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1/13 

Hey everybody. I'm still alive out here in the middle of nowhere. I didn't eat anymore spiders, but I did get to help kill another cow so that was fun. We had a bunch of investigators come to church which was awesome. We are teaching a bunch of people and were able to find about 25 more this week. No a lot of those people really understand what we are saying so its possible they just think we are selling chocolate or something. We went into the city today and we bought McDonalds which was the most flavorful food I have had in a very very long time. I almost snowed here too we dropped to a freezing 60 degrees this week one night. I had to wear a sweatshirt when I slept. I have been feeling good and happy to be out here serving the Lord and I was super happy to get my package this week. I finished just about everything but the sunflower seeds. That's about it so I love you lots and I'll see soon. 

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Hey guys not much has happened here in my area but we did have 6 people come to church that we have been working con this last couple weeks. We had a super awesome appointment with a girl named Glendy and she said that she wants to be baptised but she is still not sure on what day. We also found a drunk guy named Marcos who was in the states for like 15 years and now he wants to know about the church and stop drinking so that will be cool. We went to see the Mayan ruins again today that I got to see a year ago.(Wow I am old in the mission) Then we ate some terrible asian food and now we will be heading back to the boonies. I love you lots and I'll see you soon.

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We love our pop. 

This is a pair of my shoes.  Luckily I found a new pair. 

Hey everybody. We had a pretty good Christmas last week and we also had our New Year's celebration in our house with a cup of hot chocolate even though it is super hot here. HAHA.We also got fed twice yesterday which was awesome, but I woke up with food poisoning; the food was still pretty good so no complaints here.  We did some cleaning a walked a ton which is pretty normal. We had a super spiritual family home evening with a member and some of her friends that she invited. They now want to come to church and the man said he will do his best to give up drinking so we will be praying and doing everything possible to help him. There is no transportation anywhere on Christmas so we had to walk a few miles to get to an internet cafe to write and then we have to leave at 4pm to get back by 6:30pm so I can't wait. I am loving the mission and I can't believe I will be home now before the year ends. I miss you all and I love you lots. See you soon

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Merry Christmas! 

Long phone call so ian just sent us pictures instead of a letter.  He is doing great! 

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12/16 

This week we had to travel a lot because we had a christmas party for the whole mission and I didnt get to work much in my area but it was super fun. We also got to go to the temple and I got called to train again which will be super fun. I will be receiving an american so I will get to teach him spanish. He will get here tomorrow and we will make it back to our area wednesday because it is a little far. I got to eat at Panda Express, which was so good. I have only eaten there twice here in the mission. My companion will be going home tomorrow so we had to do a bunch of traveling this week about 23 hours by bus but I slept most of the time. Well that is everything. I love you lots and I'll see you soon.

12/18

So I moved to the other side of the mission and my Kiche is useless. The area is called Ical and it is just a super steep giant mountain where everyone speaks a language called Mam. It has no similarities to Kiche so its been weird to only speak to the people and spanish and not be able to explain things in a way that they understand. My new comps name is Elder Duncan from Utah and he will be finishing the mission here in 5 weeks. I also have my trainer Elder Shopp in my district so that's fun.  We have a lot of super awesome people we are teaching right now the biggest problem with them is that none of them are married, so we have been working on that. It is also a little bit colder here which makes it really nice when we change 3000 feet in elevacion every day. The church meetings are in Mam so I don't understand anything, but it's okay because on Sunday we got thrown in to teach the Primary kids and half of them don't speak Spanish either. We played a game called "Hagan lo que yo hago". That is about it for the week. I will try to have more next week. Love you lots and I'll see you soon.