Well here we go the last week, I must say my legs hurt, I`m tired, I think I have a UTI again, and I woke up this morning with my eye swollen shut, who knows what happened but, I think I have to admit I lived a good life in the mission and I am ready to die and return home haha.

I love the mission it is starting to hit me that my time has come to an end here.  I got all worked up seeing some of my converts from Semarak and Seritqiche this past week, but ya know that's life.

This past week was a good one, we started off with interviews and I did not get any interviews cause I will be having interviews next week but I did get a good chat with Hma Curtiss.  The rest of the week I spent being a nurse we had some missionaries get super sick to the point of where dehydration was huge so I spent some days stuck in the house caring to their needs.

I also got to go back to Seritqiche to do some baptismal interviews and I got to see and visit with some converts and that was great.  The branch is improving a lot so I am happy. I went to Mario`s house while I was there (we baptized him a year ago) but he wasn't home and later I saw them in Senahu and they were really sad that they didn't get to feed me one last time and they started to cry and tell me how I better come back and visit.   I have to say I felt loved, great people I am super humbled and blessed that I got to help them while I was here.

I got a phone call from a member in Tukuru they are mad cause I didn't tell them I was going home, so they invited me over to dinner this Friday and these people have money and they are going to feed me very well!  I am super stoked to go back to Tukuru and say goodbye to everyone and to finish it off with dinner so looking forward to this week.

Love you all, thanks for everything that you have all done for me and my family talk to ya next week!

Love,

Elder Barker

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First off Happy Birthday big J on the  27th and Mema on the 21st wish I could be there to see and taste the cake but party on without me!!

Well this week was pretty nuts I don't know why all of the crazy stuff happen to me but Ak re chi kama´an!!

Me and Elder Page started the week off great with a good family home evening and we made French toast with the family, and they loved it and invited us over for tortilla de harena tomorrow so pretty good way to start off the week!!

We did divisions with some elders in an area super far away called Korral Pek and wow prettiest place I have layed my eyes upon, but I only got to see it for about an hour and had to go back to the hot valley with Elder Rocha from Nicaragua, great guy but boy did we see blessings and just boy do we have a good story to tell!!

So me and Page go up to meet them and its about 4:00 in the afternoon when we arrive, we chat a little with them then its time to take off, now I didn't want to take the path that takes about 3 hours to get to Panzos, but I had heard of another that only takes 2 hours but nobody really travels it, so challenge accepted.  We took courage and we walked until we hit this ranch in the middle of nowhere, then we found this other trail, that is supposed to take us to Panzos.   So we go and boom there is a fence blocking us and the path, so we hop it and keep going then suddenly it starts going up this mountain, and the time is 6:30 and we get to this other path and it just goes straight up and into the jungle and we just say a prayer and go.  Lets just say i have never felt so guided by the spirit, it was pitch black, people had told us it was infested with snakes, and there was tons of split offs, but somehow we made it, i got a little spooked but God protected us and got us out of there, and we made it back home by 9:30 haha!   Good adventure but pretty spooky.

The divisions went well, I hope I helped Elder Rocha learn some new things but he also taught me a lot. In the end I am really happy to have Elder Page as my companion he is just a great friend and we work super well together and just have so much fun and the Lord is blessing us.

That was about my week not anything to exciting just another week in Guate, I love it!!

Have yall a good week!

Love,

Elder Barker