Cintura sola, la misma vuelta

I had a crazy nightmare last night. I won't tell you about it. That festival of colors sounds really cool. You should send me some pictures. Happy birthday Grandpa Howard. Yesterday was a hard day. Nobody was home, and the one house we got into the guy was a hater; he just wanted to fight. My area is super diverse because there are people with money who speak Q'eqchi and Spanish or just one or the other, and then there are the exact opposite. Poor. I like working in the ghetto areas more with people who aren't so proud. A good amount of people came to church yesterday, but only two investigators came (the two that are getting baptized on the 9th:Elda and Lusty). Elda didn't come to church last week 'cause her mom is super sick. We went to visit them on Saturday and she told us she hadn't eaten in a week! You could tell.. so on Sunday my comp and I woke up early and brought her some oatmeal and medicine, and we brought Elda to church with us... Um what else happened? Some guy driving a motorcycle almost killed us we think.. 'cause I may have accidentally sprayed him with water as he was driving by. He turned around to come after us, but my comp and I ran into a house. OH ,we also did service and it was the worst! We helped this guy move these giant planks from the top of the mountain to his new house by the road (there is like one road that goes through Polochic). It was super crazy and hard.. I still hurt from it 'cause we woke up at like 5: 45 and seriously ran to get there buy 7:00, up this giant mountain then we helped him move stuff into his house. I killed a scorpion with a machete. And we hauled these planks on our heads. The guy is a super good member so.. it's alright. I helped baptize three people in the Tinta (the sister's area) on Saturday. Oh one other thing, my comp and I got a hitch-hike from this guy who was out of control when we were coming back from the Tinta. He was like peeling out when I stuck my thumb out and then he slammed on his breaks, then we got in the back and we were going like 45 mph when I was like ''there's a speed bump!'' He just powered into it then 4 minutes later he slams his breaks, gets out of the truck to light his cigarette and he asked us, ''Where you guys going?'' .. Teleman.. ''ya llagamos (we're already there)'' then he gets back in his truck and floors it then I yell ('cause its windy when you're driving like 75 mph) to E. Legua ¡YA LLAGAMOS!!! WE'RE LIKE 45 MINUTES AWAY!!! It was super scary. I'm pretty sure that guy was drunk. I said a prayer so that we wouldn't die. Nyways, I'm going to Coban today.. I need to buy a new suit so if there is movement in my account you know why... Ya'll have a great week now kkk.
love
aaron

I hope you don't get mad at me, but I told Nate he was a freak said he wants a..

K, sorry... that is too bad I sent you like 12 pictures but.... only one of them got through,(the worst one). Hey, I was trying to send you new pictures today but nothing was working for me, and so I need to change out my memory card. Today we had a zone activity. We went to Rio Dulce and saw a bridge and a castle. It was cool. Just imagine in your minds 'cause no computer wants to read my memory card. Now we are working a lot with some less active members, and finding their kids (unbaptized), so we will have a few more baptisms in 2 or three weeks. My comp is Marcos Legua. This is going to be the fastest change of my life. There is seriously not one second that we are not laughing ,hahaha! It's almost embarrassing. We seriously cannot finish a song with out cracking up. I haven't laughed as much in my whole mission than I have in the last three days. Today was my comp's birthday so I bought him some ice-cream. These days I'm eating banana bread that's super good... this lady that lives by us is going to buy us peanut butter and mac n' cheese from the capital. Life's good. My comp and I are working super hard. I'm super tired and want to sleep. My comp is from Utah (Brigham -- he's like half Paraguano... but deep down he's really just a Mexican). Um what else... I still haven't got that package from you....

K, so story...my comp and I are asking where this reference lives/contacting...(Q'eqchis) and I ask this lady where this man lives... she tells us and also tells us that he's currently working

Me: "Oh O.K...um, well have you guys heard about the church?" (there are four people at this house)

Lady: "Yeah.. your... the the... Mormons."

Me: "Well, that's what people say, but were the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ etc..."

Lady: "Ahhhh"

Me: "Yeah, so I don't know if you'd have a little time to ta-"

Lady: "WHAT is God's name?!"

Me:.. "Huh, God?"

Lady:"Yeah, what's his name?!"

Me: "GOD. God is his name."

Lady: ...."You got a bible....?"

Me: "Yeah."

Lady: "Lets see."

(So I pull my comp"s bible out of his back pack and hold it up. She has us come in, and she starts reading.. IDK, some scripture about ''Only the Lord God who is named Jehovah'' somethin' ect.)

Me: "Well this scripture is talking about Jesus - Lord is referring to Jesus right here. Where's your church?"

Lady: Begins to argue (meanwhile pulling out some other scripture)

Me: "You didn't answer my question."

Lady: "TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA!"

(My companion pulls out a scripture about prophets and how they work with God. Then I looked up a scripture in Proverbs 29:18 (which is not translated right, and says that where there isn't a prophet the people don't know what to do...)

Me: "Is there a prophet in your church?"

Lady "No."

(lady gets super upset and starts looking up all this other garbage)

Me: "Thanks for your time, but we've got other things to do today. Sorry, good bye."

Lady: "Fine."

Me: "But remember... you're always invited to the church ..(while backing up slowly) ... THAT'S TRUE!"


So that was a super contact that we ran away from 'cause there was some serious contention between us and this woman who was just asking to argue... but we can't say we didn't invite her.

That's how things are sometimes... people just want to fight.

Then almost immediately after that we contacted two more Testigos de Jehova and my comp was like,

"Hi, we are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ and we share a message about how Jehova is Jesus, and how through our belief in Jesus... who is Jehova ,we can be saved."

We just tell it how it is... Anyways, I got to go, but have a good week!

Love, Aaron

This is the only picture we received from Aaron this week

Young Slung Hung

jas che quitzibajtal le walal jas cubil le wanima jala y le wallal kavisinik chi guatemala bueno cabison la cal chi

bueno que malos padres tiene elder howard porque no le quiueren please favor de escribirle ya que necita tu apollo no sean mala onda bueo asi que nosotros los elderes de tu distrito le estamos ayudando a darles cincho a ustedes por chanbones cheque pues bye

So this is what you get for not writing me..... scoldings from a Salvadorano and a Kiche'.

So, what's going on? Is anyone alive?....

Are you guys O.K. or what? I love it when I know what's going on in the real world... but when the only email I have in my inbox is my email from Chase telling me I have tan quetzalitos and an add from Orbitz trying to get me to fly to Hawaii next week... It's pretty tempting to just go to Hawaii.

me pusieron triste

moko ut ta naq ink'a xextz'ibak we.. naraho' sa' inch'ool rik'in a'an! ka'ajwi' nawaj xnawb'al k'a'ru yookex chixb'aanunkil!!!!

K, well I sent you some pics. They're all random. There is the baptism that I had at the start of this change, and then the baptisms I had on Saturday, when we went to the caves.. and just some of my area..

Still don't know who my new comp will be until Wednesday.... Life's good I HOPE YOURS IS TO!!!

I <3 my area..

LOVE YR SUN

A Vicious HOWARD

Umm..... this is awkward. I just sent you that email getting mad at you for not emailing me, and then what should appear in my inbox but my letter.... sorry. Thanks for writing me.. Now I don't really have that much time, but no I didn't get my package yet (probably this week). I'm glad you guys are better. It doesn't help to hear that you've been sick for so long and then not get an email you know, but I got it so... More importantly than how how I am (coming from Mike Mason), is how is Pacific Life Funds? Dying? That's cool dad has an Ipod touch. I knew brother Christiansen called me on my birthday 'cause I remember when I picked up the phone and he asked for Peter... and I was like, "No.. he's in Japan." "Oh well, tell him happy birthday." Sweet man. So whats Nikki going to do now? What did she graduate in? I'm glad Adam could get a job at Pineae, I guess Hilary is going to be woking with him, so that will be cool. I'm sorry about your car accident. These things happen; sometimes people just drive into things. Sorry, I don't really have that much news nor time... but next week I'm sure I will. We are going to go to Rio Dulce for P-day and it should be really cool. I'll have a new companion etc... Have a great week!
Tell me if you got my pictures I emailed, k?

love ARN

Jesus walks, God show me the way 'cause the devil's trying to break me down

March 2011 Zone Leader Conference

So, this last week was pretty good, even though I'm like suffering from exhaustion... but I'm feeling a lot better this week, and tomorrow we are going to Senahu for a capacitation. I'm worried for my companion a little, but at the same time not really 'cause he's about to get into some huge trouble for doing some irresponsible housing contract stuff haha, but he's going home so whatever, I'll have a new comp next week... Wednesday. I'm excited. I got a new watch from a ZL in Coban last week. '' Hey, E. Jennings, where can I buy a cool watch?'' ''You can have this. I never wear it'' -buenisma onda. Um, I'm sorry you guys are still sick... keep eating that Costa Rican honeydew.. Oh, so this morning E. Snow (who lives with us) and I went to the market to buy food and on the way back I saw this Lizard -Chab'olak se llama- It was huge and fast (the lizards that are around here are like the Jesus lizards that can run across the water and are super fast). We caught it, and when we came back my comp was showering so of course I threw it on him and he was screaming so loud hahaha! Oh freak, it was hilarious and he came out of the shower and threw a bucket of water on us haha then we re-caught the lizard and I tied floss around his neck and we walked him to District meeting. It was pretty funny. Two of the people we were going to baptize this Saturday didn't show up to church so we're going to move their baptismal date. We are going to baptize Ricardo and Karmen - super old and awesome- we are taking them to Panzos to get married on Thursday. It's going to be sick... k have a great week and get well soon,

Love A rizzle
da mic fizzle

Hey, sorry to hear everyone's sick but... you know, it happens. You'll be good, I'll pray for you. Um.... sorry nothing really phenomenal happened this last week.... I played pool today (billiards). It was killer. (BTW, we had a meeting yesterday so today was our P- day). Um, yeah not much is going on though. We are going to baptize 4 people on the 12th of March... I saw a bus driver that looked exactly like MC Chris. I got on the tightest microbus of my life

14 year old / 7 year old / 16 year old / BUS helper
HUGE (happy fat lady) / My Comp / Me / HUGE (angry fat lady) <----- this is one isle of the bus (8 adults) that lady was totally freaking out at me

Sorry if you can't visualize this...

Have a good week. Love, your son