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email me at: adam.morrow@myldsmail.netAdam Morrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10987106618546605452noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783757958640576666.post-43725662726839611352013-12-02T15:03:00.001-07:002013-12-02T15:03:46.278-07:0012-2-13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy late Thanksgiving! The pictures and everything looks awesome. Jack is either getting really big, or Dad is getting really small, or maybe a little of both. Things are really good here. It's surreal to have everything kind of winding down. It's hard not to think about it but I am trying my best to stay focused. We have been CRAZY busy these last couple weeks since this change is going to be shorter than usual. Normally they are six weeks, but since it is going to only be four weeks we have been running to get everything done. Since Elder Funk is going to be taking my place here too, I have been really busy trying to make sure he knows how to do everything. I had a lot more training (and probably a lot better of a trainer) than he is going to have, but hopefully we get it all figured out. Starting last week and going on throughout this week the mission is having all its multi-zone conferences and so that has also been really stressful. President asked me to translate for him this section in a book someone wrote on missionary work that just exists in English and that took me forever. I was really surprised though at how well my Spanish translating skills have come. I had all the latinos here in the office proofread it and I had almost no errors. Its was a couple of pages long too, I was really pleased. I have been thinking that at least I will do a Spanish minor and maybe even do the Spanish second major. BYU offers one that is specifically for double majors. I am sure it is really difficult but I think that would be really cool and good for a med school application. We have been running like crazy lately though. I am pretty tired. </div>
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Thanksgiving for us was pretty uneventful. We just did normal stuff all day and there was not turkey dinner. We ordered some pumpkin pies from a member that has a cake shop here and that was really good. We even managed somehow to find some whipped cream and got that too. Then at night we had appointments with investigators, so when we were walking back home we were trying to decide if we were going to cook beans and eggs for our Thanksgiving dinner but we decided that was too boring so we were going to buy big macs. But then we called McDonalds (which actually does delivery here like if you order pizza in the states) and they told us it was too late to do orders. So we had to settle and get some Whoppers from BK. No turkey dinner, but still, better than beans and eggs.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Our gringo investigator came to church again on Sunday. Its strange because the guy really does not speak any Spanish. I don't know how or why you would want to come especially to this place if you have never been here and you dont speak spanish, but nonetheless he is here. In church we had a national wide conference and Elder Falabella, Elder Scott, and President Eyering did a broadcast that was just for Guatemala. It was really really awesome. It was a little lame that our investigator didnt understand any of it but still, I really really enjoyed it. They talked a lot about the trap of conformism and also the proper respect that should be shown to women. Not something I had thought would be the topic but I really really like all the talks. Its cool too that Elder Scott gives his talks in Spanish. He translates his own talks too in the conference. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Well, this is my last full week, and that is really weird to think. Its been really fun here in this area, I have really liked it. Its will be sad to start the farewell tour (not really planning on doing that actually). But I love you guys and hope that all is well. Talk to you next week. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">How are you? I felt that this week also flew by, I was really busy so that was nice. How crazy is it that this coming week is Thanksgiving? The girls are so lucky that they have the whole week off. How did the schools pull that one off, I swear that never had happened when I was in school. I don't think we will be doing anything that exciting on Thursday. Usually the office elders have a dinner at the mission home, but this year they said we weren't going to do anything since there are going to be multi zone conferences throughout the mission this week. Kind of a bummer. I don't have enough money to pay a member to buy the stuff this year either. Looks like it will be a beans and eggs Thanksgiving dinner. Not a big deal though. We are looking into seeing if we can buy a pumpkin pie from somewhere this year, that's about as good as it will get.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">This week was crazy. On Wednesday there was an Elder who had hurt his foot and President asked that we go and pick him up in the mission truck so he could make it to some doctor appointments. So Elder Marriott and I woke up early and the morning and drove up to get him. He was in this area called Ixtahuacán. It is the farthest zone in the mission, its like an hour and a half past where Huehue is, so its pretty far. Its right on the Mexico border. But we left here at about 5 in the morning and did a little road tripping. The area is way up in the mountains and it is crazy hot there. I got out of the car and it was around 1030 in the morning and I felt like I had just stepped into an oven. The Elders there were telling us that in this area the people do not let the police enter. They live what they refer to as ¨mayan law¨. They still live the laws of the country and all, but they do not let the police in to enforce it. If someone breaks the law they publicly whip them, and if its serious enough of a crime, they either burn them or lynch them. I had heard of that happening in other places here in the mission, but still, its pretty crazy. If the police try and enter there is only one road to get there, and they roll big boulders onto the road and block it off. Kind of an extreme example of the preservation of the culture. And yesterday I had to go to the other end of the mission, in Quiche this place called Joyabaj. They had two pairs of missionaries there and took one of the companion ships out, so we had to go and get all the stuff out of the house before the next month. Also a ton of driving. Elder Marriott had rolled his ankle really bad a few days ago so he just has been hobbling around, he cant really drive, and we are the only two in the office who have valid drivers licences, so I got to do all the driving. It was actually really awesome though. Joyabaj is really close to the capital, and we get to drive on the really really nice highway when we go to Quiche. Seriously it is the only highway in the whole country that doesn't have potholes every two seconds, and there are also no speed bumps. I call it the Guatobahn because you can actually get driving more than fifty miles an hour. Since the roads are so small here and the police are so ineffective, there are no speed limits here. Seriously they are not even posted on the highways or anything, but the roads are so terrible that it doesn't even matter, you cant even drive fast. But the Guatobahn is nice. Feels like a real life highway. Plus there are no speed bumps. Just try and imagine driving on a highway with speed bumps. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Elder Funk´s replacement came in yesterday. Its Elder Vilca. So the kid I am trained is here in trio with us. Also Elder Marriott´s replacement came in yesterday too. Its a kid from Ogden and he is really cool too. Today I went with Elder Little, the AP that is in my group and goes home with me and we went and picked our suits up that we had bought. They are actually really really nice. I used the money on my card to pay for it, I had the cash to pay for it, but I just figured instead of having another atm fee I just used my card and I still have lots of spending cash for souvenirs. I still haven't bought anything though. We haven't really had time to go shop around. We will do it one of these days though I sure, there is still plenty of time. Everything is good here though, lots of work trying not to financial ruin a mission, hopefully I get out of here without doing too much damage. I love you guys and hope you have a great week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Hi Mom,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Sorry but I feel like every week our
emails have been getting shorter and shorter. I have been hitting some serious
writers block whenever I sit down to email, plus I dont want to think too much
about home. The Wisconsin pictures look really cool. I am sure that was
awesome. The stadium looks huge though, I think it would be really cool if BYU
filled in the corners on the feild and had the seats go all the way around like
that. Its too bad they lost, but still, losing to Wisconsin at home by only ten
isnt too bad. Always good for recruiting too. It was funny this week we were
talking with our Mission President about football, and he is from Minnesota. He
was joking saying that it is so cool that Minnesota is in the Big Ten because
then they get to watch all the really good big name teams, but the only problem
is they always pound Minnesota. But it is still cool at least seeing all the
big name teams if nothing else. He said the Big Ten should change their name to
the Big Nine and Minnesota. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to chaos but its nice because we stay really busy here in the office. Its hard
sometimes in the middle of the changes and we have to search for things to do.
The mission is kind of preparing for when my group finishes. There are about
twenty missionaries in my group leaving and only about five coming, so they
will have to close some areas and do some different things. So they started a
little early and closed some of the areas that they could, so that means this
last week and probably into the next week we will be running around the mission
and taking the stuff out of the houses. The mission has gotten more normal now
since the influx of new missionaries. Before there were tons of people waiting
on visas going to other countries and stuff. At some point the mission had like
forty temporary missionaries, but now there are only two, so we are back down
to normal. On Sunday we had something really cool happen. We were in church and
all the sudden we see this huge gringo walk in to the chapel and sit down. He
had a Bible in English in his hand and he didnt really look like he understood
what was being said. After the meeting I went over to talk to him, and it is a
man that if from Texas, and he just retired and doesnt live with any family, so
he just randomly moved down here. He doesnt speak any Spanish and he doesnt
really know why he picked Xela, but he is here for now and he really likes it.
He had thought our church was a 7th day Adventist church though, and saw that
it was open so he decided to go in and check it out (although I am not sure why
he thought the Adventist church would be open on a Sunday if they go to church
on Saturday). But either way he was really interested and seemed to like it. We
ran after sacrament meeting to the mission office where we have a box of Book
of Mormons stowed away and got one for him in English. Then on Wednesday we had
an appointment with him and we had such an awesome lesson with him. He had
actually read a lot of the book and had lots of really good questions. Elder
Funk and I absolutely loved it too because we can actually teach him in
English. Its so weird having a gringo investigator but seriously it makes me feel
like such a good teacher, because I can perfectly convey all the thoughts and
ideas that I have, and I dont have to worry about him not understanding me or
thinking I am crazy because I dont say anything wrong. It was so cool though,
we are really really excited about teaching him, he said he wants to come to
church again tomorrow so we will see how it all goes. Like I said I got a new
suit, so that kind of wiped out my personal money. I dont need a whole lot
more, but it would be nice if I could have a little payday at least so I can
buy a few souvenirs before I leave. I am trying to see if I can get all my
stuff into just one of my suitcases. I really do not have that many things, and
what I still have I wont bring hardly anything home. There is a forty dollar
fee for the second bag, so I am trying to see if I can do it with just one. I
sold my guitar to another elder this week too. I dont think it would be
possible or likely for me to have gotten it home in one piece, plus it would
have been forty dollars to check it like I said. Not worth it, I can maybe try
and snag one of KSL or something in the future. But thats all the news I have
for this week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we are trying to keep working hard. Its been really fun in the office. We all
took an office Christmas card photo today so we are going to get those printed
out this week and send them in the mail. I hope you are all doing well, I love
you and miss you all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">How are you? I got your package! Its
kind of sad that that will be my last one, but still, it was greatly needed.
You can never have enough beef jerky. It came really fast though so that was also
really nice. How is everything going? Is it cold there yet? I feel like when I
get there I am going to freeze. I haven't been in anything below sixty degrees
in a long long time. The rain has calmed down a bit here lately and that has
been really nice. Its still a little more chilly too so it has a little
fall-ish so we have been breaking out the sweaters almost every day. Its good
that the rain isn't so crazy anymore also because all of my shoes are getting
nice and holy. My boots are so worn through on the bottom that there are a few
holes on the sole and water seeps in through the bottom of my shoes. So dry
roads mean dry feet, wet roads mean wet feet. I just realized that you guys are
now in Wisconsin. That is so crazy! So jealous. I bet there for sure its really
cold up there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Things here are good. Like I said its
been a little dryer and the weather has been really nice. Since Elder Funk is
going to take over my job when I leave, we have been pretty busy since he still
has to do all that he usually does, plus learn how to do my job. He is a really
funny kid, and he is a really good comp. Plus he always wants to get my fat
butt out of the house and go running in the morning, that has been fun. We are
working hard but it has been a little tough lately. Our only investigator that
we still have been visiting frequently is Pablo. It is really awesome when we
teach him, but we still cannot get him to get to church. He seems to like
anything and everything we teach, but he just cant seem to make it to the chapel
on Sundays, so like I said, its been a little difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cant really think of anything more interesting or exciting that has happened.
We are just trying to keep working hard and find some more people to teach. I
am really happy here and really love my area and my companion. Its been a lot
of fun. Today for pday we are going to play some soccer pretty soon here and
then we are going to be playing games here in the office for the rest of the
day. We dont usually do much since we cant mosey too far from the office in
case of an emergency. I love you guys and hope you have a great week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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here. It has actually been a really quiet week. With it being the first of
November it’s a pretty big holiday. We even saw some people doing Halloween
stuff too so that was funny. Yesterday was Day of the Saints here, or as the
Day of the Dead it’s a little better known. Apparently the tradition is to go
and visit your dead ancestors and then eat the dreaded fiambre. I don’t know if
you guys remember but last year it was the same, it's this really...interesting
dish they love here and they only eat it on this one day. Last year it was
pretty gross, but this year it honestly wasn’t too bad. We went with some
members here in our ward with the other two secretaries also, so that helped. I
honestly have never eaten anything similar to fiambre so it’s a little hard to
explain it. It’s this cold mixture of beans, meats, cheese, mini corns (like
from Big) and broccoli like food items. Then they bathe it in vinegar and you
eat it. I was seriously stressing it though this year because I had remembered
that last year it wasn’t exactly the best thing I had eaten in my mission. Then
they put the plate in front of us and seriously I was getting a not-so-pleasant
smell. I thought someone had stepped in dog poo or something, and then I
realized that odor was coming from a piece of cheese and a giant sardine head
staring at me from my plate. I'll be honest I had to pull a little napkin
maneuver to get that sardine head out of there. There was no way I could eat
that. But other than that I got the rest down and it wasn’t as painful as I had
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honestly. People here take their holidays very seriously; needless to say we
spent a good amount of time just out walking around trying to find anyone to
talk to. It’s hard when members aren’t even home and we cant even go around and
look for some references. I found out who my replacement is going to be, its
Elder Funk. Ha-ha. Poor kid is going to be here in the office forever. He will
probably do an amazing job though, he is really really good at what he does
now. I don’t think we will have any changes or get a new comp or anything until
I am done, since he can train his replacement when I leave since he will still
be here in the office anyways. It will be a little crazy with the changes and
all though. Not this coming Tuesday the mission will have changes, and then we
will have a four-week change, and then that’s it. Can’t believe I am almost
done. Its kind of sad and a strange feeling. Everything is really normal and
easy now here and I think it will be really bittersweet to have to leave. It’s
a mixed emotions kind of thing I guess. I think it is a worldwide thing they
are doing though having the changes like this. My friends that I knew in the
MTC and stuff said the their missions are doing the exact same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this week that happened. On Monday I had to go and make some deposits at the
bank, and my companion was pretty busy so I walked over to the bank with one of
the APs and we were there standing in line. Just to explain in this country
banks get robbed a lot so they have tons of crazy security. When you walk in
you walk past shotgun guards and then through a metal detector and you are not
allowed to talk on or use your telephone at all while your there because they
think you are setting up robberies outside. So everyone just stands there
really awkwardly and silently. We walked in and we had been in line for about
fifteen minutes and all the sudden this little old lady with huge grandma
sunglasses walks in. Like the grandma glasses that look like giant black
goggles. But she walks in, walks through the metal detector and yells, ¨Good
morning everyone, how is your day going?!¨, and then she continues on, walks
and cuts passed everyone in the line, walks up to the teller who is already
helping someone, and steps in front of the person being helped. She digs in her
bag, pulls out some money in a bag, throws it over the counter and yells again
at the guy telling him to deposit it in her account. Then she turns around,
walks back around like she is going to walk out, and she sees the Elder that I
was with. She walks right up to him, stops, yells ¨Hey good looking, how are
you doing today?¨ and then keeps going and walks out. The Elder turned bright
red and was just kind of standing there like...did that just happen? I lost it.
I was laughing so hard. I could not hold it in, seriously couldn’t believe this
crazy little old lady. Totally owns that bank. That was the highlight of my
week though. I love you guys. I miss you all and hope all is well. Have a great
week and I'll talk to you next Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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week. Sixty-degree weather in Provo sounds pretty nice right about now. This
week has actually been really nice here too. Sometimes the weather gets really
dreary and not chilly, but cooler, and this week has totally been like that.
Today its really cloudy and dreary outside but it hasn't been raining. Kind of
has the small hint of fall. I really like it. We had a ¨Fall Party¨ last night
here in the ward. It was actually pretty funny. We had a pumpkin carving contest,
but the only problem is there are no pumpkins here. They have something that is
similar that is called ayote, its a small pumpkin-ish looking thing but on the
inside it is white and has a way more bitter taste then pumpkin, and the
outside skin is basically rock hard. I am not sure how they actually carved
them but they turned out really good some of them. Elder Funk´s was my
favorite. He just bought an ayote and then put a little pumpkin hat on top of
it. Didn't carve it or anything. Everyone was asking us what the origin is in
carving the pumpkins, like why we do it. I honestly have no idea. None of the
North American Missionaries in the ward did actually. I don't think I have ever
heard that story, do you know why? I was thinking it would be cool in December
to do an activity with the luminarias. That has to be my favorite New Mexico
tradition honestly. Of course we couldn't do it as cool as San Juan but it
still would be cool to do some small scale thing. Talk about that tradition and
have it be a pretty cool send off thing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Last week was really good. The sisters
had their baptism at night and since they had helped us out with ours earlier
in the day we went to that also. They baptized the husband of the girl that was
married and then baptized a few weeks ago. It was really awesome actually, that
family seems really excited about the church and they are so funny to see in
the activities and stuff. They totally just look like little kids going around
and seeing the new stuff. We have been teaching the mom and sister of the girl
we baptized this week too. We had a lesson with them that went really well. The
mom is crazy evangelical so hopefully we can get her to come to church and see
if she progresses at all. We have another investigator named Pablo that seems
really positive. He is the husband of a less active member and we have been
visiting them lately. He also was evangelical before but he no longer is. But
the evangelicals usually have really crazy ideas about the church and he
definitely has a few of those. He is NOT okay with baptisms for the dead and he
made that very clear to us ha-ha. I think it would be really cool to take them
up to the temple grounds one day and talk about it. We explained more to him
the plan of salvation then actually baptism for the dead and he seemed to
understand it a little more. Kind of a hard topic to explain sometimes when you
teach someone who believes all you have to do is accept Jesus in your heart to
be saved, that baptism is essential for salvation. Regardless of whether or not
you are dead or alive. But like I said, a trip to the temple and just having
him be up there would be awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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office. It was a huge problem not having Internet for a week. We had so many
things we had to do and no way to get them done. There are public Internets and
all, but all the documents and procedures we have to follow are all on our
specific computers. I was dying though, so bored. I was talking to President
this week and he said that my replacement will be here on the 5 of November so
I can have him trained before I leave. So crazy to think I will finish in a
gringo trio ha-ha. I don't know if there had ever been a trio of missionaries
here in the mission where they have all been gringos. If not it’s pretty rare.
Something to look forward to I guess. I love you guys, I hope you all have a
great week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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office Elders in a public Internet because we have been out of Internet for
almost the whole week. This place is so crazy. We had our Internet in the
office go down on Tuesday and we were calling people trying to get it back up,
and nothing. So we kept calling all week and still nothing. Then today we find
out that the bank where we had been paying our phone and Internet bills to had
not been paying the company for like the last two years. And so the company got
mad at us and cancelled the contract they had with the church. Cancelled it definitively,
and they will not let us renew the new contract. Soooo, we have to get a new Internet
provider ha-ha. Seriously though, you cannot get a whole lot (if any) of office
work done now these days without Internet. I seriously couldn’t do anything. My
whole job is on some online program of the church. So it was needless to say, a
very slow week in the office. I did lots of reading. The only problem here too
is that I cant find anywhere to plug my memory into the computer so it looks
like you’ll have to go another week before I can send some photos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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though. Last night we were out visiting people and our investigator called us
and said that she couldn’t get baptized today because she has a cousin in the
Capital that just died and that her and her family where going to go down and
visit the family. So we ran down to her house and got the whole story a little
better. She said she was going to leave yesterday and just get baptized next
week. So we went around the corner of her house to tell this crazy lady member
that had given us the referral for her in the first place just to tell her that
we were going to do the baptism next week, and this lady was not having it. She
is seriously crazy though, I wish I could sufficiently describe the crazy that
this lady is but I cant. She is partially deaf and her house is a mad house. She
lives with her husband and her three daughters, their husbands, and like ten
granddaughters all in between the ages of 3 and 10. All girls. The house they
live in is tiny too. It’s basically a shared kitchen, bathroom, and one bedroom
per family situation. And when you go into that house you feel like you
cant hear right for a few minutes. It’s so crazy. Plus they have 5 dogs that
just add to the gross and loud levels. But we went over to tell her we were
going to postpone the baptism and she would not have it. She told us to sit
down on the couch and said she was going to talk to her. She came back like
twenty minutes later with the investigator and said that she was going to get
baptized today just earlier. The girl seemed like she agreed but still I thought
the whole time she was going to run away on us. I hope the lady didn’t bully
her into getting baptized or anything. But either way we were running all
morning to get everything ready for the baptism and at noon we had the baptism.
She asked me to do it so that was really cool too. Baptism days are always the
best days in the mission. You just feel like all the crazy and hard work all
pays off. The sister missionaries have a baptism later tonight too that we are
going to go and help out with also. We had planned to do them together but
since all that happened it didn’t work out. Even still though, awesome. Now we
just have to find someone else.... -_-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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great in the office and it will be even better when we finally get our internet
back up. Like I said, sorry for no photos again, I guess you’ll just have to
wait until next week and you’ll get triple dose. I love you all, say hi to
everyone for me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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General Conference was awesome. I hope you have had the chance to listen to the Priesthood session. All of the talks were really really awesome. President Uchtdorf seriously had two of my all time favorite talks all in the same conference. I really liked Adrian Ochoa`s talk too. That would be a good one to go over again.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyways, what have you guys all been up to? Everyone is in school? What did Alex end up deciding on doing for school? Did you get that last package all ready? I forgot my camera at home again today on accident so sorry, double photos next week I guess. I love you all and hope all is well. Have a great week.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Yeah, we just got done watching the first session of Conference. We watched it in the church because one of our investigators came with us. We have an investigator that is ready to get baptized now. We have a date with her for baptism on the 19 of this month. It was so cool actually. She lives with an old investigator that we had been teaching but she didn't really want anything to do with us, so we had left them. A member had just gone over there to visit and met this new lady, and she invited her to church and she is really, really interested. She even came to the baptism a week ago and totally loved it. So we have been teaching her and she has been coming to church and we took her to conference this morning. The session was really good too. I thought all the talks were amazingly done. I especially liked Elder Dube and Uchtdorf´s talks. I thought it was interesting how much in general the church itself was talked about. Not just what it is, but a lot about who we are and what we believe in. And it was all so centered on Christ. I loved the story Elder Dube shared about how working in the field and how easy it was to look back and think, whoa, we have done so much. But how important it is to be able to look forward and know that that work ahead is more important than what has already been done. That one was for me haha, even though I have been out here for a little bit of time, that does not mean I am done and cannot just be happy with what I have already done. It was pretty inspiring for me honestly. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">This week has been soooo busy and crazy. We had transfers this last week and it was also on the first day of the month. The first of the month is when I have to make all the payments to the missionaries and pay for rent and everything, but it was a little stressful since I had no idea who was going to be where. I was talking on the phone making sure everything had been paid pretty much the majority of the whole week. We also had to go and close down a few areas and take some stuff to some of the missionaries. We went out to the middle of nowhere. We went to one of my companions old areas in Momos. It was unreal. The missionaries live in a little cottage built with the chapel, and the chapel is on top of this huge mountain. There is one dirt road that goes along the mountain and it is so far out in the middle of nowhere. It would have been crazy to have had an area like that. It's seriously so far out in the middle of nowhere. We had to drive on a dirt road for at least an hour in the mission pickup before we arrived. So cool though. That is what I have been up to though. Everything is good here, just trying not to get to fat in here haha.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">How is everyone doing? Big news this week with little Jack. That's so crazy and exciting honestly. That is something really cool to look forward to. Two thirty is not the most favorable hour of the night to have a baby, ask Dayoung what she was thinking? First timer, I guess you always have to leave room for rookie mistakes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Something really sad happened this week. The same day that Jack was born actually. It was kind of strange and bittersweet. Obviously the sweet part was that Jack was born and that I was getting a steady stream of emailed photos all day. But the bitter part was we got a call from the bishop and we went to go and visit a lady in our ward that night. She is a single parent and she has a daughter who is two and a three month old son. She lives with her dad but he is the only support she has really. But we get over there and start visiting with her and she tells us all that her baby had been sick for a little while and so she took him to the hospital. They found out that her son's heart is like three or four times too big for him and that it's about as worn out from overworking as an old mans heart would be. It was so sad seeing this lady like that and thinking about Jack. I can't really even imagine what something like that would feel like. They are going to see if there are any doctors in the Capital that could do some kind of surgery, but since it is highly unlikely tons of the ward members are looking into seeing if there is a way for them to get him up to the states and get him an operation. That would be amazing, especially since this family is not going to be able to pay for it, but there are plenty of members in our ward who are sufficiently capable of helping out with the necessary. There are some crazy rich members of our ward. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">There was a baptism this week. It did not technically count for my companion and me. There are sister missionaries in the ward too, but it wasn't really their baptism either. The lady just showed up to church one day and was totally ready to get baptized. The sisters taught her a few lessons and she got baptized. We were able to help out too though with teaching her, and so that was cool. She even asked me to baptize her. The lady got married to her husband and then we had the baptism right afterwards. Her husband is also investigating the church now and hopefully he will get baptized soon also. The guy who did the wedding killed us though. He is a member and it was the same guy who married the family I baptized a while back. He just kept taking low blows at the US and I have no idea why. He was talking forever about how bad the culture is in the US because when women get married they drop their last name, and here they don't do that, they just have a bazillion last names. And then he at the end right before the he announced them husband and wife he said, ¨That your marriage doesn't tumble and burn like the Twin Towers in the US.¨ My comp and I just exchanged glances like...did he really just say that? One of the sisters in the ward is American too and she was literally looking at the guy with her mouth open. The best part though, was like halfway through his phone rings, remember all of this I am talking about the lawyer who is marrying these people, and he answers it. He seriously answered his phone and was yelling at the person calling, ¨NO, I'm almost done. I'll be right out. Yeah, I am leaving right now!¨Totally yelling. Couldn't believe it the guy answered his phone in the middle of a wedding ceremony. So classy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">We found a few new investigators this week and we're hoping that with General Conference coming up that will help us seal some deals on some baptisms. Our area has been kind of tough. We had this one lady that was really progressing and then she just dropped off the face of the map. We had passed by her house like every single day and nothing. We could see lights in the window so it looked like they would be home, but they never ever answered. We were standing there one day and the same story, nothing. But my companion was looking at the door and he noticed there was a tiny little hole drilled about knee level in the door. He was just saying maybe that's how they had seen it was us, since its a giant wood door with no peephole or windows around, but I totally wasn't buying it. But the next day we went back and the whole was filled up with a little piece of paper or something. So we rant the doorbell and just stared at the whole. And sure enough, the little piece of paper got taken out and we looked right at the lady through the little hole. She still didn't answer the door either! We were amazed. Seriously though, we totally caught this lady and she STILL wouldn't answer the door to tell us not to come back that she didn't want to talk to us. Crazy what some people will do to avoid the missionaries. We were laughing for quite a while though that this lady would still not open the door even though we totally caught her. Tricksy hobbits.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">That's about all for this week though. It was pretty eventful. I love you all and hope all is well. Introduce flat Adam to Jack for me so he isn't scared of me when I get home.</span></div>
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great. The rain stopped a little bit and we had some really, really nice
weather. We have been able to leave the office earlier in the day and
getting more work done. We have some really good investigators that I am really
stoked about. The lady that I blessed her baby, we have been visiting them a
lot lately and she is really, really awesome. Her husband seems like he is
warming up too, he came and played soccer with us today and we are getting to
be really close. He was so stoked about church tomorrow, he asked me like ten
times about church tomorrow and seemed like he was so excited about it. We have
another lady we have been teaching too that I am really excited for. I am
really, really enjoying my area actually. Were just in this really cool part of
Xela and I just like the feel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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just always have crazy things to do and we go out and have to run and do this
and that, it makes the time fly by so fast. Nothing really exciting has
happened though. Like I was trying to figure out what I had planned on writing
you guys and I totally went blank. The work is good though; I’m loving it right
now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Something really funny that happened this week,
I got a hold of the new EFY 2013 CD and I was putting it onto my computer, and
I noticed that there is a song on there that was written by Colton Avery. I was
just kind of looking at it and thinking.... could it really be? I listened to
it and for sure it is. You guys have to look it up, its really, really good
actually. I’m a fan. You'll have to ask Peggy and double check. That would be
so cool if he got a song on the EFY CD. That was the coolest discovery I had
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like I said though, I am totally blanking right now and I feel like nothing
really that cool has happened. I am trying not to die thinking about the BYU
football game. Hope y'all enjoy it. Let me know if my nephew is born this week
too, that’s always important...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lots to do always. We finally have some investigators (now that we have been in
the area working for a while). We have a lady that we had an awesome lesson
with. She had listened to the APs a while back and we kind of just stumbled on
her house one day. She had a ton of questions about the Book of Mormon and we
read some stuff with her and left her with some verses to read. I love
teaching. It’s so cool to get into peoples houses and really get to talking. It’s
hard here lots of people have some odd beliefs and so when we actually get to
sit down and work out their problems and ideas, you see how versatile and
usable the gospel is. Religion down here is usually just I am catholic or I am
evangelical. The catholic people are usually just born catholic and never
really go, and the evangelicals are seriously wild. They believe in some of the
craziest stuff I have ever heard. Especially when they teach anti-Mormon stuff.
It gets unreal sometimes what people have told me. So we have that lady who is
progressing pretty well, and the other part member families we have been
teaching. One lady we have is seriously a Mormon. She just doesn't go to
church. We got her to go with us once and I don't get it, she literally
believes everything the church teaches and has no problems with the church,
just her husband is lukewarm active and they don't wake up in the morning on
Sundays. We’re pretty hopeful for them though, they really like us too, so were
seeing if we can get some baptisms soon, which would be amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">This week the senior couple finished and went
home. The office make up is a little different without them here. They had been
here in the office for the last 23 months, that is a really long time to be
here. Their last couple of days tons of people came into the office to say
goodbye and everything. It was interesting especially since they didn’t speak a
word of Spanish. They were attending my ward for the last two years and even
though they couldn't talk to any of the people they made a lasting impact on
the ward that was for sure. Since last week in church was their last week they
had asked them to bear their testimonies and they asked me if I could translate
for them, which always is really cool. They were getting a little teared up too
when they were talking. I wonder what that would be like to serve in the same
ward and never have changes, I bet it would be so tough or bittersweet to
leave. I hope I know what I am doing though. It was nice to have Elder Fairbourne
here just in case I didn't know exactly what to do with something, he was here
to clear it up, and now I am on my own. I know I have said it before, but there
is a thin line between financial secretary and excommunication...ha-ha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guys will have to eat some corn on the cob to celebrate. Or you can just do
what Guatemalans all do here to celebrate, take the corn, boil it into a mush,
make the mush into a disc and fry it into a tortilla and eat it with some fried
chicken. That would be the proper way to do it... They eat an unholy amount of
corn here, especially this time of year since the corn harvest is going on. We
had a family invite us over to lunch the other day, we seriously just had corn
on the cob for lunch. I am not even kidding. Nothing else, just corn on the
cob. They made us eat four each ha-ha. They call it crazy corn, and they cover
the corn on the cob with ketchup, mayo, and this green hot-sauce, and that's
how you eat it. I don't think I had ever rubbed fry sauce on corn before. They
also eat it with lemon and salt, which is actually pretty good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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though. Since my area has these really big parks and markets in it that are in
the middle of the city, I have felt all week that we were going to get robbed.
Just lots of crazy drunk people everywhere. Something funny this week, we were
waiting outside the APs house for them to get home so we could get our clothes
out of their drier, and this drunk dude came up and asked us for money. We told
him we didn’t have any and I am not sure how we got on this topic, but we asked
the guy if he liked dancing, and he literally started dancing right there in
front of us and sang us a song. Nice guy. We still didn’t give him any money. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pretty strong. It's normal for this time of year though, we're getting into winter
(or what is called winter) so it’s colder and it causes more earthquakes. For
the first one I was with an Elder who is here in the office who is from the
Dominican Republic, we were out walking in our area and I noticed that all the
people started just running out of their houses. Not usually a good sign, but
my comp didn’t even notice. When I saw everyone running I grabbed that kid
from behind on the shirt and pulled him into the middle of the road. He finally
realized what was going on and we just kind of waited it out. It was big but
nothing like the one last year. This kid I was with though was killing me. He was yelling in Spanish right when it ended, ¨What are you people all
freaking out about? I survived one way bigger than this. Haven’t you people
ever heard of some country called Haiti? I felt that country get destroyed. ¨ I
thought it was pretty funny at least. It was strong but like I said, nothing
like houses falling down or anything, just some trees and buildings swaying
back and forth. The road does this weird wavy motion too that is kind of
surreal to look at. I felt three or four aftershocks after that but really,
really small. One was pretty good at about two in the morning too, but for me
it's pretty normal now. Nothing strong enough yet to really scare me. Maybe
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and with the other secretaries we went to climb up to this really cool laguna. It’s
in the top of an old volcano and it’s this sacred Mayan site. It’s cool because
you’re at the top of a volcano. How many places in the world can you do that?
It's nuts though, they have sacrifice alters everywhere and it's some crazy
famous Mayan place. Nobody is allowed in the water. They say it has something
to do with it being the mouth of a volcano; it pulls people down if they go out
far enough, and they can’t get out and drown out there. Not even canoes or
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and drove out to this city called San Martin, which is about 40 minutes outside
of Xela, and then we got off the bus and had to pay some guy to take us to the
foot of the volcano. Right at the foot there is this cool little hotel and
stuff, but its just pure jungle and you have to just start climbing. It was
about a 40-minute hike and it puts you on a lookout point on the rim of the
volcano and then you have to hike back down inside the mouth of the volcano.
The lake is seriously beautiful though. Since we were there so early we were
the only ones there and it was so calm and cool. The water was so still it
looked like you could just walk out onto it. It was pretty jungley though, the
path is really narrow and has plants hanging down everywhere, every two seconds
you would walk into a huge spider web. I just let Elder Marriott walk in front
of me the whole time and knock them all out for me. But we spent about two
hours up there doing that, and then we hiked back down and came back and
showered. Now were just going to hang out and get some lunch. I’m pretty beat
from the hike. It was cool just going with the four secretaries though (the APs
didn’t go) so it was just a small group. It's always hard to go and do stuff
like that with the whole zone, but since are just six in the office it's always
pretty nice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Our area is going good too. We have two partial
families that we have been teaching the wives. One of the families surprised
me last Sunday and asked me to bless their baby in Fast meeting. Five minutes
before it started. I almost died. I was soooo nervous ha-ha. I had this little
month old baby in my hands and was shaking like I had Parkinson's or something.
Would have been bad to have dropped the baby. Five-second rule though, if it
falls and you pick it up before five seconds, still good. But we are hoping to
put some baptismal dates with them soon, their real struggles are the husbands
though, if they would go to church and be pulling them along they would get
baptized real quick. We are working hard though. I love you guys and miss you.
I hope you all are safe and have a great week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Tons of rain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">House damage we saw from earthquake.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a fun week at the cabin. In those photos everyone looks really, really
different. Wendy and Josie look like they have grown a ton. I bet Alex was
freaking out a little bit getting some dad practice. I can’t even remember the
due date is, but that is pretty crazy that it should be this month. I have been
trying so hard not to think about college football starting. It would probably
be smarter not to send me updates ha-ha. My comp and I have been trying not to
talk about it too much. It’s hard though when the two of us both had been at
BYU, plus the other secretary that is here in the office went there too. We are
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another fun and crazy week. I had to go up to Huehue and close up a house that
some missionaries had been in. That took all day. We have been running a ton of
errands for President too. He had to run up to Momos so he took our truck (we
have a Nissan Navaro which is actually really, really nice. I love driving it,
its a lot like a Tacoma) and he left us his car and we had to take it to the
dealer in the morning to get fixed. Then in the afternoon we had to go get the
truck and drive him over to the dealer so he could pick his car up again. White
knuckle driving. I don’t know if you have ever had to drive through rush hour
traffic in Central American streets with Central American drivers with your
Mission President sitting two feet behind you, but I would much prefer driving through
a blizzard. So nerve wracking driving around with President ha-ha. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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many lanes a road is or where you are, because only about 20 percent of the
roads have paint on them. One of the main roads here in Xela is 4 lanes across
with two lanes in both directions, and seriously, not a single painted line on
the whole road. No turning lanes. No speed limits. It’s chaos. Plus you add in
the factor of all the micro-busses that people use to get around in, and they
are crazy. They just weave in and out of traffic and stop everywhere. There are
no bus stops here or anything, just whenever a person wants to get on a certain
bus you just flag it down like if you where going to call a taxi. And they just
stop in the middle of the road and you get on the bus. Honestly driving here
was cool at first, but then the novelty wore off and now its just terrifying.
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was we finally moved out of our terrible house. We went on Monday and told the
owner we were going to move out, she is this little old grandma and she got
soooo mad. She kept asking if we were going to stay here in Xela or if we knew
where we were going. I was just kind of saying uhhhhh nope. No idea. I didn’t
want to make this lady feel bad but honestly her house was a dump. I was so
dang sick of hearing those stupid geese screaming at five in the morning. She
was super chaffed though that we only rented one month, she kept saying that
the missionaries across the street (the APs) had lived in the same house for
like four years and we only lived there for a month. But the whole time in my
mind I was thinking, ``But yeah, the other missionaries have a hot water
heater, and carpet and hardwood floors, and couches, and a washer and dryer,
and they can stand up and walk through the doors, and there is no giant geese
pen outside the only window in the whole house. Of course they have lived there
for four years. If your house was like that I wouldn’t want to leave after a
month.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I didn’t want to make
her feel bad, so I didn’t really say much to her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">But our new house is sweet. It’s not like crazy
nice or anything, but it’s big, it has high ceilings, and I can actually stand
up straight when I am in the shower. My comp had a bazillion photos of Jesus
too just in his suitcase so we put them all up over the apartment. Added a nice
touch honestly. The night we moved though, like I said the lady was all chaffed
with us so we just wanted to get out of there as fast as we could, we did one
trip. All the furniture, all the suitcases, everything. One trip. We packed all
our stuff in the bed of the truck and in the backseat, and had all four of us
secretaries in the front two seats ha-ha. It was like playing tetras fitting it
all in. We only moved like four blocks away but I was scared that everything
that I own to my name was going to fall out and get left on the cold rainy
Guatemalan streets. But we made it. We are in the new house now and it’s
heavenly. When I wake up in the morning I don’t hear anything. No crazy geese
scream. It’s heaven. I’ll attach some photos of the old house so enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sometimes when you only work for a few hours a night if you’re lucky. But I am
hoping that we will have some luck. We have one partial family that I am really
optimistic for. It’s hard some nights though because I have no idea where to
go. Since we are both super new in the area and we only get a few hours to
work, it’s hard. We don’t want to go visit the same people but we need referrals,
contacting here during the night hours are absolutely worthless. My comp is
such a stud though. He reminds me a ton of Spencer Eddy actually. But it’s
always so awesome to have a fun comp, plus the other secretary is super cool
too. That makes the office way more manageable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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doing great too. I love you all and hope you have a great week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> This is my office.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Things are good here in the office. We had changes this week here in the office. My last comp finished his mission and so I am now with Elder F. He is going to be the replacement of the wife of the senior couple that is here in the office. He is from Mesa, Arizona and I love him. He is a huge breathe of fresh air. He hit a year this week and so did one of the other secretaries, so we all went out and dropped some pretty big bucks at a steak house haha. He was at BYU before the mission so that is our preferred topic of conversation. He lived at King Henry so we never met or anything. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">The work is always good here in the office though. I didn't have any more botched checks so I can be grateful for that. The banks here are so nit picky sometimes. Other than that though it's just computer work and sitting on my fat bum. I am afraid that I am going to go home like such a fatty if I die here in the office. One cool thing about my comp too is we have been waking up early in the mornings and we go running. It's weird to see the city all still asleep. There are a few people up and going but before six most people are still at home sleeping. I like it because we can go in centro park and stuff and there is just nobody. Plus I don't feel like such a fat lard all day. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">We set up a lunch calendar with the members because I was sick of buying lunch after a few days. We have had some really really good lunches with the members here. It's cool because there are a lot of people here in our ward that are from other countries and they always like to cook us stuff from their country. Our bishop's wife is from El Salvador and she made us some really, really good papusas the other day. Remember the papusa restaurant in Provo? It blew that place out of the water. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Another cool thing that happened here in Xela was the volcano erupted this week. Not the one that you can see from Xela, that one is dormant, but there is a little one on the backside of the volcano that is active, and it erupted and there was a little earthquake and a huge mushroom cloud. I actually didn't feel the earthquake, we were just out walking and when your out moving you usually dont feel them. I remember at first when there was a tremble or something it would totally freak me out, like I couldnt sleep well or anything, but now it's so normal, I haven't felt one or noticed one in a really long time. I remember last year right before the big earthquake, there were lots of small ones leading up to it, especially at night. But I haven't felt one since about then. Some small ones every now and then but I usually don't even notice. Plus I feel like the office building we work in since it is so big and new, it probably is a little more earthquake proof than most buildings here in Xela. The IT guys came in though and vacuumed out all our computers and stuff, they say that when the volcano erupts there is a lot of unseen ash and dust that gets everywhere and is really really bad for computers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Another thing, I am out of personal money=/ sorry haha. I had to make some personal expenditures this week so my card is basically out of money. I don't need more right now, but just in case of an emergency or something it would be nice to have just a little bit of money. Sorry to be such a black whole there, I am trying to keep it down to a minimum. Also, I finished the Book of Mormon again in Spanish yesterday. My goal is to read it all the way through ten times during my mission, so I have a couple more times to go in these last months. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">I miss you all. I love you, tell everyone hi for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Sorry, we are here kind of early this week. My
comp had to get some last minute things done pretty early in the office today,
so I thought I would take advantage and get my emailing done. My comp goes home
on Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is baggy to say the
least. It will be nice to have a comp that isn't so focused on going home... he
is a good guy and all, It’s just kind of hard hearing about him going home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">This week was good. My office doesn't have air
conditioning. The only places that have air conditioning in this country are
McDonalds and the temple. But it’s cool enough in my office that it isn't a big
deal. I don't have any windows or anything so its always kind of hard to tell
what the weather is like outside, but like I said, it usually feels pretty good
in here anyways. Xela is like the Seattle of Central America. It has really
dreary drizzly weather and I always have really liked that. It’s never too hot
like Huehue and it always is just kind of overcast and brisk outside. I think
its because it has a really high elevation and it’s just surrounded by
volcanoes and mountains that seem to attract the clouds. It’s a really pretty
city, we will all have to come back and visit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to the travel secretary about it and it’s not exactly set in stone yet, but
from what it looks like I will be getting home on the 26 of December. Sorry,
looks like we will just have to move Christmas back one more day this year,
honestly it’s not a big deal at all. It was a little surreal that I received
that though. Like it has not really set in yet that I am getting kind of old in
the mission. I still feel like I am really young. I didn’t even realize until a
day or two afterwards that I had passed the 20 month mark. Crazy. Time does go
really fast in the office though, there are some slow parts of the day, but it
passes really fast, and then when we get out at night we are running to try and
get the most appointments in that we can so the nights fly by too. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mentioned last week that I hated it. That’s an understatement; I loathe this
house. It’s miserable. The stupid geese and roosters and doves that live right
outside our one window wake me up every single day at like 4:30 or 5 with their
noise. I don’t get why these people that live right in the middle of a giant
city have to have their mini farm right outside my window. The dead noise of
the city doesn’t even bother me. Like the cars and the horns and all that, I
can sleep through no problem. But three geese doing their crazy geese scream at
5 in the morning kills me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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parts at least this week. It’s nothing crazy the work, it’s just lots of
computer stuff. The church has a really good system for keeping track of all of
the missionary funds and information and stuff. That makes my life pretty easy.
The only thing that can be difficult at times is Guatemala. Like yesterday for
example, we had a lady that is going to cook all the food for some multi zone
conferences, and she came in to pick up her checks to buy all the food and
stuff. One thing about Latin America, the people have like 50 names. This lady
that came in that I wrote the checks to, her had three first names, four last
names, and three of the four last names have a de in front of the last names
(like de Leon). Needless to say… ridiculous. So in order to print out checks I
have to use the system of the church, and add her as a vendor, so when I write
a check out to her, it has to have the full name of the lady. But when it comes
to printing the check, it automatically only prints so many letters in the
check. Well this ladies name was so long that her final last name, which was de
Almazán, didn’t fit. So it just said de Alma. Close enough right? Wrong, she
went to the bank and tried to cash the six checks we had written her, and they
wouldn’t accept them, and they wouldn’t give them back to her without basically
voiding them so that she wouldn’t ¨alter¨ the checks in her name so that she
could cash them. She came back with all the checks they had basically destroyed
and asked what I could do about it. So I called the bank and told them what had
happened and they put me on hold for like half an hour. Finally they get back
on the line and tell me that since the name wasn’t exact, it could have been
someone else trying to cash the checks and so they couldn’t cash them. That’s
reasonable, I understood, but then I tried to explain to them that her name was
too long and that it wouldn’t fit on the check, and so I asked if I could hand
write her the check, they said no, it had to be typed or the name could be
changed and someone else could cash the check. So I was just trying to ask the
bank what we could do so that she could cash the checks. Basically nothing. Not
unless this lady decides to change her name can I write a check in her name.
They wouldn’t even accept if I went down there in person and approved that this
was the lady who would be cashing the check that I had written out even though
only three letters were missing from her last last name. Like what are the odds
there is another person on this planet that has 6 out of 7 of this ladies names
exactly the same, and that in the seventh name, its only missing three letters.
What are the odds of that? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">So frustrating, so I then had to go back
through and cancel and void all six of the checks that we had written out, and
while I was in the process, the power in the city went out. When it came back
on, I started the process over, but the firewall in the building had gone down.
So they called the IT guy and he came in, and while fixing the firewall, the Internet
crashed. So we went the whole day without Internet until about 6:30 when they
could get it all back on. Like I said, my job isn’t really what gives me
headaches, its more Guatemala that gives me headaches. I still don’t know what
to do about those dumb checks either...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are good though, I love being in Xela, and it’s such a cool place. We have
eaten really well this week. Sometimes the senior couple brings down some food
or some desserts. President’s wife is always bringing us in desserts and cake
too. I’m going to go home so fat. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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good there. I love you all and will talk to you next week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Well, looks like nobody got the memo that I
would be writing on Saturday from now on ha-ha. I just had an email from you
and from dad in my inbox. Things are good here in the office. I do have a comp,
he is the old Retention Secretary, but his replacement came this week, so he is
just kind of hanging out with me with nothing to do. He goes home this next week;
he hit his two-year mark today actually. He is a really good kid though; he is
a pretty good friend of mine actually. His name is Elder L, and is from
Honduras. Super smart though, he speaks perfect English. My new comp that is
coming in on the changes is going to be a gringo too. I like him a lot also. I
am in the middle of Xela. My area is called Los Arcos, it’s where the APs where
for years, but they just switched to another ward and so now I am here. This is
actually my fourth area in Xela. My first area in Xela was Garibaldi, which is
the neighbor area of where I am at right now. I really, really like my area
though. It’s the oldest ward in Guate that is outside of the capital. Xela is
the second biggest city here in Guate and its cool because I am right in the
middle of downtown. The office and mission home are all in my area.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is in my ward, and all the shots from the video are from my area. So this will
give you a good idea of what my life is like here. It's definitely one of the
nicest parts of my mission. The one thing that is kind of lame here though, is
our house. It was seriously made for hobbits. They had some other Elders look
for it, and apparently they weren’t having much luck, so the first one they
could find that was actually in our price range, they chose. It’s so small! I can’t
even walk around standing up straight. I have to hunch to walk around in the
house. And the showerhead is even worse; it honestly shoots out water below my
shoulders. I was thinking about buying a little plastic stool and throwing that
in the shower and sitting down while I was showering. I had to take out a few
of the light bulbs in the roof because I don’t want to break them on accident
with my head. Also, the house only has one window, and outside that window, is
our neighbor’s geese pen. This honestly is not an exaggeration or anything;
there are at least 20 geese that live outside that window. They start doing
their weird geese yell at like five in the morning every day too. It’s comical actually
every day when we go home, like I can’t believe how crappy of a house it is. We
had some members find us a new one though and we have already got it approved
and all, just we don’t move in until next month. We live right next to the APs
too so that is a bonus; they have a washer and dryer in their house so I was
able to do my own laundry today for the first time since the MTC. Hopefully
this will stop me loosing all my clothes before I get home. When you have to
pay someone else to wash your clothes they always loose socks and shirts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guess. Obviously it's a little boring and tedious, but I never had realized all
the background work the people in the office do for the benefit of all the
other missionaries. I am also not the only new one. They called a new Retention
Secretary too, Elder P (we always call him Piña, which is pineapple) and he
is comps with Elder M, a really cool kid from Northern Utah who is the
General Secretary. I am the oldest one here in the office though (after my comp
goes home next week). The senior companions are really fun too, it's like I get
to hang out with Grandpa Frank all day every day. It's sweet. He bought me a
huge tray of cookies yesterday from the Mennonite Bake Shop
people here. Oh my sweet heaven. The only thing is his wife who is here with
him, isn’t doing so hot. They have like four weeks left in their mission, but
she is having some bad knee problems where she had had an operation, and they
might be going home sooner than planned. </span></span></div>
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everyone. I have to deal with all the credit cards of all the missionaries and
all the payments that the mission makes. Also I have to go to the bank (car
privileges!) and do all the deposits and checks and stuff. Plus all the
finances for the APs and President. There are times when there is a lot of work
to do, and other times when I finish it and then I have like three hours where
I just sit here chewing on my pen. We are here from 9 till 6 every day with one
hour for lunch. The Secretaries before just bought lunch everyday, but I don’t really
want to do that. On Sunday I am going to see if I can work out a lunch schedule
with the members so that we can eat with them. There is only Wendy’s and
McDonalds here in Xela, and I am already sick of them both after a week, so
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too. We don’t really have anything planned. I just need to finish washing my
clothes and my comp wanted to go get Arabic food for lunch (not sure how I feel
about that). But this morning we went to this cool place. It's a little Corte
person doll factory. My comp got some from his old areas. They are little dolls
of all the different Cortes in the country. Like all the towns have their
specific styles and colors of Cortes, and this store had them all. I will be
sure and buy some too when I am a little closer to coming home. Either way, the
pictures are cool. I am sure I will be getting packages a little bit
faster now since I am in the office, but I didn’t get anything this week from
Grandma. Maybe next week. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">So yeah, I have changes tomorrow. I am the new financial secretary. The senior couple that is in charge of it right now ends their mission soon, so I have a few weeks with him training me and then sometime in September I am on my own. It should be cool though with the guy that does it now. He is some weather man or something in Minnesota that is pretty famous from what I have heard. He is a really, really smart guy though, should be cool learning from him. It was really humbling when I talked to President about it. He said some really cool compliments to me and it was nice to know what he thinks about Elder Morrow. I am still kind of freaking out about it though. I feel like there is a fine line between financial secretary and excommunication. Just kidding, I know they probably wouldn't do anything if I messed anything up. It would just be a huge headache. It will probably make the transition to the home not as hard though. It will probably be lots of phone calls and computer work, not something I am super used to right now. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">All I know though is I have my own office, and it has carpet. I am going to buy some slip on church shoes and take full advantage of having carpet. It has been since the MTC that my feet have touched carpet. I am going to claw my toes into that carpet all day like a cat. Ahhhhh. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">The other thing that is a little different that the Pdays are on Saturday for the office. So you will be sure and have to write me before Saturday morning. We went to a zone leader conference this week and my replacement was there. So we have been in trio this whole week and that's been pretty fun. It's this kid that was in my zone in Toto, he is a stud. He reminds me so much of Dan Lacey. He is a really, really fun kid. I am still here in my area but its been hard. I hate when you know that you have changes, it makes it super hard to focus on your area. I am leaving here with three baptismal dates for this month, so I can still feel good about that. That's whats new in mission life though.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"> I can't believe it's coming to the countdown though for Dayoung. Have they picked a name yet? Every week y'all refer to him as some other kind of name, usually something racist on Dad's part too haha. As for the temple film, that is news for me. I have only been able to go to the temple once my whole mission. So my last day will proabably be the next time I get to go. Should be cool though, I had no idea. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Anyways, tomorrow in the morning I am out, write me before Saturday since I will probably have double Pday this week. I love you guys, have a good week.</span></div>
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really nice, the only thing that I am not a huge fan of there are the people. They
are kind of the odd city of the states. Things are good here in Huehue. It has seemed to have taken a break from the rain season, it's back to being hot again.
Some days I feel like my shoes are going to melt onto the road it’s so hot. My
tan lines are getting pretty serious. Like when I take off my watch my arm is
black with this little white line, but its really, really defined. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">This week
our zone pretty much all got e changed out. We had one companionship, a trainer
and his son, that they both had bought tablets, like i-pads, and were just
sitting in the house being bums. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">There was another sister missionary who they
caught talking to her boyfriend, who is also here in Guate as a missionary,
on the telephone. And lastly some members had taken pictures of some
missionaries that had gone to the state fair on a Sunday and were going on the
rides and stuff. Missionary clothes and all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">It’s seriously just kind of disappointing
when missionaries do stuff like that. As a leader it's ugly because we are the
ones who have to go and take care of all the problems, figure out who is going
to go where, how they are going to get there, what are we going to do with this
stuff, it's super frustrating. But more than anything it kills me because people
don’t see how badly it affects the work. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">I don’t know why people think they can
just do whatever they want and expect that the Lord will still help them. Like
how can you be guided to the right person if your thinking about the new game
you just downloaded on your new tablet? The paradox of that almost leaves me
with a sick feeling in my stomach because they just waste their time. All the
good things they could be doing or could have done in their mission goes
undone. Even if you are trying and you don’t baptize, at least your
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put off the natural man, even for two short years, how can you expect to put it
off in the future? I was talking to my comp about it and he was saying, if you can’t
even follow mission rules, how do you think that one-day you would be able to
live Celestial rules? Not to go all Peter Priesthood on everyone, but that’s ridiculous.
The mission rules are so simple. There is no wiggle room or space for
interpretation. Those are the easiest kind of rules to follow because
everything is defined. You can do this, you cant do that. And if you can't even
follow that kind of rule, you won't be capable of following rules when they get
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chains is Moses 1:39 to DC 11:20. God’s work and glory is to allow us to become
like him. Our work is to actually become like him, by being like him. Acting as
he would. Things like this have happened a lot during my time as a zone leader
and its disappointing more than anything. You want to hope and expect that
all missionaries are great, that they follow all the rules and do what they
should, but when they don’t, it’s hard. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">That was the sad theme of the week. At
least nobody kicked us out of their house with a monkey wrench though. Always a
bonus when that doesn’t happen. We did put a baptismal date with one of our
investigators last night though, that was also really cool. He is a fireman and
has serious alcohol issues. We have taught him off and on for quite a while,
but he hasn’t made a whole lot of progress. But either way last night he told
us he wants to make a change in his life and thinks that being baptized would
be the place to start. I was just kind of shocked, he didn’t seem that
interested, but either way, we just need him to stop binge drinking. </span></div>
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went paca shopping. There is this huge store called Megapaca that is basically
all the stuff from DI that they don’t sell, they ship it down here and sell it. It’s just a huge thrift store, but today I got a sweet new Tommy Hilfiger
tie and a copy of the Book of Mormon Institute Manual in English. It's funny
because they always have copies of the Ensigns and everything in English from
the church for sale, like who in this country would buy any of that stuff other
than missionaries? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Sounds like things are good there. The spitting
activity sounds great ha-ha. I can just imagine Dad laying into some kid for
not having a seed. Classic Phil. I feel you with the heat and monsoon weather.
The rain has died down a little bit here, but the sun has been absolutely
crazy. I don’t know if it's because we're closer to the equator and also up high
in the mountains, but the sun here literally itches your skin. It’s so
strong that your arms and neck and face just feel like this prickle all day.
And then at nighttime the rain sets in and gets you nice and soaked. I had to
buy a new umbrella because of some hurricane like winds and rain a few days
ago. My boots are still holding up good, plus the pair of timberland shoes I
have are pretty waterproof. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Tonight we are going to work with President
Bautista. I always like that a lot. He usually works with the zonies once a
change but this will be the first time I have gone out with him in this area. I
always really like it because before hand we always do an hour of companionship
study with him, and that’s always fun. We have a few appointments with some
investigators but we don’t really have any great investigators right now so
hopefully it will go well. I have been thinking this might be my last change as
a zone leader so I will have to enjoy the time with President while I can. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">This
week we had two pretty exciting things happen. The first was we had a drunk guy
kick us out of his house with a monkey wrench. It was a less active and when he
answered the door you could tell (and smell) that he was obviously pretty
hammered. But he insisted that we come in so we went in and were talking to him
for a bit. When we realized he was too drunk to know what he was saying, we
tried to leave and he kind of stumbled to the door. We said a prayer real quick
with him to finish the lesson and then we started to walk to the front patio.
There is a front door and then a little gated patio and while we were standing
in the patio, my comp kept telling the guy to bring out his liquor and we could
pour it all out for him, but he wasn’t really responding at all. After three or
four times of telling him to bring it out, he finally agrees and walks into his
house again. We could hear him start moving around his bed or a cupboard or
something and I was just thinking to my self is this guy really going to do
this? But then all of the sudden my comp tells me to run, so I look around the
corner into the door and the drunk guy is stumbling towards us with this giant
monkey wrench ha-ha. Obviously he was too drunk to have been able to do some
damage, but regardless we knew that was the time to get out of there. So we
left and I look back, the guy is just standing there with the wrench and a
confused look on his face. Not sure if he was going to try and hit us with the
wrench, or if he wanted my comp to get rid of it for him. Either way I was just
kind of in disbelief and laughing to myself. He called me again yesterday and
asked me if we could go and walk him home, he said he was outside lost and drunk
and he wanted us to come get him. I just told him we were busy eating lunch and
he said that he understood and told us to come pass by his house later. Uhhhh
no thanks. Drunk people ha-ha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"> The other thing that was pretty funny,
was yesterday when we went to church, my comp and another priest were up ready to
bless the sacrament, and when the hymn starts they go to break the bread
and...no bread. They panicky whisper to the Bishop that there was no bread and
the Bishop really loudly says "how can there not be bread"? So some members in
the congregation notice and two run out really quickly to a store and bought
some bread like items. My comp was just sitting up on the stand dying laughing
the whole time, even through the prayers and all he was struggling. Just because
he was laughing too I couldn’t help but laugh. It was like a three-stooge
moment or something. Just good Guatemalan chaos. The good thing too was our
three investigators didn’t show up until after the sacrament, so they didn’t
get to see the whole fiasco. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Either way, life goes on. Things are good here. I
had to buy a new backpack this week so that is the expense on my card. I also
pulled out the money Grandma told me she was going to deposit. The rest of my
stuff seems to be holding up well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Anyways, I love you guys; hope you all have
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fair is in town this week and last week so it’s been pretty dead in our area.
Our area includes the center of the city and it’s been quite the party there
these last few days. They had some big parades and everything so our area was
looking a little ghost towny. Also we had probably the biggest rainstorm I have
ever seen in my life on Saturday. I couldn’t believe how hard it was raining.
We were on our way to an appointment when it started to rain, and the people
that we were supposed to go visit live in this apartment kind of complex. When we walked back to their house, I broke a light bulb outside of their
neighbors house with my umbrella (the roofs are really low here). Since our appointment
wasn’t home, we went and bought them a new light bulb. While we were walking to
a store to buy a new light bulb is when it really started to rain. We were
walking down the street and the rain and wind were going so hard my companion
and I both had our umbrellas pretty much straight in front of us instead of
above us, and then, my umbrella just breaks in half about a block from the
house. We run back to the house, I grab my raincoat, and we run back to this
house to change out the light bulb. By the time we do that, it was raining so
hard that the roads were all at least 6 inches deep in rainwater. We tried
heading home but the sidewalks were all covered with water so we ducked under a
little cover and we were hoping it would pass. A man close by was standing in
his garage and yelled at us to come in so that we wouldn’t get wet. So we ran
over to the garage. We talked to him for about half an hour when we realized
the rain wasn’t going to get any better, just worse, and that we just had to
face it and walk home. The water literally almost was up to my knees and we had
to walk home a couple blocks. We were just laughing by the time we got home
because we were soaked. When I got home and took my boots off it was like in
the cartoons when they turn their shoes over and pour all the water out. Like I
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live on the second floor of a house so no water entered into our house. Another
funny thing that happened this week, is we met this really cool investigator
whose name is Mefì, which sounded exactly like Nephi. I was so happy ha-ha, we
contacted him and I asked him like 5 times what his name was because I thought
he was messing with us. It wasn’t until after that my comp cleared it up for me
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">So first of all, I finally got Grandma’s
package this week. It was trashed and had some gross smelling brown liquid
spilt all over it, but it did get here. Grandma’s a champ though; all of the
stuff that was inside of the package was in plastic bags so nothing got the
stuff on it. Make sure and tell her thanks for me, and great choice on the BYU
tie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">As for the Momos, that is the one part of the
mission that I have never been too. Momostenango is actually a decent sized
city and fairly modern, but its famous because the stake is just that one city
and tons of little tiny aldeas that you can barely even call aldeas. They are
more like entire mountains where the houses are dotted out really far apart.
The missionaries in those areas have to live in a little room that’s part of
the chapel, and they have to go to Xela once a month in order to buy their
food. It’s the land of milk and honey though, the people there are super humble
and really except the gospel. Even though the areas are really big and spread
out over mountainsides, the members are super strong and the wards are growing
really fast there. It’s pretty wild though, like just imaging having an area
that is just a mountainside, no roads, nothing. Just walk in the direction your
trying to get to and walk until the house shows up. That’s funny you saw that
from Elder Snow though, because do you remember my old roommate Scott? I really
liked him, he had served his mission in New Zealand, and Elder Snow is my old roommates’
cousin ha-ha. They are super alike too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">Huehue is good though. It’s really hot in the
morning and afternoon until it starts to pour rain and we get soaked. Little
bit of the worst of both worlds ha-ha. Landon had told me they had gotten up to
120 though, that’s disgusting, I’ll be honest that would kill me. I have had
some hot days here, but never that hot. Why is Vegas such a big city, who wants
to live next door to Satan? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">Tomorrow are the changes. My ZL comp and I don’t
have changes, but our other comp has changes. It was a good change; I really,
really like both of these kids. Trio is fun because it’s easier to converse and
have fun, but it’s hard to teach, so the change has its plusses and minuses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">I baptized a lady today. She doesn’t live in my
area, but still. It kind of just fell out of the sky for some sister
missionaries in our zone and yesterday they called us to do the interview and
the lady said she wanted a gringo to baptize her, so I had to go today in the
morning and I got to baptize. It was cool even though it doesn’t count for me.
The last time I have baptized someone was April last year. It’s almost always
been a member that has done it, which is preferable, but it feeds the fire a
little bit every time you get to stand in the font. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">This week was really good though. Really
tiring. We had meetings in Xela and some other things going on, I woke up at
about 4:30 almost every day. I know mornings have never really been hard for
me, but 4:30 comes early every time. It’s nice and warm in the mornings though
so it’s not too bad, waking up when it’s cold outside, that’s when its hard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">4th of July was pretty normal. Our lunch
appointment fell thru so we ordered Dominos, that’s about as American as it can
get here, and my companion bought me an ice cream cone even though it was
pouring rain outside ha-ha. But other than that we just worked. Lots of people
here remembered that though, pretty much the whole day people were like hey,
happy independence day. Probably since like more than half of the people we
talk to have been in the states at some point illegally in their life, but
still, they remembered. Anyways, everything is good here. I love you all, say
hi to everyone for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">PS I don’t think I’ll be home thanksgiving day.
I'm not coming home early, sorry, I can’t. I wish I could extend honestly. I'm
not ready to go home....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah I did hear about the Elder that died. Some members told us the name and I am pretty sure I had recognized that name. When you said he also had 18 months yeah that must be him then. I remember he was in the CCM with me but he went to the other mission. He wasn't in my district but I did know him. That is so sad honestly. I haven't heard anything about it other than that though. Seriously though, that's too bad.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, this week was good. Its been super overcast but hasn't rained very much. I found some brand new timberland waterproof dress shoes in a used clothes store and paid about 100 quetz for them. It was seriously a great deal. They look brand new honestly. I am hoping I can wear these throughout the rainy season and preserve my eccos in good condition for when I'm done. Those eccos are really nice, but they aren't 100% waterproof because of the seams they have on the front. Plus I still have my boots that are in really really good condition so I am sure my feet will be nice and taken care of. This week we were out working in this little pueblo in our area the whole time. Its this little village called San Lorenzo, but its part of our ward. It's actually where our bishop lives. Its about fifteen minutes in a bus away from the city but its nice and calm out there. It's a nice break to get out of the city a little bit. Its really hectic actually the life in my area. The roads here are really really narrow and the cars all drive really fast, so I feel like I am playing frogger every now and then dodging through cars in the streets. So when we go out into the mountains its nice and calm. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My whole mission have wanted to go to one of the aldea areas where there are no roads or cars or anything, just pure mountains and little dirt paths. Maybe when I get changes they will send me there. I also like going to areas like that because we can do a lot of service stuff. I am actually pretty good with a machete but I cut my finger pretty bad on accident on Friday. It closed up alright though. No stitches. We are teaching a lot right now, just not having baptisms. Our date that we had for this week fell through because the guy couldn't attend church. Hopefully it just gets set back a week or two and that's all. We have interviews coming up this week but I still don't think I am going to talk with my mission President about when the release date is exactly. I still have plenty of time until I have to worry about those kind of things.... </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also they told us were going as a zone to the temple again. Not this week but next week. I am really excited about that. The temple here is really really pretty, and its nice to go and just not stress or worry about anything. Its like a good two hour vacation they give to missionaries. I got the package from you this week Mom. Thanks for sending all that stuff. I really really liked your class on balance. I let my comp who speaks English read it too and he also really enjoyed it. He was really surprised that you had written it, he thought it was someone high up in the church or something that had sent it. Other than that though, nothing really exciting happened this week. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good to hear from you, I love you all and have a good week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">Hey Mom,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">This week was good. Yeah Alex told me that it has been really,
really hot there. It’s not too bad here right now. We are into the rainy season
now so the blazing sun has stopped. It rains pretty much all the days here in
the afternoon so that cools it off nicely. It has been causing some problems
with the electricity in our area though so that’s kind of the down side. It has
gone out probably every other day here and this morning it went out again. I am
not sure if it was my fault or not but, I was trying to get into the shower,
and here there are no water heaters, there are just electric shower heads that
heat up the water as it comes out (yeah super safe). But when I turned it on,
it heated up for about 5 seconds and then I hear a little explosion from
outside. I walked outside and my companions where looking out our front window.
Our apartment is on the second floor and when I looked out of the window a
large mass of electric cables had melted and caught on fire and they were
burning other cables and I am pretty sure it took out the power on our whole
street. I didn’t mean to do it though ha-ha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">Like I said before too, it has been raining hard this week. On Thursday
we were out working in a little pueblo outside of Huehue and it started to
rain. We decided to head back into town before we got the heavy part of the
rain but we were too late. I even had my umbrella but we still got soaked. It
was windy too so everything from about belly button down was soaked in about 5
minutes. There weren’t any busses either, so we had to walk for about an hour
in that rain to get home. My comps and I were soooooo soaked. Literally the
only part of my body that wasn’t wet was my hair, my umbrella isn’t so great. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">Another funny thing that happened this week was our ward got a visit from the
stake patriarch yesterday. He gave a talk in Sacrament meeting and also the
class for the last hour. He talked the whole time about marriage but it was
actually really really good. There is a problem of YSA people here in this
town, just in my ward there are like 25 return missionaries that have more than
a year to be home and haven’t been married yet. Needless to say the topics are
usually marriage for that reason all of the Sundays. But he was talking about
how men don’t have to wait for their Virgin Mary and women don’t have to wait
for the Angel Moroni to come down from off of the top of the temple in order to
get married. Just that people need to accept responsibility and accept the next
step in their life to continue progressing. I really liked it though; the guy
was really giving it to the YSA people though.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">As for the changes I have no idea what’s going on just yet. This
is the last week of the change so next week we will know for sure. My comps are
still good. We have been in trio the whole time and I really enjoy them both. I
would be sad leaving them as companions, but the area wouldn’t be the hardest
to leave. It’s a good area, but I have had better, and I am kind of getting a
little bit of mountain fever since I have just been in the city my whole
mission. I sure hope my last area they send me to some crazy mountain area, that’s
my last wish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #e69138;">As for implementing facebook and things like that here in the
mission, I still don’t think those kind of things will be done here. One for
the security risks, we get robbed for having the crappiest cell phone in the
market. If people know we have ipads or blackberry phones in order to use
facebook, we would all get robbed so fast. Plus nobody here has a personal
computer so facebook is used, but nothing like in the states where it would be
a good means for communicating with and finding new people to teach. Like.... I
am in the mountains of Guatemala, let's be honest. </span></span></div>
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everything is good there, I love you all and hope all is well. I will talk to
you all next week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">First of all, Gaffganistan this is hilarious. I
love that guy ha-ha. I just remember one of his skits he starts talking about
he always dresses like a Mormon. That guy might have mental issues to be
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">As for the mangos, honestly I had never
actually eaten a mango before I got here to Guatemala. I had never actually
eaten one until my last area too. But in my last area I am not sure what it
was, but I ate one almost every day. They have some here that are about the
size of a football. Other than that though, we really don’t eat that much
fruit. I usually buy oranges in the super market because I feel like I might be
getting scurvy or something. There are fruits here, but not really. Since my
mission doesn’t have any coast there is not much natural fresh fruit here.
Literally the only things I eat are eggs, beans, corn, potatoes, rice and
chicken. On a rare occasion they will also give us fried platanos with cream.
It’s this giant banana that is really, really good. The ants were not something
normal. That was the first time I had ever seen anyone eat them but I had heard
that they do eat them sometimes. They come from this town an hour north of
where I am now, and they are crazy, crazy expensive honestly. It was a super
nice gesture from this lady to give them to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">I don’t exactly know what to think about Alex
selling my wisdom teeth on E-bay. Honestly what kind of freak would buy teeth?
Speaking of the rest of my teeth. All of the dental work I had done before my
mission, it’s safe to say that Guatemala has undone all of that. Almost all of
the fillings that I had done have fallen out. Maybe it’s a tender mercy from
the Lord that they don’t hurt. But even if they start hurting I am not going
back to a dentist in this country. The last time I went was definitely the
first and only time I will get dental work done here. So I’ll just put up with
it till I get home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">This week was good. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My comp, who I am zonie training, is super legit. He could be
my favorite comp that I have had. He is super smart and loves to work. We are
working really hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a little
frustrating when there are no fruits from the efforts, but at least it’s not
that bad. I could be serving in Europe somewhere still hoping for my first
baptism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">The rain went away this week. I don’t know what
happened but the sun settled in and this week was sooooo hot. We went to the
Zaculeu ruins this week. It was pretty cool I had never been before. It’s a
little cheap because the ruins aren’t 100% real. They have reconstructed
a lot of it but still it’s interesting. Also gave me a chuckle that there is a
sacrificial alter there that they still do sacrifices on. Also there is this
huge court that they used to play some kind of game in, but the thing is, the
winning team, the best player, at the end of the game would always be the
person sacrificed. How does that work? The motivation should be play well in
order to not die, not play well in order to have your heart ripped out by some
freaky priest. No thanks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">Either way, that’s all that’s new here, hope
you all have a good week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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