Quetzaltenango!!: 2011 Feb 14

2011 Feb 14

¡Familia!

HEY! And I have a birthday present for you guys! The district leader (Elder Conte from Panama--He´s a stud) called us this morning and told us to take pictures or something so, in a nutshell, I´m going to send pictures to you today! I knew you would be excited because I haven't sent you anything. So Happy Birthday!

And right now I am technically in the same ward I´m just in a completely different part of the ward. I kind of miss my old part of the ward but this one is good too so it´s all good.

This week, We studied as a companionship about service and old investigators so we have been working a lot with that. The problem is that a lot of former investigators are former investigators for a reason but we do have this one guy and this other couple that are pretty good. We set a baptisimal date with them which is probably going to fall but they seem willing to progress so we´ll see how that goes.

The Spanish is going pretty well too but this week and the next coming weeks, I am going to work on my accent. We ended up having to stop visiting her because she wasn´t progressing but whenever I tried to say anything, she didn´t have any idea what I was saying even though my comp afterwards said that I had perfect grammar and vocab and everything. So that is what I am going to work on this coming week. But on Sunday, I was trying to talk to another Gringo in the ward in English and I gave up and just told him what I was going to say in Spanish because English was frustrating me. AND I said a prayer in English yesterday and it was one of the hardest things I had done all week because I haven´t prayed in English for a long time.

And the Comp situation is getting better too! I think that his problem was that his trainer was a little bit disobedient and I am not disobedient so I don´t let him do some things that he was used to doing before. So he gets frustrated with me a lot. But this week, I remembered that my Zone Leader in Momostenango said to us that we should treat our comp the way that we want to treat our future wife and that along with what I learned from Dad in my years growing up means that I am not to talk bad about him. I sometimes just want to punch him in the face from being frustrated with him but he´s a really good guy. And we fasted on Tuesday so that we could find more investigators and I also included that I would find more patience and love for him and it worked really well!