This week has been excellent. We have been extremely blessed to find new people that are interested in listening to our message. We have found like 5 families just this week and they are BIG families. I LOVE visiting families because there is always a different spirit felt. My favorite part of teaching families is gathering all the members together and getting on our knees and teaching them how to pray as a family. If the people don't end up progressing and there is one thing that I want them to remember, is that the missionaries taught them how to pray every day as a family on their knees. The Spirit is so strong in those moments, especially when we ask the father of the home to pray.
This week I had companionship exchanges and I went to a place called Serchil. I've been there before but I don't think i've mentioned it. It's up on the high plain (altiplano) of Guatemala where it is super cold. We went to visit a member and she showed us a machine that they use to make typical Guatemalan fabric. The pics are below.
Also today, we went to La Grandeza (a village of San Pedro) and went to see exotic birds that a member has in his backyard. They were really fun to watch, especially when they would start to fight each other. It was funny. I also saw a girnormous egg! It was like the size of a softball, or maybe bigger!
Every white thread has to be woven through the mechanism one-by-one and tied at the end of a wooden pole. Then, to make the fabric, the colors are woven in different patterns back and forth between the white thread. It's super complex!
A finished huipil (pronounced like: wee-peel)
We gave some service to a member at her house. They gave us dried corn on the cob to take off the kernels. In Spanish, they say 'desgranar' or to de-grain.
I'm basically a pro at this now.
'Together we rescue Guatemala' on a road to a village called Las Barrancas
This was the big white bird that was wanting all the attention. I couldn't get a picture with all of its feathers extended. This bird was attacking all of the others in there.
This was the second biggest bird we saw. It kept on running away from the white bird.
Anyways, thats all I have for this week. Thank you as always for your prayers for the missionaries. The blessings always are received.
Adios! Jesus te ama!
Elder Taylor
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