tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7482275842035090232024-02-07T11:57:18.753-08:00Guatemala Retalhuleu Mission -Elder JensenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-46756315434169259592015-11-09T16:13:00.005-08:002015-11-09T16:13:55.550-08:00Reu!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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write another email to you all about how my week went but this is the last
time! I don´t know what to think! It is almost exactly like when I started 50%
fear, 25% sad, 25% excited. It is so weird!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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worked super hard. We were able to go on a visit to almost all of the further
zones this week. We left early on Thursday to go visit the Coatepeque
zone and help them analyze their dats and work and see where they can improve.
President accompanied us and has been sharing a really cool story in 1 Samuel
chapters 1 and 2 that talks about the faith Hannah had to give her son to the
Lord and the lack of faith and dedication to the lord of Eli and and his sons
(who ate the Lord´s offerings in the temple and did bad things). It is super
cool and I love learning from President. Later we traveled to Malacatán and
stayed the rest of the day helping them with some of the investigators in the
zone that could be baptized soon. We also got to go up a massive massive hill
with Jaime´s (that´s the pickup truck´s name) 4 wheel drive which was awesome.
We got to stay the night in the San Rafael hotel (¡Hot shower!). We set out early on Friday to the
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did something awesome as well. We decided to start filming a video of us
challenging people to know more about the church and be baptized in the street.
It was remarkable because all the missionaries have the mentality that in the
mountains the people are too hard and closed but we were actually able to
record many people that accepted the invitation to attend church and prepare to
be baptized! The most spiritual moment was when we talked to a security guard
(who wouldn’t let us film). We continued talking to him and found that he had a
huge desire to attend a ¨Mormon¨ church service (since he had already tried
everything else). I have never heard somebody say this but he said ¨there is no
doubt in my mind that I will be attend with you this Sunday with my
wife and 2 kids.¨ It was amazing and my heart was filled with so much gratitude
for the opportunity to be an instrument in the Lord’s hand so that he can talk
to his children!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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own area. Elder Kanahele and I saw a
certain house that we both felt that we needed to go and talk. Well, we met V.
that night. She used to love visiting with the missionaries and after a few
minutes of getting to know her we decided to call her ¨Aunt V.¨ and she really
liked that. ¨Aunt V.¨ wasn´t able to make it to church this Sunday but
I am sure that in the coming weeks she is going to progress tons in the gospel.
Another amazing moment! (This is why I get a little sad to be leaving and miss
out on this action!) She has 2 really fun little kids that we loved making
jokes with. One of them told me that I weigh about 30 pounds. I guess I look
way bigger than my companion because she said that he is only 9 pounds. Unfair!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have a baptism on my last day and this tomorrow J. (who Elder Walton
and I were led to about 4 months ago) will be baptized!! We helped her get
married on Saturday and we are pumped for her baptism tomorrow!</span></div>
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love this work so much and I am glad that the Lord prepares the way for us to
continue even after the full time mission. These 2 years are the happiest I
have ever been, without a doubt. You want to be happy? Go and make others
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-27481047267816744282015-11-02T15:37:00.003-08:002015-11-02T15:37:48.765-08:00I love Guatemala!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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multi-zone conferences on Wednesday and Thursday. On
Wednesday we had to start early the conference in Malacatan for that half
of the mission. So we went Tuesday night
to sleep in a super awesome hotel in a place called San Rafael. Let’s just say
they have hot shower water and it was extremely hard to get out of the shower
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conferences and we showed a pretty awesome video of us opening our mission
calls and a few other people who served here and everyone highly enjoyed that
and was reminded of the joy we should always maintain here in the mission
field. We also got the chance to show a cool video of President Monson in a
talk called <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1990/04/my-brothers-keeper?lang=eng" target="_blank">"My brother’s keeper."</a> He talks about the worth of a
human soul and that helped us all remember the worth each soul has that we
teach every day and we should strive much harder to teach our best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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missionary from Brazil is coming to the Reu Mission. It was funny because while
I was in the office for a moment the office phone rang and it was someone
trying to speak Spanish to us. It turns out that it was the travel people from Brazil
trying to see if the missionary had gotten here. I was super confused because I
thought it was a joke of somebody saying they spoke Portuguese but as we talked
more I realized it was serious and it was super funny because we were trying to
speak very simple Spanish for them to understand and trying to pronounce Portuguese
from google translate. Eventually we somehow got the message across that the
missionary was still in the CCM. At the end of the call the guy yelled out in
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moment of the week was that on Saturday there was a baptism from
another ward scheduled later in the day. The only problem was that we had to
fill the font and we have no key to open the door to the fun. Well, we
brainstormed a good solution. We set up a table and put a big stack of chairs
on top to be able to jump into the font over the big glass wall
protecting it. It seemed simple but when I was standing up on top getting ready
to jump in it seemed twice the height! I finally just yelled "anything for
a baptism!" and jumped in. I had a nice landing on the back of my
feet and later on my rear end but nothing broken or injured. My companion said
he felt like it was slow motion as I fell through the air to the bottom of the
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companion and I have to work together in our assigned area are very special and
the Lord has blessed us lot. This week we had the chance to talk to a member of
the church that hasn't been attending for a long time now. She was excited to
tell us about some of her family members close by that we could teach and she
referred us to one of her brothers who we taught yesterday. As we taught L. and
his wife, T. I was happy to be teaching and testifying again to a family (even
though as we taught my companions bench broke in mid-lesson, now the second
time that has happened to my companions). We hope to have some good lessons
with them this week and that they can have some strong spiritual answers as
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another week of hard work and helping the mission. It has been really hard for
me to think that soon I will no longer be in this land I have grown to love so
much and I will have to say goodbye to the people that now have a special place
in my heart. I am so grateful for the chance I have had to serve in the lands
where Lehi’s descendants walked and lived!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week as we helped with yet another round of emergency changes. I think due
to that we have kind of burned out our Christmas music so we probably won’t
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got the chance to go work in Tecun Uman, the hottest part of the misión. It was
the only part I had never seen and it happen to be chilly the day we were there
because of the rain! We got to go down and help the Elders in a place called
Ocos, which is a beach town. It is a super simple place and almost all of the
houses have grass leaf roofs and have bamboo walls so that was super, super
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ready for his baptism that same Friday. His testimony of the church was so
strong and despite his major health problems that make it hard for him to breathe
and move around a lot he was set and excited for his baptism. He also gave me a
little bit of this super weird cream he had that when I put it on my forehead
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few hours in my old área, Libertad! It was a great experience because I went
back to show the Elders many of the people I had taught but for certain
challenges hadn’t been able to continue in church or be baptized. Well, we went
to talk to one guy named J. that I vividly remembered some super spiritual
lessons with him and he was super excited to see Elders at his home and
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Coca Cola. No joke. Pretty much on any Street you can find a little Guatemalan
kid bringing 2 or 3 glass liter bottles of coke to their house from the store.
The new thing I learned is that not only the people of Guatemala love coke so
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pretty foreign concept. The fun thing is that the 31st will
be a Saturday so we can help people prepare to be baptized
that day. One man we met in Coatepeque this week was named Elowee and was
struggling to decide if he would be baptized the 31st or later in November.
Well, he certainly liked our joke that if he would be baptized the 31st we
could start a new holiday in Guatemala called ¨Elowee´ instead of Halloween.
He got a got laugh out of that and we hope that after he prays and
reads a Little more of the book of Mormon this week he can feel that it is
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preparing with President for 2 big multi-zone conferences with the 2 halves of
the misión. These are always pretty exciting but also a ton of work so we are
always grateful to have the Lord´s assistance and have the
Spirit guide us on what to say and do to help the missionaries in this
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that I have more than 2 years in the mission. The funniest is with the members
or with the nonmembers that know we are only here for 2 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Seventy. He asked have a leaders council with all of the leaders in the
mission on Tuesday and boy was it amazing! I guess this visit had President
Ruiz pretty stressed but we were able to help out as we prepared an evaluation
of the whole mission and some goals for the year during the leaders council.
After getting ourselves prepared we actually were able to find some good
solutions in the meeting and Elder Alonso was pretty pleased with everything we
presented and talked about. One thing I really took away from his visit was how
vital it is to submerse ourselves in the scriptures. He shared a few stories
from the New Testament and was able to show us that in each one there was
symbolism to the atonement and the plan of salvation. It was amazing!! One thig
that I loved was his explanation that we shouldn´t have any fear at all to
share this message with everyone in every moment, the people will be the ones
that will have fear at times to accept it but we should never ever have fear or
doubt in sharing it with others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After that my companion and I have a challenge going on. We have
decided that in every single tuc we get in we are going to boldly invite each
driver to be baptized in the church and also invite everyone who we ask for
directions (which we do a ton since we are in a ton of random places we don´t
know each week). We have actually had some very spiritual experiences so far
doing that and we are able to continue ministering to the people even though we
aren´t in our area that much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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change adventures. First, on Tuesday we got to leave at 6am to take a
couple of Elders to their new areas in San Marcos (3 hours away). The most
memorable moments were somehow getting our poor pickup to start up in a gas
station after many failed attempts, asking a ton of directions in the mountains
since my comp and I have never been there (and many of the first attempts at
asking directions were members of the church that helped us tons). Once we got
up to the mountains we were able to talk to both of the zones. We showed a cool video from Elder
Christofferson about <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-08-013-daily-bread-experience?lang=eng" target="_blank">daily bread</a>. We talked about that we can't just not study and hope that the
Lord is going to make everything go okay, we have to humble ourselves and
remember him each day like the Israelites did with the manna. It was fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This time my companion didn't make the same mistake as he did Tuesday (on
Tuesday, after doing an experiment of sleeping on our tile floor he woke up at 2:30AM
thinking that it was time to go and got ready to leave and discovered that it
was still 2:30AM). But we still got up early to go to a place called La
Blanca (a town just above a beach called Tilapa). It was another fun journey
and we enjoyed listening to some Christmas music (since there is no Halloween or
Thanksgiving in Guatemala we thought we would jump ahead) and also some cool
CES devotionals. It was a fun day and we were able to come across some amazing
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details. I am just so glad for the change of heart I have been able to find
serving the Lord. I was thinking a lot on the scripture in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/5?lang=eng" target="_blank">Mosiah 5:2</a> that
talks about not wanting to do bad things ever again and I am working make that
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to do a good description of the week because I write certain events in my
missionary planner but I lost it on a bus today! We will see how good I can
remember all the stuff that happened this week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have had a great time together. There is nothing better to have a companion
that also loves the work with all his heart. We were working super hard on
Tuesday and Wednesday because we had to train all of the zone
leaders, district leaders, and all the news and their trainers in just 2 days.
But, somehow we did it, and were able to get some awesome food for everyone. I
always enjoy getting the chance to talk to all of the leaders in the mission
and help them feel a bit more capable and excited to go out and get the mission
doing the best it can.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really inspired leader’s council on Tuesday with President and all of
the zone leaders where we came to the conclusion that there is a small issue
with pride right now in the mission. We decided that the whole
mission needed to study the Elder Benson talk called <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride?lang=eng" target="_blank">Beware of Pride</a>. We have
actually seen some awesome results (personally as well) because after that talk
we were able to find out that many companionships haven't been studying
together because they think their own abilities and skills are enough to help
them succeed even if they haven't studied in the morning. President was able to
figure all of this out after visiting a few zones and it has been cool to see
things improve and get the whole mission back on its studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoyed being back in the area here in Reu again because I have been able to
return back and visit the investigators that my companions and I had found and
taught back in July. We actually had an amazing experience with a husband named
C. and his wife J. Elder Merrill and I had found them back in July but I never
heard anything new about them. Well, we returned and found that they were very
excited to see us again and we are helping them right now get ready to be
married so that they can be baptized (Hopefully before I leave!!). It has been
a great experience and a testimony that God really does prepare the hearts of
the people to receive his word with joy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also met a tuc driver whose name was "Evil". He actually had a pretty
good story about how he got it. I guess his mom found a biblical book that was
written in English. Knowing that the book was biblical she decided to pick
out any word from the book and give that to her son. Well, it turns out she
picked the work evil and assuming that it was some righteous word she named her
kid "Evil". He is scared to ever go to the states because they will
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many many cookies. Hopefully this week we can try some brownies!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the chance to represent the Lord and help in his work. I have learned a lot
in the past few days how essential it is to have the Spirit to make important
decisions and I am trying my hardest to maintain that Spirit each day to loosen
my tongue and help Gods children in all parts of the mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Hawaii so I am trying to get into the culture. Well, you guessed it, I got
changed this week. I am back in the office as the assistant to president
helping take care of the mission! It has been an adjustment but at least I
already had the experience and I have loved getting to know and be with my new
comp, Elder Kanahele, he is super awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only a short time in San Felipe I really grew to love a lot of the people and
families that I had gotten to teach. I am so glad I got that chance to be there
and learn. This week I got to remember how ´fun´ it is to travel on the buses
again. We actually got to sit right behind this super fun baby who was about 2
years old. By the end of the ride on the bus we were able to get him dancing to
the music on the bus so we got a kick out of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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parts of the week was seeing the group of missionaries that I started with
leave. It has been so fun to serve with them until this point and grow
together. But then again, I feel there is a little more for me to give in the
coming weeks. During the good-bye meal with them L. (president´s granddaughter)
decided to turn into a zombie and was trying to bite me in the leg. She failed
but later got revenge when she bit me on the shoulder. That was pretty silly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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struggles so we got to go visit and work with them. The fun part was that I was
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in his bed. When he was baptized he just had a jump in his step and so excited
to be a new member of the church but he has gotten very sick but I know he will
get better and back to church soon. It is hard to express how much I have
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questions to older Guatemalan people. In Mazate I was able to go help some
missionaries with an older investigator that they were teaching. After talking
to him I was pretty surprised by how young he looked and how old he really was.
I asked how he managed to look so young and healthy. He gave me an unexpected
answer, ¨Don´t drink cold things¨. I was astonished, I have no idea how science
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week that we were in the office waiting on President to arrive to meet with
him. We got a little board and started throwing up skittles in the air and
catching them in our mouth. My companion got pretty creative and managed to do
an amazing trick shot that I just can´t get over. With his back to the wall
(sitting down in an office rolling chair) he threw the skittle behind his back
bouncing it off the wall and then off the ceiling and right into his mouth! It
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of my mission! I will definitely have to burn a shirt or something because most
US missionaries don´t get to make it to the same date they left (because of how
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in my own area until Thursday. On Monday we had a leaders’ council in Reu
where we made some plans for how our mission can bring the most new families to
the <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/events/october-2015-general-conference?lang=eng" target="_blank">General Conference</a>. Sadly the room where my companion and I stayed in the
hotel had not fans or anything but I think my body is now in super hot coast
mode because I had no problems. On Tuesday I went to work in another
area of the zone since I had return to Reu in the night to be able to go with
my CCM group to the temple the next day. The temple trip on Wednesday was
super awesome and I was able to commit to the Lord that I am going to give him
all I’ve got in these next few weeks! I felt really good after and I am ready
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progression of the P. Family (L. and A. and their 5 kids). There really is a
light in their faces every time we come and as they learn more and more about
the gospel. One thing I have also enjoyed is to see the value the family has
for the Book of Mormon. They always handle it with care and love reading new
things between each visit. They also started inviting us to visit and teach
their family members that live close by and we have gotten to meet some other
really cool families as well! I think that really is the best way to share the
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companion and I have been teaching a family where the husband was baptized
about a year and a half ago (I actually happened to be in that baptismal
service never imagining that I would be teaching him and his wife someday) and
his wife never chose to be baptized. One
of the members of the church who lives close by, took it upon himself to go
give them a visit without us knowing about it. Well, to our surprise, about
halfway through the sacrament meeting, who walked in? H. and E. with their family!
It was a miracle and a huge testimony to me that the members of the church can
almost always help people feel comfortable coming to church than the
missionaries can. It was an awesome experience and a good lesson for the
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I enjoyed my last Guatemalan Independence day with a fun
activity in the ward with a ton of fun cultural presentations (dances, songs,
food) and we the missionaries got to act out some good jokes for all the
members that they all enjoyed. One of them involved 3 crazy people that find a
car in the desert. After being days lost in the desert they wonder how the car
could help them. One crazy person takes a seat to sit when he’s tired, the
other takes the radiator to drink when he’s thirsty, and the last takes the
door. ¨Why the door?” they ask him, “To roll down the windows when I´m hot!” We
got some good laughs for that one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that we had been teaching) were baptized this weekend. It was super fun because
their mom came and also brought some more family members who we hope to start
teaching. Also we got to do the baptism with 2 other areas in the zone that had
baptisms so that was cool as well. It is amazing what can happen when the
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amusement park). Something new we did was go see a super cool presentation they
did in the park of 2 spacemen that get lost in space. Part of the show was a
group or 5 or 6 dancers that danced in the pitch black dark with LED lights on
them and they did some awesome stuff that made it look like they were flying through
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another great highlight of the week was on Monday. A few hours
after I had finished writing on Monday we went out to work in the afternoon
(since Friday we were going to go to xetulul). Well, I was on divisions with a
brand new Elder from Arizona who is working hard to learn the language and has
a lot of faith and works hard. We both left the house with a super positive attitude
that we were going to find an awesome family to teach. Well, the Lord blessed
us for our great attitude that day and we met a new family named the P. Family.
The dad is L. and the mom A. They have 7 kids. We had a wonderful lesson with
them and learned that the dad (who works in the amusement park) is about to
have his work schedule changed to rest on Sundays! (after years of having to
work Sundays). This is no coincidence! I continue to be amazed that the Lord
trusts us to find such special families to teach. They even invited us to eat
lunch with them during the week and we are going to go again this week! They
will be attending church this next week and I am so excited to continue seeing
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am so grateful that the Lord can trust in my companion and I
to teach these chosen people the gospel. I strive to always be worthy of that
trust and find more and more prepared people each day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once you really start to put your heart into an area and work to
find prepared people you just want to stay there for a good while. My companion
and I have really been blessed lately with some great people to teach and I
hope to see as much of their conversion as I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the coolest experiences of the week was with L. (the mom
of a sister missionary in the field whose husband is also a member). She has
really softened her heart after seeing her daughter go on a mission. We had the
chance to kneel down with her this week and listen to her ask Heavenly Father
if she needed to be baptized in the church. As we prayed I felt something so
special and after she finished her prayer she remained kneeling for a few
minutes in silence just pondering and after we finished she explained the peace
that had come into her mind. She hasn't yet accepted a date to be baptized but
she is feeling the spirit and we know it won´t be long before she makes the
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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excited to go back to church and part of that is that they've given us a lot of
people that we can teach. Some of the friends of the sons of this family have
been coming to church. Their names are A. and W. They are super awesome and
even wore their white shirts to church this past Sunday. We are helping
them get ready for baptism and hope that it all goes well for them to be
baptized this Saturday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the homes of the members they never get tired of saying things like this- ¨Eat
elders! Eat! ¨ ¨Elders there is plenty of tortilla, eat tortilla! ¨ ¨Elders,
eat slow, eat calmly! ¨ ¨Do you want more elders! ¨ It just makes me laugh
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes on the bus rides it gets tricky to get the money out
of your pockets to pay the bus fee. Well my companion took advantage of a short
stop to hop off the bus and get his money out but when he looked back the bus
had started leaving him behind and I was still on it! He tried grabbing on the
back but slipped right off! It took some yelling “Stop the bus!” rom me to
finally get it to stop so that my companion could hop back on! We had a good
laugh about it after. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One cool thing we did this week with the zone was teach them a
little bit about how important it is for us to personally repent of our
mistakes as missionaries and feel the healing power of the <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/atonement-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng" target="_blank">Atonement</a> first, so
that we can give more and work harder and teach better as missionaries. What we
did is invite all the companionships to go do a prayer ´<a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/first-vision-accounts?lang=eng" target="_blank">Joseph Smith</a> style´ in
their areas (in a forest). It ended up helping a lot and I enjoyed praying in a
pretty spot we found with a small river and some trees and after I had prayed
for a few minutes and committed to work harder to the Lord I felt a lot better
and a lot of the missionaries as well!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-68519007679138738232015-09-07T15:59:00.000-07:002015-09-07T15:59:05.292-07:00Keep moving forward.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To my disappointment I got to the internet today and realized
that I haven´t taken any pictures this week! I guess when there is so much
stuff going on taking pictures just kind of slips the mind. Oh well, hopefully
this awesome email makes up for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had a super enjoyable week since the excitement of the ward
has gone up to do missionary work. We had a cool meeting with the bishop and
some of the hard working members of the ward to get the work rolling in our
ward and the members have really responded well. That makes our lives so much
easier and so many more people getting interested in the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mission leader named S. He is about 70 years old and he is a hoot! He is so
funny! He took us out in his truck one morning to go and meet all of the
investigators that we are teaching. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(giving them hugs and everything) and after his visits many people were now
willing to come to church with us on Sunday and learn more. It was
too fun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One cool thing that we implemented in the zone this week was
that on Tuesday we mixed up all the companionships, so that the
missionaries could get to know their companions of the zone and also get to
give some new ideas and excitement to other areas. It was super successful and
many of the areas that weren´t able to get people to come to church on
Sunday had lots of new people present in church. Also we are getting a lot
of people ready for baptism the 19th of September so that we can have
a big baptismal service as a zone that day. We just have to keep praying and
working hard and making miracles happen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week as we were trying to figure out how to find more
interested people we saw a paper that talked about a family where the husband
was a member of the church and some of the kids but the wife hadn´t decided to
join the church yet. Well, we found ourselves in their house and the wife (L.)
was super excited to see missionaries again. I guess the missionaries hadn’t
visited for over 5 or 6 months and we immediately saw something special in her.
She had stopped going to her other church and was excited since her daughter
had just left on her mission to El Salvador several months back. Well, after
some really awesome visits this week she came to church with her husband
despite the fact that the Guatemalan elections took place Sunday. We are
so excited to keep teaching her!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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well and we continue seeing miracles!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-38722288609407151622015-08-31T17:48:00.002-07:002015-08-31T17:48:32.478-07:00A time to laugh...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I like how our Heavenly Father never stops throwing new
challenges in our path. We didn't quite get the results that we were hoping
this past month but I like challenges like this because I am learning to try
new things and think of new ideas to help more people receive the blessings of
the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have a really cool young man in our ward (A.) that loves to
come out and visit with us. He is super funny and played a pretty funny joke on
me. We were in the middle of contacting a few people at their home when I felt
a major burning sensation on my elbow. I looked back and A. had rubbed a weird
looking leaf on my elbow. It seriously felt like my elbow was on fire! We had
big laugh about it after but I never imagined that so much pain could be
invoked with a tiny little leaf. It would have been nice for him to tell me
that by putting water on it the pain disappears but he let me `experience` the
pain for 10 or 15 minutes first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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companion. He was on divisions one day in another area when I called him to
figure out some details on things and out of nowhere he started coughing a ton
and yelling `I swallowed a fly!`. It took a few more seconds to get the fly out
of his throat and to get the nasty taste out of his mouth but we both enjoyed
that little moment. Later as he was giving another Elder a haircut he decided
to do the authentic Guatemalan haircut routine where the barber puts a ton of
white powder on a brush to get all the loose hair out. Well unfortunately he
forgot the fan was on full blast and, let`s just say his pants that were black
were suddenly white, and his face, and the other elder`s face. Yeah, that was
fun to clean up after.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My companion and I decided this past week to start trying a lot
of different techniques to find new people to teach. We had found a lot of the
records of people that had been taught in the past by the Elders. We were able
to have some cool experiences seeing people faces light up as they saw Elders
again and many of them have been taught by the angel missionaries (like it
teaches in Alma 13:24). Also, we have searched and found many members of
the church that for whatever reason have stopped attending. One Family, the R.
Family, was so happy to see Elders in their home again and have even given us
several dinners. They are so excited to come back to church that they are
starting to talk to many of their friends and neighbors to listen to the
lessons and come to church with them. I am glad that the Lord is helping us
learn new ways to find people to teach. I will continue to pray a lot this week
to find even more of these people that are praying for us to come to their
homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was brought to church by the member who lives almost 3 hours away) and also
with Santiago (an older man who has listened to missionaries for almost the
past 6 or 7 months). I know big miracles will happen with them soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-31738863845134921492015-08-25T16:56:00.001-07:002015-08-25T16:56:46.687-07:00Acts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some weeks I remember to note down a ton of fun stuff that
happened in the week and that is usually when I have good emails but sadly this
week I didn`t get on that. But, I guess we`ll see how much I remember from this
last week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Wednesday we had the changes and luckily I get to stay a
little while longer here in San Felipe. It was hard to see some good friends finish
their missions (former companions E. Walton and E. Merrill) but it`s good to
learn to make new friends as well. Also since it is the end of summer there
have been a ton of new gringos coming into the mission. Wow, brings back some
fun memories to see those scared but excited faces. We have 4 new missionaries
(from the CCM I mean) in our zone and I love the excitement they bring from the
CCM. Actually, because of some interviews that we had to do, I got to be 3 days
with one of the new missionaries from Honduras, Elder Sanchez, so I really
enjoyed being with him (considering that all the new missionaries I trained
went home and I never really got to experience training). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decided to get a little more creative so we split up into 2 groups and 1 group
acted out <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/9?lang=eng" target="_blank">Acts 9</a>, the story of Saul being converted and the other group acted
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/16?lang=eng" target="_blank">Acts 16</a>, about the jailer who gets baptized. It was really fun and we were able
to apply the principles of these stories and learn about great missionaries
from old times. Of course it didn`t hurt to throw in a few laughs in our acts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people here in Guatemala. Even though many of them don`t have much interest in our
message they can be quite the hoot. For example, we got to meet an older man
that goes all over the place on his bike. He always has these huge sun glasses
on and after talking to him for a moment we learned several new things.
Apparently if you eat enough vegetables in one day you can gain the ability to
fly. That was new for me. Later in the week, on older lady that heard me making
the sound I do when I scratch my throat, helpfully suggested that I should find
some medicine because I had a bladder infection. I guess somehow the bladder
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convert that I talked about last week) prepare for her baptism. One of the best
parts was that since the baptismal font in the San Felipe building is brand
brand new, the water comes out crystal clear. It was nice not to have to dump a
ton of blue powder into the water to change it from green to blue. The service
was very nice and B. was able to get prepared on Sunday to be able to
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member of the church that lives 2 hours from San Felipe. He lives in a place
called El Tumbador. Well, he has a really good friend of his that lives in our
area. We had tried to find her in her house to be able to teach her more about
the church, since a few months ago her husband was killed in an accident. Well,
this member (named J.) was very determined to help his friend feel the peace
and joy of the gospel so he traveled all the way from El Tumbador to bring Je.
(the name of his friend) to our church meeting that starts at 8 in the morning!
It was something that amazed me and made me hope that I can be that type of
member missionary my whole life! We have started the lessons with Je. and she
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packed week! We spent most of the week preparing for our big mission activity on
Friday, a play we acted out about the first missionary lesson, the Restoration
of the church. It was a really well planned act and we adopted the idea of the
Jenga block example I have always used. We were able to act out how God has
always called prophets and later I got the chance to explain in front of the
200+ people that showed up the example of the Jenga blocks. Something amazing
is that I absolutely have no fear to speak in front of tons of people now, and
in Spanish. Maybe when I have to do it in English I will be afraid again but in
Spanish it comes on almost naturally. But getting back on topic, it was a
really cool presentation, and Elder Merrill, my last comp, got to be Joseph Smith
and after everyone wanted pictures with him. Poor guy, he told me his eyes hurt
pretty bad from all the camera flash. A little over 50 investigators showed up
from all parts of the zone and it was a big success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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miracle for us was that a recent convert named M. brought her teenage daughter
to this presentation we did. She had pretty much lost interest in the church
and wasn´t going with her mom anymore (because in the past she went a lot to
church). She had never come to the decision to be baptized either. But, after
watching the act we did on Friday she came on her own to church with
her mom and as we visited her in the evening and watched the video of John
Tanner´s baptism, she picked her own baptism date for this Saturday! It
was a super awesome moment and we are excited to help her this week to be ready
for baptism on Saturday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seeing all of my good friends from the Central ward here in San Felipe (where I
served about a year ago). The best has been seeing that K. and her family (the
first person I baptized) come to church each week. Her older brother M. started
coming to church for the first time about a month ago. I was able to talk a
little bit with him after the event Friday to help him with a lot of
his doubts that kept him from being baptized. After a long conversation I was
able to see that he had never gone through a process of repentance in all his
life. He was carrying a large load of guilt and didn`t even know how to be free
from it. As we met again on Sunday I had the biggest impression that
we both just needed to kneel down and he needed to offer a true, heartfelt
prayer. As we did he offered a wonderful prayer and after described a warm
feeling he felt in his heart and that that heavy burden was gone! It was a
super cool moment and M. is now preparing to be baptized this Saturday.
The sister missionaries that are in the Central ward will be helping him to be
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at my companion and I a little differently this week. Later we found out why
when one of the members told us we were famous. We were a little confused as to
why we were famous when he explained that a picture that showed up on the
internet and in the newspapers had us 2 right in it. The article attached
didn`t talk anything about us but it was fun to see our picture there. We had
stopped earlier that week to talk to one of the members of the ward as he stood
on the street campaigning for one of the political parties and some random
newspaper photographer had taken a picture of us with them and that is why we
got to be famous this week! (I will send you the picture that showed up all
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got a little bit creative. We had seen a small problem that many areas weren`t
teaching a very large amount of lessons. The only thing I could think of is the
parable of the sower that plants a ton of seeds in a ton of places, next to the
path, in the rocks, with the weeds, and in good ground. Well, we bought these
giant beans that looked like seeds and we gave each missionary a little paper
telling them which ground they were (stony ground or weeds, etc.,). Well we
showed them that when we randomly planted only 6 seeds, we almost got none in
good ground, but later when we worked harder and planted 16 or 17 seeds a lot more
of them fell in good ground and gave us fruit. It was fun throwing all those
seeds around at the end and we`ve seen a good affect in the zone after.
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that happened, like the power going out for several days, a day that my
companion took the keys of our house with him on divisions and we had to break
in, and other little crazy stuff but I ran out of time and space! I am just so
grateful for the chance to be working hard here in San Felipe and see more
miracles this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AHHHHHH! That is the
sound that my legs would make if they could talk. It has been a super fun time
being back in the field but my legs are still trying to get used to walking all
day again so that`s been interesting. Especially since our area where we work
is super far out of town and we have to walk home since there aren`t buses.
It`s just a comment though, not complaining! I am actually loving my time here
in San Felipe and getting back to working my heart out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Monday E. Merrill
and I get to plan out all the crazy transportation to work out the 13 emergency
changes that had been planned. Luckily everything was smooth and I was able to
make it to San Felipe with only one suitcase since I left a ton of stuff in the
office house (hopefully the stuff will still be there in a few months). It has
been fun seeing all the people I knew and served with when I was in San Felipe
almost a year and a half ago. Surprisingly a lot of members remember me and
were super happy to see me back in the stake. Actually some of them have
already given me some meals!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and visited the zone on Wednesday and announced a little about a cool play/show
that the missionaries of the office are going to put on this week that way we
can bring a ton of investigators and less active members. They are going to act
out the first missionary lesson, the restoration. I got to help plan a bit of
this when I was in the office and part of the show will be the Jenga example
I`ve always used but with giant blocks! It should be cool. Pres. also shared a
cool message about how the first Japanese deep sea fishers couldn´t figure out
how to bring back all the fish they caught in good condition. They tried
freezing them but they didn`t taste the same. They tried putting them in a tank
but they wouldn`t swim and they would lose their freshness. We then learned
they figured out to put a small shark in tank to keep the fish moving and they
would come back fresh and delicious to eat. He applied that it is good for us
to have challenges and struggles on our missions and in life (the little shark)
because if things are always good and we have no struggles we won`t grow. It
was a super cool message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of my week was that I went to a part of the zone called Pueblo Nuevo to help out
the missionaries a little bit. Well, in their house they have a hot shower! I
can`t tell you how hard it was to get out of that shower considering I have
only had like 3 or 4 hot showers my whole mission! It was incredible!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lagos is from Costa Rica (1 or only 3 missionaries from there) and he is super
awesome. He told me a little about all that happened for him to come on the
mission and it is an incredible story. He was baptized pretty young but never
returned to the church. When he was almost 18 he finally returned to live with
his family (he had been playing soccer his whole life) and they helped him a
lot to come back to church and decide to go on a mission. He is super awesome
and I am so glad that we get to be comps. He is a lot like E. Gavarrete so it
has been fun! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sounds like you all did too). It was super fun to talk again about the Japanese
candy and how fun it was for me to share that with my friends when I got back
to the states. This time I got to add the fun note that you all are living
there again and that I would definitely share some candy with the members from
my next package. I also added another fun story when I first saw another Elder
add Nesquik to his corn flakes. I had eaten a lot of bland corn flakes my whole
mission but when I saw his `example` it made me want to try it and since then I
have discovered the genius of Nesquik on cornflakes. That was my attempt to be
creative in my talk. It went really well and I got some good compliments and
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much I really don´t like the cold. In our 2 multi-zone conferences we visited some
zones in the mountains and my fingers always always go numb! I guess I´m just
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successful multi-zone conferences this week where we got to address all the
missionaries and resolve some of the challenges that we´ve had in the mission.
Elder Merrill and I gave a cool presentation talking about leaving our marks as
missionaries in the wards and branches where we serve and also leaving a mark
on the mission. We used the example of <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/omni/1.1?lang=eng#primary" target="_blank">Omni</a> who nobody remembers and he even
said that he was wicked and didn´t accomplish what he needed to accomplish in
his life. It was cool and we were able to give some good tips and training to
all the missionaries. We also made a pretty awesome video presenting the option
to go to Xetulul in September if we have really good results as a mission this
month! Everyone was pretty excited and it was definitely a successful week with
the conferences. Not to mention both time they served this delicious grilled
chicken with mashed potatoes and cookies and stuff (don´t worry dad, it still
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conferences we got the chance to go work in Malacatán, which I highly enjoyed.
At the end of the day we went to a place called San Rafael where one of the
missionaries took me up the steepest hill I have ever seen! We pretty much had pull
each other up as we ran, it was intense! I got to meet a really cool family
that they had been teaching where the grandfather and his niece were the only
members of the family that hadn´t yet come to church and become members but
after a great lesson with them we were able to help set a date for their
baptism and they are both very excited. It was really cool to be a part of
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to make smart decisions and continue working fervently in the Lord´s vineyard.
I love the scriptures at the beginning of <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/15?lang=eng" target="_blank">John 15</a> that talk about that if we
remain in the Lord and with his help we can help bring much fruit unto him. I
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the week is that in our area we got to help prepare a family that we were
teaching get married and baptized on Saturday. The husband was already a
member (baptized back in California) and his wife and son were baptized Saturday.
It was super fun and felt great to be a part of a baptism again! Their wedding
was super awesome. Elder Walton and Elder Dial, who we share the area with, had
prepared a ton of awesome stuff (since they wanted a big wedding). The cool
thing was this big bell that we ripped open over their heads and a ton of beans
and rice came out (representing always having food in the home). It was a good
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about our house is that random missionaries pass through at times for trips to
Guate for the visa or they are stuck the night in Reu, things like that. Well
the other night an Elder had a full out ping pong set so with our creative 20
year old minds made a huge ping pong tournament in the house which was super
entertaining and I never thought people from El Salvador can be so beast at
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more comfortable with driving because now I don´t flip out when I see random
motorcycles pop out of nowhere or dogs in the street in stuff. I am almost a
pro Guatemalan driver now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new missionaries come to Reu and we did some cool workshops to help them get
their teaching skills up and it was super fun to be with them and teach them.
We did some funny practices with me answering the door of a ´house´ and
reacting differently to the missionaries at my door. It was a lot of fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strong testimony of how important it is to constantly master the scriptures.
Sometimes when we go visit investigators throughout the whole mission that are
struggling to make the decision to be baptized it really helps to know the
scriptures because often the spirit gives me the exact scripture that helps
people trust in the Lord and take that important decision! It is such an
important thing to master!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doing some big conferences in the mission with several zones so it should be
really cool and we´re excited to get the whole mission excited and working hard
this next month! Hope you all have a super week as well!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have had some interesting times as we travel throughout the mission. We had the
chance to go back to San Marcos and San Pedro to work on Tuesday and on our way
up we came up on a very strange scene. It was one of the big buses but it´s wheel
axels were super, super misaligned. I mean super misaligned! It looked like the
bus was going to fly off the side of the road but it was going straight! It was
hysterical but we also hoped that the bus had no passengers because that was
not fit to be on the road. We just wondered how hard it would be to park that
bus all crooked like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with some really successful trainings for the leaders of the mission. The
Spirit helped both of us out to give powerful messages and inspiration and I am
amazed at how comfortable I am now talking publicly. That is a huge blessing.
But I was definitely more calm when it was all over. On Thursday we got to go
up to the mountains again and I worked for my first time there! Wow the air is
thin there! The Elder that I was with decided to take me up a massive hill in
the area and I was just amazed at how much my body is not used to working in
the high altitudes. Let´s just say I had to yell a lot ´slow down!¨ It is
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figured out is that a great way to pass the time on these long drives is to
listen to a ton of talks and devotionals which has been fun and made the trips
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of the week. Number 1 was that we got to work in our area on Friday and
Saturday. Well on Saturday I got to be with Elder Walton (my old comp!) and we
were working super hard the whole day to find new people that could attend
church the next day since they had been struggling in the area. Well we worked
super hard and talked to a lot of people and at about 8:30 at night
we knocked the door of someone that Elder Walton had met one time at the gym.
Well he was super excited to come and know the church on Sunday and he ended up
attending. Then at about 8:45 we knocked another door of someone that
turned out to be the brother of a member of the church. He had listened to
missionaries a long time ago and he also came to church the next day (2
miracles since church starts at 8am). It felt so awesome to bring people
to church again and get to work in my assigned area! The Lord blessed us a ton
in those few hours since we never get to be in our area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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highlight of the week was that on Sunday we went and worked in Calahuaché, my
first area!! It was a blast and I got to show the missionaries some of the
people I used to teach that had come to church in the past and it was fun to
actually teach some of them once again and see a new excitement to come to church
in them. It was so fun and the best part and one of the sweetest parts of my
mission is that I got to see the B. Family again. This was the family that my
companion and I found back when I was here and they ended up all being baptized
in the church and now many of them have callings. The oldest son is now the
branch mission leader and he is waiting his mission call! Right when they saw
me they yelled ¨Elder Jensen¨ I was happy they recognized me so fast and they
just kept saying how grateful they were for all that we did to teach them and I
felt so happy to see that all our work in Calahuaché really had a big effect. I
love this family so much and I am just carried away in joy to think of the
amazing souls that I have met here in Guatemala! I love this work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-30503970376965914912015-07-16T22:40:00.001-07:002015-07-16T22:41:28.271-07:00Step by step<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrACi-SeCvq4Cbvr41_uicPJr9rWSVQbkja_okaUIeNAlJxx8qz95tFDVb4OIB5AczS8ZR67IqPk1oZ-dOpEalazy3rS4P_fY-GFFY_2msFMPd5PpZJsHBZP5OuTeEXGf9rT_fZm3XP4/s640/blogger-image--1891311323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrACi-SeCvq4Cbvr41_uicPJr9rWSVQbkja_okaUIeNAlJxx8qz95tFDVb4OIB5AczS8ZR67IqPk1oZ-dOpEalazy3rS4P_fY-GFFY_2msFMPd5PpZJsHBZP5OuTeEXGf9rT_fZm3XP4/s640/blogger-image--1891311323.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Missionary work is for all ages!</span></div><br></div>Dear Family,</span><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></span></font><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think this week I finally learned what Lehi experienced when he talked about the mists of darkness that were before the tree of life. As we drove back down to Reu after dropping off a missionary in the mountains out of nowhere we ran into a super thick fog! I don´t know if it was a cloud or just fog but wow it was hard to see! I was just driving as slow as I could because I know some of these mountain roads just have shear drops on both sides (according to my companion but maybe he just exagerated it so I would drive better) so that was pretty intense! Luckily it didn´t last too long and we made it out ok, but I am now paranoid to drive the truck up and down the mountains!</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidP8dN9LAAcPehEMpsO8VpvsAwEHRIAWGpf9je3cJnjTo1ik5WgD1A__gdFfFeWF4V0IM_C6jSORMDpmJycqAFpmEt60zLYV8EuLfPBsZz9F1_mK7uqJeeelI17WGsZmQL4U2h8_wF70Q/s640/blogger-image-1017604124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidP8dN9LAAcPehEMpsO8VpvsAwEHRIAWGpf9je3cJnjTo1ik5WgD1A__gdFfFeWF4V0IM_C6jSORMDpmJycqAFpmEt60zLYV8EuLfPBsZz9F1_mK7uqJeeelI17WGsZmQL4U2h8_wF70Q/s640/blogger-image-1017604124.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> My new companion, Elder Merrill</div><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Besides our experience in the mists of darkness things have been pretty calm. On Tuesday we welcomed in the new missionaries and share some messages with them which was fun. I still feel like I was in their spot just a few months ago. We were up all that night getting the presentation of the changes ready. Before the assistant´s would make a powerpoint of all of the changes in the mission but Presidente wanted the meeting to be a little more calm so we just did the presentation of the new missionaries and he just read the changes and the furthest zones left as he read the changes. My new companion is Elder Merrill from Canada. The good thing is that he has been a long long time in the mountains so luckily we didn´t get lost in Xela or in San Marcos.</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We also got to work in some really cool places this week. There is a place called ´El Codo´ (The Elbow) which is on the way to Champerico from Reu and we got to meet and help some really cool families that have gone to church there and are getting ready to be baptized. It is a pretty remote place and the Elders use bikes but it was really fun to meet the people and families that live there who have a lot of faith! Also I got to work on Sunday in Colomba which is a place with so so so many stairs! I think my leg muscles must have doubled!</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o8IvbS8-lRlboC_e0kD_C7nQbZSVzQt2DWXJyPLeV28ekjjvcb02EaBnY58e7YwdsgsNiCgN1URx6Vh-o3UNCEiKXr4xT0nqLg72acaUBNOaqWWVH_irOEnjCV0Bi56yJhtCrBxOB-M/s640/blogger-image--1516053925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o8IvbS8-lRlboC_e0kD_C7nQbZSVzQt2DWXJyPLeV28ekjjvcb02EaBnY58e7YwdsgsNiCgN1URx6Vh-o3UNCEiKXr4xT0nqLg72acaUBNOaqWWVH_irOEnjCV0Bi56yJhtCrBxOB-M/s640/blogger-image--1516053925.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Reu stake planned an interesting activity on Saturday morning with all of the primary kids (like 5-10 year olds). It turned out to be a success because as we went to go visit some less active members I would stop them all at times to contact people in their homes and we learned that little kids singing primary songs does wonders! Several people accepted the invitation to attend church just listening to all the little kids sings! Who knew?</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was really hard to say goodbye to Elder Gavarrete this week as he finished his mission and it made me so grateful to think how many exceptional people I have met and gotten to work with! I know have life long friends all of the world and I feel so blesssed for that!</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggF-1B4KAPZ5RQ-NP0H2geExOtqez3Y-2qkrj1L0Xy-gAqXdeefOnWAdsQjHJOZ2qL4JZg5g7lSwxXRAz5rm8kLHmMhi5suEdltUCGVeotdD3B3LkUBBOSEMJ9rrl1jUFwF33eYOnNrJE/s640/blogger-image-1058388059.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggF-1B4KAPZ5RQ-NP0H2geExOtqez3Y-2qkrj1L0Xy-gAqXdeefOnWAdsQjHJOZ2qL4JZg5g7lSwxXRAz5rm8kLHmMhi5suEdltUCGVeotdD3B3LkUBBOSEMJ9rrl1jUFwF33eYOnNrJE/s640/blogger-image-1058388059.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It should be a great week of work and we will be giving a lot of training this week to the leaders in the mission so we are ready for the challenge! Oh, and I totally forgot that my birthday is tomorrow, Wow!</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love,</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elder Jensen</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-90254015246435362942015-07-07T03:26:00.001-07:002015-07-07T22:52:37.703-07:00Where ARE you from?<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuo1FIt0q6F2uAlsX7W2Jrb8w80UQAwHDzRGjEW7sgGzzCzh8_KDhnVAAknXGmpze9xA3U126cKtxdIv-I07uYjB9l5ZA54-PQEFczfXzxPV1XAto-nQ6csBEZf7r354pUtnMu5WF1EVE/s640/blogger-image--119265884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuo1FIt0q6F2uAlsX7W2Jrb8w80UQAwHDzRGjEW7sgGzzCzh8_KDhnVAAknXGmpze9xA3U126cKtxdIv-I07uYjB9l5ZA54-PQEFczfXzxPV1XAto-nQ6csBEZf7r354pUtnMu5WF1EVE/s640/blogger-image--119265884.jpg"></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dear Family,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The question ´Where are you from?´ has been tough for me to answer lately considering that you all live in Japan now! It is definitely more fun to tell the Guatemalans that I am from Japan, of course they always respond ´you´re not chinese!´.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I have pretty much spent the whole week trying to adjust to my new assignments in the mission. It is definitely a much slower pace but it is a lot more mentally demanding. We really do a lot of planning and brain storming to find ways to help the mission as a whole. I guess before the assistants had an area they could work in a few days of the week but a little while ago they took that out and now we just work sometimes with the Elders in an area called Pedregal here in Reu. The fun thing is that Elder Walton is in that area so we get to reunite as companions again at times!</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67RNXwkTvdR5iOhwi1gCFjiMnAuyBY_CpqS2rmWdImcXzjFMezfm2MdmA07ChfkEPyb7E4OA_HdQKBon9ncJGYvggisr_l2IiKEllkGlhUCJD3esDzgE-j69rlFXDgG419tAmC283P3U/s640/blogger-image--682557067.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67RNXwkTvdR5iOhwi1gCFjiMnAuyBY_CpqS2rmWdImcXzjFMezfm2MdmA07ChfkEPyb7E4OA_HdQKBon9ncJGYvggisr_l2IiKEllkGlhUCJD3esDzgE-j69rlFXDgG419tAmC283P3U/s640/blogger-image--682557067.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Almost all of our travels are in the buses, so I am getting to see a whole lot more of crazy things happen on the buses. I was enjoying a nice little nap when all of a sudden I was woken up by some super loud yelling and a ton of spit in my face from a crazy guy who was basically screaming right in front of my face telling the whole bus to repent. On the same trip I also got surprised as a tiny little dog appeared under my seat! I guess it had chewed it´s way out of the little cord that it was tied up with. Hard to be bored on those bus trips.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I haven´t noticed, but a ton of people keep saying that I look a lot skinnier and I am starting to notice that with my older pants it is a constant struggle to keep them from falling down! The problem is that I have reached the last hole on my belt and it doesn´t help me anymore. I guess it is time to invest in a new belt and in a tailor to fix those pants. But, don´t worry, I am super healthy, just skinny.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">On Sunday we had the chance to go help with the dedication of the new stake center chapel in San Felipe (one my first areas). The chapel is amazing and it blew my mind that they built it in only 6 or 7 months and it is a beauty! Afterwards, we got to stay close by and go with the Elders in a place called San Andres. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25GtkIKJayKGGmUORP_7no2079vvWlvsUaTp4fXReEyx6XXCQvvFOj4x0czirdT7M8hMr-J9hSFLOq3qH42nfk3WcxO6Pf6pmqdgrRdQ2SL2YeQLaPC7xwG_yuzkHUgdCavKErfPiAtk/s640/blogger-image--1719082673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25GtkIKJayKGGmUORP_7no2079vvWlvsUaTp4fXReEyx6XXCQvvFOj4x0czirdT7M8hMr-J9hSFLOq3qH42nfk3WcxO6Pf6pmqdgrRdQ2SL2YeQLaPC7xwG_yuzkHUgdCavKErfPiAtk/s640/blogger-image--1719082673.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Tomorrow we will be receiving the new missionaries which will be a fun experience, a lot of deja vu as well remembering the first day I got to the mission field (I fell in a river that day).</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I really have learned the truthfulness to the phrase ´There is now growth in the comfort zone and no comfort in the growth zone.´ It has been a tough week as I am growing and learning to do demanding things but I know that my whole life will be just like this, always learning to do new things and failing a little at first and then reaching success. I am so grateful God gives me the chance to push myself and do new things that I never thought I could. It is the best!</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Love,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Elder Jensen</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">¡LA MISIÓN MÁS PODEROSA DEL MUNDO!</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Visiting Elder Merrill</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJy87Q7eu0bOZv2hMAnYVYz-t1Q1uVEjL_4Z67aIOF4K307bvC3yugAE4pNa1jhkbPidnKzQudlbLGqj7PIt58FyD37HNWqsSRHZP-y9Lqi5CUM4Y7_fhFmsrov5lHMKTZQKPplaRRJo/s640/blogger-image--575699986.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJy87Q7eu0bOZv2hMAnYVYz-t1Q1uVEjL_4Z67aIOF4K307bvC3yugAE4pNa1jhkbPidnKzQudlbLGqj7PIt58FyD37HNWqsSRHZP-y9Lqi5CUM4Y7_fhFmsrov5lHMKTZQKPplaRRJo/s640/blogger-image--575699986.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Zona <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mazate</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1tqWKB99qf-VB401Zz74sBoY13Hxe-ZghwUipb-GZ-OBCfpJTgFhLEJSI3D0qSWFIen9J8BAXn7G7D46p8h1_eH1D9Wz3NjAXrmvx-i7OCZIextzW-Z01Ngid-WutdHjay_iWk33m6A/s640/blogger-image--2058073166.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This has been the most eventful week for a
long, long time!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">After a lot of prayers of the missionaries I
have been able to get back to 100% health and I have felt great. We started
working hard starting with</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Monday</span><span style="color: #222222;">,
we had super big plans this week since we were on track to break the zone
record that had been set a few years back. Well, I got an interesting phone
call</span><span style="color: #222222;"> on
Tuesday</span><span style="color: #222222;">. It was President
Ruiz calling to tell me that I had changes and
that I would be the new assistant of the Mission Reu!! I almost had a heart attack! He was planning to change me out that same day</span><span style="color: #222222;"> (on Tuesday) </span><span style="color: #222222;">but I was able to explain that we had a lot of
plans in these next few days and that I wanted to stay at least until</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Monday</span><span style="color: #222222;">. He said that would be fine and the next day
they sent in my replacement to be with us in a trio for a few days. That was
kind of fun go around with 2 companions instead of just 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Since I knew that I only would have until</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Monday </span><span style="color: #222222;">in Mazate I wanted to give my all! We were
able to travel around and help a lot of the areas get people ready for baptism.
Each day we saw big miracles, areas that doubted they could have baptisms were
able to have prepared people. Many souls were able to repent and be clean and start
their lives over again! There is nothing better to witness than this!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I was saying goodbye to the C. Family
(baptized last week and miraculously I was able to be in the baptism service)
and I was overwhelmed with joy to see how much they have been able to change in
the past couple months! E., who used to come home drunk and yell and cause
problems in the home has come to love his family and serve them, and the spirit
in their home is totally different and S. was just so thankful for the 360
degree change in their family. I just felt in that moment, ´this is why I am
here´. This is why God sends us to be missionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have enjoyed giving out Japanese candies to
the members of the ward since they all were asking me for some after I gave a
talk about that. Well, the whistle candies you sent were actually in an English
package with English all over and I mistakenly gave the packet to one of the
members who likes to joke around a lot and he gave me a hard time about giving
out candies that were really made in the states. It was super funny but I was
able to explain that it was a Japanese idea just ripped off in the states.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">On Sunday</span><span style="color: #222222;">, I. (baptized last month) brought her
brother, J., to church. We were able to help him commit to change and prepare
for baptism and he is ready to change! The best moment was that as we left we
saw J.´s mom begin to cry for joy to see that her son is ready to change and
that we would be at his side helping him. I could feel the spirit so strong and
feel that nothing is coincidence! This is the Lord´s work!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Sadly I couldn´t send you very many pictures this week but we had so many things going on I completely didn´t have time!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We started a new tradition to play basketball with the close by Elders every morning at 6 to get in some excercise and try to get some more unity between us all. Well my companion and I have somehow managed to win every single game we´ve played! We were going good on tuesday morning and had a huge lead when I went to strip the ball from another Elder. As I smacked the ball something strange happened. The ball didn´t budge, but my shoulder sure did. Somehow my sholder socket got dislocated and all I felt was a ton of pain and that my arm was defititely out of it´s socket! I kind of panicked because how was I going to get this thing back in place?! Well about 20 seconds later I just felt it pop right back it. It sounded pretty bad but I was sure happy to feel that I could move my arm again, despite the pain I still had. Well I took a seat for a while and watched as my companion managed to still win against 2 huge american elders just playing with another tiny latino Elder. That made my morning at least.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Later in the day I saw the doctor and got the great news that for the next 2 weeks I would get to use ... ... drumroll ... an arm sling! It looks kind of goofy but I am getting used to it. The fun part is that my left arm is getting a lot more coordinated. The hardest things for me to do are the following: put in my contacts only with my left hand (now a pro at that), brushing my teeth (still have some work to do with that), bathing myself, tieing a tie (I just completely gave up on that and my companion does it), doing the ordinance of baptism (out of the question right now), eating tortillas with the food (definitely need 2 hands for that), and writing things (amazingly I am doing a great job typing this email right now).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I also had some other health problems the other days of the week acclimating to Friday where I got had some pretty bad stomach pains and ended up spending the night in the hospital as they got me all fixed up and back to 100%. The miracle was that supposedly I wouldn´t be able to make it out until maybe Sunday but with a lot of prayers and faith of my companion I was able to be completely cured and back to normal before the baptisms we had on Saturday evening! Wow!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This Saturday E., his wife S., and his 2 kids D. and C. were all baptized! The C. family is really a prepared family! It has been amazing, really amazing, to see all the changes they have made in their family since we first taught them and saw them come to church for the first few times! The member from San Pablo, San Marcos (where my companion was serving) that gave us the reference of the family came down to be in the baptism and it was such a happy ocassion! There were smiles on everyones faces! We had planned that I was maybe going to do E.´s baptism since he is a bigger guy but I was totally out of the count because of my shoulder so we had a big strong member avaiable to do the ordinance. It was super special and we didn´t all fit in the baptism room because there was so much support! Also A., a 21 year old school teacher that we ran into a few weeks ago (since his door said ´don´t knock´) was also baptized and he was happy to see that a few of his students are members and they were there supporting him as well! It was a very special evening and a miracle that I was able to be there and not be in the hospital!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">There was one very, very amazing experience we had on Sunday with an investigator we have been teaching named M. We found M. a few weeks back after we had no idea where to go and just found him in a random set of apartments in the middle of nowhere. Well, he has progressed a lot in the past few weeks but when we called him Sunday morning before the church meeting he said that he would no longer be coming to church because they had called him to pay a certain amount of money to not have to go to jail and he needed to work instead of go to church. We made him a promise. We promised that if he stayed in his house and didn´t go to church it would be very likely that he would end up without the money and end up going to jail. But, if he went to all 3 hours of church, the Lord would do his part and provide the money that M. needed. Well, M. showed his faith and came and stayed the 3 hours in church (with a white shirt and tie I might add). Well, when we went to visit him in the evening, within 5 minutes of our vist he recieved a phone call. It was one of his good friends calling to let him know that he was going to help him pay this amount and that he no longer would need to go to jail! Tears filled his eyes as he ended the call and he thanked the Lord for sending this blessing and for sending us into his life to help him get these blessings. It was incredible! Something I will never forget! He will be baptized this Saturday with A. (the son of a church member that we found who just moved to Mazate).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">One cultural thing here is that tortillas are eating with EVERYTHING, doesn´t matter if it is soup, you have to eat tortilla. Well, the other day the members sent us to go buy the tortillas and we thought it would be cool to bring them in a 2 big leafs instead of the normal plastic bag. She put them in the leafs but as we walked back my companion hit the tortillas on his leg and we watched as the tortillas fell almost in slow motion to the dirty ground. Miracuoasly the tortillas hit the ground and as the first leaf fell off the whole stack of tortillas flipped onto the other leaf and not one tortilla touched the ground! Incredible! We could not stop laughing! It was totally a slow motion moment that I will never forget! I think the member thought we were crazy because we had so many laughs as everyone ate those tortillas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">These really have been the most edifying weeks and months of my life! Also the funnest time of my life! There is nothing better a person can do with their time than help the Lord bring happiness into the lives of his children!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01996842744022623054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748227584203509023.post-80865330549517333682015-06-19T13:16:00.001-07:002015-06-19T13:16:01.821-07:00Washed clean<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We really had some very spiritual moments this week. Early in the week I remember saying a very sincere prayer asking for help from the Lord to find prepared people, people who are literally just waiting for us to show up at their door. Well, we prayed for that and then got on our feet and set out to find this person! We did our part and the Lord did his! We went to a remote part of the city and came across a single mom who we asked ´what do you think of when you here the word momon? ´ She yelled, I´m Mormon! We got to meet her kids and found out that she had just moved from the capital and felt very lonely and hasn´t searched for the church yet. She was just so so happy to see us and she wants to help her 10 year old son to be baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367188" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">this Saturday</span></span></span>! Her name is E. and her son´s name is A. God answered our sincere prayer!</div>
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The most memorable moment of the week was the baptism of I. and her 2 kids, B. and L.. I still remember the first moment we found I. in her house and the tears she shed when we explained that her daughter that passed away wasn´t lost, but if she strived to keep the Lord´s commandments she could return to live with her daughter and since that moment she has done everything to obey the Lord and was baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367189" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Saturday</span></span></span>! After the baptism I was looking out one of the windows of the church and I saw an amazing view of the sky and just felt that the Lord was so pleased in the N. family and pleased for all our efforts to find and teach them! It was a special moment for all of us.</div>
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We have worked as hard as we can this past week and we are helping E. and his wife S. and their 2 kids (C. and D.) to be ready for their baptism <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367190" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">this Saturday</span></span></span>. This is just another testimony of how powerful God is and how he works miracles like this family (the C. family). The member who presented us (who is from Malacatan) is <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367191" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">coming saturday</span></span></span> for the baptism and it will be an amazing moment. Also getting baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367192" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">this Saturday</span></span></span> is A., someone that we found because his door said ´don´t knock´ (´no tocar´ in spanish, I sent a picture of that a few weeks ago, well that is the moment when we found A.). He´s about 24 years old and is super super smart and has loved reading the Book of Mormon! These are just miracles!<br />
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I have noticed a few phenomenons this week. First, almost every time I call investigators to remind them of our appointment or to remind them about church they almost never answer the phone. The strange thing is right when I pass the phone to my companion he calls and on the first attempt they always answer! I don´t understand why! Also there were like 5 times this week where I would get my hands full of soap to wash my hands and discover that there is no water in our house. I am now an expert at getting soap off my hands with toilet paper. </div>
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Soda is pretty much part of the food pyramid here in Guatemala. The cool thing is that there are so many crazy flavors of soda so people don´t get board of the same stuff. Well, the other day some members put a huge 3 liter bottle of this apple flavored soda which was super delicious. It was also a super hot day and before we knew it my companion and I had drunken the whole thing! I don´t know how we did it, I just know that these same members stopped putting the whole bottle on the table (scared that we will finish it). We had a good laugh about that.</div>
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Sometimes the bus rides here can get really uncomfortable but we had some very entertaining moments on the bus this past week. First, a completely crazy man was talking to his cell phone the whole hour bus ride to Retalhuleu. We noticed that the phone actually had no battery but I managed to keep up a conversation with his dead cell phone for an hour, pretty impressive huh? We also enjoyed a guitar performance on our way back from Reu and somehow almost the whole bus started singing Christian hymns together. Another interesting moment for us.</div>
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This past week I really gained a testimony of how much the gospel can change lives if we chose to live it. E. (who got to have a conversation with the seventy Elder Ochoa) has chosen to completely change his life! He had a decent job that required him to work every Sunday morning. Well, this past week he quit his job! It was a huge act of faith and the same day he got work as a tuc tuc driver and we have never seen him happier! He has also made the commitment to quit smoking, drinking, and I just feel beside myself as I watch him change and become better each day. It is amazing what happens when a person feels the Spirit of Christ and allows that Spirit to grow and influence them to make changes and repent. My companion and I haven´t done anything, the Lord is working this miracle and on Sunday E. and his wife S. came to church with their sons and they showed up in white shirts and they only needed a tie! This is why I just love love being a part of this amazing work! The C. family (that is their last name) is preparing for baptism on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1022367179" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">20th of June</span></span></span>.</div>
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This past Monday we had to go to Reu in the afternoon for some for some training stuff. Well, on our way back I got off in a place called Cuyotenango to go and do a division for the day. I was still in my suit pants and I had totally forgot to bring more clothes. It turns out we got lost in a huge pit of mud and I completely got mud all over my suit pants. Later I found out that I forgot my contacts and a whole ton of other stuff. It turns out the next morning we had to go back to Reu to give some training and workshops for the new leaders in the mission. Well, I still hadn´t shaved, I had muddy pants, and my companion brought contacts but they both fell out so I gave the training pretty much blind. It was super fun! I couldn´t see any of the missionary´s faces but hopefully they were all awake and could learn something despite my appearence that day!</div>
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There is a church video that I really like about <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-07-139-treasure-in-heaven-the-john-tanner-story?lang=eng" target="_blank">John Tanner</a>. I´ve always liked showing it the investigators because it shows that even though John Tanner had a huge obstacle to get baptized, because of his faith and desire to obey the Lord he was blessed to overcome that obstacle and be healed, and then was baptized the same night. It is super powerful to show to the people we teach. Sometimes the problem is that a lot of people don´t have dvd players and if they do, they don´t have a remote. We got creative this past week and I was walking around all day with a dvd player and remote that we borrowed from a member. Somehow I got it to fit in my backpack but I was pretty sore that night. But it was totally worth it because we were able to help I. and her 2 kids, B. and L., and they are now a lot more ready to be bapitzed this Saturday. They have had some challenges but we presented the movie ´<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865629429/Meet-the-Mormons-now-available-for-streaming-on-Netflix.html?pg=all" target="_blank">Meet the Mormons</a>´ in the chapel this Sunday and they loved it! We will pray and work hard so that they can overcome their challenges and be baptized this Saturday!</div>
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I love this work so much! As I watch people like E. make huge changes in their life to be able to live in harmony with God´s will, it is the best feeling in the world. I feel as though I get to give back a small small part of what Christ gave for me.</div>
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I didn´t have changes! Looks like I will be here a few more months since my companion is finishing his mission in the beginning of July. Woohoo!</div>
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The day we found out about changes we actully hadn´t been able to find a member to eat with so we went ahead and bought some Little Ceaser´s pizza (just 40 quetz, and it is in our area). Well I wanted to have a little soda as well so I bought a tiny bottle of 7up and put it in my pocket as we walked back to the house to eat. Well, I totally forgot about it and it turns out I had to run super fast to cross a street and without noticing I was shaking up that little bottle of soda. When we sat down and started eating I began to open up that 7up and to my surprise there was soda flying in all directions and getting all over my desk! I starting running around like a mad man with the soda in the air still shooting in all directions. It was quite the mess but my companion and I had a huge laugh about that! Now I know to never put those little bottles in my pocket.</div>
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We had a super awesome stake conference this past weekend. We were visited by Elder Adrian Ochoa from the Seventy and that helped us get a lot of people excited to come and attend the conference. On the meeting Saturday Elder Ochoa was talking about the reasons why we sometimes don´t share the gospel with other people and then saw that seated with my companion and I was an investigator we had brought named E. He asked E. and us to stand up and he felt the impression that E. had come to church by an invitation of a member and it was true. The week before a member had presented us to E. and his family. It was so cool because Elder Ochoa spoke individually to E. during the whole conference and after the meeting E. had the chance to go and talk with Elder Ochoa. It was unreal! On Sunday E.´s wife, S. came and also his 2 sons. We are so excitied for this next month because this Saturday K. is going to be baptized (a youth that has been attended church with us for the past few weeks) and also Ingrid (that lost her daughter to an accident 5 years ago) came to the conference and is preparing the be baptized with her 2 kids for the 13th of June. E. and his family are preparing for the 20th of this month. We have to give all the credit to The Lord because he prepared all these people! All we had to do was be diligent in search for them and listen to the Spirit.</div>
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My companion who played professional soccer before the mission in Honduras has got me on a new habit. What we always do as we walk from visit to visit is we try to kick rocks though the legs of the other as we move. I have actually gotten a lot better and have got some good goals on him. There is always a ton of trash on the street so I have gotten some bottles and other things through his legs as well.</div>
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We have a lot of new missionaries right now in our zone. They are fresh out of the MTC and it is super fun to see the excitement they have to start working. The hard part is that a lot of them bring a super different slang form of Spanish from their countries. I got to work a few hours with a new Mexican Elder and I was amazed that he didn´t understand a lot of the Guatemalan phrases I was telling him and some of the things he was telling me I had never heard either! Who knew that Spanish changes so much from one country to another!</div>
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I am so glad to be working my hardest and seeing the blessings each day. I just love the people<br />
in this awesome country. They love us so much that sometimes we have to eat lunch twice (like on Sunday, I was about to explode) because they just want to give! It is so awesome! </div>
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were last rain season so there has been a little leak. Well, I found a solution,
plastic grocery bags! I just put them right over my socks and bam! dry feet! It
looks kind of silly but it has worked pretty well. Luckily I don´t have to do
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the preparation day activities had finished we went to visit one of the recent
converts (O.). To our surprise she had a friend over and as we got to know her
friend we realized that this was an investigator of one of the other areas in
the zone and that she was preparing to be baptized this Saturday. She had
a lot of doubts and we were able to help her with some scriptures and she ended
up being baptized this Saturday. What are the chances of that? The Lord
really knows His work. It was funny because at the end she jokingly asked us if
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near death experience this week (ok that is an exaggeration but it was
intense). Our ward mission leader asked us to help him move his new fridge up
the stairs. We imagined it being a piece of cake but then we realized that he
needed it on the 3rd floor and that his staircase had some tight corners. It
took us almost an hour to get that thing up there and a good amount of sweat
and we took out some good chunks of the walls and ceilings. It was exciting and
scary at the same time but we got it up to the top! Let´s just say I should
have worn service clothes to that because my shirt was brown by the end of
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spiritual highs this week. I. was baptized on Saturday and she really
was so happy to finally take this step in her life despite the opposition she
faced with her family. Her testimony of the church and of the Book of Mormon
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awesome moment with another recent convert named Z. She told us that she had
been talking a lot to her niece about the church and that she was super
interested. Right in that moment without hesitating Z. took us right to the
house of her niece and we were able to teach the whole family about the church
and they attended Sunday and now have a date to be baptized! I am so
grateful for people like Z. that are so willing and excited to bring souls to
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silly comments this week from little kids. First we were visiting with I. and
her daughter (M.) was behaving good and we asked her if she had been good all
day and she said ´of course I have' but later added ´but, tomorrow I
am going to behave so so bad.´ She is so silly. One other kid we saw noticed
the difference of height between me and my companion and asked ´you are a lot
taller because they stretched you out, huh?´ I have no idea where he got the
idea that I had been stretched out but I guess they never stretched out my companion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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able to work my hardest! It´s tiring work (so tiring that I fell asleep on the
bus and found that I had drooled all over my tie, embarrassing) but I love it
all the same! VIVA MAZATE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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