February 1, 2014

Things have been going pretty well. I have just been a little bit stressed  out because my zones. However, we have a pretty great week coming up. Freddy and Amalia are going to get baptized this week. Yay! They are such saints. I love those people. Everytime that we go, they give us dinner and it is just awesome. Also, Claudia and Kenia are going to get baptized soon. Last Sunday, Claudia couldn't go to church because her husband came from Guatemala City and they ahve been having some problems lately. She has been wanting a divorce because of the situation that she has been in for the past few years. She has one daughter and her name is Clara Luz. It sounds like after she was born, the dad took off to Guate and during these years has been living with another woman. That other woman would call Claudia and call her all kinds of names and would do all kinds of nasty things to her. However, Claudia has handled everything very calmly. Her husband came on Sunday morning and wanted to talk and so she couldn't go to church... She is really great and is progressing a TON! Yesterday, she told us that she had read 209 pages of the Book of Mormon. She is just doing a great job.

Kenia is also going to get baptized soon. She is a great girl, and just wants to make sure that she is ready to get baptized when she does it. We have also been working with an inactive man named Ramiro. He is really great. He has been inactive for more than 30 years and is just another one of those saintly people. He went inactive because he went to live with his family who are members and they treated him really, really badly. He reads the Bible a lot and really knows how a saint should act. And that is why he is having a tough time going back to church because he goes and sees all kinds of imperfect people in the church and says, "alright, this isn't the church." He also has a really good, close relationship with God. He feels like as he starts going to church again, he is going to lose that relationship that he has. He is a really good guy and could probably be an authority if he was an active member of the church. He is a really great guy.

I am loving the work, and cannot believe how close I am to the end. I am just going to keep working hard and do as much good as I can while I am still in the field. I love you mom.

Love,

Elder Hilton

Pizza at our house with Elder Pena, Elder Da Silva, Elder Tejero, and Elder Lundquist.

A Special Meeting with Elder Cook.

Baptism for Miguel and Domingo, with Maria,her mother and kids.  Elder Hilton & Tejero (Mexico)