Last Week of MTC

This will be the last of the emails till next monday. My new p day is monday so SURPRISE!! I still haven´t left. I leave tomorrow at 8 in the morning to the mission home with everyone. I´m super duper excited I can´t wait for this to finally start. Well my latin companion is still not nice. I call him 50 cent but he doesn´t understand. He´s a thug and wants to shank me. Haha just kidding he´s humble when he needs help and then he´s just thug the rest of the times. I´m only a little nervous because I don´t want to live in a house made of monkey skin, oh and one area takes 9 hours to get to and I don´t think that sounds like fun driving in a bus for 9 hours unless I convert like 12 people but I can´t afford that many BOM so.... Pray for me!! Oh that is a lie I want to live in a house like that. I want to be out of the city because I don´t want the noise anymore, and the bug bites. At least there they will spray the windows and sheets here in the CCM I just have to live with being able to draw Orion´s belt on my foot. I hope everything went fun in California. I´m sure it did but I´m sure you all missed seeing me in a swimsuit. What was the weather like and my friend Elder Willardson, Andrew´s Companion, wants to know what side of Coronado is Carrie´s house. Thank you so much for the Easter!!! Best Easter I think I´ve ever had. We watched El Salvador Del Mundo which was amazing. It was Nephi´s vision of the Savior´s birth in spanish and there was good music to it and it was just great. I hope I get the chance next week to finally send some pictures in an email and I hope that you got the scripture I wanted. I didn´t get mail last week because of Holy Week so I just got mail from two weeks ago today and I don´t know how mail is going to work...  Oh and that address I think is wrong.. whoops. It was the one on my luggage and I´m not sure it´s right. It is in my missionary book! Well Happy Easter family and I hope you had as good of a day as I did. I love you so much and I can´t to tell you all about the Jaguars and Monos... Les amo a mi familia. Gracias por su ejemplo y por su amor. Gracias por su suporte y su diligencia en las cartas. Este Iglesia is verdadero y Jesucristo sufrió mucho para nosotros. Love you all!!

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Elder Llewelyn

Easter Week

THANK YOU S o much for the pics!!! They were so great!!! I felt a sense of relief and yes alee... I feel that every wednesday. but today tuesday because of HOly week... The temple is always good. my comp and I decided to go spanish again and it was just us and andrew and his comp and the hermanas everyone else went english. Spanish is coming along great and the next time I write to you I´ll be in The real guatemala!!! I´m getting pretty excited. Sorry that this email might be a little shorter which shouldn´t matter since you´re all off partying in Cali!! WHOOO!!! Well yesterday we went contacting again and it was yet again the best experience ever. We had 14 references and people are so open and interested in what we have to say about God. It really is amazing. I love the people down here. Oh and hannah... the bag is very chic. very. Tell the happy couple congrats and Suzy looked beautiful! My new sister. who would have thought I would get three sisters in two years... It´s like christmas! Well family I hope you have having some good times and thank you so much for all you do! OH I forgot! I got your package and I forgot that Easter wasn´t here yet so I opened it... Sorry!! I love it though and thank you so much!! Tell grandparents I say hi!! Oh and make sure everyone knows my new address!!
5th Avenida 5-55 Edificio Euro Plaza, Torre 2
15 Nivel, Oficina 1504, Zona 14 (guatemalan computers don´t have an enter bar... new line.) Guatemala, Guatemala C.A.(new line) Guatemala.... Well that is my mission home address. Thank you all for your awesome letters and I hope next week I can make the emails more personal because I will have more time on the computer... or maybe I will have no electricity so tough luck for me!! Oh we watched a video last week of the north mission and some apartments look native!! WHOOO!!! I´m so excited and I can´t wait to tell you all the cool things and all the new friends I meet!! Well family thank you for everything and I expect another email next week!!

Coltons Letter, April 13, 2001

My family!! Well I have now written an outline for this letter!! I hope that it makes it go by faster so I can get everthing I want to tell you and maybe I can answer all your questions!! Yay!! Haha well Dad you seemed to have the most questions which is good because it gave me a reason to make an outline. Well the CCM is small but really nice. Everything is really nice and we have a big gym and two basketball courts all to ourselves. We get to go everymorning. There are about less than 60 of us. The food is great and the hermanas that cook are the greatest. Plantinos and frijoles. The temple is beautiful and we get to walk up there two or three times a week and across the street is a think called CRE it is an house that the church has bought and it is just rooms with couches and we have our progressive investigators and we are filmed and we watch our progress. Last week we went exploring around the CRE house and we went on the room... it was great. Across the street is the distribution center so the church owns a ton of stuff around here and the only thing keeping it all from being the churches from the CCM to the temple is a gas station. Mail really does come only once a week and i´ve realized all your dear elders I think are a week behind me. You can email me if you want and I will print it out and just turn it off... i know. it´s cheating but it works. Haha. Well I think I want Moroni 9:6 for my plaque. I didn´t realize how long ago you wrote that. Sorry... This outline thing will work better. Tell grandma and grandpas that I can write them on email. I write grandma and grandpa goff every week so I can be more instant with everyone now. I really like the blog Idea and i hope everyone isn´t sick of hearing how much I love Guatemala. Everyone sounds like they are staying pretty active!! Lacrosse, horse back riding... lake powell... oh how I miss lake powell.  I think I get an hour to write out in the field. That was to answer hannah sorry my outline sucks. Well here is some of the small events in the week... I passed the sacrament to Elder Hinckley. He came to Guatemala and spent a sacrament with us and gave us a Devotional after. It was incredible. It was like seeing President Hinckley. I did a Spanish session in the temple... That was crazy cool. Everything was hard and I felt like my brain was going to explode because I was translated sentence after sentence. Oh and our mission presidents came this week!! Pres. Torres and his wife are amazing people. They are so nice and they talked a lot about how much the people are accepting, but then we had a safety meeting two days later. Bahaha. I thought that was funny. And now for the best thing to talk about!!! I´m getting a new sister tomorrow!! I want some pictures in an email so bad!! I´m so excited I´ll wear an extra nice tie and it´ll be like Im there!! Have fun tomorrow family and I´m happy to say that my brother is fulfilling the theme of General Conference. Oh and don´t expect me single for long when I get home, it´s a commandment. haha it´s a good thing I promise. Well family I love you all so much. Thank you for everything and I can´t wait to hear from you tonight when I get the Dearelders! Felizidades Suzy on going through the temple. Maybe we can go through a spanish session when I get home. I feel like I can only relate to you now because we are both latin. Haha just kidding but I love you all and have fun tomorrow!!!!! I wish I was there so bad to see my brother get sealed but hey I know that we can go to the temple for eternity!! WOOO the gospel is true.

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Elder Llewelyn

Coltons Letter, April 5, 2011

Sounds like Colton had a very fun week.....

WOOOO!!!! I just got home from the marcado central!!! It was the most insane thing ever!! Dad I have some pictures you will appreciate. We first went to a 3d map that was huge. It was mapped by Guatemalan Surveyors and it is a whole 150 foot long map that shows all the elevation of everthing in Guatemala!! It was so insane!! Elder Rogers one of the supervisors here told us about how the Book of Mormon fit into Guatemala! I am currently in the Land of Nephi if you were wondering and there were maps of where all the ruins are and most of them are in my mission but I won´t be close to any volcanos which is a little disappointing because Elder Meoño has them all in his mission. After the map we went to the market. The people were the greatest and a drunk man wanted to know my thoughts on Albert Einstein I told him he was bueno. I didn´t understand a word he was saying and his spanish was worse because he was drunk and had one tooth. I was also laughed at by a crazy man across the street. He told me he was already going to Heaven. I respected him. The market is the greatest place to be. If you come down Dad and Alyce just know that we are going there. The food looks crazy but the mangos and avocados are the size of a newborns head. Literally I saw a newborn next to one. There was dried fish and a huge pig head just sitting out and it smelled of death and wrotting cheese. I got some pretty great stuff for way cheap. Everything is cheap I bought a knitted poncho for sixty quetz which would probably be around 6 american dollars. I wish I could have gotten you all something but I´ll be able to at the end of my mission. Hannah I was looking at some great bags that is all the rage down here and I hope you like it when I get it for you!! Next we went to the mall which is a nicer mall then in North America. It was 4 stories and my district ate at Chili´s!! WHOO!! We have the place to ourselves till tomorrow afternoon when new latino and n. americans come!! It was a little sad saying goodbye to all the latinos because they were some of the greatest people. We had one last piamatha which is a sleepover in spanish. I got the coolest soccer jersey and I will have  you know that I am now a fan of the beautiful game. We were in Chili´s and everyone was going crazy!! Go Madrid! Well this week has also been one of the most spiritual weeks here. Conference was amazing and it was literally Christmas. I got so much out of it that I would never have gotten out of it unless I was a missionary. I know that the Prophet and Apostles are the mouth pieces for the Lord and I know that we can get our answers from them. My favorite talk was C. Scott Grow´s about the Atonement and I especially loved Elder Bednars. He always gives a good message and that is the second time I´ve heard him talk about the Spirit in that context and I know that is what I needed to here. I love you family so much. I love your letters and I want you to know how much I appreciate them. My week is brightened when I get them. Thank you for letting for the example you are all to me. Alyce thank you for your letter. I don´t know when I got it but thank you for worrying about me. I don´t need anything down here. Hermana Steimle takes really good care of us and she makes sure we are all safe. That is the beauty of it down here. The president and his wife know us each by name and know who we are. The are amazing people. I love you so much family!! If this is posted on my blog tell my friends that I don´t have a clue when they will get their letters but they´re are sent!!! I love you all so much and I love this gospel!! I love the people I met down here even the one who smacked my are today and called my a gringo!! haha they are 4 feet tall down here. They have nothing on me.
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Elder Llewelyn