I Love Guate!

Hola! haha can I please just say......I LOVE GUATEMALA!!!! Family, friends and loved ones, life is too great. All the things that happen in one day cant be told or remembered just make life fun. SO much goes on all the time and theres hardly time to breathe! This week, I learned how to plan a wedding in less than ten minutes and how to do it on less then a budget of $12.50 or Q100. ) We had an awesome wedding with the family Aguilar Santos so the dad and daughter could be baptized this Sunday! The wedding was saturday in the afternoon and even though not very many people were there it was still so great and this couple is so happy!

Long story short, the mom of this family is a returned missionary who is sersiously my best friend, shes so cute and has another nine year old daughter who needed to be baptized. Now shes married to this guy who wasnt a member but now, as of yesterday is a member and they already have plans to be sealed in a year! So we had weddings and baptisms to plan and let me just tell you the Lord answers prayers!!! Everything only worked out because the Lord was aware of us and the needs of His children in La familia Aguilar, and cute little Daniel Salguero. He´s another kid we have been teaching who is 8 and his mom has been inactive since last year when their dad passed away. They were part of our Ward mission rescue plan and it really was an amazing experience to see this family reactivated through the efforts of our ward and how the mom changed her whole demeanor and attitude about the church to the point where she wanted her 8 year old son to be baptized. Gorje, the older brother, said he would never step foot again in a Mormon church and he was the one that said the closing prayer at the baptism and was in church this week in a white shirt and tie. This church is so true and the Atonement is soo real.

Another reason why i love guatemala is the fact that we were walking down the street, well not actually down, because down doesnt really exist in La Mariposa, but we were walking and we see this family, so im like lets contact them. We had to think fast because we were getting closer and i was praying that Heavenly Father would give me something to say to catch their attention so they wouldnt just go around us... and guess what pops out of my mouth before I even knew it? I find myself saying to the mom, ¨hey i like your earrings, where did you buy them?¨they were cute big pink heart earrings and the family definitely stopped, but thats not what i was planning on saying to them! she starts telling me that they werent very expensive and that she bought them in the market, but if i want them i can have them! She straight up takes her earrings off and gives them to me!!! Only a guatemalan would do that, such big hearts they have. So i told her thank you and that now we wanted to come give them something too as a family since she had had given us something and shes like, ok come tomorrow at 4! so we are going with them today to give them the gospel in exchange for a pair of earrings. haha The Lord works in mysterious ways, but its whatever works! Love you all like i love this gospel, have agreat week! good luck in finals! jillber, i love you and thanks for the email!!

Love always,

Hermana Erin Jane Wetzel