I first arrived in xela in mid day after a long and windy bus ride i
sat up front next to the driving and asked him about himself and told
him about myself and our church and one thing led to another and i
gave him a book of mormon because he believed what i said was true. i
got his info and gave it to the mission president when i got off the
bus. the mission president and his wife are AWESOME. i love them so
far. i only met him for a half day or so but that was enough to know
he is going to be great. we spent the night there talking about the
rules and how we work and eventually recieved our companions. Elder
Harding from my english class with donkersgoed. He lives in pleasant
grove near the discovery park. he is a big boy not fat at all just
big. he is great and we get along super well. i was so happy when i
was officially assigned to be with him. its nice to talk with someone
that has a genral idea of who i know and where im from. any ways,
after our meeting with everyone we stayed the night in a hotel just
down the street from the mission home and left the next day. we took a
pimped out bus through really curvey roads all the way to my new area
Huehuetenango. when we first arrived our house was away from the city
and we had to walk a little ways to the house during all this is was
raining. it rains every day here starting between 2 and 4 and end
sometime in the night. the house is not to bad. i have a bed. hooray!
we dont have a dish washer or a clothes washer or a microwave. our
fridge is the size of rhetts small one, we have a shower! that is
really just a shower head coming out of the wall in the bath room.and
the water smells like diarhea. I absolutely have to wear flip flops
cause the floor is black and nasty. there are spider webs EVERY WHERE
but im use to them now. We are in the area of las victorias and we
have some cool members! we visit them alot and sadly i wish we did
less... i WANNA TEACH AN INVESTIGATOR. i havent yet. turns out the
people here arent as humble as i had hoped.. but maybe we were just
unlucky cause we went contacting for a total of 6 or 7 hours this week
and we only talked with one person for more than 1 minute.. i know
thats not alot of contacting really but its not very good results for
how many hours we did. I WANNA TEACH PEOPLE. i wanna help people and
work harder. any ways other stuff, I was sick yesterday, sunday,
because i stayed up till one talking with elder harding the night
before. we were in bed and didnt realize how late it had gotten. NEVER
will i make that mistake again. i felt nausious or whatever and very
light headed. we spent the night at a members house who is practically
american who was just awsome. he made me feel like i was at home. his
house was like an american home, IT HAD CARPET. he gave me tea like
mom did and it helped alot and i feel much better today.
I hate to say it but i feel like we arent working hard enough. i
wanna work harder and talk with more people. 80 percent of the
missionaries here dont work very hard it truly makes me so sad.. i was
hoping to have a trainer that worked me to the bone but i havent felt
it yet. elder harding is really friendly and is always helping me and
looking out for me but he doesnt have a very intense desire along with
most of the missionaries. i hope to change that. it will be difficult
to do so but overtime it will become easier. they also have a semi
crude and rude humor here which also makes me incredibly sad. its not
terrible. but as a missionary there shouldnt be anything even close to
questionable. we are representatives of jesus christ and we need to
ALWAYS act like it. i hope to change the expectations of the mission
and i know the lord will help me to do so. i want people to regain
that excitment for missionary work and help remind them why they are
here and who they are here for. They all great but i absolutely know
they can do better. i know that the whole group that came with me will
help this mission as well. together we´ll raise this area up in all
areas. Sorry, i kinda just needed to get that out to someone.
i hope all is well with dads hip and im glad to hear that chunie hung
out with you guys! tyler and rhett i love you both and keep staying
awesome and never change. unless its in a better way.. you know what i
mean. jessica i hope to see you all healed up soon. keep happy. father
and mother i love you both and thankyou for your love and your emails
ill hear from you all next week. i would still like it if you do the
questions at the top and then the printing pages thing cause ill do
that here to so i can save time. love you all and i hope i recieve the
package and chunies and romneys letter! remember its best to use email
now. they allow us to email friends on this mission. ill let you know
if i do or dont recieve those letters love you all and ill try and
tell you more later. what other stuff would you like to hear
