Here is Jake's email this week. So awesome to hear from him
each week but he caught us by surprise by writing us a day
early. There is a new picture attached. Just some
explanations: Nortes apparently means Northerners. MTC Devo is
a devotional talk given by Elder Bednar. Prez. Cox is his MTC
President. The talk Jake referred to by Elder Holland is titled
Safety for the Soul. It is also a Mormon Message titled
"Testimony of The Book of Mormon" by Jeffrey R. Holland. It is
an awesome little video.
Hey, So we got to write a day early because tomorrow we
are going to be running around the town of Guatemala! I'll
get to that in a bit. So first of all I'll start with were I
ripped my pants last week... Kinda like in Spongebob but it
was down the side below my pocket. I really hope they can
last me two years. We had to have a sewing class taught by
the Hermanas, and me... cause apparently I'm the only other
one that knows how to sew stuff. And I'm not sure what kind
of weird traditions they have down here because lately
everyone has been setting off fireworks. Like at 5 in the
morning... I think it might just be some kind of sick joke..
haha but when I first woke up to it the first time I could
of sworn they were just gunshots. I was so tired I didn't
even care at first, but after 20 min of it I had to go check
it out and that's when I realized they were just fireworks.
We had our first fast Sunday here and it was the longest
Sunday ever. Don't get me wrong it was so amazing but there
is only so much Personal study you can do.. One Spiritual
experience that I thought was cool was that us Nortes were
watching a MTC Devo by Bednar and we got about halfway
through and it stopped working. We tried everything to get
it to work. We even had the computer wiz come over and help
us and he said it was just to scratched and we were going to
have to watch it in Spanish. But that wasn't stopping Elder
Magalei! He got up and told us we were going to have a
prayer and if we had faith that it was going to work. So we
all got on our knees and said a prayer and when we put it
back in it played perfectly! "The church is true" - Elder
Stiles. We are two weeks away from being in the field and I
know I'm going to miss my zone so much! We already making
our reunion! Tomorrow we get to go to Wendy's and I'm pretty
sure were going to buy the whole store out. After that we
get to go to the market with the 2 weekers and buy stuff and
hand out Book of Mormons! We just had a talk by Prez. Cox
and every time he talks it just makes us want to get out
there and do stuff! I can't explain how pumped I am! We are
now the big boys on top! Its so funny when the new guys have
to have us translate for them and they don't know how to
talk. Our Spanish is pretty good as long as we can
understand them. We can talk the gospel really well. One
thing I would like you to look up is the talk by Elder
Holland. I think its called the Testimony of the Book of
Mormon. So powerful and I know it's true. There is
absolutely no way that those men could find the faith they
had in that book if they didn't KNOW it was true. I'll have
more for you next week!
Love, Elder Stiles
Oh and also I finally got my mail. Only 20
days for me to get dear elder! I also want to let the
young women know I got their package and it was the
greatest surprise ever because I was so hungry and that
candy was amazing! Also make sure to tell Montana that I
do know who she is haha. At first I thought the whole
package was from her and I was like what the heck, my bros
friend sends me a package but my family doesn't?! haha but
it was amazing! Letters are the best to get!
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