Hello Family!!
Well from everyone`s emails it sounds like this week went pretty good! This week was a little strange it kind of felt like we were living on an episode of one of those MTV Reality Tv Shows... haha. This district is a little crazy but I am hoping today will fix some things.
This week was also just a little strange in general. We had a rough time finding people to teach and the days seemed very long. Although I was told 1,000 times that the people down here already know God and they are content. It was a little rough hearing that so many times because I know that there is more for them waiting they just haven`t quite accepted it!! We are going to work even harder this week I hope and we are going to see some more people who are ready to hear this gospel.
I also had my ward mission leader sing to me this week one of my personal favorites, My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas... It is funnier when they have an accent! haha it was really funny. This ward is pretty funny in general. I am really good friends with a lot of the people here and I love my area. It is going to be hard to leave but it will also be cool to experience more of the mission and meet the different people here!!
Yesterday we had to stay in all day because of the elections because I heard it is a little crazy on these days. So we just stayed in all day and our garage has now turned into a tortillaria!! Whoo! It is just girls that make tortillas all day. It is pretty great because I get tortillas at anytime I want!
Well I am hoping that this week is a little better in the work departments. I love this work and I love who I am here. I am learning so much and my testimony is growing everyday. I know Jesus Christ lives and has an everlasting love for everyone. Thank you family for all the love and support! Elder Colton Chapin Llewelyn
Colton at Provo MTC
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
CHANGE #4
Hello dear family!!
I will begin to say that it has been a long week. But a good one in a way. Tuesday Elder Nelson and I spent our day saying goodbye to all his peeps here in La Leyenda. I ate a lot and it was a really good day actually.. but I knew what was happening the next day. He was leaving and we have just had a way fun change together. We go to change conference on Wednesday and he and Elder LaPray had their interviews... Well here are the results. Elder Nelson is in Peten in the jungle as a district leader and my dear Elder LaPray is in the office. They are so far from me but I can do this... haha. Ok but I really do miss them.
Well my companion is Elder Plata! He is Elder Proctors old companion and he just moved houses to ours down the street. We entered into this area and so we have the same amount of time in this ward. He has 19 months and he is from Nicaragua. He is really cool and I am really excited about this change. My spanish is improving which is really nice! haha maybe when you guys call me in 3 MONTHS, I will chat it up in Spanish... hahaha.
This week was also a little difficult just because change weeks are a little crazy. If you recall the sister we were supposed to baptized, well we couldn`t find her to save the life of us. She came to church yesterday which was really nice but she hurried and skidoodled before we had the chance to really talk. She told us she would meet us at the church at 5 but she didn`t show up... so now more searching!! I am really excited for this week though! We are going to work our little bums off and we are going to spread the good word!!
Well I don`t have a lot of cool or exciting stories to tell you all! I will have to make something way crazy happen this week so I can tell you a great story!! The ward here is amazing and I am happy I am still here! I love this place and there is a big piece in my heart for the people in this place! Well I love you family!! Elder Colton Steamberry Llewelyn
I will begin to say that it has been a long week. But a good one in a way. Tuesday Elder Nelson and I spent our day saying goodbye to all his peeps here in La Leyenda. I ate a lot and it was a really good day actually.. but I knew what was happening the next day. He was leaving and we have just had a way fun change together. We go to change conference on Wednesday and he and Elder LaPray had their interviews... Well here are the results. Elder Nelson is in Peten in the jungle as a district leader and my dear Elder LaPray is in the office. They are so far from me but I can do this... haha. Ok but I really do miss them.
Well my companion is Elder Plata! He is Elder Proctors old companion and he just moved houses to ours down the street. We entered into this area and so we have the same amount of time in this ward. He has 19 months and he is from Nicaragua. He is really cool and I am really excited about this change. My spanish is improving which is really nice! haha maybe when you guys call me in 3 MONTHS, I will chat it up in Spanish... hahaha.
This week was also a little difficult just because change weeks are a little crazy. If you recall the sister we were supposed to baptized, well we couldn`t find her to save the life of us. She came to church yesterday which was really nice but she hurried and skidoodled before we had the chance to really talk. She told us she would meet us at the church at 5 but she didn`t show up... so now more searching!! I am really excited for this week though! We are going to work our little bums off and we are going to spread the good word!!
Well I don`t have a lot of cool or exciting stories to tell you all! I will have to make something way crazy happen this week so I can tell you a great story!! The ward here is amazing and I am happy I am still here! I love this place and there is a big piece in my heart for the people in this place! Well I love you family!! Elder Colton Steamberry Llewelyn
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
UTAH
Hey family!!!
This week was another good one and it sounds like it was a good one in Utah. Oh good ol` Utah. With it`s mountains and valley, what a great place to be. haha just kidding I thought I would bring back the song I learned in 4th grade! Well this week we set another baptismal date!! Whoo!! We now have 4 people with baptisms coming up and one of them is on the 27th of this month! I am getting really excited but it is kind of crazy how fast time is going down here! Hannah turned sassy seventeen and spencer is practically an old fart. Soon he`ll be asking for you all to grab him a diet coke or something... haha just kidding dad. I will be happy to grab you a diet coke anyday, we can`t drink it here.
It rained really hard this week and everything was way flooded. We were running in the rain to an appointment and the bridge that we use was just a river so we couldn`t cross anywhere. It was really cool but kind of a bummer because I just get way soaked and once you win one white tee shirt contest the rest is just not fun.
I made the cookies that you sent yesterday and they were amazing! The bishops family quite enjoyed them too and you guys provided for a guatemalan fiesta down here so thank you very much! Well family I love you so much! Have a good week and pray for my investigators! They need them right now as they are preparing!! I love you!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
New Companion!!! (Elder Andrew LaPray is Colton's Cousin)
Well this week was kind of a crazy one! We had changes and I got a new companion! It`s Elder Lapray`s old companion!! It really has been pretty great! We had a kind of a crazy week! I got really sick the night before the change conference and I didn`t get any sleep and I had to call the nurses at like 12 at night. It was super awkward, I had to tell them that I had Montezuma`s Revenge. I think Connor might have experienced that! So after change conference I had to just go sleep but then the next day I was fine and we worked hard and my new companion got to know some of our investigators which is really good! But then the next day I got sick again and the nurses got a little worried so they told me I need to go to the lab! If you know what that means! Whoo!! But we worked for the rest of the weekend and we had some really good lessons. I am thinking this change will be a really good change! I am excited and I just have an amazing feeling about it. We are going to get Alejandro`s wife baptized!! That is our goal!!
But Andrew had another baptism this week! It was awesome! President Watts and Hermana Watts came and the whole ward came because they have been coming to church for 5 years and have been waiting for this day for a long time! It was awesome! I hope that my companion and I will get our investigators to say yes to the b word! We have so many potential just people who are a little nervous around a baptismal font... This change will be a change though! We are going to have awesome success!
I am looking forward to this change and I am excited to have some awesome success! Last change was a little hard but we are going to work hard and get it done yo! Well I love you family and I hope everything went amazing at the cabin. I thought about you a lot! Have a good week and pray for my investigators!! I love you all so much Elder Llewelyn
But Andrew had another baptism this week! It was awesome! President Watts and Hermana Watts came and the whole ward came because they have been coming to church for 5 years and have been waiting for this day for a long time! It was awesome! I hope that my companion and I will get our investigators to say yes to the b word! We have so many potential just people who are a little nervous around a baptismal font... This change will be a change though! We are going to have awesome success!
I am looking forward to this change and I am excited to have some awesome success! Last change was a little hard but we are going to work hard and get it done yo! Well I love you family and I hope everything went amazing at the cabin. I thought about you a lot! Have a good week and pray for my investigators!! I love you all so much Elder Llewelyn
Thursday, July 14, 2011
What a Fun Week
Hey family!!
Well it sounds like everyone is having a really good summer. Right now I am having a really good winter! They call it winter because it rains but it only rains when it gets to the point where the humidity is almost too much to handle... Haha you got to love Guatemala!! This week was probably one of the best weeks on the mission. It is going by a little slow this week but I think that is just because a lot happened... So here is what went down herr...
I HAD A SLEEPOVER WITH ELDER LAPRAY!!! It was the best day! We got to go on divisions because my companion is district leader and that means he has to go on divisions with everyone in the district! It was the best! We worked hard! We found a new family and... we ate guatemalan ice cream(be grateful for coldstone) and we pushed our beds together and it was a really great night! I hope he sends home some pictures! I made stir fry and everything and then in the morning we had pancakes!! It was really great!
This week we also met a man named Juan. He is probably the nicest man I have ever met. He lives alone in a wooden house that he made! He loves having us over and so we went over 3 times this week! We taught him the Restoration and he loved it. He went to Ward Conference with us yesterday, which might I add, in Guatemala Ward Conferences are the coolest! They had like a 50 person choir. The chapel looked amazing and it was just really amazing! But Juan loved it so much he will be returning next week! We asked him to be baptized and he wants to investigate a little more but I feel that he is going to be baptized because he is just that great!
Also we had a kind of crazy experience. We decided to go to Juan`s house all of the sudden but he wasn`t home so I suggested we go up to another investigators house. We made our way up there through the jungle.. haha jk it is only half. But he wasn`t home but we talked to a lady that her daughter was investigating the church so we set up an appointment with them the next day. I was excited so we went to ask a member that lived across the street if we could have the lesson in the their house. We get to the member`s house and the member told us his son was really sick and he needed a blessing. We gave the blessing to the son and the family was a little on edge. We were their for about an hour and there is where I realized something very important. This family struggles to find money for their next meal. They have been sealed in the temple and are faithful members. They live in a 2 bedroom house and the brother was telling us crying that they just don`t have the opportunies to find a job. About five minutes later after things had calmed down, the brother told us, "There is something that we have been thinking about and we are trying to save up a little money to make you elders dinner." Then and there I realized the love these people have. They struggle for 3 meals a day but they want to make us dinner and that is one of their concerns. This place is amazing and these people are amazing. I am very blessed to be here. I sometimes think that it would be much easier to be at home but then something like this happens and I know I need to be here. I love this work and I love being a missionary in Guatemala. I wouldn`t choose any other place and I know my calling is from a prophet of God. I love my Savior and I want to share this love with the people here!!
Well that is my crazy week!! It is the last week of my second change! I have almost been on my mission for 5 months!! What!! I don`t want to leave my area! I love it here!! I hope Janet sends some pictures of the great sleepover!!
I love you family! Always remember to pray for the people here because many members down here are praying for my family up there!! I love you so much!
The Elder Llewelyn
Well it sounds like everyone is having a really good summer. Right now I am having a really good winter! They call it winter because it rains but it only rains when it gets to the point where the humidity is almost too much to handle... Haha you got to love Guatemala!! This week was probably one of the best weeks on the mission. It is going by a little slow this week but I think that is just because a lot happened... So here is what went down herr...
I HAD A SLEEPOVER WITH ELDER LAPRAY!!! It was the best day! We got to go on divisions because my companion is district leader and that means he has to go on divisions with everyone in the district! It was the best! We worked hard! We found a new family and... we ate guatemalan ice cream(be grateful for coldstone) and we pushed our beds together and it was a really great night! I hope he sends home some pictures! I made stir fry and everything and then in the morning we had pancakes!! It was really great!
This week we also met a man named Juan. He is probably the nicest man I have ever met. He lives alone in a wooden house that he made! He loves having us over and so we went over 3 times this week! We taught him the Restoration and he loved it. He went to Ward Conference with us yesterday, which might I add, in Guatemala Ward Conferences are the coolest! They had like a 50 person choir. The chapel looked amazing and it was just really amazing! But Juan loved it so much he will be returning next week! We asked him to be baptized and he wants to investigate a little more but I feel that he is going to be baptized because he is just that great!
Also we had a kind of crazy experience. We decided to go to Juan`s house all of the sudden but he wasn`t home so I suggested we go up to another investigators house. We made our way up there through the jungle.. haha jk it is only half. But he wasn`t home but we talked to a lady that her daughter was investigating the church so we set up an appointment with them the next day. I was excited so we went to ask a member that lived across the street if we could have the lesson in the their house. We get to the member`s house and the member told us his son was really sick and he needed a blessing. We gave the blessing to the son and the family was a little on edge. We were their for about an hour and there is where I realized something very important. This family struggles to find money for their next meal. They have been sealed in the temple and are faithful members. They live in a 2 bedroom house and the brother was telling us crying that they just don`t have the opportunies to find a job. About five minutes later after things had calmed down, the brother told us, "There is something that we have been thinking about and we are trying to save up a little money to make you elders dinner." Then and there I realized the love these people have. They struggle for 3 meals a day but they want to make us dinner and that is one of their concerns. This place is amazing and these people are amazing. I am very blessed to be here. I sometimes think that it would be much easier to be at home but then something like this happens and I know I need to be here. I love this work and I love being a missionary in Guatemala. I wouldn`t choose any other place and I know my calling is from a prophet of God. I love my Savior and I want to share this love with the people here!!
Well that is my crazy week!! It is the last week of my second change! I have almost been on my mission for 5 months!! What!! I don`t want to leave my area! I love it here!! I hope Janet sends some pictures of the great sleepover!!
I love you family! Always remember to pray for the people here because many members down here are praying for my family up there!! I love you so much!
The Elder Llewelyn
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Family!!!! Whoo!!! Well your I feel like I`m am missing out on a lot of fun. Horse rides for hours , watching the water spill over and having to only walk like 20 feel and your on the dock!! I really hope it is like that when I get home!! Well we have a new mission president! I have not met him yet but he is official as of today!! We went to the temple this morning and it was the most amazing thing ever. Really that place is amazing! and I understood everything is Spanish! Whoo!! I hope everything is going great back at home! It sounds like life is going pretty good! Thank you so much Alyce for the package! It probably won`t be here until the next change conference which is in three weeks! We are half way through this change! I really don`t want to leave my area because I love it. But Alyce to answer your question... No... There is absolutely no animals. It is quite sad actually. I have mountains by my house and I wonder sometimes what is in them but I have not seen a thing. I see goats that hang out in front of the church everymorning. There is the occasional pig and a duck every now and then. It is kinda sad but they have this bird up north that is called the quetzal. It is very rare and you will find it in some of the paintings of King Noah and Abinidi. It is beauiful and everything is named after it. haha.
Well we are working with this kid named Carlos right now. He is awesome and he has been going to seminary for a while now!! Whoo!! We talk him the Plan of Salvation this week and he had questions about the law of chastity... that is always fun. haha we are also working with Brother Alvarez`s wife! That means we will have baptized a family!! It really is amazing to see the change in their lives. They have a son who is handicapped and life is a little stressful for them but they are so much happier now that they have the gospel in their lives. I love this family and I hope I`m here to see her baptized!
Well yes there has been a lot of changes and a lot of changes are to come! It has been a hard 2 changes but so rewarding. I love this work and I love this place. Minus the smells... and the scary dogs. Thank you family for all the support. This would be very hard with out your emails everyweek and you do not know how much they mean to me!! I love you family!!
Well we are working with this kid named Carlos right now. He is awesome and he has been going to seminary for a while now!! Whoo!! We talk him the Plan of Salvation this week and he had questions about the law of chastity... that is always fun. haha we are also working with Brother Alvarez`s wife! That means we will have baptized a family!! It really is amazing to see the change in their lives. They have a son who is handicapped and life is a little stressful for them but they are so much happier now that they have the gospel in their lives. I love this family and I hope I`m here to see her baptized!
Well yes there has been a lot of changes and a lot of changes are to come! It has been a hard 2 changes but so rewarding. I love this work and I love this place. Minus the smells... and the scary dogs. Thank you family for all the support. This would be very hard with out your emails everyweek and you do not know how much they mean to me!! I love you family!!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Father's Day
Happy Father`s Day and Happy Anniversary! I would first like to start off by saying dad I love you so much. There is one thing that I can`t stop doing on my mission and it`s thinking about you dad. I hope one day you will realize the impact you have made in my life. There are some very dark days in my mission where I just feel like it`s time to come home and the first thing I think about is you. You really are the biggest strength in my mission. I love you and I hope that you had a really good father`s day. Second if you didn`t do anything for your anniversary I hope you still had "fun". hahaha.... If you are thinking right now... he`s a missionary and shouldn`t be saying this... Well I`m still Colton Llewelyn and I make the joke that we should be handing out more chastity pamphlets especially to the dogs.
The white handbook it states do not be preoccupied with writing your family everyweek!! How can I not!!! My family is the best thing in the world!!! This is the thing that keeps me going so please keep on sending them! Well if you were wondering! MY HALF BIRTHDAY AND 4 MONTH MARK ARE ON THURSDAY!! This week was pretty good! We found two people who are ready to be baptized but one has work on Sunday and the other is 16.... Which makes things difficult but this week we will make them a for sure date!! I was also thinking that for my half birthday I am going to go all out and buy a Fanta grape flavored in the glass bottle and maybe buy some Tortrix to top it off!
Today while shopping in WalMart I recieved some very good advice from a 67 year old man. He said,"Woman are like the ocean." I feel that one day he will be famous for this saying... haha ok he just talked to us for 30 minutes. That`s the way in Guatemala. If they see a gringo (white person) that is preaching the gospel they think that means they just want to talk about Jesus so they talk, just them, for an hour. I can usually get in a word but it is usually adios. It is very rainy here. It rains everyday and the streets turn into rivers. I like to imagine myself frolicking in the street but no we just contact houses and they usually look at us like we are crazy. Your standing in a river asking if you can come into my house.
Well I love you very much family and I hope all is well with everyone!! Have a good week and thank you for sending the photos of the cabin!! That really is the craziest thing! I wish I was there to see it but I`m here in Guatemala preaching the word!!!!
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Elder Llewelyn
The white handbook it states do not be preoccupied with writing your family everyweek!! How can I not!!! My family is the best thing in the world!!! This is the thing that keeps me going so please keep on sending them! Well if you were wondering! MY HALF BIRTHDAY AND 4 MONTH MARK ARE ON THURSDAY!! This week was pretty good! We found two people who are ready to be baptized but one has work on Sunday and the other is 16.... Which makes things difficult but this week we will make them a for sure date!! I was also thinking that for my half birthday I am going to go all out and buy a Fanta grape flavored in the glass bottle and maybe buy some Tortrix to top it off!
Today while shopping in WalMart I recieved some very good advice from a 67 year old man. He said,"Woman are like the ocean." I feel that one day he will be famous for this saying... haha ok he just talked to us for 30 minutes. That`s the way in Guatemala. If they see a gringo (white person) that is preaching the gospel they think that means they just want to talk about Jesus so they talk, just them, for an hour. I can usually get in a word but it is usually adios. It is very rainy here. It rains everyday and the streets turn into rivers. I like to imagine myself frolicking in the street but no we just contact houses and they usually look at us like we are crazy. Your standing in a river asking if you can come into my house.
Well I love you very much family and I hope all is well with everyone!! Have a good week and thank you for sending the photos of the cabin!! That really is the craziest thing! I wish I was there to see it but I`m here in Guatemala preaching the word!!!!
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Elder Llewelyn
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