Dear family and friends,
This week has been quite the
week. I had changes on Tuesday and am now in a place called San Juan
Ostuncalco. It is in the deparment of Xela, and it is a sweet area. IT
IS HUGE!!! In my area we also have Laguna Chikabal which is basically a
sacred Mayan lake on top of a volcano. There are also a bunch of caves
and cool stuff to see in my area. My companion was Elder Aguirre from
Guatemala City. I really liked him a lot, but today he had emergency
changes. NOw my companion is Elder Gomez from Mexico. My 3rd Mexican
comp! He has about 2 months in the mission and so I am going to be
finishing up the training with him. We'll see how things go! Elder
Aguirre worked really hard last change to get a lot of investigadors and
so this change is gonna be real sweet! Before April, there hadn't been a
baptism in San Juan for a year and there are 2 companionships here. The
last baptism was Elder Monge's (my trainer) baptism in November of
2011. The other two missionaries here now are Elder Ponce from
Peru--he is sweet! and Elder Lares from Mexico. Mexicans are taking
over my life! The members here have been a little hurt from past
missionaries because they haven't been the best missionaries. So, the
members have kinda lost trust in the missionaries. However, yesterday,
the Elder's quorum president talked about how a lot of the families are
part member families and that now is the time to baptize them because
the missionaries are here to work! I am way excited about this. I really
feel like the people here are willing to listen and want to listen.
This is gonna be a super sweet place.
This area is part of a new zone that they are
opening in the mission. The zone's name is Esperanza. It is pretty
awesome. There are 3 areas in the zone and 14 missionaries. 6 are sister
missionaries and 8 are elders. Haha I have 10 months in the mission and
am one of the oldest in the zone. The zone leaders are Elder
Besendorfer and Elder Lopez and are really awesome. Elder Besendorfer
has like 18 months and is really awesome. He is from Heber. I am the
district leader still. I am really excited because the whole zone is
very young and up for huge tasks. There is a new hermana who is training
and they baptized 8 people in one day. That would be super sweet.
As far as my own area goes... We baptized on
Saturday, it was something very special. Her name is Ana and is a
daughter of a kinda less active family. Now, we have a lot more
opportunities to baptize, so we'll see where things go! The tough part
is that we are basically opening the area because I have been here for
not even a week and Elder Aguirre had emergency changes. It'll
definitely be tons of fun! Haha in this last week, I would just get so
lost! I imagine that I will get somewhat lost in these first few days.
THis week will be a week of putting trust in God that we can get to
appointments on time and not get lost. I am very excited for this area
and I know that the Lord has been preparing many souls to come unto him.
I love you all and ask your prayers please! Love you!
Love,
Elder Hilton
Hermano Gustavo's Family
The Vasquez Family--Melisa, Toni, Rosana, Claudia, Gaby, and Ever
With Elder Aguirre (Guatemala City), and Ana
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