Well, it's been another week here in Barrio Colombia. This week we worked soooooooooo hard. We didn’t really have as much success as we would have wanted but we still did see a little bit of fruit for our labors. Bad news about our investigator Carlos that had a baptismal date. Apparently he really has a bad problem with lying. He was living with his aunt and drinking and threatened to kill his aunt and all of her kids. He then moved out and has been trying to avoid us. We found where he lives on Sunday morning and he said that he was getting ready for church and that if we came back in about 15 minutes he would be waiting for us and that he was excited to go. Well, apparently while we were gone, he ran for it. His nephew had no idea where he was and so, ya. Not too sure what happened with that. We might try one other time to get a hold of him but we're thinking he might be bad news. Good thing is that we know his aunt's family and also his other uncle's family really well and have return visits with them. His aunt seems very interested and has two little kids. So, maybe we'll see some success there.
We had a family home evening with a member family on Monday of last week and while we were in their house, another family came in that was buying a couch from them. So we helped them out moving it to another house. By the way, I've never smelt such nasty dog smell before in my life, all over my shirt. =) Anyways, we helped them out and they came back over to the house of the members and we taught them the message of the restoration. They were so interested and we have a return appointment with them tomorrow with the member family also. They don't have lights so they said it might be better at the Rodriguez house. They are Diego and Indira Perez. Hopefully they receive our message and feel the desire to go to church and learn more.
We had another menos activo family that we taught yesterday that got married and never went back to church again. They are the Castillo family and we taught them a lesson about eternal marriage in the temple and about work for the dead. They were super interested and really want to be sealed for eternity with their son. They said they'll go back to church and maybe even attend the temple prep class that the ward is having. Ojala.
Ohhhhhhh man, we had a churazco on Friday. So simple but sooooo good. It was with the high priests and my companion and I. So there were about 8 people and about 10 pounds of meat. My stomach has never felt so happy. We just had a big pile of BBQed meat, 100 tortillas, and a big ol pot of beans. Happy day, all was well. I'm pretty sure any protein deficiency that I had was eliminated in that night.
My companion and I got our full allotment of money for food this month, so we are eating well again. Our zone had an activity today. We went bowling and to a mall. It was a little weird, but pretty fun to bowl. For the hour it cost about 3 bucks. If only it were that cheap at atomic bowl! I bowled a 122, not too great, but it was nice to loosen up a little bit from the hard work of the week. Then we went somewhere really weird. Wal-Mart!?! Who knew they had a full on Wal-Mart here in Guatemala? And apparently they have a couple here in the capitol. It definitely wasn't very cheap though. American food is expensive.
Well, I'm sorry my letter isn't very long but we didn’t have too much time to write today, we got back pretty late from the Zone activity. Sounds like you guys are having such a great weekend. Make sure and eat a brat for me. Man, those are good. =) I really love you and am praying every day for ya. Stay strong and love the Lord. I promise I'll keep working hard. Have a good'un.
Love,
Elder Lloyd
We had a family home evening with a member family on Monday of last week and while we were in their house, another family came in that was buying a couch from them. So we helped them out moving it to another house. By the way, I've never smelt such nasty dog smell before in my life, all over my shirt. =) Anyways, we helped them out and they came back over to the house of the members and we taught them the message of the restoration. They were so interested and we have a return appointment with them tomorrow with the member family also. They don't have lights so they said it might be better at the Rodriguez house. They are Diego and Indira Perez. Hopefully they receive our message and feel the desire to go to church and learn more.
We had another menos activo family that we taught yesterday that got married and never went back to church again. They are the Castillo family and we taught them a lesson about eternal marriage in the temple and about work for the dead. They were super interested and really want to be sealed for eternity with their son. They said they'll go back to church and maybe even attend the temple prep class that the ward is having. Ojala.
Ohhhhhhh man, we had a churazco on Friday. So simple but sooooo good. It was with the high priests and my companion and I. So there were about 8 people and about 10 pounds of meat. My stomach has never felt so happy. We just had a big pile of BBQed meat, 100 tortillas, and a big ol pot of beans. Happy day, all was well. I'm pretty sure any protein deficiency that I had was eliminated in that night.
My companion and I got our full allotment of money for food this month, so we are eating well again. Our zone had an activity today. We went bowling and to a mall. It was a little weird, but pretty fun to bowl. For the hour it cost about 3 bucks. If only it were that cheap at atomic bowl! I bowled a 122, not too great, but it was nice to loosen up a little bit from the hard work of the week. Then we went somewhere really weird. Wal-Mart!?! Who knew they had a full on Wal-Mart here in Guatemala? And apparently they have a couple here in the capitol. It definitely wasn't very cheap though. American food is expensive.
Well, I'm sorry my letter isn't very long but we didn’t have too much time to write today, we got back pretty late from the Zone activity. Sounds like you guys are having such a great weekend. Make sure and eat a brat for me. Man, those are good. =) I really love you and am praying every day for ya. Stay strong and love the Lord. I promise I'll keep working hard. Have a good'un.
Love,
Elder Lloyd
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