This week has been great and really beneficial for my growth as a missionary. Being the senior companion is tiring and I teach about 80% of the lessons or so now but as my companion learns more and more spanish that percentage will decrease.
We´ve started some cool programs to be more organized and animated as missionaries in Gualán. We are going to have an activity this Saturday playing some Minute to Win it games and we are hoping to have a lot of investigators in the chapel.
We also had our first branch counsel here in Gualan which means the leaders are now more willing to work with us.
Unfortunately we lost two baptism dates this week because they suddenly moved to the Guatemala City.
Today I am also in Guatemala City. We were supposed to be here in the morning to fill out some legal paperwork for my companion but our bus got stopped for 5 hours because of a protest in the middle of the freeway. Literally random people just stopped the flow of traffic for 5 hours protesting an electricity company. Nobody even came to stop them so people could go to work. Easily a few thousand people were prevented from travellng. News crews came and stuff. Pretty cool.
This week we were also approached by a somewhat aggressive drunk man who confessed to have killed many people in his life. We were saved by a stranger in a truck who rolled up and said he was a member of the church and took the guy with him in his truck.
We are excited for the ten new investigators who we met this week. Planning on setting quite a few baptism dates this week.
Hope everyone is doing great! Love you all.
"We do not need to achieve som
-D Todd Christofferson
(Answers to Mom's questions)
Do you hear from any of your companions that have already gone home?
Yes, Elder Rivera writes me. Maybe Elder Torres will write me too but Elder Rojas hasn´t written me.
Maybe take the smaller size pants and 1 pair of larger pants and see how someone does tailoring one pair before you take them all?
Yeah Elder Proby already got his pants tailored by Sister Josefa and they turned out really good but I´ll just bring one the start with.
Did you move your two beds back into the bedroom?
No, we like them better in that bigger room.
Does your new hot shower thing work well?
No, it broke already. It was like the equivalent of $10 so it was a piece of junk.
Are you still doing Saturday English Classes? How is it going?
Yes, it´s pretty good. We only have like 4 people go though, we need more.
Are your neighbors friendly?
Yeah we only have one neighbor and he´s super super cool. Yesterday he bought us a cake.
Has Cristino used the headlamps?
Not gonna lie, we are actually holding onto those for a bit because we are planning to go explore some caves. After that we will give them to him.
What can I send you? I still have some cocoa to send. It just hasn't fit in the last couple of packages I have sent.
I´m pretty good right now, but thanks! I love the valentines day package! We used the decorating stuff for a party we had this week in the church.
Are you going to do some kind of tradition for your 6 month mark? People say you burn a tie? Do you want me to send you some new ties - if you burn one?
We have a bag with like 15 ugly ties in the house. When you have companions that leave you get a bunch of hand me downs so I´m good haha.
Do you wear your retainer? You should go to the dentist soon. It has almost been 6 months since you had a cleaning. I guess they schedule that for you. Have they said anything?
Honesty I do not wear my retainer but I guess I´ll start. No idea how dentists work here either. You might just get to go if you have a problem. But I can ask.
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