so, my subjects this week don’t have anything to do with
anything…just letting you know ha, ha. its great to hear from the family as
usual. dad, its hard to say who’s letters are better yours our mom’s. man, i
don’t know, but your letter this week was great. coach helu what a guy so unique
and you can’t understand anything he says. its awesome to hear how good ben is
doing in rugby…that’s awesome! i wish i was there to watch him play because it
seems like he is tearing it up. keep talking to helu for me so i will have a
hook up with him for after the mission to play rugby7 at byu. its also great to
hear ella is killing it at tennis…that’s awesome. oh, by the way, kev liked
tennis so much when we all played that he is playing at dvc now too…ha, ha.
ella and kev should play together ha, ha, that would be too good. so, this
week was work as always but the highlight was getting another fecha. we got a
fecha this week with a guy named hugo. he has been taking the lessons for 12
years and would never commit. well, we got him to commit, and he came to church
yesterday so hopefully he will stay strong to that goal. he knows the church is
true and knows the book of mormon is true also. so we are thinking maybe a
word of wisdom problem but we are not sure. anyway, we are praying for him and
teaching him 3 times a week. we also had a really great first visit this week.
we were knocking on doors, well actually we weren’t knocking because houses
don’t have doors here, so we were clapping and yelling “buenas” and we got
invited in. killed the lesson. the spirit was so strong and my spanish was
just flowing. you would have thought i was fluent. it turns out that the dad
of the family had one of his sons die so we told him about the plan of salvation
and that he can be with his son again. incredible lesson and i invited them to
be baptized and they said yes. we didn’t set a date with them but they want to
follow jesus christ through baptism…really, really, cool…best first visit yet!
the mosquitoes are back at our house and there are more then ever. its
terrible and sometimes i can’t sleep at night. oh and dad i was at a members
house yesterday for lunch and he served his mission in panama. he said he
didn’t know you. he served in 91 so you were back i think. he was on the san
blas islands for 13 months. he showed me a bunch of pictures and i wish so bad
you would have been there to talk to him about it. he loved it so much. i told
him grandpa baptized the first san blas indian and he was so happy to hear that.
it was great, he was telling us a bunch of stories and stuff. when i am on
this mission i think of you all the time dad and how you were doing the same
thing as i am right now only like 20 years ago…its pretty crazy but its the
best. we met our goal as a zone for 30 baptisms so today for pday we went to
tikal, the giant mayan ruins guat is known for. it was nuts…so incredible. i
think its zarahemla but who knows for sure…ha, ha. i will send some pics. the
spanish is coming along fine but still needs lots of work. listening is the
hardest part for me and its hard to keep up with what the people are saying and
there are a bunch of different accents too. it is coming along though and every
week it gets better. i love you guys and miss you…just know all is good with me
in guat.
elder call
Hugo our new fetcha
Tikal fun fact: right here is where George Lucas filled the millenniam falcon landing in the movie with the ewaks
the main temple at Tikal
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