Ryder's Mission

  Temple trip! (Super good lighting) Paintballing! It was a dope sunrise! Hey, como estan todos?? Sorry for the radio silence the past couple of weeks, but I'm here again!! It's been crazy busy, heres a couple highlights: About the title... let's just say I might have just discovered the secret to losing lots of weight in just a week! Its just 3 steps:    1. Get sick from suspicious food    2. Think you're already better and wake up at 3 to hike and see a sunrise (the sunrise was fire though)    3. "There is no step 3! It's that easy" (see if you can guess the movie) Soooo let's just say I might have had a 102 fever one day and a 2 day gatorade fast this past week, I've slimmed right down . It's all good though, doing better now!! It's made me really grateful for good health, it's only the 2nd time I've been badly sick in the whole mission, and there's a lot of people that have it worse off than I do, so we're chilling. Apar...

Elder Jensen An awesome puzzle (thank you Herrin family!!) Caroling with the district No bake cookies   Hola a todos!! Feliz Navidad!!! I hope you guys were able to spend some time with family and learned a lot about Christ and His birth!! Let me know what you guys did!! Everything is going great down here!! I have a new companion, Elder Jensen from Idaho, he's such a beast, it's been a blast.  Hermana Marta was baptized as well!! Now the familia Salguero has 5 converts, it's been such a blessing to know them! Just wanted to reach out and wish you guys a Merry Christmas!! As for a quick spiritual thought, we were blessed to be able to read Luke 2 about the birth of Christ a lot over the past 2 days, it's for sure one of my favorite Christmas traditions. Every time I read it, no matter how many times, it always brings peace and joy. Yesterday and today we celebrate the most anticipated moment in all of the history of the world!  Thanks to Him, we can have peace. Thanks t...

  Buenas tardes, cómo están?? Had some extra time today (crazy right?) so I'll be starting an email streak again This past week was awesome! To start, we had 2 baptisms, Bryan and Raúl were able to get baptized!! Super spiritual, it was amazing! Had some awesome exchanges with the APs, got to see some old friends here in the mission, it was a blast Later today we'll be headed to our mission Christmas party, going to be a blast!! Honestly... that's about all I have. Super grateful for the work, this area, and all of the miracles we've seen. Just wanted to end with a scripture: Acts 20:35 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. I love this scripture! Especially in this time of year, I testify that giving actually blesses us more than it blesses others! I invite you all to look for ways to serve and to give, and I promise and te...

  Hey everyone!! First off, sorry I didn't get an email off last week to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving, but happy late Thanksgiving!! I hope you all enjoyed it, and thanked the Lord for everything He has done for you!! On the same topic, the past couple of weeks we've had a lot to thank the Lord for. We were able to baptize 2 more members of the Salguero family (love that family so much) and we're close to putting the grandma on date as well to make the family almost complete!! We had a baptism this past Sunday in our area, and the sisters had a baptism as well and asked me to baptize their friend, it was pretty awesome!! The font was super low though, so it took 4 tries for the poor lady to submerge completely . The Spirit was super strong though, they're both true converts!! We hiked to Mirador San Jacinto (a super cool lookout at the end of an abandoned tourist site) at 3 this morning to see the sunrise, such a blast and so worth it. As for a spiritual thought, ...

Hola, como están todos?? Figured it was time for another little update I don't exactly remember quite where I left off... but some quick transfer news: (Drum roll...  ) To everyone's surprise (especially mine) I'm here in Las Cañas, and I'm staying with Elder Lopez for one more transfer!! It's super crazy, first time being with a companion for 3 transfers, and it'll be my first time killing a companion as well (he's headed home next transfer). It'll be a blast though, I'm super hyped!! We've seen a whole lot of miracles here together!! The zone is doing awesome, and here in the area we have 6 people lined up to be baptized this month and the beginning of December We may or may not have been very very late to church this past Sunday... and may or may not have literally woken up one of our friends to help him come to church . But he came!! And he's ready to get baptized this next Sunday, it's going to be awesome!! We also made pupusas in th...

Baptisms! The duo back together again  (also the only Halloween-related anything I've seen down here ) District pdays Hey, como estan?? Sorry I hopped off the email streak, just wanted to give a little update: First off, General Conference was absolutely amazing!! The messages were incredible, I loved Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Eyring's talks especially. We're blessed to have prophets and apostles today to guide us, I invite you to go rematch the Conference if you didn't get the chance!! We had a couple fire district Pdays, went to an Air Force Museum and Lago Ilopango, I'll throw in some pictures. Got to go to the temple with district 5G from the CCM!! It was a blast, love those guys. Also, got to be companions with Elder Anhder (my CCM comp) for the day, such a beast This past Saturday we had 2 baptisms!! Our friends Juan and Anibal got baptized, they were a bit nervous but at the end it all went great, the spirit was super strong!! Spiritual thought: One quote I re...

  Hola a todos! Como estamos?? Hope everyone's doing awesome!! Just wanted to give a quick update: Our friends Miguel and Christopher were baptized yesterday!! It was super special, they've had a lot of difficulties, but were able to be baptized just after 3 weeks of lessons!! We finished off the transfer super strong, we had 48 friends in church here in the zone, it was a great week!! Transfer news: I'll be staying here in Cañas with Elder Lopez for another transfer, I'm super hyped, its going to be a blast!! We've been working super hard, were going to see a lot of miracles this transfer There's a store here called Mister Donut that's been selling at half price for the month of September and everyone's buying and selling them everywhere. Let's just say I've had wayyyy too many donuts this past transfer Spiritual Thought:  Something that's stood out to me lately is the power of a good attitude. We started reading the Book of Mormon as a miss...