Zach's Mission

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! First I want to start by talking about Christmas a little bit. Obviously Christmas is a very fun time of the year, with music, food, vacations, and family time. All of that is great, but as I have been here on my mission in the absence of a lot of those things, I have been able to really focus on the purpose of Christmas, Jesus Christ. As I have been able to focus on this season and attempt to bring the light of Christ to the people here in El Salvador, I have grown closer to my Savior and have gained a larger appreciation for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. If you haven't seen this video I would totally watch it, it is about the story of the birth of Christ and its amazing:  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/video/light-the-world/2019-09-0050-the-christ-child-a-nativity-story-lighttheworld-1080p?lang=eng Now onto some weekly update stuff🎅: -we had our ward Christmas party!! It was super fun with lots of singing and food, it was great! -we ...

Hey everybody!! Not a lot of time today because I am currently bowling, but I still wanted to send out an email!! I'll start about the Christmas Concerts this week!! I had 3 of them which was really fun, and I got to leave and sing in different areas of our mission with sole other missionaries which was super fun!! It was a lot of fun to be there with other people and show what we have been practicing the past few transfers! (Even if we weren't great hahaha) Dude here saw us and points to his hat and it's a BYU hat. So random. He has a cousin who lives in Spanish Fork.  Met an Australian guy in the park who asked if we were from Salt Lake City. My comp is from Guatemala...still funny though. I heard an absurd amount of Bad Bunny this week. Some missionaries got a hold of the aux in the transport for the Christmas Concerts. Resulted in lots of apostate music but some of it was Christmas at least🎄 We had multizona this week, we kinda got roasted as a mission but my mission p...

Hey everyone! Going to be short I didn't have much time today, some quick things for ya: -last Monday for dinner a pilot from Arizona invited us to dinner for pizza at his hotel, it was so good and the nicest place I've been in 4 months by far, super awesome!! -it hit me that it is Christmas time this week. Was honestly a sad moment cause I won't be with the fam😭 -started watching the first presidency Christmas devo, it's so good!! Gong really carried though🎩 -buying treats next to my house for motivation🫡 -splits with 2 other gringos that know about as much spanish or less spanish than me. We actually managed hahah😮‍💨 -had a goal in soccer this week at the ward activity. Call me Messi porfa -had my first Christmas concert for the mission! Super fun! And we got to watch a Christmas concert here at the church which was also super fun and tons of other missionaries were there! Overall it was a much better week. One thing I worked on was trying not to think about home...

Hey peeps Wow. Crazy couple of days. Unfortunately nothing too crazy or fun this week. I am in Miramonte! It's SUPER different than my old area. Where I live is what I imagined the mission field to be like when I read my call of "San Salvador". I'm right in the chunk of the city. It's super super different than my old jungle-city-suburb hybrid that Versailles is.  I said goodbye to Elder Tripp, it was a pretty quick goodbye which was weird after being with someone 24/7 for 3 months straight, but I am going to see him around for the next couple of weeks before he goes home (including today actually). My new companion is Elder Lorenzo! He is from Guatemala, and hardly speaks any English so we are in full Spanish mode. Not going to lie, it's a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. It's not super easy to just make small talk all the time but we can actually talk to each other just fine and I understand almost everything he says first try so that's ...