Utz awech!!!!
No that is not a keyboard error that's the language that I
have to learn!!!!
That's right there is a lot that has happened this last week
and I am still trying to get it in my head that it happened.
So first of all, yes
I had changes and it turned out that the rumors were true about where I would
be going. So when I arrived at changes I was told that I had an interview with
president (and you only have interviews if you are going to be made a leader OR
if you are receiving a calling such as secretary or assistant to the
president).
So when I entered I thought that maybe I would be made a
district leader or something on the coast of the city. . . something like that
...NOPE I have been called to the sacred calling that maybe only 15 elders have
ever been called to since 2008. I have been called to serve in Santiago Atitlan
which is the only place in the mission where you have to learn a language
[other than Spanish] and is an assignment. To give a little bit of detail about
my area it is the farthest area in all of the mission, about 4 hours from the
mission home and is up in the volcanoes and mountains of lake Atitlan or the Waters of Mormon. The lake is half of our area. It is so big it's incredible. We have no one
near us. It's literally just me, my
companion and God and that's it. 
We have
separate, rules separate tasks and we have to work differently and we have to
really only answer to the president. It's
like its own separate mission it's so different here. The culture is completely
different. They are literally descendant
of Lehi, pure Mayans that only wear a special type of clothing. It's incredible
but with that we also have to learn another language that they only speak here
called Tz¨Utijil but there are no grammar books and nobody can read or write it
really so it's EVEN harder. And this is not a regular calling. President does not pick whatever Elder to
work here it's like being called into the office because I know I will be here automatically
for 5 months at the least. 
But I didn't even tell you what happened before I went to my
new area with my new companion. That's a
whole other story. But it is tough here and I see why that President has to do
a separate fast and even go to the temple to decide who to send here because it
is not a place for everyone. There are a
lot of problems here and if you aren't careful you will go crazy here and just
lose it and have a ton of depression. And it was the very last assignment
President Brough gave me before he left.
I don't fully know why he choose me to go here out of all the Elders but
I remember what he said to me before he left and that gives me a little bit of
an answer why. 
But I love you all. This
area is amazing. Elders kill to go here and I am lucky enough to be one of the chosen
ones to do it
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