Fast Week!

Hey ¿Q' paso? Hey things are going well here in good ol' Guate.  It was a fast week, but lots has happened.  Woah, just looked down and realized I don't have my nametag on!  That's not good.  That's definitely the first time that's happened.  Whoops.  Straight to the house after I guess.  Anyways, here we go. Things have been a little bit rough this week.  Most of our appointments have fallen the entire week!  Sometimes that happens though.  It just seemed like every good plan that we had fell through in the time we needed it most.  Oh well.  We did have something extremely sad happen this week as well.  We went over to the Soto Xol family on Wednesday night and when we got there it was only William.  We entered the house and it was totally empty except for a little bed and a table.  Apparently Maritza had come home late from work in a bad mood and taken all of the things and the kids with her and moved out.  Also, he informed us that they really weren't married like they told us and had been divorced for a year but still living together.  We were still trying to help out William though because he seems repentant and has really started reading the Book of Mormon and praying so we were pretty excited.  But, yesterday when we thought he was going to come to church, aparently he had gotten back together with Maritza and the kids and was trying to work things out to get them back.  He had a baptismal goal for this coming Saturday, but since he didn't go to church, his goal fell and would have to be the next week.  But we are seeing what we do now because we can't have him with law of chastity problems so close to his baptism.  It was really confusing.  Things seemed like they were going so great and it all exploded all of a sudden.  We're going to pass by tonight and see what we can do to help them.  We didn't have any baptisms this week but the zone did end up having 10 baptisms in total and 5 8 year old baptisms in the stake.  That made things interesting.  As zone leaders we are in charge of all the baptismal clothing for the zone and stake, but we aren't used to having that many baptisms so it was difficult to get so many people ready with white clothes.  That actually took quite a bit of time out of our week just because we had to look so much for baptismal clothes and go to so many different areas in the zone.  But we finally figured everything out and they were all dressed in white that day.  It was a little funny in the baptism of Carcha.  We were there because we had to do all 6 baptismal interviews for them. They were baptising a 16 year old boy and only had woman's pants for him.  He started throwing a fit about it so Elder Vestal, the one baptising him, traded pants with him and we have pictures of him in woman's pants with all 6 of his baptisms.  Haha.  It turned out really well for the whole zone and all the missionaries are really excited to be baptizing so much.  We are excited because in the zone we will be baptizing 1 this week and 13 the next week.  Needless to say, things are BOOMING in Coban.  On the 28th, we are hoping to have 9 baptisms in our area alone.  That would be the best way to end the transfer here ever.  The transfer ends the 1st of August. We had an interesting experience this week.  You might remember the investigator we had a while ago named Densil.  Well, he started coming to church again.  He used to be really weird and kinda creepy, but he seems to have changed a lot.  He threw us a little surprise yesterday.  When we were passing by his house to see if he was going to church, he told us, by the way, did anybody tell you I want to get baptised?  Ya, I'm getting baptised this weekend on the 21st.  So, a little surprising, but if he is ready and passes the interview, we are going to have a baptism with Densil this week.  Wasn't expecting that! We were able to find a new family this week that are relatives of a missionary in Chile from this ward.  They have had lots of questions about their nephew on the mission and we started teaching them.  They are Kekchi and it is a little hard to teach them, but they seem to understand ok and are excited.  It is a perfect time to find them because this week some return missionaries and members of the mormon tabernacle chior are coming down to do a performance in Coban and present a new Kekchi hymn book.  We are going to try to get them to go.  They go to church but it seems like they just go there because everybody speaks Kekchi.  Hopefully they can see that we are a multi-idioma church as well.  =)  They are the familia Cucuul.  We're super excited for them because they are a huge family.  The only bad thing is that they always give us this horrible corn drink every time we go there and it is ALWAYS boiling hot!  Nasty!  Sometimes it's super chunky.  Haha.  But, it's worth it.  We had an awesome activity this Saturday.  It was fairly simple.  We just watched the Testaments on the projector in the church and gave them sandwiches, popcorn, and juice, but about 15 people that arent members were able to show up and I think we'll be able to start teaching a few of them.  We're going to try to do a video like that every 2 weeks in the church to see if it helps us get new investigators.  Well, I gotta go.  Love you all and hope you enjoy the family reunion without me.  Have a great week! Elder Lloyd