I can't believe I'm in Guatemala!!!

Hey! so i guess we get to write you today to tell you that everything is great..... bahahha jk everything is AMAZING! what the heck im in Guatemala??!?!?! i still hasnt hit me yet but the CCM is way nice! and small, its basically all one building, three floors, chapel and caferteria on the first floor, guys on the second floor, and hermana´s on the thrid floor and class rooms.  Well a little experience for you today, while waiting to board my plane to Guatemala they over booked the flight, so they offered to buy our tickets for 600 dollars, so i was thinking about taking that and waiting for the next flight, because tickets are like 500 i think so make a profit right?!? well my companison didnt like that very much so we jsut stayed in line and the stewardess comes ups and asks where we are sitting and i hand her my boarding pass and she walks back to her computer and types and hacks away veriously for a little then comes back with a new boarding pass for us, seat number 4 c, for those of you that arent frequent fliers that means FIRST CLASS!! woot woot, some how we got bumped up so ya i flew first class the whole way to guatemala, with pillows and blankets, (you usually have to rent those now) and tons of water (which you only get one in the loser seats, also they had to buy their snacks, i got a full on breakfast, granola bagel with cream cheese jam or butter, (they gave me all three, i got to pick from there) and yogurt and fresh fruit! is was awesome, oh and not to mention the room up there was unreal, so much room! Well then we got off and flew through customs with out a problem i exchanged my money all 108 (if there is anyone reading in Guatemala, i dont carry that on me at all times so if you try to mug me for it and i dont have it it will be in my room os check there after) sorry i am trying to type really fast and the keyboards are different because I AM IN GUATEMALA!!! i am assigned a new companion Elder Bruderer he is white from center vill, and then they just assigned me a Latino compainion for whenever we are in groups so like meals and meetings, so let the fun begin.  I promise i wont get frustrated though, i will learn it eventually, we are right next to the temple! so we get to go this friday.  oh and we are in the same time zone which is a good thing.  I cnat figure out how to return so this will be just one long paragraph.  Once we arrived here they let us eat breakfast, the cafertieria is small compared to the one in provo but that makes sense! then we take a nap until one when we went to class and started our day! it has been such a long day and i am still falling asleep! i cant wait to sleep tonight.  During our nap we had our window open cause thats what you do in Guatemala (dont worry you will learn soon enough how we do things) but ya i would say mid 70´s and it stopped raining from a 3 day rain so beautiful day, but i swear people here honk all the time! atleast every 5 minutes i would wake up from people honking! and its not your normal USA honk, it is a musical song that flows out in some pattern, and its always a different pitch, i am happy it woke me up but then i would instanly be mad becuase i just got woken up, so be careful and dont let it fool you! our p day is wednesdays i guess so that is when i will be emailing, and we cant sent any emails to any one but strictly family, but it only takes 10 days for a letter to get here! and they say that it is pretty reliable so i will right some letters soon, i can for sure only write on p day though in the mtc we wrote whenver but not here, oh and we can only take pictures that day too? so ya kinda weird but whatever i will obey;)  my address is     Boulevard Vista Hermosa (new line) 23-71 Zona 15 Vista Hermosa 1 (new lien) C.P 01015 Guatemala (new line) Ciudad de Guatemala...... so ya  fyi, It still hasn.t hit me that i am here in a different country but when it does im sure it will be hard, but i will always stay stoked! so dont worry, even when i am down or depressed or home sick or want to come home i will thnk of the Joy of the Gospelñ that i am sharring and why i am here! so dont worry about me;) love you guys DO WORK! -Elder Call  
Well love you guys! be strong, cause i will be strong if you do!!!!!

Letter Chad wrote to a friend giving him mission advice! He copied this to us...

June 23, 2011

So I leave in 5 days for Guatemala NBD, as for advice, you asked at a great time in fact I don’t think you could have asked at a better time. I have been doing a lot of thinking lately.

1. Missions are hard, you usually only hear about the great stuff but they are hard also, best / hardest 2 years.
2. You need  to truly know why you are out serving ya can’t be out serving for anyone else but yourself and the Lord. Know why you are serving.
3. No matter where you get called there is a reason why you get called there. Every mission is still a mission for the Lord, whether it is in Boise, Idaho or Madagascar. A mission is a mission and you will be serving the Lord and have so many spiritual experiences and there will be people there only you can convert.
4. The Lord will / wants to mold you so be moldable.
5. Don’t do things and not learn from them, learn from everything.
6. Be positive. It is so easy to get down and be negative but don’t. You are a representative of Jesus Christ.
7. Honestly, the first couple of days you may feel inadequate, especially if you are trying to learn a new language, but you are adequate. The Lord knows what you are capable of, so trust in him.

I don’t mean to scare you or sound too serious, missions are great and so much fun. These are just a couple of my thoughts over the last couple of days. I came out with the wrong attitude, I had a mediocre testimony expecting that I could do this all on my own and it wouldn’t be that hard. But wrong attitude! Come in with an attitude of humble, willing to work, and just stoked to serve! I really wish I had learned the scriptures a lot more! Which is kind of hard to do, and study “Preach My Gospel” chapter 3 obv because that is what you are teaching all day every day. And just come out with a testimony that ya know! Everything else besides that doesn’t matter, that is the most important thing. One more thing that is kind of hard for me is forgetting my self. I’m working on it though. I’m super stoked for ya to get out here! Don’t let this letter scare you, it’s not meant to scare. Missions are dope! Just remember:

1. Preach My Gospel
2. Scriptures
3. LOVE. If you have love ya can do anything that will make up for lacking in # 1 & 2. Love for the people and this gospel.

I love you and am so stoked for ya and to be out serving!

Elder Call

Super Chill

haha well this email will be super chill not alot really going on or to write about, i now know how Kolby feels when he writes the shortest email ever home.  But dont worry this one hopefully wont be that short. Well first off thank you mom for sharring all the blogs of my friends with me, but it has gotten out of control, when i recieve 6 dear elders just full and i have no idea which one goes where, there is a point and we have past that point, so please no more, HOWEVER what you did on the 21st was great! you labeled them saying who and then what they said and you gave a short summary of whats been going on that was great! but if that is too much work esta bien, no worries. Umm first item of business is this whole suitcase dealio, Elder Penfolds mom called delta and its only 50 dollars if your over weight, not saying im planning on that but still better then 150 and they said you can have 2 suitcases carry on and backpack, so call them if you want and look into that.  However i dont want to see you guys at the airport, sorry.  I just cant.  but you can drop things off at the MTC, like a duffle bag if needed or ya i will make weight though, even if i have to leave stuff out, like hangers, the MTC has super light hangers that i think i might just switch out mine with, and down size my absorbing JR. into a small bottle which they have here.  What do you think? if you want to drop off a small bag for my carry on, maybe facebook sean? and have him do it? IDK who else you know up here that could but idk what you guys think of that.  Should i just leave stuff out? or i can mail stuff out if you want.  But things im leaving behind would be like hangers or pills, or ya, so let me know what you want me to do.  They do have scales here for us to weigh our bags. I have to get some immunizations today, my hep A and B idk why or what but somewhere along the line someone screwed up, so i need more.  It will cost 97 dollars. Does insurance cover that?  A phone card ... i haven't seen any in the MTC for sale, so ya i can just use a pay phone in LA to call you guys, its NBD, and im sure i can buy a phone card in Guatemala! i leave in 5 days!!!! how crazy is that? Back to suitcases and stuff, you can call the MTC and explain my situation of being over weight (in luggage) and see if you can pick up some stuff i leave for you, or drop off a duffle bag n such, and then just get back to me with what you want to do, its hard becuase i wont be able to email or write you back before i leave.  So the conversation is now soley onesided. Next item of business (dont post on blog).....so what do you recommend? Well now that all items of business are over and i have alot of time left i guess i am forced to write some words of wisdom here....

-Love Elder Call


haha ok jk, ya i just pulled the fake goodbye, but hey i just got a great idea, i will save 10 minutes to email you back tonight, so dear elder me RIGHT NOW or for sure before noon and then i will get it by six tonight and can write back tonight around class time. Real qucik cause now i have to save time I am going through a change of heart here, Im not all the way done or through with it, but i am definitly transforming, its like the transformers from the movie by the same title, they are transforming and you hit pause in the middle of them changing, that is where i am at, i am starting to see the big picture and see that this is much bigger then me or you or us, im not all the way done i still have along way to go, but God put me here speaking spanish for a reason, and to do some specific things, i am so stoked to get out there and wreck guatemala (in a good way) i am scared i wont lie i can barely speak a lick of spanish, but i am so stoked, i am not going to be shy, i will share my testimony with any and everyone.  I have no idea what i am doing but i am just going to do what the spirit tells me to do, and not second guess things.  I love you all and will probably write you a letter today.  Thank you for all the love and support its crazy how much it helps i can truely feel the prayers working for me.  Dad i love you, i am going to miss you, i will miss being able to just joke around with you and the playful relationship we had.  DONT MEET ME IN THE GUATEMALAN AIRPORT!!!! oh gosh i can still picture seeing you there in a super chill hawaian shirt just total torrist holding a sign saying ELDER CALL, or better yet you are dressed as a limo driver with the super dope limo hat! hahahaha oh gosh i love you, and Mom THANK you for everything you are truly an amazing woman, i want to be just like you the type of person you are when i grow up (well minus the female childing bearing parts) but still YES! i love you and will write you back tonight if i get the dear elder back!!!
-Love ELDER CALL

A Nice Father's Day Card with Pictures Too!

A nice father's day card came for Brooke...WOW do they teach these boys in the MTC manners and gratitude or what!!! LOL...it was a really nice card plus it had pictures as well!!!

Always a treat! Elder Christian Clayton

My roomies from L to R:
Penfold, Call, Anderson, Jensen.

My companion Elder Penfold and me.

Our whole district

All our district name badges!

Elder Slater...
reminds me of Elder Logan Terry!