Week #23 .........Follow the spirit!

Hello Family and Friends –

I will be honest this week was really boring but we found 24 new investigators….so that was good. I fell on p-day perfectly on my knee and man it split open and started to ooze out blood.  I do not like the site of blood so threw up 8 times in an hour.... LOL. A quick visit to the hospital and 6 stitches later... all better. WOW- I have to tell you about a miracle that happened yesterday. We have been getting this impression all week to visit this one member in particular, we usually visit him a bunch but for some reason we haven’t in a while. I told my companion that we needed to go visit him. We were sooo far away from his house but he agreed so we started the speed walk to his house. This guy is super faithful and the nicest coolest dude in the world. He is diligent in his church callings and served a full time mission. So we usually go over there and share the coolest lessons. We rang his doorbell and nothing happened, 6 times later we decided to call so we called his number, and he answered his door. He looked awful like physically sick, tired, and sad. I walked in and gave him a big ole hug (like usual) and he said "you guys don’t know do you" we said no super confused like, he told us that his wife on his birthday the day after Christmas left him. Robbed all of his stuff and is now living with an x-missionary. We felt so bad, my heart hurt for this man. I felt sadder than I have felt in a long time. We proceeded to listen to him and offer words of encouragement and read the scriptures. He asked for a blessing, the first one he has received after this incident and it was so spiritual. He then took us to his room, which had nothing in it but a pistol. He said do you see that pistol I was about to use it to do some very bad things, but then my phone rang…. I think I broke some rules Mom, but I proceeded to pick up the pistol and unload it and make sure he couldn’t do anything bad. WOW I am glad that we followed the prompting of the spirit and went to this dudes house. We are going to start visiting him every day.

Spiritual thought - Follow the spirit, it is literally directions from God that he trusts us with. We need to listen to it even if we aren’t sure why.

Love,

Elder Peacock

PS I’m probably going to get transferred this week… so pray that I have a good companion and can pack my bags good. (IDK why I’m so dang worried about the dumb bags) but I will email to you Wednesday not Tuesday!

Peace out from El Tejar!!!!!!!!! I think....

Jake all smiles - no pain!

Jake acting like he is in tons of pain and that he might need some attention...LOL

All better, stitched up and ready to go back out into the world

Hopefully this is the one and only visit to the hospital so he needed a picture of it.

UTAH Plates are always great to see.

OUCH! 

Week #22.........Dosmil 17

Sup Dudes and Dudettes

This week was real cool we entered into my first full year in the mission, which is sweet.

I’ll be honest I never know what to right in these things so sorry they suck but I’ll keep giving it a go

We confirmed the two people that we baptized on Christmas on January 1st, which is always a cool thing, I said the opening prayer in the church also on the 1st we went to the familia Pablo (This is one of Jakes favorite families in El Tejar) and played games which was sick. The elders of Sumpango lost to my companion and I, so one elder drank 3 liters of water without stopping and we painted the other with makeup.

We are working soooo hard here and continuing to see miracles. Even though miracles don’t always lead to baptisms its incredible to see the eyes of people open up when they accept the message that we share. I am learning a lot and hoping see my Spanish improve to the point were I don’t have to ask questions to understand. I can understand almost everything but most people use a bunch of slang so sometimes I get lost. 

Spiritual thought -

James 1:22 "be ye doers" this scripture are incredible. We need not be only Sunday Mormons and listen to the talks and estar allî (be there) but rather be doers throughout the week and help one another. I am confidant there are not a limited number of spots in heaven so help one other we are on the same team against the adversary. So be ye doers

Love you all! 

Elder Peacock

Week #21 ............We contact a ton of people

What’s up my Family and friends,

Christmas here in Guatemala is the coolest thing… people are nuts here lol. So Christmas eve we had permission to just hang with members until midnight. We hung out with members and it was a blast. My food stats for Christmas Eve are 8 tamales 11 classes of steaming hot poncche (fruit drink) People here in Central America celebrate Christmas on the 24^th and sleep the 25^th. It is so fun!! After 10 on 24^th we played volleyball. Just a note if the sport doesn’t start with an s and rhyme with blocker. Latinos are real bad at it. I took the kids to the shack at volleyball so I felt kind of bad about that because it was Christmas… but it had to be done lol. My whole zone slept at my house 10 missionary’s two queen sized beds lololol. Such a blast and we didn’t sleep (that’s why i was kind of boring during the call sorry mom and girls) but the 25^th we went to church and baptized two children of God, so we started the day off real swell. Also we called home so that was cool. Let me tell you 40 minutes is so fast, but it was cool to see the relatives. It was weird because I talked to you guys every week and I didn’t know what to talk about. But I love life here in Guatemala and am excited for the next 19ish months.

Spiritual Thoughts - There was a talk by president Monson in April of this year called decisions go read it, it’s really cool and so short. It talks about Alice in wonderland and the decisions. If we have goals it matters what path we take, but if not there is no importance between the different paths. I encourage you all to have goals and to make the right decisions that work well with your goals.

Facts about my mission in El Tejar - We teach a lot here in this mission. We contact like 300 - 400 people a week and we end up teaching a lot of them. We teach 10-15 lessons on a good day and they a mix of new investigators, visits members, recent converts, less actives, but we work a lot with the members to obtain new investigators. I have found out the members give you people to teach when you make them laugh, so needless to say we get a bunch of referrals but baptizing is our main focus. The lessons don’t matter at all if we aren’t baptizing. It is hard to baptize sometime because everybody is so religious. But it is a lazy religious. People are just catholic or evangelical on Sundays but their minds have a hard time adjusting to the whole be Mormon 24-7 thing. We are blessed to see a bunch of baptisms here.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from here in g-town

Peace till Tuesday 

ya boy Elder Peacock