It´s been a crazy week. I´m now with Elder Alcazar, who is one of the coolest guys I´ve ever met. He´s incredibly humble, and he likes to listen. But when he talks, it´s either really really funny, or it hits you really hard with inspiration and power. I´m not sure how he does it. He also speaks English really well, and so we speak a lot of English together. Neither of us have been Zone Leaders before, so we don´t reeeally know what we´re doing, but we are showing a ton of love for all of the missionaries in the zone, and they´re working really hard. So I think we´re doing good...? It´s really fun. We´re also trying to figure out the area, because neither of us know it that well. It´s really funny just to be launched in without much warning. We have everything we need though, and we´re finding a ton of miracles here in Siquinalá :).
I now have 9 months in the mission! That´s pretty crazy. I´m in between having no time at all and kinda having a little bit. I still feel pretty new though. It´s funny to think that I´ve been in Guatemala for the length of an entire pregnancy already.
This week we got to hold this enormous iguana that some friends found and brought home. It looked like a dragon, with spikes going all the way down its back and scales of all different shades of green. Pretty crazy. Also, one day it rained so hard that we found a fish in the street. With some effort, we managed to return it to the nearest river.
I switched companions for a day this week to be with a new missionary from Brazil! His name is Elder Araujo, and he is suuper cool. He speaks Portuguese, and is just now learning Spanish. He has a super cool accent, and lots of cool stories. Portuguese is really really similar to Spanish. I can understand almost everything that someone is saying when they speak it, because it sounds like they´re speaking Spanish with a weird accent. It´s really interesting, and I had him teach me a bunch too. When you learn one language, it seems like it´s probably easier to learn others too. But the coolest thing about him is that he loves God. He wants to be like Jesus, and he does everything he can to help the people. He can´t speak very well yet, but he still talks! He doesn´t know everything, but he loves the people, and they know that, and so they love him too. I learned a lot from being with him. Honestly if we just show more love in life, everywhere is a better place.
This week has been a leap of faith for Elder Alcazar and I. We went to leadership counsel, and then had a zone training where we taught everyone the things that we learned. We feel a little bit inadequate, like "who picked us too to teach all these people?," but I think Peter did too when he was a fisherman and Jesus called him to be an apostle. Jesus called me just like He did for Peter. But Peter´s calling seems a little more difficult to me, so I think maybe I´m doing fine. God is guiding us a ton, and we find miracles everyday :). Life is happy.
Love you all!
-Elder Cloward
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| We have a pair of older missionaries who come to church with us, and they bought as a ton of awesome groceries from the capital! They´re the best. |
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| The Zona Siquinalá. They´re so awesome!! My companion is the one with glasses to the left of me. |
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| Me with Elder Araujo in the house. He´s super great and it was fun to be with him for a day. |
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| We went and got ice cream at Sarita one last time with Elder Richens, because he loves it, and also to say goodbye to our friend Katy who works there. |
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| Katy is a little shy, but she´s super great. She likes to give us an extra little scoop of icecream on the top of the cone for free ;) |
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