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Week 13 - Quetzaltenango Temple Trip

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Monday today we got up and we went to Megapaca, it is like the DI but tons more stuff and most of the clothes are from Utah! I see comp soccer shirts all the time from Utah haha. But my comp got some stuff, but I just looked. Then we went shopping for food and wrote our parents! After we came back and we visited one of our investigators with the Relief Society President and that was awesome, you could really feel the spirit and we invited them to activities and church and they accepted! Then we visited with another family for the rest of the night. Tuesday We got up and my comp kind of slept in because he's sick. We then had our study time, and after we visited with some really good Families that are priorities for us. After we had activity at the church for everyone, they had a bunch of tables set up, and had food that they were selling for a fundraiser. But after the Women played basketball, then the men played soccer and after they invited my comp and I to play basketball ...

Week 12: Rain and Food (The latter is proof it's really Josh reporting)

Monday- We woke up today and I was supposed to make pancakes for us, but my companion got mad at me for doing something wrong, I guess, he gets mad when I do stuff that he is not used to doing or does it another way. I just try to be calm and don't worry about it. We then went to Paiz and bought food for the week, after we wrote our parents, then after that we visited with the family above us. Later we had dinner at the Mission Leader's house, and oh, they grilled horse meat for us, and it was really good. Then we came back to our house at the curfew and watched the Testaments. Tuesday- We had our district meeting in the morning and that went really well. We only have one other pair of Elders and one other pair of Hermanas in our district, so it is pretty small haha. But after lunch we had divisions and we had to meet the Elders in Centro, but it was pouring and I mean pouring! This rain doesn't stop, even if you have boots, raincoats, and umbrella. I was soaked head t...

Extras: Week 11

Dogs are everywhere! I have seen people whip dogs with belts, dogs get hit by cars, dogs kill other dogs, little grandmas kicking the crap out of dogs. It's sad. Lots of puppies that die, because they don't have shelter or food. I hate that. People here just breastfeed in the opening and there have been times where they just breastfeed during our lessons and its okay for that here haha. Then they forget that its out, ugh, it's really uncomfortable. I saw someone roasting a cat…. That was horrible. I have seen people hit by cars, the traffic here is crazy, I would not want to drive here. When we up to that mountain the first time, I was with Elder Johns and we rode on top of the van to the mountain, then after in the city we were on a van, just holding on to the top and and our feet in the van.The vans and buses here, don't really stop you just kind of hop in and then pay as they are driving then hop out when you want, but there are so many motorcycles her...

Week 11: Rain

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Monday-We woke up and got to walk the dogs again. After we took our laundry to the lady, then we went shopping for food and other things. Later we wrote our families then we got haircuts!! The guy kept calling me ¨Hombre de Utah¨haha. He was pretty cool. After we had an appt with a lady in the ward, and her husband is not a member. She has two little girls she takes to church and activities. She is really smart in the gospel, but her husband doesn't want anything to do with it. I found out he is the Chief Captain of the firefighters here in HueHue, so that's pretty cool and he is probably really busy. But we are going to find away to meet with him. Tuesday- So it rained all night long!! Not just a little bit, a ton. Our front yard changed because so much rain haha. We had our study time and I got to have a lunch at an Hermana's house. After a sister gave us a tree branch to eat haha, it is called canlla the middle is edible, but not the bark, and you have to break ...

Week 10: Zone Conference

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Monday-we woke up and went to stores to buy food, boots, and watches. After we cleaned our house and then got to write everyone. After we had divisions, just for the night, because my companion and I had two appts at the same time. So I went with E. Norales again, I love him, because he knows everything I swear! But he taught me some new things and I just talked to him about my companion and other things. It was nice, we got a lot of stuff done. Then I came back to my companion and that was the day. Tuesday-we woke up today and we had our study time, then we went to harvest the field, and we went on a long walk up a huge mountain and my companion always says he can out run me, and that won´t happen. Anyways walking up the mountain and my companion was dying, but we met this family, that believes in God, but does not have a church. It was perfect, but they don't have cell phones, so we can't contact them, and have to risk walking all the way out there, it is like 6 mil...