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| This is a picture of Tanner in his 2nd area where he served right by the Volcano Fuego (Sept/11 - Jan/12) |
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| Volcano Fuego Erupts 40 miles from me Thurs. Sep. 13 |
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| At night we could see the lava pouring down |
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| Time to buy a new umbrella |
September 18, 2012
Buenas Dias family!!
haha I knew that you'd know about the
volcano eruption already. It was pretty awesome. We were planning our
day in the morning, and i got a call from the zone leaders and they
told me to go out to see if we were far enough away to be able to go
out and work, and i said that i thought we were, so then they called
the President back and he said that my district could work. But there
were many missionaries that couldn't go out for the morning. My 2nd
area was super super close to that volcano, but in the area that I'm
in now, I was close enough to get an awesome view, but far enough
away to be able to work and far enough that the ash didn't get all
the way to my little town. In the morning you could just see a
huuuuuge cloud of volcanic ash coming from the volcano, and then that
night, you could see lava shooting up from the volcano. Heres some
pictures that i took, and some pictures of the newspaper the next
day.
it was super cool, cuz since the
beginning of my mission I've been saying that i want to see a volcano
erupt, and what do you know, i did.
Thats cool that Vicki is going to
temple square haha. but you know what they say, all the best looking
missionaries go there. Thats also why they sent me as far away as
they could from temple square.
so those pictures of the temple are
pretty cool, looks like its just about ready to open! exciting.
and oh great, when i get back my eyes
are going to hurt from seeing so many neon pants. has time been
moving backwards up there since I've been in Guatemala? are we back
in the 80s?
The young hip guatemala style when i
got here was bright colored neon shirts with pictures of smurfs on
them. right now the style is big neck neons shirts, so that one
shoulder is sticking out, with elmos face on it. its so stupid haha.
thank goodness i was grown in Canada.
that would be cool if you get an
invitation to the temple open house over to Katy, tell her i say hi
and i hope shes doing great!
So the other day my umbrella broke from
the strong rain and wind, and i got SOAKED so i just had to take a
picture of it ha.
So Barney, his mom and brother are all
ready for their baptism on saturday. we had to teach two lessons a
day to the mom and brother since they are only here on weekends and
we wanted to get them baptized asap, but they are excited, so this
week I should have 3 baptisms. cool stuff. The Lord has been blessing
us as we have also found 2 other families that are super PILAS! or in
other words, are super AWESOME!
its looking like they will be baptized,
but not until october we are planning.
well, i love you all tons, hope you are
all doing great.
i know that i have 2 packages in the
office waiting for me, so i just gotta wait until a conference or
something, but they're there.
love ya all, choose the right!
From Guatemala, With Love,
Elder Hopkins
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| Newspaper Clippings - 33,000 were evacuated |
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