Honestly I just keep rolling with the GUAT punches.
So we are teaching an 18 year old kid named sergio. He is SO pilas, when we invited him to seminary he said yes!!! (Seminary starts at 5 am here) So we wanted to go with him to make him feel comfortable with the class so we got up at 4:30 am to go to seminary hahaha I dont know how I did it for 4 years honestly. But we showed up in workout clothes with dresses over it cause we go to the gym at 6 am hahaha When we got to the gym everything was normal and I started my routine. As I was doing thrusters (crossfiters know what I mean) This little old guatemalan lady came right by my side where my barbell was and I had to come to a complete hault because my bar was flying everywhere and her head was like RIGHT UNDER IT and I was so freaked out I was gonna knock her out with my barbell hahahah She was so short she BARELY reached my shoulder!!! When I looked down I saw she was MOPPING THE FLOORS hahhahaa SO inconvenient to my workout. So I stopped everything and let her finish. #GUATGYMLIFE
Im honestly so sick of the rain hahaha It rains EVERYDAY at 3PM WITHOUT FAIL. It has been that way my whole 13 months here. But this week we brought a member to a lesson and he forgot his umbrella, so my comp gave him her umbrella and I gave my comp my pancho hahaha SO I was the lucky one that walked in the rain!! The member was complaining the whole time about getting wet (even though he had the umbrella) and I just had to suck it up haha cause I was getting soaked. A hour into the rain storm they asked me why I liked getting wet then the one member said, "a ella le vale TODO" translation: "She doesnt give a crap about anything" hahaha So funny. Always takin one for the team.
We went to a baptism this week for an 8 year old kid, and the day of his baptism was his birthday. We had the baptism and everything was very spiritual, I was incharge of leading the hymns. So I got up to lead the last hymn and the mom told me she was going to chose a special hymn and I was like ok cool. So when she pushed play on the cd player the MOST irreverent version of the song HAPPY BIRTHDAY was blasting hahaha AND I HAD TO DIRECT THE SONG!!! So i just stood in front laughing so hard cause I couldnt believe that "Happy Birthday" was the closing hymn for a sacred ordinance. AHAH #GUATCULTURE
So I am very poor right now. I want to send my clothes to be washed by someone but I dont have enough money so I have started washing ALLLLL my clothes by hand and honestly, all I do when I am washing my clothes by hand is count my blessing that in 3 months I will have a washing machine and dryer. My back always hurts so bad after from bending down cause the washing board is GUAT SIZE and im like double the GUAT size so hahaha RIP ME
So yesterday the mission had transfers but GUESS WHAT Im staying in my area with my SAME comp hahaha Its ok cause we finding some awesome people to baptize.
This week we had a really special experience with sergio. He had been praying to know if the church of Jesus Christ of latter saints was the church that Christ HIMSELF established. But he felt like he wasnt getting an answer! So in this lesson I told him we were gonna do it right then. So we all knelt down and sergio asked the question to God. When we finished he told us he felt warmth throughout his body and that he just felt like crying. Then he told us that he knows that the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saint is the true church that Christ established. SOO COOL. I know without A DOUBT that when we ask of god he will answer. I know that we have the choice to follow the guidance He gives us, but I also know that when we do follow the guidance from God we put our lives in His hands so He can shape us into the person we want to become. Only God can change lives, but its our job to put ourselves in His hands. I know it cause I have seen it in my life. CHURCH IS TRUE.
Con amor,
Hermana Salisbury
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