Pday in the City!

Jordan and his missionary friends got to got to Chilis!

                                         Jordan made his own salsa ranch!!!  YUM!!!!!!!!

 

Time to Bowl

General Conference and Eggs Golden Rod

Conference was great wasnt it!

I really really enjoyed it. We started off early saturday with 45 eggs boiling for the eggs golden rod. The pictures tell the story, but I will share a little more details for you. I boiled the eggs first and was waiting awhile until the zls came with the milk. When the got there we begun the sauce and at first it seemed like 12 cups of milk was not going to fit into the pot. It barely fit though so we were ok. stirring it I spilled over the edge a bunch though. We toasted 3 loaves of bread. It ended up feeding over 20 missionaries because a few of my friends from another zone joined us. I had such a good time doing it though because I was sort of like being home... at least it tastes like home haha.

Conference was amazing though, I missed the big announcement because I was finshing up in the kitchen but a few elders quickly ran in and told me what had happened. It was a big deal for us as missionaries. We will be seeing many sisters in the mission field in the comming months. It will help us a lot I am sure. I really enjoyed Elder Nelsons talk on saturday. with many common questions he stated, ask the missionaries, they can help you. I hope that the rest of the world has that kind of confidence in us. I was happy to hear that at least elder Nelson does. In the afternoon before the priesthood session I was able to eat at chilis. It was soooo good. Chips and salsa ranch like home. I had to mix my own though because they had never heard of it. I had a big old burger and that was so american. It was a great meal. In the preisthood session on sat we had to watch it in spanish. I understood it but I still didnt learn as much as I would have liked to. It took more concentrating on the words than the message. We had the rest of the sessions in english.

Sunday started off with my comp and some other elders helping an old frail man who had recently been baptized up some stairs into conference. It was a cool site. I hope you like that picture. We got behind on sunday morning because the internet wasnt working but we ended up seening all of the talks and ending late. Elder Hollands talk was very powerful. He had given that same talk more or less about 2 years in the MTC so I had seen a tape of it many times as a missionary, but I guess he felt the entire church needed to hear that message. It is very true. I just dont ever want to end up like Peter with the Lord asking my Why are we still here? I dont ever need to go back to the old nets I left behind at home, so I wont. President Monsons talk was amazing as you all know. I want to be able to follow promptings like he does. It can be hard to dicern between a prompting and a thought sometimes though. I just do my best out here. The 3000 youth in KC was also very inspiring. I like to know that the youth in the church have that kind of faith. The future is bright. Especially with the missionary work. I´ll just keep doin what im doin out here and wait for the thousands of new missionaries to flood the field. I´m excited to see it. I love you all very much. Have a great week.

Love Elder Comstock

oh and ps. I didnt have changes. Im still with elder ruiz

Well this was a good week, again!

We had another baptism on Saturday. Her name is Genesis. That is a normal name here by the way. She is 15 and we found her about 3 weeks ago. It was a cool finding story because that day every single lesson was falling, noone was home at all. We got to the point where I just asked my comp to teach me the boundries of the area. So we explored around a little bit and at the very edge of our area there was a house with a door open and we just went and talked to them. She was in there and totally ready to recieve us. She loves the youth of the ward and is already in mutual and going to firesides so im very happy for her.

This past change flew by! This Wednesday is changes agian. I may get a new companion, and I may stay with Elder Ruiz. Either way it will be fine. It was Elder Ruiz birthday this week and I got him a cake and that was delicious. I also made him some Eggs Golden Rod for dinner. Ill tell you how that went in a little bit. Also at 6 in the morning 2 other elders from our zone busted into our house and egged my comp to wake him up. That was hilarious. We had Mcdonalds for breakfast that day as well. I think it was a good day for him. The Eggs golden rod went really good as well. I made it for my comp on Thursday and for Breakfast yesterday with the APs cuz they are in my ward so they came over before church. Both times were great. The funny part is that im not measuring anything because I havent been able to find any tablespoons or anything. Both batches were good though. I will look for some measuring spoons today though.

I am just in a trance right now, not really stressed or worried, not missing you all too much or anything (just cuz I know I have quite a while to go) and just working a lot every day. I do like that about Elder Ruiz. He works hard with me when I ask him to. We are working very hard and are having as much success as the Lord will give us right now. I really enjoy what im doing these days in this ward though. That is how it should be. I love you all so much. Thank you for everything family

Another week has gone by...

It has been a pretty good one for me in the city. The highlight of my new area is the members without a doubt. We have been visiting them and talking to them a lot about the temple to get them excited and invite their friends and family to hear the Gospel. It has worked pretty well as we found 14 new investiagators this week. We only have 2 planned for baptism so far but we have found some really cool people. Plus Elder Falobela from the quorm of the 70 once told us that if we find every day, we can baptize every weekend. This week we found every day except pday so it was close. If we keep finding we will baptize though.

I had a cool expierence yesterday with an Investigator. Her name is Jeny. On saturday night we were trying to teach her a lesson about the Gospel and when we got to repentance it became a lesson on repentance only. About how God wants us to do good stuff and Satan wants us to do bad stuff. She was a little unsure about everything but then she came to church yesterday and in gospel principles class the teacher was talking about the same thing and she was like woah.. This all makes sense. And after she was telling me she felt something in the class and I explained that means its right to be here. So she is doing very well right now. Struggles with cigarettes and alchol but I know she can change if we keep helping her to feel the spirit.

So mom had some questions so I will answer them for my email...

1. Do you study now in the morning and then go out? We are on a totally normal schedule. Study in the morning, lunch, work all afternoon, dinner, work, at 9 we go home and plan. Just like every missionary in the world, except for those in guapinol..

2. Are the people as nice in the city? Do you get fed as many meals? (we noticed you have been to a few fast food joints.) :) Maybe you'll put on a few pounds You have been looking so thin in your pictures. The people in the city are not as nice as in the south. They are a lot more modern and a lot less friendly. But there are still good people here. Especially the members of my ward

3. What is your apartment like in the city? We have a tiny apartment with a room with our desks, and then the closet and bedroom and kitchen are all kind of mixed. The bathroom is connected to the back of the house. We have to shower with a bucket of water and pour it on our heads with a bowl because the water only comes every 3 days or so. So we dont have a shower.

4. Is the weather the same in the city? Or is it cooler? It is definetly cooler. I am not as sweaty here. It is still hot, but not as miserable as the south.

5. After being there for 2 weeks now do you miss Guapinol or do you like it there? I really like it here. I cant complain about anything. Guapinol feels like a distant dream. I cant believe it all happened to tell you the truth.
6. What was the painting of that you purchased from the guy that paints? I havent bought anything yet. It is like 75 dollars or so, so i dont know if I want to spend that much money right now.

7. Do you miss seminary? I miss seminary a little, but I also dont miss how lazy the kids were. My last month or 2 I was really struggling to get people to show up every day. It was very challenging.

8. Is it just you and your comp Elder Ruiz in your apartment or do you live with others? It is just the 2 of us, but we share an area with the APs. They live by the mission office, but they are with us in the ward every sunday and we have eaten together as well. They arent always in the area though because they have a ton of other responsibilities.

9. Have you felt safe while you have been there? Would you tell me if you hadn't? Dont worry about it. Do you have faith in the promises that the scriptures say for missionaries in Doctrine and Covenants? If yes then dont worry about me at all.

10. Is there a place for your hammock in your apartment? Not really. Im gonna try to cram it in.

Lets finish with a nice little story from last night. We had a family night with a member family and we were talking about the temple again, but instead of just teaching about the temple I started to share how I felt aobut the temple. From my whole life growing up and going to st. George every now and then. Then she started to share how she felt about them as well and it was very spiritual. It is cool here how many active members there are and how many have been to the Temple. It will be a good time here getting ready for the Temple. The sad thing is the Bishop told me yesterday that it may not be done until March now. At least ill still be here. I love you all. Have a great week.

Love Elder Comstock

Jordan's Apartment in the city.

 I guess this is his pantry.  He said they have a hard time keeping milk because the electricity is so unreliable.  I am sure he really misses cereal!.  But I guess he has a toaster and poptarts!

Look who Jordan ran into in the city.  He is pretty excited to be able to find fast food everywhere!!!!!