Email from President to families

Dear brothers and sisters,

We want to send you warm Christmas greetings together with your children. We feel very thankful for their dedication to this beautiful work, where the atonement of Jesus Christ has made great changes and miracles in the lives of the investigators, converts, and less actives. Thank you, thank you all for the support! Thank you for sending the best part of your lives here to our mission, San Salvador East!!! We hope you have a Merry Christmas and an amazing New Year!

Sincerely,

President and Sister Vasquez

Bruno Emilio Vásquez Robles

Presidente de Misión

El Salvador San Salvador Este

Zone 7

 Zone 8

Happy New Year

Dear Family

Well not to be baggy but I can now sing I will be home for Christmas!!!!(; It was one of those times that is was bitter sweet for me here, because everyone would ask how much time I have out here and would remind me that it is my last Christmas here in the mission....So it was a little emotional for me I will not tell a lie, I truly do love these people and the time I have had here! But at the same time I can´t wait to celebrate Christmas Leatherow Style again!!!!! (: 

We had a sweet experience with the Bishop this past week as well here...Saturday while we were studying I recieved a call from the Bishop and he was like "Elder I need your help!!"  I said "okay what do you need help with bishop???"  He said "you don´t have any appointments for this morning right??"  I was like "no" (we were just planning to go tracting). He said "good I need you to come down to my house and help me paint my house!!!" It was great!! I felt so good!! I felt like he knew he could call us and rely on us that we would go help him!! It was great and we got to talk and get to know the bishop on a more personal level and him to know us as well!! It was a very good experience and one I will never forget!! 

Being a missionary is great and all the opportunities to serve as well, you can feel so great and have the spirit so much when we serve others!! 

Thanks so much to all that were able to make it as well Christmas Morning to Skype!! Sorry if I offended anyone with how direct I was and strict with things, it just something that comes natural now....So I do apologize if I did offend anyone it wasn´t my intention what so ever!! 

Putting in the work:

Well I love you all so much!! 

Love you mother to the moon and back and then some!! 

Happy New Year and I hope everything goes great!! 

I encourage you all to can take a few minutes to set some goals that you all would like to accomplish in this new year to come!! If there is any that I can help ya accomplish please let me know!!!! 

Have a great week. 

Con mucho amor,

Elder Leatherow

PS this is what we ate here its a traditiion. Its called Pan con pollo

Dad:  I forgot to ask ya how you were wanting to big game hunt this year. Muzzleload or rifle? and what areas would you like to put in for. Its not a guarantee to draw anywhere anymore. Especially for a rifle hunt. Think about it and let me know, k. I think I will be putting in for antelope buck. I now have enough points that my odds are higher to draw, than not to. I should draw that tag either this year or next. Any limited entry areas? and what species. I think you are open for anything now. 

Wes: I would like to hunt whatever you do! With Muzzleloader or rifle so just put me in whatever you do and for limited entre please put me in for Elk Bull and antelope. I don´t have any idea on areas cause I haven´t been home to do research so I am going to trust your judegement and please put me in for an area that you heard and done research on that has good draw results and has been hot on bulls!

Thank you Elder Leatherow for the WONDERFUL Christmas gift

Christmas Skype and Photos

Dear Family,

So Skype I will be going first, so I will be Skyping in the Morning at about 10 in the morning but 10 o´clock my time in El Salvi!! So I can`t wait to talk with ya. 

Also bring questions and whatever you want to talk about.  Also,  please invite everyone possible, Stergirl, all the Leatherow side and the Smuins, I know Heils will be busy with Kaeltgirl so I understand but please it would mean a lot if they were all there!! 

Some fotos of another crazy week. 

Fotos of olds companions and other elderes I have met on the mission at the Christmas Actvity we had with our Presidente. 

So love ya,

See you all Thursday!

Representing, Service and Duck Hunting

Dear Family,

First things first, thank you all so freaking much for the packages!!!!!! Either you all know me too well or I am just that predictable but pretty much everything I needed was in the box and more!!! I can`t thank you all enough for that!!!!! 

representing from El Salvi 

So this week was freaking crazy so we will start from Monday and then go down the days so please get ready...

So Monday started off as any normal Monday right before I go to head out for the night I get a call from one of the Elders in my District telling me they got robbed; someone broke into their house so we then had to head down and get them all packed up and get them out of there and moved into our house we still needed to try and make it some how to the family home evenings that we had planned!! So stressful but definately very fun and funny experience all at the same time! So we then had 5 greengos in the house at night!!! 

5 guys in the house = MESS and it is driving my crazy

Tuesday, I decided to take matters into my own hands cause no one is sending me dead animal pics, so we made a deal with a family if we painted their house they would let us kill their ducks and have duck soup!!!! So that was an absolute blast!!! I will try and get some pictures this week if not for sure next week of that whole thing, there is a lot more to that story but it is one for Skype so ask me!!! 

working hard and earning a duck hunt

and that boys is how you get it done

Then we got the Call Tuesday night at about 10 at night that only one of us would being having changes out of us 5!!!! WHAT?!?!??! So guess what?!?!? Elder Marriott and Elder Leatherow will be spending Christmas together here in Delgado city!! So yep both Christmases here I will be with a Greengo!! CRAZY. So then the week was crazy trying to find the elders a house to live in and help the new sisters come out here to their new areas and what not. 

We then had our Christmas dinner here with the ward and we got Familia Munguia to come with us. Which is another story I need to tell ya about them when I told them that there was a chance I would be leaving and then we they saw us again. Priceless. 

So now we are just getting our appointments set up for Christmas and what not and we have a for sure computer we can use ~ when can everyone skype?   I can`t wait though! So that is my week in a nutshell, I will stop talking your ears off. 

Have a great week, mother I love you to the moon and back and then some.

Have a great week everyone. 

Con mucho amor,

Elder Leatherow

PS ~ this will be my companions first Skype home and he is pretty stoked so I will let him call home first ~ we can wait a few hours.  I will more than likely be calling home around 11:30 AM.  

Lesson + Suprise Party

Dear Family,

Well last Monday went so great!! It was so crazy!! We had it all planned and then they called and told us they couldn´t come after we had made all the food and cake and what not!! We then talked them into coming so they came running over a little late but they made it!! We then shared a short message and gave them a picture of the Temple here and the Proclamacion for the Family. They loved it so much and then we surprised them with the dinner and it went over so great!! They are truly an awesome family!! I love visiting them and teaching, they always have questiones, and a desire to know more!!! They also, have dropped Coffee, they were drinking five cups a day!! IT is incredible these people are truly changing and touching my life!! I love being a missionary!!!! We also had a good time at the Christmas Devotional yesterday and we had that same family and more go with us!! It was great! We had some great success this week with contacting people in the street so we are hoping this week, we can get a lot of news! This time of year is so hard to get into homes because people are coming to visit and they are working over time and what not, so it makes a little more difficult! But hey that is missionary work for ya! For Christ it even was hard, he had a lot who would contradict him and try and prove him wrong, so why would it be any easier for us?!?!

Well this week is changes so next week I will let ya all know how it goes, I have no clue nor hints what will happen it is completely in the hands of the Lord! 

Well I will let ya go, I love you guys to the moon and back and then some!! 

I love you mother to the moon and back and then some! Have a great week, and I will pray that you get some snow your guys way!! (; 

Also, finally did it!! Read the book of Mormon in español completely cover to cover!!! It is incredible and it truly is the word of God!!! I love you guys!! 

Have a great week, con mucho amor.

Elder Leatherow

The Mungula Family

Lessons, Dinner and a Suprise Birthday Party!  SUCCESS!!

Still working hard

Dear Family,

We had a really good week for church, we had seven people come with us to church five of those were that family that we are teaching!! They are freaking AWESOME!!!!! I love them to death, and it so great to teach them, thank you for the testimonies they helped out a lot!! We have a family home evening planned tonight with them and a family. I will send pictures of them next week, so you can put a face to them! Also it is the Dad`s birthday tomorrow so we planned it as a surprise birthday dinner as well!! I am so stoked we have been planning it for about 2 weeks now, so cross your fingers that everything goes good!!! (: Thanks for writing about your studies it really does help me a lot and I know it will help you guys as well, because once you share what you learned you have a greater chance of remembering it, and truly applying it to your life, so continue to share your knowlegde and your testimonies. Cause you guys have such a strong testimony ~  it is crazy!!! I love it so much!! 

We also, had a different experience we were walking and a guy in his early twenties called us over to talk, he said he had a report the next day for school about our religion. So we gave him a quick run down and then I pulled out a Book of Mormon and showed it to him and said if you want it you can have it, he then asked how much it cost? I said its free if he will read it, and then he asked us to come back nex week to talk more!! So that was so freaking sweet and I know the Lord is preparing people for us all around just need to be ready at any moment, which is why our studies are so important!!! 

There is a new video that is really cool that is only two and half minutes great short video, He is the Gift, you can then bear testimony how Christ has blessed your life and that is it!! Perfect family home evening for those who aren`t members or have fallen in the family!! Just an idea though. 

Well I am sorry for taking so much time hope you all are getting into the Christmas spirit and I am sure Dad already has his radio tuned into the Christmas song station(;

Have a great week love you all, mother love ya to the moon and back and then some!!! Con mucho amor,

Elder leatherow

Yep, they have turkeys in El Salvador

This little guy was being super stubborn and would not look at the camera and smile

Our activity from a few weeks ago

and the temps were in the low 60s and I was FREEZING ~ had to bust out the socks, pants and even the hoodie