So Official

These are some pictures sent home on his memory card

Don't really know for sure what & where they are

so will update that when we get it!

I really love this one, he looks like an

official tourist/missionary!

His companion Elder Blake

This is just cool looking!

Try packing those home. . . .haha

He is an official Dominican Republican now!

Oh! this is kind of big!

(sorry it is constantly hectic and cannot remember anything!) I baptized someone on Saturday! Ellis Rosanna Botello Nuñez. she is awesome! great faith! and speaks english! she is about 40 and is now a member! uh....we have two getting baptized on Saturday, two haitians Jonathon and basely.

We had a haitian member translate for us and jonathon speaks english creole and spanish! thats nice! i dont know what to say! i will always email from an internet cafe! its not really a cafe...but it is a place with computers! Im still in the city...is isnt necessarily far from the beach...but i still havent seen the beach yet! and one of the more richer areas!
....pdays we went to the park today! just a big soccer field! i got some sun! no glasses!contacts are great thus far! dont have a microwave...but we have already opened a pack of popcorn and put it in a pan...didnt work so well! haha!spanish is coming! i dont know what else to say! slowly but surely! theyve said i know a lot more than others!

Always on the clock

Well I am doing great! I don't know exactly what to say!

First I'll answer questions as best I can!

I live with my comp and two others, Elder Clase and Elder Cabrall. Two natives!

Schedule:

6:30, wake up, i write letters new scripture to memorize and review the others,
7:00 get ready,
7:30 make breakfast, (whatever I can find)
8:00 is personal study,
9:00 is comp study,
10:00 - 1:00 we go to appointments and such,
1:00 - 3:00 we go back to the house and eat lunch and study,
3:00 - 9:00/9:30 if we're in an appointment we go to appointment or tract if we need to.
then i shower at night, eat and go to bed!

Well, our area is on fire right now. We have 19 people in church...that is MONUMENTAL. My companion said up to now he has never seen this kind of success at all. This was supposedly the hardest area...but the Spirit is doing a great work.

cooking..i'm learning how to make pastas! i boil noodles and put condensed queso in it, and today i bouth sharp queso and sour cream and onion seasoning. we'll see how that goes!

humidity is great! if you're going to sweat, sweat a lot right!

there is absolutely NO TIME out here. it flies by and so you need to learn to master it!

i'm doing great...thank you for your prayers! they are needed! this work is moving forward and no one can stop it! one quick thing...GET INVOLVED you can't imagine how much missionaries have to do! David A Bednar counseled us...it is the job of the members to find, and the job of the missionaries to teach. just befriend them, reference them to the missionaries, and do what you can to help the missionaries! itis the greatest work!

i love you all! remember God as He remembers you!
D & C 101...7-9

Alma Rosa!

Alma Rosa is the area where Ethan is Serving at:

Elder Mecham & Elder Blake

This is Ethan with his companion & trainer Elder Blake

Oh so cold in the Caribbean. . .

Hello!

Well...13 days without a pday really throws you off!

I’m here and safe and all is well! .I just think I will do my

best to tell you what is going on! so first of all...the

keyboard isn’t that great...so pardon my grammar...

2nd I’m doing great!

The apartment... nice...kinda...all showers are freezing

...the toilet has to flushed with a bucket of water,

the shower is the only access to water we have...

i sleep on a mattress on the ground and

so far i have been sleeping fine! Thank you SO

much for the package!!!! Í love all the food and

especially the chocolate! The washer is tiny and

basically just mixes your clothes around.

I’m doing great! Staying busy!

My trainer is elder Blake...and yup his mom is a MM! :)

he is a hard worker and is teaching me well! i love you all!

I’m going to send this in hopes that you are there

More info.. We have a lot of investigators

that are doing great! I’m loving it. Just getting settled in!
SO hectic right now! Love you all so much! He lives!!!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Talk to you on Monday

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Pictures from the Mission Home

Autumn found these on the mission website:

Ethan with the Mission President & His wife

Group Shot

Another Group Shot

Lost & and now Found

Ethan just emailed me at work (This is Shae)

He is online at an internet cafe right now and wanted me

to tell Mom but she is Ogden going to lunch with

Cassie for her birthday!

So she is sending him emails from her phone so

we will have more info from him when she checks her email

later today. But he said is good and loving it and they went

to the Temple on today. His pdays will now be on Mondays

so we will get to hear from him again in a couple of days!

No Word Yet. . .

We have not heard from Ethan since the week

before he left the CCM, but Mom writes with other Moms

who have sons out and has been in contact with the mom of

Ethan's companion (Elder Warren) from the CCM.

She wrote Mom yesterday and forwarded this picture on

of the their CCM group.

Ethan is two left of center from the sister missionaries.

Wearing a lovely pink tie!

I'm Leavin. . . .

Ethan left the CCM (MTC) in the

Dominican on Tuesday March 30.

He is now officialy out in the mission field

and his trainer will be picking him up!

Good luck Ethan!

We love you and miss you!