Well happy tuesday. (its weird to say that)
Firstly, your probably wondering why im writing you now if i didnt get changed this week. Its because an elder from our district left early in the morning, and his comp stayed so he had to be with us the whole day until his new comp showed up. He was supposed to arrive at 3, but didnt get here until almost 6. Then we went straight to our district meeting and had no time to write. but we got permission to write today!
Well this week was way fun, considering we took a trip to Merida. About 4 weeks ago at the last zone conference we had, pres introduced this new program based off david and goliath. the program is to help us overcome our bad habits, or if we have any, addictions. You keep track everyday how you do with them, and if you can go 30 days without doing that bad habbit or addiction, well you win. If the habbit or addiction is difficult enough to overcome, pres will let you go through the merida temple with him. Im still working on my 30 days, because if you fall one day you have to start all over, but my comp had some problems back in december and the pres gave him this program before anybody so it could help him. Well he finally beat it the other week, so we went to merida so he could go through the temple. there was one other elder in the same situation who beat it, so while the both of them went through with pres and his wife, me and the other edlers comp knocked all the doors surrounding the temple. i can honestly say that people from merida are NOT open to hear the gospel like in cancun. But still, it was fun.
Later that night after the session in the temple, the pres took just me and my comp out to eat at a yucateco restaurant. It was way good. Yucateco food is pretty different than regular mexican food. Its hard to describe, so just use google if you want to know. But we had to walk through downtown merida to get to the restaurant, and it was just my comp and i, pres, and his wife. My comp whispered to me while walking "people are going to think we are the assistants". I walked a little taller.
Then we retured to Cancun and had the baptism of Lenin, the kid who got hit by a van a month ago. You cant even see it in the pic, but he had about a 12 inch long scar on the right side of his head in the shape of an upside down u. also they sowed his ring finger back on on his left hand. he asked me to do the baptism, so i had to be really careful while doing it. But it all turned out fine, and it was a great service. His mom and her best friend are getting baptized this saturday. They are so excited, that they tell everyone about how they are getting baptized "in the true church". It really does make every single hard part about serving a mission just dissapear when i hear them say that. One of the harder parts to explain to all these people is how there is only one true church on the earth. Many of them believe that as long as you live a good life, we will arrive back to our father in heaven. But how very blessed are we, the saints of the last days, to know and have to opportunity to share the gift of eternal life with all those around us. How grateful I am to know exactly where i want to go, and exactly how to get there. How grateful I am for a savior that made all of that possible through his perfection, love, and sacrifice.
My comp got made District leader, which is nice cause now we dont have to ask permission for stuff like take the cell phone out of our apartment and what not. My comp was stoked when they told him, and as a joke he wanted me to call him "district leader". I played along for a while, with some other titles i felt he deserved too haha
I was happy to hear about how well Sierra did at the ben brown invite! Thats awesome.
The pics are of Lenin and his family, us with lenin, and a book of mormon in Mayan. I picked one up when i went to merida. Alot of people in cancun know mayan, but nobody ever speaks it, but i hear that when you go out to some of the villages a lot of the older people speak it. I want to try and pick some up but it will be hard unless i go to a village for a while. Just reading it takes a lot of effort. We will see. I was also wondering if Carlos ever ran into any Mayan down there in Guatemala? Ive asked about that dialect quiche, and nobody this far north had ever heard it. Maybe if i serve in southern campeche. Oh well
Well i hope everyone has a supercalafragalisticexpialodocious week. (Thats hard to spell when your thinking in spanish all day)
Love, Elder Kitterman
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