Well first off, Happy Independence day my American friends. Its definitely different passing 4th of July in Guatemala, but its all good! Things are great here.
The good news is that Paola, our investigator got baptized. She had originally accepted a baptismal date for the week before, but she was out of town so her baptism got moved to Wednesday of last week. The best part is that she had no doubt that she needed to be baptized. She told us that her mom and dad were not very supportive of her decision to be baptized. In addition, her mom was trying to persuade her to not get baptized. However, Paola received her answer. On Sunday in the morning, as we were waiting for the members to arrive for sacrament meeting, she pulled up on her motorcycle and told us that she had been accompanying her mom in the market and that she left her there for that moment so that she could get confirmed. I´m humbled by the faith that she showed towards the Savior. It can´t be easy to obey God if it means that you would be disobeying your parents.
This week we went to Tahuexco again. The missionary in the hammock is Elder Ardon from Hondruas. He is my comp, Elder Bonilla´s, son in the mission. He´s interesting. It is definitely different working with him, but nonetheless, we work hard. A couple of pictures I attached show a river between the aldea (village) of Tahuexco and the village of Chicago (yes, like Chicago, Illinois). The members of Tahuexco told us that there are also members in Chicago. We want to visit them as soon as possible. I think we would have to go by boat to get over there. We´ll see how it goes.
This past week, Presidente Ruiz finished his mission. I am so grateful that I could serve with him in this mission. He is definitley one of the most inspired and poweful individuals that I have ever met. He changed this mission from a mission that can baptize 150 a month, to a mission that can baptize 250 a month. At the rate that we are learning and improving, I have absolutely no doubt that we will be able to baptize 300+ souls in one month. The missionaries are more animated than ever, and our new mission president, Presidente Goodman, is animated as well.
We appreciate your constant prayers for the missionaries and the Guatemala Retalhuleu Mission. We are constantly viewing miracles in rich abundance here. We hope to see more and more in the future.
I also attached a photo of the house that we live in here in La Maquina. Its nice. It just has lots of big spiders sometimes. But its okay because Elder Bonilla is good at killing them. He´s a good companion.
Have a great week!
Presidente Taylor
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