May 30

Another Bomb Week here in Guatemala!

We baptized a lady that has been investigating the church for years! Who knows why, well, God knows, but she decided to be baptized with us. She is super pilas. Everybody already thought she was a member of the church. So, when it came time for her to be baptized, we had to do it on the down low. We planned a baptismal service with only her family and us. There was the Stake President and his wife, Francia (the one baptized), her 3 daughters and Francia's son-in-law, and my companion and I. It was such a great service. It was super simple but powerful. Afterwards, we went to the Stake President's house and feasted on some Domino's! Within the next couple of years, this Francia will be Relief Society President, for sure. I don't doubt it at all. (Just for future reference, when y'all have baptisms, make sure your companion is included in the pictures to. For this baptism, my companion didn't even bother to invite me to take pictures because I was with a different missionary in another room. WHAT?!Que mala onda, not even including your companion in the baptismal fotos of your convert.)

Another good baptism, was Sunday morning. We have church at 8 am every Sunday, we baptized a guy at 7:20. Awesome! Being baptized and confirmed all before 8:30 in the morning. This guy's name is Giovani. His wife and kids are recent converts, but he wouldn't stop casually drinking his beer. Well, we got that to change! What a miracle. To get him to be baptized was actually a struggle. The Recent Convert wife didn't want him to do it. She would bring up topics like us becoming Gods, like there's no archeological evidence that the Book of Mormon is real, and that we pressure or obligate people to get baptized. WHAT?! I thought members were supposed to help us out with baptizing. But not this one! She was working for Satan. But, we got 'er done!

May has been a month of miracles. Just in this month alone, we baptized 6 people! The area is literally on fire right now, and I hope it never goes out!

Anyway, fun stuff?

My house is huge. It's like a mansion compared to what ever Guatemalan house. Anyway, we cleaned out the tile living room floor and set up boxes as soccer goals. Then we got game time going! It is so sick. We took a video the other day and it is hilarious!! Everybody is trying to pull some fancy moves since there's not a lot of space. We play every night from like 9:40 until like 10:10. I love it. It's a good sweat though since there's no air conditioning here in Guatemala.

Since I'm here in the office these days, we go out and work with the new missionaries between the MTC and entering the mission field. I absolutely destroyed the guy I worked with. It was super funny. He had some fancy dress shoes. Just so y'all know, I walk pretty fast. This poor guy running to catch up. At like 8:55, we ran home. I purposely got far away from the house as to run a long way. He gave it all he had, but just could not make it home. I'm the kind of missionary that runs home every night. Doesn't matter what kind of day it has been or where I´m at, I run.

I got a new companion!! On Wednesday, I felt super accomplished. I helped the office pull of my first successful change meeting. Everything from mini-missionaries to fixing telefone problems. Anyway, I received a new companion here in the office. His name is Elder Clouse, from Mesa, Arizona. I love him. By far my favorite companion. We get along super well and are just killing it, the people absolutely love us together. He's super funny and clever and sarcastic. He's like a really good friend. We've only had 3 days together, but they've been great. I'll send pictures later. As you can see, I had to come into the office at 9:30 tonight to be able to write home this week and to write to president. It has been an incredibly busy with pre and post change things. WOO!

On Tuesday night, to get everything finalized for change meeting on Wednesday, we were in the office from 10 until about 1:30, so we got home at 2:00am. Lucky me, I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning to take a missionary to the airport to go home. That was an incredibly hard day. I did not shower. Oops. 'hépaleee'.

Anyway, I love y'all!