Fotos and the week summary...

Well This week was good and a little bit stressful... We were able to have a pretty good week... mainly because all the baptizms went through successfully.  We baptized a guy named tereso and his family.. it was a pretty great experience.  He is such a great guy and will be a great member here in Cubulco.. Maybe he will be the person to get this place going strong...  So we are super happy about that.

Also as shown is these photos we also helped a less active member to chop down a tree.. so that he would go to church.. so that was pretty great also!  We are just going along pretty smoothly here.  

Also we are now in a trio.. because Elder Barahona ended up going home.. because he had appendicitus and his appendix exploded and that was why he was throwing up blood.. so they did surgery on him last monday and yesterday he went home.  So I am now back with Elder Gomez.. .and his companion Elder Nombrado.  Elder Nombrado is samoan.. he is a super good guy elder nombrado... We get along super well..  So that is pretty fun!  But I think that that is about it for this week...

Love Elder Stuart

Wedding and the baptism!!!!!

Our last district meeting for the change... Another District down!  

The wedding!

This amazing baptizm we had in an amazingly beautiful place!

Changes

This week has been kind of a crazy week!!!  And a super long one!  But it was super fun!  So we started out on wednesday we did divisions again... and that was fun I was able to go with Elder Salazar and I learned a lot from him and well it was great to be with him for a little bit...

Then on Thursday we had the wedding for Angel and well that was good but it was boring as usual... The weddings here in Guatemala really arent that exciting... but it was really cool to see how happy they are now that they are married... Marriage it is a good thing, do it! So that was super exciting... then on friday we had to prepare everything for the baptism of Angel.. and well we figured out on like tuesday that Rodrigo wouldnt be getting baptized this week so we are planning on him to get baptised the 30th of August... So that will be exciting.. so that made our Friday a little bit easier because we only had to plan for one baptizm...  (p.s. I forgot how to spell baptism, if it is wilth an s or with a z so be patient...)  So then on saturday we baptized Angel and it was so cool!  We baptized him in a river... and that was super cool.. He is probably my best convert yet in the mission!  He is super great!  Im excited for him.

Then on Saturday we figured out our changes!  And I am going to be staying here in La Libertad.. and Elder Loveland is leavin so that is kind of sad... because he was one of my favorite companions...  So I am going to be getting a new companion... Elder Mejia... so I am excited for that!  I have had so many companions... I get a new one basically every change.. but Im ok with that because I am learning a lot of the social skills that I never really practiced before the mission... oops....  But all is well here!

Love Elder Stuart

Long week...

This week was a pretty long and stressful week... but it was one of the best weeks we have had!  First off we were having a little bit of progress with our 2 investigators that are planning on getting baptized this week and they are both doing good!  We are planning on baptizing Angel and Rodrigo this week... not last week...and so we have got another long week ahead of us for all that.. but we are excited.  We are going to marry Angel on thursday... and then him and Rodrigo are going to get baptized on Saturday...  So those are our plans for this upcoming week!

But this last week was full of stuff that we did... mainly at the latter part of the week... But on Thursday we had a Zone Conference... and President Curtiss ended up showing up so that was pretty cool!  I learned a lot from that!  Then on Friday we went on divisions.. and I stayed here in La Libertad with an Elder named Elder Fitzgerald from Nicaragua... And Elder Loveland went to sayaxché with Elder Gubler... And Sayaxché was actually the last area of Elder Loveland so that was pretty cool for him!  So that was bunch of stuff to do that day... and also on Friday we had a wedding here in La Libertad for the Hermanas... And I witnessed my first wedding and it was a ton of work to prepare... and SUPER BORING... I now know that I am not a wedding person... So that was not very exciting to know that that is how this wedding is going to be this week!  Then after that on Saturday... We took Elder Fitzgerald back to his area in the morning.. and that is like an hour drive, so two both ways... and that wasnt too fun...  Then after that we had to go shopping for some clothes for some baptisms that were going to happen this week... then at about 5 we had to head back to Sayaxché for a baptismal interview... so another two hours...  and so that was just pretty crappy....  Then we went to our house and went to bed... On Sunday, we went to a baptism at 7 in the morning... and when we got there the whole church was flodded with water...so we had to clean all that up and that was kind of frustrating... so yeah basically this week was a pretty stressful week.. but we finally got through it!  

So we are super excited for this next week and we are going to have these two baptisms, so we are hoping and praying a lot for that!

Love, Elder Stuart

Good week!

Well this week has been a great week!  It is just so great to be in the area that Im in with the companion that I have got!  I am enjoying the mission really much right now... We are have success... working hard... and having fun doing it!  So things are just basically going good here! We were able to have a good week and we have even better plans for the next week!  This week that comes is going to be good but the next even better.

So starting with Rodrigo we kind of did a little test with him... He is like 13 years old and we thought that he was just kind of going through the motions of what we teach.. Like just goes to church because we want him to and all that kind of stuff... So we wanted to see how much he really wanted to go to church.. and he already knows all the lessons and baptism and alll that so... we didnt visit him the last week or even remind him that church was this week to see if he would remember to come... and he did!!  So we were super excited to see that he really does have the desire to go to church on his own.  So we are excited for his baptism the next week!  

Also with Angel we are excited for him.. because he is super excited to get married and be baptized... He is literally just so excited!   It is so exciting to see..  So we are going to marry him on the 14th of August and then baptize him on the 16th... But we arent acutally going to marry him.. .we are just planning it all and all that stuff... so that is going to be kind of fun!  

Then we also have visited 3 families this week that are going along pretty good in the church.. they still havent been to church yet.. but they are progressing pretty well and I hope that they will be able to make it to church within these next couple of weeks!  So we have got big plans for this next week...  and so we are excited for that!  

So things are going well now.. and I hope they continue like that!

Elder Stuart

Good Week!

We are having a fantastic time here in la libertad!  We are just working hard and having a lot of fun doing it.. and the success is coming...  So that is all good!  Elder Loveland is one of my favorite companions in the mission... He just a super great guy... We get along so well it is awesome!  It is so much more fun.  

But anyways this week we were able to put to good fechas for baptism for the 16th of August... one with a Person named Angel who is 20 years old... and the other with a kid named Rodrigo who is 13... They are both super great!  Angel is the person that came to church last week and he is super excited to get baptized... he is going to get married the 9th so we are planning his wedding and all that... and then he is going to get baptized the 16th... so that is super great!  And Rodrigo came to church yesterday and we put that goal with him... So that was a great day...

And today we cooked Snikerdoodles... sothat was fun and they were super good!  

Love Elder Stuart