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San Francisco el Alto.  What an amazing place.

Playing with some little kids!

Market Day in San Francisco.  Guys, this place goes crazy on Fridays.  It´s ridiculous.

Not only do they sell clothes, food, and the normal stuff in the market.. They have a special place reserved for animals!  Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, everything!  It´s crazy!

Little pigs!  Man were they noisy!

Walking through the market.

Going to a member´s house, we have to cross a bridge with a beautiful view.  And this is the view we get from up high!

The difference between my shoes and the shoes of Elder Jerez...

San Francisco on Sunday mornings...  It´s a ghost town, seriously.  What people do here is Monday and Tuesday, they prepare everything to sell.  On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, they work hard, sell a lot of stuff, and get money.  And then on Saturday and Sunday, everyone either travels, or just stays in their houses.  Que dichoso!

Eating dinner with some members!

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This is a way the people here grind up corn.  Just crushing it on a good old rock.  So of course I had to try it out!

A cake we made for some investigators!  It turned out really well!

We went to the temple this week!  We reached our goal as a Zone to go, and it was so great.  So needed.  I can´t wait to go to the temple as often as I want!

The little baby of Margarita when we went to go make dinner for them.  So cute!  

Some of the cutest Guatemalan kids ever.  Seriously.  I want my kids to be just like them!

We made hamburgers for the 1st counselor in the Stake, and he loved it!  He was so happy, and it was really special for us to see him like that.

Just more of Guatemala!  Man I love this country so much!

The family of Becker and Alvin!

Oh my goodness, this was so funny.  So it was a less actives birthday on Sunday, so we made a cake for her.  Well, the tradition here is that after they blow out the candles, the take a bite, and someone shoves their face into the cake.  Not too much, just to cover up the mouth.  The thing is, this member was being dificult, and didn´t want us to push her into the cake!  So we all tried shoving her head in, me using my both hands, and this is what happened....  JAJAJAJAJA!  We were all laughing so hard!

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We found some shoes in a paca one day.  My shoe is the black on next to them.  Yeah, I´m pretty sure that not one chapín is going to buy these shoes...

We made cupcakes with a part-member family for Father´s Day, which is on the 17th of June.  Liz, you would be so proud!  Jaja

I did divisions in Santa Ana, an aldea in Momos this week.  And I just love the little kids here in Guatemala!  I take out my camera, and they all say, "Take a picture!  Take a picture!"  Jaja I love them.

A view of Santa Ana.  The whole area looks like this, and I love it!

We had a ward activity on Saturday, and this was everyone eating afterwards.  The Ward here is pretty small, but they are really united, which is really a miracle!  I love these people so much!

Just another beautiful Guatemalan Sunset.  I don´t know why, but I think the corn stalks make the scenery, or is it just me?  

We went to go visit an aldea named Chuichaj where some menos activos live.  It´s pretty far away.  To give you all an idea, we had been walking for about 45 minutes when we took this picture.  The city that is in my hand?  That´s San Francisco.  And we needed to walk there...  Yeah, that´s how this part of Guatemala is!

Man, I totally forgot to tell you guys what happened today!  There was a strike here in San Francisco!  Apparently the government is planning to tear down some of the forest here to build a mine.  And the people are upset, so they striked today.  They didn´t let any transportation go by, and incluso they robbed a pepsi truck by force!  So it was advised that we not leave the house... But we got hungry.  So we went to a tienda (a mini store) that a member owns, but we shut the door so no one would know we were inside!  Jaja it was kind of scary, because people were walking down the street with machetes and such.  But it sure was interesting!

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A good ole Mexican Torta.  Aka lunch every monday.


This is the normal rainstorm in Guatemala.  I hope that you can see it, but it was absolutely pouring!!!


 We cut this tree down just for some random lady.  And no, we did not use a chain saw.  Not even an axe.  We used a machete.


Huehuetenango at night.


We just saw this on the side of the road one day.  Do you know the weird thing about it?  It´s still there after about a week...  Just like nothing had happened.


This was at the cultural night I was telling you guys about last week.  We had a really good turnout too!


 Chili Relleno, one of the best meals here.  Basically it´s Jalapeño peppers stuffed with meat and veggies.  So good!!!


Aura at her baptism!


 Elder Pagán and I playing the "Make a bunch of silly faces and see which one comes out!" game.


I love Guatemalan kids so freaking much!

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Look at all of this wood we chopped.  Took us a little over a half an hour with both of us going at it.  I´m definitley going to miss doing this when I`m not here anymore.

Us playing jump rope with some investigators.

Just some classic Guatemalan kids for you guys.

My main man Elder Keele hitting his two year mark.  So we celebrated!

These are about half of the corte ties that I`ve gotten during my mission.  I don`t think I`ll ever wear a normal tie ever again.

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Zone picture at the temple.

Me at the temple.

Every Saturday, this member kid comes to shine our shoes.  Well, some people found out, and gave him more shoes to shine.  And these are all the shoes that he shined!

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We found a really awesome guy who was really interested in our message!...  Ha

Temple!  The members are the second and fourth people, the rest are investigators that we brought.  And although we couldn´t go any closer, it was still special.

I just had to show you the cutest little member girl!  Guatemalan kids are so darn cute!  (And just try to ingore the big mass of who knows what on the side...)

This is the awesome sunset view that we view everyday, and I thought that you guys would like to see it!

Just the volcano that covers all of Xela!

We went up to the lookout place again, so I took more pictures!  In this picture, you can actually see my area, but to point it out to you guys would be too hard...  So yeah.

  Xela, here I come!

 Rockin the Mayan warrior look.

Just being a kid again.  And LOVING it!

Another "O Jerusalem" picture for you guys!