Photos!

I was kind of a slaker on photos this week, but this is a picture of a drink that we drank at a members house... It is bats blood...  But it was super good that i couldnt stop drinking it... so yeah that was pretty great, but my comp wasnt a huge fan....

Me and my companion bought a ton of this stuff called corte...  It is the same material of Jonnys ties... but we still havent sent it to be made into ties... so yeah...

 

But yeah sorry there arent a ton of photos...

Photos!

We were helping clean out a water tank of a member, and well I had to take the opportunity to pose for this foto, then my comp took a foto of his face.

This is from the divisions that we did, and in there area there is a little runway, that obviously isnt to occupied so we took pictures...

My area!  There are a lot of hills....

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We were waiting outside of a members house waiting for them to get back home so that they could leave to work with us, and my comp hates heights, and didnt want to get down from there, and was like that for like 5 minutes...

Jonny sent a picture like that so i guess ill send one too... but sorry for my pose i wasnt quite ready...  

And the church flooded and we didnt know until 7 on sunday when we went to one of our meetings, so yeah we spent two hours cleaning the church because the people dont know how to use bathrooms here...  No JK it was my comp that clogged the toilet...

The turtle before and after... oops...  

No just kidding it is just chicken and snake meat...

Nope Im still lying it was cow

and a little bit of chicken...

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Some pictures of the cake and my comp that we baught for him for his birthday... and it was a suprise, so it was even better!

A little adventure that we went on today to a place called Shamuc Champay.  It is a big river that formed a cave and there is this lookout place way up high that we went to to see it.

My little Jetpack....  

My area is fantastically beautiful

and my last district meeting for this change..

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My comp Elder Valdes

A blanket that I bought

Us by grafitti that says Coban

The view up one of the hills of my area

We threw knifes

I burnt my tie for six months!!!!

Me with Ronald

Us studying...

Family night...  Five minutes after it started...

This kid rode on this car

From the top of this hill

Like this... Multiple times...

My New Area!

I now got my new area and my new comp!  We are in Los Campos, the city name, and im one of the two companionships in the city....  It is fantastic!  We have members in our area and they help us out a ton.  But first of all my comp is Elder Valdes and he is a little bit weird...  But I have only known him for about 5 days so yeah Im sure we will get used to each other...  And he is from Chile so I dont have to teach him spanish, luckily...  But back to the Area, we have about three teenagers that love to leave with us.  The are 18 19 and 16, and they are all preparing to go on missions.  The one that is 18, Melvin, put in his papers yesterday, the one that is 19, Kevin, is starting his papers, and the one that is 16, sony,  is preparing for his mission.  So that is great because they ususally leave with us!  And the funny thing is that Melvin used to live in Salama, which was the area of my zone leaders back in Rabinal, and I knew him because he was always with the zone leaders and stuff, and I knew his family too.  But in December they moved to this area that I am in now... So I am kind of just following him around!  But he is fantastic!  He knows a lot of the lessons that we teach, and since me and my comp dont know the area really well, because we are both new to the area, he has been helping us out a ton!  

And Church was pretty great this week!  We had about 170 people in church which is about 130 more people than Rabinal...  So yeah it was a little bit different for me...  But is was fantastic!  It is going pretty great in my area though, we have a few people that are interested in our message, and we have been working super hard to know the area a little bit better!    But other than that things are going super great here!

My Scripture for this week, I forgot the past couple weeks... oops, is John 10:17-18.  It is absolutely fantastic!

Love Elder Stuart

Photos!

My giant pile of candy!  P.S. it is almost gone already...

Everybody getting their candy!

Their birthday cake!  It looks fantastic, but it reminded me of the turkey from Christmas Vacation, so Im sure you can guess how it tasted...

They have gringos for their piñatas... I dont know if I should be scared to be mistaken for a piñata...

Me opening my presents!  In my bazinga shirt that cost, 40 ish cents...

Me and my comp............

My comp getting made fun of, without even knowing it...

Us eating at a members house... It is spaghetti, but it wasnt that great...

Changes!

This week we have changes!!!!!  Im not going to be with my comp elder Brito anymore, but im getting a new comp, but I still dont know what his name is yet...  But I get to meet him tomorrow!  So Im super excited for that, and we will be comps down in Rabinal still!  So that is pretty sweet!

Other than that we didnt have too much happen this week.  Just the regular mission life, studying, teaching, and sleeping!  It is all going pretty good down here though.  Im loving it more and more each day, and I didnt know that it was even possible to love it more than I do, but I guess I was wrong!

I cant believe how much that it snowed last week, sounds like it has been a crazy week, and it is beginning to look a lot like christmas, well at least over there in Utah.  Here it still feels like the middle of summer.

Yep not much other than that happened this week...  My scripture is 1st Nephi 7,8-13.

Love Elder Stuart

Photos!

This is me being a nerd with my tie... and my comp on the left taking pictures of himself...

Also a picture of guatemala, the trip from Salama to Rabinal. 

This is our zone of Baja Verapaz.  It is a pretty great zone, and yeah my district is basically all in a pink tie and it wasnt really planned.  So that was pretty great.

New Comps

Well as I left off last week, my comp, Elder Brito hurt his knee.  I didnt think much of it but we called Hermana Curtiss and she said that we should go to Coban tomorrow, tuesday, and get it checked out.  So we did, we left at like 7 in the morning tuesday to go to the doctor.  So we finally made it to the doctor and he told us that there definately was something wrong and that we need to go to a different doctor to get an MRI.  So we went there and we got the MRI but we couldnt get the results until the next day, wednesday...  So we stayed over night at the assisstants house so that we could get the results and not have to travel back to Rabinal that night.  By the time we had left the final doctor it was like 5 in the night so we spent about 7 hours at the doctors office that day.  That is one example of how bad the doctors are here, because it took 7 hours to tell us that we need an MRI and to go and get it done.  So that was a little long.  But anyways we went to get the results on wednesday and we figured out that Brito shouldnt walk for about a month.  This was really disappointing to hear.  So by the time that we got all his things that he needed from the doctor, like medicine crutches it was 3.  So that was really boring because we had to stay at the assistants house again that night, because they didnt know what to do with us.  So we stayed over night at the assistants house again, which really sucked because we hadnt planned on staying over night, so we had nothing.  We had no new clothes, toothbrushes, or things like that so it really wasnt that great.  So then on Thursday we figured out what we would be doing.  So at about 10 we talked with the president on thursday morning.  He told us that brito was going to stay in the mission office, and that I was going to go work in a different area in a trio with Elders Ashcroft and Tellas.  Elder Ashcroft is the other district leader in my zone, and also he was Jonnys comp in the MTC.  So I was a little sad to be leaving Brito, but it would be cool to work with Ashcroft.  So I got in a car with Elder Kirk, a senior missionary who helps the pres, and he was going to take me to Rabinal to get all my things and then take me to the other area.  He was the guy who worked in the FBI so that was pretty cool to talk to him about his work.  So he dropped me off at Rabinal to pack my things, because he had to go to do something else, and he would come back in an hour.  So there was a member with me, but I wasnt with another missionary at this time which was a little weird, but I packed my stuff and was ready to go.  But then he came back to the house about an hour later to tell me that I was going to stay in Rabinal and be in a trio with Elder Call, my district leader, and His comp, Elder Aybar.  So I didnt have to leave my area which made me pretty happy, but I was a little sad to not work with Ashcroft, because that wouldve been really cool.  So long story short, Brito had to leave and now Im in a trio with Elders Call and Aybar, and im still in Rabinal.  So yeah kind of a long week.  And also we have to work two different areas, their area, Cubulco and Rabinal.  They are about 30 minutes away by bus so that kind of sucks.  But I will explain more of that next week when I have more time. 

 

Anyways the work was a little slow this week, because we werent in Rabinal for half the week and we have to work two areas so we cant only focus on the people here in Rabinal.  This definately showed, because we only had 30 people in church, When we usually have about 40 or 45.  So yeah it just goes to show that working hard and sufficiently really does pay off.  Because we hardly worked in our area this week because of all that was going on, and we had only two thirds of the people in church.  But I know that it was only for this week and that we will be able to get everything back to normal in no time.  But Im super excited to work my butt of this week to get everything back to normal. 

 

Also I cant believe that you guys have already gotten snow!!  Its hard to believe that it can be like 90 degrees here and only a 5 hour plane ride away it is snowing!!  Thats pretty cool.

 

My scripture this week in D and C 121.  I dont want to type it all out but it talks about Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, and the struggles that he had, but through the help of our Heavenly Father we are able to get through everything.

 

Elder Jeffrey Stuart