Heyyyyy. Hola. Pura Vida.‏

This
week went pretty well! We took an investigator 2 hours in bus to a multi-stake
general conference where we listened to Elder Anderson and other general
authorities. It was pretty good! He should be baptized on Saturday. He walks 50
minutes each Sunday to go to church.. he shows more faith than I did before the
mission, walking so long just to get to church! And he`s 57 years old. In the
stake conference they talked about how we need to love the temple. And if we
don`t love it yet we need to pray to find love and keep going until we find a
love for it. That stood out to me, as I know it will have to be something I
develope after the mission. I like going to temple, but not being able to go
that often in the mission I think has made it harder for me to have a focus on
the temple, and going there myself. That was a personal goal I put for myself,
and I hope each and everyone of you has that goal as well. That you look at the
temple as a place you love to go! That you put it above other unimportant
things and make it a focus of your life. I know that just as Elder Anderson
promised us, you will find greater happiness and peace in your life, and
greater love for the Lord as you make temple service a part of your life. Love,
Elder Lohberg







Aaron:
Hey mom! sorry I was responding and reading everything! 




Mom:
HEY!! How are you doing Aaron?? no worries - i just should have hung
around :)

 

Aaron: I
need to know what number the last photo i put on was=( can u check that? I
forgot to check it on dropbox.. because i only put on like half the photos



Mom:
P1040947 was the last photo do you want a picture of it as well?



Aaron: no
i think the number is enough! =)

Send me
Jarom`s email, to put him on the list.

Our week
went decently. Josemaria should be baptized this Saturday, he passed his
interview but we need to find a swimming pool to do it. Marcos.. we`re going to
try and have a super spiritual lesson watching The Testaments with him this
week and see what happens. I need to call Anna still, they gave me a tie for
Christmas. we`re only 4 missionaries, 2 sets, 1 set sisters 1 set elders. We
work everywhere we want, because President doesn't want us dividing wards now,
just working wherever we find investigators. All of Turrialba and like an
hour-hourhalf out of the city is the ward boundary. Cartago stake yeah, but the
stake center is in Tres Rios right now, until they make it Cartago (they gotta
make the building bigger there after they finish here) We go to ward counsel..
basically any meeting they invite us too.. but usually just ward counsel Sunday
at 7:30. Our district is Elder Hatch, Elder Rosales, Hermana Madrid Hermana
Pacay, Hermana Kugath Hermana Mazariegos y nosotros dos. My comp is Elder
Martinez From Vera Cruz mexico he came 2 changes after me, leaves in October..
No monkeys, no sloth either.. but I`ve heard there are lots of sloths here.
Soccer days no.. but last week we took like 2 photos.. and someone took a video
of us singing in the baptism but he has to find and send the files.. i`ll try
and ask him to do it. All the missionaries we sang.. but this member took it i
think. You can just do a piece of paper with my head.. I don`t care that much..
not like I`m actually going to be there lol..









Mom:
 wow thank you for answering ALL my questions :)

I wish
you were going to be here for the wedding - sad that you can't be - but it's
better for them to get married in the temple :)  

When do
they expect the work to be completed on your building in your area?  



I had
asked about the sloth and such since you sent so many pictures of trees I
couldn't tell if there was something in them I was supposed to focus in on
besides the beauty of the trees - like was there wildlife in them :)

Hopefully
before you leave Costa Rica you will see a sloth or monkey!!  

I hope Josemaria
is baptized then on Saturday - what time is your baptism?  What is your
time there now? just wondering if you are an hour off or two from us?

when are
you meeting with Marcos? we will pray for him to feel the spirit.



Aaron:
RIGHT NOW woops right now it`s 12:09. Idk what time on saturday.. maybe like
6:00 in the night It should be done the end of MArch. Sorry I was cleaning out
my USBS and deleting all the talks I had and stuff like that.

sooo..
wutz new?!









Mom: oh
so you are 2 hours off of us right now - interesting - maybe it's spring
forward that we are only an hour off of you then we will pray for you guys
then for the spirit to be there when you are teaching :) 



Aaron: Seems
like it, because here they dont have spring forward fall back. =)

I think
today we`re going to go to a waterfall. So i`ll take some photos of that.



Mom:
nothing much - Jessie has been sick - she called yesterday crying throwing up
and said she just needed her mom - made me so sad not to be there with her :(
 They were up at Spencer's parents place so I messaged Annette
(Spencer's mom) and told her how Jess was sick hiding out in the bedroom -
and asked her if she could help her.  Anyways - she got her some ginger
ale and some medicine and saltine crackers - I'm so thankful she had someone
there to help her.  She just called here now - she stayed home from work -
she sounds a little better - I think her fever broke last night but she is
still really weak from being so sick.  Poor kid.  Breaks my heart not
to be there to help her.

Me
personally - nothing new :p  I'm just doin' my best to get the wedding
stuff done and fix our house up :)  Got our taxes done - got a small
return back so that's nice :)

Excited
to have Jarom & Kara come out for a visit (they come out in two weeks).

Kara has
been getting these tonsil stones - they are like little hard rock looking
things in her throat - you have to pop them out - but they cause bad breath,
sore throat etc. They are really weird - but she gets a TON of them - and she
feels sick all the time from them. So she is home today as well - and is going
to the doctor again to figure that out - I told her not to let the doctor send
her home - I said  "scream, yell, cry if you have to but don't leave
until they have a solution for you" haha  so we shall see - she has
been miserable though with them as they make her feel so sick







Dad is
doing ok - they have him on a medicine which helps his heart racing issues - so
he is stable - eventually he will have surgery to fix the valve - but for now
we are doing medicine as our insurance just changed with the new job change.
 He thinks the meds they have him on are causing him to gain weight -
could be - it is one of the side effects.

That's
about it for us.

Do you
want to take a bike with you to BYU as well? I was thinking maybe that would be
good too? or do you just want to use your car & walk?  And - are you
ok with me painting your room or would you prefer I wait until you've come
home?

COOL!
 FINALLY you are seeing the beauty of Costa Rica!! How awesome!! who is
taking you to do that?  Or are you just taking a bus or?

Maybe
you will see some wildlife :)  Who all is going? just you and your comp
or?

I think
spring forward and fall back is a USA thing - although Arizona refuses to do
it! haha - which maybe the rest of us should as well :p



Aaron: gross.
Tonsil stones.. eew.. i was getting another ingrown toenail so

a sister
here helped trim it.. but she cut it really rounded.. it doesn`t hurt anymore..
she was a nurse.. so maybe she`s a genious or something, we`ll have to see what
happens. Then my other toenail is falling off.. the surgery one.. (DONT POST
THIS ON THE BLOG LOL) (*haha mom note - sorry I posted this Aaron!) and so I was like wiggling the toenail today because it`s
lifted up in the back and in the front but in the center it`s still stuck.. but
no luck. So i just trimmed it all around. So in the center of my toe I have a
nail like the size of half a penny lol.. a little circle of a nail. not sure
when it`ll fall off. it`s not connected to a root or anything.

Randall
the member who lives below us.. he`s been taking us places.. but now he`s
working again.. he`s a teacher and summer break ended.. but some Americans who
are on a 5 month vacation here are going to take us. us and the sisters and
their family.



Mom: Here's
what Wiki said about it: 







Daylight
saving time in the United States is
the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer part of
the year, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Most
areas of the United
States currently observe daylight saving time (DST),
the exceptions being Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation, which
does observe daylight saving time),[1] Hawaii,[2] and
the overseas
territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana
Islands, Puerto
Rico and the United States
Virgin Islands. So it is a USA thing - and Arizona is the only state
on the mainland that doesn't observe it - interesting - wonder how they did
that?



Aaron:
hmm.. darn arizona... its like the new alaska

i think
im going to buy some soccer shoes.. they`re like.. 40-60 bucks
here. probably gunna buy the 40 buck ones.. nike and adidas are like
80-100






Mom:
YUCKY!! does it hurt?  Can you see any new nail growing or is it just skin
there right now?  I'm so sorry you had to deal with that :( that's awful!
 So she rounded the nail when she cut it? interesting!! 

The
tonsil stones are really yucky - she has shown them to me - it's basically an
infection - the tonsil takes something and builds around it (like a pearl in a
clam shell kind of - the pearl is from sand that is in the shell that then is
calcified) - so a food particle or something gets lodged and then the tonsil
builds a calcification around it - making this stone thing - which smells awful
and makes bad breath odor and causes her food to taste yucky.  They don't
know why some people get them and others don't but the only solution is to pop
the stones out or to take antibiotics (which isn't a long term fix) or to take
out the tonsils (which the doctors say they don't do any more - but which I
think is the only solution she really has besides living with it)

is
Randall the guy then that took you to that last place (the one with all the
pictures you just sent?)

hahahaha!!!

do you
play enough to make it worth that?



Aaron:
My camera memory has a trojan virus.. so it`s better that you have dad tell me
what to do, I was going to send you a cool photo from the trip that i like..
but ask dad first.



Mom:
well Hawaii is on there too - but it's an island - I just think it's weird that
Arizona doesn't do it since it's right in the middle of other states which DO.
 Weirdos 




 Aaron:
hmmm..no its just a tiny bit sensitive.








Mom: ok
let me ask Dad - he is on a call but I will ask him if he can answer me

ok so
dad is on a call but he is going to google it and see if what to do - drop box
is on the web - so we would scan it - but I'm not sure if it would get into the
rest of your photos - let me google it right now as well and see if there is
anything I can see hmmm I'm reading about it - give me one more minute -
how much more time do you have on here?

so did
you ever upload all the other memory card photos?or is your other card full
still as well?  Just wondered if you could just swap out your card (which means
I would have to wait to see your fun photos) but might be safest for today.
 Is there a place there you could buy a new card?  I could put money
into your account for that if so - would take me a long time to get a card down
to you otherwise.

Dad is still
on his call - so I can't ask him for more info



Aaron: i
can buy a new card here yeah.. it`s like.. 15 bucks for 8 gigs. i think we can
fix it.. I downloaded AVG on Randals comp and it can scan memory cards.. I will
see if it can clean it off. but I`m going to send the photo, don't open it!



Aaron:
like 5 minutes. I`m going to send the photo, but don't open the next email until
you`re sure.. okay?

Put some
money on if you want, I`m going to change my dollars to colones to buy shoes to
play soccer! But yeah, it should go well.

Gotta go
mom! I love you have a good week! We`ll talk next week, and tell dad I love him
too!



Mom:
Love you Aaron - have a great time!! Will be praying for Marcos and Josemaria
as well!! talk to you next week!! and yes - go buy a new card so you can
keep taking photos!!