Yes, there will be a ward Christmas
party in Zacapa and it will be this Saturday and I will be playing the piano
and practicing all this week to prepare myself to do so. I also have to play
the piano for a special musical number with Elder Reed this Thursday for the multizone
conference with all the other zones on this side of the mission. Am I a little
nervous? Nah.... Only ALOT!!! It´s alright.... I have been practicing and I´m
feeling pretty good about it.
The cooking arrangement is
wonderful. It is definitely a blessing because it fills me up for the whole day
and then she makes us dinner to take home and reheat and sometimes I can eat
dinner and breakfast with all that she gives us so it is absolutely wonderful
and we´re saving a lot more money doing so.
I´m sorry that I wasn´t able to send
pictures.... They´re working on our church house and the wifi is down
temporarily for the time being... but as soon as it´s back the pictures will
again be flowing. We´ll just have to hang tight for a little bit.
This week we have been working with
the ward council to get members to accompany us on some of our visits so hopefully
this coming week we will have lots of members to go on visits with us! This
Sunday, the bishop called us like an hour before church started. We were
getting ready and everything and my companion answered the phone.... They were
talking about giving a talk and I was like oh great we´re going to have to talk
again in Sacrament.... Then my companion hung up the phone and looked at me and
said.... "Yo tengo que discursar en la reunion sacramental...." (I
have to talk in sacrament meeting...) I just burst out laughing and said
"solo usted o yo tambien??" (just you or me as well?) hahaha just him!
It was super great because I think I have had to talk like every single week so
it was nice to finally have a break.
Funniest/Awfullest thing that
happened this week.... We were returning home from llano de piedras which is an
aldea... It´s hard to explain. We were walking down the hill when we saw a lady
that was carrying a big load and trying to keep her two kids in line on the
busy street. She was carrying a big load so we crossed the street to offer her
help. We took the bags she was carrying and then she only had the
responsibility of her kids. As we were getting to her house we passed another
lady that was trying to get water from the well.... I told her to give me two
seconds to allow me to get this pregnant lady to her house and then I would be
back to help her. We got the pregnant lady to her house and went back to help
her. We started to help her get water and it was like one of those wells that
you see in the movies where you let down the bucket with a pulley system and
then pull it back up. We starting helping her and then the whole community
started bringing their buckets for us to fill. We did service for a good 2
hours just pulling water out of the well.... wow my arms were DEAD by the end
of the day. Anyway here is the awful part. During one of my turns of taking the
water out, I was pulling the rope and accidentally hit my mission manual out of
my shirt pocket and it went plummeting down to the bottom of the well...
Yikes.... This had my copy of my passport, my certificate from President Monson
saying I´m a missionary, my immunization record, 100 quetzales for emergency
and my mission manuals in English and Spanish all gone. This well was like 75
feet deep too.... Yikes.... However... A couple days later we passed by there
again and they had been able to salvage my certificate, 100 quetzales, and my
passport.... I was happy with it because I can replace the rest. It was crazy
but I still felt good because we were able to provide water for a whole
community.
I often read and am able to
apply a lot of things that I see here in Guatemala to things I read in the Book
of Mormon. One scripture that helped me this week though I found in Doctrine
and Covenants section 63:47.... I liked it a lot. It´s super short and sweet
but direct and powerful and brought comfort knowing that we are enduring and being
faithful. We have been learning a lot about that. Our theme for this Christmas
is "Ha nacido un Salvador" which I think is translated "A Savior
has been born" or something to that affect. It has really made me think
about how significant that is. Why our Savior was born. He was born to save us
and it was in love that he gave his life for us as well.
I hope all is going well and that
you guys are all well and healthy. I hope you´re staying busy and having a
great time.
Love,
Elder Lott
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