pues yo amo a la misión el evangelio y todo!

"Because I love the Gospel, mission and everything!"

Well the Lord has worked many milagros (miracles) here in mateare this week carlos and jobanela got baptized and also josé and josefa and there big family which was so life changing! and I kicked in a door because the lock broke, I siphoned water to shower- gravity it does stuff. sleeping in my hammock on the back patio of the church because there are lots of expensive things in the office and stuff woo hoo and getting home everyday super tired but awesome like always. teaching a new investigator octavio who believes and already has a testimony that joseph smith is a prophet and had a dream about thomas s. monson and God just wants him to accept the gospel so much and he is going to be baptized this fourth of may which will be so cool! and josé and josefa brought their neighbor and their kids to church this week and they want to learn about the gospel too and I just love my mission! We just keep finding and meeting so many amazing people!!!!!

¡Escuchad la voz de un Profeta!

April 8

Listen to the voice of a prophet!

pues! this was a really cool week and yeah everything is awesome general conference was super cool!! and cold! the rare blessing of a building with intergrrated air conditioning renders one very cold here in nicaragua cold as in below seventy degrees, yes very cold... lol

anyway it was pretty stinking awesome to hear almost all the speakers talk about la obra misional (missionary work)!! yeah return missionaries find your plaque and put somewhere you can see it! put the missionary plaque in your heart. that was super cool I hope with some of these messages we can really get the ramma animada!! the branch animated I would say... anyway so yeah pretty much modern day prophets are the coolest thing ever to have someone that communicates with God to help us with the problems we face today! and the super cool testimony pratically literal of President Eyring tanto como los apóstoles que vieron a jesucristo despues de su Ressurección, yo soy testigo de que él vive! woah oh yeah umm to translate that errr, as much as the apostoles that saw Jesus Christ after he was ressucrected I am also a witness that he lives.. Supersalvaje testimonio!!!! yeah the world needs people to estify of the truth when the truth is sometimes so hard to find. well Jesucristo vive, yo lo sé también!!!!!!!!!

adios live su vida y siga Jesucristo!!!

-Elder Aukema -the church is true!!!

To read, watch or listen to the General Conference Elader Aukema is referring to, click here.

April 1 Letter

Animo y como agradecer por las bendiciones o tal vez como no agradecer y com aprendi tengo que mejorar.....

(The above didn't translate well. But it's something like, I am grateful for my blessings and I have learned to improve).

well pretty much I have been strangely happy about everything lately, and just a little to excited sometimes, and jamming to my efy music (thanks mom\dad\kenzey) at six thirty in the morning!! because misions are super cool!!!!!!!!!!!! ok yeah i get excited but super excitement is much better than little even if it makes me talk spanish to fast people dont understand me sometimes.

ok so 73 PEOPLE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WO!!!!!! and that hasnt happened in more than a year and like a half or more!! God blessed us with 73 people in church woo!! yeah... I get excited sometimes...

and today me and my companion elder dipiton hiked up a mountain with a friend of a member, but he took us through some places well where the hike became more of climb\crawl so yeah... that is not exactly what we had planned but we had no idea where we were at so we just followed our guy who apparently did... but we finally ended up on a trail and it was prety cool to see the lake and the country in between mateare and managua from up high. and he shot us a garrobo so we get to eat iguana yeah!!! anyway well the lord answers prayers when we show, live and love our faith. it is not just something to believe in it is something to live. to hope and to know with all of your heart!!!

well sorry time to go... the lord directs his work I know it! pray for hermana nichole tucker!

hey love yall!

pues sigan salvaje!!

-Elder aukema