Hola
This week went pretty well, actually really fast. My companions and I worked pretty hard in finding news and finally got some success. We found a really good family, named family Castro, a family of 5 and they all love to listen to us. It was really weird actually. We contacted them and right away they let us in, they gathered the family and got there bibles and were ready to learn. So we taught them about the book of Mormon. The only problem is that they are... I don’t know the name in English, but they believe the Sabbath day is still on Saturday. It was kind of hard to describe to them that there is a need for another book. but in the end they kind of thought it was logical, then they gave us all apples with yogurt :) which was amazing, usually people give us coke (which we have to say no) and then something fried like french fries or bananas. I have a lot of hope for this family. We are thinking of bringing the Bishop and his wife over to meet with them. But we will see what happens.
Yes one of my comps is still being kind of lazy. A little better but it’s still kind of annoying having to push him to do every little thing. Things are better. I just hope he doesn’t get too baggy because it’s the last week of the change. We should find out what is going down on Sunday so I will let you guys know next email.
There is this poor little old lady who is about 80 years old that we go and visit every other day because she is sick and dying and has no body to visit her. So we have to do it. She has these huge cuts on both sides of her left ankle. First of all she is a diabetic, so these huge, pussing, nasty wounds that won’t heel that she has all started because she scratched her ankle from a mosquito bite. Now the doctors are saying she might have to lose her foot because it’ s so infected and it cant heal. Well, we go over there and we have to clean this nasty infected foot and put cream on it and some other stuff. Then my dang companion Elder N thought it was smart to peel of the giant scab off her ankle so he could clean up all the puss. This poor old lady is very fragile, and she told him not too but he is stubborn and did it anyways, the poor lady just started screaming and crying saying she wanted to die because the pain in her foot was so bad. So we just look at each other and decide to run to the pharmacy and we buy like 20 of her pain pills. Then we call her neighbor over and she injects her with some more pain medicine (yes its normal in latino america to inject yourself with medicine) and finally that calmed her down. haha Then when we were all just sitting there all coming down from what just happened, elder M throws up everywhere!, ha ha he told us that he can’t stand feet, and infected feet and crying women just didn’t mix for him. Then the old lady started laughing at him and said not to be a little girl. She went to the doctor and things are doing much better so no worries. haha I love this country and the weird things that happen here. Today for p-day we went to the central market where all the tourists go to buy all the authentic stuff of Guatemala. Its actually really sweet! I bought a jacket and two shirts and two beanies (yep for Utah). I am not into the whole buying statues and stuff like that because I learned with Ryan and Sean that those are super cool for about 2 months after the mission then they are kind of just dumb. But it was really cool to see all the things people make by hand here. It was a lot like Peru just different styles and no butter flies :) then we went and ate some good old McDonalds and bought some donuts! so it was a good day!
I love you all and hope all is well.
Elder Toolson
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