February 4, 2013 Huahuatenango

Hello there,

Things are rolling like they always are down here in the great land of Guate! We keep working with some the investigators that I have mentioned, and it is pretty awesome to see the changes that they are making in their lives. It is really sweet. We also had a Zone Conference with Elder Martino from the Seventy and it was really awesome. He was very straight forward because there are a lot of things that need to chagne in the mission and are going to change. It was really inspiring and it really made me want to be a better missionary. We are going to start working smarter and hopefully never stop working smarter. I hope that we work smarter and smarter everyday!

The people that we are working with. There is a family from a place called Talmiche, it reminds me a lot of Nahuala, I love it. It is really beautiful! The dad's name is Alfredo, his wife, Migdalia, and their two kids, (I don't remember their names right now, but they're just little tykes right now.) They called us on Saturday night and told us that they wanted to come to church on Sunday. This is a wonderful sign! I love it when people say this! However, the only problem is that they live like an hour hike up a mountain, so we couldn't walk up there and bring them to church at 8 in the morning! We called our ward mission leader and he helped us out there. They have already come to church two times, they just need to come to church one more time and then they can get baptized! We visited them one day and brought water for them. It was one of the hardest things that I have done in the mission. They don't have running water, so they have to go down to the river probably about 300 feet and bring the water up. We did it and they came to church! We told them that we would do it soe that they could come to church on sunday.

We keep working with Amilcar and Maricela, but they didn't come to church yesterday...:( However, Diana asked permission from her evangelical mom to come to church and her mom gave it! Now Diana has come to church twice as well, and so now she just needs to come another time and then she can get baptized, with the permission of her mother. She is way awesome and loves the Book of Mormon and loves everything.

Hno. Gustavo got baptized on Saturday, and that was really special. His son baptized him. It was really awesome. He is so awesome for missionary work.

Here, more than anything I am learning about the importance of member missionaries. Without members, the work hardly moves. The reason that the Church grows is because the members work. If we can open our mouth to share the gospel, the Lord will thank us and the people that we share with will thank us, too. I know that this church is the only true church and I love it! I love the perfectness of God and this plan.

Love,

Elder Hilton