Physical and Spiritual nourishment.....

It seems like you picked up some good spanish down there, and i saw a
picture of you on the playa, are you balding? :) You dont have to
answer that question, we all know its just disappearing like the
morning fog.. If i ever bald there will be a lovely scar right in the
middle of my head and people will call me harry potter the rest of my
life. Just one of those precious gifts that dear old Argentina has
given me. The week was well and fast. Just getting to know people all
over again and starting a new in a new place. Saying goodbye to the
people back in my old area was tough and tears were shed but we
continue on and keep fighting for the Lord. My new comp is an english
and spanish speaking Chileno, he is 25 years old and has done 5 years
of law school. He likes talking about food, alot... So when we dont
talk about food or the Gospel we dont talk at all but its all good,
thats all one needs to survive right? Physical and Spiritual
nurishment.. My area is spelled Guaymallén, i would love to see how
you would try pronouncing the names of the places ive been haha. Stay
safe and keep up the good work in AK. Love ya dad.

Im happy the letter got to you, the little times that ive sent things
out into the mail world they have never gotten to where i intended..
So i got my new comp, he is from Chile, speaks good english, and the
area is pretty cool. My first day in this area i set foot in a flippin
Walmart! It was the first time i had stepped in one for 16 months.. I
had a reverse culture shock there of a great taste of America :) it
was just so great i was loving every second. The area is cool we are
trying our best to keep these places alive and bring more people to
the kingdom of God. Love ya mom!

The Sun Was Being a Jerk....

Wow it really sounds like you have an awesome time traveling and a
bunch of extra money without me and cache sucking out all your food and
stuff ;) nah im sure fischer can eat for the two of us out here ;)
　
Hey,
So i am being transfered to another area called Guymallén, its
about an hour bus ride from where i am right now so its just right
there. The week was good, it got pretty hot here the last few days, im
not sure exactly what it was but the sun was being a jerk and it was
close to 100 or more. I dont really like being transfered from a place
after i have come so close to all the people here, members and
investigators all the same, it so crazy how i grow so close to these
people! It just dont make no sense, but i love it! I think that it is
so cool you got to take a break from life and venture to the lands of
fun things and relaxing. We went around and bought some things today
from this country, i ended up just getting some shades and shorts.
Thats all i got, i hope you enjoy the rest of your vacation in march!
Love Elder Hayden Summers

Only in Argentina.....

Hello Mother,
You are
exatcly right, our missions are the perfect opposites. But that is
where he is supposed to be and i know this is where i am suppossed to
be too, that is that. I´ll have to put the gma Hardy saying into
affect asap. My week was good. Nothing was super epic or extraordinary
in my life this past 7 days of my life. There was one day that we
ended up walking to the sun and back! It at least seemed that way from
the dumb heat that is going on outside. But we really walked
everywhere that day, Friday i think it was. I´m betting it was close
to 15 miles easy. I started the day with no holes in my socks and
ended with both my socks disinegrating right from underneath my toes.
I had a great time popping what seemed like a bottomless blister which
produced enough liquid to rival the spring of water that runs out of
the mountain on the way to homer and seward. I witnessed the power of
fasting this weekend, its sweet action tripled. On the long walk home
that one day we were walking alongside a huge field of grapes and saw
in the distance a dark purple huew outlining the mountains. We had to
stop from pure amazement when we saw the stars about us and what
looked like flickering stars above the grape field. They were
fireflies! The whole setting was pure beautiful. Only in Argentina :)
Love, Elder Hayden Summers
　
Holy vaca they are already planning the talks for when i talk! That is
not cool it is way far away i still have a world full of ages left in
my mission! But for real, its going by too fast. This week was really full of trials and
disapointment, but for some crazy reason i am still very happy, it
kind of freaks me out. Speaking of Cache being over 10 wards there, i
think he has more leadership people in his area than i do as active
members here in my branch.. One day this place will be as blossoming
as the Mormon Stuffed capital of Salt Lake City, but until that day i
am going to keep building the foundations for the church here in
Mendoza. I learned this week that we really need to through our whole
life being into this work because that is what the Lord asks of us and that
is what He needs. Just another eye opener for me that we can always
try harder and do better. Stay being brilliant dad, dont lose your
light.
Love, Elder Hayden Summers

It is the Best I Have Felt EVER......

　Hi there,
Well, i think that im ruined. These past few nights while
i was sleeping, i got extremely cold. It was so incredible that i had
to put a blanket on! Usually i just have my sheet seperating my legs
from touching skin because that is really annoying, but this week it
got down to a chilling 70 degrees at least in the night and i was just
all shivers. Alaska just may turn me into an ice cube. The week in all
was pretty good, it hasnt really changed. We see random miracles
happen but then we try and act on them and turn them into something
even more miracley but it just all falls to shambles. In the mission
there is a ton more of disappointment than there is accomplishment, at
least here where i am. After a long few months of no real success to
our eyes though something happens and it is the best i have felt EVER!
It totally erases all of the bad and hard stuff and i just think about
how amazing it was after the hard parts. Plus i get an extra gain of
experience and learn lots of things too, its pretty much God´s way of
just being a Boss, working with every person specifically so that we
all learn and grow and accomplish more than one thing at once. It
seems that every other week we have new investigators and they are way
cool everytime. Sometimes we have to be content with planting seeds,
although the field is white and already to harvest, someone has to
re-plant seeds where others have harvested. That´s definately not
doctrine haha but i like to think of something like that to keep a
smile on my face in the upsetting times.
I love you mamma! Elder Hayden Summers
Good work dad, that sounds like a super busy day packed full of
spiritual stuff and other things that catch you up on your sleep. I
am really privileged here because i am learning myself on how to run
and manage a ward or branch. It is a lot more complicated and has many
intricate details that are sometimes overwhelming but its definitely a
great experience and i get to learn a lot. Sometimes i say that i
learned alot and such but honestly i couldn't put a solid finger on
what exactly i learn haha. Its more of an ´in the moment´ sort of
thing where i know how to deal with situations less roughly or even
gaining patience or being more humble. I honestly came to the mission
field off of the MTC very prideful. Now that i look back i was really
prideful in my life and i am trying to fix that by humbling myself.
This country has definitely opened my eyes to what exists in the world
and that many of the things i worried about back home, or even here,
dont have any real significance in the giant picture. Sometimes when i
either get corrected or told that i am wrong, or when someone schools
me in sports i try to just say, ´okay, ive been humbled´ haha. Whether
it be the truth or just something that prevents me from getting mad i
try to use it and it works as something for me. My week turned out
good and it just boils down to trying to have fun and push forward and
perservere until the end in the midst of not the most wishable of
situations :)
Love, Elder Hayden Summers
ps. i wish i couldve seen you fly through the air, haha, classic

It's Just 3 Measly Hours in the Week....

OK, so these are not in his order but you can figure it out:)
So the first pic is just epic, no description required.
The second is of when we made almost a whole bag of rice into rice
pudding with french toast.
The third is our Christmas party back in December, I got to see
Sargent there, he was my MTC comp.

To Bart...
My hot week had some rain thrown on it one night when we
decided to keep the windows open to watch the lightning storm in the
distance. I woke up with my bed half soaked and a rediculous wind
coming into the room blowing leaves from the trees in front straight
into our little abode. But to be honest i think it is kind of cooling
down a bit. They call it the summers storms here when all day it is so
hot it evaporates all the water and at night it all rains down again.
When the sun comes up in the morning it evaporates it all and the
cycle starts all over again. The other day it dumped for about a half
hour right at mid day and when it stopped i could see all the water
going back into the atmosphere from off of the scorching hot streets.
The humidity was out of control but it was sweet. We have this new
family that lives way far out in the middle of a bunch of grape
fields. The other day we went all the way out there (one hour bus ride
to a 3 mile walk on dirt roads) and got to their house and they
weren´t even there, so we plucked some fresh grapes out of one of the
fields and snacked on them for a minute waiting, they never came so we
went all the way home again. It was way cool and I love the
experiences that i get to have here in Argentina, they are so cool and
precious to me. Keep it up dad your awesome. I think it would be way
cool to have my last interview with you leading it. I dont know if
that could work, wishful thinking i guess.
Love,
Elder Hayden Summers

Hi Mom,
I have just recieved the worst sun burn in my whole
mission. Yesterday we went to play some soccer and a bit of kickball
in a big open field. We stayed there for maybe 4 hours running around
and diddle daddling. When it came up to the time to leave we realized
we were glowing a bit, and as the day went on, we reddened and
worsened and its just great! Ive got the best farmers tan ever. But
besides that it doesnt interfere with the work, besides the fact that
people just stare and laugh at us that we are all red gringos. We keep
finding these miracle people in the street and from less active
families, but the problem is that no one wants to come to church! Man
its a real pain, its just a meesly 3 hours in the week, just 1 hour to
stoop to just going to sacrament meeting. It is not impossible to go
to church. Man it really grinds my gears the excuses that people put
in front of themselves. But thats why we take the spirit to their
houses because sometimes when they say their excuses, and the spirit
is there, they come out and either say what the real issue is or they
promise they will come. I wish the people could have the presence of
the spirit around them at all times, if that was the case they wouldcome running to the church twenty minutes early every sunday. Sorry
for that hah, its just how it is. Its the best time of my life and i
cant tell you how happy i am to be here.
With love, Elder Hayden Summers

The Gift of Tongues...

The summer is hot, and the Elder Summers is even hotter. Yes, i mean
it exactly how it sounds. haha nah im kiddin. I hope that summer is
winding up, its been a long and dry and pretty sweet time indeed.
That really was forever ago that we were taking the sacrament to people
in their houses. Time is just rediculous. It is going to be stinkin sweet
when we are Gods some day and time doesnt exist. Really a mind boggling
idea, but its just a matter of time... Are you still studying spanish? I am
Already pumped to see what you know and help you out. I found that being
A translater for other elders is pretty stinkin cool. My mind has two
lanes now in the language department and whenever i want to i can
switch lanes and still be saying what i want to. I bet the gift of
tounges is working its best on me because when i got here i was SOO
lost i didnt know which way was up. I am very grateful for our amazing
Father in Heaven that doesnt forget us, not a single one is forgotten
to him. There was a quote, i dont know where its from but it says,
´Compared to God, we are nothing. But to Him, we are everything.´ Mom
keeps telling me how much you´ve changed, i cant wait to meet you for
reals and see what its like. I bet you´ve changed and progressed more
than i have haha i feel pretty much the same but with a lot of
experiences now under my belt.
Love ya,
Elder Hayden Summers
Its the sad truth.. They have put me in charge of something again.
It just is not comprehendable that the baby fish is old enough to date now,
not like it ever stopped him before but now
its just cutting the chain off that he had already broken haha. My
life is good, slow but good enough. The wheels keep turning. Me and my
comp went on a 4 mile run the other morning to a soccer field that we
discovered a while back and i kicked my football around. It was
incredible, obviously. I have lost a lot of my stuff but it will come
back i think, God will bless me :) Its hard to get people to want to
change here. Everyone says that they are happy where they are at and
dont even care that there might be something else way better for them
out there. I know that there is way cooler and better stuff for all of
us, we just have to find it and hold on to it with all our strength
and always be looking for something more. Always progressing and never
being content is the way to go :) I cant wait for all the packages you
sent! The mario t-shirt is simply genious and i love it alot. Thanks
mom!
Love ya,
Elder Hayden Summers

He is Just So Smart and Clever.....

Sup,
Another great hot week here. For pday we played a bit of
soccer and i kicked the football around too. The day was overcast for
the morning which made playing outside way fun and not so deathly.
Spanish is going well also. But its different because i learned a lot
of vocab for missionary work and gospel terms but when people are
talking about worldly stuff i have to really pay attention. In the
beginning of my time here i was embarrassed to ask what stuff meant,
but now if i dont understand something i ask them right away haha. I
want to know whats going on all the time now with conversations, ive
lived not knowing what was going on at all and it aint that peachy.
Also if we are asking questions to people it shows them that we have a
real desire to better ourselves or to know what they are trying to say
exactly. Oh man i cant believe that Elder Cache money is in the MTC,
what a greenie :) I remember when we used to call him ´trash talkin
cache´ haha good times. Messing up in sacrament is just classic
you haha i laughed out loud when i read that. Thanks for all the
support you give me and dont forget to give Cache all the support you
can. Starting the mission is tough, and continuing after you start is
even tougher, but somehow we make it out alive.
Love ya dad, Elder Hayden Summer
Hi Mom,
No i havent gotten any of those three packages that youve
sent me. I did just get one from Christmas when you all wrote a little
note and with the caramel, btw, caramel was a hit! I loved it and the
pecans and all the stuff in that package thanks! my week was good. I
got moved back over to be with my old comp elder Carter and we are in
the same area and everything. Not really anything out of the ordinary
happened this week. We did some service for a family by making their
roof and it all went way good. Service is just the best thing ever,
period. My testimony grows every time i do service because almost
directly after the activity we somehow see a miracle or someone just
falls right into our path. Its so great!! It makes it impossible to
not notice how God is blessing us every single day. Ive noticed that
He always answers my prayers but i just dont realize it somehow. He is
just so smart and clever that he does things in unthinkable ways and
they are exactly what we need, you just have to try and recognize it.
I have a hard time recognizing the good in things but the mission has
helped me do the cup half full thing better :) Its still hot here, and
there are always chances to get better at everything!

Love,
Elder Hayden Summers