Alacran y arañas
Another good week in Guate. Time has been flying lately. Even though it feels overall like I've been here for over a year.
Last Monday, we had a paintball Zone activity. Y'all already know who won that...
Wednesday, we had an Elders' meeting with President in Momos.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, were all work days all day.
Not really an exciting week really. When we go to visit people or teach, we hear "Estamos occupado" 9/10 times. vThis week we visited almost every single house in Patalup Centro and in our area... we had tw o lessons. It's tough. Everybody here has already made their mind up about the Mormons. They have heard everything of what we believe and have decided that it's not for them. We even had one lady come out of her home and first thing she says is, "Really Elders, I have a church, I don't need anything thank you." I was actually thankful for it. All day we had been trying to talk to people but you can tell they aren't interested at all. So to hear her say that was like, great thank you, we can focus somewhere else. Obviously, it's not what you want to hear but it's better than trying to teach someone who just says, "Oh, another day" every single time.
In our Elders' meeting with President, he asked us if we could translate the first three lessons from Spanish to Kiche for all the missionaries to have. We have been meeting with the 2nd counselor and his family to help us translate that, to put in the Kiche book that we are making. We already have 20 pages done of it. My compa goes home in two weeks, so he's been really trying to do as much as he can on this so he can be remembered as one of the authors. It's great.
Our bishop had surgery and the first counselor went to Mexico, so it's just us and the 2nd counselor running everything right now, which means more responsibility for us and work. The Bishop asked us if we could give him a blessing everyday for his health because he could be in bed for about six months. After we did it yesterday, his wife said "Kinwaaj jun tewichibal," which means, "I want a blessing." I translated it out loud and all of the bishop's family of like 13 were surprised that I knew what she said. It was pretty cool. My kiche' has gotten so good and am able to do everything pretty basically. I'm interested to see where it's at in time.
Fun stuff from this week was as I was shooting hoops one night, I nearly stepped on a 3-inch scorpion while wearing my slides.
So after we killed it, we went searching for some more and found 2 black widows with 4 big sacks of babies, about 20 feet from our house. Just great news. I'll have pictures below.
So pretty good week, already February wow. Email me if you guys have a chance. Missing you all!
- Elder Copeland
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