Guatemala is awesome When we left the CCM it was a 3 1/2 hour drive to Xela, it was really beautiful but foggy most of the time, President and Sister Bautista are really cool. My new Comp is Elder Gonzales from Mex. City, he's a really good missionar, although he's almost as new as me (5 months) my area is Olintepeque its pretty much just outside of Xela. When we got there he imediatly to me to change Cause we were going to an investigator family that lived an hour away and olintepeque is pretty much built into a valley, so we had to hike down the hill we were on and up the hill that they are on and they are really steep. any way we then entered a corn field and at the center of it was a cinder block hut. (They're actually better off than most of our other investigators) Anyway most all of the people in Olinte are dirt poor, infect the nicest building in the whole valley is the LDS chapel and even that is smaller that almost any other chapel i've seen. The houses that the missionaries live in are the nicest houses that ive been in in Olinte but by america standards they would be pretty crapy, any way the people in guatemala are the "draw near unto me with their lips but their hearts are far from me" kind of people and in olintepeque there are muchas evalngelical churches so the people are usually either Catholic or Evangelical. Xela is actaully the lowest baptising mission in central america because all the catholics are very caught in their ways (they have a saying here that has been recited to us a couple times which is "Better a bad old than an unknown new" or something like that) or they are Evangelical in which case they believe that all churches are true and its just a matter of finding the one that suits you (another saying "There's only one god but many ways to worship him" or something to that effect) But we actually have 4 baptisms lined up from the Oxlas family (Oh-slosh those are the types of names i have to deal with) I have learned a couple of Quiche words but I promptly forgot them cause they're really hard to pronounce. Anyway i love my area, except for the hills, my comp is hard working, and there's another Comapnionship (Elder Menendez and Elder McGrath )that lives down the hill from us so we get to hang out with them every once in a while. theyre also pretty cool Elder McGrath is awesome, he just got in the transfer before me so he's been able to give me a few heads up about things.
Elder Balhorn
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