24 July 2017

Hello Canada!!

So we had a really awesome day on Wednesday, We were able to do splits with some members and we met a lot of new people as well we got more confidence in the members. So this time that we had splits, it was my turn to go with this one member that’s kind of crazy. To give you an idea about this man he tells us that one day he seen god but God couldn’t see him. Because God had his back to him..... Yeah, he’s really crazy. So anyways we went to this one friend of his and I started with How to begin teaching. And that usually takes 20 mins. When I finished this member wanted to cut my head off. He said, Elder why didn’t you teach him anything about the priesthood or anything. He was really mad with me. So I told him, hey man right now we are giving them milk. And then after we will give them meat. He didn’t understand how to take it step by step.

So we had that really good day where we had a bunch of lessons with the members on Wednesday. But now everything has been falling through left right and center. We had plans with a member to teach in his house on Thursday. We went to see if he was there but he left to go the city! I wasn’t to happy with the member... But we were able to get some more help from some other members which wasn’t the best but it’s still something. 

So we changed houses here in our area. And I’ll tell you why. We had the world’s smallest house in the mission. It was super-hot and sometimes the water wouldn’t work for like three days. So we found a new house that’s nice and big and it’s not super super hot. We got help from the branch president and some other members as well. When we were getting everything ready I was looking and thinking, This will be easy, we don’t have that much stuff. But then I remembered that everything is really big, and heavy, and takes up a lot of room. But it went really well it only took an hour and a half. After we went and visited this family that went to church like 100 years ago but they didn’t get baptized or anything like that. But they love the missionary’s. They always want to talk to us and always want to see how we are doing. We gave a lesson about always having God in their lives. I played a game with them about prayer. The game is played with a tie. It’s really cool. I won’t tell you how to play it right now because I want to see if you all can figure it out when I come home. But anyways the mom liked this lesson a lot. She said that it is nice that we were able to teach with a game and not just with reading and talking.

So Sunday was a normal day for us. We went to church and we see the same people. But we see someone different, We seen the first counselor of the mission. The reason why he was there is because we called President Shumway and told him about what has been happening here in the branch. So he sent one of his counselor’s to see what was going on. The only ones who knew about him coming was us and our ward mission leader. So when the branch president seen that there was someone from the mission he was very nervous. A lot of members aren’t to happy with the president here. The thing that I don’t get is that the members think the missionary’s are here to clean everything up. But my call didn’t say that haha, So we did what we need to do. To put it in the hand of the stake and the mission. But other than that we had a really good Sunday. There are always more and more people always showing up which is really nice.

As well I got my package finally! I want to thank my family for always sending me great things. I love the letters that everyone has sent. The Salmons as well for the spinner! It’s funny the spinners are really big right now here in Guatemala so it’s good that I got one hahah But as always we need to remember the best thing..... Peanut Butter!!!! Finally got myself peanut butter ahah the one thing everyone waits for in a package. So thanks to everyone that sent something in package means A lot!

So that was really our week. I’m sorry I didn’t write to much but to be honest I was so tired this past week. I fell into my bed one night after I finished calling the district leader and boom! I was out cold. My comp told me the next day that he tried to wake me up but it was like I died. It was a good week of working hard I guess haha.

Thanks for all the love support and prayers you send me! I hope you all have a great week and that you all are enjoying the heat while it lasts haha because it 2 months it will be cold again ahaha 

Love you all!!

PS I am now a new district leader.