sup fam and friends!
so this week was awesome. we confirmed the two people we baptized last sunday, thier names are misayel and dalma. we are working on this guy whos name is juan. he is so smart its rediculous. hes a physcologist and has been studying religions for the past 5 years of his life. we started meeting with him a few weeks ago and he has read the whole book of mormon, all the pamphlets, and pretty much knows more than i do haha. i can see him being a bishop within a year after getting baptised easy. but thats if he gets baptized. i got bit by two dogs this week, one on the leg and the other he tried to swallow my hand whole. im loving it here, we walk like 12 miles a day, and eat just about all the pasta in the world for lunches. they have their main meal of the day as lunch here so thats when we eat with the members. the one house made 10 pizzas and told us we had to finish them all. other houses they will just keep offering food until your unbuttoning your pants your so full, and its not ever the best tasting food. the elders who have been here a while say that they stopped caring about what things taste like and just vacuum things down until they are full. im making all sorts of memories here already. after this life the only personal things you take with you are your memories, so i think that i want to live my eternity with good memories that i will look back on and be proud of, to look back and regret things would just suck for all time. also ive decided that there is no other choice for me other than the celestial kingdom. i wanna make my own worlds and live forever always progressing and have a huge posterity. in the other kingdoms you dont get to have posterity, you cant create worlds without number, and you cant progress past a certain point. that sounds lame and just boring. so thats my new goal :) love you all. peace out, elder hayden summers
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Dejavu and Bird Poop
hey everyone!
so argentina is just mobbin life here. i had two baptisms on sunday and they were lagit. also i still am very lost in the language, if you were wondering. but improving always so thats fun stuff. if you have never deep fried hot dogs before you are missing out, but be careful cuz the oil will burn the stuff out of your pinky finger if your not careful, believe me i know. the time is going by faster now i think. ive been here for a month or so and the lifestyle is sort of starting to set in. the cool thing here is that when we go out to work we have a plan of what to do and most times it falls through and we are left with our back up plan, which then falls through also and we just do whatever we think we should. its all whatever we think would be best, sometimes we walk and just turn down random roads and end up finding an awesome family that would just except us in to talk about Christ. yup its sick. so i got pooped on by a bird. thats some new info for you to wrap your heads around, haha, just a direct hit right on top of my head. i couldnt wash it off for another 5 hours so i did work with crappy hair. but its all good. i love it here. for some reason things feel right. deja vu is happening to me all the time here. i think you get deja vu when you are living your life the way that the Lord wants you too. its cool. sometimes i try to change my deja vu haha. it never really works cuz when i try to change it it just turns out being exactly what i had seen before. one thing to never forget is that you can do anything that is impossible. like the great ricky bobby said, shake and bake. i love you all. have a week that you will always remember this week. peace! elder hayden summers
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hey There America!
hey there america!
so this week was intense. i got sick on tuesday like really bad, all of the above was happening to me. so i slept that day, slept all wednesday which was nice haha but i was sick so twas bitter sweet. then thursday morning some people in the office had to go home cuz their kid was having a really rough time at home alone. the missionaries were a senior couple fyi. why am i telling you this? because when they left the office that left two spots in the finances of the entire mission completely empty. so pres lindahl yanked two missionaries who could do his finances for him out of their area. then promoted a missionary to a zone leader, which left two missionaries without comps. so pres. called in me and my comp and split us up. so now im with my second trainer and he is lagit. he plays sports and is cool and loves to win. he got baptized when he was 18 and went on a mission when he was 19. so he has been on his mission longer than he has been a member of the church haha. i moved into a different house too. there are 10 elders living in it because our house in our area is taken by sister missionaries for the moment. every morning we take a half hour bus ride to our area, work all day, then half hour back to sleep. this week we should move into the new house and just mob it up there. im pumped and having a lot more fun now. language is still bleeeerrrrg but itll come some day!! love and miss you all. keep your chins up cuz out there in the world is someone who is having a harder time than you. and they are making it through life so why cant we :) okay take it easy, be safe and awesome and just peachy, love elder hayden summers
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Growing Super Mega Fast
hey errbody!
mendoza is still pretty scorching hot if you were wondering or doubting that fact at all. i am going to try and pull of the utlimate farmers tan and make it look good! haha yeah right.. but im starting to kinda love it here. every now and then we have some delicious food and other times i drink water where stuff is swimming around in it. people here drink as a family usually out of the same cup, not sure if it is very sanitary but they sure do like to share! every house we go into they want to give us juice or something and we always say yes cuz well its polite and also i am secretly wanting them to ask cuz im parched 80 percent of the time. im not going to lie, this is the hardest thing ive ever done.. i look back at the hard days on the fishing boat or in football or bball practices and would take that in place of an easy day here. but hey the great amazing part is that this is what the lord wants of me and ill be turned into a baptizing machine by the time im about to leave, hopefully sooner haha but hey whatever God wants is gonna happen :) and he will never want bad things to happen to his children so if you do what he asks then he has no choice but to bless you in the ways that you require. but only if we are being good boys and girls will we recieve every blessing that he intends for us. ive kinda learnt that sometimes the hard times are a blessing as well. maybe the trip to the best fishing hole is rough and dangerous, but once you get there it is totally worth it :) thats my cheesy fishing analogy for the day haha. i cant wait to get a baptism and understand what people are saying and all that good stuff, they say after 4 weeks out here you can start to understand what is going on then after 4 months here you can fluently speak to people, i cant wait for that haha. but right now im doing all that i can and trying my best to do His will so i can grow super mega fast. i love and miss you all. i pray for you everyday and hope that you will be safe and have fun and enjoy life. peace out untill next time. love elder summers.
mendoza is still pretty scorching hot if you were wondering or doubting that fact at all. i am going to try and pull of the utlimate farmers tan and make it look good! haha yeah right.. but im starting to kinda love it here. every now and then we have some delicious food and other times i drink water where stuff is swimming around in it. people here drink as a family usually out of the same cup, not sure if it is very sanitary but they sure do like to share! every house we go into they want to give us juice or something and we always say yes cuz well its polite and also i am secretly wanting them to ask cuz im parched 80 percent of the time. im not going to lie, this is the hardest thing ive ever done.. i look back at the hard days on the fishing boat or in football or bball practices and would take that in place of an easy day here. but hey the great amazing part is that this is what the lord wants of me and ill be turned into a baptizing machine by the time im about to leave, hopefully sooner haha but hey whatever God wants is gonna happen :) and he will never want bad things to happen to his children so if you do what he asks then he has no choice but to bless you in the ways that you require. but only if we are being good boys and girls will we recieve every blessing that he intends for us. ive kinda learnt that sometimes the hard times are a blessing as well. maybe the trip to the best fishing hole is rough and dangerous, but once you get there it is totally worth it :) thats my cheesy fishing analogy for the day haha. i cant wait to get a baptism and understand what people are saying and all that good stuff, they say after 4 weeks out here you can start to understand what is going on then after 4 months here you can fluently speak to people, i cant wait for that haha. but right now im doing all that i can and trying my best to do His will so i can grow super mega fast. i love and miss you all. i pray for you everyday and hope that you will be safe and have fun and enjoy life. peace out untill next time. love elder summers.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Arrival
HHHEEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!
holy sheep creek im soooooo hot!! haha.
okay so monday morning we left the mtc on a bus, i took a picture of the guy who prayed for us before we left so we would have evidense of whos fault it was if we didnt make it:) so we barely barely made our flight from slc to atlanta, after eating at panda express we jumped on our 11 hour flight to argentina!! had some most not delicious food on the plane. landed into a spanish wonder land. we eveuntually got through these mean old ladies who had to look at our passports, and found our luggage after a bit, none was lost for any of us!! its a miracle, anyways. we found our guy alberto who put us on a bus across the huge city of buenos aires. got to our littler airport to fly to mendoza. the alberto guy told us to sit down. we got there at about 9am, he randomly returns at noon saying our flight doesnt leave till 4! oh yeah btw ive sweated out a small pool by this time.
alberto buys us pizza cuz he has pesos and can communicate with people and we cant. i kind of feel like a mexican here, everyone stares at me and i cant understand what they are saying to me. at 2 we went to check in, passport problems happened, flight was canceled, waited 2 hours in line, got our passports to work, found out our flight left at 6pm, so we napped, then stood in line for an hour until the plane was ready, we finally left the smaller airport at 8, so yeah 11 hours in an airport, soooooo much fun!!!
landed in mendoza, met president lindahl and his wife, ate amazing lasagna at their place, slept in a prison haha. seriously though, we were on like the third floor, almost like a tree house, it had ten beds smooshed into a bathroom sized room, surrounded by barbed wire. i heard dogs fighting all night long and kept imagining a giant spider landing on my face or cockroaches in my bed with me. survived it.
woke up, took a weird shower, they use bedae thingys here, more like a bad day to me, cuz of no toilet paper means that they use them so yup its interesting all right! met my companion elder kammerman, he is a miltary type of guy, has neck and back and tendon and nose and migraine problems. oh and he has never had a girlfriend... haha but anyways. met him. went to our home, bought some food, i was mostly stunned still.
things are rediculous here haha. there are these like canal things alongside all the roads that dead things fall in to. or garbage, and sometimes they have like a flowing river in them, most are about 3 ft deep others are 5 ft or so. they are everywhere!!
we sleep in a closet that has a refridgerator and a cupboard and just enough room for a bed and a desk. it is just me and my trainer in our whole huge area. our area is called algarrobal. yup i cant say it either so dont be to intimidated.
im pretty sure the only time i feel clean is the EXACT moment i step out of the shower, then i get dirty somehow again haha. we never know if there is going to be hot or cold water so its a guess everytime.
also i havent stopped sweating at all. they eat lots of pasta here, and live soccer and swear alot, i think... i cant understand anyone at all haha. ive stepped into a wirlwind of spanish and keep gettin slapped by the stupid stick, that means i fall asleep or just zone out until i dont even notice what is happening around me haha, then i wake up so to speak, and see a lady breast feeding her kid in the middle of the street, totally not caring if people see at all. ive seen 3 bfeeders so far. also kids just starting to pee in the middle of the sidewalk, a guy who almost beat us up with a stick thing, doors slammed in my face, and yeah fun things all around. we had one lunch with a member family, we only have 25 active members in our branch, i watched them prepare the food with dirty hands and flys everywhere. we have to fight the flys off with a bat they are so big, some of them even carry around their own bats and travel in gangs, we try to avoid them. idk why i just said that, haha.
i drank the water here right off to just get it over with, survived. i got sick one day from some food that i tried to cook haha, barely survived. so far we have been working and trying to find more people. from what ive heard is that the area i am in is the hardest one to baptize people in all of the mendoza mission, we got work to do!!
did i say that it is kind of hot here? even in the shade im sheddin water. just swimmin in it. at night its hot to so the first night i just slept on my sheets without anything covering me. woke up with a good 30 mosquito bites on my arms legs and feet. so haha i sleep under the sheet, but the little poopers find my feet and hands and face somehow. im declaring war on them. they only come out at night, i think tonight is d-day for the little buggers.
my trainer speaks english so thats good!! but he is really quiet most of the time so i have to ask him a few times whats going on. but its all good at least its in english.
bus drivers think they are demolition derby racers. aka they are NUTS with a capital holy crap. dogs are everywhere, usually a few follow us around when we are prosilyting. the people here for the most part are really nice. i think i scared one off once cuz i was sitting down and they walked by so i shook their hand, but then i stood up and they looked straight up and said okay bye! in spanish though, and took off haha. its cool :) we are going to the zoo today and i might get some pictures. we played soccer with the zone today and all the latino misionaries are way good! i was goalie my first game, ten seconds after we started i was on my back and they had scored and won, im not sure still to this very second what happened in that amount of time, i might have tried something crazy and failed. sadly we were only playing to one point, so because of the gringo our team lost.
in the midst of all the not so positive things there is some good, i made it here safe, aaaaaaaanndd well thats all i have so far but im sure itll get better!!!
some things i know for sure. i will never quit. there is no such thing as 'cant'. no matter how many flys mosquitos or dogs there are they wont stop me from mobbin things up. my new years resolution was only one thing, to live my life and my mission with NO regrets. i have none so far :)
i love you all :) peace out!
holy sheep creek im soooooo hot!! haha.
okay so monday morning we left the mtc on a bus, i took a picture of the guy who prayed for us before we left so we would have evidense of whos fault it was if we didnt make it:) so we barely barely made our flight from slc to atlanta, after eating at panda express we jumped on our 11 hour flight to argentina!! had some most not delicious food on the plane. landed into a spanish wonder land. we eveuntually got through these mean old ladies who had to look at our passports, and found our luggage after a bit, none was lost for any of us!! its a miracle, anyways. we found our guy alberto who put us on a bus across the huge city of buenos aires. got to our littler airport to fly to mendoza. the alberto guy told us to sit down. we got there at about 9am, he randomly returns at noon saying our flight doesnt leave till 4! oh yeah btw ive sweated out a small pool by this time.
alberto buys us pizza cuz he has pesos and can communicate with people and we cant. i kind of feel like a mexican here, everyone stares at me and i cant understand what they are saying to me. at 2 we went to check in, passport problems happened, flight was canceled, waited 2 hours in line, got our passports to work, found out our flight left at 6pm, so we napped, then stood in line for an hour until the plane was ready, we finally left the smaller airport at 8, so yeah 11 hours in an airport, soooooo much fun!!!
landed in mendoza, met president lindahl and his wife, ate amazing lasagna at their place, slept in a prison haha. seriously though, we were on like the third floor, almost like a tree house, it had ten beds smooshed into a bathroom sized room, surrounded by barbed wire. i heard dogs fighting all night long and kept imagining a giant spider landing on my face or cockroaches in my bed with me. survived it.
woke up, took a weird shower, they use bedae thingys here, more like a bad day to me, cuz of no toilet paper means that they use them so yup its interesting all right! met my companion elder kammerman, he is a miltary type of guy, has neck and back and tendon and nose and migraine problems. oh and he has never had a girlfriend... haha but anyways. met him. went to our home, bought some food, i was mostly stunned still.
things are rediculous here haha. there are these like canal things alongside all the roads that dead things fall in to. or garbage, and sometimes they have like a flowing river in them, most are about 3 ft deep others are 5 ft or so. they are everywhere!!
we sleep in a closet that has a refridgerator and a cupboard and just enough room for a bed and a desk. it is just me and my trainer in our whole huge area. our area is called algarrobal. yup i cant say it either so dont be to intimidated.
im pretty sure the only time i feel clean is the EXACT moment i step out of the shower, then i get dirty somehow again haha. we never know if there is going to be hot or cold water so its a guess everytime.
also i havent stopped sweating at all. they eat lots of pasta here, and live soccer and swear alot, i think... i cant understand anyone at all haha. ive stepped into a wirlwind of spanish and keep gettin slapped by the stupid stick, that means i fall asleep or just zone out until i dont even notice what is happening around me haha, then i wake up so to speak, and see a lady breast feeding her kid in the middle of the street, totally not caring if people see at all. ive seen 3 bfeeders so far. also kids just starting to pee in the middle of the sidewalk, a guy who almost beat us up with a stick thing, doors slammed in my face, and yeah fun things all around. we had one lunch with a member family, we only have 25 active members in our branch, i watched them prepare the food with dirty hands and flys everywhere. we have to fight the flys off with a bat they are so big, some of them even carry around their own bats and travel in gangs, we try to avoid them. idk why i just said that, haha.
i drank the water here right off to just get it over with, survived. i got sick one day from some food that i tried to cook haha, barely survived. so far we have been working and trying to find more people. from what ive heard is that the area i am in is the hardest one to baptize people in all of the mendoza mission, we got work to do!!
did i say that it is kind of hot here? even in the shade im sheddin water. just swimmin in it. at night its hot to so the first night i just slept on my sheets without anything covering me. woke up with a good 30 mosquito bites on my arms legs and feet. so haha i sleep under the sheet, but the little poopers find my feet and hands and face somehow. im declaring war on them. they only come out at night, i think tonight is d-day for the little buggers.
my trainer speaks english so thats good!! but he is really quiet most of the time so i have to ask him a few times whats going on. but its all good at least its in english.
bus drivers think they are demolition derby racers. aka they are NUTS with a capital holy crap. dogs are everywhere, usually a few follow us around when we are prosilyting. the people here for the most part are really nice. i think i scared one off once cuz i was sitting down and they walked by so i shook their hand, but then i stood up and they looked straight up and said okay bye! in spanish though, and took off haha. its cool :) we are going to the zoo today and i might get some pictures. we played soccer with the zone today and all the latino misionaries are way good! i was goalie my first game, ten seconds after we started i was on my back and they had scored and won, im not sure still to this very second what happened in that amount of time, i might have tried something crazy and failed. sadly we were only playing to one point, so because of the gringo our team lost.
in the midst of all the not so positive things there is some good, i made it here safe, aaaaaaaanndd well thats all i have so far but im sure itll get better!!!
some things i know for sure. i will never quit. there is no such thing as 'cant'. no matter how many flys mosquitos or dogs there are they wont stop me from mobbin things up. my new years resolution was only one thing, to live my life and my mission with NO regrets. i have none so far :)
i love you all :) peace out!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
In Country
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Flight Itinerary!!
hey!!!
so i have like no time at all to write everything i want to see heres the important stuff.
i have my FLIGHT ITINERARY!! everything worked out fine my visa is the bomb and im on my way on monday morning. the flight info is im on delta airlines, (doesnt ever leave the airport) flight 1912 from salt lake city ut to atlanta georgia. flight leaves at 11:01 am and arrives at 4:35 pm in atlanta. then i have a 3 hour layover then jump on flight 101 to buenos aires, argentina at 750pm and arrive in argentina at 750am!!!! 12 stinkin flippin hours!! haha imma be on a plane with people who dont speak english at all, or the broken up spanish i can muster either. so im going to just testify to people in spanish and hopefully that works out!!
im pretty sure that ill melt my first step out down there haha so here we go!
last night we had elder holland come for the second time while ive been here, that man is incredible! he talked about a bunch of stuff and it was sooooooo coool! when i took the notes i am pretty slow and sometimes combine the words of some sentances with phrases from other words so i have a lot of one liners that i liked from him. he always hits every missionary in the heart with all his words. okay so some of the one liners are.
practice makes perfect, the people deserve the best effort from all of us in whatever we do in life.
be master teachers and deliver the goods
we are the last missionaries for this dispensation, put your heart on the line
submit everything you have to the Lord and he will multiply what youve givin unto him and return it to you as blessings.
we as missionaries have GOT to be the best there has ever been, we are the hope of Israel at 19 or 21 years old.
we must go fishing and fish where he tells us to, in doing so we will always find those in need.
if we love Jesus Christ then we will feed His sheep, once we do this with everything we have, we will be Eternally in His work and forever the sentinals of truth if we LOVE HIM,
there is no going back, if you go back you have failed the Lord
stay the course, see it through, be Deciples of Christ for Eternity. (my favorite!)
so yeah he's is something really special, after that devotional we had a district testimony thing and haha it was like the most best experience of my life :)
its so crazy how even if your day has been the worst day ever, if it ends good then it can be made the best day ever :)
anyways, food still stinks here, i put this hot sauce that my companion has on everything now, and by everything i mean EVERYTHING haha. the hotness of the hot sauce numbs my mouth so i dont have to taste the food haha. i cant wait till real food!! last wednesday we got new elders in our zone so me and my companion had to teach them the ropes and such. then give them a tour and make sure they dont completely fall on their faces and to make sure they dont go home haha. :)
i love this oportunity and everything that comes with it!! my next letter will be from ARGENTINA!!!
so i love you all,
peace,
Elder Summers
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