Go n' brush yo shoudas off

Sounds like Easter was pretty fun. My Easter was kind of rough. I don't really want to go into details about it, but let's just say a lot of people let me down. Ummm. so then we got depressed, and ate a lot of cookie dough (3 dozen worth). We did divisions yesterday. and I went to meet some less active members with my Branch President, WAY up in the mountains! It was cool. Oh, last night I was cleaning out my house, and I found some crazy Christmas lights that I started playing with in the dark like astro jax, and my comp and I had an Easter dance party. So I guess it was a pretty good Easter for me. An insane amount of cookie dough.... Christmas lights... oh, and I tried this fruit that I had never tried before (it looked like a crazy giant huge pepper and was super bitter). Good day. OH, I forgot to tell you... I don't have a change, but CRAZY LEGGS does... tear. He was the best companion ever! I'm praying I get someone fun 'cause... you know ... I really need that right now. I'm kind of sad though, but I might be comps with E. Fadel (he's from Bountiful). That would be good. He's like a prodigy Q'eqchi speaker. Today we helped Saqsuha' move to a super awesome big house 'cause they are going to put more missionaries there. I also went to Tukuru' to look at the new house there. There are like a billion people moving simultaneously. It's really organized. THANx for the pictures. 'PRICIATE IT... The spiral jetty is cool. I want to go there, oh and to the golden spike place too. That's super exciting that Orion is going to Argentina! We'll speak some Spanishishshssihsishss, 'cause I SPEAK IT right? Bryan too, he's a fine boy. K well g2g I'm bored (xintitz) k

LOVE you

Aaron

P.S. Did you grab me something from Grandma and Grandpa's garage, or what?

Swallow these words. Taste my thoughts. If it's too nasty, you can spit it back out.

Well today was nothing super special. We went up to Senahu to play football. It was a good time. I got some awesome cinnamon rolls for super cheap up there. Yeah, so we went to Sajomte to go on divisions, and to confiscate a ton of dvds and a Portable dvd player from someone up there. My companion and I are checking on the missionaries, because they are going to close a lot of the areas. So that's whats up. Ummm, church was awful this week. Nobody showed. It was ridiculous. My branch president had a talk with us, and he kind of just broke down and told us about all the problems that are happening. It kind of makes me sad and depressed. Like he got up in church and was like well... Elder Legua will lead the music... and since all the people that I assigned to give talks today didn't show up... my counselor will get up and speak a little. Then after he finished, my branch president just got up and talked about how people just don't understand that they have to be willing to follow Christ for themselves and for their own salvation. We have to follow God's will and not our own, and all the people that came to church came because they are concerned about their own salvation. It's so sad 'cause this guys whole family is like falling away from the church and his wife is the Relief Society pres. and his dad was the branch president. etc ... etc.. our investigators made up 10 percent of the congregation. Um .. its super hot and not flooding here.. Changes are next week. I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE MY AREA. nor my comp. We are kind of running out of ideas of thing to do though. Thanks for sending me those pictures and the package. Yeah I love my perfect push ups. Yeah you should learn Spanish, Mom. We can talk to each other when I get home. I feel like I will be speaking Spanish soon... but idk. For sure you will go on a Spanish speaking mission. ... well hey I get to call you soon! huh...Mother's Day is coming up.
Neeways
love you
Aadanard

Tag Team Back Again

So this last week was awesome! We did have our baptism, and the whole family came so it was super good. Even Dasty's big mama hiked down the mountain to go with her three super loud screaming biting kids. It went really well. French toast sounds good. HEY, I got my package. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Super good! My comp and I are still working on the food. I use my perfect pushups every day. Yeah, you need to tell me about Colorado. Tell me about picking up hitchhikers, and send me some pictures. This last week was seriously good though. We got five people to accept a baptismal date. This week we had interviews on Monday and then zone conference yesterday so today is p-day. Something seriously crazy is going to happen in Polochic. Elder Smith told President Torres what was happening in Santo Domingo, and now he is going to take missionaries out of the mountains and put more sets of missionaries in the cities. He's going to close a lot of areas 'cause the missionaries don't have time to work for how much traveling they have to do and how little success there is. It's crazy. We are looking for houses for more missionaries in the valleys. The baptism E. Smith and I had was one of two in the last 2 years. There will be some crazy huge changes. Anyways, we have two baptisms of a divorced mom and her daughter not this Saturday but the next. I gave a talk in zone conference. I was super nervous... cause I had to speak in Spanish, but it went fine. I talked about D. & C.: 4 and Christ- like attributes, having an eye single to the glory of God. Anyways, I am out of things today. Thanks for the package again; it was really good!!

love, a a r o n d a n i e l h o w a r d

You couldn't hold me unless your last name was hand. The only way you'd wear me out is to stitch my name on your pants...

I'm like Sprint or Motorola, no service out of your range... I am number one







K, so... this week was fine. I saw most of conference, but the signal was kind of bad. I really liked Saturday's sessions though, especially "cause I could hear them. I slept in the church on Saturday night on 7 chairs... comfy? We woke up early to go pick up people. We went by like 10 of our investigators houses... and one came. So we're just going to be having one baptism this week. It's O. K. though, we're trying. I probably already told you this, but I just ordered a sweet two button suit. It's going to be quality. Hitchhiking is like the only way to get around here other than a micro bus and they aren't too safe either, but I'll be careful. I'm almost positive I got a package from Liza today.. It's probably the one you sent me? Hey, that's cool that Liza is running a half marathon! I really want to do one too. I don't really go running very much in the mornings "cause I have to hike up giant mountains everyday, so I usually just jump rope, bench, perfect pull ups and push ups. Exercising is sick. I can't wait till I can actually get proper nourishment, haha, but I do take Mens ''1-a-day''. I'll be looking forward to eating better after my mission.. or at least when I get out of Polochik q' no me pase. K, sorry, boring week. I don't really know what else. Send me those pictures, Ben. Haven't got them. Kaxlan means chicken (pronounced cash lan). Ummm... thanks for writing me as usual. I hope you get the pictures I spent like 25 min on sending, haha.
k love,
KID A....aron

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