Email Received 3-21-2011

mother,

hopefully this voice recording will work but if not im gonna say a few things here too. but yeah everything here is going... hahah its going. weve had a few bad weeks but were trying haha, thats dope that you guys are moving in now!!! haha thats good to hear that everyone is doing good especially the boys from my class!!! i love hearing about them haha knowing they'll be here in a few years i really feel like i was twelve like 2 years ago haha time flies like flies around here. thats cool they asked for pics of me haha im already campaigning for my future wife and im not even there.... ;) hahaha i llove you guys so much!!

elder galvan

Pictures from 3-14 & 3-21-2011

Elder Lopez (zone leader), Elder Galvan, Elder Weight (val's mtc comp)
Famous statue-- i'm assuming. :)

This building is so cool. It was actually featured on the show where that guy, Anthony Bourdaine goes to different countries and eats their food & talks about their culture. He was just in Nicaragua.

Elder Garcia & Elder Galvan
A beautiful staircase.
Hmm, not sure what this was?
Part of a display at the museum.
I am not sure if Val is giving a speech or what, haha.
Elder Diamond, Elder Galvan-- so handsome & Elder Garcia

Email rec'd 3-14-2011

mom
wow i cant believe another week has passed by here in nicaragua. thats crazy about the scorpions but you'd flip if you saw how big the spiders are here hahaha hahaha oh nixon. no i haven't got my package yet but probably soon... i hope so hahaha im glad you guys are having a good time i miss you guys tons and love you tons!!! im sending two recordings haha its easier to send these than write hahaha so sorry for the short letter but i love you mom!! iight scratch that the recording is taking forever hahaha so ill send one next week if i can but yeah everything is going good i have tons of pics to send hahaha so look for those!!! but yeah love you guys!!!!!!! i hope the new house is dope send some pictures!!!! hahaha yeah we had 3 families in church the other day investigators and we got a call from our president and he congratulated us haha i guess there was only three other companionships who had that so that was dope that was cool today we went to a museum so thats all of my pictures hahaha and theres one of me and elder weight and amis from the mtc haha they're so skinny! ok il send more!!! bye

elder galvan

Email Received 3-7-2011

Hey mother

thats cool you got to go with dad to scottsdale for a day im sure that would be pretty fun and relaxing it would be a pretty nice vacation ha-ha im gonna appreciate so many things when i get back like carpet or something dumb like that hahaha im just gonna sleep on the carpet for a week when i get back iight. thank you for stuarts email i will shoot him an email today. yeah the room i have now is pretty dope im sending some pictures later but hey im trying to send a voice recording too so if it works let me know and ill do some of those every week for you guys! and try and find a way to send me some too!

thats cool you guys are moving in to the house this week im sure it will be a very different feeling for me when i get home ha-ha let me know the address i need to tell me president cause you guys moved. iight just a few things that happened this week. this girl told me i looked like justin beiber hahahaha cause i need a hair cut and you know how my hair looks when its not short and so she calls me elder beiber now hahahahaha its funny but yeah i'm also teaching an English class to this house of women hahah but its cool they're actually learning one of them is like tia Kim hahaha always making jokes and talking and stuff ha-ha its great.

i was looking through this kids cds the other day and he had an efy cd with freddy ashby on it hahahaha i was like i know this dude!!!! he's like is he tall and thin hahahaha i was like uhhh yep thats freddy! hahahahahaha freddy is a cool dude though for real shout out my homie freddy ashby!

ha-ha anyways i went to the store to get some deodorant and i was like give me whatever you have for men so she gives me lady speed stick hahaha and i was like this is for girls she's like oohhh ok i have one for men, then she comes back with this degree for women hahaha i was like whatever ill take it hahah so now i wear women's deodorant hahaha yeah thats my steeze now ha-ha. but yeah remember the familia delgado? my first baptisms-- well they haven't been to church in forever and so i went over there and only she was there and i kind of machetied her a little and then after she told me the her husband left. yep, just grabbed his crap and left her and the children i felt like a turd, but she came to church and said she feels confident that every thing is going to work out for her. but yeah we had a great sunday! we had 7 investigators in church!! i was so happy that they came!!! its such a good feeling.but yeah that was my week ha-ha this week went by so fast but i hope everything is going well.

as for your lesson, i will give you a few pointers but i should tell you that the best way to really learn these things is to study them out .ive been reading jesus the christ and i cannot put it down there is so much to learn from the life of christ but as far as sacrifice goes i will say this. from what i have learned there are two roads in life. one is the easy way and one is the hard way. but in reality the easy way is the hard way and the hard way is the easiest. why? because with the easy way you get no blessings in return, the amount of what we receive from the hard way will be so much more than we put in and in that sense making it the easier way to leave. sacrifice comes from love, a sincere love and a desire to do the will of the heavenly father. thats all i have to say ha-ha i love you mother!!

elder galvan