So time for the
stats. I am in the city of Solola. My companion is Elder Clouse from Arizona.
He has been out here 6 weeks less than I have. The weather is nice and cold!!!
It has rained a couple of times, but not too bad. Our house is AWESOME! We have
2 nice showers, lots of rooms, a big huge white board, and a second floor that
has a small kitchen, and a room we have converted into a home gym. Because of
the huge distances between areas here, and the huge distance from the capital,
sometimes we have all the missionaries over for a giant sleep over to be able
to travel more easily in the morning (as we are the closest to the main bus
terminal here). We have a cook that is rock solid. It is like eating out in a
nice place every day! We also have a lady that does our laundry who cranks out
the clothes by hand for the next day. It is awesome. They closed the other 2
areas in this city because of a drop in the number of missionaries in the
mission, so we are in charge of 3 branches of the church... It makes for a
LOOOONNNGGGG Sunday at church. They are all super great though. Almost everyone
is excited about the work here, and people are always telling us about friends
they want us to go visit. All in all... I LOVE IT HERE! It is pretty much a sure
thing that I will be here until the end of April when I come home.
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Elder Clouse and I. Working hard moving cinder blocks, then we
cut weeds- with a machete, of course!
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2 days ago the district president gave us some
food. The next day (which luckily was P-day) my companion woke up with just
the worst stomachache ever. He spent like an hour on the porcelain throne in
the morning, and then went back every 10 minutes the rest of the day. Then he
got worse and started throwing up. He had to practice a maneuver called the
"helicopter". If you are clever enough, you will be able to figure
out why we call it that.
That was cool to hear
about the missionary in your ward blessing the baby that had his name as a
middle name. There is a baby here in Guatemala that has my name too! It is way
cool how close we get to people down here. There is a family that we taught
here on my second day of being here. The mom is less active, and the dad is not
a member. They have 1 little girl. About 1 ½ months ago, somebody really close to them
killed themselves. It has been a major obstacle for them as the dad just talks
about how guilty he feels for not doing more for this person and it has been
eating him up. My companion actually contacted him about 2 weeks before I got
here. Later he found out that this guy was on his way to kill himself that
night when my companion talked to him. Every time that they visited him it was
just a big mess and the guy couldn´t move on. Then I got changed here, and I
was able to connect with him really, really well. We have been working hard
with him to help him get better as he is still pretty emotionally unstable, but
he is making good progress! He has already decided to be baptized. THIS is why
we baptize people here. They have huge weights in their lives that can only be
taken off through the Atonement, and the only way to have access to that is
through being baptized. It has been a really neat experience. My companion
pointed out to me that I might be the only one in the whole mission that could
have gotten to this guy, and that God knows exactly what he is doing with his
work. We are all where we need to be.
Anyways, all is well.
Love you lots!
Xóc Chick!
Elder Rice
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