So, new transfer coming Nov 22, 2014

And a zoo visit

Sat November 22, 2014

Hey guys, so I got transferred, but I kind of didn't at the same time, so that's pretty cool and stuff. I am still going to be here in the offices, but with one of the other secretaries, Elder Angeles, in a different ward. Strange stuff, but I am pretty excited for it!

So sorry I wasn't able to write last week, we didn't really have time.... my bad. But I am going to send you guys some pictures!

Last week it started to rain pretty hard so the temperature dropped just enough to make the hot chocolate my mom sent me, and later on Saturday we went to a Zoo place that's called the Venta. 

I mean, I´m normally not a zoo-going type of guy but it was really pretty cool... except for the part where I think the Jaguar was sick or something it really just made a weird sound.... ha-ha

Anyway, so this week has gone pretty well, we´ve been pretty busy and we are getting ready for some pretty exciting missionary stuff. 

So this week I started reading the Book of Mormon in English again... which is really awesome! I have read both the Book of Mormon and the Bible more in Spanish than I have in English and so I decided that it was time to break away from my Latin roots and get to reading in my native tongue. Its really cool to read the same thing from a different perspective and learn a whole bunch more stuff. I mean, I´m just saying that I have had a really good study sesh, or two. This week I tried to take a lot of time to study more on the life of Jesus Christ and the example that he left. Its a Christlike attribute that I would like to develop more of, because from charity springs a whole bunch of other things. 

Oh and in the museum, they aren't very good at translating their signs into English.. 

 Anyway, sorry this letter was kind of short and all over the place but I love you guys and hope you are all doing well!

Love, Elder Rios

Well, Life's good and so is this fish dinner, bones and all!

Hey guys, so I mean this week was pretty busy.. It was pretty good. We had the mission leadership council with all of the zone leaders and we had like one day to get everything organized and so it was kind of stressful, but everything turned out really well, and it looked like we were super organized even though we really were not. 

This week went pretty well though, we were able to find some new good investigators and learned a lot from President Morales. As a mission we are working on learning how to teach lessons that are shorter and more powerful. The day of the leadership council, President talked about teaching the message of the Restoration in five minutes to contact people. So I got  to put it into practice with the Taxi driver that night and it went really well. I even got the first vision in there and everything. It was the most interested I have ever seen one of the taxi drivers. A lot of them just brush us off and turn up the music, and later the other ones don't progress, but this guy seemed really interested. So yeah I took down his name and number and now the missionaries are going to go visit him. 

I´m just saying, I can definitely testify about the fact that the church is lead by revelation from God, on all levels. President Morales has really taught us a lot of important things that have helped moved the work along here and I know that he always takes the time to listen to what the Lord would have us do, whether he receives that answer through the leaders of the church or directly, he does what he can to follow it. Its been really cool to work closely with President, there is a lot to learn from him. 

This whole mission thing is awesome, and I´m so grateful to be here. 

Love you guys

Here's some pictures of my house... well part of it.. and a fishy I ate bones and all! 

Dinner time bones and all,,,that's how it's done!

Kind of fishy I know! 

Home sweet home

One bed one Hammock. No AC no problem.