Hey guys! Just your friendly Elder Pugmire in with another update. I hope that all is well with everyone and if not I hope that you all are relying on our Father in Heaven to help you get through the trials. Every trial we have has a reason and something we can learn from it.
This week was basically like two days or at least that's what it feels like! It went by sooo fast! The highlight of the week was our temple trip. That happened on Wednesday! Basically what happened was I was really trying to receive some revelation in the temple so I was up late studying, praying, and pondering. Then I woke up at 3 so that everyone had the time to get through the shower and then I continued to study. Around 5:30 am we got picked up with almost all of our zone to go to Xela or Quetzaltenango. It was a super long ride! We got there and went right into the temple. It was soooooo incredible! It was filled with huge pictures of Jesus and other pictures of the gospel! It was so amazing! I love it. Definitely my favorite temple so far. The best part was all of the answers I received while reading my scriptures in the temple. Every single question I had got answered. It was incredible!
After that we had a great lunch but also had the opportunity to go to Wendy's for the first time so we took it. We all ordered a bunch of food and headed out. Unfortunately, one of the unwanted Frosty's spilled all over my recently shined shoes and backpack. It was fine. They both needed a wash as they smelled kinda funny in the first place...haha.
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| Elder Lagos "My Dad" in the mission |
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| Elder Garboza my 2nd Companion |
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| Temple Grounds Pano |
After that we had a great lunch but also had the opportunity to go to Wendy's for the first time so we took it. We all ordered a bunch of food and headed out. Unfortunately, one of the unwanted Frosty's spilled all over my recently shined shoes and backpack. It was fine. They both needed a wash as they smelled kinda funny in the first place...haha.
The other big thing we had this week was a church activity. We organized a movie night at the church to watch The Testaments because not a lot of people really know that Jesus visited this Continent of the Americas. It was pretty good but right before it started raining so not very many people came.
We are teaching a bunch of people and a few of them are progressing really quickly. Unfortunately, I won't be here to see them get baptized but I'm still really happy for them. One of the coolest things that have happened in the past two weeks was we had this family reactivate! This family has been married in the temple and was super active before. But something happened and they have been inactive for like 2 years. Two weeks ago they just showed up at church all dressed up and everything. They said they wanted us to start visiting them again and they are just awesome! I totally know what the scriptures mean when they talk about the Prodigal Son who left, got lost in the world but then came back. The joy of The Father is just huge. It really is so true! We are all just so happy for the people that enter or reenter the fold. So that's about life here.
Just some fun culture stuff. . . Every telephone pole, as well as the trees along the road, are usually painted for a political campaign. People just make their own speed bumps outside of their house if they feel like the cars pass by too fast, just a mix of cement they pour on the concrete road. The people are just fascinated, as always, over my ojos del gato (eyes of a cat or blue eyes) and my brown hair on my arm. It's not uncommon for me to find a new hand from a grandma or kid, sneaking up to softly brush the hairs on my arm. Usually, people call me gringo, canche, or mecho (mesh-o) which basically translates to white, brown hair, and mixed hair. But that's just the culture here. A lot of people don't know the real names of people. They just know the nicknames and a lot are generated from physical attributes like chino, gordito, mechito or stuff like that. Almost every store is named either Tienda Nueva Jerusalen, Tienda Bendicion de Dios, or Tienda de 2 Hermanos 3 Hermanos or some variation of those.
A fun thing that I realized. . . I really haven't left my house. I'm living in a town called San Pablo which is translated to mean Saint Paul. Like how cool is that?!?!?
Life is great here and I'm so grateful for the chance that I have to serve The Lord.
Love and prayers always,
Elder Pugmire
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