I Love Elder Thomas....

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Hahaha, he is one of the APs right now, and he told me to put that as my header. SO I DID

How are you alls? I am doing great:) this email is going to be short and I forgot my camera so there arnt going to be any pictures. 

Today we played tennis against President and Hermana Goodman, It was soooo fun! 

This Saturday, we had a baptism. Her name is Mishel, she is the cousin of a returned missionary. 

If there is anything that I have learned here in the mission about the way that our Savior works, its about his never ending love and Mercy. Saturday we met a lady that had been attacked in her home. She has three kids, 10, 7, and like 16. two girls and a boy(10). She was in her house then a Man tried to get in. He had a gun. She and her oldest threw themselves against the door to not let him in. He started to shoot off a few rounds and one bounced off the gas can and hit her in the leg. I have a picture of her leg, but not my camera right now.... Bummer. But we are going to start teaching her and I hope that she will progress, she needs it. Her daughter is SOOO cute, she is 7. Anyway, she was just telling us all of this things that were going wrong in her life, like what people were doing to her and it was a scary situation especially for these kids that she has. But God has a plan for her, and I could feel it while we were there with her. She has been prepared but I don't know if its for right now, but she is ready to accept the Lord´s gospel in her life and do develop her Eternal family. 

I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that only through him and the priesthood we can return to live with our Father in Heaven. I know that Families can be together FOREVER. 

p.s. I also know that I forgot to tell my Brother DALTON HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was the 15th

so I am a horribly brother...Sorry!

Lex! Happy Birthday, its the 30th, but I am telling you right now:)

I Love you all! Thanks for the emails, prayers, support, love, and everything else that you do for me!!!!!!

-Elder Darling.....the one and only

One Love...

(no, not the Bob Marley song)

This is that love that everybody has inside of them that they may not even know about. This is love for that one perfect person that is always there for them even when they are far away from him. This is the love for the Savior. 

As members of The Church of Latter Day Saints, we have and know the love that we have for our Savior and redeemer Jesus Christ. We also have the blessing to understand a little bit about the amount of love that he has for us. 

Yesterday afternoon, My companion and I went contacting to try to find new investigators because all of our baptisms for this upcoming week fell through #blessings haha. We went to a place called Santa Juaquina and knocked a few houses and talked to a few people and it was raining, a LOT. I didn't have an umbrella or a jacket so I was soaked head to toe haha Literally. But I was happy:) Dancing and singing in the rain, happy haha. Then we decided because it was getting late, that we should head home and get ready for the night. So we walked, and walked and walked and walked haha, it was raining super hard and the roads were now little rivers and the cars would SOAK us as they passed by, then very nicely a guy gave us a ride. we finally got home and we were under the entrance of our house and I could hear our neighbors fighting. I started listening to make sure that the man wasn't hitting the Woman, but it sounded like she was hitting him with a towel or something, but she wasn't happy at all. So we went inside to get changed and it continued, but there wasn't any yelling, just slamming sounds and stuff like that that made me very worried for her. Finally he yelled something not very nice at her and left. Then I went to shower and get dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. Then we went to talk to her. (Up until this point I have never met this woman)

We knocked on the door lightly and waited a second but nothing happened. Then we knocked again and then in a broken voice I herd her ask "Who?" and I calmly said "buenas" ( that's like knocking here) and she opened the window to talk to us. We started a light conversation like we would in a contact just trying to get to know her a bit, but I told her that we had heard them fighting and wanted to make sure that everything was okay. She said yes then started to cry. "I'm sorry" she said. We started to get to know her a little bit more and calm her down and help her to relax a little bit and laugh then we started to talk a little bit about church and prayer. While we were talking I felt prompted to share a picture with her that is one of my favorite pictures ever of Jesus. So I gave it to her and describbed how this picture has helped me and she started to cry and told me that it brought back so many memories. It was a sweet moment to get to help her to realize that She is a child of God that he loves and watches out for. Her name is Susan, and I call her aunt because she isnt old enough for me to call her mom and she is really chill haha. But she is going to start going to church with us:) 

I know that Jesus Christ loves us no matter what situation we are in he is there and he will always be there to help us back onto our feet and start the race again. 

thanks for the emails! I love you all! 

-Elder Darling

we were given a bust of Joseph Smith from a member haha, Went to Guate (City) to pick up a car, had a birthday cake for an elder, and a quija, lizard. 

What?! Another Earthquake?

YO! What is up? time has been flying by here in the office with Elder Palmer. We laugh a lot together hahaha. working in the office allows you to know a lot of "inside" stuff haha. Like we still re two weeks away from changes and we already know that we are going to have changes as companions and that I am going to be incharge of all the housing materials and he is going to be a zone leader but he doesnt know where. 

This past week went by really fast and I dont really remember what we did haha but we had a baptism:) that was coolio 

there was another earthquake and it happened right before we went to bed. So my comp was standing at my bedside and the fan was on and i thought that he started kicking my bed and I was like "what..... (his legs weren't moving) is happening?" then I heard this strange noise to i turned off the fan then I realized that the house was shaking. It lasted for a good while too. So that was neat. 

We also took a trip to bring some house stuff to an area like an hour away, so we had a little road trip.....

I dont know what else to talk about........

Love you all, BYE!

Pictures!!!!!! yay

the video is of what we do in the office haha, me driving the truck, and BAPTISM!!!! 

I bought some spiderman cereal #lame it had "vanilla" flavor. and some other ones that the kids took with my camera haha.

Everything Is Amazing

YOOOOOO, how are y'all??? because I am fantastic-ness-ly GREAT

Things are going awesomely in our area and we have fechas for every weekend of the month which is pretty neat I'll say ;). 

My comp, Elder Palmer is awesome and we get along very well and have a ton of fun together. I found a lacrosse stick inside the Asistant´s house so I now own it and I restrung it and now I just need to find a ball, but I am a happy camper. haha

Working in the office is great, we get to be really close to Prez and Hermana Goodman and they are super awesome! 

Speaking Spanish is really awesome. Learning a new language is awesome ;) My comp and I are both gringos and I guess the lord trusts us enough to be together haha, but we both speak and understand pretty well. But its funny because when you are with a gringo you can talk about things that your investigators don't understand. so we can make plans and stuff really quick before lessons in english haha, or talk about weird taxi drivers haha, and drunk people. 

Guatemala is amazing, from the foods to the people, to the houses, to the views that you can find around any corner. flowers and butterflies and cool colored birds, its amazing. 

I dont know what to write about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My new ward is really cool, we are working super hard to try to get a branch started in our area because we share a ward with another set of missionaries. They are Concepcion 1 and we are Concepcion 2 

I don't have my camera, next week! I love you guys! have a great week, and smile a lot:)

-Elder Darling