Elder Slade Hirschi's Mission Retalhuleu Guatemala

9/11/2019  Week 6 Retalhuleu Mission Today is my first day in the field! Luckily today is P-day so it is a little less stressful. Anyways my companion is named Elder Quiñones, he is super cool! He is from Durango Mexico and he has been in this area for quite a while.  He is trying to speak English with me a little bit. He has been out for almost a year, and he has learned a lot of English from the other missionaries. He has already helped me many times, and it has only been one day. I think the Lord wanted to humble me on my first transfer, because my companion speaks mostly only Spanish, I already got sick on the first day, our apartment sink doesn´t work, and our shower is really cold. Sorry if it sounds like I´m complaining. I just wasn´t expecting all of this already haha. But seriously my companion is amazing, I don´t have any pictures yet but I will try to get some. Our area is one of the furthest away from the mission home.  We do have a microwave and a fridge...

9/4/2019 Week 5 Last Week! This is the last week of the MTC and I definitely am ready to leave but I don´t know if I´m truly READY to leave haha. I know it´s gonna be awesome and this month I have been trying to focus especially on Faith. I know that this is the Lord´s work as long as I have Faith in Him and if I´m doing what is right everything will go great! This week I want to testify of some scriptures in Mosiah, especially verses 14 and 15 in Mosiah 24.  These are some of my favorite verses of all time! And they have been especially helpful to me in the MTC preparing to leave for the Mission field. The voice of the Lord comes to Alma and his people during a time of affliction. And the Lord says ¨I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs¨ and later it says ¨The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the ...

8/28/2019  Week 4 President Nelson! Hey everyone! This week has been a great week! A lot of the elders say that this place feels like a prison, but it´s nothing like prison! I mean sure we can never leave, sure we wear the same thing everyday, and sure we have three set meals every day with 1 hour of rec time, and our rooms are under camera surveillance. No I´m just kidding this place is great! The elders here are some of the coolest people ever! Everything is going great here! I finished my first time reading all the way through the Book of Mormon here, and we are reading the Book of Mormon again, and I am in Mosiah, and I read a verse in 1 Nephi that I wanted to share. Nephi and his brothers are quarreling a lot, and there is a verse that says as Lehi and Sariah are getting old,  that they ¨Having suffered much grief because of their children¨ and I just hope I didn't cause my parents too much stress being too crazy of a kid haha. Anyways I got another letter and p...