July 27, 2009

Darbi was born on July 23, 2009 after 7 nephews a niece!!!:)Colby and Darbi

OMG I want to be there to hold my neice soo bad, so I'm postponing my mission for a little while and coming home. hahahaha just kidding you can stop freaking out mom! So I can't stop looking at her pictures and I can't wait to hold her in two years. ha ha she'll be cuter then anyway. :( But anyway, yeah I baptized a little boy named Junior. I have photo's of it that I will try to send here in a second. I hope I will be able to do it, but I'm not sure. So we've been workin pretty hard to get a bunch of people back to church and last week we had the highest attendance in church in a while. I just hope we can keep it up.

It's such a culture shock here. haha I'm not too fond of the whole bucket shower thing, but ill get used to it. Anyway our zone is awesome and today the gringos in our zone are gonna take on the gringos in the other zone here in Chuluteca in basketball. Yea I'm pretty stoked about that. I think the Latinos are facin off in soccer too!! That reminds me, the other day all the gringos played the latinos in soccer, and the gringos won. haha the latinos were pretty upset. But it's some good times I love p-days because of that.

So one elder here is from Boise and knows one of the kids that I payed ball with. So it's nice so far. I have lost all my fat in my face and in my butt due to much sweating, but I haven't lost any muscle. It's cool, I feel like I felt in High School a year ago, but yeah it's awesome. I dunno what else to say right now, we do have some new investigators that we are gonna try to make a baptism date this week So that's cool too! But we stay really busy and that's a good thing.

I love ya and peace out!!!

Elder Beckstead

July 20,2009

MOM FAM whats up?
Well I got here and I went straight to work, it's awesome I just wish I could talk to the people a little better. This weekend we have my 1st baptisms so I'm really excited about that too. But our house is pretty nice, it's below standards in the US of course, but it's alright for what we need of it. And no, we don't have a dirt floor. It's a tile a pretty blue tile. hahaha So my first compas name is Elder Lazo. He is from Nicaragua. Bu yeah we get along great and we have quite a bit in common. We are in an area called Triunfo. It is right on the border of Nicaragua. Our area is huge and small at the same time, we have three little towns there and two barrios. One town is a hour and a half walk away from our main town so that's pretty neat. But we are always busy, it seems we work on retencion a little too much and investigators not so much but that's what we need to do. Right now we have around 6 prog inv. so we stay pretty busy with them and what not. But the country Honduras is way cool. It's very green and we see a lot of spiders, iguana, and chickens haha. It's weird, chickens are everywhere and all the dogs just leave them alone, pero cuando a dog see's a cat, wow that dog is on the cat like a fly on poop. Me and Elder Lazo had to save a cat the other day, but the sucker kept following us, so we finally put it in a tree and ran. Hopefully it found a home eh? Well that's all for now, it's awesome and I love it. That's all you really need to know. haha
Love Ya
Elder Beckstead

July 14, 2009

Made It to Honduras Tegucigalpa

Yeah we landed and all is well, It's way cool here everything is sooo different. I haven't met my comp yet, but I will tomorrow morning. The Pres is awesome. He's so happy it's always great to be around him. It's so different here. People speak so fast it drives me nuts. I've been able to talk and understand a little bit, but not very much. When people talk slow I get it, but I still need to build my vocab a lot. But I'm kinda surprised how much I really do know. But yeah, I'm really excited to get out in the field here tomorrow. I think we are all going tracking as soon as I'm sone with this e-mail. But I'm not for sure, I dunno my area or anything hasta tomorrow. Then I'll let you know next week, or when I write back next time. But the food is great so far and we ate at McDonalds last night and it was cleaner then the ones in our towns.hahahaha. Alright, well I gotta go, love you all and you'll get another e-mail next week I hope.
Well Love Ya
Elder Beckstead

July 8, 2009

Hola familia,
Tengo una mas semana antes voy a la Honduras, estoy amimado. Well whats up? All is the same again here. I'm hurrin to finish everything, you should be receiving a package of stuff here in a few days with all the stuff I do not need or don't wanna carry around with me.
Well I'm glad you bought an ipod, it's about time. So you are able to download music off the internet and stuff too? If so I'll be sad you didn't do that years ago. But anyway I hope things work out in Honduras. (The President had been ousted by the local law enforcements and they are having a coop) I leave Sunday night at 9:00PM and my flight leaves SLC around midnight. I may be able to call you all so have everyone be at home, but I dunno for sure what's gonna happen so don't get your hopes up:(. Yesterday I heard some pretty cool things about Honduras. In most places when they talk, they just skip over the S. For example; San Pedro Sula is hanpethrohula. Thats how they say it. I'm soo stoked!!! They talk really, really fast there, I guess at times it's hard for Mexicans to understand what they are saying too. WOW!! and they are really nice too I guess. They won't tell you straight up to leave.
They told me that we need to be straight up with them, it was crazy yesterday, our day was like planned for us, I dunno how to explain it. We planned it out and tried to follow a schedule and stuff, but we ended up doing something completely different and we accomplished all our goals. It was CRAZY. Like one of our teachers wasn't there so they had a sub who went to Honduras and is from Venuzuela. That stuff happened all day long. Tell Malorie Happy B-day from me too, make sure Chris White gets that part.HA HA!!
I'm the flight leader and we have five elders in our group, we go to Atlanta first and then straight to Teguz. Hopefully if we don't leave I will call Monday. Hopefully you get an e-mail Monday and not a call.
Well tell everyone I said what's up and I miss you all, thanks for the ties too, they were awesome. Make sure you give everyone my new address in Teguz too.

Well Love ya and take care
Elder Beckstead

July 1, 2009

So...I saw all but like two Aposles. It was way awesome. Elder Holland spoke to us and I sat on the like fifth row, at that fireside alone there were seven Apostles. It was so crazy, I loved it. But that was only for last weekend, now it's all back to the same, this week I'm gonna be really busy with class and then next week we will be teaching most of the time yea in Spanish. We had a progressing investigator here too, who was just a teacher that was acting like an investigator out in the field. So that has been pretty cool. But I'm pretty stoked, next week is gonna be so easy, then it's off to the Central Americas. I'm pretty stoked about that. So....
So tell Hawk Happy Birthday for me. I miss him. I got your pictures and they look awesome. Were gonna have to spend a lot of time at Downatta when I get home n 2 years Ha Ha Ha wow. But it's all good. So I got your package today tor the 4th of July. Thank you so much for that. It's awesome, we all loved it. But I didn't get that letter from the President. so...Well I do not have much to say right now and next week will be about the same, but the week after you'll get a huge e-mail with all you could possibly imagine. I wish I had more to say but that is it.

Love Ya
Elder Beckstead

e-mail from Chris White

Howdy

Well the Spanish is getting better. I forgot to mention this earlier in my moms e-mail so you should mention it to her, but a BYU football player taught our class the other day He was soooooo cool. Then he also taught me in a te so that was pretty great too, He's so stinking big, its incredible. But gimmi 3 years and ill open him. HA HA jk
Well I'm praying for ya!
Mucho Amor
E Beckstead

June 17, 2009

Hola familia y amigos:

Mucho amor de la ccm en Provo, Utah:

How is everything going. Remember I do enjoy a letter once in a while, and this week there was a lack of a single one until Monday. I was a bit sad about that, but esta bien. I miss you all and it's good to hear that Peyton is already doing all that work. I'm proud of the little tike, even thought I would really like Toni to go to church once in a while. Maybe when I get home i'll teach her the first lesson in Espanol. Ha Ha Speaking of which, I taught the first lesson in Espanol, now we no longer even talk too much in English since we have no need anymore. I'm no where near fluent but I can say what is needed to be said and what not. Spanish is way cool. the MTC is all good at the moment, the gripe de chancho is slowly dying down. My comp has been sick these last few days. I love the kid, he has a great heart. We clash somewhat, but we both have the same desire to serve. Well I'd write you in Spanish, but I am out of time. I love ya and stuff and I miss you all so very much. Send a letter soon.
E Beck

June 24 e-mail
You have some pretty random Spanish there Lor, haha-it's neat. So I didn't get any mail today so I won't have to worry too much about the whole writing thing. It's good to hear things are settling down I guess. Haha now Chelsi knows how I have felt the last few weeks. (Chelsi 8 months pregnant was exposed to Swine flu) There are still people locked up wit the gripe de choncho. Pero aqui esta bien. Salgo le ccm en doc semanas mas. es no bueno Cosas aqui estan muy uh......monontinous. Same thing every day all day. It's rough but I'll make it. So I guess ur all doing a lot of fishin then eh??? Thats good. I do miss that stuff an just chillin with the boys. I've taught about 20 lessons now in Spanish so thats neat. I'm learning more about it everyday, but it takes a lot of studying. But like I said, there is not much to write that has not been said When I leave for the mission field, I'll have more to say, but as of right now, I got nothing. Same old, same old.
One minor thing I guess, the President is probably talkin to us this weekend sometime. Well I love ya! The Apostles will be walking around the MTC this weekend too. So I could pretty much run into anyone of them just while walking to class. But that's it.
Love ya and have a great one
E Beck

June 10, 2009

Well that whole global warming thing isn't working out too well is it. Now I just need to pray that the rain stops so Dad can cut and bail his hay. Ha Ha!! I love Mandi, make sure you send me a letter twice a week telling me that everyone is alright, I was freakin out this week cause I don't know how Dad, Grandpa and the kids are doing. Even if that's all the letter says. Things here are much better now, the swine flu has ran it's course in our zone and we are all back and out of isolation. Well the four that left are, on kid had to go home, it was really hard cause he was a great friend of mio. Yeah I sent it all in Spanish, (he's talking about a letter to Norm she's learning Espanol) when I get home I'll teach her all the Spanish conj and everything. She'll love it!!I love it, I taught a lesson in strictly Spanish yesterday, and I did most the teaching cause my comp is strugglin a little with the language, but it was awesome, I didn't know a word or two, but for the most part the words just flowed out of my mouth. and I knew exactly how to answer most of their questions. Sometimes I get lost though. Haha. Yeah my English is terrible now though, it's awful, I can't say any big words anymore. Everything I say is just plain and straight up. No neat adjectives or anything. But I hear that it's a good sign. I can't wait to get home and talk to David Bingham. Ha! nobody else will know whats going on. We'll have our own conversations. But half our mission zone is going to Tampico Mexico so it's neat. Elder Heppler is sending him a message from me so.. but yeah, one month left before I go to Honduras, the Spanish is alright I'm trying to learn 40 verbs a day, so if that goes well I should be pretty fluent by time llavar , or arrive.

I love you
and peace out:)
Elder Beckstead

Letter to Chris White:

The Spanish is going pretty good. I'm learning aroungd 40 vocab words a day, but I'm not sure most of them are sticking. But I'm reading the scriptures daily in Spanish and so far that has helped me out a TON. The flu epidemic is nearly over, and all my friends are home and safe in their dorms instead of isolation. The MTC is great. Elder Bednar came and spoke last night, he was sooooooooooooooooawesome. I loved it, and I had to pee really bad throughout the entire time as well, so you know it was good if I stayed that long. You know I love to write ya. I miss Jesse. I miss him a ton. I am glad I finally got a hold of him. Well have a great one, love ya all. La iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es verdidera.
Elder Beckstead out