Monday, February 23, 2015

Week 24

Well changes are this week and it feels like this change has gone by to fast. I know that we have had a ton of ups and downs with my companion Elder Merrill with our investigators and our area, but now that changes have come, I will be going through more ups and downs with a different companion. I really didn't want one of us to have changes this time but the lord needs my companion's help in a different area. Ya thats right, I am staying here in Zacapa for another change! Too bad its without Elder Merrill.

I have loved spending time here with Elder Merrill and we have seen some pretty cool blessings and also have both learned to trust in the lord more. I definetly need to do that a lot more. I feel like I have already changed so much in these last 5 and a half months but there is always room to improve and always room to change. I know that I will become the missionary that he wants me to be and also I will develop the Christ like attributes that he needs me to improve on. Whoever my next companion is, I will make sure we will be working hard to help the people of Zacapa come unto Christ.

So this week was pretty awesome, we had a baptism! on the 14th! It was awesome to end the change with a BANG! and not only was their one baptism, there was 10 in the same day! We had a stake baptism day to start off the weekend of our stake conference! So also this week during stake conference we had such a good turn out at the church that we (6 missionaries) had to get out of our seats and let other people sit in them and then we had no more chairs in the building for people to sit down so their was about 40 people in the hall just listening AND we had our mission president there and his wife and also someone from the seventy! Elder Sangalvez! I dont know how to express how grateful I feel to be here in Guatemala and serve the Lord.

We have recieved so many blessings this last week with our work, we have been blessed to also have another person with a date! His name is Fernando! and he is awesome! He kinda got shot in the leg 3 times because people thought he was someone else...oops...but since then he felt like the Lord kept him here to change his life and become a new person. He has stopped doing drugs, smoking and drinking since the accident in December! He really wants to change his life and has accepted the date to be baptised on the 7th of March! Yay!

Also, just something funny that I saw this week was someone wearing this red shirt and on the front it had a small elephant and it said "keep calm and vote for Mitt" haha it was so funny because like 75 percent of these people dont know what their shirts say so members always ask me. Haha!

Well love you and thanks for your emails!
Elder Flygare




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