This LEGIT has been the craziest week of guat life ever.
We had an appointment in a really dark part of our area this week, as we walked into the "front yard" or in other words the mud part before getting to the front door we heard in the darkness someone yelling for us but we also heard the sound of water falling as if he were bathing AND YEP IT WAS AN OLD MAN TAKING A BUCKET SHOWER and he was trying to get us to look at him NAKED hahahaah I started walking super fast to get out of the situation but the muddy front yard was sooo slippery I almost fell so hard. But my guat skills have gotten better so I didnt fall ahahha
SO we had a special MLC with president and the 70 Elder Taylor. It was so fun but the travel to get there was INSANE. I was trying to get off the van (we have to change vans) and as I was FULLY stood up in the sliding door jumping off they SPED off full speed and I just hung on for dear life until they noticed and they felt "so bad" hahaha Then the bus drives that saw what happened started asking me where I was going next and I told them coatepeque and they all started FIGHTING OVER WHICH BUS I SHOULD GO IN hahahaha I was so mad and they started yelling and PULLING me into their bus!!! I got so fed up with them that I screamed DONT TOUCH me at the top of my lungs and I pushed my way out of them. I wouldnt have slapped them so hard if I wasnt representing the church right now. #guattravellife
BUT the good thing is we got to reu for MLC and we met the 70 elder taylor! The meeting was SO good and I learned so much! We ended so late that there werent any buses so elder and sister taylor offered to DRIVE US to Malacatan!!!! We legit had a 3 hour car ride just us and the 70 and his wife!! We had a 3 hour Q and A! We became such good friends that the next day in zone conference he only asked US for a picture out of all the missionarys. HE ASKED US!! I was way too excited!
So we are having transfers next week and its most likely that Im staying here so Im trying to get to know the area the best I can haha so we went to LA VEGA (a part I hadnt been to) but we had to HIKE cause the dang TUK TUKS dont even go there cause its so steep and the little engine cant handle it. I seriously think I almost passed out from heat stroke cause we climbed it MID DAY and the sun here is like palm springs mid July (all you California people know what I mean) I seriously was blacking out so I just hovered my hand over my comps backpack to guide me cause I COULDNT SEE from almost blacking out. I made it but RIGHT when I got to civilization I bought 2 bags of water to pour on me ahhaha #guatadventrue
So we had lunch with a nice family, on Monday but they have a son that really REALLY like the missionarys (young single adult) YIKES. So when we got there for lunch he like set up love music and a table set for 3 me, my comp, and him hahahaa I was like WHAT THE HECK IS THIS. I like shut off the music cause we cant even listen to that type and he turned it back on. Then we got scared cause he was acting like it was a date with the missionarys so we said we had to leave and he was like WHY??? why so soon?? So sketch we left soooo quick but it was o funny cause the YSA make stuff up in there heads thinking there SOME HOW is a chance with a missionary hhahaha YIKES never going back. #YSAGUAT
SO on Friday we went to have the baptism interview with estefana!! Estefana has a daughter thats a member and missionarys have been teaching her for YEARS but she hasnt accepted baptism until THIS TRANSFER! Shes like 60 and has 4 kids! But anyways we went to do the interview and she just was SOBBING and told us she was too sick to get baptized on saturday. We were so scared cause we wanted her to get baptized and EVERYTHING was already planned. So I told Estefana we were gonna do a 24 hour fast starting in that very moment. So we started and went back Saturday morning (the MORNING of her baptism)!!! and she was perfectly fine and healthy and EXCITED when we got there!!! SUCH a miracle!!!! So she got baptized! and the next day she got confirmed. After the confirmation we received news that the son of hermana estefana had been murdered by a gang. IN MID DAY. It was such a shock. Honestly there are SO many more details but basically there is a gang here in Malacatan doing bad things. We got put up to PLAN THE WHOLE FUNERAL I was like UHHH literally the missionarys do everything here. so we got it all planned. The funerals are crazy here, like the whole town shows up and all the street food people show up to sell PEANUTS AND DONUTS like a fair and they play CRAZY music. Its like an opposite birthday party hahaha But it was so sad cause the convert passed out from screaming and crying so bad during the funeral. (That should give a good description on how the funerals are here lol) I thought she was gonna die during the funeral of her son.
But seriously was the hardest thing for me on the mission so far, seeing someone I have come to love suffer so deeply and I cant even grasp at any level how she really feels. As a representative of chirst I am his hands, I am his arms, I do what he would have done, but I cant truly TRULY know how she feels. All I could do was wrap my arms around her and support her. I know Christ knows us. I know He blesses us by means of other people. I know that our will isnt always His will but that His will is perfect.
Con amor,
Hermana Salisbury
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