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Puro Chapin Roller-coaster Ride

 Omgosh this week was all over the place. Let's get into it!!   And I'm going to try to keep this shorter To get things started, an Hermana that we met last week, we finally made it to her house and family to meet and teach them. We have visited them twice now and they are bien pilas!!!(AMAZING) The second time we met with them they expressed a desire to be baptised in the true church of God!! HOW AMAZING IS THAT!!! The love they have for God and Jesus already is amazing! This week I also got super sick. I must have eaten something bad the night before cause I was in the bathroom for 3 hours puking. So fun! Don't think I have ever felt or looked as dead as I did. Pero ni modo. When I woke up in the morning I was fine and had no more symptoms or pain. This week it has also started to rain. And when I mean rain I mean RAIN. It rains absolute cats and dogs here and we have found ourselves, many times, just standing in the rain in our many travels from area to area. So
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Fechas!!!

Wow, this week has been different. This week has felt like it's gone by so slow... probably because I had a mini two day vacation to the capital, Guatemala City. I'll get to that later To start off ... Last Monday. After P day on Monday we had a Family home evening at the House of Hermano Manuel "EL MEJOR LIDÉR MISIONAL" (the best mission leader) he practically yells that every time he talks about his calling. The power went off so we took some candles out. And boy was that a sight. A family with two Élders.in the middle of pitch black Guatemala with nothing but candles talking about Jesus. The spirit was soooo strong and I feel so lucky to be here! Tuesday is when my short vacation began. Élder Canal and I went to Coatepeque for the National bus and began exchanges with Élder Allen. It was a long 5.5 hour bus ride to Guatemala city. And a la gran, it is sooo different there! In certain parts I feel like I'm back in Sacramento. The Hotel we stayed at was thi
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Conferencia General

Ok, so a lot but not a lot happened this week. So I think it's going to be a short one this week... we'll see. So, to start things off I have a new companion, our area doubled in size and we now have two houses. Insane... You'd think two houses would be nice, but boy does it complicate things. Now there's a lot more planning to be done every week. I am now half way through training and have a new comp! Élder Canal is lit! He's from Peru, speaks un poquito🤏 English, and is bien pilas!! (awesome) This week there's been a lot of sick people with different illnesses from a fever to kidney stones😬. So there have been many opportunities to use our priesthood authority to give priesthood blessings. It rained!! Oh how I have missed the rain!!!! It began to rain Saturday for a couple hours and then stopped. And then today it absolutely dumped for about an hour. Sadly it hasn't lasted too long but I'll just say when it rains in Guatemala it RAINS! Now for the mo
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Semana Santa and Transfer News!

Well, has this been a week! I feel like I say that every week.😂 Anywho, this week was Semana Santa(Holy Week) and I'll start by saying... when Guatemalans do Holy Week they DO it... in a very weird, Chapin way. To start off... BREEEAD!!! Guatemalans love their Holy week bread and I do too now. Each house has a 3ft wide and 2ft tall bin of just bread!!! My paradise.😁 I have definitely had too much bread this week. Second, Jews. Yes Jews, but not the normal Jews you would think I'm talking about. Every night this month and every day, all day, this week there are kids ranging from the age of 5 to 18 who walk or run up and down the streets in crowds with whips, sticks, drums, horns, if it makes noise they've got it. At first I thought they were harmless until this week when the drunk men joined in. And boy do drunk Guatemalans love to talk with Gringos. I've had at least 6 bolos (drunks) chase after me in the streets, well, as fast as a bolo can walk without falling. Exch
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¿¡Más Intercambios!?

Wow, this week went by fast... May possibly be because I had two exchanges again. I had an exchange with Élder Dabb and Junco. Élder Dabb is from Denver Colorado and Élder Junco is from Oaxaca México. I learned so much from both of them and thanks to them my conversational skills have grown a ton in Spanish. They helped me to better be able to converse with new people and have more trust in my skills. Other than that not a whole lot happened this week. Today we had Zone P Day which was a blast. We played chamusca (Chapin word for fútbol) and had pizza after. I may have had an entire pizza by myself. But then again it's Little Caesars and it doesn't fill at all. Tonight we had noche de hogar with Manuel Aguilar (the mission leader in the Rama de Genova Costa Cuca). And they had a visitor from the states! I don't remember her name sadly (I'm finding Spanish names are much harder for me to remember) but I do know she lives in a town called Colorado Springs south of Denver
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Qué loca esta semana!

  Dang what a crazy week it's been. So to start off here's a list of everything that happened. -2 exchanges -2 baptisms -Zone Conference -Stake Conference -And illness So as you can tell it's been crazy. Imma go day by day again for this email. MARTES So to start off the week we had an exchange with the Zone Leaders, and boy was that fun. I lead the exchange, my first exchange... but boy was it fun and soo good. I was with Élder Thomas and he is bien loco. He's a ton of fun and taught me how I can better be a missionary and great friend with the people. MIERCOLES The next day we met back up at Taco Bell, with not only our comps, but with the Élders de Colomba for yet another exchange. The only difference was that I was not leading and was in a completely different area and didn’t know anything. And the fact that I was sick to my stomach with a fever that night and got maybe 2 hours of sleep. JUEVES By the time I got back to my area and house on Thursday I was already fe
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Comida Santa!!

Well this week has gone by fast. And boy what a blast it was. So much fun and so many spiritual experiences. My, oh my, have I had a lot of different food this week. From amazing Baleadas to some interesting cow foot soup. Imma have a real problem here soon if I don't start working out here. So if anyone has some good body weight workout routines por favor send them my way😂 For our Wednesday night activity we played some chamusca! (fútbol) It was a ton of fun. And it even helped an investigator open up more and feel more comfortable with us for when we taught him the next night. The more time I spend here, the more I realize there are dogs literally everywhere. On the roads, on the trails, in the yards, in the houses, even on the houses!! You literally can't be anywhere without a dog in eye sight or barking at you. Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, but... if I get bit, there's a good chance of getting rabies. So I would have to, the same day, go to Quetzaltenan
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