Calls All Day

Ok I’ll tell you something - it’s hard being a zone leader. We get calls all day long. We have no time to do anything because we get so many calls. I just have to focus more on the work when we do have time. It’s been so stressful! We have norms that we have to complete and sometimes that its just hard. The people here, I’m not going to lie, are pretty dang rude! They seriously just look at us as dust! The other day I basically condemned someone at their door for being a sinner and not truly believing in Christ. We go hourssss without having lessons and it’s just not as fun when we don’t teach people. There are super cool people that will listen to us but then they don’t progress so we can’t teach them any more. We only teach the people that are going to progress.

We have been teaching this guy named Cristian. He is 19 and just loves the church! He likes to ride BMX bikes as well so that’s sick! The other day he texted us and asked us if we could baptize him tomorrow but we have to hold it off until Friday because we have a ton of crazy meetings now that we are zone leaders.

This week I also got to do divisions with Elder Slaymaker in this little mountain town up above our area. It is so pretty and they people there are so awesome we saw a ton of miracles.

We also had a special conference - a live broadcast from Elder Bednar! It was just for Guatemala – and it was one big chicote for not keeping the Sabbath day holy.

We also have changes this week but I’m pretty sure I’m staying in my area for at least another two changes but we will see!

I’m pretty sure if I weren’t a missionary I wouldn’t read these emails because they are so boring pero estaaaaa biennnn

LOVE YOU GUYS!

Ribs and Cheese Puffs

Here is a Placa of a language I'm trying to learn! It's called Queche.

This week has beeeeennnnn nuttsss! So many things that we’ve had to do!

Tuesday, we had our interviews with President Markham that was awesome.

Wednesday my comp and I gave a workshop to all of the zones in the capital. Pretty crazy because we only had 2 days to prepare it!

Thursday we had leadership council in the house of president and it was cool going back there after not being there for a while!

Friday and Saturday were pretty normal, we found a lot of cool people and we are finally getting to know all of the converts in this area.

Sunday we saw a huge miracle. We found this super cool 19-year-old teenager this week and when we got to the bus stop to go to church this kid was waiting for us there! It was dang cool! He is going to get baptized! I also had to give a talk in church that actually went pretty well!

Monday we won the most successful zone in the mission. So president came to our zone pday and brought FOOODDDDD! He brought us RIBS!!!!!!!!!! They were seriously the best things I have eaten here in Guatemala! We played a bunch of minute to win it games and then a game of soccer. We have a sister in our zone that basically schooled us all in soccer so that was sick!

Here we are playing the cheese puff game!  We also had an egg toss that was super funny!

 This is after we played the games.  Shaving cream everywhere.

The Cookie Shuffle

Today we gave another workshop to our zone (straight workshops) and now I’m in divisions with ELDER SLAYMAKER!!! He was one of ALEX'S roommates in college! The kid is super funny!

Sorry for writing a long one! LOVE YOU GUYS!

Branson

Some of the Homies

Straight Fire!

This week has been interesting. My area is full of straight wickedness. When I first got here, we were trying the whole be nice and make friends kind of thing, which worked with a very few people. Now we are taking the ALMA approach! I have been giving it hard to a lot of people, because this area needs to be called to repentance. I have been destroying bad traditions with the scriptures. I figure if I can tear them down to the dust, Jesus and his Atonement can build them back up into the people God wants them to be! We’ve had a lot of recent converts in this area tell us they went inactive when the elder who baptized them left. So I’m not worried about how many people I baptize anymore, because what good is it if we baptize someone and they still don’t make it to the celestial kingdom. SO WE ARE GOING TO MAKE CHANGES and truly convert these people! I feel more powerful.

We are working hard! Some cool families are progressing and tomorrow my comp and I are giving a workshop in front of the entire mission. Pray for us! Hoping it’s going to be STRAIGHT FIRE!!

Halloween was cool - I bought some candy.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!

Branson

I Am Twenty!

Last Tuesday I was in divisions with Elder Casillas in his area. We went running up and down their area, which was actually a really awesome place-really poor but full of awesome people!

Wednesday- I WOKE UP AND I WAS TWENTY!!! That was the weirdest thing ever! I couldn’t believe it! I’m not a teenager anymore! I guess I finally have to get my act together ;) In the morning I had a nice WARM shower (that was a nice gift). That evening we were out working and my comp says we have to go visit this member family. I’m just like ¨What? Why? ¨and he just takes off. I kept asking why are we not going to knock these doors? When we get to the house, I’m sitting at the door wondering what is going on. He knocks on the door and 20 people answer the door and yell ¨feliz cumpleanos!!!!!!!¨ Hahaha I had a surprise birthday party! It was sick! Afterwards we went home and ate more cake and ice cream!

Thursday through Saturday was all normal! Just working like crazy and finding families!! This week we found 3 super families and we are going to baptize them in November! I’m stoked!

Sunday was kind of disappointing, we didn’t have a lot of people come to church and we kicked our butts this week to get people to church. That night we thought about all the things we could do better to get people to come to church!

Monday I bought new shoes since mine our destroyed!!! Shoes aren’t lasting me very long and now that our area is HUGE, it’s going to be even worse. We had divisions with the assistants and man that was so fun! We were working hard, making jokes and enjoying it. Elder Campos (the assistant) and I were in the office for like 3 changes together! It was awesome!

Today the district leader had to go to the capitol so I gave the district meeting and it was fun!

Well I love you guys and thanks for everything that you guys do!!

New Companion

My week has been good! We found a few people and a family we hope are going to get baptized!

This was my last week in the office and it was fun! We ate really good everyday and we went to Sololá to have a reunion! It was great to go out there, except the brakes completely failed us and we were flying down some mountain roads, but it’s all good!!

We had changes and I’m now companions with ELDER FULMER!!! He is from Ogden, Utah! I was going to receive a Latino but we had last minute changes! He is really cool and we are getting used to working with each other!

This Sunday we had a division of wards and we thought our area was going to get smaller but it ended up getting a whole lot bigger which is sick!!!!

I’m not in my area right now because we are on divisions so my birthday breakfast tomorrow morning is going to be a hot shower, our house doesn’t have hot water hahaha!

Sorry for sending this bad email! It will be more organized next week!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!

New Church

The Church in Boca - it is Huge!

This is my last time writing from the office, and then I will be in the real field again. I’m super stoked!! I don’t have a ton of time so I’m going to write something short.

This week was awesome! We did a ton and had some cool experiences.

Thursday we went bowling, then we went to this super sick mall that’s basically from the future! It was huge and it had this crazy system of slides that dropped down to other floors hahaha! We also had the new church open house, which was SOOO MUCH FUN! We invited so many people, and we were literally herding people into the open house. My comp and I invited the police to go in and they actually really liked it! Super awesome!

Friday we had to drive 6 hours out to Sololá for a meeting and we had to take some elders home afterwards that live SUPER FAR AWAY. We got home around 12 that night so that’s always fun.

Saturday was normal and we had a baptism Interview.

SUNDAY this was my first Sunday and last Sunday in the new Boca building! It was awesome and we had a bunch of people come! We also BAPTIZED!!!! Hermana Marilyn! She is awesome and is going to be a good member.

This week is cambios (changes) so it’s going to be crazy.

I love you guys and thanks for everything!!!
Elder Kendall

Undercover Mission

I’m on a little undercover mission right now in my new zone. Missionaries are already here in the area; but now it is going to be turned into a zone so everything is about to change! I’m with Elder Mendez and Elder Alvarez right now in Alamedes and they have no idea why I’m here. They are worried hahaha it’s too funny!

This is from my new area -super fun 3 days!!

Friday we had p-day and we went to the TEMPLE!! We did a session and then they invited us to be witnesses for the sealings! That was cool because I had never seen it before!

Saturday was conference and that’s always amazing! We went to lunch with a bunch of elders and we got to learn a lot from conference! I liked Elder Uchtdorf´s first talk on Saturday! Conference is so much different when you are a missionary.

Sunday was the sickest because when we were at conference, President Markham and ALL OF HIS KIDS surprised us when they came into the room! It was fun getting to know them. President surprised us even more when he told us they were going to work with us that day! Lynn Markham went out with us! He was the funniest guy ever! He made everyone laugh because he didn’t speak Spanish but tried super hard. He literally talked with 100 people in the street! He reminded me so much of president!

Well wish me luck! I'll be heading back to the office on Thursday and changes are next Wednesday!
LOVE YOU GUYS

Good Times with the office elders.