This week was the best. We traveled to Villa Hermosa, walked a lot and a lot, traveled to Amatitlan, and brought people from the Periquera to church for the first time! It was awesome.
Elder Rosas and I have been all over the place. It´s crazy how much we´ve been walking and traveling. I think it shows in our shoes though.
This week they´ve been repairing the road in Palin, and so we haven´t been able to take many buses to visit people in the zone. We´ve mostly just been walking. Yesterday my companion realized that the whole in his shoe was so big that he also had one in his sock, and his bare foot was touching the road all day haha. Oof! That´s what it´s like to be a missionary. It´s super fun!
We had a huge victory in the ward this week because we finally convinced the leaders to send a little bus to the Periquera (the really poor place with people who really want to go to church but can´t pay for it). We went there and found a bunch of people who we´ve been teaching, and they came! All the members of the church got to meet them, and it was a really cool experience. I think the people here were surprised, because they´re going to keep sending the bus. Some of the people there are really excited to be baptized, and so we´re going to keep working a ton with them over there.
We´ve been visiting this lady named Hortencia who wants to come back to church after years of not going very often. She is really awesome, but she´s also hilarious. She always makes fun of Elder Rosas and I for being opposites. She calls us "the fat one and the skinny one." She was telling us about a place where it´s really cold, and she says that the iguanas are freezing on the trees and falling down. I asked her what she´d do if an iguana fell on her head, expecting her to be scared. And she was like "If one of those things fell on my head, I´d grab it real quick, cook that baby and eat it right there!" It was so funny.
We got a call this week from some people that my companion was teaching in his old area telling us that they were going to get baptized! So we got permission to go all the way to Villa Hermosa in the capital to see a family get baptized. They were so happy. When the dad came out of the water, he just stood there with his face in his hands crying and thanking God. It really touched him to be able to be baptized in the church of Jesus Christ, because he´d been searching his whole life for just that without even knowing. It´s amazing to see people like that who understand how important it is to follow the Lord. There really isn´t anything more important than that. And it´s awesome because that´s why I´m here, to help people find that joy. It makes me really happy to help others to be happy, and the gospel is the happiest thing there is. Every day I learn more ways to help people. The mission is awesome!
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
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| Elder Rosas when he eats my snacks |
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| "American food" |
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