Thomas's Time in El Salvador

 Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 10:48 AM To: Jim and Sandy Bever Hey family So My new area and zone are really cool right now. In the past The zone has had some really disobedient missionaries. But this past transfer took out the majority of them. So now we are starting out brand new. My new companion is Elder Alvarado who is from Miami he is a convert to the church about two years ago he got baptized as the only member of his family and he is super powerful. My Area is Juayua (pronounced why-yow-ugh) its super beautiful, and it looks a lot like Oregon its up in the mountains and its pretty cool the climate here. But our area in this town is super small... so small that the stake relief society president (Sister Rodriguez) has a daughter that lives in Oregon City and is in the Beavercreek ward!!!!!!!! How small is this world I said!!!! So now rm going to give you guys her contact information. Her name is Irene Leon and she lives in front of the Oregon City High School. Her phone numbe...

 Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 12:38 PM Subject: Re: Hello from Oregon Happy fourth of July! Here the independence day mom is on the 15th of September. This morning i called all of the Elders in our zone on the cell phone and i did a conference call and sang the star spangled banner for all of them. Elder Diaz thought that it was pretty funny and then we went out and playesd soccer with the zone and with the stake president and some other people that are in the stake. We lost though that kind of stunk. But i got a really good workout though. This week i have been entirely dedicated to getting myself into shape during the morning. In our house there are two stories soi get up and run sets of stairs for 10 minutes every day. That's helped out a lot. Elder Cordon is a really good mission president he is here to work super hard, and is helping us out a lot i havent got any pictures of him with me yet but ill se if i cant get one. This week we also got to go through the temple during the ...