New week new companion :)

This wek was so good! My new comp is so cute she leaves me notes in my planner and is just so sweet. We taught a girl that has been taught by the missionaries for a while and I LOVE her. Her name is Dairin and she has a baby and a esposo but they are not married so we talked a little about that. We also taught Maria and her grandkids and THEY ALL HAVE BAPTISMAL DATES!! 20 of September I am so excited for them :) the only problem is Maria just got a job... for sundays. :( so we dont know what we are going to do but we have to fnd a way that she can come to church and the tough thing is they are really poor so she really needs the job. It is so hard. I really hope hey can make the important step. Also our investigator that has a date for the 6 of Sept is really progressing like crazy! He did homework in one of the pamphlets we left! We were so surprised haha. This weekend we had a conference with all the members in Peten so there was a bajillion people there and we didnt think he came but we went to his house and he talked about his favorite talk and everything! it was soo cool :) The conference this weekend was really good president of our mission came and talked and the president of the area his name is Hermano Morales. They were super good. A cool story for this week we were just kinda knocking random doors and we talked with this one girl and she was like really hesitant with talking to us then she just said i drink so i dont think i should talk to you and we explained that Heanvenly Father loves us no matter what and its not important and people can help and la la and she just started crying. She was baptized in the church and has been menos active for who knows how long but she really wants help. It is crazy amazing how the spirit leads us to certain people! I am so grateful for the spirit and this gospel :) Well have a great week love you so much :)

Cambios!

Well first my companion trainer (mi mama) is leaving me ;( so sad I am really going to miss her but I am excited as well. My new companion is Hermana Martinez from Honduras and she is in my district so I am pretty excited because I love her too!  I am a little nervous because she doesnt know the area so I am in charge of where we go and who we visit and stuff.. AH! Crazy. This week was really good, Tuesday morning we found out we were having divisions so we had our reunion de distrito and then I went to Santa Elena with Hermana Ball from Kaysville and we were walking when it started pouring the HARDEST I have experienced here, we were soaked within seconds. So we went to a house of a menos activo and she let us stay there for awhile. Also this week we visited Widman the guy from Belize again and shared a small mesage with them (in spanish) and we asked the 9 year old son to say the prayer and he was blessing everyone and saying bless the sisters bless my family... and then he said BLESS MY GIRLFRIEND, and he is 9 hahhaha  his brother started laughing and then I started laughing and then we all busted out laughing in the prayer it was sooo funny. This week we had a guy named Jose Alberto accept an invitation to baptism so I am praying he follows through! He is very intelligent and loves to read and has been reading the BOM and has a testimony of it and Joseph Smith! He really likes the church. YAY!  This week we also started teaching an older woman and her 3 grandkids and these people are truly amazing and they want to be baptized as well. It is amazing to see the hands of the Lord work through this amazing gospel. But this family is so poor. They are so sweet and love to have us over always but literally I love them with my whole heart and am excited to teach them more. The nietos want to get baptized, and the Hermana is pretty sure but not fully. :) We will see!  One day we were at Hna Blancas for lunch I was playing with a pepper and everyone feeaked out and made me wash my hands so i just thought they thought my hands were dirty, but apparently the pepper i was playing with can burn your face if you touch it after! I am still learning every day. :). I love this gospel and continue to grow so much each day. Its truly amazing! love you all :)

Grateful for Prayers! :)

This week was good, but we kinda had a tough one as far as lessons go.  Four out of our six members bailed on us the day of, so we were lacking in numbers in the lessons con miebros area... Wow! Next week will be better! Tuesday I thought I was going to die, there was the loudest thunder I have EVER heard in my life and we were teaching under a tin roof so it echoed and we were soaked anyways cause the roof had holes. SOO CRAZY!  Something really awesome that happened this week, we have this guy who is menos activo and he has been for 7 years, since his wife passed away, but we had a noche de hermanomiento with him and HE CAME TO CHURCH THIS SUINDAY :) We were so happy he is older and sooo sweet, so that was Chilero!!:): We also had Reunion de Zona this week and that was good, as well as we had many musical lessons this week, weird right? One a guy played a bunch of music for us on a guitar and it was so cool he was really good,  another guy let us play his marimba and as we were talkning with him we foud out he is a secretary with the Catholic church so we will see where that goes. :) So the reason i titled this about prayers is because I have had to use the wonderful power of prayer a lot this week! Tuesday we were walking past the tortilleria where the niños live and the mom had told us that Juanito who is Makarios older brother was hit by a motorcycle and they just left after hitting him. :( So we ate lunch really fast and went to visit him at the hospital. It was soo sad he broke his fremur and has a huuuge cast on. He is home now and fine we prayed really hard for him he is the sweetest thing and we took him dulces and are so grateful he is okay :)  This week we also found undiscovered ground in our area so we have like a million more houses we can proselyte  in!!:) WAHOO!! :) also this week we started talking with a woman who has 3 grandkids living with her and one has down sydrome she is THE CUTEST TIHING and the woman is sooo sweet too.l love them! That's pretty much it for this week I LOVE YOU ALL :)

Its August. What?!

This week was so good! Okay so funny story to start: I literally wake up almost every night to someone talking..... My comp. And everytime she is TEACHING A LESSON in her sleep!! I hear in spanish her saying okay and why do we pray? good! because God loves us! It is so funny. :) This week we went to a members house for a second and they were listening to FROZEN!! sooo we may have had a little jam session for a second... LET IT GO or in other words.. LIBRE SOY!! jajaja. Also this week on Tuesday a member called us to see if we could help clean her house, we said yes and we went and let's just say there was plenty to clean. :)  Something kinda cool that happened, I was teaching an investigator and  I talked for a pretty long time and realized I really had no idea what I was saying, but it was all in spanish and it worked and he understood and we felt the spirit!! GRACIAS for the HOLY GHOST!!!  :) We also taught a couple this week and they are WRESTLERS how awesome is that? Also, we had a chocobanana this week and it was HEAVEN. We taught a family that lives with pigs and it smelled really bad but its a huge family so we are hoping and praying that we can help them gain a testimony. :) This week I did something I NEVER would have thought Id have to do... I TAUGHT A LESSON IN ENGLISH! weird right? One of our investiagtors is from Belize and he speaks both english and spanish but English better and the spanish sciptures are kinda hard to understand so I taught him the BOM and Joseph Smith in English. He has a girlfriend and they live together but they are getting married in September so we are working really hard with them and  are hoping all works out!:) This week we also changed our house and it is super awesome (for Guatemala) i love it. When we were moving the secretary of our barrio (ward?) was helping us and he always tries to speak enlgish to me but its really funny the conversation is literally always the same like this  he says "hi how are you" and i say "good how are you" and he says "OHHH YES!" hahahahaha he has no idea what he is saying. But later that day we went to the english class that one of our zone leaders teaches and helped him, it was great. We also have an investiagator we are teaching and she is so sweet her name is Rosa and she has a little boy and we asked her to get baptized and she said yeah when? sooo now we just need her to go to church!!:)  Speaking of church, yesterday was so good we had testimony meeting and I love the spirit :):) church is awesome! Its funny here when one person in the family gets up to bear their testimony THE WHOLE FAMILY GETS UP and stands around the micropphopne taking turns its the cutest haha :) 

 

Mission life is good, getting better each day!! I LOVE GUATEMALA :)

 

WEIRD time is going by fast and at the same time sometimes it isnt :) But this week was good! I had a huge list of things I was going to write in this email but I forgot it :( So this is all from memory.

We had lots of lessons with members, which is really surprising cause the members are tough to come by here. But that was good. The members that do come are soo nice. We had a baptism Saturday for Luis. He is 22 years old and struggles a little so we have taught him very slowly. But miracles happen, he understands everything in little condensed versions! The baptism was wonderful and we were talking to him after and I asked him how he felt and he said good, so I said well I know that but how do you really feel and he said I just feel REALLY HAPPY. Little tender moments, But that made me realize that this is what missions are for. This is what we are meant to do. And that little moment made me very happy. It was super sweet :)

I do have to say my best investment this week was MANI. (peanut butter). I made a PBand J everyday haha and my comp made me FRENCH TOAST with pbandj which is BOMB!! And i also made grilled cheese for us, sooo good :) but my comp being from mexico loves pica on everything she even eats it with apples she is crazy!! 

It rained sooo much this week too! Which was nice cause it was cloudy.. but did that change the heat? Not one bit! hahaha the hot is not as bad as it was the first while so it is okay now. :) We had district meeting this week and that was good too we do that everyweek i guess but this was my first! my district is fun there are 6 hermanas and 4 elders (tecfhnically 6 elders but some are the zone leaders) and yeah sorry don't remember much else l will be better next week :)

LOVE YOU GUYS

Riding a tuc tuc

Mission Life :)

This week was good.

Tuesday was kinda tough, we had a rough day and not many people were home for some reason who knows why! But later that night we finally got into a home and it was a young girl and she has a little baby and he was SOOO cute so we were able to have a lesson with her. There are also these niños we teach and they are literally the cutest things on the face of this planet. There is the little boy named Makario and I absoulutely adore that boy. Every time he sees us he yells HERMANAS in this cute little voice and gets so excited. We had a pretty cool lesson this week with some guy we had never met before, I bought a marshmallow from him and then we started talking to him about the gospel. We havent seen him since so who knows if it will go anywhere but the lesson was really good, and he was very nice.The family that came to church last week, the Trujillo familia THE DAD SAID YES TO BAPTISM :):):) so now we just have to help prepare him. We have a baptism this week, with a guy named Luis he is 22 and is very sweet. He has some issues but he loves the church and his nephew is a member so we need to just teach Luis very slowly. Yesterday at church there were some people there from Texas but the woman grew up in Harrisville...  weird right?? It was fun to visit with them. :) Today for Pday our district went on  a hike to some caves and it was fun but a little scary and we literally got lost inside the caves, I just kept praying that we would find our way out and then.. BOOM a guy who knows the caves came and asked if we needed a guide and led us out! I know our pratyers are always answered and I am so grateful for this gospel :)  Anyways that was my week !! Until Next :):):)

Love you all so much!

So the earthquake happened last week when I was still in the CCM at like 5:30 am. I woke up and it felt like the bed was vibrating but then we just went back to bed. We have had two earthquakes while I was in the CCM the second one last week was much bigger than the first one. I left the CCM on the 8th, I woke up at 1:30 we left at 4 and had a 5 hour bus ride. We arrived in Coban at 930 and met President and Sister Curtiss they are SOOOO awesome and they both speak English, it was great :) Then I found out I had another 6 hour bus ride to my area, but they decided to let me leave the next day thank goodness. I am in San Benito which is about a half hour from Tikal, some Mayan ruins, we are right next to a lake and it is a very poor area but I am excited to be here, the kids are SOOO cute and everyone is so nice. Everyone greets people with kisses on the cheeks though so if a man approaches us we need to hurry and stick our arms out for a handshake. I wish I had more time to write about investigators, I will try to next week.  We have some amazing investigators, there are some cool stories, it is really hard for people here to get married so the law of chastity is a problem but we did have a couple get married this week so that was awesome.  The weddings are very different they just signed a paper and it was done! So yeah we basically just walk around our area ALL DAY and people are usually really willing to listen to us so we have a lot of lessons. There are quite a few other churches here and  when we were in a lesson the other day some missionaries from another religion came in and we all had a great conversation about Jesus Christ hahaha. There is a member, Hermana Blacnca who feeds us lunch everyday and we usually just don't have any dinner, but sad story her father is very sick and is dying so she went to Mexico to take care of him. Okay well I wish I had more time but I wanted to leave you with something from one of President Uchtdorfs talks that has helped me so much this week: Five forget me nots

1.   forget not to be pàteinte with yourself

2.   forget not the difference between a good and foolish sacrifice

3.   forget not to be happy NOW

4.   forget  not the why  of the gospel

5,   forget not the lord loves you

LOVE YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD WEEK :)