Well, it was completely unexpected, but we got transferred out of San Pedro. My new area is Chamac, where our zone leaders used to be. They took out the zone leaders and combined our zone with Zona San Marcos. San Pedro got combined with another area and our new area as well. Our area covers Chamac and another little town called San Antonio. We are planning on working purely with members now, since there is way too much space to contact in both areas. Chamac has always been known by missionaries to be one of the most difficult areas in the Guatemala Retalhuleu Mission. I don't think this area has baptized in like a year. The bright side, is that we already have an investigator with baptismal date that the zone leaders left behind. His name is Julio. He is a policeman that works in Guatemala City, but he lives in Chamac with a less-active member. He's wanted to be baptized in the church for a long time, but his partner never wanted to get married with him until now. He's going to get married and bapitzed on December 23rd.
We have been working a lot with the new Christmas Initative #ILUMINAelMUNDO (#LIGHTtheWORLD). On Wednesday we had a fun service activity in the park in San Pedro. The Relief Society from the San Pedro ward made hot chocolate and we contacted and passed out pamphlets to everyone. At the same time, we took pictures of and with the people in the park. It turned out really well and we found lots of new people to teach.
On Saturday, there was a parade in Chamac and our ward participated in it. The members prepared a truck with a nativity scene and the primary kids acted out as the Joseph, Mary, and the wisemen. We passed out a ton of pamphlets and sang Christmas hymns the whole way.
Today as a new combined zone (Zona San Marcos/San Pedro) we planned for a skit that we are going to present in our Mission Christmas Devotional. Its going to be based off of the song the 12 Days of Christmas. We modified it to fit our mission and the things that we see and do in the mission.
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Zona San Pedro (before it got combined with the other zone)
Lighting the World in San Pedro
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Lighting the World in Chamac
A view of my new area!
Have a fantastic week!
Elder Taylor
#ILUMINAelMUNDO
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