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| The stake center and I in Malacatan. |
After writing, me and Elder Garboza went on divisions. We headed up to our old area, San Pablo, to visit our converts. We were so happy to see Noe and Hilda doing so well! They go to church all the time and you could feel the spirit so strong in their lives and in their home! Unfortunately with Amelia and her family, it wasn't quite the same. They've been drifting away from the church and not too many people have been there to help them out. It made me really sad. I just would like to exhort everyone to go the extra mile to help the new converts of the church. They really desperately need friends and support from all of the members of the church! We also visited some other members of the church up there to help them out with some problems that were going on.
Tuesday, was insane. They announced changes and I was one of the many that had changes! My son, Elder Lagos is going to be training! So that means I'm gonna be a mission grandpa!!! Haha, so that's pretty exciting. We spent the rest of the day saying goodbye and then the rest of the night packing up my suitcases!
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| District Changes Meeting: Me and Elder Bonilla |
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| District Changes Meeting: Elder Gutierez |
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| District Changes Meeting: Elder Cancino |
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District Changes Meeting: Elder McGuirre(and Elder Gutierez again) 
Change Meeting: Me and Elder Davis
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Change Meeting: Elder Davis
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Change Meeting: Elder Sanchez
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| District Changes Meeting: Kanahele (who had changes up to being one of the Assistants ) |
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Change Meeting: Me and Elder Holland
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| Change Meeting: Selfie with Elder Ngungutau, Elder Holland, Davis, and Hastings |
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Change Meeting: Me and Elder Ngungutau
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Firebreather
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Me and Hna Martinez saying goodbye to La Familia Godoy. (They were having a birthday party.)
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| La familia de Hna Sandra |
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Pablito
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Hna Sandra got baptized 2 Saturdays ago.
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Me and Julito
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Hna Berta and her family
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| Judith and her family |
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Meider y Familia
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Hno Cruz Rodas
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Hno Olvidio y Grace
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Hno Olvidio y Grace and their family
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Me, my comp and Fernando
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Me and Fernando
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| Daniel works in the stake all the time. |
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Familia Merida
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La Hermana Edilma (our clothes washing lady)
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Elder Gutierrez and Elder McGuirre cooking up a storm.
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| Familia Madonaldo |
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Familia Casasolas
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Familia de Hna Shirley y Herver
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Me and the FAMOSA BENSON
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| I don't remember the name of this sister but we always visited her when I was in San Isidro on divisións. |
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Joel y Mayra Barrios!
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Wednesday, we headed to the changes meeting in Reu! They moved me to Coatepeque! I'm now with my very first American Companion Named Elder Nielsen! He's from Utah and has 23 months on the mission so this is gonna be the last change! But he's super awesome! He has a great spirit and I've felt the Holy Ghost very strongly in all of our teachings!
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Me and Elder Jensen the other Asistent!
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| Me and elder Bagley! HE'S IN HIS HOUSE NOW! |
Thursday, we had a Zone Meeting Elder Nielsen and I made Brownies for the Zone! Not gonna lie everyone was super pumped! We made a bunch of goals for the conference and animated everyone to go and try and bring the whole world to conference! Then I went on divisions to do some interviews with a guy named Elder Johnson who is super awesome! He's a new missionary but he's gonna do great things! That made for one crazy first day in Coatepeque. So after divisions, we went home to the Elder's house in Pajapita, when we got there it was like 9:20 when Elder Johnson realized he didn't have his keys. We waited for the other set of missionaries to get there and they told us they forgot their keys! Not to mention one of their phones was broken and the other one got left in Coatepeque (about a 40-minute bus drive away). Unfortunately, the buses stop at around 6pm. So we started to try and figure out our options and decided our best bet was just to try to get a Jalon to Coatepeque, we ran into a member who said "Elders just come stay at our house!" Elder Elggren shook his head at me and gave me the "snake" sign, he told me later this member had a sister that was known for being a little too friendly with the elders. We graciously turned down the offer and went to the main street to start trying to find a Jalon. We stood on the road for a long time and finally thought to pray. Immediately after that, we saw a car on the road, we all thought "this is it this is the miracle car!" However, it passed right by after slowing down for a little bit. However, it soon turned around and pulled up next to us.
"Do you boys need a ride?"
... We kinda just sat there because seated in the front two seats were the most beautiful girls any of us had ever seen in Guatemala.
noting our inability to speak, hopefully, they thought it was due to our Spanish since we were all gringos "Where are you going? We live here in Pajapita but we can drive you around if you want." Naturally, all the missionaries turned to me, it was late and this was right after we prayed and one of the first cars we'd seen in forever. I don't know why but I just imagined opening the back door and having been full of other attractive women saying "climb on in there's plenty of room!"
After my zoned-out vision, I shuddered, and then I turned them down thanking them for their offer and said we actually had another ride coming.
We didn't have any luck so we thought we'd walk to the other side of town where another street fed into the main street to see if we could catch some more traffic. Unfortunately, by then it was like 10:30 and at that time of night there really aren't any cars on the street and even less you want to be riding in.
At around 11:00pm we made it to the next crossroad, dripping in sweat from our high-speed march up the highway. Elder Johnson suddenly ran into the store shouting that he got a ride and we needed to hurry. We grabbed our stuff and took off! We rode the rest of the way to Coatepeque in the back of a Semi truck cab where the driver said he had talked with the missionaries the week before and thought he should help us out! We were soooo grateful! We got home right near midnight safe and sound. But it was quite an experience.
Friday, we just ran around making sure everyone was going to go to conference and making sure members were going to bring their friends.
"Do you boys need a ride?"
... We kinda just sat there because seated in the front two seats were the most beautiful girls any of us had ever seen in Guatemala.
noting our inability to speak, hopefully, they thought it was due to our Spanish since we were all gringos "Where are you going? We live here in Pajapita but we can drive you around if you want." Naturally, all the missionaries turned to me, it was late and this was right after we prayed and one of the first cars we'd seen in forever. I don't know why but I just imagined opening the back door and having been full of other attractive women saying "climb on in there's plenty of room!"
After my zoned-out vision, I shuddered, and then I turned them down thanking them for their offer and said we actually had another ride coming.
We didn't have any luck so we thought we'd walk to the other side of town where another street fed into the main street to see if we could catch some more traffic. Unfortunately, by then it was like 10:30 and at that time of night there really aren't any cars on the street and even less you want to be riding in.
At around 11:00pm we made it to the next crossroad, dripping in sweat from our high-speed march up the highway. Elder Johnson suddenly ran into the store shouting that he got a ride and we needed to hurry. We grabbed our stuff and took off! We rode the rest of the way to Coatepeque in the back of a Semi truck cab where the driver said he had talked with the missionaries the week before and thought he should help us out! We were soooo grateful! We got home right near midnight safe and sound. But it was quite an experience.
Friday, we just ran around making sure everyone was going to go to conference and making sure members were going to bring their friends.
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Coatepeque from our roof.
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Sunset in Coatepeque
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Saturday was amazing with conference and we had and investigator come!!! It was awesome! It was awesome to see how strong the hand of the Lord is in this work in calling his servants to serve and lead and guide the church! I loved what Elder Renlund said that we aren't assigned to positions for what we have done in the past but for what we are capable of doing and what we will do in the future and time of our service. I loved that!
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Me Elder Keck and Preciado at General Conference.
Sunday was a miracle. We only brought one investigator to the conference but we ended up having 25 more come with the members!!!! IT WAS SO AMAZING!!! We had the highest assistance in the mission of investigators and our zone had almost double the amount of any other zone! It was so amazing! We are so excited for what everyone is doing to help the work go on in our zone and hoping that a lot of good things happened this month!
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| ME and my comp tying members shoes together….. but he caught us. |
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Conference photos with the guys that live in our house. Elders Keck, Wilcox, Nielsen, and me.
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| Elders Keck, Wilcox, Nielsen, and me. |
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| Elders Keck, Wilcox, Nielsen, and me. |
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| Celebration of cake. We each at like ¾ of a Magdalena. We were all sick after but we are eating healthy now. |
I love this work!
I love you guys!
I love BYU!
And I love my Savior Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father
Love,
Elder Pugmire
Dear Grant. I'm so happy to hear of how good of a kid you are. Every day it makes me so happy to have a brother like you! I hope you can be an example to others always even when no one is looking. Keep making sure to help other people before you help yourself and always compliment people for doing good things to make them feel good! I love you man! Keep being awesome!
Love your brother,
Elder Scotty Pugmire
It's funny how some things don't get translated into Spanish. I've never heard of this pondering thing.
Dear Grant. I'm so happy to hear of how good of a kid you are. Every day it makes me so happy to have a brother like you! I hope you can be an example to others always even when no one is looking. Keep making sure to help other people before you help yourself and always compliment people for doing good things to make them feel good! I love you man! Keep being awesome!
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