[Nick] Guatemala CCM: ¿futbol anyone?

Well i just got done playing Futbol with the elders , it was so fun. They are amazing. the best gringo player is their average player. I get to go to the temple today for the first time here in Guatemala! wooohoooo!! I’m so excited. I catch my self saying stuff like that and start to realize I’m turning into a Rhett.  Stuff like “i’m so pumped for the devotional on tuesday!” and stuff like “I just heard the greatest song!! here check it out (hymn)”  or “ELDER HOLLAND IS THE MAN!!”. Any ways. i love devotionals now that i’m closer with the spirit and i now realize how AWESOME conference is! i love it. The spanish is coming well! The hardest part for me now is just understanding what the heck they’re saying. i can mostly only talk gospel stuff.. everyday conversation is difficult for me, but i´m practicing. I hope that soon i will be able to understand when people in the hallways ask me random questions. I’m feeling much better now that i’ve got some good friends that i can talk with and i cant wait to meet more. Food is harder to come by here! there is no snacks i can just get out of the vending machines i wanna send you a video tour of the ccm but i dunno how i´ll get the video to you... it stinks. Anywho... this place is way cool and i hope i can get a video to you soon. My companion is practically fluent in spanish which really helpful throughout my time here.

[Nick] "today I leave to GUATAMALA"

July19 email

I'm SOOOOOOOO excited to get there!!! I WANNA TEACH PEOPLE. i still don't speak the language well at all but i know that if i just put a smile on my face and have an excitement for what I'm teaching god will do the rest. I will say that i am really sad to leave my zone though.... THEY ARE SO AWESOME!! I'm going to have so many friends when i get back and i have so many adventures planned already. REMEMBER TO ASK ME ABOUT BROVERTIME WHEN WE TALK its hilarious hahaha I have seen her! the last time i saw her she was doing great! she did talk to me about the feet but not much really ( i have 8 min left for Email) I really wanna find her cause i do need to send the shoes back with her. I really hope she has the good attitude she had when i last saw her. This is where you decide how strong you will be for the rest of the mission. I believe I have learned to forget myself and SERVE OTHERS and in doing that we really serving the lord.

[Nick] I'm............ (guat. MTC)

July 20 2011
I get fifteen minutes just to let you know that i'm alive and well! its very different here. I don't know many people which is sad and i need to get to know more but i am still excited to work and learn spanish

[Nick 1 & 2] Hello to the outside world

NICHOLAS #2
From: Nicholas Wimmer
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:09 AM
To: Wimmer, Gregory J (GE, Appl & Light)
Subject: Re: I believe this is your address?

Why hello friends and family or to whomever this applies to. This will be my first official Email to the people in the "outside world". I refer to them as outsiders here. kinda like the Nabi on avatar call the humans, or how the indians call john smith an outsider. I have flight plans! Yaaaaahooo!! I'm leaving in a week from today, the 19th! One step closer to going out and serving the people of Quetzaltenango! When ever I work with the investigators here at the MTC it makes me wanna go to guatemala so much more, sprinting from door to finding the peoples issues, problems, and questions, then and finding their connection to our church! A good way of putting it is the people are fish and i am the fisherman, different fish like different bait and in order to find out what kind of bait they like i need to, love the fish, talk to fish, care for the fish and once i've found their bait? I violently pull and drag them to god as they struggle to resist. I'm still working on the ending.

     Welllll i'll try and answer some questions real fast, they don't give us much time on the computer at allll. The spanish is going quite well, i can keep a conversation going well and i can talk about the first vision and the apostasy pretty well. I love love love my teachers, they have such a wonderful excitement for spreading the gospel which rubs off on me. (ps rhett i saw a teacher at the mtc from your mission, i said hello and talked but i forgot her name) any who. there's this thing at the MTC they call studying. apparently they expect you to be able to sit down for hours on end and just read or write. muerte. studying is easily the hardest thing for me here. i have gained ten pounds already! I work out every morning and night and i'm loving it! FOOTBALLLLL. any who i love my companions. especially elder Romney. we're going to be really good friends when we get back i know.

     I love you all and thank you all so much for the packages and letters!! they always make my day much greater! thank you thank you thank you!! DOING GREAT!!! LOVING THE MTC!!

NICHOLAS #1

July 12 email
Well I have P days on Tuesday(today) and I have a half hour to write on p days which is actually a pretty good amount of time. they say other people shouldn't write me on this but it is just so we write our families first. I need Addresses to chunie jackson braden and parker!! email and letters!! If you can send those asap so i can possibly send one today that would be AWESOME. I wrote a letter you should have already received and if not you will today most likely. On my mission life so far and all. I see dallan ALOT actually. I don't get to talk to him much but we run into each other quite frequently. love!