Temple wedding and a baptism

 A sister from Cubulco, Lidia, got married to a return missionary, Aaron Barraro. She asked Alan to be a witness at their sealing and I got to be her escort. What a beautiful, sweet spiritual experience!

 Man and wife for eternity in the house of the Lord.

 Guatemala City temple

 The beautiful bride

 We raced back to Fray for a baptism Saturday morning of 17 year old Juan.

 It's been raining all week and the river is very high and full of dirt, but that didn't stop him,

 Elder Sanchez baptized him.

The group then ate chocolate rice drink and cake.

family home evening and multi-zone conference

 We had FHE in the church to talk about planning ahead and how the families need to pray, read scriptures, and have FHE in their homes. Alan did an object lesson with balancing a can on knives suspended from other cans and how you need to have a plan to be successful.

 After our lesson we made play dough and ate chocolate chip cookies and pop.

 We took our 4 elders with us to Coban for a multi-zone conference to hear an area 70 speak. Elder Zeballos and his wife spoke about having the spirit and learning another language. President Faundez spoke on keeping the rules and helping your companion keep them as well. Sister Faundez spoke on teaching with the spirit to convert people and not just baptizing for numbers.

 We had a wonderful lunch afterwards and then we drove to Guatemala City.

We watched The Greatest Showman at Oakland mall, we enjoyed the singing and dancing very much.

Birthday party, tarantulas, and birds

 We were at the birthday party for 7 year old Christopher and they found this little one in the grass.

 Fun photos with Dalia, Anapaula, and Rosita.

 My turn.

 2 pinatas, this is the birthday boy getting ready to hit the mark.

The mission president and his assistants came through town and they took the broken washer and dryer we couldn't use back to Coban. When they moved the dryer there were 2 tarantulas living under neither. Thank goodness Alan killed them.

 We always get a bunch of brids were we live. These are vultures, but we get a ton of other pretty birds that have great songs.

Close up.

New Year

 We ushered out the old year by finding out we had a mouse in our house. We put everything that wasn't in a can in our fridge and the next morning bought poison because no one had mouse traps.

We bought plastic tubs and buckets and pulled our cereal, chips, pasta, and mixes out of the fridge. Alan was able to get one mouse, we figure there are more and are hoping to get rid of all of them.

 New Years Eve, we had kaqik with the Riquena family and watched as the Elders helped them set off fireworks.

The elders sink fell off the wall and broke. Alan got permission from the mission president to purchase another one and put it in. This is also the same sink that the members use when we have church.

The new sink, with the tile putty drying. Used cardboard because the putty is for floor tiles, and tends to run down when applied against the wall.

 We had an activity and showed some sisters in the branch how to make caramel and popcorn. We ate it all up!

 The chickens were a big fan of the leftover kernals of corn.

Saturday we had english class and mutual to introduce the theme this year D&C 19:23-"Learn of me and listen to my words... and you shall have peace in me". We then went to the concha and played pig with a few of the youth.

Alan won and I was the first one out because I was after Alan :)