Guatemala City South

Hey mother,
I am so glad to hear you guys had a great week, I forgot my agenda today so it will be a struggle to try and remember everything we did but I will try hard to do so. 

First off I am so happy for Ashley and Lindsey.  I can't wait to come home and visit them. They are such an inspiration to me and to a lot of people here too. A member asked me in her primary class if she thought I was being blessed because of my mission, and I told her, of course I do, my family is getting baptized and are coming to the truth and God is happy with them. What other blessings could I want. but yeah, I'm so happy for them.  

Here is my week from what I can remember.
 

Last week we had a district meeting and it was really cool. Our zone leader Elder Esteban, who is my brother in the mission, taught us a little about our purpose and just got us to remember why we are here. He had us write down some of the reasons we are here and here are the things I wrote: serving people, changing lives, seeing the Lord's hand in the work, being happy always, visiting people, lessons not contacting, learning something new everyday, my family getting baptized, going to the temple, language I've learned, and good people I have met. Those were some of the things that I like about being here in the mission. I really have learned so much here mom and I wouldn't trade places with anyone right now. I love my mission and I hope that the people who ever consider going will just go.
 

This last week was Hermana Reyes birthday so I bought her a negrito and made her a card and she loved it. I forgot to take a picture but the memory I´ll never forget. We also shared a message with them and it was really cool. ha, I shared your testimony with them. We read it out loud and it really is a pretty powerful testimony. After we were done I gave them all a copy and then I invited them to go and write their testimonies down in their journals so that they could remember that forever. I've figured out when we are the most full of the Spirit, we need to write our thoughts. It is really neat. I also gave them the pencils, stickers, little hearts, and the ctr rings. They were one short so we had to draw sticks but yeah, haha, it was a really neat lesson and really spiritual.
 

There is this new sister that we are now visiting,  Her name is Sharom, she is from nicagura and she is really cool. She has 2 daughters and is just a really nice lady. She really likes the things we are teaching and she almost came to church with us yesterday but something came up with her cousin or something so she had to go to the hospital. Stupid Satan. ha, but we´ll get her next week. she really does believe in Joseph Smith and we watched the short video with her and she loved it. She said afterwords,  "He is called of God right". haha we were just like, uh yeah. ha  We have an appointment with her tomorrow so we´ll see how that goes.
 

George needed to come to church yesterday but he didn't come so he can't be baptized this coming Saturday, I was really bummed about that, and next week are elections on Sunday and apparently he is working so I might be gone before he can be baptized. It is sad but we´ll see what happens. I really hope we can get him baptized but we´ll talk with the president to see what happens. He is still really pilas and is moving along well and things are going good with him.  He tells me that he knows without a doubt that the church is true and that he has no doubt about it.  He is just a little nervous but we´re working with him on that so he is not scared.

With José, he is really cool still. He came to church yesterday and he loved it again. He says he is really starting to know that these things are true. I remember before the first time he came to church we asked him what he thought the true church would be like, and he was just like, well I´d imagine they would be playing the piano and give talks and take the sacrament and teach us the word of God. Haha we were just like wow you have to see our church then. He came and yesterday was his second time and he whispered in my ear during the sacrament, it´s everything I imagined. It was really neat, I love that guy and I really hope we can get him baptized as well. We have an appointment on Wednesday so we will probably set a fecha with him but yeah it was awesome.
 

I had to teach the lesson yesterday in Sunday School. haha 1 hour of me talking pure spanish. I thought it was going to be hard but it was actually really fun. Instead of teaching from the gospel principles book, I taught them from the seminary teachers book for the Book of Mormon. Haha it was awesome and the class loved it. I taught about how Nephi and Laman and Lemuel are so different and how we need to be like Nephi and the Lord will always deliver us out of trouble.  For example what would of happened had we not retrieved the brass plates?  We would have lost  a lot of really good doctrine. I'm personally kinda mad at Martin Harris for losing the plates of Lehi, I wanted to read those. I think that I´ll ask for those right when I get to heaven. haha, but yeah there is no doubt in my mind that this church is true mom. I love this church so much and the more I study it I learn how true it is. How if we give up a little here on earth we will receive a lot in the world to come. If we are into the worldy things here, we can expect that it will be a pretty day with God.  I try really hard to do my best everyday and I'm exhausted at the end of the day. I don't even have a problem wtih going to bed at 10:30 anymore, I start going to bed at 10 now. well I love you guys a lot and miss you all and I hope you have a great weekend. i´ll talk to you later.

love elder shipley

Danny's family