So on Monday, I had what was my first normal p'day in the office. We joined in with the activity of Las Palmas to go play paintball! It's a new paintball place close to Reu! It was super fun but man I got destroyed! I took like 4 hits right in the face mask... But it was great! Then we hurried to get home and showered Julio and I (my mini missionary) went to Coatepeque to eat lunch with them! They brought a bunch of people to church and we celebrated going out to eat at ROMAX! Which is a super nice restaurant. I had probably the best burger I've ever had in my whole mission. It was DELICIOUS!
Then in the quest to bring even more mini missionaries to the field we picked up another mini missionary from Coatepeque and brought another one that was finishing his mini-mission. The new mini missionary is SO PILAS!!!!! She is 19 and only on the convert of a month! The missionaries told her that it'd be good that she stay home and learn and then go serve a mini-mission next time that we offered it. But she said no. She told us that she had gone against all of her family to be baptized. She knew that the gospel is true y ''yo quiero predicar lo que yo se es verdad.'' or I want to teach what I know is true. So we brought her to the mission office and then Elder Morataya and I trained 3 other mini-missionaries and assigned them to their areas. Man, we were so surprised by how amazing this convert is! She only came with a Book of Mormon and her Evangelical Bible but she had them all marked up and was by far the best teacher of all the other mini missionaries. It really was a testimony that there always are prepared people waiting to hear the gospel!
Tuesday, basically all we did was plan. We are going to have to shut down 4 areas for a bunch of reasons including that only 8 missionaries are coming in this change and 14 are going home. We chose who would be training next change and did cambios de emergencia trying to figure out who would best help other missionaries in their areas. It really was amazing to see how revelation really is what guides Presidente Ruiz. We would give him suggestions and even when we told him that two missionaries probably wouldn't go too well together he would just pause and say.... '' actually the spirit is telling me that is the right place for that Elder,'' and he would make the change. I feel like I've got a lot to learn still!
Wednesday was a treat. We had the Area Doctor, Dr. Province, come in and tell us about all the things we need to do to stay healthy. We got to see the wide array of enfermidades that have happened in all of the missions. Needless to say, some of the photos were pretty nasty, but I'm happy to report that I didn't see myself in any of the slides they showed! YAY ME! Then we had to go and pick up all of the other mini missionaries that finished this week. We ate Little Caesars and then Don Carlos. Then we got a call from Presidente, we had to go to the office again and he gave us some sad news that there would be possibly 5 missionaries going home from the mission. We had to redo all of the changes and plan out what would be best for the mission.
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The hotel we stayed in! It was a nice change from normally sleeping on flea-infested beds!
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Tecun Uman Statue in Xela
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We went to eat at Cozik and then we went to do divisiones with Alameda 1 and 2. I gotta go with Elder Cardenas and it was awesome! WE FOUND A TON OF POSITIVE PEOPLE!!! Elder Cardenas is from Oklahoma and is such a great kid! And a great missionary!
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| Elder Cardenas in Alameda |
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| What the mountains look like |
We've started a culture in the mission since January to fast every Wednesday. Me and Elder Morataya have been talking about it and we've been able to feel so much closer to the spirit than ever before! I have a testimony about fasting that literally brings the spirit to our lives and we can be more susceptible to his promptings. We stayed the night in San Marcos. And Friday we finished running the errands we needed to do in San Marcos and San Pedro and then we drove home to Reu. Then we worked in our area for the rest of the night. We found some positive people! A joven named Oliver who is the brother of a menos activo! So that was awesome! We're going to start to teach him!
Saturday. We had our weekly meeting with President Ruiz at the office and also me and my companion had a meeting with him.
Then we went out to take some medical tests for some other missionaries and then started our fast. Then we went to work in our area again, Me and Julio went contacting all the rest of the day. We went back with a couple of the people we found Friday and I think we are just going to keep looking. It was like 8:30 and we still hadn't found anyone to come to church with us on Sunday. I told Julio that we needed to find someone that could come to church. Literally 5 seconds after we walked past a door, I felt like we need to touch it. So we went back and touched the door. A Joven of about 17 years came out and we started talking to him. He told us that like 2 months ago the Hermanas missionaries were teaching him but they left and he never got the opportunity to go to the church. We invited him and he said he would totally go! He was actually super excited! But he told us that he might have something he needed to do Sunday that he had already committed to doing. But that he would come next week. Then he gave us his address and we headed to buy things for Sunday.
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Elder Keck and Elder Ormsby in our correlation meeting
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(rt to lt) Me, Elder Mosiah Vasquez, Elder Morataya and Julio Esturardo Gonzalez in the same meeting
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Sunday! We had one investigator in church! His name is Ricardo! He came last week too! Elder Morataya found him right as we dropped them off. He had been crying because his wife had just left him and he didn't know what to do but he came to stake conference and his question that we told him to bring was answered. Today though was really tough. Right as we went to get him his Aunt came out and was like ''what are you doing going with THEM?'' She tried not to get him to go but he told her that he felt really well last time and that we had come in his moment of need and for that, he was going to come to church! Also, Elder Keck and Elder Ormsby brought a bunch of investigators! One of them was a guy that I had invited a few weeks ago that also had come last week! I interviewed him and he knew a lot! But he had a lot of doubts and he committed to pray and ask God if he should be baptized. I think that he should be baptized in these next few weeks!
We've started to listen to the Book of Mormon on CD while we're riding in the car. It's not nearly the same as reading it but we've learned a lot I really like what I heard in 2 Nefi 9 39 O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life eternal.
In Spanish is saying Animo Carnal and Animos Espiritual which is basically emotion. Saying that those that rejoice in things of the world is death, but the things of the spirit can bring us to eternal life.
Life's been good but busy! Hope all is well!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
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