This week has been awesome for us. This past week, we visited with one of our investigators, Raquel. She used to be married to a member of the church, but they have since divorced and she started to attend her church. When we first contacted her, she got scared because she thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses and almost didn't let us in, but then she noticed our black name tags and decided that we were good guys. 
We have been mostly focusing on the Restoration with her because she was a little confused on the subject of Joseph Smith and why the Church exists. We explained to her about the authority that was lost in Jesus Christ's original Church when the world fell in apostasy, and how that same authority was restored and given to the prophet Joseph Smith. She immediately understood. We read the Book of Mormon with her a little and then suddenly she interrupted us. She said, '' I know that this is true. I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet. I know I need to get baptized so that I can make a difference in the lives of other women who have suffered the same problems that I have.'' Raquel has suffered a lot in her life, she is on her third marriage because her past husbands have been unloyal to her. She felt her self-worth drop a lot. She felt like God had abandoned her, but she said that she knew that God hadn't abandoned her because he sent us to her home. In her words, ''two angels''. It's amazing to see how the Spirit talks to people. Even though we had hardly said a word, she was prepared to make that commitment with the Lord. We have a baptismal date set for the 17th of June. We need her to attend church so that she can have a recent attendance before her baptism. She knows a lot of the doctrine of the Church already because she participated there for a good while.
Today we had a sweet P-Day. We went to a lookout (mirador in Spanish) of the lake Lago Atitlan, in the department of Solola, Guatemala. It's really close to one of the areas of our mission called Chicacao. We went to the lookout to take pictures. A lot of the members in Guatemala say that Lago Atitlan is or is near the Waters of Mormon, where the prophet Alma baptized 204 souls in one day. Here are the pictures:
Elder Hastings the Idahoan
Foggy, but visible. Lago Atitlan.
Elder Heath (North Carolina)
People washing their clothes in the lake.
El Lago Atitlan. If you look closely, there's a Church building at the other end. It's the building of the Santiago Atitlan Branch.
Lovely Guatemala
That's it for now! Have a wonderful week!! Jesus te ama.
Elder Taylor
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