Hey everybody!
I always write a quick outline for my emails before email time so I have my thoughts straight, and the first thing on the list this week was "literally nothing has happened this week". Okay, maybe not literally, but either I am not remembering anything from this week or it was very dull. I suspect the latter. :)
We did get a couple new "investigators" to work with this week. The first is Antoin, and I am teaching him by myself. We are doing something called Missionary-Missionary, where you make a profile of an investigator, are paired up with a missionary from another district, and take turns teaching one another. I am teaching Elder Glover from District Samuel (Antoin). I will be teaching him for the second time in about 2 hours, so wish me luck! The other investigator was a youth from the local ward, who was close to mission age, who my companionship and I taught, but it was only a one time thing.
Tomorrow we get to leave the CCM for 6 hours!!! We are going to go into the city to see a huge relief map of Guatemala, and then to lunch at WENDY´S, and then to a Guatemalan market! I am so excited to leave here for a while; you get so stir crazy cooped up in a fenced complex all day.
This last week we have gotten to have class in the capilla (meeting house, or chapel), but today was the last day we got to do that. The walk there was wonderful: we went through the gates, down the street, across the street, past the temple, across the temple parking lot, down the stairs, across the capilla parking lot, and into the capilla. Highlight of my DAY. However, tomorrow all the viejos are leaving, and we get their old classroom in the CCM, which is the nicest classroom here.
Why? Because tomorrow we become Viejos!! That means I only have 2 more semanas in the CCM (thank goodness). We are getting about 20 North Americans and 50 Hispanos tomorrow, which will be the last batch I watch come in to the CCM.
IMPORTANT. I will be leaving the CCM early in the morning on Tuesday, October 29. I will not have the opportunity to email the week that I leave, which means that next week is my last email in the CCM. I may or may not be able to email quickly from my Mission Home, which is about 20 minutes from here, but I have a feeling that I won´t be. So, that means that there will be a 2 week gap between next week´s correspondence and my first in the field. Lo siento! :( I will be sent somewhere in the Guatemala City Central mission (most likely Solola, Chimaltenango, Antigua, or Porte San Jose) for 12 weeks to be trained in. I will write as soon as I can! Just know that I will be safe; it is not that long travel-wise.
If you send me Dear Elders, or letters, or anything, now would be the time to stop sending them to the Guatemala CCM, and start sending them to the Guatemala City Central Mission. Please keep them coming, I absolutely LOVE them! Physical letters are also nice...:)
Oh! When we were over at the capilla one day having class, we heard some kids outside playing football (soccer), and we saw that District Samuel was out talking to them through the fence. One of the kids, 13 years old, spoke English AND Spanish AND German AND Italian. Kid genius, I tell you....
I don´t think I´ve really said much concerning the weather here in Guatemala, so I will now. Surprisingly, it is NOT very humid. When I got here, the first thing I said was, "Wow, this feels like Minnesota, only less humid". FOR REAL. It is actually fairly chilly right now, probably high 60s, low Seventies (just found out the number seven doesn´t work on this keyboard). It rains like clockwork every day around 1, except now rainy season is nearly over so it´s becoming less and less frequent. Even though we are above the Equator, our summer is their winter, and our winter their summer, because the rain cools it down here. So we are about to go into the hot season! There are thunderstorms here in the afternoon quite often, and the thunder is SO loud.
Quotes:
"A person is like an orange. When you first bite into him, he´s gross." - Elder Johnson, referring to a hard-to-crack investigator
Thank you everyone for sending me letters!! Talk to you soon!
Hermana Judd
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