Dinner with the Elders in Guatemala

 

When herd came in and the truth came out I just didn't know what to do, but when I become a star we'll be livin' so large. I'd give anything for you s

I don't really have a lot to say, other than it was really good to hear everyone's voice. I hope you all had a Happy Christmas.... um... I found a really confusing letter from Ben/Adam which I'm just going to assume is a joke 'cause I didn't get the whole coffee joke right off the bat. Simba is alive right? Oh, and Adam better be wearing his own Zurrik shoes and not mine or I'm a bust a cap. K, so here are some pictures of real food I get to eat once a week - some grilled meat, guacamole, beans, onions, nasty salad (diced cabbage and mayonnaise) tortillas, and pepper coffee. I really like this stuff, CHURRAZCOS se llaman. There is Elder Gonzalez, Elder Turek, Elder Smith and me eating them. This little girl is beautiful, right she just helped slaughter a pig. For our Christmas activity we had caldo (soup) with chicken in it. It was pretty, pretty good. Um, they put pine nedles all over the floor so you couldn't see the floor at all, and we had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree with ghetto guat lights. I had a good Christmas though. It was better than last years for sure, and I really like my presents. I'm such a gangster with my LA ring now; and my watch is really awsome and needed. Anywaysss, I hope you enjoy the pictures 'cause they took forever to load, That's how things go around here, REALLY SLOWLY and EXTEMPORANEOUSLY.
I guess I should be wishing eveyrone a Happy New Year as well.... and asking: Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Peace and love, aaron hoWARd

We're all * up on Eggnog

You don't know how much I don't know of this dialect. k k, so I think I'm going to call you on Christmas at like 4:20 AM!!! haha ha jk jk k. Really I'll call you at 9:00 AM, and if that doesn't work out.. we'll figure some other time out. Sorry my last letter really wasn't too great. I fell asleep, and I was upset about something, but Coban was good. Elder Smith destroyed his pants on the bus. The food was really good. We had baked potatoes, salad, ham, and candy canes. The only thing I didn't like was the drink, Hawaiian Punch! I hate Hawaiian food, right? haha.. We sang some crazy Christmas songs, and I played a bell. I ate at McDonald's, an Italian place that was really good, and another really good restaurant. I bought a bunch of really good candy, and pretty much just ate cookie dough yesterday, so that was good. Um, we are going to have a Christmas party on Friday. That should be really good. I didn't get a change!!! K'A' PUT!!! MAS RA INCH'OOL, so I think I'm going to die in my area. Seriously, I don't even know how I'm going to live. The thing is, it's not so much hard to find people to teach ('cause every single person lets us in their huts) as it is finding people who are teachable. O.K., no one listens or takes us seriously. We taught a family of fifteen, and they were really excited to let us in and watch us talk, so we sang and we started teaching. After 10 minutes, one of the men said, "O.K. just pray." I was like O.K. that's fine. I told everyone, ''Oh, he's bored. Well that's alright , we'll just pray and go.'' They were all like, "Well, before you go, um... we just want you to do us a favor... our father is really sick and his medicine costs 600 quetz for a bottle." (By the way, I almost always carry medicine with me to give to people.) I told them, "Sorry that's a lot of money, and we don't have money to give out." Then the man got super mad at us, and then I was like, ''Could we just pray and leave?'' They were all, ''O.K., we'll pray.'' I had to tell them, ''Sorry, but my companion needs to pray so that you can all see how God wants us to pray, because what you just said wasn't acceptable.'' k, so we prayed and left. ( This is how teaching is in our area). I'm just trying to ignore all the apostasy and mockery of God that is everywhere around me all the time. I'm trying to just focus on teaching people really, really simple things like in Elder Uchtdorf's talk (but even more), like folding your arms, a prophet is a man that talks to God, etc... Anyways, I'm glad I'm with Elder Smith again, 'cause I couldn't be in my area without him. Cody is amazing! Thanks for sending me his last letter with his testimony. It's amazing to see my friends doing this. I'm really impressed how things change around me. Hey, I hope you're talking to my friends for me when you see them,( like Rachel Kime, Cody, Hilary, etc..) Um .. yeah, you know ,all of those friends of mine. Today we played Frisbee, and it was super fun. But I'm a terrible catch. Um... I'm having all my clothes altered 'cause I like to look fly, and it costs less than 70 cents. Cheap swagger. K, I love you! ''HAPPY CHRISTMAS HARRY'' -yeah, I know, I totally know, that I'm getting that Griffindor tie. I can shake my present and feel it.
Merry Christmas!
Love - Dis kid lil A ron

Na Na Na Na Nana Kill Me

Yeah, I got your package. December 16. I don't know anything about calling you yet. I'm currently in Coban, so I ate at McDonalds, and a really good Italian place (way better than The Olive Garden). I had a Calzone and Parmesan Chicken Pasta (it was super good). There were 19 baptisms in our area, however they were all children in the wrong church. I did a division in Tucuru w/ Elder Norton and it was a good time. I got no sleep last night. We left at like 2:30 am so we could get here. I printed out some pictures and bought some peanut butter, twix, chocolate. gummy worms and strawberry soy milk. I'm like really tired right now and falling asleep at this very moment. Nothing is working right, right now, this internet place stinks and I'm going to sleep. Umm... tomorrow is the Christmas meeting, and next week we have changes so we'll see what happens.... k love and take kare happy hanajaka and a new year.....Aaron

To get on my level, you need a forever ladder

I love Christmas! It's such a great time of year. So we are not actually going to Cobon 'til like the 16th, but it's good .... I didn't want to go anyways. Hey, tell Grandma that I'm very grateful for her contribution towards my mission, and I pray for her often. And you can tell Ruth thank you very much from me, and that I think of her as my third Grandmother or something great like that. But I'll write her a hand written letter also. I saw the Christmas Devotional yesterday in English in Saqsuha'. It was great. I totally got everyone in our branch to go too. 'Cause I didn't know about it 'til yesterday, and our branch president was like, ''Oh, we forgot to tell everyone about it, and we didn't hire a truck to come pick us up.'' But I was like NO! we've got to go! So we called all these people and stole the Camion (truck) that the Tinta hired. It was like loaded with like 40 Q'eqchis when we went through the Tinta to pick up this other branch. It was good though. President Uchtdorf is loosing his accent. Anyways about me... well nothing's really going on with me idk... my comp and I ate lunch by this huge waterfall this week (which I would have sent you pictures of, but my computer kept electrocuting me so I couldn't). My companion and I got to the top of this huge mountain and stopped for a while and sang James Brown. lkdlkdlkdldkdlkdldkldkdl
You should send me some pictures... of my siblings... family, Christmas trees.... snow.... etc. porfa.
love love Aaron