This week was a little wack and hard. As you might have heard, there was a sister missionary in our mission that passed away this week so that kind of threw things off a little. But we know the plan of God so we just got to keep going.
TRUST IN THE SPIRIT AND EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE IN THE END
The J. family did not get baptized this week for a couple of reasons, but we are planning on helping this week. So keep them in you prayers, please. Always follow your 1st impressions which sometimes is hard but we got to get better at it every time. I'm def learning how to recognize the Spirit and that is something I love. Just trust in the Spirit and everything will be fine in the end.
GREAT QUOTE
Elder Griffin, my companion, told me a great quote, "Finish the mission how you want to start the rest of our life" I got to go hard with what I have left.
FUNNY STORY
This week we were walking and a bunch of dogs tried attacking us but we just kind of kicked them away cuz I was on the phone. Afterwards, another dog went after us and we entered a house after kicking at it a little bit. We got out and I told Elder Griffin that we were going the same way that we came...I wanted to get at the dog, ha, ha. So I walk towards him and then pick up speed and start sprinting at it. The dog got so scared and just started to try and escape but couldn't and I just chased him down the road ha, ha, ha. ha...so funny. Surprisingly I kept up with him, too, ha,ha,ha, ha. Got to enjoy life a little and enjoy the mission to get your heart beating a little ha, ha, ha.
Les Amo
Elder Sweat
LA ZONA VILLA NUEVA!!!
Mormon missionary electrocuted by live wire in Guatemala
FILE - A 22-year-old sister missionary from Chile died Saturday in Guatemala after she came into contact with a live electrical wire.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Mormon missionary serving in Guatemala died on Saturday after she was electrocuted by a live wire, a church spokesman said Sunday morning.
"It is with great sadness that we share news of the death of a young missionary. Sister Heidi Andrea Ortega Huber, age 22, died yesterday after she came in contact with a live electrical wire," said Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a prepared statement. "Despite attempts by missionaries and first responders to resuscitate her, Sister Ortega passed away."
Ortega was from the Santiago Chile Independencia Stake and has been serving in the Guatemala Guatemala City Central Mission since April 2016.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of Sister Ortega as they mourn her passing," he said, "and we pray they will be given comfort during this difficult time."
In early June, the LDS Church conducted an online survey of its 62,000 young adult, full-time missionaries around the world to learn more about their personal-safety risks.
The survey asked missionaries to share their experiences regarding any past assaults, robberies, attacks, threats, sexual assaults or sexual harassments during their day-to-day operations and in their assigned proselyting areas.
Missionary residences were also a part of the query, with questions on door locks, window coverings, smoke or fire alarms, carbon monoxide monitors and the general safety of the residential area.
The Missionary Department in Salt Lake City and presidents of the faith's 422 missions around the world regularly update missionaries about risks, from counsel about avoiding dangerous areas to protecting themselves from virus-carrying mosquitos.
Young Mormons serving missions generally are safer than other young adults their age, according to international and church statistics.
In 2013, Elder David F. Evans of the Seventy, then executive director of the Missionary Department, noted the annual mortality rate worldwide for young people in the same age range was 205 deaths per 100,000, with the LDS missionary percentage less than one-twentieth of that number.
However, no statistics can lessen the pain of a missionary’s passing, Elder Evans said at the time.
