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Subject: Tan Solo Un Perro
What a week!!
Well first off last wednesday I had to go to immigrations which was alright. I just signed some papers and they took a picture of me. But the best part was that I saw a bunch of the Elders from my district in the MTC who also had to go to immigrations! I got to catch up with Elder Amelang and Elder Chipman (who are in the east mission), Elder Gifford, Elder Montoya, Elder Money (from quetzaltenango), and I saw Elder Saxton and Elder Lowry who weren't in my district and are in my mission but we don't see each other ever. So that was awesome to catch up with them 11 weeks after we'd left the MTC. It was also super weird though because it felt like nothing had changed!
Here's a pic with me and Elder Amelang and Elder Chipman
We took a taxi to immigrations with Elder Strong and Elder Sergovia. Well actually we met at the central american offices and then took a bus with missionaries from the other missions to the immigration offices. Ya know it might actually be migration offices but migracion and imigracion in Spanish with a Latino accent sound literally the same to me so who knows.
Super cool answer to prayer that happened this week! Actually a couple. One was on Thursday when we left the house I included in the prayer that we'd be able to find 2 news that day because we had been struggling to find news the past couple weeks. But in our schedule for that day we only had one person that could become a new. Well when we visited him, Luis, this kid was there who's 17 who also listened to us and they both became new investigators! In our mission to count as news they have to have said a prayer, have been invited to be baptize, and have a specific time to come back and visit them. So they both became new and Frank is super pillas! We taught the restoration and it really answered a lot of his questions about which church was true and he's reading the Book of Mormon! We're hoping he'll get baptized at the end of this month and he can really progress a lot. So that was really an answer to prayer because the week before we found 3 news from the whole week and when we started including our goals for the day, the week, and the month in our prayers we started reaching them and last week found 9 news! And most of them are super pillas!
On Friday is where the email title comes from. Tan Solo un Perro. So on Friday we went back to visit a family we found on Tuesday and on the way there there was a dog who had a lot of bark. I didn't think he had any bite though. Well he did. He bit Elder Aquino on the leg. Actually on both legs. Left then right then left again. His right leg was fine but he had a pretty nasty wound on his left leg. I do not have a picture of that but it caused him a lot of pain the past week with all the walking we did and until we know the dog didn't have rabies he has to take these pills called clavulin or something like that. Hermana Shumway told us to go back on Friday, after 7 days, to see if the dog got super sick or if it died and if it did then he probably had rabies. Then on Saturday morning we filled the font for Lorena's baptism and we invited Ronal to come over to watch the restoration movie in the church building while the font was filling up. We also watched the 15 minute video Only a Stonecutter about a stonecutter for the Salt Lake Temple who lived in alpine and walked every week from alpine Utah to Salt Lake and then one day he was milking his cow and the cow kicked his leg and it broke and he ended up having to get his leg amputated. After it healed over he made an artificial leg and with that started walking and kept making the trip to Salt Lake on foot to work on the temple. It is a super inspiring story and I highly recommend it. Only a Stonecutter in Spanish is Tan Solo un Cantero. And later that day Elder Aquino joked that his left was going to have to be amputated and that they'd make a video about him and call it Tan Solo un Perro hahah it was really funny.
Then on Sunday before church was Lorena's Baptism!! We woke up at 5:15 to go turn on the heater for the font. Well the water didn't get any hotter so the heater is broken but at least we tried. It wasn't cold for the baptism but it definitely wasn't warm either. Salvador, our ward mission leader who lives on top of a mountain (well really its just a giant hill but it's so cool), baptized Lorena because he and his wife had actually met before! And he also lives close to her so that was great. Here is Salvador and Lorena.
Here is us and Lorena
And here is us and Lorena and Salvador
Lorena was confirmed in sacrament meeting and she is gonna do great! I'm excited for her and hope that she will also have the opportunity to serve a mission. In that same sacrament meeting guess who passed the sacrament to me!! None other than the newest priest in the ward: RONAL!! He also offered the opening prayer in sacrament meeting. He is doing great but we need to help him become more involved with people his age in the ward to help with the transition of becoming a fully participating member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Also this week we had changes/transfers so I said goodbye to Elder Cornejo, Elder Strong, Elder Dustin, Hermana Martin, Hermana Escarate, and my dad Elder Aquino. I'll see most of them again in multi-zone conferences or who knows where I'll be going next change but it was werid to say bye. Yesterday morning, the morning of changes, Elder Aquino and I went on a run which I've wanted to do for a while but we didn't have the chance. And the night before Elder Aquino bought a pizza which is apparently a tradition. His dad bought him a pizza their last night so I'm gonna have to do that as well when I have a kid. Meaning when I train a new missionary.
Also here's a picture with me and Elder Cornejo from Chile.
Elder Aquino is now a Zone Leader with our old district leader Elder Benson! In an area called Boca del Monte. So I'm excited for him and I taught him a bunch of English phrases like "You've got to be kidding me" and "Stop this madness" hahah. He was a great dad and I'm excited for the October General conference of 2020 which I've already invited him to come stay with me and we'll go to conference exactly 2 years since we watched general conference in the mission field. He is going to try and work at the MTC in Peru when he gets home and hopefully he can figure out how to come to BYU. That would be so awesome!
So Tuesday, yesterday, we took a taxi to the stake center where a bus picked them up to take them and their bags to Utatlan where the mission offices are. And I waited with those who weren't transferring until our new companions arrived. And my new companion is ELDER GADEA!!
He is from Nicaragua and has 6 months in the mission! So he entered the field in may and has 2 changes more than me. So we're both pretty new but this change 26 new missionaries entered the mission! Last change there was 20 which makes 46 missionaries that are being trained right now! That is a ton so most people with a lot more time in the mission are training and thus we have missionaries who have 6 months as comps with missionaries who have 4 months. Elder Zwalhens step-dad has the same amount of time as Elder Gadea too.
And with less than 24 hours Elder Gadea and I have already been through a lot. Last night when we got home the bathroom was locked. There are a bunch of random keys in the house but none fo them worked so we tried the keys to the apartment and the front door too and...
So that wasn't good. Now we couldn't leave the apartment because we didn't have a key to get back in and we couldn't use the bathroom.
The keys Elder Aquino had he packed in his suitcase and we won't get those until Thursday. So we were super stressed about that but it worked out. We found out that one of the extra keys we have is the same as the one that broke and a member came over this morning to pick the lock to the bathroom. He owns a keystore so he's really good at it. haha but so that was an adventure and I think this change is gonna be really great!
Also here is a pic of my new zone
We have top row left to right: Elder Erikson, Elder Gates (Elder Eriksons kid from St. George), Elder Gadea (MY COMP!!) Elder Stewart (behind) Elder Sanchez, Elder Quinonez, me, Elder Sergovia, Elder Nelson (from Canada and is Elder Sanchez's kid), and Elder Bywater.
Front frow left to right: Elder Zwahlen, Elder Fuentes (his step-dad), Hermana Osorio, and Hermana Avilez.
This is a great zone and I hope we have as awesome of a month in November as did in October. There were 12 baptisms in the zone in October and we really saw a lot of miracles.
Also I hope the pictures aren't super stretched out. When I load them in they aren't but Idk if that changes when I send it.
Invitation this week is to bear your testimony about the Restored Gospel to a non-member!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Elder Wride
MISIÓN GUATEMALA SUR
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