Wow! What a week! How does time go by so fast! This week we were really busy! We had our trip around the mission with President and Hermana Goodman! We started it out here in Las Palmas on Tuesday. We had an awesome meeting! Presidente and Hermana Goodman are sooooo funny! They have 5 kids, 4 sons that are married and an adopted daughter! President told some funny storries about how he and his wife met and how he water skiied down a ditch behind a pick up truck and taking a road trip to Guatemala with his brothers in the back of a pick up truck. Sleeping on the side of the road every night. Hermana Goodman made a cookie for every missionary! She is so sweet and all of the missionaries love her to death already. We learned from President that we are going to focus on 4 things in our mission.
Friday, we started bright and early to drive to San Lorenzo, where we presented the Presidente Rodas to Presidente Goodman. We had to show Pres. how the roads were so he can voice his opinion about how the should divide our Mission and Stake. There are a lot of thoughts about dividing them. Some ideas seem great on maps but just driving the roads you'll see divisions don't work.
Coming down from Serchil we gave a surprize to Presidente and his wife. We stopped by a family of members and showed them their weaving loom to make huipil. They were weaving huipil (or a hand woven fabric) and when we told Hermana Goodman that it was our gift to them she started crying. We paid the family to make it for the Goodmans. We also ordered some for ourselves. Its incredible how beautiful a piece of cloth can be! I ordered 3 more so I'm excited to see how they turned out.
Then we went to have the meet the President meeting in San Marcos and Malacatan. Then we ate in Romax in Coatepeque and got home late. WE WERE EXAUSTED! My Comp is a stud! he drove the whole way! It was only 275 kilometers but it took us alllll day!
Love,
1. Jesus Christ. Which is something that we have really been trying to do as a mission.
2. The Mission Manuel. We are working on being exactly obedient to the mission rules.
3. Preach My Gospel and Preach it by the spirit. We will be a Preach my Gospel Mission.
4. The Book of Mormon and The Spirit. The greatest combination and tool we have as missionaries.
We got to go work in our area after that and we went back with Mario. He's the Dad of a reference that we got from President Ruiz. Sergio, the son of Mario, was friends with President Ruiz's daughter Cristal. He told us that he was very Catholic but after our first lesson he commited to pray and ask God what His will was for him.
When we got back for our second lesson he told us it was not his intention to change his religion and that he didn't want to be baptized. We just talked to him as a friend and by the end of our lesson he told us ''you are the missionaries that have most convinced me to pray and ask and I promise you that I will ask God before you leave. If I get an answer I will do what The Lord wants me to do.'' We were so happy! But we know that we really have nothing to do with it. Mario has had a bunch of missionaries pass by and teach him. But for some reason this was the time when The Spirit testified to him in a way that he could start to sense the truth of our message. He was going to come to our activity on Saturday with his family but a conflict came up and he didn't end up coming.
Wednesday, we went to Mazate and we had the same meeting. We went to Mazate and then to Don Carlos to celebrate Elder Hills Birthday! We have had a ton of birthdays these past couple weeks: Me Elder Rock, Hill, Perez and Elder Kahl! We went and worked in our area where we found an awesome lady named Maria! She told us she'd come to church but her nephew got sick, so she missed Sacrament Meeting. However we left after Sacrament Meeting and Found her and we brought her to church and gave her the tour of the church. She loved it and her kids really want to come next week! Wednesday night we Brought Elder Hill to our house to eat cake with us.
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| Me and Elder Taylor |
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| Your classic grass hut in the mountains. |
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| Me, Elder Kahl, Elder Perez and Elder Hill |
Thursday, we were going to have a meeting in Malacatan but we got to Pajapita and we got right to the front of a roadblock. We spent 3 hours waiting and trying to find a way around it with out any luck so we just postponed it till Friday. So then we returned home and we got to work in our area again! It feels so good to go and get out to work in our area! I love just being a normal missionary. It's something that President has wanted us to do more of. Its been great! But I feel like the Zones have been suffering a little bit. So we're planning on going to help the Zones all next week.
Friday, we started bright and early to drive to San Lorenzo, where we presented the Presidente Rodas to Presidente Goodman. We had to show Pres. how the roads were so he can voice his opinion about how the should divide our Mission and Stake. There are a lot of thoughts about dividing them. Some ideas seem great on maps but just driving the roads you'll see divisions don't work.
Coming down from Serchil we gave a surprize to Presidente and his wife. We stopped by a family of members and showed them their weaving loom to make huipil. They were weaving huipil (or a hand woven fabric) and when we told Hermana Goodman that it was our gift to them she started crying. We paid the family to make it for the Goodmans. We also ordered some for ourselves. Its incredible how beautiful a piece of cloth can be! I ordered 3 more so I'm excited to see how they turned out.
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Presidente y Hermana Goodman by the Huipil machine!
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| Photos with the branch presidents Family in the mountains (Serchil) |
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| THE MILPA!!!! (corn) |
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| Me and elder Kahl in the Elevator |
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| Editor's note: The above picture of Scotty reminded me of this picture of my Grandfather Jay McNiven |
Then we went to have the meet the President meeting in San Marcos and Malacatan. Then we ate in Romax in Coatepeque and got home late. WE WERE EXAUSTED! My Comp is a stud! he drove the whole way! It was only 275 kilometers but it took us alllll day!
Saturday was buys we had our meeting with President and then organized and executed our Ward Activity! We talked about the Tree of life and Lehi's dream. Then we had all the members follow the ´´iron rod´´ we had set up through the church avoiding obstacles. Then as a fun activity we played Hungry Human Hippos. We used those little elementary scooters (with a board and 4 wheels) and rope and our laundry baskets and we had three teams trying to get as many balloons as possible! Some of the members were calling it ''the best activity the ward has ever had'' we had one investigator come! So that was awesome!
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| Photos of our ward activity and Elder Kahl Charging his phone. |
Sunday, was a great day of Church more meetings with President to plan the interveiws next week and we got to meet with Alejando. A joven who is super smart and has like 2 companies! But he also is looking for the true church! HE LOVES TO TALK!!!
Life is so good! Every day seems to go faster and faster! We're trying to live our time to the fullest!
Love you all!
Love you all!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
CANOPY!!!!! With Elder Adams, Elder Elggren, Elder Hill, Elder Preciado, Elder Kahl and Elder Perez
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