Elder Scotty Pugmire's Guatemala Postings: Week 102...7/25/16...Interviews in Malacatan and preparing for miracles

Life is good. I love being a missionary! But honestly today is the day where I have 0 desire to write home. This might be the last time I write seeing that next week we might have to be driving around the mission to pick up the bags of everyone. So here's a quick update about what happened this week

Monday (7/18/16) after I got done writing we went with Maria to do the interview and put the fecha! We went with our studly District Leader, Elder Gonzalez and Maria and her daughter are going to get baptized next week!!!

Tuesday, we had interviews here in Las Palmas! We just helped out and then we had a meeting with President to discuss some changes that needed to happen before the changes. We were going to go and visit some investigators with President and his wife, but this meeting needed to happen so we just put the visits for another day.

Las Brasas! The best pan shop on the planet!

Wednesday MALACATAN!!! So we headed out early and we went to Malacatan! We had all of the interviews and we went to revise all of the houses. Then we went and stayed in the hotel for the night after going out with Hermana Goodman to buy some things the Elders of Coatepeque needed for Thursday. Everyone thought we were her kids. So we just started calling her Mom. She loves it! She makes some good cookies and honestly she is so sweet!

Out in the rain with the Mission President

Us and the mini missionary Hermano Guzman

Me with the House keys from Malacatan!

Us three assistants and "Mama Goodman"

Thursday, we noticed that the hotel we were at had an amazing view and we picked up Elder Zarate to take him to his new area. After that we had the interviews in Coatepeque. We did some more house checks and then we raced home to go and talk to Maria! We talked to another family that was pretty cool too so we're going to keep working with them! We're committed them to coming to church Sunday and then we headed out.

With Elder Kahl and Elder Hill

The amazing view from the Hotel!

Friday, Me and Elder Kahl worked in our area all day and we had to go and do some stuff in the office. Maria is so awesome! She lives by herself with 3 kids and her husband is in the states. She says that she was praying and one night she had a dream where she received a white blouse and the lady that gave it to her in the dream told her to used it! So we talked to her about how we use white clothing to baptize and we explained why. She was so happy and is firm in her decision to get baptized!

We got our suits ordered. Elder Gutierrez getting all measured up.

La Luna Hamburgers! It was delicious!

Me and Elder Kahl by one of the millions of corner stores.

Saturday We had a meeting almost all day with District Conference where the Goal of Attendance was 200 but there ended up being 280 PEOPLE!! Even the Mayor of San Marcos and all his family came!!! They had over 50 investigators there as well! We're hoping to divide the District and make it into a Stake in the next year and this conference was a big step! After lunch I went to El Codo to do some interviews for baptism! It was pretty cool because one of the Girls was a girl that I had taught when I was there! Then we saw Hermana Gloria and her Family and I got to say goodbye to them! Man! I love that family so much!!! I'm going to miss them a ton!