hey there mother,
how are you doing? i hope all is going well for you. i have been thinking a lot about you guys lately and the safety and health for all of you. people can say Joseph Smith was crazy all they want but the Word of Wisdom was really inspired and was really meant for us. I'm really glad to have all the commandments we have and i know that my life has been truly blessed, thanks to all of them.
Here in Guatemala it is raining so stinking hard and you know how i just love the rain. haha
It is great and today we went to a bridge which is called the El puente de los esclavos. the bridge of the slaves is the translation. there we were able to see the river of the slaves and we were able to see the true power of God.
Apparently there is a huge hurricane heading our way but believe me we are in good hands, President Stay really does receive a lot of revelation for us and so he keeps us well informed on what we need to do and when we can and can not do stuff. I love that man so much.
Oh and also really quickly the offices here are open Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Friday 9 to 3. and Wednesday from 9 to 12. sat and sun they are closed. but always call that number i gave you in advance so Terri can confirm stuff. i was thinking of a couple other things mainly like chips ahoy chewy kind, red vines, those would be good, also my other shoes have finally died, i got to the point where if i walked water just entered immediately. so I'm using the new ones now. ask the ctr guys what they can do, the heel is just completely destroyed. ill send pics next week. but ask them if they can maybe send new ones, i just want a good pair of shoes for when i come home. also i was wondering if you could put on a usb memory thing john Bytheway talks audio and then i can just transfer them over there onto my ipod. but let me know what you think about that. Mainly just send me some snacks, haha, i may be better at my debit card but it is because they just don't exist out here. i have really been introduced into the third world country but im living and I'm getting used to it. i love it. but yeah well here is a little bit about my week
First of all. this past week there was a baptism and me and my buddy elder mcnabb were able to baptize. they asked special permission for us to do it and i was really honored to be able to baptize one of the ladies on such a special day. her name is Victoria Del cid Jolem, and the little girl is Vilma Victoria del cid. but yeah it was really neat and just a beautiful ceremony. because of the hurricane coming though here the water is really bad and brown so the baptismal fount was all brown too. i told the lady wow you had a lot of sins, haha, she just laughed but it was a really neat experience.
So a little bit about the investigators we have right now. We need to go out and look for new ones pretty much, the ones we have are progressing really well but as soon as they are baptized we will have nothing once again so we are going to focus on finding new people this week. Brenda and Sandra are progressing along really well still but are starting to get a little nervous about their baptism. Brenda is all for it still and is always like, I'm not scared to baptize myself. but Sandra is looking a little iffy. but hopefully it will all go through. They are great people and I really want to see them progress like how they are. Brenda continues to surprise me every time i see her. Last time we were there, her mom was just like well she was already baptized in the catholic church, and Brenda began to explain to her, mom i wasn't baptized because my first baptism doesn't count if the guy who did the ordinance didn't have the priesthood. haha, it was funny. then she is loving the book of Mormon, she is now in 1 Nephi 25, and also is reading the other parts we give her. it is really cool and she is just amazing me so much.
With Luisa she is still moving a long really well but it was a little bit of a bummer because she was really sick this past week. as well as everyone else who lives in our little town. it made the week really hard to work. Luisa is loving all the things we are teaching her but she is just still really nervous about making any promises. we are trying really hard to get her to commit to certain things but she has a hard time with it. She is just really nice but i think we need to just back off of her a little bit and let her breathe a little bit and let her realize the things that she really wants in her life.
But other than that this last week we went and we worked in the area of my district a little bit to help them out and get them some new investigators and just get them motivated and get them working hard too. this week i will be going to a area called Jalpatagua again to work there, but this time my comp will stay in our area with another missionary to work in Oratorio. but yeah that is really all the big news there is for my area.
This past Sunday i had to give a talk in church and it went really well. i talked about how we need to gain a personal relationship with our savior Jesus Christ. It was a really good talk and they loved it. when i get home i can give it to you. in my branch our president is really nice and he is really cool, we don't have a mission leader here which is a bummer but we are working hard here and we work mainly with the president of the branch. on Sunday he shared a story with us and ill end on this.
A man one day decided he wanted to go and look for the devil. so on a Sunday morning he went out and he went to the soccer field, but he wasn't there. He went to the Work places and he couldn't find the devil there. He went to the dances and parties but he wasn't there either. He showed up to the doors of the church though and there was the devil. He was really surprised to find him there and asked him what he was doing there. The devil replied, I already have the other people, they are lost, but here, here in the church, he had work to do there to destroy them. it is so true this story, but we need to be strong, we need to be faithful to our work and we need to always do what is right. god truly does bless us if we just keep his commandments and do what he asks us to do. We need to go to church to be blessed. I know that this church is true and that everything that i am doing really is for a reason. I am helping build God's kingdom here on the earth and it makes me happy that i am apart of such a great cause. It makes me sad the people who fall away from the church, but it is because of their pride that they cannot return. but yeah well i hope everything is going well there and that you guys are having a good time. i love you all and i miss you a ton,
until next week, love
Daniel
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