Elder Pilling in Antigua

  Hello everyone!  This week was a pretty good week, I traveled a ton and was on a bus or some form of transport probably more than I was in my house not sleeping.  So Thursday we did something called an area attack. Everyone in the district goes to one area and then contacts for 2 hours. We went to San Martín so we had to take two different buses. We then started exchanges and I was with Elder Jones, my first Latino exchange! We came back to Comalapa so another two buses. It was interesting given my Spanish isn't great, but I loved it. It was fun. Friday we ended exchanges and then went to help with the other district’s area attack in our zone because we didn't have time to go back to Comalapa. So we took a bus out, then back to Chimal then to an area called Itzapa for a baptismal interview. Then we got the last bus from Chimal to Comalapa. A lot of bus rides haha.  Sunday we used basically every mode of transportation. A tuk tuk, van, walking, back of a pick up, a ...

Hi everyone!! This week was a pretty awesome week. On Thursday we had Inter cambios (exchanges) and because my companion is district leader, we split with the zone leaders. I got to stay here and lead the area with Elder Doolittle!!! It was such a good day and a good boost! We taught Danny and I shared a story about prayer and honeslty it was the first time in a lesson I felt the Spirit (I haven't had very many lessons though). He has a few hurdles before baptism that we learned though so August is our goal for baptism! First unreal thing I ate this week was Pedro's pizza Thursday night. Very yummy. Saturday night for dinner was the second thing unreal. We went to this Mexican restaurant and I had tacos. Literally the most flavorful thing I've ever eaten. So good we went back Monday night haha. It's the best thing I've eaten like almost ever.  For district council Peesident Probst and the APs showed up. It was pretty cool to see them. Nothing special happened ...

What a week!!!! I didn't specify this last week but my p days are on Wednesdays if you want to email me! This week had so much potential but then everything fell through and it was really tough. We had 1st appointments with about 7 of our new contacts but they either weren't home or rescheduled. When we went back the same thing happened :/ We taught Danny on Thursday but we had 2 more appointments with him later and they both fell through:/ But! We got 3 references (all brothers) from other missionaries. They are friends with the patriarch and live in Comalapa so once we get their contacts we will meet with them. They have already been to church 5 times in Chimal which is crazy and so good! That should be awesome once we get those. We had zone conference Friday which was so good. The first zone conference with our mission president! We had a spiritual little meeting. President Probst talked about having a sincere heart in all that we do, it was awesome! He then started ...

This last week has been awesome! We woke up at 3 and flew out   at 8 am on Thursday . There was like 21 of us and a few of them were latinos from América so they translated and helped all of us. It was really easy. We went to a hotel on an old couch bus. Guatemala city is wayyyyy nicer than I thought. So many nice cars and the roads were nice. Lots of nice building too. It was wild. We got to the hotel at 11 and just hung out all day. We were all super tired. They fed us lunch and dinner. It was very good food. The hotel was really nice in general. We left left Friday after breakfast and went and did some paperwork for our visas and then went to our missions! Saying goodbye to everyone was a little sad but the ones I was closest with came to my mission so it wasn't too bad . 9 of us came to Antigua, 5 were from my district.  We met the mission president (his wife was sick:/) and the trainers. I love my mission president! He is very loving and I’m excited to learn with him. We ...

I don't have a lot of time today but I am finally leaving!! Everyone going to a mission in Guatemala is on the same flight so there are like over 20 of us. That will be so fun. We have to be at reception   at 4 am   and our flight leaves   at 8:15   I think.  Friday, Saturday and Sunday were so awesome. Super spiritual. The last few days this week have been more relaxed and we have packed up everything. I am starting at the exact same time as my new mission president is so that will be super fun and cool! We have had some good laughs this week with everyone before leaving. We have even hung out with our afternoon teacher, Hermano Sosa, a few times. I love him, he is the best! I am so excited for the field and to see Guatemala.  This week I have been thinking a lot about the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the most important thing in this life! The things we can learn from the Holy Ghost and the things we can do will be more than what we could d...

Last full week here!! I leave on the 30th and am very excited. On Saturday we played Ultimate frisbee for the last time with our best district friends. It was so fun. I had a pretty unreal catch haha. I gave a talk in church Sunday, like 2 minutes maybe haha.  I   had awesome studies that day and the devo. was awesomeeee. Monday was the last day with our friends. It was sad but okay. I had some pretty unreal cinnamon sugar french toast for breakfast. The maple syrup is fake and flavoured. Everyone makes maple syrup jokes and Canada jokes. I love it. It is so funny haha. In class we went over animals in Spanish and someone (I don't remember who) said I am like Melman from Madagascar. Very funny haha. On Tuesday me and my companion got haircuts! It was a little scary but turned out fine haha.  We had pizza on Tuesday and it was so good. The usual devo   Tuesday night  but it ended an hour early. Not sure what happened. It has rained like everyday ha...

Time has gone by soooooo fast this week. So weird, almost like I am dreaming. Lots of stuff to pack in this email!! Friday was pretty boring not going to lie. Just a normal day. But saturdayyyy was insane. So we had class and stuff. Morning was average and then we had lunch and then exercise. We have become really good friends with a district in our zone. They are leaving Tuesday though:/ this is the crazy part. We played ultimate frisbee with them and like a bunch of other missionaries and it was like 10 v 10 at the start. We picked the teams, had the throw off and then the 2nd pass down the field Elder Harrison was going for the catch but Elder Esplin was trying to block the pass and they jumped and collided chin to upper cheek. None of us thought much of it but then they were both lying on the ground bleeding. Elder E splin had a gash on his chin and Elder Harrison had a gash on his cheek just under his eye. One of us ran and got the doctor and they took both of them on the golf car...