Elder Alex Walbom Guatemala City/Kansas Mission experiences!

 Elder Alex Walbom unexpectedly changed areas this past week to Tierra Nueva.  He's literally on "New Earth."   Here's his email: Okay buckle up people. (If you don't want to read a lot just go to the spiritual thought at the end) Thursday: Who wants to degrain corn? I do! We found this one family in Pueblo. The family of a woman named Floridelma. We walked into the house to try to teach them a lesson and we found the matriarch of the whole family degraining corn. For anyone who doesn't know what that is (which I assume is everyone that is reading this), degraining corn is when you take an uncooked piece of corn and you take all the kernels off of it, in this case you do it by hand without any tools. It is very hard on the thumbs and takes a while to get the hard kernels off the cob. Anyways after we completed this service for the family I could tell that the very old matriarch was grateful for our help and the whole family was more receptive to our ...

Elder Alex Walbom said he had a pretty good week and they scheduled a baptism!     Elder Ruales, Elder Walbom, Elder Diaz  and 2 other missionaries serving in Pueblo Nuevo Viñas Here is his email and lots of pictures following: Well This week has a couple of highlights. And I'm going to talk about them. First We set a date for the baptism of one of our investigators! Diego finally will have enough attendances to be baptized. Kids under 15 require 12 attendances to sacrament meeting to be eligible. But we've been teaching him since we arrived in our area and he is super excited and animated! Nov. 2! Second, Choir rehearsal was awesome again and because of that, we have one less active and her family who are returning to church! I am so grateful that I can be making a contribution to the Lord's work in this way even if it is only for a little while longer (normally missionaries are not allowed to be involved with music...