Going After the One ~ April 18, 2016

Mom: Matt and Karlie are thinking about June 18th!


Tyler: Whaaaaaaaaat!?! That´s super too crazy and super too fast! ;) Haha just kidding that is super awesome!! I am so excited for him. Hey I don´t know if I will be able to write everyone again because I didn´t write my weekly email before coming... :( I really want to figure out how to do this. All I've done is write my weekly and now I only have like 10 minutes... :( But hey I have a question. When is Mother´s Day? We need to schedule when we can do the Skype!

So, wow this week has been pretty good. I hope I can remember everything that happened this week.
So first off, this week we have really been trying to consecrate ourselves even more in this work and well, like I´ve said in times past, that every time we try to work harder, Satan works harder as well to impede us. But we won´t let that disanimate us because we know this cause is true and that it is our responsibility as missionaries.

Being District Leader has been a great learning experience here. Really the district I have here is really great. We are only four missionaries so that makes it a lot easier and better to be able to get to know the missionaries and know how to help them progress individually in their conversion. We meet every Tuesday morning to have district meeting and I always give a capacitation to the missionaries and then we do practices of lessons and everything and it´s super great. Or legit I should say. ;) haha. Anyways, so yeah, things here in Arjona are great.

So this Sunday, yesterday, we had a really cool opportunity to have an area conference/stake conference broadcast. Elder Dean Davies, the first counselor of the young womens, Elder Hales, and Elder Oaks spoke, and also another area presidency leader that I don´t remember his name. Anyways it was super neat. We learned a lot about how to help the less active members. Less actives, like recent converts, need a friend, someone to listen to their concerns, feel the love of God, and feel secure in church and with the members. It is something that we really need here in Arjona because here there are like 470 members, and only about 120 members assist church every week. We have found tons of people who are less active that never really received testimonies before being baptized and so we are really working hard with them because they are practically like investigators who need to find their conversion.

What else happened this week... oh yeah, so this week it has rained super duro (hard) but only for short periods of time. Until today, we were returning from going to two malls in Cartagena and it started to rain right as we got out of the bus. And when I say it started to rain... it started to RAIN. like a wall that fell from the sky. Literally. We were soaked in like 2 seconds. We ran to the house and sat there studying for like an hour as it rained and rained and rained. OH also something that was cool was the thunder and lighting! It was SO loud when it thundered! We were scared a bit haha. But we were talking how it´s practically like God saying to His people "Repent ye, repent ye ends of the earth!" Haha it was legit.

Oh, one more thing. So this weekend there was a HUGE earthquake in Ecuador. 7.8! And it destroyed a lot. And well Elder Baque has been a little worried, but the Assistants called his family and they are ok. But the people of Ecuador need prayers and help in this time.

Well I think that is all for this week. Thank you so much for your prayers, love, and support. I love you all. Be obedient with exactness, and God will bless you. Until the next time...


¡Paz fuera!

Love,
~Elder Tyler Hales~

Mom: Matt is graduating with his Bachelors in Civil Engineering and Bryce is graduating with his Associates!

Tyler: Hey that's awesome! I am so excited for them!! Tell them congrats and that I love them and that I will pray for them always!
IT´s so hard to email here in Arjona... and other bad news... I just downloaded two talks from conference and I plugged in my USB with my fotos and everything... and i think it just got corrupted in this computer... AHHHHH! WHY are these computers here so bad and have problems!!! It makes me so sad really! I hope I didn´t lose everything just now.... :(