We received a message from Ian that he is on his way home. They basically had to smuggle all of the american missionaries out of the country. Can't wait to hear his stories.
All of the missionaries leaving Guatemala because of COVID
3/16/20
3/9/20
Hola mi pueblo. I have been having a great time here in my area of Ical and after 3 transfers there I will be changed to a new area tomorrow. I was able to go through the church system again on Sunday and I finished updating all of the records and we found a little girl that has been coming to church but hasn't been baptised and we didn't know because the family doesn't speak spanish and so she will be baptised this saturday and there in another baptism on the 21st of march for another kid I have been teaching. Also my favorite members go a little Frie Cart so they gave us some fries for free which was awesome. We also got a giant squash from a member and we told them we had no way to cook it so they still gave it to us anyways. Well that's it so I love you lots and Ill see you soon.
3/2/20
2/24/20
I have a pretty good week this week. We started teaching a family that was listening to the missionaries 20 years ago and we are the first missionaries to find them since them. His name is Marcos Ramos and he still had his Book of Mormon from the 90's so that was cool to see. He also said he wants to find the true church and he asked us how he can do it. So we told him he needs to pray and ask God. We are also teaching a guy named René and his girlfriend and she wants to get baptized but René doesn't want to get married yet he says. We are an awesome lesson with him and he said he would pray to ask God and he is going to give us an answer today. Please pray that he says yes. I also had a district activity this week and we watched Toy Story 4. I also got bit by a Pitbull which was awesome but I hit it on the head really hard so it didn't break the skin. Well that's it for now. Love you lots and I'll see you soon.
This week was pretty fun we had a Zon meeting on Wednesday and right after we had our baptism of a teenage girl named Odilia. She had been taking the lesions now for over 2 months and she doesn't speak spanish so we had to have everything translated, but she was baptised at 5:00pm. Then on Thursday we had to go to Xela for a new missionary meeting and we entered the temple at 6:00am on Friday. I love going to the temple it is just such a spiritual experience that just makes me even more excited to help others make it there one day experience the same. On Saturday we found and entire field of weed whill contacting which was cool and when I played dumb and asked what it was they just said, "I don´t know what it is. Someone is just renting our land to grow it." I just laugh and told them that it was weed and they were like, "I don't know what that is." So from there we just left and went to another appointment. Also I threw in some fruit with my eggs to be more healthy this week. You are welcome mom. Well that is about all that happened so I love you lots and I'll see you soon.
2/3/20
This week was pretty good. We got to relax a little bit because some members invited us to eat. We have been working a lot in a place called Caserio Lopez which is only about a 30 minute walk so it isn't that far. We got to chop wood for a guy and then he tried to give us 10 quetzales so that was cool but we couldn't take it from him. Then he tried to feed us lunch but we had to leave to go to another area because an area in our Zone has a baptism this next saturday. We also did some divisiones with the Zone Leaders for a day which was interesting. Elder Osorio came with me and just complained about my area the whole time hahahaha. He said he has never sweated so much in his entire life. Today we went to Huehue and I bought some brownies to make in the microwave which will be super good. Well I'm sorry I forgot to take pictures, but I love you guys lots and I'll see you soon.
1/27/20
This week was pretty good we had a blast because we got to pick a lot of coffee for an inactive family that we just barley found. They are awesome and so happy to have the Elders in their home again. The Hna. Fabiana ́s husband died a few years ago and she was kind of forgotten about so she stopped coming to church and we found by a pure miracle. We were about to call it a day and walk home. but I said we need to knock one more house and I said pointing, "that house over there needs the gospel." We also had our multi zone meeting and we found some weed while contacting so I guess you could say we had a pretty interesting week.We got changes and I will be finishing Elder Vanderholms training so I have another 6 weeks in Ical to learn Mam(probably not). I feel so blessed to be here in the mission and to have this small time to serve the Lord, but I always have to remind myself that it's not my time it's the Lord's time. I love you all and I hope you have a great week. I ́ll see you soon.
