
Well, like I had explained the last week about the service project we were doing the last Monday, this week has been nothing but pure service and manual labor. On Wednesday, all the Elders in the district and I went over to the house of the Hno. Santiago to help him build it. We placed the entire roof of his house! It took about 3 hours and a lot of work, but it was worth it. We have also been teaching them a few of the lessons this week in their temporary home. They live in these tiny little apartments in a very humble environment with a bunch of other people as well. That service project ended up being a great benefit for us, because from those little apartments alone we brought 6 investigators to church this Sunday! It was a miracle.
On Friday, we went to the house of a less-active member from the other Elders to help them fix their wood fence that they have because it was tipping over. That was also a lot of work, but it was also very fun. I wish I would have brought my camera because I had mud ALL over me from the down and dirty work we were doing! We have also been doing a lot of mini services as well involving water. I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but in Honduras, and especially Juticalpa, there is a large water shortage problem, and very difficult to obtain. We have been helping the families in our area that don't have water stock up on river water and hauling it to their houses where there is water. We don't have much water either. This week we didn't receive water the whole week until Friday (running water doesn't exist here unless you have an expensive sisterna, so yeah). And when we returned to the house from the muddy service project on Friday, we opened the front door to a miracle...WATER!!!! The water was coming, and I took my first shower from the shower head in my almost 4 months in Juticalpa. It was a small treat to my day let me tell you!
So like I was telling you guys, we had great blessings with investigators arriving at church this week. Completely opposite of the other week right? We had in total 8 investigators, 4 recent converts, and 2 less-actives that ended up coming. It was very difficult catering to all of their needs and quite a stressful experience, but I'm still grateful for it! Haha and I'm looking forward to this upcoming week to put a whole bunch of baptismal dates! Hopefully I can put them all on what would be my ¨last weekend¨ in Juticalpa, according to my assumptions. So I'm really looking forward to that one.
Well, that's about all my leather worn hands can type for this week haha! I hope you are all doing well and I look forward to talking to you next week...as a 20 year old...yikes...never thought that would happen! I still can't believe that one!
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
Monday, March 15, 2010
We worked all up and down this farm and so all of my city boy culture is now lost! We just finished ¨sweeping¨ the entire cow pen. For those of you non-farmers, that means shoveling out ALL the useable dirt to use it as soil to plant other things. We scooped it all up in big piles, threw it in a truck, then scooped it out in other parts! Yikes!
March 15
Hello once again to all of my family and friends. A very burnt and tired Elder Tinkham is writing you today. Lets see what I can pull out of my tired brain to recap you of my week.
This week has been mostly normal for me. On Wednesday, we had a lack of service to provide, so we decided to climb the large mountain that is just behind our house to do some contacting of the mountaineers that live up there. I won't lie, the idea to contact was a little bit overshadowed by the fact that we wanted to take pictures at the top of the mountain because you can see all of Juticalpa from the top! So we hiked on up there, and took us some nice pictures, but on the way down, we also had a great contact! We met a guy named Santiago, who is quite poor, and he is building his house right there on the steep hill. We began talking about the gospel, and offered to help him build his house this next week, so we should be going over there to help him out if all goes well. So we ended up getting something good out of our hike!
The next day on Thursday, we had our monthly Zone Conference, and once again I made the long bus ride to Tegucigalpa. I must say I really am getting sick of making that trip, but I'm not sick of learning all that we learn because it was awesome! We learned a whole bunch about how to teach the commandments, and the frequent errors we commit when we teach things like the Word of Wisdom and Keep the Sabbath Day Holy. We learned about obeying a higher law of standard, and not just sliding by by doing whatever we want as long as its not IN the scriptures that its banned. All in all I enjoyed myself thoroughly, that is until I had to make the bus ride back haha!
Other than that, we have been chugging along teaching all of the investigators we have, with a lot of hope that we were going to bring a lot of people to church. We had the baptism of the daughter of Hna. Denia this Saturday as well. It was a really great baptismal service because we tried our very best to have a spiritual service so that the Hna. Denia could feel the Spirit and feel the desire to be baptized. We still haven't been able to go back to ask how she felt, but I really hope it touched her heart. But I do know that she was very happy to see her daughter baptized, and she continues to come to church every week!
With respect to our efforts to bring many investigators to church, it went very bad. We had a lot of plans to bring 6-8 people to church, but only 1 ended up coming. We went on divisions in the morning to hit up the 2 sides of our area at the same time to bring people to church, but for various reasons and excuses they all dodged us. I felt pretty bad at church for this reason, because I really thought we were going to bring tons, but I'm just going to have to try harder this week right? I'm starting to feel like my baptisms are running out here in Juticalpa, because I have a feeling I will be leaving in a month since I have been here awhile. Our investigators aren't progressing as fast as we wanted them too, but I'm not going to stop spreading the ¨seeds for the other missionaries.¨ But all in all things are still going good for me here.
The reason I am very burnt today for P-day is because we as a district went to a farm property of a member to help him work on the farm. He only brings missionaries that he really likes to the property, so we scored! We thought we were really lucky to be going, but then we regretted it because he put us to work! Haha we worked all up and down that farm and so all of my city boy culture is now lost. Juticalpa is farm central of Honduras, so anything any of you would want me to do on a farm, bring it on. Cows, horses, dirt, poop, chickens, turkey, pigs, dogs, bring it on!
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
This week has been mostly normal for me. On Wednesday, we had a lack of service to provide, so we decided to climb the large mountain that is just behind our house to do some contacting of the mountaineers that live up there. I won't lie, the idea to contact was a little bit overshadowed by the fact that we wanted to take pictures at the top of the mountain because you can see all of Juticalpa from the top! So we hiked on up there, and took us some nice pictures, but on the way down, we also had a great contact! We met a guy named Santiago, who is quite poor, and he is building his house right there on the steep hill. We began talking about the gospel, and offered to help him build his house this next week, so we should be going over there to help him out if all goes well. So we ended up getting something good out of our hike!
The next day on Thursday, we had our monthly Zone Conference, and once again I made the long bus ride to Tegucigalpa. I must say I really am getting sick of making that trip, but I'm not sick of learning all that we learn because it was awesome! We learned a whole bunch about how to teach the commandments, and the frequent errors we commit when we teach things like the Word of Wisdom and Keep the Sabbath Day Holy. We learned about obeying a higher law of standard, and not just sliding by by doing whatever we want as long as its not IN the scriptures that its banned. All in all I enjoyed myself thoroughly, that is until I had to make the bus ride back haha!
Other than that, we have been chugging along teaching all of the investigators we have, with a lot of hope that we were going to bring a lot of people to church. We had the baptism of the daughter of Hna. Denia this Saturday as well. It was a really great baptismal service because we tried our very best to have a spiritual service so that the Hna. Denia could feel the Spirit and feel the desire to be baptized. We still haven't been able to go back to ask how she felt, but I really hope it touched her heart. But I do know that she was very happy to see her daughter baptized, and she continues to come to church every week!
With respect to our efforts to bring many investigators to church, it went very bad. We had a lot of plans to bring 6-8 people to church, but only 1 ended up coming. We went on divisions in the morning to hit up the 2 sides of our area at the same time to bring people to church, but for various reasons and excuses they all dodged us. I felt pretty bad at church for this reason, because I really thought we were going to bring tons, but I'm just going to have to try harder this week right? I'm starting to feel like my baptisms are running out here in Juticalpa, because I have a feeling I will be leaving in a month since I have been here awhile. Our investigators aren't progressing as fast as we wanted them too, but I'm not going to stop spreading the ¨seeds for the other missionaries.¨ But all in all things are still going good for me here.
The reason I am very burnt today for P-day is because we as a district went to a farm property of a member to help him work on the farm. He only brings missionaries that he really likes to the property, so we scored! We thought we were really lucky to be going, but then we regretted it because he put us to work! Haha we worked all up and down that farm and so all of my city boy culture is now lost. Juticalpa is farm central of Honduras, so anything any of you would want me to do on a farm, bring it on. Cows, horses, dirt, poop, chickens, turkey, pigs, dogs, bring it on!
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
Monday, March 8, 2010
March 8th
Hello once again to all of my family and friends out there. This week has been quite a week of up and downs for me, and I sincerely hope that all of you are doing okay back home. I just want to say to all of you, don't worry about me. I am doing just fine over here and you have no reason to worry about me, keep going strong, and help each other out, for me! Haha cause the only thing I am sad about is that I won't be there to help everyone out that needs help, especially Grandpa. I love you Grandpa, and I just want you to know that I am praying for you extra hard this week.
Anyways, as I said it has been a busy week for me. Elder Hansack and I have been working extra hard this week to prepare for the wedding, baptism, and confirmation of the Ruiz Matamoros Family. We had the wedding on Friday in the morning, the baptism on Saturday in the afternoon. I am going to try and send a few pictures of the wedding and the baptism, because they were both the cutest thing I have ever seen, it brought such joy in my week seeing the testimonies of this family grow, and seeing the love they have for one another, and for their Savior, has grown. We spent a lot of time in their house this week preparing them with the last lessons, and getting the baptismal interviews done, and celebrating. After the wedding, us missionaries went to a bakery and we bought the family a cake to celebrate in their house, it was a really fun experience and moments I will never forget.
As for other investigators, we have been working hard to find our next baptismal candidates in our area. We have found various families recently in our area, but what seems like the most positive to me is the family Torres. Lester and Sara are cousins, and the mom Ramona who raised them both. Ramona has been going to a couple of Evangelical churches, searching for a church were she could be baptized correctly. The other day we had a wonderful lesson with her where we explained that if she would visit the church with us this Sunday, she would end her search of finding her baptism if she would come with the intent to answer that question. So I really hope she will come this next Sunday! Denia, is still doing really good. I just do not know why she doesn't want to make the decision to be baptized. I really think it is because her boyfriend who lives in the States doesn't want her too, and that makes me sad. But the good news is that her daughter, Sharon, is going to be baptized this upcoming Saturday. Maybe Denia will be touched by the Spirit and make the decision to be baptized very soon.
I had an amazing experience on Saturday during the baptism of the Ruiz Matamoros Family. President Flores called me about 20 minutes before the baptism was going to start to tell me that Grandma had passed away. It was very shocking news for me, and at first I didn't know what to think. I just sat down in a chair for a minute to think, and I said a quick prayer. I asked for the strength to continue on, and that my family at home will be alright. The answer to my prayer came when the Ruiz family walked in the door, hand in hand, ready to be baptized. At that moment, my testimony grew that families really are eternal. I knew that grandma was doing absolutely fine with her family, resting from her pains, and enjoying her time. My testimony of the Plan of Salvation grew as these 2 spiritual experiences came to me in the same moment. This plan really is a perfect plan, we will be united with our families again one day, as long as we are living faithful lives and obeying the commandments of God. I would beg each and everyone of you, do not deny yourself the gift of receiving an eternal family with one wrong choice that we make in our lives. I love you all, and I'm grateful for each and everyone of you. And like I said before, don't worry about me!
Vaya Pues,
Elder Tinkham
Anyways, as I said it has been a busy week for me. Elder Hansack and I have been working extra hard this week to prepare for the wedding, baptism, and confirmation of the Ruiz Matamoros Family. We had the wedding on Friday in the morning, the baptism on Saturday in the afternoon. I am going to try and send a few pictures of the wedding and the baptism, because they were both the cutest thing I have ever seen, it brought such joy in my week seeing the testimonies of this family grow, and seeing the love they have for one another, and for their Savior, has grown. We spent a lot of time in their house this week preparing them with the last lessons, and getting the baptismal interviews done, and celebrating. After the wedding, us missionaries went to a bakery and we bought the family a cake to celebrate in their house, it was a really fun experience and moments I will never forget.
As for other investigators, we have been working hard to find our next baptismal candidates in our area. We have found various families recently in our area, but what seems like the most positive to me is the family Torres. Lester and Sara are cousins, and the mom Ramona who raised them both. Ramona has been going to a couple of Evangelical churches, searching for a church were she could be baptized correctly. The other day we had a wonderful lesson with her where we explained that if she would visit the church with us this Sunday, she would end her search of finding her baptism if she would come with the intent to answer that question. So I really hope she will come this next Sunday! Denia, is still doing really good. I just do not know why she doesn't want to make the decision to be baptized. I really think it is because her boyfriend who lives in the States doesn't want her too, and that makes me sad. But the good news is that her daughter, Sharon, is going to be baptized this upcoming Saturday. Maybe Denia will be touched by the Spirit and make the decision to be baptized very soon.
I had an amazing experience on Saturday during the baptism of the Ruiz Matamoros Family. President Flores called me about 20 minutes before the baptism was going to start to tell me that Grandma had passed away. It was very shocking news for me, and at first I didn't know what to think. I just sat down in a chair for a minute to think, and I said a quick prayer. I asked for the strength to continue on, and that my family at home will be alright. The answer to my prayer came when the Ruiz family walked in the door, hand in hand, ready to be baptized. At that moment, my testimony grew that families really are eternal. I knew that grandma was doing absolutely fine with her family, resting from her pains, and enjoying her time. My testimony of the Plan of Salvation grew as these 2 spiritual experiences came to me in the same moment. This plan really is a perfect plan, we will be united with our families again one day, as long as we are living faithful lives and obeying the commandments of God. I would beg each and everyone of you, do not deny yourself the gift of receiving an eternal family with one wrong choice that we make in our lives. I love you all, and I'm grateful for each and everyone of you. And like I said before, don't worry about me!
Vaya Pues,
Elder Tinkham
Monday, March 1, 2010
March 1st
First things first...
Happy Birthday Daddy!!!! Sorry I missed that last week but better late than never right!
Hello everyone! I am writing you from a different email address. Recently the myldsmail website has changed and is now partnering with Google and we all have new email addresses.
Alright so I have some good news and some bad news. I'll start out with the good news...I'm staying in Juticalpa for another transfer! So that means I'll get to be here to participate in the baptism and wedding of the Ruiz Matamoros family. They were really nervous that I was going to be leaving. I wasn't really that nervous, until we went and visited them and they told me how nervous they were, they were even praying for me to stay. Aw! Haha, I love them a whole lot and I'm really glad I'll be here another 6 weeks to work really hard.
The bad news is...I'm staying here in Juticalpa haha. March and April are the hottest months of the year in Central America, and I just happen to be in the hottest area of our entire mission. I will admit I'm pretty sure I've got some world record tan lines and I no longer look American at all, so if you guys don't recognize me when I get back, blame Juticalpa. The other part of the bad news is that Elder Cardon will be leaving me on Wednesday to go to his new area. We knew one of us was going to be leaving because it would be too good to be true, but I'm sure I will see him again soon! But seriously, I love it here! I'm glad I'm staying.
So like I was saying before, I went on interchanges with Elder Cardon on Tuesday night, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We hit up a lot of lessons in his area, and in the night we made some homemade french toast. With the french toast we put ice cream and syrup on top! It may not sound that good, but oh it was delicious. On Wednesday we had quite the crazy experience. In the afternoon we were not having a lot of success contacting and it seemed that everyone was not at home, so we decided to go over and visit the Fam. Ortiz, who live about 45 minutes away from the house if you're walking fast. They also happen to live in the closest house located by the river, about 15 steps away. While we were there, it began to rain like none other. Now, it doesn't hardly rain over here in Juticalpa since it is a big desert farm, but wow did it rain Wednesday. The winds were bustling and it took the power out of the whole city; and when the power goes out at night we have to report back to our homes. So we had quite a long walk back to the house, especially since we were so close to the river. ALL of the streets were totally flooded as the water drained down into the river. So we spent about 1 1/2 hours walking home jumping from sidewalk to sidewalk, climbing fences, Indiana Jones style, adventuring until we finally made it to the house. When I walked into the house, it was a bit flooded inside too, which surprised me. Luckily nothing was too heavily damaged, just my luggage took the major hit and was soaking wet, but I don't have transfers so I'm not worried.
This week Elder Hansack and I have been having a pretty good time, and a lot of success as well. We have found quite a few new families that have began to receive the lessons, so hopefully we might see even more baptisms in the future! I am going to have to give away some of my investigators, because on Wednesday another pair of Hermanas are going to arrive and begin working in Juticalpa as well. So that makes 4 companionships in just 1 branch! We are anticipating the division in the branch very soon, and I'm guessing President Flores is too haha. On Sunday we had a special conference for Central America where we listened to talks from Elder Claudio R.M. Costa, Mary N. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson and Pres. Eyring in Sacrament Meeting through satellite. I didn't really get to watch most of it because we got there a little bit late, bringing families to church, and then I was playing babysitter of the little girl Jaime of the Ruiz Matamoros Family, but I did really enjoy Pres. Eyring's talk and I felt the Spirit very strongly.
In other news, everything is just going normal here in the ole mish. My foot is a little sore because this week in service, we were helping a recent convert dig a couple of holes to make her tortilla work station outside be more secure. While I was filling the hole with the dirt afterwards, Elder Hansack had the idea to secure the soil around the wood real good, and used the shovel to pound the dirt in. But, he happened to pound it in right when I had my foot there, and smashed my little toes! It hurt a lot, but now I'm doing fine, no problems just a little sore haha!
I love you all out there, I hope everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves. I pray for you often and feel your prayers always.
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
Happy Birthday Daddy!!!! Sorry I missed that last week but better late than never right!
Hello everyone! I am writing you from a different email address. Recently the myldsmail website has changed and is now partnering with Google and we all have new email addresses.
Alright so I have some good news and some bad news. I'll start out with the good news...I'm staying in Juticalpa for another transfer! So that means I'll get to be here to participate in the baptism and wedding of the Ruiz Matamoros family. They were really nervous that I was going to be leaving. I wasn't really that nervous, until we went and visited them and they told me how nervous they were, they were even praying for me to stay. Aw! Haha, I love them a whole lot and I'm really glad I'll be here another 6 weeks to work really hard.
The bad news is...I'm staying here in Juticalpa haha. March and April are the hottest months of the year in Central America, and I just happen to be in the hottest area of our entire mission. I will admit I'm pretty sure I've got some world record tan lines and I no longer look American at all, so if you guys don't recognize me when I get back, blame Juticalpa. The other part of the bad news is that Elder Cardon will be leaving me on Wednesday to go to his new area. We knew one of us was going to be leaving because it would be too good to be true, but I'm sure I will see him again soon! But seriously, I love it here! I'm glad I'm staying.
So like I was saying before, I went on interchanges with Elder Cardon on Tuesday night, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We hit up a lot of lessons in his area, and in the night we made some homemade french toast. With the french toast we put ice cream and syrup on top! It may not sound that good, but oh it was delicious. On Wednesday we had quite the crazy experience. In the afternoon we were not having a lot of success contacting and it seemed that everyone was not at home, so we decided to go over and visit the Fam. Ortiz, who live about 45 minutes away from the house if you're walking fast. They also happen to live in the closest house located by the river, about 15 steps away. While we were there, it began to rain like none other. Now, it doesn't hardly rain over here in Juticalpa since it is a big desert farm, but wow did it rain Wednesday. The winds were bustling and it took the power out of the whole city; and when the power goes out at night we have to report back to our homes. So we had quite a long walk back to the house, especially since we were so close to the river. ALL of the streets were totally flooded as the water drained down into the river. So we spent about 1 1/2 hours walking home jumping from sidewalk to sidewalk, climbing fences, Indiana Jones style, adventuring until we finally made it to the house. When I walked into the house, it was a bit flooded inside too, which surprised me. Luckily nothing was too heavily damaged, just my luggage took the major hit and was soaking wet, but I don't have transfers so I'm not worried.
This week Elder Hansack and I have been having a pretty good time, and a lot of success as well. We have found quite a few new families that have began to receive the lessons, so hopefully we might see even more baptisms in the future! I am going to have to give away some of my investigators, because on Wednesday another pair of Hermanas are going to arrive and begin working in Juticalpa as well. So that makes 4 companionships in just 1 branch! We are anticipating the division in the branch very soon, and I'm guessing President Flores is too haha. On Sunday we had a special conference for Central America where we listened to talks from Elder Claudio R.M. Costa, Mary N. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson and Pres. Eyring in Sacrament Meeting through satellite. I didn't really get to watch most of it because we got there a little bit late, bringing families to church, and then I was playing babysitter of the little girl Jaime of the Ruiz Matamoros Family, but I did really enjoy Pres. Eyring's talk and I felt the Spirit very strongly.
In other news, everything is just going normal here in the ole mish. My foot is a little sore because this week in service, we were helping a recent convert dig a couple of holes to make her tortilla work station outside be more secure. While I was filling the hole with the dirt afterwards, Elder Hansack had the idea to secure the soil around the wood real good, and used the shovel to pound the dirt in. But, he happened to pound it in right when I had my foot there, and smashed my little toes! It hurt a lot, but now I'm doing fine, no problems just a little sore haha!
I love you all out there, I hope everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves. I pray for you often and feel your prayers always.
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
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