Hello Family! Well, I don´t know what it is, but time is going by WAY to fast! I have already been here in Chiquilajá for a change already! Changes are tomorrow, but neither I nor Elder Calero are leaving. So we are going to be together for another 6 weeks. I´m stoked for it, because he´s a good guy, and I feel like we can both learn some things more from each other. That´s what the mission is for, right? Right.
So yeah, we had a pretty unexciting week this week. Just another week of being a missionary! So see you guys next week!... Not. Jaja but really, nothing really happened thinking right now, but I´ll find something to write about, don´t worry!
I´ll tell you guys about our best lesson this week. It was with a 25 year old lady named Esperanza. We taught her about the Restoration last week, so we decided to follow up on the BoM. And she loved it. I felt so good during the lesson, and I felt the Spirit working through me to tell her what she needed. Wow, there just aren´t words to really express the feeling you feel when the Spirit works through you. But it is really something else. So we ended the lesson, and she seemed really excited to read it. But the thing is, we have a lot of people that say that. But it was true! We left, but my comp forgot something in the house. So we went back, and the door was open and we saw her reading! YES! KEEP ON READING! I loved it! So we will see how that goes.
We kind of had a rough week with Carla, who came to church last week. She was out of town the beginning of the week, and when we passed by on Friday for a cita that we set up, she ended up having to leave. So we ended up passing Sunday morning to take her to church, and the problems continued. The light and water went out for all of our part of Xela, so they had been without light/water since Saturday afternoon. And she basically told us that she wouldn´t go with us because the light was out... Curse you Satan! Dang it, that was a hard blow to us, but it happens, and we just have to keep going strong. We´ll go back with her to see how things go.
Elder Calero baptized a grandma and her daughter before I came. So now we have been really trying to bring the whole family into the church. And we made a lot of progress this week. We ended up going 7 of us to see the sights of the temple! There is a special spirit there, and we wanted them to feel it. So on Saturday night, we made our way up there. Well, we made a big mistake. We didn´t take in account of the Relief Society meeting that same day, so when we got there, the gates were closed because of said meeting. But we didn´t go all the way there for nothing! So we sat down on the grass and just talked about the temple with them, with the temple all lit up in the background. And man was that a good talk!
The temple really is a special place, and I feel really bad that I didn´t take full advantage of being in Utah, where according to the members here, "There are temples on every block!" Which is somewhat true. But I am going to really make the temple bigger in my life when I get back! And all of you that can, go to the temple! Always have it in your sights!
Guatemala is weird, just saying it now. I think that I´ve gotten so used to it though, because I don´t really see how it is weird. But I had the sudden thought come to me one day. I was standing in an old beat up school bus, jam packed with people, squished between an old man with about 4 teeth and a cowboy hat, and an old corte lady that only speaks K´iche´, with a chicken in her hand. And then it hit me, wow, that´s just weird. I wish I would have gotten a picture of it! Classic.
Guys, the scriptures are awesome. Really make it an effort to read AND study them every day. That is one thing that I love about the mission, the time to study. There are so many words of comfort, happiness, excitement, it just has it all. Especially the BoM. Wow, what an amazing book. I can´t get enough of it!
GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! WOO HOO!!! Be stoked. Prepare yourselves to be absolutely enlightened by living profets!
There y´all go, my week in a nutshell. Not really the best week in the mission, but it´s a week in the mission, so it´s special. Really though, I don´t think we realize how great of an opportunity this really is. And sometimes I forget it too. But there really is no greater work, and no other work that brings so much satisfaction. Hope on. Journey on. Until Next Time!
- Elder Stuart
D y C 30:6 I really am serving among the Lamanites!
