Krismas Kasak

December 23

Well, let this Christmas time be one of the most amazing times of your lives! ¿How many christmas days do we have in our lives? ¿how many peoples lives can we brighten if we only reached out to one person this Christmas time? well anyway, folks keep up the Christmas spirit and check out some cool stuff here from Mormon Messages. It's a pretty cool thing about true christmas spirit bro!! work on all those spreading Christmas cheer skills yall!

aisabia!
-Elder Aukema

Kristmas Kati (christmas time)

December 16
well everybody I hope y'all are all having a great Navidad and stuff! just so you know mine might be cooler... just kidding but anyway as we think about all the Savior and all He has done for us this christmas think of what we can do for our neighbor as the scriptures say, or how we can strengthen the feeble knees and lift up the hearts of someone who might not be having a great Christmas this year. we all have our problems small or big but usually there is someone out there who has it a little worse. And we can fix it, with a small act of kindness. DO it. ¿how many lives could be touched if we all brightened one persons day?

KLI WOL aisabia!

-Elder Aukema

BAHA PRIAS WATLA KASAK SA! ( This church is true!)

December 9

well the navidad devocional (Christmas Devotional) was pretty cool last night, I liked all the mentions of missionary work in there!! hey but the thing is it isn't missionary work, it is the Lord´s and everyone's work! yeah! I didn't see all of it but I will listen to it during the week!

the church is just so true! It just is! the power went out during miskitu church yesterday (the power goes out a lot here and is completely normal but miskitu church is later so it was already dark outside, so yeah it was daaaark..). but, that didn't change anything, my new handy dandy super flashlight that my family sent me helped everyone see the speakers yeah! I forgot to thank y'all for how much that helps us! flashlights are a crucial part of being a missionary in puerto because there is lots of mud and everybody lives on foot trails off of the roads and there is only light from peoples houses and streetlights on the main streets so yeah that light is the BOMB FAMILY ! THANKS!!! the best CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER! yeah! and the food was the bomb too family. .. saving the cheesecake for christmas!

HEY people! share the gospel everyone needs it!

-Elder aukema

kristmas yamni lus!

Jisus krasit Priaska watla miskitu bila aisisa !

December 2

Guess what! this week they did an extra sacrament meeting all in miskitu, even singing in miskitu!!! it was the bomb! and is opening the hearts of a lot more people. the dad of several brothers and sisters that are very active members--one of which is on her mission and one more is about to go--came to see it. he has only come to church like three times in the four years his children have of being members. that was awesome! well we are still having some difficulties with investigadores but! this week is going to be awesome! I just know!!!! yeah! YEAH ; YEAH! ok well the gospel is true, new houses are fun and this house makes five different houses I have lived in here in puerto cabezas! fotos next week. I think sorry about that but that has been a challenge of late...

so well .... basika familyki

AISABI!

-Elder Aukema

Kasak lukaia Laka (faith)

November 24

Faith is something very interesting, that motivates people to do many many things out of the ordinary. Like leave your home and trek out in to the wilderness to the Promised land. Get on your knees and speak to a being that we have never seen before. Follow a strict life style very unlike the majority of the world. This and many other even greater things are done as acts of faith. Many people talk of faith as something you have, but to me it is some thing you do. We do things on account of the faith that we have, and thus to me, faith=actions. If we have faith, we are going to be acting from it, and if we are acting we must have faith. It is a big deal.

Just been thinking about that lately and how I can have more faith and show it through the way I work and help other people, and the way that I love them.

Well have a great week everybody!

Yang mai latwan kaikisna!
Praubia
-Elder Aukema

 American kids play xbox, Nicaraguan kids play tracatraca

kati ingni

November 18

Well the heat keeps up here as the temperatures go down back home but no matter how sweaty or smelly or whatever that I am it is all ok because it is for a good reason: the work of the Lord! maybe the church bus splashed mud all over me when it hit a pothole in the road in front of the church but it doesn't matter; it was carrying like a hundred people to go to church that is pretty cool, right?!!! Outward circumstances start to take less and less importance as we come to realize what is really of eternal significance. and the supposed problems that we face everyday that worry us so much, are diminished if we can look over the anthill that we have made a mountain out of and just keep going with life and realize that in the eternal scheme of things it doesn't really matter.

try it out, think more about what matters eternally than the little problems and aggravations that pass us everyday and we will live much easier and happier. "Will this ever matter to me in fifty years? two hundred? or more?" If not, then don't worry about it now. And just do what has to be done and move on!

The gospel is the bomb! And Heavenly Father works great miracles today so much like in the past, I know and have seen it! and everyone in the world has seen the little miracles of life! another breath, another day.

DALE PUES!!!!!
-Elder Aukema

¡oi vos! radar y la obra del Señor

November 11

well randomly I am going to talk about the use of the word vos in nicaragua and central america. It is the most informal version of the word "you" in spanish and extremely widely used in nicaragua. almost nobody says the word tu here and usted is normal and formal too, but here in puerto with some people with limited knowledge of spanish, if we talk to them in formal usted like missionaries should to be formal and appropriate, they sometimes don't understand us. so that is an interesting tidbit.

well this week was pretty cool a little difficult and stuff but the end of the week we found some pretty cool investigadores! Elder santiago is pretty cool but sometimes he is pretty quiet and stuff because he has a super chill personality and stuff. but that is ok. well the work is going and the members are helping us out. We helped a recent convert baptize his daughter who turned 8 this week so that was super cool. anyway but the work goes on folks. Rain or rain!

also we got to tour a radar tower station today for p-day which was cool, a member works there. and we had a big eat out together there, fun stuff. the world needs the gospel! so much! it is just the majority of the people don´t know it yet! tell them so they know!

well have a great week everyone bye!
basika uplika miskitu guspil ai makisna!
aisabi!
-Elder Aukema

 

Miskitu bila aisiras

November 4

Well hello world greetings from the humble land of Bilwi nicaragua otherwise known as puertocabezas!

The work of the lord is going forth and i hope I can just do my best! maybe I am not right now but I know I can do better. Sometimes, we think we have been giving our all and then we think of what Jesus Christ did for us and then we come to understand how much more we can do. We really do so little, in comparison with all that he did for us. And that is what motivates me try to better a little everyday! If it wasn´t ever easy for him, how we can we expect it to just be perfectly easy for us? At least that is what I think. the Lord´s work moves forward and so do I-- trying to be a little better everyday. He lift us up every step of the way and I know he is with us every step, in his path lifting us up and even carrying us at times when we can´t do it all by ourselves! Everyday another in this world just being alive I love it so dang much! I hope you do too.

-Elder aukema

upla ba nani ai latwankras bara, yang upla kum kum ai walisa.

October 28

well, this week has been a little crazy. lots of rain, lots of mud, lots of wet shoes... but it is all cool. the cloudy weather is quite pleasant and keeps the heat off us and so really I have no where to complain, just the hermana that washes our clothes has trouble drying our clothes because the sun only comes out at times. but really everything is going great learning everyday, and finding new appreciation for this life our heavenly father has given us everyday also. We don´t know how much time we have, so we should dedicate our time and put in priority that which is must important to us, or what we should learn to be that what is most important.
well, aisabi muihki nani
-Elder Aukema

uba li auhwisa

October 21

well............
this has been a great week lots of fun stuff! well the new area is fun but lots more mud I think. Rubber boots! I shall buy!!! also, we have to move because our house owner needs their house back... so yeah we will probably stay in a hotel room for a while until we find a cool house also I bought a miskitu dictionary y so my miskitu skills are going to increase!!! yeah! !!! anyway well not much time everybody, but go do something amazing!!!
the Gospel is the bomb! and it is so important!
-Elder Aukema

yang plis wala ra auna

October 14
well I have changes which means I will be working in another place than before. Still here in puerto cabezas but on the other side of town with one of the other branches of the Church. I am kind of sad and stuff to leave lots of cool people that I have grown to know and love but I will see them every now and then still. At least I am still in Puerto and my quest to learn Miskitu continues!! Anyway well I hope everybody is doing great back home! and  everything! also, The gospel is like the coolest thing in the world and changes lives, and changes hearts! I love it and love these people!!! anyway, well have a great week everybody!!

 praubia!

naiwa wihki yauhka

October 7

WELLLLLLLLLLLL many incredibly amazing things are happening. the work of the Lord goes forth! My appetite for rice and beans increases! (with ketchup of course like any nicaraguan would do!), and everyday just runs, with random stops to stop and just take it in. Time flies so fast here. this week I will have been here (in puerto cabezas) for four months, I feel like I got here a few weeks ago. but thus it is when you are busy serving God. There are many good things in this life, some have a price tag some don´t, well I have learned that the things that don´t have a price, that don´t require money are the things that matter the most. The sacrifices that we make in our lives in order to put time into these things, are not really sacrifices they are just what should be done. Nothing ever worthwhile ever was easy to obtain, and nothing that lasts forever can be obtained with any amount of money. Time, love, obedience, and diligence are what bring these things.

ohhhh I love latin america, I would not actually mind living here. My body does not understand the concept of coldness now as the air conditioning tin the big church chapel in the sacrament meeting room, makes me super cold and them I am like whoa it is cold what is it like 75 degrees? oh gotta love that tropical heat!!!!!!!!!

aisabi, lalkra nani. tutni yamni!
-Elder Aukema

¡precaución llegaron los mormones salvajes!

September 30
WELL, tthe church is puerto is the bomb I love life! the misión is the best thing ever! Cool awesome miskitu people are the bomb, well yeah that pretty much sums it up! also General conference is going to be translated into miskitu awesome!!!!!! yeah!! I am pretty sure if we brought anyone that spoke miskitu that was willing to go to church would develop a pretty quick testimony of a modern prophet!

anyway, I just love life and the only softserve ice cream store this quarter of Nicaragua!!

well I have been learning a Little miskitu so I tried to a little testimony:
"priaska watla jisus Craist ba rait sa, uplika miskitu gospil nit sa. jisus craist raya sa. yang nusna. ahkia yang nani dawan bila daukisna, Dawan blising nani ba Dawan wina mai aula. baha prias utla, dawan priaska watla. yang José Smith pofitka dawan ba nusna."
(The church of Jesus Christ is true. the miskitu people need the góspel. Jesús Christ lives I know. when we do the word of the Lord, blessings from God come to us. this church is the church of God. I know Joseph Smith is a prophet of God.)
Well, GO and BE awesome everybody!!!!!!! DO awesome stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I just love everybody!
kli wal praubia!
-Elder Aukema

kaki praus

September 23

pues......... this week has been great!!!!! really cool etc... anyway. the church is true!!! lots of adventure this week! riding on top of the bus to go to conferencia de distrito because it was already full to the brim with people trying not to get wacked in the face by power lines and palm fronds and mango tree branches... but it was a good problem, the bus too full of people to go to conference! we have gotten to know lots of new amazing people this week and a member hno frichel has been helping us as much as he can go to lessons and stuff and visit anybody! he contacts in the street with us inviting people to go to church and baptized ana y samuel and their daughter because he came to almost every lesson to help translate and is amazing! he was baptized a month ago by other missionaries and he is super cool!!! the church is true!!!!!! have a great week!
-Elder Aukema

aventuras en proselitismo

September 16

well, everything has been going fine and stuff here down in puerto cabezas! the new heramanas are throwing fire as expected, and really animating the branch in which they serve in and have become every young woman's in the district new best friend! well anyway the work of the Lord moves on! independence day of Nicaragua the 14 was a big deal, there were like parades in the street from like six in the morning till three in the afternoon and a huge activity in the baseball field. and also, unfortunately everybody's excuse to drink excessively. But on the bright side we can teach them about repentance! but well we have been working hard and have been teaching several new families in paticular ana y samuel and johny y juana they are all really cool and went to church with us so that was pretty cool!!! Me and elder Kasper well more elder Kasper continue in our adventures in teaching sunday school to members in their second language. and the church is true! prayer changes things! and Faith works miracles! have a good day and share the gospel with everybody!

    aisabi upla nani!

    -Elder aukema

placentero nos es trabajar

September 9

well this week has been a little difficult along with trying to find a new house, some difficulties in the work and a little bit of how we say it in spanish, disanimo. however, the lord is moving forth! we found a cool creole man this week so we have fun teaching in a fun mix of english and spanish! we would teach him in all english but it is hard for us to do.... yeah his dad is from jamaica and stuff creole or people of african descent are like the second largest cultural group here in puerto behind the miskitus  and they are always fun and usually speak spanish english and miskitu. they speak creole english in their families though.. but yeah the work goes on and it will all turn out good one way or another!

 pues, aisabi famlyki

    -Elder aukema

managua es la ley!

September 2

Well this week was great we got to listen to Elder Ochoa, a leader of the Church from Guatamala, which was really nice and also! we went to managua in a plane! to go to the meeting! wee! and we ate lots of american like and salvodoreñan food! which was awesome! cinnamon rolls! and I brought my pack of grits from my big bag in the secretaries house in managua and most amazing of all I TOOK A HOT SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!!!!!! the house we stayed in of the secretaries of the mission have a hot water heater!!!! yeah!!!!! that was very amazing!!!

Also, the work is going forth and going forth hermana missionaries are coming to puerto and like we say in spanish they are going to throw fire!!! ( have lots of success) well the world is an amazing place love it and everything have a good week world!!!! the lord leads us to the people that need this message! wherever we are!!!

the mission is salvaje!!!!

-Elder aukema

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Grits & eggs  :)

 Wearing the t-shirt and Wranglers that mom & dad sent him for his birthday :)

ausika pues

August 26

Well I love the wonderful moments in life involving outhouses, my comp was almost attacked by a spider last time he was hit by the curse of the gringo. It was a rather shaking experience because the spider was the size of his face... Go tropical flora and fauna! well nothing to extravagantly important too comment on this week other a cool small crocodile i got to take a picture with! among the normal coco eating etc. well the work of the lord goes on! on the soles of some worn out shoes that I am determined to get another year out of !! they need a little repair but, there is nothing a determined nicaraguan man with some tools can´t fix! 

well I have learned and been witnessed to this week even more how much the Lord directs his work and directs the people that need the gospel and are willing to make the changes in their life to live it! This week a couple came to church on their own with the only contact with us being an invite in the street as they were walking together, a phone call and a pass by their house sunday morning! That night we shared a lesson with them and they accepted a baptismal date cool! 

Anyway the Lord works in mysterious ways. and guides his servants, for this we always need to be ready to serve him in whatever moment.

adios!
-Elder Aukema

P.S. Rats beware of the boot of Elder Aukema! 2 down 13 more to go!

 A ring made from sea turtle shell. (HLJ is the Spanish abbreviation for Choose the Right).