The
mail system in Guatemala has just shut down.
Elder Lott’s package with everyone’s birthday pictures made it to
Guatemala but has not made it to him. It is unknown how long the mail system will
be down or what will happen to the packages stuck in transit. We found out last week his package would not
be arriving (at least in time), so for his Birthday Missionary Monday we put all of the
pictures in a Word document he could open to receive all of our birthday
wishes electronically. Thank you for wishing him a happy 20th birthday!
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I literally could not stop crying as I read all those
birthday wishes and saw all those fun pictures and I basically can`t see
through my tears to write this message. I absolutely love it! Thank you everyone for making me feel so
loved and thought of not only on my birthday but always.
Can
you believe another birthday and another year older? I can`t even believe at
all that I`m going to be turning 20 years old. I didn`t ever think that I was
going to hit the twenties ;) I was bummed about my birthday package and was
always asking around for it but I`ll continue hoping and praying and asking
around and it should make it here in no time :)
Alright well all I can say about
transfers was that like everyone in the whole zone had transfers except for us
and I am super bummed about it to be honest but I`m trying to keep
a positive attitude.
I was looking so forward to transfers and now I`m a little disappointed. I know
that it`s for a reason and I know that I need to do something more but honestly
these last two transfers have been quite the challenge and I don`t know how a
third transfer will go but I`m going to give it my all and do my best and rely
on the Lord. I just wanted to have a change you know?
It`s all good though. The Lord needs me here for a reason and I just have to
find it.
The good news is I`m going to be
partying all day today to celebrate my birthday and David`s birthday because he
turns 34 tomorrow and I turn 20 on Friday so we`re going to eat cake and lots
of food and open presents and I`m going to have lots of pictures for next week
to send you and you`re going to love it :) :)
Other good news is that Oscar`s
baptism is actually scheduled for my birthday and I`m stoked. I think it will
be a super fun day. Then after that we just have to work hard with Jessica and
she should be baptized here in the next couple weeks too. :)
General Conference was absolutely
incredible. I loved it! I love conference weekend so much! We didn`t have tons
of success in bringing lots of investigators but we did bring Oscar and Jessica
to at least one or more sessions. (We walked.) I got to listen to like half of
conference in English and half in Spanish. When we had investigators, I would
go and sit with them in the Spanish session. The good thing is I can understand
Spanish now too so it`s not a problem ;) In between sessions we always hung out with
the other missionaries and ate lunch or went and visited some members that
live close to the stake center and just kind of hung out. It`s super fun and I
always pack lots of little snacks to eat during conference. I
was thinking about you guys during priesthood session and how I wanted to go
get ice cream after ;) I loved the talks though and I always feel so
spiritually fed afterword and it`s the best!
Recently there has been lots of sun here
but the weather here is kind of unpredictable. Somedays it`s super sunny and
then all of the sudden it rains or sometimes it`s dark all day and never rains
and sometimes it`s just normal and it`s just kind of nuts but the weather here
is nice. It`s never like super super hot or super super cold.
Riley’s
driving! Wow!!! I
miss driving tons and I will be super willing to run whatever errands are
necessary after the mission just to drive around hahaha ;)
Well, All is well. I`m feeling....
Well.... I `m not really sure... Bummed that there weren`t transfers.... A tiny
bit frustrated I guess.... I feel like I have been in Zone 18 for like a whole
year now and I`m ready for a change but I know that the Lord needs me here and
there are things that I need to do. I just don`t know what it is and I think
that`s the most frustrating. Just tell me what it is that you need me to do and
I`ll do it kind of thing, you know? But that`s not how it needs to be and I am
learning and growing and growing.
Love to you all and many thanks for
the birthday wishes!
Elder Lott
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