VIVA GUAT
Pretty good week but average week for the work this week not gonna lie but it ended great. This week was Guatemala's Independence day so it made it pretty tough for the work. Not very many people were too pumped to listen to us but we stuck her out. Super fun traditions tho for Independence Day. EVERYONE is out in the streets and there's a lot of parades and what happens is the people run down the streets with torches or sit in the back of pick up trucks and everyone on the street just deck them with bags of water. The kids are the scariest ones, they have 0 mercy on anyone. There'd be like toddlers and babies getting targeted, it was wild. I stayed pretty dry but my comp got a bucket dumped on him lol.
We spent about 5 hours cleaning up and repainting the house where we are going to have our church meeting and it was fun but my comp said something pretty funny. After painting all of the walls and then doing a 2nd coat, my comp said, ”Literally it looks the exact same. We just painted and tried so hard for like 3 hours to paint this house and it looks the same as it did before. Kinda like the missionary work we’ve been doing here.” I thought it was pretty funny ngl and I agreed 1000%.
Then a lot of the members came and we all worked for a couple more hours cleaning up, sweeping, moving, just all that. Then they got us pizza after we were done and it was gas. Then we got up to leave and to get home to shower and we looked at the room again and we were like dang, this place looks so much better than it did before. The paint settled all in and looked better, there weren't spider webs anymore and it just looked completely different.
I hate making these corny comparisons but that's just what missionaries notice ig. It's been tough in San Ray, I feel like we've been painting nonstop ever since we got here and it looks good and then looks terrible, and then better, and back and forth. I learned the lesson that we just gotta keep painting, working, testifying and sharing and eventually, other missionaries, members, whoever else will come in to San Ray and then we will realize that all of the work we did wasn't just a waste.
Love you all
Read the scriptures too
Shout out Elder Kinghorn, bro's a legend
Scripture of the Week:
Colossians 1:11 “Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness”
Colosenses 1:11 “fortalecidos con todo poder, conforme a la potencia de su gloria, para toda paciencia y longanimidad, con gozo”
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