This week started out really normal, we just had a few visits during the week with our investigators, and they are all doing very well! We have a baptism this week with a lady named Karem, and she is great!!! I am so happy that she has made the decision to be baptized!!!!
The work is aggravatingly slow sometimes. Having door after door just slammed in our faces is rough. I honestly didn't think it would be that hard to have people tell me no. I just know how much this message could change their lives, and if they would just give us a shot, they would feel that too, but they just say they are busy, or they are getting ready to leave, or their parents aren't home, etc. etc. etc. I could go on forever with excuses people use, and it`s hard sometimes, but I am trying to just keep my cool, and keep loving them. In the end, that`s all we can do right?
Then on Thursday, we participated in this thing called a mini mission where we had a kid from another part of Guatemala come with us for the entire day to our visits, we took him contacting, and just overall showed him a day in the life of a missionary. We had a really cool moment when we were contacting where we knocked on the door, and the lady said that we couldn't come in because she was leaving with her mom to the hospital because she was sick, and my comp shared a scripture about how Jesus would bless the sick, and asked if we could give her mom a blessing, and she let us in and we gave her a blessing, I anointed, and Elder Foster gave the blessing, and the spirit was so strong. And the lady`s complexion changed completely about us teaching her. It was really cool.
Then on Saturday, we had a Christmas activity at the church with our ward and we invited some of our investigators, and it ended up being really cool. I got chosen to compete in the Chubby Bunny challenge, and then me and Elder Foster did a magic trick, and we just enjoyed the company of everyone. It was so fun!!!
The work to find new people is a little slow, but it`s going!!! All in all, everything is great here in Xela!!!!!! I hope you all are having an awesome time back at home!!!! Love you all!
Elder Harward
PS, I know this is a couple weeks late, but this is the only picture we have received of Stoney in a very long time. His companions mom sent it to us. This was their Thanksgiving Feast!
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