How was your week?
It was so fast it seems like the last two weeks
were 2 days.
How is it
going with your companion? Are you having fun? I am having a lot of fun. It is
better with this companion. We taught the best lesson we ever taught before and
that was really fun just to see how the spirit can guide you in the lesson. It
was so good, the teacher came and talked to us after and was like "wow".
Ok grandma I like your car it looks good. Do
you like it, and why are you scared to drive it? It’s a car and it is suppose to be driven. I
like that there are real rims on the new cars and not just plastic hubcaps. I
have seen quite a few cars down here. It is very fun to see several raiders
drive past every few minutes and three or four vw bugs every several
minutes. Jeeps, I have seen a lot of the
new Cherokees and many sweet land rovers and range rovers in Guatemala. It is pretty nice but it always smells like
diesel because the busses and cars don’t even have exhaust systems and they don’t
have to meet any emissions standards.
Do you
like the normal towel, or the microfiber towel better?
I don’t know I haven’t used anything but the
microfiber towel, I like it but it seems to need washed regularly. My companion
has these types of towels and he can’t seem to understand why I wash mine so
often. They get a really sour rag smell so I wash it every 2 to 3 days.
Today I am just going to class and doing
language and personal study and I also have to teach 2 lessons to
investigators. Are these investigators Latino for this class
or are they just two people in your class? Well we have several investigators many of them
are Latino elders or Hermana’s and the others are our teachers and other Norte’s.
We teach a good variety. Sometimes it is so hard to teach because the
investigator only knows the words “si” and we can’t teach, even if we know
enough Spanish, because yes and no questions are hard to make worth while. We have good teachers here Hermana C. and
Hermana B. they are return missionaries, Hermana C. is a little strict because
she feels that our success in in her hands, but this is just because we are the
first district she has ever taught. But
every night I don’t want to hear how bad we are for an hour because we forgot
something in our lesson and when we try and explain we don’t like it when she
stares us down over our shoulder when we are teaching, she could only come up
with the word “verguenza” meaning shame, and it was way out of proportion. But
it is ok, I guess she just doesn’t know what we mean. She is pretty funny, you should
have seen her try and say wow, she said woh'm .
Don’t send anything,’ it seems that it is way
cheaper to buy the stuff here and you buy stuff for your companion many of the
kids here can’t buy anything and don’t even get letters from their families.
One elder, Elder Flores had a gang that took all his money and stuff 40000 US
worth and were going to kill him if he didn’t give it to them so he gave it to
him and left on his mission.
We are checking on a shipping company called
Dip Shipping from US to Honduras. I'm
not sure how long it will take but we'll give it a shot, a big box (24 by 24 by
18 ) no weight limit is only 45$ from Houston to Honduras. That’s insane how
much is a small box? Give it a try and send my razor. That would be great
that’s the only thing that I really need and other than that I would take my hammock
mosquito net.
Are you excited to meet the other elders going
to your mission? Don’t they come
tomorrow?
Yes very, I hope they are better than the group
we have right now, Some of them went
around and got every girl’s email addresses.
What does your companion like to do now that
you've had a whole week to get to know him?
He likes to snowmobile and motorbike and he
worked at a lake and did fly boarding for his job.
Tonight all the elders pile into a single
bedroom like a 10 by 15 foot room and sing; last time the elder’s left we
packed almost 100 people in this room.
The temperature increased almost 30 degrees to near 95 degrees by the time we
left the room.
I am almost out of Guatemala money, but I don’t
want to exchange more because I don’t want quetzals because I cant use them in Honduras
and it costs 2 bucks so I will wait until Honduras and withdraw the max. amount
probably 4000 lempiras (200 bucks).
Korbin said there was a couple kids in the Mexico
ccm that are coming to my mission so I hope to meet them in a couple
weeks.
The funniest things that happened this week,
one elder bearing his testimony was talking about his gay friend when he meant
to say his girl friend in testimony meeting very weird and funny. Also Elder
R in my district drank a ton of orange juice in like 30 seconds and we made him
start to laugh and he spit it or puked it all over, we can’t tell which one but
it was a lot of orange juice.
Pretty much everyone in this district is going
to a BYU. Tons of people and many of
them are way cool. Also Elder R. from Logan came to the ccm 2 weeks ago that
was a surprise to me.
Well you should see the temple workers here,
half of them are the teachers at the ccm and the others are the presidency
and CCM nurse. What does the CCM nurse do? There
are a lot of diarrhea and constipation cases and sometimes some worse sicknesses.
They have pretty much all medicines and all the equipment it sounds like in Guatemala,
but Honduras sounds like another story. One of the teachers had cancerous skin
removed and stuff like that, this isn’t a 3rd World Country it is a 2nd.
OH I get to go to Wendy’s and on a city tour on
Wednesday and I get to go to a huge underground market so it should be great. I
have used almost all my quetzals and I need to get some more. Hermano D sells stamps, gets suits dry-cleaned
for 44 quetzals and exchanges money, or there is an ATM in the ccm. I love the scripture cases I bought and I
should be getting another preach my gospel case in a week or 2.
Why no cameras on the field trip? Are they worried about you looking rich and
then making other missionary's targets for theft? The last group that went to
the market didn’t turn in all their cameras so they decided they wouldn’t even
give us the opportunity to have them. We get them when we get on the bus to go
to the airport.
I wish I had a bike I am getting tired of
sitting in the same uncomfortable chair 16 hours a day, but I think I am
loosing weight and getting stronger because we work out every day. We are definitely
the most fit district, except there is another kid that went to west point that
is ripped. No I am getting skinnier. Some of the other guys gained weight Many
of the elders are tearing their pants on the sides but with the pleated pants I
have a lot of extra room
It is time for me to end. Love all of you.
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