A beautiful hike in search of someone needing a blessing. Got real foggy on the way home
Dear Family & Friends,
Friday, we took a hike to find a person that needed a blessing.
This person lives way up in the mountains. So we hiked for about 2 hours
and did not even reach the house. The people told us that we still
needed to go one hour more to even get close to the house, so we turned
around and started back home. We found a lot of cool stuff on our little
trip. It was so beautiful. As we were heading back home, it got a
little foggy. Then, it got even worse. As it got foggier it also got
darker. The phrase used in 3 Nephi about the vapors of darkness came
real. This week I have been thinking a lot about how probable it could
be that the Book of Mormon took place here Guatemala and Mexico. But
really, it was kinda creepy how dark it got just from the fog. I tried
to take a picture of it, but it does no justice to the actual situation.
When we got back to our little pueblo, Nahuala, we went to visit a
family of the ward. It started raining so hard, I couldn't believe it!!!
I tried to take a little video of this but couldn't see anything
because the lights were out. The people we went to visit live like 5 or 6
feet below the street. So, we knock on the door and wait for an answer.
As we wait, we hear something fall from the street. I looked back to
see what it was and couldn't see anything. Then, about like 10 seconds
later, we hear something move again. I kinda shrugged it off and then a
few seconds later I see this man walk past me and walk up the stairs
right next to me. We followed the man up the stairs and found out that
he was drunk. Also, it looked like he had broken his leg bad. It was a
very strange experience, but also a little funny. We asked to see what
we could do to help him, and he just kept walking. This week was a
little crazy, to say the least.
On Sunday we also had Stake Conference. It was way sweet. Elder
Duncan from the Quorum of the Seventy came and spoke. It was so amazing
the power that he spoke with. He suggested a lot of things and made me
want to do them. One of the things that he spoke about was having a
vision of what you want. He talked about a woman that wanted to swim a
pretty big body of water to an island--like 40 kilometers long or more.
The first time she tried, she did it, but it took her a very long time.
Now that she had the vision of what she wanted, she was prepared to do
it much better. She tried it again and beat the men's record of this
swim by more than 2 hours. Perhaps the way I retold this story didn't do
it justice, but it really slammed into my mind the importance of
visions and how much success comes from having a vision of what we want.
That is why visionary people are so successful. I think it could be one
of the secrets of life! Elder Duncan used it to create a little analogy
between us and eternal life with our families. If this is our vision,
what else is important? I loved what he said, he really just made me
feel like I wanted to be better. Haha my words are probably so jumbly
and don't make sense! So sorry!!!
Love you all and thank you for everything!
Love,
Elder Hilton
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