Another week has come and gone and I
think the highlight of this week was yesterday when we went to eat dinner at a member’s
house that we always visit. They have a missionary on the mission and they
always invite us over and we always hang out and visit with them for a while
but anyways we swung by yesterday to eat dinner and their son showed up with a
friend to visit but he showed up welllllll... drunk..... He´s a super nice guy
though and he started to ask me all sorts of questions and how it was possible
that I speak Spanish so well in so short a time and everything and then after
he told me that he had been a missionary at one point in his life but that he
was a little lost right now. But then he and his friend just started to
complement me like it was their job or something. Both of them just telling me
what a great person I am, for being willing to dedicate 2 years to the Lord,
for being willing to serve the people in Guatemala, for being willing to help
and serve others and just everything and it was like a little heart-to-heart
even though they were a little bit tipsy hahaha and then after I helped him get
down the stairs and he gave me a big hug and said I was his hero and stuff and
it was really cool.
I’m reading the Book of Mormon from
the beginning but in Spanish and I´m in Jacob chapter 3. I read about baptism
and enduring to the end recently and how the promise is very clear that if we
endure to the end.... Not that it´s going to be easy.... But if we do it... The
promise is eternal life and that´s a promise from the Lord. My testimony is
strengthened every day when I see members and others enduring to the end amidst
the trials and challenges that they have. They continue to be firm in the
gospel and that strengthens my testimony that even when it´s hard, because
there will always ALWAYS be challenges and trials, but the Lord will bless us
and help us as we strive to do what´s right.
The picture of the bread is
Guatemala´s version of homemade banana bread! It was actually pretty darn good
and made me a little or a lotta homesick for Mom’s banana bread. The apartment
is actually super nice and tidy and the member that we live with is always
offering his help in whatever way we need it.
My companion is still pretty shy.
He´ll talk to me but I usually have to do all the talking and asking of all the
questions. It´s like talking to a brick wall almost but hey what can you do. At
least he´s not annoyingly talkative, right? When I ask him what he thinks
we should do or what he wants to do, he doesn´t really have an opinion. He just
tells me to choose. It´s super different and it´s been kind of a rough start
but now things have smoothed out a little or I´ve just gotten used to it one of
the two hahaha!
Opening an area is definitely a
challenge as well... I´ve never had to do this before and I didn´t really know
what to do but the members have been a big help and we´ve been working hard and
we´re getting all settled in and all is well here on our end. I´ve also found a
married couple that has really attached to me. Janet and David--Janet cooks us
lunch and dinner and then David served a mission before and he loves to talk to
us and then I told him that I was looking to do some exercise and stuff and we
wake up every morning to exercise with him in his house just doing like push-ups
and sit-ups and jump rope and everything but we exercise hard for a good like
45 minutes and I´m beat after but I´m really enjoying it! The members here love
the missionaries after missing them for who knows how long ;)
13 months in the mission....can you
believe it? Yikes! Where has the time gone? I´m definitely loving the hot
shower... Actually if you stay in the shower long enough the water gets so hot
that it literally starts to burn you. I´m loving every minute of hot water
cause I´m sure this could be one of the only areas I´m in that has hot water
hahaha!
My health is good... I actually went
to the dentist today because I´ve had a tooth that has been a little sensitive
for like 3 or 4 weeks now so I went to the dentist today and they told me that
I didn´t have any problems with my tooth and was very impressed with the health
of my teeth after 1 year without any check-ups or anything and asked me if I
had ever even had a filling hahaha but turns out there was like a very small
part of my enamel that like decayed away leaving the nerves slightly exposed
which caused the sensitivity and he threw on some coating or something like
that and told me that I was good to go and we were in and out of there in like
15 minutes. The fun part was... They were all from the states. So this time, my
companion was the one out of place and we were all laughing and joking and
having a great time and he was just kind of sitting there and I felt kind of
bad.... but only a little because I had to go through the same thing like the
first 3 months of my mission so nah but other than that... All is well :)
Love,
Elder Lott
They wouldn't paint something over decay, right? I'm sure he probably brushed that enamel away :)
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