Nate and Robyn FaceTimes before he enters the MTC tomorrow

September 16, 2014

September 16, 2014

Family!!

I love you guys so much.  

Today has been so weird but so great.  Holy cow.  I didnt think i would cry so much while facetiming with Nate, but what do ya know... i cried like a little baby.  I cant tell you how grateful i am for that opportunity.  If i could be in Nates shoes right now, i would switch in a heartbeat.  I love being a missionary.  My mission has changed me.  I am still changing.  I am being purified.  Nate, you will be purified.  Something President Markham says is "when i left my mission, i knew i was clean. when you all finish your missions, you will be clean."  I cant tell you how great that is.  So Nate, I will mash up what i have learned from my two mission presidents.  "Be changed. Be cleaned."  I love you all so much.  i want you to know that.

This week has been SO GREAT!"!!!  We had a meeting with Elder Ochoa from the area presidency, that was SO AWESOME!!! i loved it! He is inspired.  that comes with the calling.  But then it was a miracle, seriously, when president gave me permission to call Nate.  I didnt htink i would get that chance.  And holy cow. so many miracles have happened, so many funny things, i wont be able to expain of it all. 

Manuel, is an old man that has worked hard his whole life. we are teaching him and he is progressing so fast!  His wife has cancer and i know that God is listening to our prayers.  He was SO excited to go to church on sunday he left his house 30 minutes early and only lives 5 minutes away from the church and waited out side the church until we got there to walk in with us. he was so nervous.  but he loved it and said he is coming back next week.  He said, "i am going to get baptized and i am going to stay with you." that was such a cool experience.

With a woman named Berta that has been deported 3 times from the US she also has been making serious progress.  She went to church with her daughter and niece and it was awesome.  

On sunday, we had such a fun day.  Miracles at church, and a blast in the street.  it started raining buckets and dogs and stuff like normal and the streets filled up to be rivers and several cars driving past us completely splashed us with water. it was great.  so wet.  but we were walking along and a drunk guy came up to us.  so i invited him to church thinking that would be it. but he had a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.  the moment he saw us he tossed the cigarette and started talking to us. he wanted us to write down his adress to visit him because he wants to change his life. he has a 2 year old daughter. and at the end of all that, even during the contact i was splashed 3 times by cars, and i asked "so what are you going to do with your beer? are you going to throw it away?" he just hesitated, said, "yeah" so i was looking around for a garbage can, didnt see one, but i hear a big clunk and looked over.  he had chucked it into the street.  it was almost full. so i said, "woooooo! good job!  how do you feel now?" he said quietly, "i feel free."  Its true.  he has a long way to go with that addiction, but in an instant we can start to feel free from the things that chain us down.  

I love you guys.  I hope you are reading your scriptures always.  Keep it up!  You are all so awesome. 

Love, Hna Evans

Lots of Hermana's

hna newman (my granddaughter in the mish) hna yepez (my daughter) hna Aguilar (daughter), me, hna Kap (daughter) hna zemacona (greatgranddaughter) we just needed a grand daughter or two to make the family pic perfect!

September 9, 2014

September 9, 2014

My family!

I love you guys so much.  But holy mackeral.  time flies SOOOO FAST!!! way too fast.  

anywho, so this week has been great.  Hna Kap is awesome.  SO FUNNY! seriously!  I cant think of the thing she said today, but it was way funny.  

umm, we have several investigators that are doing great!  A woman named Melisa, she is a widow with 4 kids all under the age of 6.  Crazy.  but yeah, this week she is totally going to the church, and also, she is getting baptized soon.  she just doesnt know that yet.  

Also, we had a lesson with a recent convert-less active, named Walvis, he doesnt go to church because of the bishop.  but he is super pilas!  he wants to serve a mission.  

oh random thought... wanna send me a pic of the ogden temple? i want to see it.  also, how are the temple trips going?  

how is the preach my gospel going? and the scriptures? i love that in the last conference in april, at least twice i heard apostles say "there is protection in the Book of Mormon."  so, i tell everyone that.  and its true.  

OHHH!  so get this, we were in a lesson with a really awesome girl, tifany, she is 17 and so cool.  and all was going well, and then, a cat comes out of nowhere and had just barely caught a mouse... and during the lesson, in the same room as us, started eating that very mouse.  crunches and everything.  so gross.  SO GROSS. 

it has been raining cats and dogs lately.  we walk through rivers.  its pretty awesome.  so, to nate, if you ever get rained on like that, here is some advice.  you cant run from it.  you just deal with it.  but, put all your books in bags, and then, wrap your backpack in a garbage bag. and keep smiling.  

Also, never ever ever get discouraged.  That is a huge thing satan does to missionaries and it never helps.  so just be positive.  think positively.  if you are sad, its ok for a second, and then be happy again.  trials do not last forever.  i love you.

Be so safe and happy and i love you!!!

Love, Hna evans

A Book Of Mormon In Every Hand

The Stake President requires that all the missionaries in this zone have a Book of Mormon in their hand at all times.  Its pretty cool to have the BOM with us always.

September 2, 2014

September 2, 2014

my family!!!!!!

I love you guys! and this week was, not as eventful as last week.. so sorry for that.  but, anywho, the elders that went to Alotenango got taken out again.  like a day later.  what a blessing.  

Wow.  so my comp got dengue this week.  do you know what that is?  doubtful.  ill explain.  dengue is what happens when you get a mosquito bite (not every bite, but some) and then you loose your appetite, energy, the body hurts real bad, you feel like you have been fasting for 3 days etc, sometimes nausea. and she still worked everyday with that!  what a trooper.  she was sleeping in almost every lesson, but she did it.  she is doing a lot better now though.

the members here are helping us out a lot.  they have been teaching us the area, and we have one guy, Brandon, he will be baptized on the 21 of this month, he has to wait so long because he didnt pass his baptismal interview... but he will be good.  and, then, get this, the stake president (who is so awesome) came to church with us this sunday, and he spoke obviously so ill explain what he said in a moment.  but he also requires that all the missionaries in this zone have a book of mormon in their hand at all times.  its pretty cool to have the bom with us always. 

but he said to start his talk, "im showing Pres. Lopez his new area, i wonder how the members here are showing their new missionaries their new area...." and then he had us go up there with him and he introduced us and all. and then he started talking about a talk from Pres Hinckley, when he talked about a man and a snake. and the snaked asked if the man would carry him to a hotter place because he was dying in the cold.  the man said no because he was a snake. and the snake kept going at it and promised he wouldnt bite the man, and finally the man picked up the snake and took him to a hot place.  when he set him down, the snake bit him and the man said, "you promised you wouldnt bite me!" and the snake said, "you knew who i was when you picked me up."  then he said, "brothers and sisters, lets not pick up satan and invite him in our homes.  we know who he is.  we know what he does.  we have to stay away from him"  

So guys, stay away from temptations, dont even get close.  once a woman told me, "if someone is strong enough, they can look at pornography and nothing will happen to them.  but they have to be someone strong.. if not, then no."  but guys, it doesnt matter who ya are.  sin is sin. whether we are strong or not, it will affect us all.  So i love you guys so much! temptation comes in ALL forms!!  please be so careful.  

things are going really good.  my comp is so funny.. seriously, yesterday, the very first thing she said in the morning was a joke i tell everyone. in spanish she said, "what has feet and a tail like a boy cat?" "a girl cat!" and then got up and prayed like nothing had happened.  

Life is good, guys.  Its so awesome. i love you so much!  keep it up!  Adios! be safe and happy and i love you.

Love, Hna Evans