Elder Pilling in Antigua

  Hey everyone!!!!   I'm alive don't worry 😅😅 The blockades have now ended. It didn’t last very long haha. And we have been working away trying new things to help more people come unto Christ!!  La familia Lol Garcia. This is a family that was being taught 4 years ago and the old missionary teaching them reached out to us. Yesterday the mom (Aide), her daughter (Dulce) and her aunt came to church!!! And stayed for both hours... it was an incredible day because we had the primary presentation and it was SO WELL DONE and then the Sunday school class was very good. We are hoping to see some progress with her and her family. Please pray for them.  Yesterday we went to visit another person that was being taught 4 years ago. Her name is Pamela Larios. She is super nice and her mom was there too so we got to know her too. We have a family home evening this week with them and a member and we are super excited.  Something funny...  In the primary presentation, one...

Hey y’all!!   We don't have much time but this week flew by. We didn't have many problems this week with the blockades.  It basically opened up the last few days to almorzó blockades... so I'm not sure if the people really want to take the government out or no haha. We will see what happens this week.        A few sad things... Karla and Josue haven't really been progressing and there are few challenges that they have to work out. So they are sorta on the back burner for now...  But! We fund some new people and had a cool surprise!  1. We went to this random house marked on our map that just had a name "Luz" (light in Spanish). So we knocked on it and she was super nice and totally willing to receive us! But not  until tomorrow ... so we will see how that goes.  2. We found out that the relief society president's daughter isn't baptized because the first time they tried, she got scared and her foot came out of the water. Then she was too...

  Heyyyy everyone!! Craziness right now here in Guatemala! The people aren't very happy with the government so they are protesting a lot. And today the government said they would use military force to shut it down... so we are stuck in the house!!!!  But even though there are blockades, we got to meet with the Ruiz family!! We had a good visit and we are praying to meet with them more and help them make covenants!!  A few cool stories:  1. Knocked on this door a few days ago and the wife said come back another day. We went back and the husband opened up to us.  He’s taking an English bc he was born in the states and said he's super stressed because he has a court case. And because of the stress he was smoking.  He was talking super fast because he didn't have a lot of time, he says he loved my tie (it was a typical one). Asked how much it was, I said Q25 ($5CDN). He offered Q50. But I didn't have another one to wear afterwards so he said he'd trade me. He h...

Hi everyone!! I don't have much time but this week flew by. Josue didn't get permission from his mom yet so we are waiting for that before he can get baptized. Here's a scripture to ponder this week:  2 Nephi 32:8 And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray, ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray. Love you all!! Enjoy a few pics Elder Pilling

Hey everyone!!! I hope you are all doing just fantastic!!  This week was a pretty cool week. On Wednesday we had a magic show in the stake center with all of the stake. A friend of the stake president from Mexico came to do a show for us and it turned out awesome! Then afterwards there was a bunch of different food options! We had lots of friends that came to see and they all loved it!! We had divisions with the assistants and I went to San Lucas where they live. We had a blast and I learned a lot from him!! It was actually my 3rd day working in that area haha. And my 2nd time doing divisions with him. He was my zone leader a few months ago. I really enjoyed it.  We met with Josue this week and were able to put a baptismal date for the 24th! His aunt and uncle are ok with it but they want his mom to say yes. So Josue called his mom and she said that he needs to learn more... she is from a different church and so it might be hard because we have no way to talk to her... she liv...

  Hey everyone! This week was a busy fast week with 2 divisions and a super fun activity... So on Tuesday I got to go back to my first area!!! I was there a little over a year ago and it brought back sooo many memories!! Lots of good ones and some very sad and hard ones... but it was so cool to be back and see a few members there.  On Thursday I stayed in our area and we did another division. About 2 weeks ago we received a reference from the church Facebook ads whose name is Marvin. He only wants to speak English with us and we called a few times until finally on Thursday we went to his house. He wanted to speak English so his family doesn't understand us haha. But basically he has had a rough life and made some not so good decisions. Having family troubles and wants to stop drinking. We had a super powerful lesson - the 1st one I've taught in English so that was weird- and at the end I offered the prayer. The spirit was literally SOOOO strong. Afterwards I asked him how he f...

  Heyyyy everybody. What's up?   This week was wild. Super busy busy. We had zone council Tuesday to talk about some goals we want to have for this transfer and then on Wednesday a training with the other leaders and Elder Godoy (area president) and then on Thursday we had the mission wide training with him. We have never been together as a whole mission so that was WILD. He taught us some very good things and things we have to do better! I'm excited for this transfer.  We got to meet with Karla again and had a good lesson on prayer and the spirit. We also got to meet with Josue. He is 12 and lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. He is the only one not baptized and we will be working with him more this week!! Tonight we are having a family home evening with Karla and some members to watch the restoration movie. We are really excited about that too.   One of the things elder Godoy mentioned is that there are some things that we cannot vote "yes" or "no" on....