He above everyone else, knows best.

Making balliadas with my comp and investigators, they are homemade flour tortillas with beans salsa and eggs, super rico!!

          Getting a shoe shine!!! By the little kids in the calle.

They shine shoes for about 25 cents in American money, I like to give them a little more after, and right before my the end of my mission I plan on giving one a lot, and a huge surprise ;)

November 3,  2014

 

Hey, Guys,

 

So I´ve been super busy today, we went down to a river and played capture the flag. It was fun... I always have to come up with activities for the zone to do, but it’s kind of hard cause they all want to do something, but everything time we do something there are so many quejas!!!! Quejas means Complaints... anyways, you can’t please everybody. At the end of the activity everyone was happy that we had played and so overall it was a success.

 

We had interviews with Pres. Smith this past week, and I mentioned to him about training and how I would like to train before finishing my mission, he hadn´t known that I hadn´t trained yet so he told me he was happy that I told him, and mentioned that training most often is when we can have the biggest influence on another person, even bigger than being a zone leader. I love my area, and I can see this area exploding with success, as we continue working diligently and obediently. After this area I wouldn’t mind just being a normal missionary, without another assignment.... but just like Pres. Smith told me, and like I´ve learned before... Heavenly Father knows where he wants us to be and where he wants us to be, is where we should want to be as well. He obviously has a reason for me being in zona zaculeu as a zone leader right now, and what I need to do is trust in that reason, and trust that He above everyone else, knows best.

There are a few scriptures that I really love that go along with this.

16 Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard.

17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.

18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me.

19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.

20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.

21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.

22 He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of them to quake before me.

23 Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me knowledge by visions in the night-time.

24 And by day have I waxed bold in mighty prayer before him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and ministered unto me.

25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.

26 O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?

27 And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh? Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am I angry because of mine enemy?

28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.

29 Do not anger again because of mine enemies. Do not slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.

30 Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say: O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

31 O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin?

32 May the gates of hell be shut continually before me, because that my heart is broken and my spirit is contrite! O Lord, wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the plain road!

33 O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of thy righteousness! O Lord, wilt thou make a way for mine escape before mine enemies! Wilt thou make my path straight before me! Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way—but that thou wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way, but the ways of mine enemy.

34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.

35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.

I put special emfasis in verses 19 and 34, remembering that it is in him we should trust, not in the arm of the flesh, or better said not in our own strengths or on the strengths of others, because its only with His strength that we can do all things.

Hey, I love you guys so much, and I am so proud of all your accomplishments, I’m happy you are all mas o menos healthy, and I always read all your letters, Thanks for everything, Love,

Elder Dalton

 

 



At one of our recent convert’s house, they have a man made well- lots of people have them here. So, we always go to help them haul out water. When we do we fill over 30 buckets of water, it’s like a GGP Workout. And speaking of working out, my comp. has me doing a workout program called insanity.... and the name fits the workouts, It reminds me of when we would go to GGP, and it also reminds me how out of shape I am, ha-ha.



Guess what, a few weeks ago one of our recent converts had a baby, and we wrote out a list of names for her to pick out from. Its a boy, and it turns out that she named her new born baby... "Elder Dalton" ha-ha, I have a baby named after me in Guatemala, that’s so awesome!!! All the members kept telling me, "now we´ll never forget you elder because every time we see the baby we will always remember you". His first name is Elder and his middle name Dalton, haha. So that’s pretty funny, right...



I got bit by this giant black wasp this week, my wrist swelled up huge, and itched like crazy, but it went down.



We went up to Colotenango this week to do a baptismal interview, Colo is basically a lot like my first two areas.... Montañas.... and more montains.

 

The weather is hot and sunny and dry and windy, it feels like Utah in the summer.

I spy the steeple of a Mormon church, can you see it also??? It’s the chapel of the area called Ical.

And now the foto of the week, Lady walking with a cooler full of ice and drinks on her head like its nothin..... She is Pilas ;)