Corriendo

¡Hola amigos!

This week went by really fast. I spent most of it getting to know the people here, and now I feel like I know everyone in the zone pretty well, as well as almost everyone we're teaching right now. It's honestly really great here in Palin, and I like it a lot. 

A couple really happy things happened this week, and also some really sad things. One person we're teaching named Blanca told us that she really wants to get baptized and follow Christ. Just that she's been through some really, really hard things in her life, and wants to be able to forgive the people that have harmed her before getting baptized. We are going to visit her with a really awesome woman who got baptized a few weeks ago after passing through similar struggles. 

We're also teaching a man named Cesar. Yesterday we went to his house and he was really sad. His wife told him that she was going to go to the capital to visit a family member, so he gave her the money he had and wished her a safe trip. A few days later he found a note that she had left that said that she was never coming back, and that she didn't want to be with him anymore. It was honestly one of the saddest things that I've ever seen, because they were really happy together, and he had just taken her out to dinner the night before and they had had a great time. But now he doesn't have money and he doesn't know what to do without her. We're going to be visiting him a lot more, because we don't know what to do besides just comfort him a ton and help him to get closer to God. The whole situation doesn't make sense to us, and it's just sad. But sometimes life hits hard and you just have to learn from it, I guess. He'll be okay.

We're having a great time helping the zone, and sometimes we don't even have time to work here in our own area, but that's always how it is. You learn pretty quickly in the mission that the most important person in the world is all of them that aren't you. Sounds kinda funny, but it's how we work here, and I really love it. I've learned so many things here that I don't even know what I must have been like a year ago before being in this country. Good stuff!

Love you all!

A pair of shoes on one of my first days in Guatemala.

What the shoes look like now, one year later. I left them in Siqui because they don't serve anymore.

The view from the roof of the house.