Email rec'd 7-18-2011

heeeeyyyy,

yeah i heard about that womens soccer thing.......well i may have saw some of it on sunday hahaha just the penalties though. japan had some real humble spirits on their team.
they already go back to school?? what??????? ahhhhhh time is going by way fast.
but yeah thats cool about colby smelsmer. how many peeps you know went to nicaragua with their best friend in the same country hahaha blake already has 13 months!!!!!! wow almost 14 too. well, it was a good week. i got food poisoning on thursday and i was out till sunday. super bad but im back now and feeling really great!!!!!! i dont have any pictures to send this week sorry but i will be sending a package home soon with somethings ive bought here. i still need to get a few things for you guys. we have 2 huge markets here with all kinds of cool stuff. well. thats all i got.
wait. i got the packages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! suuuuppppppppeeeerrrrr dope!!!!! thank you so much i love you so much!!!!!!! there was so many good things in there!!!!!!!!!! and all the reeses i loved all that i loved every part of it!!!! it was awesome you guys are the best parents ever. thank you so much!!!!! well thats all i got mom i love you so much!! have a great week! and send some pictures please of whats been going on!! i have nothing from you guys

elder galvan

Email & pictures rec'd 7-11-2011 Happy Bday Kenz.!!!

Two baptisms already. val said they were hard to get in the water, but they may have been ones that other missionaries had started on before he arrived. I know that he is so excited about this new area & his work ahead of him as a ZL.
It is good that he is already getting down to business in his new area.

Of course--he couldn't resist this photo opportunity-- haha.
I think this picture is funny- just makes me laugh, because it reminds me that Elder Galvan still has a sense of humor.
Inside the fortress- lots of interesting grafiti
This is a view of the city from the "fortress"
this photo is the fortress from the outside.

Hey,

thanks! its iight though its nothing too fancy. Anyways so this week we baptized 2 people which was pretty cool they were hard people to get to the water! yeah justin cox is a dope dude, thats cool he's in the ward. ill be lookin out for the letter. thats cool that your all in san diego, have fun. things here are iight. just trying to get used to my assignment and gain the respect of the hood... again...

but yeah im pretty sure the volcano is active but we went to this cool place called coyotepe today it was a fortress back in the olden days and you can go underground where they kept and tortured all the prisoners. its literally pitch black so every picture has flash ha. what they would do is put people down there for like 2 years in complete blackness and then torture them and release them into the sun then theyd go blind. theres like blood stains on the walls and bats flyin around it was pretty legit. so i have tons of pictures from that so i am going to close now so i can send them all. well i love you all happy birthday to kenzie and have a great week

elder galvan

Email Rec'd 7-4-2011

yeah happy fourth......

hahah well were not really able to celebrate too well down here but ill try to remember where i was last july 4th in san diego with my 4 best buds!!!!!!!! you guys, but yeah that would be cool to write the bishop, bishop mcleave wrote me a looonnnggg time ago a letter and i wrote them back but never got anything else. blake has been tryin to pitch the idea of moving to utah for school..... so who knows i need to work first though to get my wallet on swol so i can pay for it haha, thats good that girls camp was good for you girls. im so proud of my sisters i just hope that i can say that when i get home keep a close eye on them cause if they do something wrong ill go into machetie mode.

They need to be good people, well how about a little suprise,,,, i told dad where i am right now so to find out you should ask him ok!!!!!!! cause its way cool!!! and when you find out look it up on google k???? you guys are going to cali???????? uuuuuggghghhh how lucky thats gonna be way fun take pictures and send them to me i miss you guys. im very grateful to have such a loving family behind me supporting me. i love you guys so much keep doin the good things ok (Val was transferred to Masaya this past week)

elder galvan

Email rec'd 6-27-2011

mother,

sorry that this a little late the power went out in the cyber so now i'm on a crappy laptop excuse me if i miss spell a lot cause its really slow. (I edited the entire email--because otherwise-no one would have understood a thing Elder Galvan was writing about)
but girls camp sounds like it was really fun!

i really dont have much time this week so send my regards to cj and tell her i love her so much and miss her alot ok!! ill write her next week, because i just got the news that i have changes this week on wednesday and i have a ton of stuff to do and people to visit before i leave.

it stinks cause we have baptisms next week too!!!!!! aaahhhhh but hey thats how it goes. i'm really glad they had a good girls camp experience and that you had a good one too its funny when all the white boys talk about scout camp and other church activities that i never went to haha i'm just like yeah thats dope.... hahaha but its all good i'll be more involved when i get home in 15 months official have 9 now!!!! haha getting closer to the year and after that its downhill well mom i love you so much and have a great week!!

elder galvan

Email rec'd 6-20-2011 & pics

"random dude that snuck into church to sleep" how sad huh?

A fun game Elder Galvan taught them to play with kool-aid, and ping pong table- hmm. read his email.

good afternoon mother

my week was just iight, our baptisms fell through and so the weekend sucked pretty badly. but its all good were still working with them so it should be good. yeah that was a pretty fun trip to pochomil. its good to hear that everyone is doing good, cuz things here are a little slow right now. i gotta start exercising to get my swol on too cause i have a gut now.

thats cool that your at girls camp right now hopefully it will be a good experience for the girls. thanks for reminding me that its fathers day haha i really didnt know till you told me cause time is just skatin by here. but hey heres 3 pics they're just iight. we did a family home evening with a ton of members..........wo it just started raining really hard out of no where........anyways and we were in charge of the game and no one could think of anything so i put up the ping pong table and bought cups and koolaid and set up beer pong hhahahaha with koolaid without the sugar was the drink haha it was pretty fun and the other pic is of some random dude who snuck in the church on monday to sleep hahahhaha anways have a great week at girls camp i love you very much

elder galvan

Pictures rec'd 6-13-2011

Val hanging out on a Hammock in Pocho Mil-- a run down beach town.

A little too much fun in Pocho Mil-- on P-day.

crazy nicaragua rainy weather

im not going to tell you what kind of eggs these are....

messages in the sand--

hmmmm??

I am assuming this is Val's district. I think the poses are funny- of course Val has to look G.Q.

Pocho Mil-- run down beach town

Val & his companion

Email rec'd 6-13-2011

mother dearest!

well this last week went by waaaayyy fast right? i cant believe i almost have 9 months already the one year mark is creepin up fast what the people say is really true about how fast time flies. thats really great about cj and how well she is doing with basketball. im sure she will be a great player with more practice and more patience. and sweet!! VIVA EL BASHA!!!!!!!!! i actually wanted her to go there and mackenzie to but kenz had to go with riliee to perry.

mom seriously i can buy an ipod nano here way cheaper just keep the shuffle really i didnt want anything new!!!!! and i can argue with whoever i want as long as its about the gospel hahahahaha tell them girls maddy and payton i said what up!!!

haha kenz and the jeep!!! that'll be fun for her. hey tell the crouches i got their letter the other day and it was really great! tell them i dont have a post office anywhere near me so tell them i love them and thanks for the support and tell everyone hey. well the internet just went away and im trying to send this to you so who knows... and i still have a ton of pics to send but if you dont get them sorry the internet went away but hey it came back hahahaha alright ill get to sendin pics love you mom!!!!

elder galvan