Yeah. His face when he opened it was really one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
So last week was the first time I was ever mad, really MAD with my sweet companion. We were in a lesson, at 852pm, 3 miles down a hill away from home, teaching members, not investigators, about prayer. We had 8 minutes to get home, and we did not have our contacts. I was fuming. If we don´t get our contacts, we have to call President. We had already had 7 lessons with a member that day, and we really needed to contact. We got a ride back to the house, and I looked at her and said, ¨follow me¨. I turned and started sprinting to the closest tienda, ran inside, contacted the 6 we were missing, turned around, and sprinted home with her trailing behind me.
The thing is, I really shouldn´t have been that upset. We have a mission phone, we could have called people to contact them. We did make goals for contacting after this happened, but I definitely overreacted.
We had 26 lessons with a member this week, thanks to Kati, one of the local youth! She came out teaching with us every single day. She is preparing to go on a mission, and is doing a very good job at that! We even gave her parts to talk about in the lessons.
So, Day of the Devil is a ¨holiday¨on December 7 here in Guatemala. Everyone buys Devil Piñatas, but these aren´t piñatas for candy. No, these piñatas are filled with all sorts of explosives. At 6pm, everyone hangs their devil in the street and lights him on fire. Oh. my. gosh. You would think the world was ending because of the thousands of explosives going off. Nuts.
We watched a live Christmas Devo from Salt Lake City on Sunday! It was really cool to see, but it was in Castellano (Spanish), so I didn´t understand a WORD, other than a few typical gospel terms. We heard from the Prophet, from the President of the Primary, and from Elder Nelson. We had to have an investigator with us to be allowed to go to the Devo, so we brought Eddy, one of our best. But, while we were there, he leaned over to my companion and told her he is going to Spain this week. For 3 months. NOOOO.
The transfer call happened yesterday! Yes, tomorrow is transfers already! In my district, 5 people are leaving, including the District Leader and Zone Leader. One Elder has finished his mission and is going home, and the two Gringa sisters from my house are leaving. But....I get 6 more weeks with Hna Sol! Yay!
Okay, so there really are no rules for the road down here. The other day we saw a kid who couldn´t have been more than 7 YEARS OLD, driving a van. It was a little scary.
Anyways I love you all, and thank you for your support and prayers!
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