Thomas's Time in El Salvador

 Sent: Monday, April 25, 201112:38 PM To: Jim and Sandy Bever Subject: Re: Happy Easter!!! Hey congrats on the meet Emily you are tearing it up! Just make sure you remeber what i told you last week that if you get sponsored by nike or by addidas make sure you remember that i am a size mens 9.5 shoe. ;) keep up the really good job that you are doing i am so proud of you for all of the success that you have had in track. You, Ethan and Audrey are setting such a great example for those around you. I know that really the Lord blesses our lives for a reason, and that is so that we can use the talents and bleesings that he has given us to bless the lives of those around us. Dont hesitate to talk about the gospel to everybody around you. Invite friends to church. I know that it sounds a little mind rattling but "whom the lord calls the lord qualifies." Especially during this easter time we can all feel of the importance and reality of the saviors mission here on earth. He came here ...

  4/18/11 Thanks for the email dad  Well that sounds like the weather that you had in Mexico was really pleasent. Here unfortunately its not like that. During the . Winter yes it is like that all day every day and it is very pleasent. But the second spring starts, it just gets hotter and hotter until easter weekend that is the hottest part of the week. So its like 90 95 degrees almost all day, its kind of annoying now but i know that im going to miss it. There are so many things that are so typical to El Salvador that im going to miss in especially the pupusas. No but you are so right Dad the mission does go by way too fast. and that is the biggest fear that i have, that im going to get to the end of my mission and i havent done al that the lord has had in mind for me. This past weekend helped me out alot with that. We had two baptisms! I '11 put the pictures in the email with everybody else. But it was a young couple that got married opn saturday and then afterwards we had th...

4/18/11  Hola familia I hope you all saved me enough cheese curds from the coast. I was just thinking about that the other day about those things. I was telling Elder Ferrin about the cheese factory there in tillamook. No im glasd that you hasd a really good time with Sophie though I can just imagine you guys on the beach running everywhere after her. I'll tell you this much for sure though you should probably slow down a little bit more in your track meets! hahaha no im just joking Emily and Audrey are tearing it up. If eaither one of you get sponsored by Nike, just remember you poor big brother here in El Salvador when they ask if you want free shoes (My size is still mens 9.5 ;) Mom as for the pin number it works. I dont know how it could gotten changed like that oh well. its fine the way it is right now. Hey if you guys could set up a skype account and tell me what it is that would be really cool if we could talk through skype on mothers day. Im going to see if i can set up one...

 4/11/11 Hey congratulations Ethan on getting valedictorian!! I knew that you could do it. Just one step closer to taking over the entire world!! ha ha ha! No but im really proud of you bro you are going to have to teach me when i get back. No but its going to be sweet at BYU. Budge hall is by far ... The best. Its the closest one to the cannon center and its close to the helaman hall feilds, the stadium. everything. Its just too bad that you didnt get the first floor ;). What do you think that you are going to end up studying? Ive been thinking alot more about studying in eantripreneurship and stuff like that ive gotten a bunch of business ideas while ive been here on the mission. One class that i would highly reccommend taking is the career exploration class and spend as much time as you possibly can in the library. I got some of my best work done outside of the dorms and especially now that you are in a really cool hall your gonna meet alot of really noce guys but dont get too c...

 4/4/11 Hey family  General conference was pretty much amazing wasnt it? I really could also feel as Elder Holland was describing that each of the talks were in one way or another personalzed for each and every one ofus. But no way Lexi ias engaged now too! thats soo crazy! Sounds like her fiance was paying really close attention to President Monson' s talk in the preisthood session. He gave this huge machete to all of the sigle adult men that dont want to get married because they want to still have a little bit of fun first. hahah just joking. But i really ejoyed the conference it seems like the more and more i get to appreciate the talks that are being given the shorter and shorter the conference gets. it was really cool because during the preisthhod session, Elder Ferrin and i we pulled a couch from the ward buildeing and put it in another room in the chapel and watched the conference in English, just the two of us. it was really fun. We bought a whole bunch of snacks and e...