THE BEST WEEK EVER

Buenos Tardes Familia!

Alright, I have had one of the best weeks ever, i'm not even sure where to start! This has definitely been a week to remember, and I am LOVING serving this mission! I miss you all SO much, but I love this!

Christopher Melville.... WOW you are so cool! I can't get enough when I hear about you! I can't believe you played Varsity, and even did the Tip Off! Atta kid! You're a Melville, keep working hard and tearing it up out there!

Tanner, How is basketball going for you!? Good I hope. Let me know! I heard about the BYU vs. Utah game, my heart hurt for a while but I kept wearing my ''The Quest'' T-Shirt, I haven't lost faith. haha The President had a paper outside his door that he updated the score, one number in red, one number in blue, with the time left in the game. It didn't say anything else on it so you had to be a fan of either Utah or BYU to be able to figure it out. It was pretty funny. He's an awesome guy.

I just got back from Wendy's! We also ate McDonalds this morning. haha This came at a perfect time, I was really starting to miss my nasty greasy american food! We went to the ''Park de Central'' and got to get our shoes shined and teach people! We taught this guy named Abraham, and It wasn't us that's for sure, but he was blown away by hearing the gospel. We gave him a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet and he just started reading! We had him read Moroni's challenge to us and had him read 3 NEPHI 11. That is such a good chapter, for our lives, and also for missionary work! Before that we went and saw a big map of Guatemala that showed all the volcanoes and mountains and stuff. It was way cool.

Yesterday, we went to Las Culinas. It is this HUGE camp thing that the church owns, where thousands of people in Central America come for things like youth conferences and camps and stuff... It was really good. We said goodbye to the Viejos (Older Norteamericanos) and the Latinos who are now heading out into their missions! I made some friends with the Latinos and NorteAmericanos and it was really sad to see them go! Exciting though, That will be us in two weeks!

I got my soap dish thing back from Elder Hautau. I'm not completely sure, but I think he stole another one so he could give me mine back... haha Ok, Ok, i'm just assuming that, but he just pulled another one out of thin air... Maybe someone gave him one. (: So don't worry about sending one, and I realized there are so many stores and stuff down here, and it's all pretty cheap, so you don't even have to send anything if you don't want to! Everything is awesome.

Ok, I have to tell you about divisions with the south missionaries... Talk about one of the highlights of my life here in Guat! We started in the morning, and got to work all day until 5 or so... It was so cool! We rode one of those CRAZY busses all the way up into the mountains (you can see volcanoes all over down here... haha It's incredible.) and we just got out, went to their house and got ready, then went right to work! My companion was Elder Romrell from Idaho Falls, he was way cool and knows Dustin Locke! Anyways, we walked so far and so long, but I was so pumped. He had 2 lessons planned for us to go teach, but they both bailed, so we did a ton of contacting. I totaled 16 contacts! My companion 17, so we were contacting like crazy. Out of those 33 contacts we were invited in to teach 4 lessons! My companion was having me teach big chunks of the lesson too... WOW talk about scary, but talk about cool! It all worked out, I said basically what I wanted to say too. It's definitely the help of the Lord. There is NO way I could have been able to do it without his help, and I am SO thankful for that. I have felt his hand in so many things here on the mission! Anyways, out of that day, we were able to get 5 new investigators, He said we were on track to blowing his record day out of the water. It was so exciting. I wish you could have seen the houses we were teaching at and the places we were walking, it was incredible. I found myself walking a narrow 6 inch or so path with jungle all around me wondering where I was, and thinking to myself, ''There is NO way anyone lives out here!'' Sure enough there were TONS of little tin roof houses with dirt floors and one or rooms for tons of people and kids and stuff.. I loved it so much.

Even though I was able to talk a lot, this really helped me realize that I need to keep working and giving it EVERYTHING to be able to learn Spanish. I know with his help I can do anything though, and i'm so thankful for that.

I have to go soon I only have 2 minutes left... I got a letter from Heather last week and Christian this week! Keep writing! I love it. You can dearelder to the guatemalan mtc too.

Oh, Elder Misini and I have been assigned to be the new assistants to the president here in the Guatemalan CCM... I could use ALL of the prayers you can offer, but I know you're praying for me... I can feel it. THanks.

I love you all so much! I miss you a ton, but LOVE it out here. The Church is true. Read the BOM like crazy, it works wonders! It{s TRUE!

LOVE YOU ALL

ELDER MELVILLE

p.s. i{ve been speaking spanish in my sleep... oops.... haha