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Phone call and a letter!!!   

Hey everyone

 This week was good, but we didn't do a ton of stuff to tell the truth. We did have splits and I went with Elder Reed from Utah.  It felt kinda weird to talk in all english for a day. I haven't done that in about 5 weeks and it felt super super weird. I am going to have the worst English in 1.5 years. We had a Zone activity today and went to this super cool place with grass and tunnels through the middle of the mountain that wasn't reinforced in any way, but I had tons of fun. After I bought some fries and just laid in the grass while my comp was being anti-social. He hates going out and doing fun activities because he says its a waste of time and he just wanted to sleep instead. 

  We are teaching a lot of new inactive members.  Three came to church yesterday and one hadn't been to church in 9 years which was super super cool for us. We are also teaching a family of police officers and they are super positive and want to be baptized,  but also sad because I will probably have transfers here in a week and I’m not really sure I will be staying around for their baptism. The assistant to the President said I might become District Leader this next change. Tomorrow there is a  Carnival and people throw eggs and eggs filled with confetti and flour, but we cant leave the house because the bad peoples gang up on the missionaries and sometimes get hurt. I really want to "tirar huevos" at the people here. HAHA. 

  Im having a rough time with comp. The Zone leader had divisions with him for a day and afterwards he  asked me how have you made it 5 weeks with him. Im really scared that I'm going to have another transfer with him  and I really don't want to but I know if I do the Lord will help me. 

  That is super awesome that Corby got coach of the year and that Getchell did so good this year.  I hope that everything is going good for you guys and if anyone had a question about the Church I would love to answer it. 

Love you all and Ill see you soon 

Ps I forgot to take pictures and my cable to send them. I will next time.  

Phone call : 
Ian talked about the dogs in Guatemala.  He said he has been attacked by a lot of crazy dogs and they carry a few good sized rocks and they have gotten really good at chucking them to keep the dogs from attacking.  He said they use their backpacks and he's had to kick one because it was attacking to  much. He also mentioned this area is huge but they have 4 other missionaries in his area so he's not sure if they're going to get moved to another area.   He's working hard on perfecting his spanish so he can start working on Kiche too.    His Go pro broke but theyre rare over there so he was able to still sell it broken and get enough money to buy a good camera. 

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Hey guys,

 We are working hard here in Guate and I learning tons of spanish which is good. I'm not sure when I will be changing areas but for now I will probably have more time here in Zaculeu. The truth is that we didn't really have anything super crazy happen this week. We are hoping to get a cita with dad of Libni to talk to him about the permission to bebaptized  and I think we are going to his house this Wednesday.

   Im teaching English right now to some of our investigators and some members. My comp doesn't really like to do fun stuff so we never really do anything exciting if it's up to him and I can make decisions for both of us.  I’m working on him. 

 I can’t  believe that we will be able to call every monday now to our families. I honestly didn't believe it when our mission leaders told us. I was like no way. You guys are just joking. I will probably only call every other week back to the family. The sun here is killing me and you would not believe how much of a tomato I was on Tuesday after we went to the ruins. My comp thought that it was pretty funny.  But he just sat below the ruins in the shade and didn't enjoy it so whatever. We work really well together during the day but when it comes to being a friend or fun  he wants nothing to do with me buts its okay. I'm here so help the people and to bless their lives with this gospel that has shaped me into the person I am today. Im not going to share a ton because Im going to call, but I love you guys tons and Ill see you soon. 

Phone call with Ian.  

First he said he wishes so much it could be cold for just one day. It’s so hot everyday.  In his new area it’s more of a desert area. His companion is a 23 year old that returned to the mission. He struggles with communication because he speaks a strange dialect of Spanish and a slang called “bos”. It uses half of most words.  Guatemalans struggle to understand it. He also doesn’t know how to play.  Ian’s teaching him slowly. We heard him speak Spanish to the family where he called. He speaks sooo fast!    

He missed starburst, Gatorade and Nesquick.   He is super excited about being able to call often. With the WiFi and phone struggles it’ll probably be every other week.   

Picture is of one of the other missionaries.  He was so hot he put ice cream on his neck.  

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This week was super fun and  cool. We had tons of service to do this week. One was getting a tree out off like this ditch and the other was digging. I was digging for 4 hours in the sun but they brought water and lemonade so it wasnt that bad but I do have some blisters on my hands now.

 On Saturday I made a cake for one of the members and her family because her family arent memebers and they normally wont talk with us (that’s hard on her) but we got in the door and I made the cake with them and we talked while it was cooking. I fooled them.  Haha. 

On Thursday we had our Multi-zone meeting and Elder Zebellos of the 70 came and it was super cool to talk with him and he also came to our ward on sunday to talk so I got a picture with him. Also, this Friday Elder D Todd Cristofferson is coming to talk with us and I cant wait. It is going to be so cool. This week was just you normal week in the mission with not a tons of new exciting things to talk about, but we did find a new awesome family to teach and they have already came to the church a few times which is good with their friends who are members. 

  Today for our district activity we went to the Ruins in my area for free because Im friends with like 3 people who work there. It was so cool and you can climb and play on these ruins which made it even cooler than the ones in Mexico we went to on vacation. 

  My comp is doing good too. He always wears a hoodie for the sun so sometimes he doesnt always look like a missionary but he works hard and does well with the people. I had splits with Elder Barlow our district leader and he looks and acts a little like Chase which made it pretty fun. I also took a shower this week after we bleached the bathroom and I felt like I was home working in the pool again and I could stop laughing.

    I will probably have a new comp here in 2 weeks because my comp is finishing his training. I will have 5 comps in 4 changes which is a little weird but its okay Im making tons more friends in the mission. I hope I will train a new grindo so I can teach the whole lesson. No it will be super scary if that happens, but I know I will learn so much. Well I love you all and i hope you are reading the scriptures everyday. See you soon

My area 

 The Ruins

 My awesome cake.

Me on top of Ruins 

Us with Elder Zebellos 

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Hey everyone!

I hope you all had a good fun week with the snow and the super bowl and that stuff. We are working super hard here in Zaculeu and my comp has been giving me crap all the time lately because there is an investigator that likes me and I can barely understand him because of his accent and he talks in slang all the time.  But I have honestly learned a ton from him and I found out why President Diaz put him with me. He said that he trusts me to help fix the disobedient Elders. He has a terrible first trainer that taught him some terrible habits like sleeping in, but he hasn't done it once with me and he said he hated his last trainer so right now I'm the "Favorite Dad" haha. We found new people to teach everyday this week which was awesome and we also put a baptismal date with little girl named Libni and her brother is going to baptize her the 16th of February if she can get permission from her dad who isn't a member so please keep her in your prayers. Last night after the lesson and we asked her to be baptized she started to say the pray and started to cry because she wants to be baptized so bad and is scared her dad wont let her, and it broke my heart to see her cry. I know the spirit can touch the heart of anyone to bare the truth of all things. Libni is only 12, but she knows how important this is in her life and I just wish others could recognize it too. 

Now on a little less spiritual note some crazy stuff happen to Elder Wengreen when we were on splits. So we were walking back home to the house at about 8:50 and we hear something big crash behind us and I turned around and dove off to the side because a motorcycle had crash and was spinning and flying towards us. Then I run other to the person who had crashed and he had bailed so he was fine and the asked if we were okay too and we said ya we are okay. Then the guy left on his motorcycle. Then Elder Wengreen started to lip and its because the motorcycle had hit him in the leg and I helped him back to the home and we iced it and the next day he was going to have to go to the hospital because we didn't know if it was broken or not but it ended up being okay and he has been"walking it off"this week. Then on Friday night they were waking to a appointment and then all the sudden the both felt super tired so they stop at the little tienda next to persons house and then 20 seconds later a truck crashed into the front door of the members house they were going to visit. If the had walked straight to the house they would have been hit by the car and possible could have died. The wall and door were wrecked. So as you guys can see Elder Wengreen had a pretty crazy week.

 I only have a couple more things and the first is I learned how to solve a Rubix Cube and I set a record for myself at 2 minutes 5 seconds. The second is that I love you guys tons and I'll see you soon. 

I didn't take any other picts this week sorry. But here is me right now :)