October 28 2013

So this week we had a Halloween Activity, American Style! It was great and everyone loved it! Man do I know how to throw a party!  haha jk we had a cake walk, bobbing for apples, donuts on a string, a photo booth, face painting and more! Then the young Single Adults danced to Thriller and we had a pie eating contest and the kids collected candy! It was a hit! We passed by some investigators the next day and they told us they had made their own cake walk but using candy and had been playing it all morning! Also I've had a ton of people ask me to teach them how to bake cupcakes, so I'm starting a class that will hopefully bring in some new investigators. We are going to have, hopefully 3 baptisms this week and our neighbor told us December  was when she´d accept! Ill take it! We went to go see some waterfalls today, my feet are still soaked! It is so pretty here! And the office sent me my plans to leave! WTH! So I guess that means I don't have much time left. That's crazy! I love you all!

October 21, 2013 Tomorrow will be 14 months

It is crazy that I have only 4 months left! I hopefully will end running!  I live in a little apt complex that is away from the main road, so it isn't quite as loud as my other places, so I'm real happy! Yeah  the boy recently baptized is still going to church, he passed the sacrament for the first time, I felt so proud! 

This week was good! There were changes, but we didn't have any. We are also planning a Halloween activity Everyone is so excited that they are going to have an American Halloween! 

We also went zip lining through the jungles of Guatemala this morning! It was a real good time! The zip lines are a bit more secure in the states, but I totally survived! 

 Not much more to report on, we had a family in church that wants to get married and baptized, so I am hoping they stick!

Columbus Day!

This week was good. I did divisions this week and they were fun! I really like divisions even though we lose a lot of time in our area for the 1.5 bus ride and apparently there was a protest, so the buses were blocked for a little while. The elders in our ward had 5 baptisms this Saturday  so we helped them put that all together. Then our stake had a Cultural Night and every ward prepared typical dances from different countries. The States swing, disco and western....it made me kinda baggy (Trunky). But I loved it! This morning our President came and played futbol with us this morning for P day and he brought us lunch! I really like our President, he is a cool guy! That is awesome that Dallin got baptized and Caroline was blessed! We also played some basketball and My team totally won so I'm trying to convince my district leader that he owes our team ice cream. Ill let you know how that turns out! I love you all!

 My week was fine! It was busy but no sadly we haven't had any baptisms but last Monday a kid on his bike in front of our house stopped us and was like ¨I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time, tell me what I need to do to enter your church.¨ It was crazy! Where do these people come from? He already told us he wants to be baptized the thing is he has to do some repenting first but it was so cool! 

Day after Conference

 It is raining a lot here! But I like it fine, I think it'll be ending in the next couple of months! But we had no hurricane problems, I guess it just hit Mexico! I loved conference too! I loved the talk by Richard G Scott on the Atonement and the one´s about women! I thought it was fantastic and it was perfectly the things my investigators and members needed to hear!
 Oh my the other night we had to go deal with some problems with some of the sisters and I was up till 2 am and then slept on the cold floor and then got up at 6! I was at another sisters house and by the time we finished there weren't buses to our area and the gate to our apts locks at 1030. I remember being up that late before the mish! I don't know how I did it! I think I'm still suffering from the affects 5 days later!  I'm great! I love you! 

So this week we had interviews with President. That was nice. He is a really good man. This week we also had a leader meeting with him and so that is always a good time that includes my friends being there with good food! My neighbor, the mom of the kid we just baptized told me she wants to get baptized.....the thing is she wants to wait a bit but she told me she would do it before I leave because we are friends. Not a whole lot more to report on but know things are good here and it is so nice to see that the Lord cares about us and the little things we care about! 

The new Hermanas are great! The mission is just hard and lets throw Spanish and the Guatemalan culture into that for the gringas and so they are learning how to deal with that. I feel bad there isn't a ton I can do, just listen and give them hope it ll be better. But we don't have a ton of problems with disobedience so that's nice.