HEY FAMILY!!!! i love you and also i have your back (tengo su espalda) but actually they don't say that in Spanish but i'm the queen of saying things that they wouldn't actually say in Spanish. if i said that to someone they would think i'm crazy. but i love it.
this week has been very very interesting. my companion... so she got a virus. we think it was dengue but who knows. literally family i have never seen anyone so sick in my life. and that's not a lie. She could barely even move. for four days during studies she would try so hard to stay awake but her head just kept falling on the table and she would just... pass out. And so i would do my studies for four hours... and on Thursday for six hours and sometimes she would wake up and mumble something and i would just say don't worry i'm working hard!! it was actually quite scary. but she didn't want to spend more time in the house and she refused to rest so we would go out and work and sometimes i thought she was going to pass out in the lessons but the lord really blessed her. and we would come home at night and she would just go lie on the bed wrapped up in sweaters even though she was burning hot and i would take care of her wound from the fall.. her leg is so terrible... and would beg her to eat something. and brush her hair and try to do all i could. thanks for that first aid kit mom! its working wonders for my companions. hahaha. but the nurse and the president said there really isn't a whole lot to do for my companion so we just did the best we could and worked extremely hard this week. so whew!! the good part is is that she goes home tomorrow and so her mom will take care of her. yikes.
ok so one day we had just got done with lunch and i was soo full because i scarf at lunch and my companion was so sick that she could barely eat but then we go to our investigators house... and the mom comes out and is like look hermanas! i made you lunch. and there on the table is a plate of a splat of beans and literally the grossest looking chicken you can imagine. it looked like they had just killed the chicken in the back room and put it on the plate. and so me and my comp go in the bathroom and i'm like hermana i cant.. and she is like hermana i cant... and so we go out and we are like wow!! this looks great! and i'm just scarfing it down trying to go as fast as i can and we are both literally gagging. but!! we ate it. and we got to the point where my companion is like hermana this is so good can i save some for dinner so we put the rest in a plastic bag, teach a lesson on the atonement and then leave. gotta love guatemala
so a member was so concerned about my bug bites that he gave me this huge bottle of some kind of spray.. we will see how it goes.
Tell all the aunties hi for me ok while they are staying there for education week. tell them i love them and i am praying for them.
ok so we had a wedding this week!!! Juan and Anamaria. it was soo funny. she is like 20 years older than him but hey... they are in love right? and she wore this bright blue dress to the wedding and all the members pitched in and decorated the church. it was so great haha and a miracle that we finally found a lawyer.
we had zone conference this week and i learned so much from the president of the mission!! also i got the cute letters from the boys tell them thank you so much. and a letter from ashley. and a huge package of sixlets and chocolate. literally the best!! love hearing from all of you!! also at zone conference we had the best lunch and i was the first one done because on the mission you have to eat fast and president was like oh no... what have we done to you.
the Latinos are very ... they just say exactly whats on their mind. so a sister from the ward told me that i'm getting fatter every day. haha oh the joy. and also i'm learning that you can be very direct with the people in the lessons. because we will get to the door and they are like i'm busy i cant listen right now and i'm like hermana.... you don't have time for God? our message is important. you need to make time for the things of God. haha and they are like ok you are right and most of the time they let us in. you just got to be direct and persistent. in a lesson i just say hermana... this is a commandment. you have to keep it. its as simple as that
to help the members overcome coffee there is a thing called morcaff which is a natural substitute for coffee so all the members drink it and when we visit they give us morcaff. its disgusting.
hey go check out the last three words of nephi in chapter 33 of second nephi. what a good example he is to us.
whatever thou art. act well thy part. you don't need to have the most prestigious calling or have anything crazy.. but you can fulfill the calling you do have. whether it be a mom, or a daughter or son. act well thy part. the lord loves you. alma 37: 40 and 41. the way is prepared. if we will just only look we will live. go read this chapter because it talks about how we can't be slothful because of the easiness of the way. look to God and live.
hey i just love you so much!!! tell everyone hi for me. its a good life family. such a good life. the work is progressing. we have changes tomorrow so i get a new trainer!! crazy. but i'm staying in alotenango. praying for you all everyday. God be with you till we meet again!!! the church is true. i want you to know that Christ is there. he is real. and God is a God of miracles. he works by faith. hey hey hey its a good life. love you!!