este semana fue loco y no puedo pensar de un nombre para mi subjecto, entonces aqui esta...

Well first off I hope you guys understand that subject... I couldnt think of one but this week was crazy!  First off starting out on last p-day, after we wrote you guys we went to go on a hike up to this mountain that has the name of Rabinal on it. It would be kind of like hiking to the B or something, but this hike did not have any paths...  So we were walking through backyards... if you can even call them that...  and fields of grass that were as tall as us and then basically scaled a part of the mountain, and then we were about half way there...  so we kind of took a break because my comp was feeling a little lightheaded, and he thought that was weird, because he is a hiker, and this was super easy...  So during our break, he saw something on his leg and he went to hit it away, but it didnt leave.  Well it turns out that it was a tic.  So we ended our hike because I think that it was just sucking out his energy so we went back to our house to call the nurse to figure out how to get rid of it... Oh and by the way we named it Dick the tick...  I dont know if that is exactly appropriate but whatever...  So we went back to the house and called the nurse and the nurse said that we should just pull it out with tweezers and that it should come out and to call him if we had any questions...  and this is what we had always heard not to do... but we tried it and it wouldnt come out, so i burnt it with a match because that is what we thought would be best, and then we pulled it one more time and it came right out!  So that was quite the experience, and I am now officially a tic pulling out expert...  So if you have any questions, call me, maybe...  oh and my comp was ticked because he had a tic...  Just so you know we have about a million more puns about this tic...

Also on Wednesday we had the baptism for lili and my comp baptized her so that is his first baptism and that is super cool!!!!!!  It was great and her family which wasnt really interested came to her baptism and they also came to church for her confirmation!  So that was super exciting!  And also she is inviting  basically her whole neighborhood to come and learn with us!  So it is super exciting here right now!  So yeah this week was super crazy!  But super exciting!

Love you all!!!!  

Elder Stuart

NEW YEARS EVE!!!!!

This week was pretty greaat!!!  With new years and all there were a lot of fireworks to watch and here and it was pretty exciting.  But this week in the market where they all sell their fireworks, there are millions of fireworks stores just filled with fireworks, a drunk guy was smoking and he threw his cigar onto a firework stand, and the whole thing blew up... along with two other stores...  But it wasnt that big of a deal, because the stores in the market here and just a table and they put everything on the table, but yeah three tables of fireworks blew up...  And we were about a block away when it happened, and we saw the police pull up and beat up the drunk guy, because there are no laws here, and throw him in the back of there truck and drive away...  So that was a pretty great experience, it was super exciting to watch, because we got a free, huge, firework show!  But a really cool thing that happened too is that one of the members has one of these stores of fireworks and it was right next to the ones that blew up, and she was super lucky that hers didnt blow up, and so she was going around telling everyone it was a blessing from God, so that was a really cool experience!

 

Also another really cool spiritual experience that happened this week is that the elders from cubulco, the area right next to mine, had a baptism and we took one of our investigators to the baptism, but she was having doubts on whether or not she wanted to get baptized, so we didnt even have like a date for her to get baptized or anything, but she told us after that she wants to get baptized this saturday!  But not only that one of the members said that all the teenagers were going to the temple this saturday, and our investigator, Lili and she is 16, said that she wanted to go!  So she is going to get baptized this wednesday, in two days, and then go to the temple to do baptizms for the dead on saturday!  That was such a cool spiritual experience!  So Im super excited for that! 

 

Not much other than that happened this week but those experiences were super exciting!  Things are getting better here each day, and suprisingly im loving the mission more each day, which I didnt know was possible!  My scripture for this week is John 3 16-17.  That one is super common, but I love it!

 

Love Elder Stuart