I’m 21 years old

What? I feel so old. I can’t believe I’m 21. But my birthday rocked! Thanks for all the birthday wishes! It was so great to share my birthday with the ppl here. There is an elder here that has his birthday on the same day as mine and an elder that had his birthday on Wednesday, so we decided to make a cake for the zone meeting. But a part of it broke and it was ugly so I got mad and bought a cake. So we celebrated as a zone on Tuesday. But on my birthday I brought the cake I made to lunch and it was really delish.  Side note: But now I can’t make cakes as easily because I had a tiny blender and my companion melted it on accident. But after lunch we went and visited Yeni and all her kids gave me birthday hugs and kisses. Afterwards we went to make a cake with a member because her husband’s birthday is the same day as mine but he went out drinking so he wasn’t there. So we celebrated with his wife and his son who is an investigator. It was fun. They are great. This week was family week. So we went down to the church for the activity that was there and after the two young men that go and visit with us threw me a tiny surprise party. It was adorable they are so great. 

But like I was saying this week was family week which we all thought was going to be great to get new families to teach but nobody invited anyone!! The only investigators that were there were the ones we invited and we needed to be there every night. It took up 6:30 – 9:00 every night which was hard because that’s the best teaching time. But Saturday was awesome because it was cultural night and they dance in their typical outfits here in Guatemala. We had to sing which stunk. But it was so cool to see all the dances and stuff. 

On Wednesday we eat with an old lady and it isn’t the cleanest place but it isn’t too horrible. I’ve only eaten there twice. But she always saves the dishes for us to wash and saves all her dishes from the whole week and there was a pot with fly eggs in it and I washed it. I can’t believe it. The mission has changed me in many ways and one of those ways is bugs don’t freak me out anymore... well the really big ones do. hahaha. 

We have an investigator named Edwin. He works at an art supply store. He is the nicest little guy. And is so lonely. I met him when I was with Castillo but we didn’t teach him much. I had a feeling we needed to visit him. We taught him and the spirit was so strong. We invited him to be baptized if he knows the message is true and he said yes and he is willing to pray and to know if it is. His date is for the 14th of June. I hope everything works out with him. He is great

Well my companion had her first drunk person experience. Remember how I wrote that the member that has the same birthday as me. Well he had been drinking and we ran into him when he was kind of drunk.  We tried to get him back home but he wouldn’t go with us. But while we were talking to him two other drunks showed up. One started to talk to me in English and when we left from there he started following us. And this drunk guy was fast so we started running and so did he. But it was totally a walking dead experience. He totally looked like a zombie. We were running up a hill and I don’t know what happened but all the energy left from me and I couldn’t run anymore. And my companion was like please run Hermana please! So I ran the best I could and we entered a store and shut and locked the door. The lady that was working there just looked at us like what they heck? Then we explained what happened. The drunk dude left and so did we. It was actually really funny like 10 minutes after we were laughing our heads off about it. 

Well everything is good here in little Toto. We are working and trying every day to find those that are ready for the gospel. I love this gospel and I know it’s true. But I know living the gospel and life can be hard. But it never was meant to be easy. If it was supposed to be easy Jesus never would have had to suffer what he suffered. He is the only way we can return to our Heavenly Father. I know that is true. The spirit bears witness to me every day that it’s only through our savior that we can move forward and keep on trying. 

That’s all folks. Thanks for all your support talk to you all next week! 

Hna Anderson