Full Bloom, Full Blown: "Shazam" From Jordan

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

"Shazam" From Jordan

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From: Jordan Bloomquist
Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Subject: shazam

To her that birthed me, her husband and those others kids also,

Everyone is growing up way too fast and I don´t know how I feel about that, so I am going to please ask you nicely to stop. This week has been a super good week for me but at the same time a little different because we have been walking around in a threesome all the time. Elder Lopez the new elder is so funny he knows almost perfect english as well as sayings and all of that other fun jazz. He has been helping me with my spanish as well. He used to be serving in the Dominican Republic but ate some bad meat and ended up with a worm. He got sent home for a month to kill the worm and chose to come back out so they sent him here. He has been an answer to my prayers, he is such a good kid and just wants to work as hard as he can to make sure he has no regrets.

Our bathroom is still coming along surely but slowly and we should be in there next saturday which is too bad for Elder Erickson because he goes home on Monday so he will only have two days living all that hard work he has been doing.

This week we have been working hard with menos activos that are on our ward list, trying to see also if we can get references of others that live nearby that are in need of the gosple, we also found a lady by helping her fold her laundry just when we were passing by. It is amazing the miracles that come from simple acts of kindness. I just want to let you know that when ever you go to church please try to greet as many people as you can possible to make them fill at home even if you do not know them and especially if you do not know them. Their are so many people here that are afraid to return to church because they do not know how they will be recieved.

I love you all so much have a good rest of the week.

Jordan

The pictures are first of food that we found in the fridge, it used to be noodles and chicken

The second is a creepy manican that we found while going through the feria.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

"Shazam" From Jordan

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