August 26, 2014
I love you guys! and holy mackeral. i hope you are
ready.. because i have the most epic story of my LIFE to tell you. I dont
know how much i want to share.. but I will see....
Ok, so wednesday, i got to my new area with my new
companion, Alotenango with Hna Kap. Hna Kap is from highland ut, and she
is still in her training. she is SOOOO awesome. Alotenango... is
part of the zona antigua, the zone i always go back to... but it isnt a ward..
it isnt even a branch!! it is an extension of a ward, o sea a basic unity
or something like that. on a good day they have 25 or 30 people attending
at church.
So that was wednesday, on thursday and for a bout a week
before, the missionaries had been getting lots of warnings from everyone
telling them to be careful and what not because of a little problem.
well, we kept getting the warnings from people,
Friday, there was something that happened near our house
and we kept getting the warnings.
Saturday, we kept getting warnings but even stronger!!
(there was a group of poeple in town. someday i will explain who
and what they did, but for now, it was just a group of people) so saturday
night, people were telling us that no one could be in the street after 8
because the men of the town would be patroling the streets and if they found
someone, they would ask for there info and if anything looked fishy, they would
burn that person right on the spot. So we were just thinking, oh, ok, sounds
good! well just call the mission president to ask if we can go home an hour
early and leave an hour earlier in the morning. so we called him,
explained what was happening, the sitch, and then he said, ill call you right
back. so we waited, not long later we were informed that we needed to go
straight home, pack our belongings as quickly as possible and a car would be
there to pick us up in 30 minutes. So we did it, and we got several
calls, from the mission pres, from a man named Rudy, who is in charge of church
security here in Guatemala, and from Hna Markham. We packed, the car got
there, we went to Ciudad Vieja to wait for another car, Rudy showed up from the
capital and took us to antigua for the night. then we went to church in
antigua, worked that day with the sisters there and monday morning we were
moved again to Amatitlan, and that is where we are now. and they took the
elders that were here and put them in our area. Dont worry. we are
totally safe, im pretty sure the elders over there are safe and all is well.
Amatitlan is awesome. we had to clean for all of our
pday yesterday, because, it was the house of elders, but thats ok. the
house is super fancy. The house in Alotenango was... well, i felt like we
were camping.
But we have some sweet investigators here and members!
several members called us yesterday to give us a welcome to the ward and
to tell us they are available to help when we need them. sweet!
The cool part is that Hna Kap and i are together still!
in this sitch, apparently, the companionship is usually split up.
but we just get to emergency open an area! its nice and hot here..
but thats ok. we will live.
I am happy, safe and we continue to be safe. I love
you guys, Be safe and happy and i love you!!!
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