I was carried through this week.
I'm not entirely sure exactly what
happened during these past seven days but...all I really do know is that they
were hard. I have felt numb and stale these past few days, my surroundings feel
less-than real, and every time I blink I find myself in another place doing
something different.
I can definitely say that I have
been helped through this week in a way that I could never have done
alone.
There have just been so many problems in Montufar II that I can’t even
manage to list them all.
And nor will I do it! I’m not about
to turn my series of weekly letters into a Sob-Story-Soap-Opera! Because if I
do so, nobody will want to keep reading…and that would be pretty dumb.
So let’s do a play by play: What
did I do this week? *Takes out Handy-Dandy Agenda*
Saturday: Last P-Day was pretty
weaksauce. We went to Tikal Futura (the ginormous mall I went to during week
10) and ate China Wok. There wasn’t very much to do there so we just went home
and slept for two hours. We went to the appointment that we had with the Franco
Family…but they told us that they were busy and we couldn’t visit them!
And that they wouldn’t be going to church tomorrow. Something happened there…we
just need to find out what it was…
Sunday: Church was great;
Floridalma came to Church for the 3rd time! She’s been keeping up
with all her commitments and has been progressing really well! She said that
she loved the church and that all the relief society sisters were so nice to
her!
Now that she’s been to church three
times she can be baptized!
…we just have to figure out the day
to do it!
After church the Justice family
invited us to eat lunch at their house. They live on the tenth floor, two-story
penthouse apartment building in Zone 13. Even though they’re Americans, they’ve
lived in Central America pretty much all their life. Brother Justice is the
stake patriarch and owns an English school here in Guatemala. Sister Justice
cooks so well, so we enjoyed an incredible meal of fluffy mashed red
potatoes, thin, steamy rods of cheesed asparagus with corn on the cob and
freshly baked biscuits.
It was an incredible meal.
Monday: The week started again! We
had a lesson with Baltazar on the Temple Grounds (because we live so close).
But for some reason, he’s just not the same. Over these past few weeks, he has
sort of lost the fire that he once had for the gospel. And it’s been really sad
to see him fall into some temptations. We were thinking that this lesson on the
temple grounds would be a turning point for him…but it wasn’t.
He no longer wishes to be baptized,
or to continue listening to us.
It was hard to let him go…and I
hope he finds his way to the Church again.
Tuesday: We enjoyed the final Zone
Conference of President Stay today! The experience was unforgettable, there was
good company, good food and an fantastic string of spiritual thoughts by
President Stay and his wife.
I am just blown away by how great
they are!
They talked about how the Lord
calls the weak and the simple people to preach his gospel. It’s his way of
working! God is all-powerful, he could have sent anyone to go and preach his
gospel, he could call Ammon or Peter or any of his old disciples to do this work
again…and he has called us!
He has called you too!
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday:
There were a lot of problems in the offices and I spent a good 4 hours calling
Salt Lake City trying to figure things out. And to top it all off there was
nothing to do in my area.
It was not fun.
So I won’t focus on that Series of
Unfortunate Events.
I hope you had an awesome week!
-Elder Monson
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