Week 46...6/22/15...Xela, Temple 2nd Trip

Alright! I'm late for writing so this letter is going to be short and sweet! 

Panorama of Temple Grounds

So this week was a little crazy! We had originally planned to go to the temple Tuesday, but the APs called and told us that we were going to have to go on Wednesday instead. That basically destroyed all of our plans and made us have to stay the entire day Tuesday in Reu to be able to leave in the morning for Xela. But we got to go out and help Elder Dial and Perez in their area so that was great! 

Then on Wednesday at 4 am we were supposed to get up and be at the church ready to go. I set my alarm for 3 to be able to shower and get over there. But, just a classic move by me, slept through all alarms and woke up at 3:45 am.  But thanks to the training I received from Seminary, ie: waking up 10 minutes till class started, I was able to shower, shave, get dressed, brush my teeth AND be at the church at 3:57. That's pretty impressive if I do say so myself! 

Xela Temple

Elders Pugmire and Lagos

But honestly, the temple was amazing. The peace, love, and presence of God is honestly so strong there. I love what Elder Hill told me. He said to me while we were in the Celestial room ''Man I can't wait to live here.'' He is so right. It is my greatest desire that everyone could reach the glory of the Celestial Kingdom to be able to always feel that joy of being so close to our Heavenly Father. We went to go buy some stuff at the Distribution Center and guess who I ran into!!! ELDER HICKEN! A friend of mine from Minnesota that was with me in the CCM! His area covers the temple and just by chance he was there! So that was awesome!

Elder Hicken and Elder Pugmire. . . friends from MN . . .Missionaries in Guatemala.

Then we headed back to the scorching heat of the Reu Mission. It's been so hot here! Even though it's the rainy season it hasn't rained in like a week or two. So that's been awful! Friday we showed the movie ''Meet the Mormons.'' We didn't have as great of a turn out as we had hoped for but it was perfect. We have one investigator named Marlin, the daughter of Gloria (who got baptized the other week) she went to the movie and told us after that she too wanted to be baptized and that she really was starting to realize the reality of the Joy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So now we just need to work with her Husband Carlos so that they can get married so they can get baptized. So that's awesome! But ya! That's about life here! Sorry for the shortness of the email and thanks for all of the birthday wishes! I love and miss you all!

Some cool architecture in the city

Love,

Elder Pugmire