Hey there all! this was a good week for me! we had a baptism and it was a special one for me. we had been working with this man, José for a while and trying to get him to stop smoking and he was having a lot of problems with it. but after he signed his contract we made he didnt have one problem with it. it was really cool bc his son got to perform the baptism before he leaves on his misison. God does things for a purpose and i can for sure see a purpose in his baptism being right now.

thats good you had a good Thanksgiving. mine was ok i guess, we had a burrito haha this man lived in the US for 20 years so he knows how to cook some good food. we are going to baptize him in a couple of weeks and he is the closest person here to me, we speak a lot of english together maybe thats why ha but he also makes me the best pancakes and omlets and cooks like an american. man i miss our food but its ok, im adjusted to my rice, eggs, chicken and beans. maybe ill be like tace when i get home and only eat rice..well ill want beans also. the beans here are to die for, they are so much better than what we have in the United States. what did you guys buy on black Friday?

im glad to hear about the people the Hiram Sisters are teaching. all the person needs to have is a a thirst to learn. there is a scripture in alma 32 i think, im not sure but it says just give way for a little portion of his word in your hear and let it sprout like a seed. if its a good plant keep it and if its a bad plant cast it out. so, teaching about Jesus Christ is good so he will keep it! maybe if they arent baptized when i get home ill talk to them a little bit.

a cool thing is this last sunday i was in coorelation meeting with our bishop and he asked what more he could do for the ward, and i brought up home teaching. he then went on to say that they didnt really have a home teaching program here so do you know whose going to organize one? yep me, im going to do it with him this week i believe. i knew there was a reason you wanted me to wake up early and go to those 7 or 8 oclock leadership meetings with you on sunday dad, so i would be ready for stuff like this! im excited for this opportunity to help out our ward. Getting to see how a ward council operates while preparing for my mission was really helpful!

thats about it for me this week. i dont have my camera with me right now so ill send pictures next week! i cant wait to open the package when i get home. have a safe, fun week.


Love,
Elder Herman

this last week wasnt too eventful! we have a baptisimal date for this weekend and he has a huge problem with smoking so i made him sign a contract and itll be sweet if he keeps with it. ill try to attach a picture of it. its amazing how attached to people we get here. its like we’re really a part of their lives, i am helping them recieve the restored gospel of jesus christ and helping them come unto repentenance, endure to the end and much more. im not sure what else i can say more about that!

today for p-day we went to a stake center and balled, it was awesome i tore it up! we played inside and it was a ncie court. i thought i was getting really bad at basketball but i was making it rain from beyond the three point arch, kinda like MJ!

You’re lucky you get to spend the holidays with family! we have changes every six weeks and its already been six weeks since our last change but i found out ill be in this area another change so that will be 18 weeks in the same area! also, that means ill prolly have christmas dinner and thanksgiving dinner because im close with a lot of the members, the people here usually love the tall, white boys.

sadly, that’s about it for me this week, ill make this next week a better one for a better email! i hope everyone is doing well, i love you all have a safe and fun week.

love always,
Elder Herman


one of the pictures is with one of my really good friends from the MTC, he is a baller also
the other is the contract that he had to sign!

Hey there all! how are you doing? This was a good week for me!

Well ill first start off by saying that we got to go the temple today and boy i sure know that place is heaven on earth. I really felt like i was in heaven and im looking forwad to going back in 6 months. We had a baptism this last week and that was good, we had been working with him for 2 months and he finally accepted and took action. We completed a family, will be completing another family this week and the following as well. I love this because this is really hard to do here, and im sure anywhere. There are a lot of misisonaries that have been out 19 months and haven’t completed one family. I’m so blessed to have the opportunity to help one complete family come unto the Lord and hope that I will have more. the lord is really blessing me and i can feel his hand in everything that i do.

Dad, I’m glad you’re having fun doing leaves, ha, ha. i enjoyed them..well i enjoyed sitting on the mower and listening to music. i wish i could do that right now but people here dont have much grass and when they do they cut it worst than the amish, they use machetes. you would think they would be more technologically advanced but they arent in some ways. haha thats funny to me..the amish who dont use power are ahead of some of the people here. I sure do love these people and i never thought i would but i sure do.

its not a man satchell, its a nice bag! if you were here in this heat walking as much as i do you would understand we would do anything not to get sweaty and have a lot of back sweat from a backpack.

Thank you for passing the letters on, its way cheaper for me to send them like that. tell syd to write me, i havent gotten anything from her since the last time i wrote her.

it sounds like you’re going to be having a nice thanksgiving. ill be here in the heat working and who knows if ill even have a good dinner, i might be having a pb&j. ive been eating those for two meals a day, we dont have a cocinera anymore. i didnt like the same food everyday and my comp and i were sick from her food.

i think thats about it for me but i have a lot of pics that can tell what else i did this week. have a good week, be safe all. i love and miss you. :)

Love,
Elder Herman
1. my comp and i with our mission president and his wife in front of the temple
2. a wedding here, this is usually how they do them here
3. the cake for the wedding, people usually dont even have this
4. Painting our back wall, this took hours
5. all the bags from the trash
6. our zone
7. our baptism of oscar!
8. one side of the wall that we painted
9. the other wall
10. the other wall
11. at the temple, holieness to the lord, the house of the lord