June 13, 2011

Dear Mom and Family,

Well, nothing has changed. I´m still here in Joyabaj with Elder Anderson. We might get changes on the 24th though. That´s what the assistants said during a Zone Conference Thursday. President leaves and President Boutista comes in this change on the 27th and that´s why they´re going to have the last necessary changes on the 24th just to leave everything in peace for the new president I guess. They told us if we needed out all we had to do was call before the 24th and they´ll get it done. I always have a hard time saying whether I want to stay or go though because I´d rather rely on the President´s revelation but... I´ve kind of learned that knowing what we want is part of that revelation. If we really desire to receive revelation we must first learn all we can know about a situation and then carefully plan and try to make a decision. Then if necessary the revelation comes to make changes that might be necessary to our plan for reasons we may never know until much later. That being said I still have no idea if I want to stay or not. I don´t want to leave this area in the same condition that I found it in but maybe I have no choice. I´m not sure.

Baptizing Eulalio and Manuela isn´t happening any time soon. We´ve found tons of problems with their papers, the worst of which is a mistake in Manuela´s Fe de Edad (Birth Certificate basically) in that it says that she´s a boy. In order to change that mistake that THE GOVERNMENT made, THE GOVERNMENT will charge us about 1,000 Quets to correct it on top of the costs that it´s already going to take to get them married, and it will take between a month and a half to two months to get it done. I kind of hate this country right now. I still love the people and I love the beautiful topography but I´m not liking the Government too much right now.

Apart from that we´ve just been doing the same old. We´ll see how things go these next few weeks.

Love,

Elder Landon James Crapo