Ben's Mission to Nicaragua: I am thankful for the mission!

Well here comes Thanksgiving! Even though I am not going to do anything for it, I am really thankful for my chance to be here! So yeah, for Thanksgiving without turkey and gravy and stuffing and potatoes! Anyway, enough of that stuff! Thank you to everyone that is supporting me always and praying for me. I am grateful for you guys!

So it rained every day again this week and I had to wear boots again all week! Apparently there is some sort of storm coming in. Not a hurricane or anything, but just a big storm. They say that the rainy season is over but that this storm is here. So yay for rain!!!

Here we are, the suits with boots crew!

Elder Monson got a pretty sweet dog bite this week! It was pretty lame how it happened. All we did was just walk in the street and it was resting and out of no where it jumped out and grabbed Monson by the pants and a little of his leg! It ripped his pants from his mid shin all the way up to his mid thigh! Luckily the dog wasn't sick or anything.

This was quite the week!! We had district conference! That was actually pretty stressful but also pretty exciting! Andres showed up very well dressed! He looks great in a shirt and tie! Elder Compton left a shirt and tie for him and he started using them now!! They look nice!! He is super awesome!

With Andres at the district conference.

I really feel like this week, I learned the importance of something. We have so many things in life that we complain about and that we can complain about. It is the same in the mission. Elder Monson told me this week that the mission is like walking through a field of roses. As we are going through, all we feel are the thorns and the pains. It hurts, it is hard. The beauty of the situation seems small. But as we take a look back to see what we have gone through, all we see are the beautiful roses, the wonderful blessings that we have received, the awesome testimony builders. All is so beautiful! It 's the same with life! It may hurt as we are going through, but if we just push through doing our best we can look back and have wonderful memories.

Love you all! Have a great week and a happy Thanksgiving!

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