19 months - Una Fe Excepcional

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  Subject: Una fe excepcional     

Boa tarde!!

Well it's been an eventful week!

The best part of the week was that Claudia got baptized on Saturday!

But things got a little complicated because on Friday, the day of her interview, we got a call from the Assistants saying that we needed to be in the house at 6:00 every night until Wednesday night. The new government is doing these investigation things to cut down on crime in Guatemala and we don't know much about it but because of that we always have to have our passport copy with us and if we don't we cannot leave our house. And even if we have our ID we have to be inside the house at 6:00. They are doing the investigations by the different municipios (which are like counties) of the capital and last week was Mixco which is where most of the capitol areas of the mission are so last week they all had to be inside their house at 6. Our zone, named San Cristobal, also has a part of it in Mixco, but where we are in Peronia is actually part of a different municipio named Villa Nueva. So last week when they did the investigation thing in Mixco it didn't affect us at all. But this week they did it in Villa Nueva so we have to be in the house at 6 every night. And our district is literally the only district in the whole mission that is in Villa Nueva. So it's been a little hard because from 6 to 9 are our most effective working hours but we have been making the best of it.

But for Claudia's baptism we had to get permission from President for a member to take us in their car from the chapel to the house after her interview on Friday, and after her baptism on Saturday.

And this is Claudia next to her brother-in-law Marcos (who is the primary president's son and isn't coming to church right) and his wife (here they say concuna for the wife of your brother in law) Faviola and it was funny because when the Relief Society President gave the welcome to Claudia after she got baptized she was like "And now its the next daughter-in-laws turn to get baptized" when Faviola was right there. Pretty funny. But we are working with them.

 

Also there were changes. Elder Saxton is no longer my companion. But the good thing is he is not going that far away. Actually all he has to do is switch beds. Now he is in the other area that is of our same ward, reopening that area, and we are both training!

My new companion is named Elder Presbitero (Elder Priest) and he is from Brazil and has a strong accent. I am trying my best to understand him but need to work up my portuguese.

Also this week we bought some eggs from this one lady we are teaching and they are ginormous! They look like Dinosaur eggs! A lot of them also have two yolks in them, so it's always fun when we make food and it's a 2 yolk egg.

This week we also had a Multizone and a mission leadership council and had a visit by Hermano Corbitt again and it was SO awesome. We learned a lot about faith and how we overcame Satan in the Spirit world, and how we must do it here. Give Revelations 12:7-8, 11 a read and meditate it really hard, putting everything into context and its pretty cool.

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