2010 Dec 28
Hey Family!
It sounds like you guys were busy last week! And fun so that´s good. It was really great to have had the opportunity to get to talk to you guys on Saturday for Christmas! The time just flew by! So that´s cool.
Yesterday we were able to meet with the branch president and get some activities in the thinking stages. There are a lot of people here who don´t really speak Spanish that well so it´s sometimes kind of hard to communicate with them. Like for church yesterday, I don´t really know what was going on but basically what they did was the spoke in Quiche the whole time and they translated it into Spanish every once in a while as they remembered to do so. But I think that us two were the only ones who didn´t really understand what was going on so for them it really didn´t make that much of a difference. From what we have heard from a lot of the other missionaries who have been in Momostenango is that contacting really doesn´t work at all so that means that we just mostly do a lot of service to get the members` trust. And then after that we will start asking for references and stuff. And we talked to the Branch president yesterday and we have a lot of stuff planned that will hopefully bring in the references.
But I`m really excited about everything that we are going to be doing in this area. The people here are really great. And friendly and when I try to speak the really, really limited Quiche with them (good morning and thank you and yes) they seem to be really appreciative of it. And whenever I give them one of those goodie cups that you sent to me, they are so appreciative of it. But I like Canquixaja a lot.
And Canquixaja is really, really rural. I can´t really think of how it could be any more rural than what it is right now. Just about all the people who live there are either farmers or their family lives there while their husband or brother or something works somewhere else so that they can bring in money. They have a couple of little tiendas where you can buy things like eggs and beans and panaderìa bread and chips and stuff like that. But we have to go to Momostenango centro in order to use internet stores. And the members feed us basically every time we go over to their house. Not really as appointments but they give us like this tortilla drink that I can´t really describe and sometimes bread after we give them service.
And we talked to some people and I guess that the Capilla will be opening up in about 2 weeks and after that we will be able to move into it. So I am excited about that.
Well, I can´t really think of anything else to say so I will talk to you guys next week!
Love,
Elder Froelich
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