Letters from Guatemala

Busy Growing

Once again, the week has come so rapidly, I don't even know what to put. I put much of my time into sending pictures of this week, so there might not be time to say everything.

It has been a great week. Although it started off flailing. There was a day when my companera and I felt so incredibly depressed and down. Abandoned. And without the presence of the Spirit in our work here. It is so critical to have the Spirit to teach, but we just couldn't feel it! The end of that day was spectacular because the Lord, in a way, answered our prayers. We had an amazing lesson during which Hna Sanchez and I just felt overpowered by the Spirit. It was amazing!

We have been doing a lot of division with members this week where I will go with one sister of the church (not a missionary) and Hna Sanchez with another so we can cover more ground. It has been a great learning and growing experience for me. However, during one of these, I was in the area where there used to be a Laguna. It started raining. And raining and raining. We ended up slipping out during a pause in the down pour, but the laguna was no longer dry. We had to wade through mid calf high water with mud, sludge and...I tried not to think about what else I knew was in there. Almost lost my shoes in the sludge. That was an adventure.

Also had divisions with a Sister missionary in the capital. She came here with me, so I was basically in charge. Great learning experience and an opportunity for me to lead on a lot of things. We ended up challenging two people to baptism, so we have baptismal fechas. They still need lots of work though to help them actually be ready for baptism, but we will get there.

This weekend was our Conferencia de Rama. We had the first counselor of the mission come from the Capital to give a talk in the church. There were so many people and one of our investigators who always promises to come to church actually came!!! It was a great conference and were were so excited by all the people. The ninos did a great job at their song during the conference. I was so proud!! But I'm a little sad I won't be working with them more on it. They love singing the hymns.

Our Noche Mormona was such a blast! There were tons of people and the games ended up being a big hit. It seems like the ward seems to be interacting more, and that is so great to see them growing together.

I'm out of time and I can't think right now what else I need to add.

I loive you all and love hearing from you all. I will try to keep you all updated as best I can. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Love,

Hermana Schultz

The National Tree