I feel the earth move . . .

Hey family, Well, once again, not much time to write but I will try to get as much in as possible. So, how bout that earthquake? Honestly things weren't too bad in our mission, which was a huge blessing for us. I did feel it though. I think all of the other missionaries in Guatemala should be ok as well. The interesting thing was that the earthquake happened Wednesday at 11:00 am, which just so happens to be the time when every missionary in the whole country is in their district meetings. There was a lot of damage done in San Marcos and Quetzaltenango, but none of the missionaries was hurt. We were actually visiting a district here when we felt it. It sure feels weird. I was leaning up against a post outside of the chapel when all of a sudden it started to move. I thought there was just wind or something but then I saw the cars and other things moving. You could even see the roof of the church moving a bit. It was cool though. It's a tragedy for that part of the country though. The sad part is that the poor people's houses are usually the only ones that get destroyed. But the people seem to be doing a really good job of donating time and money to help out. We were able to go and do splits with three areas in the capital this week. One was really good because I found one of my converts, actually my second baptism. We baptized him and his 2 daughters in Colombia but his whole family moved away and I kind of lost track of them when they left. Luckily he moved close by and is in the zone that all the office elders are in. He talked to the Elders about 2 weeks ago and told them that he wanted them to come visit him, but the missionaries didn't do anything so they asked him to give me his number. So I called and we were able to visit him. The bad news is that he lives with a woman. The other bad news is that he's 52 and she's 18, but I guess all's fair in love and war. He's still reading the Book of Mormon and listening to hymns and is going to start going back to church. All he needs is a little help. But it really was great to visit him and hear from his family. It sounds like his family might come to my ward to visit me this sunday. That would be cool. We had the best Pday ever this week. There is a senior couple in our mission named the Smiths. They have been here since July and work a lot in the office with us. Well, a week back we got the idea to go to the temple with them on our Pday. So we did, and it was so great. It's been so long since I've been able to enter in the temple. What a relief after 16 months to be able to enter the house of the Lord for 3 hours and forget all the hustle and bustle (and dirty, sewage filled streets) of Guatemala. I haven't felt so spiritually strengthened in a long time. It made me really grateful that the Lord gives us the time to be close to him. Then after the temple the Smiths invited us to lunch. Soooo fancy. It was so good. They took us to this mexican food/south american parillada place. It was a lot of delicious meat. The best part was that they had a mariachi band playing that came over to the table to sing to us. I'll have to show you guys the videos after the mission. But, all and all today was awesome. Now we are headed out of the capital to Coban so we can make it to Senahu tomorrow. We are starting all of the interviews and training meetings outside of the capital on Monday and in a week we will have visited everybody outside of the capital. That means we will get to fly to Peten again. So, it's going to be a lot of traveling this week, but I'm very excited to see all the missionaries and get to try to help them. Anyways, I love you guys. Thanks for everything you guys do for me. I'm grateful for all your prayers. Have a great week. Love, Elder Lloyd