p-day # 6

hola family.
           :) can you believe how fast the time is flying by? it's so crazy to me that i have been out here for over a month already. i've almost been in guatemala for as long as i was in provo. it really
is true what they say about the time on the mission. there are so many things going on that it feels like each day lasts about a month. but this month feels like a day. i have so much to learn here still and i really hope that i can get it all learned before i hit the field!  i'm trying really hard to
work my hardest here to learn everything that i possibly can while i'm here. which i know is a blessing from the lord. i am so grateful that i am here in guatemala because the opportunities i have to speak spanish with all of the latinos help my vocabulary expand every day. and i love that i can have them explain it to me when i don't understand. my understanding of fast spanish is getting better every day. :) last night, we had a prayer with all of the hermanas here, and i understood every word that the sister spoke when she prayed. such a huge blessing. :)
           anyways, i have a few things i want to tell you about, so here goes.  my teachers here are
so great. haha. hermana alvarez is my night teacher, and he is so full of energy. every time i'm having a day that drags, i know i can just wait for his class and it will instantly get better. he is hilarious. our other teacher, hermano estrada, is way cool too. haha.
          so we went proselyting this week out in the city... each of us had a latina companion and we
just went out and were told to talk to everyone, knock doors if we wanted, and get as many references as we could. :) it was so so cool. i didn't talk very much because my companion kind of took over, but in most of the conversations we had with people, i knew exactly what was going on. one of the men we contacted, he was sitting in his doorway waiting for people to come by. he works on cars, so it was his business to wait. we talked to him about god, and within 5 minutes, the spirit was so so strong and he had tears running down his face. he told us he would love the missionaries to come over and teach him more about the book of mormon and that he feels like this is somehting he
needs in his life. it was so awesome. :) i absolutely love the people here. they are just so kind and willing to listen to you, even when you can't speak their language perfectly. in 2 weeks, just my
companionship will be going out to do the same thing... without latinas. i am praying and studying really hard to know all of the things i will need to say then. it was really awesome, but i'm excited
to be more involved the next time.
          k, i'm almost out of time, but last night we taught a lesson to our "investigator" for like the 5th time. we taught him about the word of wisdom. and we made a game of pictures of good and bad things for your body. we sat on the floor and gave what would probably be considered a primary lesson. but it was so so so great. :) seriously the things that we can be prompted to do can be so strange, but if we will only follow through and do the things we are impressed to do, we can reap so many rewards. we sang scatter sunshine, but in spanish it is so much better. haha. he absolutely
loved it and he told us after that he wishes he would have done these things to his real investigators when he was teaching them. that made us all feel really good. :) i love being a missionary, and i am so grateful i am here. haha. i would rather be here than anywhere else.
love you all!