Guatemala City South

hey mom, that is cool that you guys had stake conference last night, sounds like it went pretty well, and what a bummer that you had to go miss it on sunday, and that is crazy about courtney, i was never apart of the call center but i saw it and it is huge and they are busy all the time. they usually only let teachers do it though, that is cool i would like a package for christmas and you can do whatever is best for you, i don't want to be a hassle. i'm still not sure how the calling will work but from what i hear you guys calling me will be the best thing to do. but i´ll get more info later, i never created a mormon.org account. and yes pres polley wrote me about the visit from elder christopherson, and also the other elder. i cant remember his name but i loved his talk in conference. he was good, the one with the english accent.
yeah i will send a picture on the card and you will get it that way. but yeah the shoes are in good shape its just that the flap inside is annoying to walk on. but see if you can just send a new pair of other kind of shoes, the slip ons are kind of annoying but if he cant then i can live with it, its no big deal. also i need new socks, the socks i have now pretty much all have holes in them except for the golden toes, so maybe just send those, the others wore out really quickly. i have not received any packages yet but I'm thinking i wont until the next change which is december 5th i think. they do changes every 6 weeks, and that is probably when i will get a new comp too. but i am still with elder hardy. i cant wait to get home and see jack and paul and kate will probably have another kid then too. that is sad that you will miss t-giving. we dont celebrate it here because it is not a holiday here and the lats would feel weird if we were celebrating it.  i think anyone could be a good missionary they just need to put their mind to what's right and preach what they know. president told me that it doesn't matter what you say or how bad your spanish is, if the spirit is there you did your part, but yeah it sounds like your enjoying seminary. that is good and i'm glad you can teach them what is so important to our church.

ok so here are a couple things. i wrote down to email about. so i was wondering if you could take a couple pics, first off i want to see my plaque in church so take a pic of that,

also i want to see what my room looks like,

and the house too, so take some pics of the house too, i could use some shaving cream and face wash too, i'm running low on that stuff.

and we baptized a kid yesterday named marc antonio. and this saturday we will probably be baptizing ernesto and diana, and also some little girl, i cant remember her name. but we are teaching alot of families right now and hopefully we can get them to be baptized too. if we get everyone were teaching we´ll have like 20 but I'm not sure if we´ll get that, we will see though. here is a sad story though and i´ll end on this. so there was this girl who seemed really interested she was pretty cool too, but anyways when we got there the jw were there and they were just contacting us. so we walked by to avoid it being awkward and then when they left we went to the girls door and she was just like frozen. she looked terrified. she just wouldn't talk to us and said she wanted nothing to do with us. so it was sad, the jw said something to make her mad at us but it is her choice and those people will be held accountable for what they did. it is sad though how there can be so many churches here. the most argument we get here is that these people believe that their church is the only right one, and we just ask them, why would God locate the only true church in one little city. he wants his church worldwide and he wants everyone to be in one church. when Jesus came he established one church, not 500. ugh, ha, it gets frustrating sometimes but i love the work and i love what I'm preaching, it is so true and this church is so perfect. and it is so profound too. i love it. well i will talk to you guys next week. we go to the temple this wednesday so I'm excited for that. but i will talk to you later. i love you.

love elder daniel shipley