Thank you for all the prayers. I felt them.

Here is Morgan's letter from today! Thank you for your prayers for her health! I appreciate it---and so did she!! This message has some YUCK to it as she describes last week - sorry!
Lisa

my new awesome scripture case...leather and sooo pretty!

mi companera cooking.

my baby banana...good morning

in santiago atitlan

So first things first---HOW ARE YOU DOING NOW??? This has been a very long week waiting to hear if you are okay!!! I was going to ask/email your mission office, but I decided if I was the one that asked and you hadn't told them about your kidney stone---I actually hope it is that and not something worse now---but if I did that, you would be mad at me...so I have waited to hear from you. Hope that was the right thing to do. I hope you already told them, but I just wasn't sure.

I am doing great!! Thank you for all the prayers. I felt them. I am sorry i didn't write much last week...it was too hard for me to be sitting there...i had to get up and throw up and walk around...i threw up like 9 times that day....hahaha...i didn't eat much those days. Funny, i saw this girl that i saw back in January in a change meeting and today she goes...wow, you look way skinny...like i only saw you once before but i feel like you are way skinny,...my skirts are a littleeee big.

i haven't seen it, but i dont have the pain. So who knows if its gone or still in me...i think its the same one i had back in like January...and its still there i think. But the pain and nausea is gone. I can eat now and walk. So all is well! Friday as we were leaving the house, even that morning i was struggling...but as we went to leave the house the pain just disappeared.
But i am doing much better. That Tuesday we went to go eat at a members house and i just laid down on their really hard, uncomfortable, lumpy couch...which didn't help much...but they let me chill there for a bit cause i was just throwing up and couldn't walk...so they took good care of me...then Hermana Markham, the presidents wife told me to go home and sleep...so we went home...i didn't sleep much but we were able to rest a bit...so we did. I FELT AWFUL TO NOT GO OUT AND HAVE A SINGLE LESSON, but i couldn't have done it...i was dying...and throwing up all over the place. Every time i opened my mouth to talk, or every time i sat up from laying down.

I did talk with the presidents wife. She started to cry when she heard me talk cause she knew i was in a lot of pain. She is so sweet. She called a few times to check up on me. I am just fine. I too have been having foot problems but nothing i cant handle with a little prayer and faith! My foot is my outside side part...like the arch part by the pinky toes....its odd but all good!

ARE YOU DRINKING LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF CLEAN WATER --- WITH LEMON IN IT PREFERABLY.

I am drinking more water now. pinky promise.

WEAR BUG JUICE WHILE YOU ARE IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! It is very important!!!! And do you have enough warm clothes for the evenings and mornings you said were chilly?

Ya I've been attacked by the bugs...but its is FREEEEZZZING here. It rains a lot and we just get drenched and then super cold. I wish i had more jackets but i can find those here in the pacas i think.

PLEASE DRINK LOTS OF CLEAN WATER---TAKE CARE OF MORGAN. (Think she gets it yet?)

OK I HAVE A LOT TO SAY because i didn't write a lot last week.

First i want to tell you about my new goal. I have a new notebook that i am using daily. Each night as i write in my journal and refelct on the day, i think of one thing from that day that i could have done differently. One thing that i can change. and i write about it and think of how i could have been better. Now i am not doing this to be negative....because i am really enjoying it. As i do it, i am able to 1)recognize my weaknesses. 2)repent. and 3)remember these things after words. Because i have thought about it so much i remember that i want to change it and the next time the situation comes up, i remember that i wanted to do it differently. I AM LOVING THIS.

Now i have to tell you about the amazing Mazat Family. I don't know if i have mentioned them before. We found them knocking doors one day. The father came out and accepted to listen willingly, but he was home alone so we just started to talk outside. As we began to talk his wife and kids walked up. So the dad is Santiago, the mom Clara, and their kids Luis (19), Julio(14), Wilmer(12), and Glenda(7).Well when the wife finally came they invited us in. We got talking and they loved it all. It was just Santiago, Clara and Julio and glenda. Julio was super pilas. We went back and this time it was Santiago, Clara, Julio and Wilmer and glenda. They are so great. They accepted it all great. We went back again to teach the Book of Mormon and those same 5...but this time as we started to verify that they were praying in walked Luis. We had never met him before and so i invited him to listen as well. He accepted very happily. Well LUIS is SUPER pilas. He is sooo interested. We hadn't even explain Joseph Smith or the restoration at all to him but we were teaching Book of Mormon and we kept with that lesson and they all understood it way well. They were super excited to read it. We went back again and this time the the branch president. We were planning on teaching the Sabbath day but as we got there and it was only clara and julio and wilmer...we weren't sure what to teach...then all the sudden in walked luis. So we decided to teach the restoration and Joseph Smith. As we did so the spirit was so strong. President Morales was awesome. I just really fell so strongly that this family is going to progress so well. We are super excited for them!! Pray for the Familia Mazat!!

Also, Angelica, we don't know what happened...she is never home anymore and she didn't come to church Sunday. We felt strong this past week to wait for her baptism which is good because she didn't even come to church. So tomorrow we are going again to look for her and hope we find her!

Ah not time!! ok what more...

Mom i haven't heard anything from marisol or angel or tommy....maybe you can email hermana zamacona and ask her what happened and if she has pictures. I AM DYING!! TELL HER I LOVE HER AND TO TELL EVERYONE THERE IN THE AREA I LOVE THEM AND MISS THEM!! I would love that if you could do that.

I was thinking about Dwan this past week! How is she?

The dogs here fight and then eat each other...it is ridiculous.

the little kids here are my lifeeee and love!!!

There are some kids who like to throw ants at me which is really annoying but i still love them.

Something weird in Guatemala...the men just pee in the street...and the women breast feet in from of everyone. Like everything open...this one lady went up Sunday to bear her testimony breast feeding her baby...it was quite odd....but normal here. Only in Guate.

Who has come home of my friends? I don't even know. Tell them hi for me! hahha

This little girl came to me the other day and said "Usted, porque salio bien canchita?" aka,,,,why did you come out so white?? hahaha

Sometimes when it rains a lot the lights go out and we have to plan by candle light....its super fun. The lights in the whole colony go out and no one can see anything...its hilarious..

There is a member here obsessed with harry potter and he is going to name his baby Hermoine...hahahaha

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. I am learning so much. I am grateful for my challenges...more than ever. I am really trying to focus on learning from every experience rather than just suffering cause that's not fun and doesn't help us. So i am truly grateful for all the trials i have and know that as i strive to improve daily i can be more like my savior which is what i am trying to do.

Love you
Hermana Oliphant