Elder Scotty Pugmire's Guatemala Postings: Week 45...6/15/15...Hmn Gloria, Kimberly, Manuel and the Beach

Buenos Tardes Familia! How is everything going? This week was awesome for us! It was crazy for sure. . .but amazing. . .so many blessings and miracles. To start things off we went to the office Tuesday to take a picture since we broke the record that has been there for 5 YEARS! Then we were on our way to the bus stop in a Tuc Tuc when the oficina called and told us they wanted to come work with us in our area. So we just told the Tuc tucqurero to drop us off on the corner and we hitched a ride with the oficina back to El Codo. I went and worked with Elder Perez which was awesome and then we finished up with a lesson with Hna Gloria and her Family. Hna Gloria accepted to be baptized and so did Manuel! So that was awesome!

Hno Keka and a guy who we always love to talk to.

Then Wednesday we had interviews with Presidente as a Zone. So we all met in the office building and had a bunch of teaching workshops and then an awesome message From Presidente Ruiz. He is such an amazing man. I love him so much. The oficina asked us to give a taller(workshop) on the Book of Mormon. It actually turned out super well and sounds like a few learned from it. Then we ended super late so we couldn't get back to our area. So we did divisions with the ZL's in their area. I went with Elder Berrios and once again just learned a ton from him. He really is a fantastic missionary.

Then on Friday we called Elder Hill to see if he could come do divisions in our area to interview Kimberly, one of Hna Glorias daughters, because we felt like she was super close to accepting baptism but just had a little doubt she wouldn't tell us. So I went to Champe and worked all day with Elder Jimenez which was awesome! We had an activity playing Futbol in the cancha out side the church and brought like 20 investigators to come play. The people here love futbol! Then we got word from Elder Hill that Kimberly accepted to be baptized as well! Her problem was she just wanted something to remember her baptism and wanted her dad to send her a dress or something. We showed her the pictures we would be taking and she ended up being super excited for it! So we planned to be back in El Codo the next morning. However, the bus never passed or passed by early or late or something. The thing was we didn't get on a bus to get to El Codo. We made it there with a mixture of Jalons and walking and finally got to El Codo with 2 hours until the baptism.

The problem is... El Codo almost never has light and without light there is also no water. So my comp and Elder Hill left in the morning without light to go 2 houses away to the church. And by the time they reached the church there was electricity! SUCH A MIRACLE! However the facet in the church takes like a good 6 hours or so to fill and we really didn't have time for that. So we talked with the neighbors to configure some sort of hose from their pump to go pass the fence, into the church, down the hallway and into the font. Needless to say with some crazy engineering the font filled in like 20 minutes. It was awesome. We might have to do that from now on!

The hose we put together, ran from the pump through the fence, down the hall and into the baptism font.

Also we had the ZL's come down to bring some more clothes because the others didn't fit. And still when they came we didn't have any for Kimberly. But we designed a coat and dress combo that I must say may have been the best baptism outfit ever. I might go into model design when I get back SI PUES!!!

Elder Jimenez,Elder Fiftia, Elder Lagos, Kimberly, Hmn Gloria, Manuel, Elder Pugmire, Elder Hill and Elder Berrios

Manuel, Hmn Gloria and Kimberly with baptism clothing designed by the Elders

But the baptismal service was incredible. And after the confirmation Sunday Hna Gloria was talking on the phone with her relative and I over heard her say. ''Something marvelous has just happened. Yesterday I was baptized and today confirmed in the Church of Jesus Christ. It has been the happiest days of my life.'' It was a testimony to me that really the true Church and gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives. It was an awesome blessing for me because it was me and Elder Lagos who first contacted their house. So we got to see all of the progress they made. Such an amazing Miracle.

So that was the week! For P'day we went to take photos on the beach.