5/23/18 Robbed, protected, baptism

Hello Everyone!

Pues la semana pasada muchas cosas paso. Primeramente nos  robaron...en la iglesia durante
P day. Como 6 misioneros. Nos quito mucho dinero la persona que nos robo. Tambien patojos
entraron el bano de las mujeres cuando mi companera y yo estabamos cambiando. nos
molesto eso un monton. Tambien hubo fuego en la estufa de la cocina. Yo lo apage. rapido.

Pero aun mas importante que todo eso, fue que tuvimos el bautismo de Adonis! Todo salio
muy bien con eso. Estamos muy felices para el. El es muy pilas. Tiene un testimonio muy
grande de la iglesia. Vamos a seguir trabajando porque queremos bendecir a las personas
mas. Amo esta obra mucha.

Well, last week many things happened. First, they robbed us ... in the church during P day.
Like 6 missionaries. The person who stole us took away a lot of money. Also, patojos entered
the women's bathroom when my partner and I were changing. That bothered us a lot. There
was also fire in the kitchen stove. I turned it off. Quick.

But even more important than all that we had the baptism of Adonis! Everything went very well
with that. We are very happy for him. He is very piles. He has a very great testimony of the
church. We are going to continue working because we want to bless people more. I love this
work a lot.

This week was awesome! We had the baptism of Adonis, so thank you for the prayers and
support with that. He is doing very well and is so happy. I feel so privileged to have been a
part of his story.

I've still not been feeling super well but it's ok because I still feel well enough to work every day. And, that's all I want. Is to be able to work every day.

We just had a returned missionary in our ward come home so that's been kind of exciting here.
The day after he got home we were invited to eat lunch with the family so that was kind of an
interesting coincidence. :P

We knocked doors all day yesterday and nobody was home. But it's ok because my companion
and I are happy to knock doors all day if that's what it takes.

Also, it rained super hard one night this week. with thunder and lightning also. We got wet.
But it's ok because it was so fun! We also had a power outage that night in all the city so that
definitely added another element of feeling to it.

Lately, I've really been focusing on putting myself in the shoes of the investigators. It's really
helped me to teach a little better when I can relate to how they feel.

I love the work of the Lord. I feel so privileged to be here every day.

Con mucho Amor,

Hermana Larimer

Baptism!

A picture of the market from the second story

5/16/18 Football, baptism next week

5/16/18

Hi! I love you all.

But the two biggest things are:

We are going to have a baptism this week! Adonis is getting baptized and it makes me so happy to see that he chose to make
this covenant with his Father in Heaven.

And, after that, is that I'm still here in Jalapa in Minerva with Hermana Sowards. This is the first
change in the mission that I haven't changed areas.

Love you all, and I am praying every day for your lives and your testimonies.

Love,

Hermana Larimer

Me and my comp in Jerseys that we bought with our names on the back

Me and my comp at a multi-zone conference where we both wore our flower dresses!

5/9/18 Travel to the Capitol, investigators, singing in church

5/9/18

Dear Amigos y Familia,

Woww

How fast does time fly? Super fast! I hope everything is well with everyone.

First of all, keep praying for Adonis! His baptism is scheduled next week. We are hoping and
praying that everything goes well. We also have transfers this Sunday so we are going to see
if I'm leaving or staying. That makes me nervous, but everything will be good because
Guatemala is awesome.

We had a few fun things happen this week:

We traveled again this week to the capital. We heard an apostle of the 70. His name is Elder
Dennis Pineda. That was so awesome. I learned so much from him and feel so privileged to
have these opportunities here in the mission of hearing from members of the 70 and apostles.
(apostolic only once not as often as members of the 70)

My companion and I ate pizza for lunch for lunch from dominos one day with cheese filled crust.
so that's worth mentioning because it was heaven on earth and its food even if it was super
expensive. :P

we gave a tour a tour of the church this week to two investigators and the spirit was so strong.

We also ate fried platanos. they are a fruit like bananas but sweeter and bigger. That was super
good.

My companion and I did a musical number in church. She played piano and I sang at the
microphone. I was super nervous but I think it went ok.

Also here's something super fun: we were looking for a reference in the market and one of our
old man friends found us and played his recorder for us. He also loves to talk to us in 
English so that always makes us laugh because he is so cute. I really wanted a video but lots and lots of people were watching us so I didn't take a video because I don't want my camera to get stolen. But this little man is so cute. We think he's a little crazy but that's 
ok. He's mostly really cute. We always share our food with him and he always helps us and we always invite him to church.

Anyways, always read the scriptures and go to church. Also Priesthood blessings. I love
priesthood blessings. They are awesome. They make me sure that if I do my part, that I really will receive blessings. I love everyone and thanks to everyone who emailed me this week! If anyone ever has any questions or doubts about the gospel,
do not be afraid to email me, please! I'm here to help.

Lots and lots of love!

Hermana Larimer

5/2/18 Enjoy life, soccer, investigator

Dear Amigos,

Lol, I literally have no time but I’m mostly alive and working really hard. I taught my companion that we have to enjoy life this past week and that really helped us a ton.

Anyways there's a group of teenage boys that wait for us every night to tell us goodnight and one night it was raining super hard and they still were waiting for us. We all are friends and I hope that they can see my example. Because they are really lost but they always are so nice and we always say hi and we've laughed a ton with them also.

Also, we went on run in the morning one day this week for our exercise. That was super awesome. I vote that Guatemala is the prettiest country especially at 6:40 in the morning.

The mission president came to our stake conference so that was a super fun surprise for the 24 missionaries in this zone.

I woke up with chills and hot flashes Sunday morning so that was super hard, but I still worked because my goal is to work every single day of my mission and not stay in the house sick a single day.

We have an investigator who put a date and time for his baptism and he is progressing so much. Please pray for Adonis!

I played soccer on p-day with the elders. So that was crazy. The elders are crazy but they are awesome.

Anyways, I invite all of you to read Alma 37:6-7 because it's the little things in life that matter. Reading a verse of scripture every day and saying our prayers every day are two little things but they are two things that we receive tons and tons of blessings for.

Love
Hermana Larimer

PS: Shoutout to everyone who's written me recently you all are the best.

4/4/18 New comp and new area outside The Capital

Buenas dias todos!

Espero que todos esten bien y que esten viendo muchos milagros cada dia! Yo tuve cambios otra vez! Yo estaba muy lista tener cambios. Vimos milagros alla en mi otra area pero me toco salir de alli.

Hello everyone!

I had changes again yesterday so another new area and a new companion! I learned so much from my other companion and the people in the area but I also felt ready to go. My new companions name is Hermana Sowards and she only has six weeks in the mission. Shes very new but shes also very wonderful! This is gonna be an awesome with her. I'm also now in an area called Jalapa. Its a stake here which is weird because it's outside the capital and lots of times they only have a branch! But its awesome! I'm ready to serve and ready to learn. 

Can I just say WOW, conference was amazing! I hope everyone learned something from conference because I sure did!  I can't believe the changes there are going to be but I know that they are inspired of the Lord. Also the temples! So many more people are gonna have the chance to go to the temple and to receive the blessings of the temple. I can't believe how fast the church is growing. A temple in Nicaragua and in Russia and in India (and in four other places)! My newest goal is to attend the temple in India. :) 

As always appreciate the prayers and support. ❤

Really I  just want to tell all of you the Lord answers questions and answers prayers. It happened in Conference and it happens every day because he hears us when we pray every day! There is never a time we cant pray. Prayer is powerful and I invite everyone to pray with a little bit more sincerity each day. Really talk with your Father in Heaven because he wants to bless you!

Con mucho amor, 

Hermana Larimer

Week #36 Halfway through my Mission

Hello Hello Hello!

This week was pretty good. We've seen some progress with the work so that's been super exciting. :) My companion is wonderful. We are really learning a lot from each other.

There are two big pieces of news that need to be announced:

1) We are having a change in the mission schedule like a HUGE change! P-day will now be on Wednesday instead of Monday! I am so grateful for this change and really feel like its inspired by the Lord. So I will write in 9 days!

2) I just need to take a moment and be grateful for my time here in the mission as I complete the halfway point in two days, 9 months. Its crazy how fast time goes and I still tell myself daily I need to stop dreaming and wake up. Being in another country is crazy and speaking another language is even crazier. :P but even more than the crazy, I'm grateful. Also, thanks for all the support I've been given. I really feel it, the prayers and the support. :)

I just want to leave you all with my testimony. I know that this is the Lord's work and I know even more important that this is the Lord's Church. He loves us and wants to bless us. The Book of Mormon is true and there is so much we can learn from it. Always learn and grow and strive to be better every day. Sometimes I feel lots of stress because I am such an imperfect person trying to do an imperfect person job, but I know and can testify that the parts that I lack the Lord can help me with, especially when I really strive to do my best.

Now an invitation: the invitation is that this week you can really try to grow your relationship with the savior. Pray more fervently every day and every prayer, read the scriptures with an aching to learn and attend church with a question because I know that you will receive an answer.

Mucho Amor,
Hermana Larimer

Fotos!
Don't know if I sent this photo or not but the Calls in my ward came to visit me so that was super fun for me! (with permission from the wife of the mission president)
There are wild horses outside of our house sometimes that run by and this is one of them!

Week #35 Kitchen Flood

Week #35

This week has been pretty good. Nothing super exciting happened this week so sorry about that.

I've been learning a lot about integrity. I've been reading some talks that the whole mission has been reading so that's been helping me a ton. The work is super good still. I've really been learning a ton from Hermana Buntin. Thank you for all the prayers because i really can feel them. They give me strength and energy. And lots of help basically. Also fun fact this week one of our water pipes broke so we had an ocean on our kitchen floor. :P

I just want to leave you all with my testimony. This work is the Lord's work. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to come on this mission. To meet the people here I’ve met and to work on myself to be better but more importantly to bring souls closer to Christ. We aren't perfect but the gospel is. Read the Book of Mormon every day. Pray every day because Heavenly Father wants you to talk to him. I know that this church is true. I'm grateful I get to learn Spanish. I'm grateful for trials and struggles that bring me closer to Christ and give me opportunities to learn and grow.

Mucho Amor,

Hermana Larimer

This photo is one of the members here. They were gonna eat iguana so that's what I'm holding in the photo. How cool is that?