January 23, 2017

Hello everyone in Canada! Hope all is well and you are all doing good. So we had a crazy week this past week. Lets start with basketball in Catocha. We decided to take a break and shoot hoops one day.  Then we played a game with some of the people there so it wasn’t really a break because we contacted them all. They ask me every time we see them when can we play again haha.  So we went to watch one of the members play basketball for their team one night and as always during half time people go shoot around.  I went up and shot around for a bit and then after a kid came up to me with a paper and asked for me to be on there team hahah I had to tell him no but I wanted to so bad haha.

So in other news I had my first baptism last Saturday! I was able to do the baptism. But that wasn’t the plan haha. We were going to have the grandpa do it because he is a member. But he needed an interview beforehand, and you can all guess what happened if I was the one who performed the baptism.  So my companion told me, hey you have to go get changed. At first I thought he was joking around but then he looked at one missionary that is from Idaho and said tell him in English. The missionary looked at me and was like it’s not a joke. So that was really fun. It was super awesome to have a baptism in my first area.

So lets talk about food for a second hahaha.  We went to a member’s house yesterday and we had lunch. The mom said that she was going to cook this meat for us but I didn’t hear it totally so we went to the house and can you guess what it was.... Dog! That’s right it was dog meat! The correct name for it was little dog. And they didn’t just give me one piece, they gave me 3 pieces!! It was a crazy week here in Catocha haha.

Hope you are all doing well in the cold it was +35 yesterday hahaha loving everything and life is good.

Love you all 

Elder Nelson

Jordan's first baptism in Catocha, Guatemala 

Getting ready to perform his first baptism in Catocha