Well first thing is this week is a tortilla week haha!! Nothing really happened this week our stats went up and we set a baptism date with Elias the older brother of Darwin.  We visit him mañana which will be great but he works every sunday and to get baptized you need to come to church and partake of the santa cena 3 times so this will be the trial of his faith but I have faith that he can do it!!

We had a zone conference and it was awesome to see Presidente and Hermana Curtiss.  I love them they are great they bought us all hamburgers haahaha!! You don't know how big the smiles on our faces were hahaha!! But presidente curtiss told us we have 160 missionaries in this mission and we are recieving 40 more in two weeks next cambio.  Me and Elder Parker have been thinking and we have an idea if we can get more elders in San Luis we can have more time focusing on finding more less actives and finding new investigators.  Now I know this is not my job to recieve revelation for this but Presidente Curtiss told us to ask us if we think an area needs more missionaries so we both jumped on the opportunity. I hope and pray it happens I am becoming stressed, frustrated and sometimes overwhelmed with the branch in San Luis!!

So we had probably the most stressful day yesterday on sunday so if you are wondering why we are a little overwhelmed its because every sunday it goes a little like this... so we show up our branch president asks Elder Parker to say the prayer then me to lead music and then to bless sacrament we do that and before we can go sit down he asks us both the speak so of course we do. I went second so I at least had time to prepare a little but still embarrassing.  Then I had to say the closing prayer then after we got to teach gospel doctrine and then young mens.   I am so happy to do all of these things and to do my preisthood duties but we do this every week and this is kind of sad but it is hard for me to bear a strong testimony to my investigators when I honestly dread church here. I love the sacrament but I feel like if we left San Luis there would be no church here and this is sad but this is why we have the idea of more missionaries to come and help!!!  Don't worry I still love church haha!!! but I  also have to explain so members do have responsibilities here in the branch but they just don't want to do them so we of course do them.  It's just a little frustrating but oh well good growing experience!!!

Ok so now on to tortillas.  So you pick the corn, you dry it, you shuck it, then take it off of the cob which we do alot to do service for people.  And I get tons of blisters but it actually isn't bad work I kind of enjoy it hahah.  But then when you peel it off of the cob you dry it again then boil the corn then send it through this grinder add water to the flour then wam you put the dough on the flat iron stove and you got some good ol guatemalan corn tortillas hahaha.   Alot of work but its what keeps guatemala involved with their past and hey it tastes pretty good!!!!

Well thats all for this week. Love you all.  Good luck to BYU this week and Ricky keep trekin buddy love ya all!!!!

Elder Barker