Josie's Journey's: "We were not placed on this earth to walk alone." President Thomas S. Monson

WOW this last week was super duper awesome!! We've been working really hard with some families, and we have a couple in the ward that I consider the Guatemalan version of brother and sister Wood! -they have the same personalities, and love to help us in the work!!

My comp is awesome…and we just have a great time…whether or not people want to listen to us. When we are super happy, and smiling—most of the time, they want to listen—only problem is, that all of them are willing to listen to us, they just aren’t so willing to get baptized…super crazy!! Don’t you understand this will make you happy!?! Life is a lot better when you understand, and i have started to realize how funny people are, now I can understand what they are saying.

People are great! The ward members are awesome, just sometimes not the most eager to go to appointments with us, but we’re working on that!! I super love the kids here—they are the cutest, and they are always soo talkative, and love to talk to the canchi!

We have been studying the attributes of Christ, and how we need to become more like him, and i super love the tips and things it gives in preach my gospel on how we can better become like him! One of my favorites is to look at everyone the way that Christ sees them, and to just love them, without even needing to get to know them! Just love them, and love them freely!!

Another thing we’ve been trying to focus on, is how the commandments really are there to help us!!! Yesterday, we went and visited this family, and the husband wasn’t there because he had pay day, and therefore was out drinking with his pals (although true friends wouldn’t encourage him to drink) We were talking to her, and she started crying, and saying how her husband had found another women, and how he was spending all of his money on her, and she has 7 kids, and the 3 oldest who are 15, 13, and 12 have jobs to help feed the family, and she works all day making tortillas, and only makes 20Q a day, which is equivalent to less than 3$... how sad!! Now school is starting up, she has 7 kids to feed, and clothe and care for, and her husband doesn’t give her any money to help out, so she pays for the house as well, and has to leave her 3 youngest in the house to go to work, and just starts to cry throughout the day, thinking about them, and hoping that they are okay, and it’s just the saddest thing ever to see how much these things destroy lives!!! We bore our testimonies to her, and told her she was never alone, but then her husband returned, way way way drunk, and got mad, so we had to leave, but wow.... the laws and commandments are here to protect us!! so don’t even downgrade the importance of even the seemingly small ones, that could have a lasting impact!!

Love you all and hope you have a great week!

Hermana Morris