Hey Mom,
Yeah this Tuesday that just passed was changes
here. My comp and I are still together but the zone had a ton of changes. We
went from having 14 missionaries in the zone to 26. A few of them are just here
temporarily but they did open up a few new areas and stuff. A lot of the
mission is in trios right now too because of all these people that are just
visa waiting. It was super stressful trying to find all of the houses and arrangements
for everyone but hopefully it will be a little calmer this week.
For all the missionaries that are "waiting" we just brought mattresses for most of them to sleep
of the floor since who knows how long they are actually going to be here, and I
don’t know where they think we are just going to pull like 50 beds out from,
but they all were not happy about just having a mattress on the floor. I was
just kind of like uhhhh, get over it. At least the newbies have their own mattress...Another kid
was like can I get a new mattress? Mine has fleas. Uuuuhhhh. Welcome to
Guatemala.
For my comp and me though this week was good. We
think we might have found a golden family. It's 5 in total all in baptism age,
and we had the dad attend stake conference with us this week. He was so excited
about going that he even went and bought a new shirt and pants (yeah, big deal
here). But I was super stoked about this guy; he was sooo attentive the whole
meeting and just seemed to love everything. Pray for us, I would like another
gold family.
Saturday was interesting too. We went out to this aldea in our
area and were inviting people to the conference, and it was literally hotter
than Africa outside. I don’t think I have ever been so hot in my life honestly.
It was so hot that the dirt roads were covered in about 6 inches to a foot of
straight dry dust. It was almost like walking through snow. It was almost
unreal. When we got out of that area we had to take off our shoes and shake all
the dust out. Of course we were wearing black pants and about up to my knee
it was just brown dust stained ha-ha.
We had to come back into town after that
and buy an ice-cream. So hot. I am almost ready for rain season to be back.
There is no winning here with the weather it seems. It’s either insanely
hot and dry, but your feet aren’t wet and you don’t get blisters, or its pouring
rain and cool, and your feet get blisters from being constantly wet. The good
thing is my boots are still in really good condition so I should hopefully
survive this rainy season all right.
Funny story about my comp this week
though, he always just does Michael or Phil things
that kill me, the kid always makes me laugh. But a few weeks ago he ran
out of oil to use for blessings, and we cant even buy food in my area the
chances of finding real olive oil have to be slim to none. But he finds this
bottle that says oil of the olive. So he just figured he hit the jackpot and
when we get home, he consecrates it. Then like ten minutes later he just yells
¨What!? Are you kidding me?? I hate this country! ¨, So I walk out and ask him what’s
going on, he shows me the bottle and points to the ingredients and the first
ingredient is vegetable oil ha-ha. I just lost it ha-ha, I was dying. Literally
was laughing about that for days that he had consecrated vegetable oil. This was like three weeks ago, and then this
week one of the nights we got home and I was changing and I walk back into the
kitchen and my comp is cooking chicken nuggets on the stove, and I look right
next to the stove and the bottle of consecrated vegetable oil is half empty. He
was cooking his chicken nuggets with consecrated vegetable oil ha-ha. Is that
apostasy? Like technically it can’t be right? It wasn’t olive oil, but even
still. I was laughing all week about it though.
Anyways, that’s about where we
are at here, apostasy levels are high. Love you guys, have a good week.
Adam
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