heyyy!! HOLA A TODOS!! Bienvenidos al GUAT life!!!
Today for pday we had THE FUNNNEST pday activity ever!!! We planned with the zone leaders and we decided to play COPS AND ROBBERS WITH 24 MISSIONARYS!!! Literally SO fun! So we started in one city and we had TO RUN to the next city without getting caught by the 2 elders that were chasing us!!!! It was so fun cause we didnt even know how to get to the next city over so we just had to ask the people in the street how to get there!!! way too fun.
SO this week we celebrated independence day!! The 15th is independence day but the people are hype so they start parades a WEEK before!! Everyday they did a huge parade and they shoot off fireworks every 2 seconds in mid day!! the day before they all RUN 4 miles with A LIT UP TORCH!!! It was super fun to see all the chapins celebrating!! I asked like 10 different chapins their independence story AND NO ONE KNEW hahaha
Anyways the weather was horrible this week. We were walking to an appointment and the wind picked up really fast!!! and then all of a sudden it started POURING but with the wind super strong! then the lighting got super bad AND THE TIN ROOFS WERE FLYING OFF OF THE HOUSES IN ALL DIRECTIONS!! I honestly thought it was a hurricane. We ended up getting to a members house before it got too bad. But once we got in they offered us tamales and we said yes! Right when they served us tamales THE POWER WENT OUT!!! Just keep in mind that they have at least 7 HUGE CATS that roam the house!!! So i basically ate my tamale in the dark with 7 huge furry cats surrounding me. I was so grossed out CAUSE I KNEW I was eating cat hair. Such a NIGHTMARE eating in a dark room full of CATS!! Then I saw cockroach run across the wall!!! HORRIBLE!!
So from all that rain there was a HUGE flooding problem where we were at in our area so we took a TUK up to the main part of our area but it was so flooded that the tuk tuk legit turned into a BOAT haha the guy driving was so SKETCH cause there werent any lines or lights on the road (cause the power went out) so we were just getting by with the lights of other cars! We were swerving and almost hydroplaning the whole time! But we ended up making it up to the main city and we were all good! #guattravel
BUT right when we thought we were in the clear...at around 9ish we were finishing a lesson and we went to drop off a person we are teaching, then ALL THE POWER IN MALACATAN WENT OUT!!!! Literally imagine 2 foreigners in the streets of malacatan (the BORDER of Mexico) PITCH BLACK and we were 8 BLOCKS AWAY FROM OUR HOUSE. Honestly we ran SOOOO quick home but its super scary because when the power goes out here there is absolutely no light in the street and the people take advantage and try and do bad things. Honestly I was so sketched out, it was worse than ANY haunted house or any GUAT experience!!! We walked 8 blocks in about 5 minutes OR LESS ahhaha I had my head on a swivel the whole time cause i thought for sure they were gonna rob us! #GUATSURVIVAL
Also today I have 14 months in the mission!!!! WOOOO YA CASI!
Anyways this week we had MLC with president in REU and I had a lot to think about. We talked about a lot of things but something that really touched me it the importance of carrying our burdens WITH the savior. God did not send us here to just get beat up by life and lose hope. He sent us with the vision to RETURN TO HIM but as we know we arent with Him in this moments. So we have to depend on the sacrifice of His son. DONT CARRY YOUR BURDENS ALONE. We DONT HAVE TO! Christ already carried them. As we let go of pride we can FULLY trust in the redeeming power of the savior in the time we feel like its impossible to take one more step. I know it cause I have seen it on my mission. There are days when I seriously dont know how I will walk one more mile in pouring rain, there are other days when I dont know how I will last 3 more months of people making fun of us, but I have found joy in Christ. I have found peace in His promise in Matthew 11:28-30, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" Make we find peace in this promise.
Con amor,
Hermana Salisbury
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