JULY 26, 2016---SETTING HIGH GOALS, I'M A LITTLE TALL HERE, REAL MESSENGERS OF JESUS CHRIST

JULY 26, 2016

SETTING HIGH GOALS
This week was great.  Like I said, our area is huge.  We found more than one place that we hear that people have never talked to or seen missionaries, so that's kind of cool.  We are kind of opening areas, ha. We are setting high goals and we are going to complete them.  We had 53 lessons this week.  We confirmed and baptized someone. 

I'M A LITTLE TALL HERE
Elder Solano was telling a women about baptism and he said Elder Sweat here can baptize you and she was just like, "Who?  He's really big!"  Ha ha.  So, I'm  a little tall here, ha. 

REAL MESSENGERS OF JESUS CHRIST
So we started visiting a family and they told us that before we started to visit them, they had heard strange things in their house, a bunch.  But once we started visiting and teaching them, that it all has stopped.   They said that they know we are real messengers of Jesus Christ.  That was a testimony builder to me of the power of the priesthood and how the gospel can bless us. 

Love you all so much!!

Les Amo 

Elder Sweat

JULY 18, 2016---I LOVE THE PEOPLE, WE GOT SOAKED, DAILY ROUTINE

JULY 18, 2016

Shout out to Elder Webb for the corbata (tie).

I LOVE THE PEOPLE 
This week was great.  We are seeing lots of miracles  We have been finding people that are keeping their commitments and have a real desire to change, so that's great.  I learn so much everyday and I love the people on the coast of Guatemala.

WE GOT SOAKED
I love it here in the warm coast.   Supposedly it's more humid then actually temperature hot.  I sweat everyday and then it rains, haha.  I was walking with a youth on divisions and it was raining but we weren't super wet.  Then this stinking car swerved towards us and splashed us with a huge puddle and we got soaked, ha ha.  Love thy neighbor, right?  Ha ha.  I was just like, "What the heck?  Are you serious???!!!"  Ha ha.  Love the mission. 

DAILY ROUTINE
Our daily routine fluctuates.   Sometimes we will wake up at like 4:45 or 5 or 6 a.m.  Just depends on the day and stuff.  We exercise, take a nice cold shower (I like cold showers a lot now), get ready, eat something really quick and then have a prayer at 8 a.m.  Then we have personal, companion, and language study.  Then we go out walking in the warmth to appointments until 1:00 p.m. We eat lunch, sweat a little less, and then go to more appointments until about 9 p.m., ha ha.  We plan for the next day, end with prayer, talk, do calls if necessary, eat something quick and get to sleep at 10:30 p.m., ha ha.   More or less it's like that, but my description doesn't give it justice at all, ha ha.  

Found Elder Montero at a multi-zone soccer tournament.  Super dope!

JULY 10, 2016---GLASSES ARE MY PROTECTION, I SWEAT EVERYDAY

GLASSES ARE MY PROTECTION

So I was on a bus on a so called "road."  The road was like piles of dirt and rocks, ha ha. Super crazy.  We were like bumping around crazy with a bunch of people and since I'm fairly tall, I smacked my head like 7 times, ha ha, on the roof and bars and stuff. And so, I guess I'm pretty nappy with glasses, cuz I took them off and a member immediately was like,  "Oh!  You're handsome!"   Ha ha ha.  I was just like..."Uh...thanks."  Ha ha ha!  Glasses are my protection, ha ha ha!  JK.  

I SWEAT EVERYDAY

We had a baptism this last Wednesday, so that was great.  I was also teaching or translating some English into Spanish for someone and I accidentally said "disfrutar la vieja" (enjoy old) instead of "disfrutar el viaje" (enjoy the trip).   Ha ha.  Look it up and you will understand,  ha ha ha.  It rains everyday and I sweat everyday, ha ha. 

Les Amo

Elder Sweat

JULY 5, 2016---SUPER COOL, LOVIN' GUATEMALA, HUGE MAGGOTS

JULY 5, 2016 

Zona Escuintla:  Zona mas frio en toda la mision, ha ha.
(The coolest zone is the whole mission, ha ha.)

SUPER COOL

Yeah, it's pretty great here.  So, we had 2 baptisms fall through, but we will baptize them this week, so, it's all good. We went to go find a guy, that I contacted on the bus, and we found a bunch of people, 6 to be exact, ha.  They are different families and stuff but they were super excited when we gave them LDMs (Books of Mormon) and stuff. Super cool. 

LOVIN' GUATEMALA

The ward is cool.  A little smaller then the stake that I was in before, ha ha, but the people are very nice. The people in Guatemala love to give and serve, so I love that.  My Guatemalan friend from home was right, ha ha. A family gave us some shoes that didn't fit their kids and we like just use them for Sunday and stuff like that, ha. Lovin' Guatemala. We have an attendance, in our ward, of like idk 130, maybe.  Not totally sure, just depends.

HUGE MAGGOTS

Something interesting happened when I went to use a bathroom.  It (the bathroom) was outside with a tarp put around it, but I'm a little taller, ha ha.  Anyways, I looked in and thought it was moving inside like water or something, but...it was a ton of huge maggots crawling all over each other and stuff, ha ha.  Pretty crazy.  

Love you all, too.

Les Amo

Elder Sweat

JUNE 28, 2016----NEW COMPANION, KEEP WORKING, IT'S A SMALL WORLD, I ALWAYS TRY

JUNE 28, 2016

NEW COMPANION

So, this area is huge!!!  We can take a bus like 1 hour and a half to part of our area and we still haven't left the area, ha.  It's crazy big. I sweat 24/7 so thats cool, ha ha.  (I) kind of like sweating, ha.  My companion is from Mexico City, Mexico. He was also companions with Elder Rosin, who entered with me. He's cool.  Still trying to get to know him more, but we are doing great! 

KEEP WORKING

We had a baptism my 1st week here and we a have another scheduled this week, too, so we got to keep working hard and find more and more people. We are going to work with part member families and Menos activos (less active) families. 

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IT'S A SMALL WORLD

Something cool is there is a convert here and her husband lived in Palo Alto and other parts around the Bay, ha ha. He has family there, too, and one went on a mission and is at BYU right now.  Ha ha, small world.  (I) need to ask for more information, though. 

I ALWAYS TRY

Funny story. We had a noche de hogar (home night) and we shared hymnbooks.  I gave mine a way to a couple to use and we sang the most like random song I've ever heard.  I had never heard it before and only like 3 women knew it so I just kind of was like there half humming off tune, like Nacho Libre or something ha ha.  But it's all good. I always try.  Love to all the family!!