April 30, 2012 - Dear Family

Dear Family,

            Wow, so I got changed out of my sector again.  I’m finally out of Guayaquil and I am SO SO SO Happy. I’m finally out where there are fields and dirt roads.  This will be awesome.  My companion is another newbee. He just has 3 months and he’s from Mexico.  I’m not all that sure about him so far.  He doesn’t stay on task very well, well at least not when we are cleaning the house.  I had to tell him when we get it clean is when we go write letters, haha, and we got it done.  It was so trashed when I got here, just so nasty and dirty.  But, oh well, now it is spic and span.

            I got a ton of Dear Elder letters from you guys and Sarah, wow, I’m so happy to finally hear from you guys.  So you wanted to know about my day to day life.  Well, it’s pretty boring, the same thing everyday relaly, but here we have mamitas for the clothes that clean them and in LaChala our mamita didn’t charge us.  She was the patriarch’s wife.  Her name is Annita, like Anna, but when you put the ita at the end it makes it like little Anna.  It’s hard to explain.  She was so great, but now I’m here and Elder Valenzuela told me the mamita here charges $5.  I’ll go find someone else to do it because that’s a ton of money.  Well, at least for broke missionaries like us.  But here they kill your clothes with bleach and they sometimes lose socks or burn them because dryers suck here. (if there are dryers).  But they always replace them but the replacement socks aren’t quite the quality that the gold toes are.  Like Farrrrr from the quality so if you guys could please send me a few pairs of gold toes.  Socks are golden out here.  I’m still good on garments though.  I really have everything I need here.  I never go without.

            I have a question, how are we going to do the Mother’s Day call thing?  I don’t know when Mothers day is here.  I think it is the 13^th so I’m not sure if I call you that day or what…..I’ll let you guys know Monday or I’ll try to do a pre-call thing again.  I’ll probably just call you guys from here because it is five cents a minute to the states from here.  I love you guys lots,  I can’t believe it’s that time again.  I complete a year here pretty soon J  Wow!

            So me and my old comp, Elder Hoskins, we had the best week ever.  Thursday we successfully cooked hamburgers on a fan grill.  They were sooooo good.  Then Friday night, we had to do a skit for the ward talent show.  We lip-synced a song in Spanish that is about a missionary that is leaving on the mission and he has to leave his girl friend. It’s like, I will wait for you and it talks about all that stuff and talks about being sealed in the temple for eternity, haha and stuff like that.  It’s funny because what we did was blew up a HUGE picture of Sarah’s face and made a mask, (hope that is ok, Sarah.  I love you.)  Then Elder Hoskins dressed like a girl with a skirt and I a Dad with street clothes on.  In the song, when he leaves for the mission, I pull of my shirt and I have my white shirt and tag on, and then when the song talks about eternity, I pull of my pants and Hoskins pulls the skirt off and I have my white pants on under and he has a ladies baptism jumper on so we were all in white.  It was great.  I can’t send the video but I have pics I will send.  It was so great.  I’m really gonna miss Hoskins a lot.  We were crazy rednecksJ 

            I love you guys a lot, pray for me in this sector….it’s not a good one.  The missionary before me was trunky and didn’t work very hard so they have no people they are teaching right now.  We will see how it goes…..

                                                                                                Love,

                                                                                                Elder Profaizer

Pictures From 30 April 2012

Picture of Sarah & Elder Profaizer

 Fan Grill & Coal ready to burn

Zone Leader Elder Heaps, Elder Profaizer, Zone Leader Elder Fernburg

 Getting creative when you don't have a toilet plunger

 Elder Profaizer and Sarah (Elder Hoskins)

 It took a propane torch to start the burger grill

 Cookin Burgers to celebrate Elder Hoskins six months on a Mission

 The Grill got really hot

 Elder Hoskins dressed as Sarah & Elder Profaizer before the skit

 Elder Profaizer using his insulated coat in 100 degree weather

 Elder Hoskins, Elder Church, Elder Brooks, Elder Profaizer

April 23, 2012 - Hello my long lost family:

                                                                                                April 23, 2012

Hello my long lost family:

            Wow, you can believe I have completed 10 months yesterday?  That’s crazy! And the work is still going.  Well, first things first, CONGRATULATIONS KATIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW, I’M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let this be a lesson to everyone.  If she can do it in her life, then SO CAN YOU!  Remember it’s a commandment to always further your knowledge.  Mom and Dad, if you are taking at least one class in something, you guys gotta do it!  Really, that will benefit your life so much.  God doesn’t like when we just stalemate in our life and just keep doing the same thing.  We had a class this week about your talents.  We all have talents and we just have to develop them.  Go and take a class, make goals, and learn something new!!!  We always need to set goals in life and we need to put a time to end them by also.  We make goals everyday for people to get baptized and change their lives. It’s not like we just baptize people, it’s a bigger process than you think if you haven’t been on a mission.  You need to learn how to plan always one week in advance what you are going to be doing the next week.  At times, plans change but it’s better to have a basic outline of what you are going to do.  The big business men in Japan plan for the next 3 YEARS OF THEIR BUSINESS!  I recommend for all of you to plan out your time well and stick to your plan because if not, when we don’t plan it, we waste time.  I can see how much time I wasted in college when I had “time to kill”.  If I would have planned something, I would have more money and better grades, but that’s why we are here, to learn.  Get Preach my Gospel and read the part that says weekly planning then apply it in your own life.  BriAnna, you can do all that stuff you have planned if you want, but don’t plan just to do it, but how to do it and in what time span and you will work harder and get more stuff done.  MAKE GOALS everyone, it will benefit your lives so much.

            Well that’s enough of, well, what they call it here is “Machete”

            Oh, so this week my companion and I made a grill out of a fan, haha.  We are going to cook hamburgers this Thursday night because he is going to complete 6 months in the mission.  Instead of burning a tie for his six month anniversary, we are going to shake things up a little by making hamburgers on our roof.  Oh, and just in case you are wondering, No, I didn’t burn a tie at my six months, I just ate chocolateJ  I am my grandfather’s grandson.

            I showed one family we are teaching a picture of my family and 23 year old Stefany, who is living with your boyfriend and has 3 kids and is trying to change her life.  She was amazed how happy our family looked and she told me that Mom looks like an angel.  I have to agree.  When I see you guys faces, it really brings me so much joy to see a happy family because we work with so many sad ones all the time.

            Guys, I love you all so muchJ  Please listen to my counsel.  It’s actually counsel from my President who is a VERY successful businessman.  He knows Japanese, English, and French along with Spanish.  He is into international business and is a millionaire.  He says the only way he became like that was planning.  Plan your lives because if not, one day will come and you will not have done what you really wanted to do or learn.  When you get back to Heavenly Father and he asks you what you did with your talent, you will have to tell him if you cultivated it or didn’t do anything.  Think how you will feel telling him you tried your hardest or if you didn’t even try.  God loves us so much and he is always there.  I love you guys so much and I’ll see you in a short 14 months J

                                                                                                            Love,

                                                                                                            Elder Profaizer