October 24, 2011

Dear Mom and Family,

The sun came out this week! My companion told my that it´s always foggy and cloudy, even when there´s not a hurricane passing through, but apparently the wet season has now ended and the cold and dry season has come and it´s been sunny since Tuesday.

This week has been a lot better. We´ve been able to work trying to find new investigators. We tried contacting a few people, but the majority could only speak k´iché. They´re rebuilding the chapel and are just about finished. It looks great and the bishop is really excited about it. They´re planning to do a cultural night to celebrate the new chapel and they´ve asked us to do an act on the part of the missionary work. We planned a little yesterday and I´m a bit worried about the crunch of time they want us to be able to prepare it in... I feel they´re starting extremely late, but we´ll do our best. We´re estimating dedicating the chapel in two weeks or three. We taught a member named Miguel and asked him for a reference and he told us he´d think about it and have someone for us yesterday. He followed through and so now we have someone to go teach.

That´s about all for this week. The family I was living with gave me their e-mail so I could give it to you so you could talk but I forgot it was on my old planner and I don´t have it with me. I´m sorry, I´ll try to get it to you next week. I´m not quite sure what I´m going to need to get me through the rest of my mission. A lot of my pants have a small hole between the legs from all the walking I´ve been doing. I´m down to my last pair of shoes. All my socks have holes in the toes that I have to repair daily. My garments are all stretched out... but I´m doing fine. I can find most of that stuff here if I need to. My name tag broke yesterday so I filed down the sharp edges and stuck a magnet to it so I could still use it. I can improvise. My backpack is being held up by climbing hooks... I could go on. I´ll look this week and see what I can think of that I might really need. I think the only thing is a pair of dark blue pinstriped pants to the suit I brought on the mission so I can go home nice and clean and new. Everything else I´ll just use up to the very end.

Thanks! I love you.

Elder Landon James Crapo