Tons of Pics! Woo!

Dear people of the world....

This week  has literally flown by. It's been so fast! Mainly because we had a lot of activities. Called Pday, and a Multi-Zone Conference, and a SocSoc activity, and a Baptism that we went to, and Church, and District Meetings, and all the fun jazz that goes along with being a missionary. 

And good news! I have a TON of pictures for you. Definitely a big contrast from last week. Ready? Voy a explicar mis fotos....

1.P-Day with some of my team members for soccer. We won like 8 games in a row. I was team captain. I'm a great team leader. (Aren't I humble?) Jk I just know who's profesh and who's not. Literally though we have two elders in our zone who have played professionally. One went to the world cup for Panama and the other was on the national team for Chili. I feel quite inept when it comes to soccer. To say the least. Anyway I made us laurels for our success.  (the people pictured are not the professionals)

2.One of those spinny things in a park with my compa 

3.Me and my 1st and 2nd district leaders 

4.My pal Hna Zapata. She's from Chicago. 

5.This chick legit came up to me and asked if she could take a pic with me. "Yeah why not? Por que?"Ï finally found a sister that's taller than me!"If you couldn't guess I'm the tallest sister in the mission.

6.My Hna Mendez! She's from Honduras and was my amazing translator/friend in the CCM when I was the only gringa. 

7.One of my ZL's and an elder who used to be in our zone. 

8.Making typical sandwiches with the youth leaders of the ward.

9.A pomegranate tree growing randomly in the street. (This is mainly for my sibs.)

10.Alex and his entire fam

11.Marvin (bro of Alex) He's super cool. He dances Punta for me. 

12.Me and my dinner

13.A view from a rooftop

14.A cute little 2 year old se llama Daniela. She's the sweetest. She gives me hugs and kisses and shows me all of her toys. All of them. She also makes me miss Jane a little. 

Y fin de fotos! And now for a funny story. One day I was knocking doors with my comp (obvi) and two youth who were walking around with us. We come to a door with some really chill music. Knock. And instead of answering whoever was inside just turns the music up louder. We knock again. And the music is turned up even louder. It's like, Ökay. Thanks. We won't tell you you have great taste in music and want to share a joyful message with you."Then we knock on the door of this persons neighbor. This lady opens the door with THE biggest smile. And then she sees us. The smile drops. And she's like, Öh you're not the grocery."And slams the door. Literally the funniest 10 minutes of my life. I know that being rejected is supposed to be disappointing or whatever but I just think it's funny. I love people.

Oh another story. We were walking to lunch right? And we pass this guy sitting in the shade of some building. And like he looks at me and just starts wagging is finger and is like "No. No."I just kind of ignore it çause I'm used to that kind of thing now. But then we walked past him again a little while later and he does the exact same thing. & My comp stopped and asked him why. But I'm pretty sure he was drunk or posessed or something because neither of us could understand a word he said. But he shook our hands and we just kind of left. Çause yeah it was a weird situation. Man I love the life of  a missionary. So many weird things happen and it's great.

And now for something somewhat spiritual. This week we went to a SocSoc activity. (The SocSoc is Relief Society) And the question was asked, "Who here was born into the church?"Only me and one other member raised our hands. Only 2 out of 20. I find that incredible. Most of these ladies have now been members for a bazillion years but it just hit me. Not only are these people converts but they've stuck with it after all these years. Why? How have they remained so faithful and strong? Sometimes I think for those of us born into the church take our blessings for granted and some end up falling away. But these beautiful sisters have found happiness and know how to keep it. And I think it's maybe because they didn't have it for their whole lives and now that they have it, they don't want to lose it. Elder Richard G. Scott in some talk long ago said, "Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not what you have."And I feel like these people have that testimony. They know who they are. So now they're happy. And now they have the strongest desire to help others find that knowledge and happiness as well. It's beautiful and a great example for me as a missionary. Idk I just love that whenever someone finds joy they share it. So that's my job for you peeps. Find joy and share it. Did I get my thought across? Who knows but that's all I wanted to say.

Oh and Alex is getting baptized this Saturday! He's so excited! And his excitement is making me excited. We went to a baptism of some other missionaries with him and after he saw it he just couldn't keep quite. Just saying how he was next and how he just was so happy he wanted to scream it to the world. It was cute and funny and I'm super excited for him. So look forward to that next letter! 

 

Well my darling fans, keep being great! Thanks for all your support while I'm out here in Guatemala! Till next time!  

Hna Judd   

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