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| A cold foggy night in Guatemala |
December 10, 2012
hello family,
This
week was great actually, we were able to teach the most amount of
lesson that I have taught in the area, have the most people at church that I've had in this area, and reach my record for new investigators that I've found in this area.
We foud a really poor cowboyish family, the man buys
and sells livestock. but they actually came to church on thier own
after the first time that we visited them. actually, the day before we
found their son in law, and taught him, and we asked him for a
reference, then the next day we found a family fom the reference, and
then we asked this family for a reference as well, and right after we
found another family from this reference, and then we asked them for a
reference as well, but the referene they gave us wasn't home, so we'll go
try to find them another day. It was just a great chain of references.
It was great.
Also the Family "G", they are great, they're doing
really good, they brought 2 friends to church on sunday, and they arent
even baptized yet. awesome. They are not even members yet but their doing
better missionary work than most of the members. We're going to baptize
the 4 of them once her son gets back from Christmas vacations with his
dad.
Pablo, is doing good, we are going to baptise and
confirm him this weekend. He's already read the whole book of mormon, and
reads it every night for a half hour.
Diego
and Melvin, 2 kids, are still coming to church, they've come like 4 times
already, we're going to baptize them on the 30th, we want to take it
slower with them, because thier parents don't come to church, and we want
to make sure that they'll stay active.
This week I did some baptism interviews in a little
town called Comalapa, out in the middle of nowhere. when you walk down the
streets there, you dont hear spanish, you hear katchiquel. Spanish is
just the second language. In one of the interviews, I had a translator
present because the lady was more comfortable speaking katchiquel, but
she only needed a few things translated. It was kinda cool. I love the
native people.
Oh yeah, so I did get a suit made, a 3 piece suit,
with a vest, I got it a little while ago, it has the guatemalas flag
embroidered on the inside, its really cool, maybe one day I'll send a
picture of it haha. I want to get another one made, and put corte
inside, the native cloth. its gonna be cool.
So the pictures i sent are me and the other elders
in the district out in this little town of Comalapa, at the chapel. Just
me and a book of mormon, and one night it was really cold and foggy, so
I got a cool picture of that.
Tomorrow is the Chistmas activity, we have to leave
at 2:45 in the morning, yes, at 2:45, to be in the temple at like 5:30 6
ish, we live kinda far away haha. The elders from Comalapa, Elder
Tanner,and Elder Mcmillan are going to sleep over at our house tonight,
it should be fun. I did divisions with Elder Mcmillan on wednesday and
we had a good time.
Thats so funny that Guatamala is only a little bit
further than Halifax haha, even though Tyler is going to Halifax on his mission, and its in Canada, he is going to a
far away place haha. I love that guy. I can't wait to reunite with him
one day.
I did get that preach my gospel in the mail, thank
you for it, i appreciate it, the only this is.... that I dont ever study
anything in english anymore haha. in fact I left my big english preach my
gospel in some old area cuz i never used it haha. but thank you for the
thought.
I really don't need any thing in the mail right now, i think I'm all
good. I satisfy my hunger cravings with tortillas beans and eggs, or
platano frito now. and I'm all good with everything else, just save your money and give it to me to buy cool things in Antigua or Panajachel for you.
yeah, the buses are pretty crazy here, i think the
mixture of the stuffiness, and occasional very bad smelling guatemalan,
with the sharp fast turns, and starts and stops, get me feeling sick
every once and a while, other times I'm perfectly fine. Maybe when you're down here we'll get on a bus so you can experience it haha.
So the Christmas call will be on the 25th, I will
write you with the phone number on the 24th, thats what I've been told to
do. So i was thinkining that 9:30 am my time will be perfect, now I'm pretty sure theres a time difference be like and hour so we'll have to be
sure with that. right now its 10 00 am here.
and wow i just got the picture of tyler and lincoln,
(I sent a picture in my email to him) wow there are so HANDSOME! girls, you better be writting them while
they're out in the field cuz you don't want boys like that to forget about
you.
well, i think thats just about it for this week, next week i should be back to the regular schedule of writing on tuesdays.
stay classy canada.
From Guatemala, with love,
Elder Hopkins
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| A chapel in Comalapa |
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