Alright first off I just want to express my love to you all, thanks for so much support. Secondly and more importantly, I want you all to know of my love I have for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I know with more surety than anything else that He lived and died for me and for every one of you. He loves us more than anyone of us can imagine. HE LIVES. I want to invite you all to go look at the video at http://www.mormon.org/easter It's only like three minutes and won't take much time at all. I promise that it will bless your lives and if you share it, the lives of others.
The biggest thing this week obviously was the General Conference. A chance the entire world has to listen to the words of God given through his Prophets.
We listened to the first session in Spanish and then some member generously gave us her laptop so we could listen in English! Man the size of my notes tripled in like 3 talks! It was just SOOO good!
But that's about life I love the conference and the prophet and the opportunity that we had to listen to all of the talks. I hope you all had a great Easter! Love you all so much!
Alright, here we go. So the update for this week is a little crazy. We really didn't do anything to work in our area. For the Semana Santa or Holy Week here, things get crazy. The tradition here is everyone goes to the beach to swim and there are a ton of parties and plenty of alcohol, unfortunately enough to need to move us out of our area for a week. Good thing too, apparently a guy got burned alive in Champe for stealing.
So for that reason and the because our area is pretty close to the beach the leaders of our Zone made the decision to take us and the Elders from Champerico out to go spend the week in Reu. Elder Rodas and I spent most of the time with the ZL's while the DL's hung out together with their comps.
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| Semana Santa . . .a ton of parades of statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary |
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More people in masks going nuts. It's basically like Halloween! Everyone dresses up but carries around clubs, chains, and scary stuff. But they're all still kids!
So there's this one day called the Day of Judas. Everyone basically builds a scarecrow of Judas and they go in the streets with masks and everything. They go door to do to ask for money and if you give them money or bread they dance like crazy with the statue. Here's a picture of some kids dancing with Judas and a ton walking with a mask. It can get pretty rowdy. We were eating dinner and a group of Judas came in and wanted us to give them Pizza we had just got. There were like 20 of them and 4 of us but Elder Saunders was pretty ticked and probably would have gotten in a fight if he hadn't been sitting on the inside after they lunged for a piece and knocked the coke all over our pizza then took off.
Oh! This week we went to Coatepeque to take another PMG test I'll let you know how it all turns out when I know.
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It was really hard working this week since we were out of our area. I got put with Elder Saunders for most of the week but he's new to his area too so we just contacted all week and basically walked around lost. But I got to get to know him really well which is awesome since he goes home this next week. He's a great guy and a super hard worker from Morgan Utah. He's a stud.
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| Someone, we're still not sure who had an operation in the bathroom. We sent Elder Saunders in to fix it. |
We listened to the first session in Spanish and then some member generously gave us her laptop so we could listen in English! Man the size of my notes tripled in like 3 talks! It was just SOOO good!
I loved Elder Holland's talk even though halfway through it the computer died so we missed the rest of that session. But I did love a bunch of other talks.
Some of the themes I feel like we're hit really hard were Family, Marriage, and Looking through an Eternal Perspective. Honestly, the first two themes were pretty interesting viewing it through the missionary perspective.
It's crazy to think that in a few short years I could be married and starting a family. I'm not looking to push it too fast but it is a crazy thought. One of my friends on the mission just told me that he's getting married when he goes back. Both he and his girlfriend watched the conference and had the thought to get married to the other... CRAZY!!!!!
Some of the themes I feel like we're hit really hard were Family, Marriage, and Looking through an Eternal Perspective. Honestly, the first two themes were pretty interesting viewing it through the missionary perspective.
It's crazy to think that in a few short years I could be married and starting a family. I'm not looking to push it too fast but it is a crazy thought. One of my friends on the mission just told me that he's getting married when he goes back. Both he and his girlfriend watched the conference and had the thought to get married to the other... CRAZY!!!!!
But that's about life I love the conference and the prophet and the opportunity that we had to listen to all of the talks. I hope you all had a great Easter! Love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Scotty Pugmire
I did get general conference and loved it! So I'll clarify what happened to our area in my other letter. I loved conference so much! More to come in the other letter. Seeing everyone sleeping made me feel right at home. (I had sent him a picture.) You'll be happy to know only Elder Hales talk had me snoozing a bit. I guess I'm ready to get married with all of the marriage and family talks. I decided I'm going to propose via email to.... hahaha just kidding! I don't have anyone in mind yet! I'm planning on at least two or three years but we'll see what The Lord has in store. Is that weird for you guys to think that I'm gonna get married someday and that day could actually be soon because it sure is crazy weird to me!
Love you all! HAPPY EASTER!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
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