The work has just been
rolling right along here in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala. This has
been quite the eventful week. Elder Gomez had emergency changes on
Thursday. I dropped him off at the office and went with Elder Stephens
and Elder Peña, the other elders here in San Juan. I just chilled with
them for a day and then we went back to the office to pick up my new
comp. His name is Elder Avila and is from Bolivia. He is really awesome
and I am really excited to keep working with him this transfer. He has
had 4 months in the mission and is pretty excited about the work. He is a
nice kid. (Also, on the way to the office to pick up my new comp, I
left our phone on the bus. I realized that I had forgotten it after like
one minute, and went back. What do ya know? The bus had already left!!!
That was superstressful, and we still are phoneless. Everybody has been
giving me so much junk for losing the phone. Whoops!)
Well, on Saturday we had Brigida's son's baptism. It
was super crazy! They live pretty far away and had been in Guatemala
City the whole week for some hosptial stuff and so we went up to go get
them for the baptism. We went up and found em in their house and just
told them to get to the church. While we were there, it started raining
pretty dang hard. It was really crazy. We didn't have anything to cover
ourselves! Brigida gave us half a trash bag and a small, broken
umbrella. Thank heavens for those things, or we would have been even
wetter and colder! After that, we walked over to another little village
to get another little boy that Elder Stephens and Elder Peña were going
to baptize. When we showed up to their house, they had already left and
it was still pouring rain. We got back to San Juan and headed straight
to the church. It was still raining like crazy and some of the roads had
turned into rivers! So, we helped everybody get across the street and
took a picture in the river on the street. It was a very memorable day.
In the end, the two boys got baptized.
We are working with the family from Cajola. The
parent's names are Elvira and Erick. They can't read, but are really
awesome. They came to church on Sunday and it was really cool. They have
three kids whose names are Jorge Raul, Caty, and Maria. Jorge and Caty
are going to get baptized as well. Elvira has been preaching the gospel
in her own family before here baptism and we brought her brother and
sister in law to church. They are so great! They live in a little tin
shack on a hill and don't have running water or electricity. However,
they wanted us to come eat at their house on Saturday because Elvira
says that it says in the Bible that you have to give a glass of water
and food when you have visitors! Haha it was pretty funny when she said
that, but if they are down to give us some food, we will not reject! I
tried to tell them a bunch of times that if they didn't have to give it
was fine. So we showed up to their house on Saturday with Elder Stephens
and Elder Peña. It was a really nice lunch. They made fried chicken and
some rice. It was a really nice meal. All in all, we are working with
them to get baptized on July 27th. They are really so great. Jorge and
Caty can read and so they are reading the Book of Mormon to Erick and
Elvira. It is really sweet.
I know that this church is true and I know that my
Savior lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that it sets us
apart from the world. I love you all!
Love,
Elder Hilton
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