UNO AÑO!!!!!

  

ONE YEAR!

HOLA HOLA!
This week went well! Thanks for all of your letters! So tomorrow we are heading to the Temple! Sick whips! So stoked!
So one time of year there´s these things called son po pos de mayo. They`re ants... but they are like the size of a small dog! They are freaking huge! My comp says in guate they fry em and eat em... crazy.
So...now I believe in haunted houses... not going to explain why... but its real... jajaja!
Had my one year mark last week... btw...I have the most time in the mission than anyone else in the zone... except for two people... weird right? Burned a shirt. Sick whips!
Today we played soccer in the rain... so much fun! Until Winter kicked my ball I got for my b -day into space... wont get that back...jajajaja! whatever right?
So we were eating dinner one night and this lady in our ward that uses a wheel chair asked for some help... she took us to an area that I knew existed, but never knew how to get there... we started looking for people over there and it has been successful! Its kinda cool how the lord blesses you because... I thought that we didn´t have enough time to take her home that night..and we ended up finding a family over there... I talk more about them in a little bit:)
So that prayer story that I told a few weeks ago? Still applies.. I tell you why..remember S? we found her and her son in the same way.. well... we stopped trying with her because she was never home... This week one of our lessons fell through and we were close so we tried to visit the son.. he was home and said, Hermanos! come in! So we walked in and he was like, the Book of Mormon sounded really interesting the last time you came so I started reading from the beginning...I just finished 2 Nephi! It was really cool because the mom didn´t really want it anyway.. but the son yes! So that was really cool... he also said that very soon he will be a member of the church... I just have to be sure and my mom has to be OK with it.... so that was really cool!... first time we went to visit, Paradise by Coldplay was playing:)
This week we had a leadership training again... it was really cool! It was on setting goals... also, a story about Elder Ballard was told about when he was a seventy member and was invited for a prayer with the twelve apostles and the prophet. He said that the thing that hit him was when the prophet prayed and said "we hope that our days work has been acceptable unto to thee today" -I hope that we all will be able to say that at the end of every day... very powerful.... also saw Elder Coy that day! He´s almost ready to go home! Going home 20 June... crazy sauce.. he definitely has been my favorite companion... and I feel like I was his as well! Whenever we see each other at a meeting, he always saves me a seat and always has a tie or a box of oreos for me. It really means a lot to me that I mean as much to him as he does to me:)
Elder Falabella(a seventy) came to our ward yesterday. Thank goodness we had investigators there because if not, he would have macheted us to a pulp-JK... but it was really cool! and powerful... Its not everyday that a seventy member comes to your ward... its not everyday a general authority comes to your house and prays with you....(Elder Martino and Elder Coy and I:))
This week we found what I would like to say, a family of gold! They were so in tune and we challenged them and they said yes, on the condition of  reading the Book of Mormon. But I feel like I had a very special experience with them this week. On the first lesson, we gave the first prayer and at that point in time I thought that they only had one little girl. After the prayer, a 2 year old boy came out. I was sitting on the edge of my seat, with my elbows on my knees and my hands together. The little boy came up to me and opened my hands up and gave me a hug and wanted me to hug back. I didn´t say one word to him, but he came straight for me, then to my companion. Then the mother said, That is really weird, because he doesn´t really do that kind of thing. He`s not really cariñoso.   I thought about this experience after the lesson. I thought about how children are a lot more sensitive to the spirit than adults. And I felt that his spirit came to ours to thank us. Because the spirit was familiar to him. And his little gesture of affection had a message. "Thank you for bringing this to my family. " I don't know if the family will get baptized. But I knew that that little boy knew and saw something that the parents didn't see or know. The truth. I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and the blessings it brings to families.
Mum,. thanks for everything! I hope everything  is going good! Thanks for your letter and I hope the end of the year isn´t too crazy... jajaja:)
Dad, thanks for your letter! I bet the talk went great! And thanks for your conversion story! It sounds like you are getting all ready for summer! Just think, one year and I´ll be getting ready for summer too:) I love you dad
Stee! flip whips! don't get too stressed for the end of the year! just do the stuff you're supposed to do and everything will be alright:) Did you look up that band yet? I hear its pretty cool:) Love ya!
Ellie, sounds like everyhtings going good! Play good on Wednesday! and I hope cheer is good! Just don't get carried away and forget what really matters... love ya!
Brynn, I hope the last week of school goes good! I love ya! Thanks for the letter!
Thanks for everything! love you all!
SALU!
TTT

on my 2nd toothbrush!

Ilopango- Week 42

Hey it was so great to talk to you guys yesterday! Last time it made me really baggy but this time it was pretty darn awesome! You guys all look great! I hope you were all being honest with me in saying that I haven´t put on the pounds... jajajaja... But yep! Anyway.... so cool that Elena met Hermana Lopez! She just left from my district! She is a cool girl .. tell her to tell her hi from padre Tanner!
Astrid`s(ward mission leader's fiance) last name in the mission was Perez.. both Tito and her look like gringos! jaja... there´s actually more natural blondes than you would think here.. not many.. but a few:)
Played some futbol this morning... made some gol whips... ate.. going to see if I can get some more ties.. find some wax for my legs... etc.. :)
Yeah, Tito´s moving into a house in the same ward..after they get married. I think that he will still be mish leader....
I go to the temple next week I found out.. so I´ll let you know about Frank.
Everything is going really good! I really enjoyed talking to you all and I really am grateful for all that you all have done for me.. thanks for the prayers and the nice emails all the time.. It is so fun to be able to talk to you all and its only going to go by super fast.. so don't even worry about the next year.. if I haven´t died yet, its probable I will die this year......jajajajajajajajajajaja.. I think I´m really funny at times... anyway... tell everyone hi! including Bro.Sirrine... watching my senior recital makes me realize how much I owe to him as well....
As for some stuff I´ve been writing... I haven´t put them to music yet, and I know they are pretty weird, but I try to stay away from cliche and be original and weird:


It deserves a story... but that's for another time... I like this guy... its weird... and its short... that's why I chose it to send home:) don't sell it or anything! that's comes out of the creativity of my mind!
Anyway, thanks for everything! I really love you all! Thanks for all you do for me and talk to you at Christmas!
Love Ya, TTT

Ilopango - Week 41

What's UP? So this week flew...I´m kinda getting scared for year two... but you know... whatever...  Thanks for all of your letters!  So they have almost completely stopped using dollar bills here... just gold dollars.. weird... I like it better... jajaja! Heard U2 this week. Reminded me of the concert.. The song was "stuck in a moment".. good song.. I´m starting to get worried about my dreams a little bit.. a few have come true... and I didn´t like the ending... jaja.. it was that that lady had found her records... jajaja...  So the multizone last week... repentence... what the pres wanted us to study last week... repentence... this week... forgiveness... see a pattern? I dunno whats been going on but?...whatever.. I'm starting to feel guilty... but I dunno what for... haven´t done anything??? maybe thats what a study of repentence does for you... weird...  I had divivions this week.. with Elder Winter! It was so freaking fun... Elder Mehr and Elder Winter are the best elders in the mission and are freaking hilarious... like I said last week... my favorite/best friends gringos in the mish...Also, he had me get up on a bus and talk with everyone on the bus from the front and preach.  It was so darn fun! and effective. But I did an interview for one of their investigators...Jaime... it was so darn powerful... I almost cried in it... it was so powerful.. he is the most spiritually converted person I have interviewed..crazy.. he's´s probably going to be an apostle.... But then his baptism the next day, the font stopped filling.. so we had to go to a members house and start filling up those 5 gallon jugs and haul them over to the church on our shoulders... I was beat! I´m not strong anymore! sweat... anyway... took a pic.... jaja! Saturday night had a missionary activity. We had like a movie theater thing... we watched the testaments.. it was really good! and a few investigators came and loved it.. said that the Book of Mormon just seemd logical after the movie.. hopefully we´ll get some sucess out of it:) So yesterday they asked me to play the piano for the opening hymn.. I usually don't in this ward... but when I went up to go play... a little 2 year old girl yelled ELDER TORTON!!! It made everyone laugh...:) Also, macheted everyone in church yesterday.. ask me about it on sunday:) So heres my Prayer story mum,  So when I had about two weeks with left with my last comp. I was really frustrated... having basically no success in this area.. so I analyzed my prayers a little bit...I realized that I was just asking to guide us to find someone ready for the gospel...I realized that I was doing it wrong... revelation requires information. So then I asked where I needed to GO to find someone... see the difference? then I sat there and waited for an answer.. all of our references went through my mind...one stuck out in particular... we went there the next day.. knocked the door... I know what you´re thinking... you´re thinking they let us in... NOPE! They came to see who it was and then shut the door... across the street were the people who sell tamales... we started to get to be friends with them, but they want nothing to do with the gospel... but through getting to know them a little bit, they introduced us to a lady. The week before Escalante left, we found someone really really good! she works a lot, so its hard to teach her, but she is really positive and we are hoping and praying to baptize her this week.. so it was just cool that Heavenly Father lead us somewhere but that wasn´t what we had planned.. like I said, revelation requires information... anyway... prayer:) I love you mum! I can't wait to talk to you on Sunday!  Dad,. looks like you freaking killed the whisky! sick whips! Thanks for your letter pops! Talk to you next week:) love ya! Austin, Prom? sick whips... So I was thinking.. I will only miss one summer for no wakeboarding. I wakeboarded the summer I left.. I'll definitely do it when I get back.. so the only summer you´ve got is this one! You better land some sick whips! Only will miss one Lake Powell trip more! I definitely want it to be like a month long trip when I come back:)deal? lets so something sick! BTW, all my mission buds and I are planning for Lake Powell summer 2014! sick. see you lady.. congrats on prom stuff:) ELLIE! CONGRATS ON A GOOD WEEK FILLED WITH GYM! Read your scrips and keep the eternal perspective:) love ya! Brynn, holy crap! you must be getting good at gym too! congrats:) hope this week goes by fast! love ya! Thanks for everything! I´ll let you know about the call on Sunday... I hope I can find somewhere to skype:) PADRE  TANNER!!!!