Saturday was interesting. A lot of time spent driving thanks to a couple of emergency things! We left in the morning to head over to a place called Antigua to drop off beds, a fridge, and all that kinda stuff to furnish a house. That went without a problem. We got there, dropped the stuff back and headed back. But heading back was way fun. Here in Guatemala, they tend to set up random police checkpoints where they pull over random cars to check if we have anything we're not supposed to have with us. I've driven by many without getting pulled over. It's done randomly without any kind of system. This time, they caught us. They pulled us over. I rolled down the window and the guy asked for my license. I just responded, here's my American license. He nervously responded, i noticed. He did not mean to pull over a car full of North American Missionaries. It was so funny. He like didn't know what to do. He left and went to his chief guy and asked what to do. He came back, looked at our passports then just let us go. It was super funny and super pointless.
On the way home after that, we stopped at Little Ceasar's (yes, they have that here!). We took the food home and ate. Then we got interesting fone calls. We had to take a surprise road trip to a place called Patzicia, in Zone Sololá, which is like the farthest zone from here (three hours with light traffic). Since i'm leaving the office, i offered to go in a heartbeat because i won't have these experiences anymore after! I loaded up the car with Elder Roney, the financial secretary, and we hit the road! Elder Hansen, my companion, stayed behind to work in the area because there were important people to visit. We left the house at like 2:05 pm and got back at 8:30 pm. It was fantastic! Here are a couple of pictures taken while on the way: (Santa! Happy Birthday, Jesus! Waffle House?)
Sunday was a long one! Church from 10am-2pm like normal. After, we had a baptismal service for a man named Carlos Catalán. He's incredible. We found him knocking on doors one day. He let us in. He's a 60 year old man that had recently quit his job to watch over his grandchildren while their parents worked. Really a nice guy. He told us of how he has been wanting to join a church, for that, he was really receptive! He accepted everything we taught, and loved the thought of getting baptized. When we left him the commitment to live the Word of Wisdom, or stop drinking tea and coffee, he answered in this way, "Well, if i'm getting baptized into your church, i need to start living it's rules, don't i?!" No hesitation or doubt. From that moment on, he's been living the Word of Wisdom. His baptismal service was great. He's going to be a great member and really wants the daughter and son-in-law he lives with to join too. Right now, we're teaching them, and their progressing nicely for baptism on the 21st of this month.
Picture from baptism
Then after that, we had the First Presidency Christmas Devotional. It was a nice excuse to just hang out. Here, we watched it in Spanish. I was too tired to even try to pay attention to the Spanish over voice. It was bad. I just kinda slept there the whole time. It was nice. The music came through really bad so we couldn't even enjoy the MoTab singing. But, it was great.
Wow, i can't believe i'm leaving. I've worked in this area with this ward for 14 months! That's an incredibly long time. I literally love these people and they have grown to love me..or at least tolerate me, right? There are many people here i'll never forget. On Wednesday, i'm taking my bags and heading out...to be a Zone Leader in a place called Tiquisate! yea! I am really excited to get outta here though. It's been a long time. I need to get in the field, out of the office, and 100 refocused on pure missionary work. Not worrying about travel plans, visas, fone problems, etc. It's gonna be nice. Also, to lose the weight i've added while being here in the office. It'll be a fun change and i'll let y'all know more about it later on. Like next week.
Love y'all!!
-Elder Hunt
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