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El Santo Templo!

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Hey gang! How are yall doing? Well this transfer has gone by pretty dang fast. I guess that happens when it's a 5 week transfer... These past couple weeks have been pretty dang good. To keep yall in the loop the following happened: - Had intercambios with: Élder Taylor on Wednesday, and with Élder Chapman on Thursday last week. - We had Stake Conference and got to see some members from my previous area, Chapil - We got to go to the temple!!! It was such a blessing to be able to go after so long of not being able to. - Got to do some service moving sand up and down a very steep hill. Got a good workout in. - We had a dope barbeque for pday - And have been sick with a cold for about 7 days... so fun... But lemme tell yall an amazing miracle that happened: Due to this cold I have had a crazy runny nose and a terrible cough for a good while. One thing that I was worrying about a lot, was being in the temple with this cough interrupting it for everyone else and for myself. So I asked fo...
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Been a while ...

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  Buenos días!!! How are yall doin? I hope yall are doing great! Figured I'd write yall to make sure yall know I'm still alive. But ya, these last couple weeks have been great. Here's a little bit to sum up what's happened: - Transfers came, and I am now in a area called Independencia and am Zone Leader for the San Pedro Zone(still in the mountains - My new comp is Elder Whiting and he's awesome - first week here we extended 3 baptismal dates - last week we extended two more for yesterday and yesterday they were baptized! - we have been learning Spanish Sign Language to teach a family with three deaf kids. I can officially teach the restauración in sign language. - we had probably the best Elderes quorum activity that I have ever been to on the mission, consisting of a discussion of priesthood responsibilities, fútbol game, and a Guatemalan barbecue. It's amazing being in a ward after being in little branches my whole mission. - Tuesday we were helping some peop...
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Las Montañas!!!

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It happened guys. I finally made it to the mountains!!! But it's coooold. Hope yall had a good couple of weeks. I was going to write last week but then they decided to transfer both my comp and I and we were running around all day trying to say bye to everyone we could. Sadly we couldn't say bye to everyone. But now I am here in the area called San Andres Chapil as District Leader and Trainer. I get to finish up the training of Elder Huascar from Perú. This area is absolutely beautiful. It's a little rural town right at the base of the mountains. I'll add some fotos below. But the work here is very different. Right now we are focused a lot on the members. And helping them come closer to Christ, all the while bringing their family along with them. Conference was so amazing. I absolutely loved the talk that President Oaks gave about the importance of the family. The family really is something that is taken for granted so often. I testify that the family is ordained of God...
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Hablemos de Cristo! Testifiquemos de Cristo! Regocigémonos en Cristo! Y que nunca nos cansemos de hacerlo bueno.

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  Title referenced from some scriptures that I recently have loved and have helped me. - 2 Nefi 25:26 - DyC 64:33 Hey yall. Hope yall are doing swell. Here in Champerico, it has been a little wild lately due to some good ol' patriotic Guatemalans during their independence week tradiciones. Here's some highlights: - Had intercambios with Elder Sumpter, a dope gringo from my district. He's picking up Spanish great and has such a great desire to help our friends progress - Got to learn to make buttermilk to make some amazing pancakes for Sunday lunch. Supposedly I have changed the expectations of pancakes for Elder Baquedano😅 - Had intercambios with Elder Nelson, my Zone Leader. He came to the mission with me and it is the first time in 20 months that we have been able to catch up. Wild to see how much a mission can change someone - we got eating with members banned by getting ill constantly in the gut... yay... I am all good though so there's no need to worry. - today fo...
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It's Been a Minute

Happy Labor Day everyone! Hope yall have a had a great couple of weeks. Here in Champe it has been a roller coaster ride. Here is why: - we got transfers and Elder Baquedano and I are staying together for another transfer. - we have been working with a good amount of baptismal dates. I'll tell more about that later - we got to go to an island to contact a facebook reference. It was soo dope. Its called El Chico and it's an island between the ocean and a mangrove forest. And the boats that we take to get there don't go trough the ocean. But instead they go through the mangrove forest. It's unforgettable. - as we were returning from the island we ran into a member that hasn't seen missionaries there in 3 years. Supposedly she is the only member there but not one member knows her because she has never had a way to drive the long distance to church. It's really sad. - I got stomach sick again ... yay... nothing new there... - we were going to have two baptisms. They...
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3 weeks later...👀

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Buenos días! Sorry for the radio silence. It's been a little wild these past couple weeks. Due to some issues, our pday time was cut short two weeks ago and an activity last week took a little too long. But today should be a chill pday. So I'm looking forward to it. But the past three weeks have been amazing! Elder Baquedano and I have been working so hard lately and trying to help a good handful of people work towards baptism. Some have sadly ended up deciding that it's not their time. But others are working through their obstacles whether it be a substance or nerves or fears. Two of which are Angel (14 years old) and Micheal (18 years old). They both are preparing to be baptized this coming Sunday. So please keep them in your prayers. Amongst the work and them helping them prepare to be baptized, here's a few other things that have happened: -as we were looking for the house of an inactive member we knocked on the door of someone's hut and the person answered the ...
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¡Champerrrrrrico!

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Bueno. These past weeks have been quite eventful. First of all, I am no longer in the mission office!!!! That's right, I left! I got called back to the coast. Hence the title: Champerico. Moved right down the hour long road to the beach of Retalhuleu. My new comp is Elder Baquedano. He's a Hondereño and he is actually from the same generación as me. So it'll be fun to get back together in the airport as we head home. This last week we had interviews with Presidente Pincay. The Pincays are awesome and are so ready to get to work. Also, after my interview I got a pretty sweet promise from Hermana Pincay. She said that I'll be able to die in the mountains!!! For all who don't know, that's mission lingo. To die in the mission is to end your mission. So I'm looking forward to going up to the cold mountains of Guatemala right before I go home to the freezing cold of Loomis, California, right in time for snow season. It's been a crazy week as we have extended a...
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