Hey-o hows it goin? Life here is crazy but I love it!  I feel completely engulfed in the work and hardly have time to think about anything else but that's how its supposed to be!!

This past week has been super fast but as I look back super long.  Monday and Tuesday I was in Coban for leadership counsel which was absolutely amazing!  Wednesday in my area, Thursday on divisions in La Tinta and Sacsuha, and the rest of the week in my area... let me give ya the deets!!

Leadership counsel was awesome, we (all the zl´s in the mission) meet and have a big meeting with President Curtiss, Hma Curtiss the AP´s and we just talk about the mission, our zones and receive counsel - sounds boring but not one bit. It is so spiritual, the missions focus is pure families so we can have a temple in Coban in 2016!! And all I can say is its going to be great!!!

After this meeting we have all of our zone get together and we teach all that we learned and heard to our zone.   After we all had tortillas de harina with a Hermana!

I got the opportunity to do seven baptismal interviews as well I went to do divisions in La Tinta with Elder Pyper and it went great.  He had five baptisms this past week and I have to say he has some pretty cool converts.  I got to interview them and talk to them and they all were really nervous but I felt the spirit really strong in each one of the interviews. Elder Pyper is in my group that I came out into the mission with and he is the DL and other missionaries in Sacsuha had baptisms so we hoped on a bus and I did Divisions with Elder Castillo and got to do one more interview and it went grea.   We met back up and started walking home at night (sketchy) when a taxi came by and gave us a ride for free back to La Tinta (blessings for working hard) but all in all went really well!!

Now in my area, Tukuru is still great I love the members, I love the food and the work is good but very hard.  We had a pretty hard couple of days in our area I have never been turned away so many times, but we found some great families and we had a lot of less actives at church and investigators so all turned out really good.   I am excited to keep working hard in Tukuru I feel good about this place and I am determined to find my family here!! 

Jack I am excited for you to wrestle you are going to hate it, they will put you through hell, but let me tell you what I learned from wrestling.  It strengthened my legs because God new that someday I would be climbing up mountains. It put me to my limits because God new I would be tested to my limits physically and emotionally. It also taught me that my body can bend very far before it will break, because God new that I would be squished on a bus filled with dirty, sweaty people and pigs and chickens haha!! Jack it taught me a lot but don't let anybody get you to do something you don't want to do.  Don't let them initiate you, don't let people make fun of you, don't put up with those guys, just be a Christlike man and when you get on the mat you let it all out haha!! Good luck buddy, Don't Quit!

That's sad to hear about Grandpa, I actually feel worse for Grandma I hope they do ok. I will pray for them, how is Pa holding up?,

Well all is well all is well i love you guys and hope you all have a great week be safe have fun and enjoy the snow haha!!! love you all!!

Nekexinra Elder Barker