Guatemala City South

Hey there, wow thanks mom for that letter, I could really feel the spirit on that last part of the scripture. I love reading that part so much from the Pearl of Great Price.  I love you guys and I miss you all so much.  Everything is going great here and I am really learning so much on my mission. Any news on when Terry will be coming, let me know.  Just send a lot of snacks and I will be happy, haha, red vines for sure though, and I will do some research on the price of all that stuff but I'm thinking I probably won't know until I am almost going home.  I will try and find something that you will love. It will be a surprise though.  Here is a little bit about my week.

Something funny that happened was when I went on divisions I went to this one area called Jalpatagua and I was on divisions with elder McNabb.  He is a really cool guy and we had a blast. We were contacting a little bit trying to find them some new people. We were contacting this one guy who was just telling us that it is impossible for any man to talk to God. Then out of no where as elder McNabb describes it, he just said sure, it says it in Exodus. So the guy runs inside and grabs his bible and says, "enter".   We went in and we started with a prayer, then right as we said amen, elder McNabb says, Exodus 33:11. haha I don't know how I didn't know that, it was a scripture mastery, but it talks about how Jesus talked with Moses face to face. Then it talks a little bit later how Moses saw his back his hand.  The man was just so stumped. It was amazing. The spirit truly does talk to us on our mission, and helps us so much, haha I really don't know what I would do without it.  Also this past week I completed 14 months and some of the missionaries in my district bought me a cake. haha they are so nice and they treat me so good. I need to do stuff for them now, haha but it will be something small.

Our most progressing investigators are progressing along so well and I love them. We have Brenda and Sandra who are currently struggling right now. They are scared to death to make this huge commitment with God and are scared that they will go inactive in the future. We keep trying to promise them that they will be ok and that they are ready for this decision. We previously had a fecha this Saturday but we decided to cancel it because they just really aren't ready. But the next time we go with them, me and my comp talked about just letting them put the date of baptism so that they can feel like they have a say in it and that they can feel like they are doing it for themselves.

Maria Luisa who was also having a hard time is now progressing along really well. In fact we are going to baptize her this week. She is a changed women and she has really had a conversion lately. She is so happy with all the things that she is doing and you can just see in her face the difference. It is amazing. We kind of just went there to teach her and to we asked her a ton of questions so that she could learn from herself. And it worked. haha.  She just really needed that lesson and the spirit was so strong there.

I had to go do an interview for the zone leaders. It went really well and I am so happy for those people. I really love having the interviews because I get to see the people at the most happy part of the conversion process. They are so excited and just so anxious.  It is great.

Sorry I don't really have more to write, There are these two elders that are not really getting along and I can't help but think about that right now. Kind of distracting me from the letters but it will be better next week. Just know that I love you mom and I miss you a ton, I always want you to know that.  I love this work. I know that this is the true church and there is no doubt in my mind. I hope you all have a great week and I'll talk to you next week.

love elder shipley.