Ryder's Mission

Food flicks- first one is la famosa "pan con pollo" (literally just like what it sounds like, chicken with bread, its actually super good) Cleaning the baptismal font Christmas decorations!! Missionary budget cookies Hola everybody!! Como estamos?? Primera cosa: Merry Christmas!!!! It's crazy to think that it's already Christmas, man time is going by so fast!! I hope you guys all enjoy it, let me know if you guys have any crazy or fun plans!!! Our pday also got moved from Monday to today,  It's also been a couple weeks, so sorry if this email is a bit long!! It's been an absolutely insane couple of weeks though, I'll start with a couple miracles and stories!!  1: Baptisms!!! We had 2 baptisms this last Sunday (first baptisms in the mission!!) It was amazing, we've been teaching a family for just over a month, and their testimonies are actually insane! The day before the baptism, we were making sure they were ready and Tatiana (the youngest daughter of ...

After and before   guadaña (scythe) I used for the service project  Elder Allgaier y yo Heyyy everybody!! Buenas tardes!! Man this past week has been quite the adventure. I've been leading the area, showing Elder Allgaier all around, he's a dawg! He's from England/Utah, so quite the change from Elder Toledo, but we've been working together really well, this transfer is going to be awesome. Just a couple things from this week! 4 gringos: For my first (and probably last) time in the mission there's 4 gringos in the house here, which has pretty much never happened. It's been a blast... but we may or may not be speaking a bit more English in the house than before. So here's to hoping my Spanish doesn't take a hit this transfer Service: We had an awesome opportunity to help some people make a road through a pasture (by hand of course). It was pretty sick, let's just say I was definitely feeling it the morning after though. I'll throw in a before and a...

Hola everybody!  Man this was quite the week! We have cambios today, so I don't have a lot of time today so I'll make it quick! The recap: saw a lot of miracles, had a lot of people come to church, and we were able to set 3 baptism dates!! It was amazing!! Funny/terrible story, we were waiting for a member who was going to help us with one of our lessons when 2 drunks guys (bolos) on a motorcycles pulled up and told us they wanted to change their lives, asked to meet with us later in the week. They live in a place called Tongolona, which is in our area, but barely, super far from our house. Anyways, we picked out a day to visit them, called to confirm and everything, took a bus and then had to walk for 3 kilometers to their house, just for them not to be there . (Keep in mind we had called to confirm like 15 times). So yeah, then we walked all the way back (another 3 kilometers plus 1 or 2 more to get to our other appointments.) Moral of the story: if drunk guys on a motorcycle...