Thursday, January 16, 2014

This country is so sketchy its wonderful

Today we went to la Laguna here in our zone. There was 13 of us piled in the back of a pickup going up the mountain. We thought we were going to die. But I’m alive and it was so fun! We ducked from trees and got thrown around a little bit. It was like the Indiana Jones ride…but real. The Laguna was beautiful. It took like 500 stairs to go down to the water but it was sweet…but tiring.   I have a cold so I was kind of dying a little bit. But there was no way I was going to miss out on today. Going back up was a lot harder.  We were all dying from going up all the stairs and its stairs in Guatemala so let’s be real…it’s a little harder than it would have been in the USA. 

This week was a little rough. But that’s ok. It’s a new week…new opportunities. We have found a lot of families. But the thing is getting them to church and getting visits with them. But these families are amazing and it’s awesome to be teaching them. One of our investigators was kind of progressing but at the same time wasn’t but we finally got to the bottom of what is going on with him. And now he has accepted to go to church.  He just has to figure out how to do it without his crazy family knowing. He wants to change and it has been so great to finally get to the bottom of what was going on with him. 

This week Elder Cook is coming. I’m really excited about that! The whole mission with be together and it will also be great to see some people. This is on Saturday and I’m freaking out a little because I don’t know what to wear hahaha. 

So here Hna Stephens and I are holding English classes. It was her idea. I was a little hesitant about it because I didn’t have that much success it my other area. But it went really great and we had a lot of people show up. So that was awesome. 

I finally met the investigator that can like read people. She went to church once but doesn’t like it because there are a ton of people and she can feel and read them and it’s too many at the same time, so she gets overwhelmed. She is highly intelligent and I’m excited what she has to say to me the next visit. She reminds me of someone but I can’t quite figure it out. 

We are praying our guts out to have a baptism this week with Gercelita. I hope and pray she will accept. She hasn’t said no but she hasn’t said yes. She is praying about it still. The young men are the only ones that are willing and ready to work with us. And this little dude named Mateo or Matthew went with us. He got baptized like two months ago. But he seems like a member for years and he wants to go on a mission. He went with us to Gercelita’s and shared his awesome testimony

Oh yeah…people told me that Antonia is progressing like crazy. She gave a talk in church already. And they said that she was like a member for 10 years and the spirit was really strong. Yes Hna Sanchez and her companion may have baptized her but I’m so happy to know that I found her and I taught her. It still hurts a little I couldn’t have baptized her but I’m praying every day to get over that. But that’s ok, there are people here that need my help to find the true church. And that is amazing to be part of.

That’s about all. Hope all is well. I will send pícs. Love you all thanks for your prayers and support!

Hna Anderson 

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