July 21, 2012 Guatemala MTC

Things are good! I am working hard, and sleeping everynight, and
eating three wonderful meals a day! I will continue to work as hard as
a I can, if I follow the rules exactly I know I'll be safe and
protected. It is inevitable that there will be hard times, but I am on
the Lord's errand. I need to do everything possible to take care of
myself, and in the places I slack, the Lord will pick up. No worries!
The beginning of this week I had a little run in with diarrhea. (no
pun intended) I woke up not feeling too hot, and had to use the
bathroom. I went and talked to Hermana Nicolaysen, President's wife,
and she gave me some stuff to take and told me to go back to bed. So I
did, and now things are much better. There is tons and tons of fruit
available here so I just have to be careful. I learned a little more
about the assistant to the president job. I am to be his eyes and ears
and stand for a good example. On Wednesday, a latino companionship got
in a pretty childish little tussle. They didn't wanna do anything with
each other after that. This was wednesday night, so I and the other
assistant, a latino thank heavens-Elder Herrera, spent until sleeping
time trying to explain to one of the missionaries how he needed to try
and fix things because they were not going to change companions. I
hope that this all makes sense! The other missionary did not want to
talk at all. Which made things even harder. We told the first
missionary that he just needs to realize that this is the Lord's work
and they need to do it His way. Both are not the humblest men on the
planet either, which doesn't help anything. However, things are
starting to get better with them. I really hope that they have some
experience that just humbles them pretty hard. We got to go to the
temple once again after it being closed for cleaning. There were too
many Nortes in our group so a select group got to go with the Latinos
where some were receiving their own endowments. The whole session was
in spanish, but it was so wonderful. I understood basically the whole
session. It offered some sweet time to think about the experience that
I had when I went through the temple. It was so sweet. We did get some
new latino roommates, both are so sweet. Elder Juarez, from Guate, and
Elder Ramirez from El Salvador. They are so sweet. Both come from
strong member families. Elder Juarez is 22? (not really sure.) They
really are both so great. Elder Juarez is a great soccer player. Still
loving all the soccer here. It is wonderful! Still playing the piano
we have a sweet musical number planned for sacrament meeting on
Sunday. Having to practice a lot for this. We are going to sing the
Prophets first prayer to the tune of come Thou Fount. It is gonna be
so sweet. Loving things here, but it is tough sometimes. Hopefully I
can get a letter off soon. I love you all! Love, Elder Hilton!