5/6/2013

Well well hahaha this week was a little crazy again!! but this week we could see some results!!!! first of we had 51 at church and we had two investigators! Oscar and Roberto!!! the two of them have fechas para bautismo!!! Roberto for this week end the 11th and Oscar for next week on Friday the 17th!!!

It was also pretty awesome Sunday, we got to church and the meeting started and only Oscar was there! and this Sunday was fast Sunday, in our fast we asked specifically that Roberto and Oscar could come to church and could be ready for their baptisms! So when only Oscar was there I was real said, cuz basically we would have to push back the baptism or Roberto another week! :/ so after sacrament I was just praying talk hard with God, you know trying to figure out why Roberto couldn´t come, and how we were gonna have to push back his date, and all these sad thoughts, just triste in over all, but I ended my silent prayer and look up... and there was Roberto!!! Sitting with my comp!!! It was a real miracle and such an answer to my prayers!!!

with Roberto we had planes to baptize him the 4th this week end, but he didn´t show up last Sunday, and then we couldn’t{t find him all this week!! so frustrating!! but finally Friday we got with him, and put a new fecha for the 11th! he is excited!! we also met with him after church Sunday and just talked details of the baptism, and  answered a few questions that he had and ya, he is ready!! the only thing that could stop him is if he can´t get off work!! but he is asking and will find out wed!! so we are praying real real hard for him that it can happen this weekend and not get pushed back again! but i have faith it will happen! so be looking for bautismo pictures next week!!!

With Oscar! he is awesome! he always comes to church and ya he is just awesome!!! I can´t even describe how perfect he is haha golden investigator! originally we had his date for Friday the 10th cuz he is in university Saturdays, but he asked if we could do it the 17th because he wants his GF (who is a member in the capital) to be there, and the 10th is mother’s day, so she could come out, but we pushed it back so he can have her there, and it all be super awesome!!! man we are excited!!!
 

 

As for our other investigators, we have quite a few, we are just trying to find the ones that are gonna progress and focus on them! We have a mission goal of 11 new investigators every week! its alot! beacuse alot are not gonna want to progress! So we need to keep looking and find the ones that the lord has prepared! So we can use our time with them! Sounds bad a little, but we need to focus on those who the lord has really prepared to hear us!!

Anyway, thats where we are at in the work!!!

We’re working hard!! and seeing a few results!! :)

First of ya the cave was sweet! and it was just an actividad de disricto, our district has 10 elders 2 in San Cristobal (us) 2 in Santa Cruz (part of our branch) 2 in Valparaiso (they have a branch of their own) and 4 in Tactic (branch there also) but part of the area on Tactic goes down to a town called Purulah! and that is kinda where the cave was! This week we did an actividad de zona! and the other district in our zone is in Salaman which is in Baja Vera Paz, but ya,

Most people in SanCristobal work in this factory that makes shoes! haha or a lot sell food in that market! or some go to Coban to work!

love you all so so much!!! be safe talk to you soon!! LITERALY!!! hahaha woo!!!

 Elder Kumpf!

Today p-day we went to chulasco! ¡sp? it is the biggest water fall in central america!! it was sweet it was like a 2 hour bus ride then like 1.5 hours of hiking!!! and like troping throu jungle hiking, like dang you could hardly call it a trail! and there was this one point where we had to like cross this sketchy steep part where a mud slide had gone through!! it not a tourist area, infact we where the only ones there!! but it was sweet! (actually didn´t seem that big! i think the ones in yosemate are bigger!)

but it was awesome none the less! and ya i just love being out troping through the jungle and mountains!! fun day!!! good pics!! it was with the whole zone too,

 

 

4/29/2013

Anyway!! this week has been real real nuts!!! mostly bad in reality! :/ haha

First off this Sunday the attendance was 40!!! (Lowest I have ever seen! and it was 40 at the end, during the sacrament there was only 27! :/ terrible small!) and ya we only had two investigators at church! :/ Oscar and ´´Hermanita´´ Oscar is probably the only bright light of this week! he is super pilas! But he is always working so we couldn´t have any lessons with him this week, but we have some already set for this coming week! He has is baptism date set for the 11th! Next week end!! We are super excited!!! But we still have a lot to do with him so that he will be super ready!

One of the real bad things was with Hno. Roberto, he had a baptism. date for sat the 27th - last Saturday! But we could not get with him, not a single day this week, and he still needs to learn a few more little things, so ya that date fell and we are really sad, but we are planning on putting a new date with him for either this Saturday or the next!!! He is super awesome, he is just lacking a little bit, and really it’s more our fault than anything, but ya, so we are working hard with them!

But  ya this week was just ruff!!! We like could not get lessons with anybody! All of our lessons would fall through during the day, and then at night we would have good lessons set, but the member that said he could go with us , would fall through! ya just nuts and a lot of 0´s in our data... but we are not getting discouraged, just know that we have to work even harder!!!!

As for my comp! Well he is good! haha he is real new! I’m really glad for the 2 months I had in the MTC! It really shows that he only had 2 weeks! haha But he is working hard to get better! And we always have practice lessons together during comp study, and he is getting a lot more in the role of things...  I’m teaching him that when we are in the streets and stuff we really need to focus on talking and thinking and planning about our investigators, not other  stuff from home... but ya, we will get there haha but he is strong in the church and likes to study so I know we can get him to be an excellent missionary!!!

But ya training is hard!!!! haha I always thought I had real good patience.... but ya haha he tries my patience real good sometimes haha! But I love him just the same!!With the differences in Spanish between him and elder Gutierrez, I think elder Gutierrez speaks like really good, clear, slower, Spanish, and elder Irias speaks real fast, but ya he, for me, is a lot harder to understand! But I’m getting more and more used to him! I am starting to be able to hear the difference in their Spanish too, like we have some members from El Salvador, and their Spanish is real different too, but ya. People talk about some like conflictions with the people from different countries in C.A. like Guatemaltecos don’t like Nicuraguencins, and stuff like that, but I have not seen any real discrimination,

Today for p-day we went to check out this cave thing! Nobody had been there, but some elders had heard it was cool.     It was AWESOME! It was not very long, more just like a big sink hole, but like ya idk how to describe it, but here is a bunch of pics! there were parts that were nasty muddy too! Like walking along, and it feels good and hard then, wosh! and you've sunk up to you thigh in mud!! But all fun!!!! 

Anyway love you all so so so so much!!! keep working with your friends to invite them to church!!! and to hear the missionaries!!

LOVE YOU! 

Elder Kumpf!!!

some of us that got the most gross in the mud in the cave!!

and ya thats me doing some karate kid on a big old stalagmight!!! sp?

       pet parrot that a member has!! sweet!!! - im a pirate!!

two more mornings of helping carry cement mix with 创meca pal创 :/ haha tired!!

                         Us with some members in their house

4/22/2013

HEY FAMILY!!! well well well... the last two weeks have been nuts!!!! hahah first off ill explain why i missed last monday!!!
ok so like saturday night they call and are like hey you need to go to the captital monday to sign imagration papers!!! so we are like ´´ok!?´´ so we had to leave suday at like 5 and take an hour bus to Coban! there we spent the night! there was me, elder brindle, (my comp from the mtc), one elder from my district, and one hermana from coban, (the hermana stayed in a different house,) but ya so the four of us had to take a bus to the capital- and the bus left at 2 am!!!!!! freak!!! ya so we got our 2 hours of sleep the went to the bus station! from there it was about a 5 hour bus ride to the cap!!! from there a taxi picked us up and took us to the church office building!! we watied there till about 9 am, they let us in, and made sure all the people where there, then they loaded us all (about 50 elders y hermans from all different missions in Guat.) in a bus, and took us to the imigration office! there we got in line, went up to the desk, took a picture and signed two papers, then we waited out side for about half an hour for all the other missionaries to do the same! few! then they bused us back to the church office building, gave us some breakfast, (its about 11:30) then from there the 4 of us that came from coban had to got to the mission north office, (other side of the city) so we went there and some of the elders did... something idk what, but then then we took a taxi to the bus station, and loaded on a bus about 1:30 and another 5 hour bus ride back to coban!! (this time it was way worse though, because it was soooo HOT!!!!! its summer here and ya there is this one area that the bus passes through called ´´rancho´´ HOLY POOP!! it is a desert, and really really hot!! but ya so a long hot sweaty 5 hour bus ride back to coban! got there about 6:30 then grabbed elder gutierres and we took the hour bus ride back to san cristobal!!! got home about 8:30 and crashed!!!! TIRED!!!! haha

 

Elder Brindle (MTC Comp.)

Ok now ABOUT TRANSFERS!!!!!! so sunday night when we where in coban they called!!!! when they call for transferes they don´t tell you exactly where your going, just if it is an ´´external change, or internal! external change means you are going to an area out side of the capital! and internal means your going to the cap!) if you are in the cap and have a change, whether internal, or external you go to a change conference wed morning, and there you find out what area exactly your going to! when you are outside the cap and have transfer internal(to the cap) you have to leave and be at change conf. wed morning, but if you are out side the cap and have a external change(outside the cap.) then you go to coban tuesday night, and get called wed morning with your new area, (this is so that the elders out side the cap dont have to travel to the cap then back way far out in the jungle. saves $$!! but ya they called sunday night when we where in Coban!!! - Elder Gutierrez! transfer external!! so he will be going to an area out side of the cap! Elder kumpf... you are staying in you area, AND YOU ARE TRAINING!!!!!!! WHATTTTTT!!!!!! hahahaha so ya
when we got back to our house monday night, E. Gutierrez started packing, and then tuesday in the moring he finished packing, and we went around visting members, and he gave them pictures and said his good byes, then we left about 5 to go up to coban, he is staying the night there and will find out his area wed in the morning! but i left on divisions with an elder ´´Muñiz´´ he is an elder in my distric and his comp was getting changed too, so our compañions stayed, we said our goodbyes! and then me and elder muñiz left to San cristobal (my area) to do work wed! we worked all day wed! (its way different working with a different person! but it was good) then thursday in the moring we left to go get our companions from Coban!

 

Elder Gutierrez (Trainer)

My new companions name is Elder Irías!! he is from Honduras!! he just got out of the mtc and ya!!! he is a good kid! i have only gotten to klnow him a little bit so far but from what i can tell he will be good! hes nice, friendly, likes to talk! (alot!) hes a little forgetful! haha bu he will be awesome!!!! so ya! we have just been working the past few days and all has been good!

 

Elder Irias (Greenie)

-being the señor comp!!! well.. its hard!!! haha but i have been praying for alot of help! and i know i have recived it!! haha i think the hardest part for me, is planning at night! i try real hard to think and pray about where we need to go and who we need to teach the next day! but its hard! but ya im am working into well haven´t really had any problems yet! but we will see how it goes! haha

another thing is that as a trainer you are almost always with your comp for 2 transfers! So that means i will be in san cristobal when the mission splits!!! so ill most likly be in ´´mission Coban´´! so that will be cool!!!

another thing when we where coban on sunday, i was with elder brindle! he got called about his transfer! he is also training! but in the capital!!! so he was pretty shocked with that, he thought he would be training in his area! but nope he got sent to the capital!!!!

elder gutierrez called thursday - he got transfered to ´´pop tum´´ Peten!!!! something like that... hahah but ya hes excited! Peten is where all the cool stuff is like Myan temples, monkeys, jaguars, aligators, Quetazales!(the bird) ya so its real pretty up there! so he will love it!!!

anyway about the mission work!!!! well we have two ´´fechas´´ (dates for baptism) one for hno. roberto for the saturday the 4th and another hno. Oscar for the 11th!!! we are really really excited!!! we have been working with Hna Alicia and her daughter, but she just wasnt ready, but this week we did something so that we could find out where here ´´duda´´ (doubt) is, we went through the baptism interview questions with her! found out she doenst really have a testimony of Joseph smith! so well we know know where we have to focus our lessons, so we have been focusing them on the book of mormon and the restoration! and she is getting a little bit more comfortable, but we are working with her hard!!

ya idk what else has happend these past two weeks have been a blur!!! but dont worrie, i keep a journal everyday, so my whole mission wont just turn into a blur! ill have all my memories written down!!!

i got your first package the other day!!! it was real real beat up hahaha (ill send a picture) thanks for all the candy and everything!!! really appreciate it!!! one thing you could do diffent in the more packages you send it maybe some hand written letters from the family! and so photos! cus i cant print off the photos you sent by email, so with the next package if you would throw in a couple of picturs of you guys, or just whatever, it would be awesome!!!

 

 

It started out as a Box :)
 

ya i haven't heard much about new areas opening up, but with the mission split i know there will be alot of changes in area bondries, new areas, different zones, and so ya ill let you guys know as i find out about the changes! but for now not much new!

my stomach is doing a little better! still upset alot, but whatever! no big deal!!
with your sugestion about a joint fast, im good! its acually a rule in the White bible, that we are not suposed to ask our families to do joint fasts with us, but don´t worry we are fasting ourselves, and things are changing, litttle by little! but things are changing!!! i just wanna make a difference here! thats my goal!! i feel like this area is so cloce to success, but it is just out of our reach!!! but we are working hard hard hard to get the success we want, and the success we know the Lord wants!!!

i have no idea how its gonna work for mothers day! but ill let you know when i find out!! but i think ill end up calling you guys!

Love you all so so so so much!!! it was way hard to not write you guys or hear from you for two weeks! but here i am again! and its all good!

LOVE YOU!!!
ELDER KUMPF!!!!

4/8/2013

haha hello how are you!!! well this week was another good one here in guatemala!!!! man oh man conferance was soo good!!!!! we had to go to Coban to watch it in the stake center! they had the main chapel and a few other rooms for the spanish translation! but they also gave us a little classroom where we could watch it in english!! so all the ´´norte´´ missionarys where in there! it was a tiny little tv and we stacked it on two tables so everyone could see, and the picture was real fussy! but it was General Conferance just the same!! i loved it!!!!! so we left early saturday and stayed there for all three sessions! most of the missionarys were staying the night at the ZLs house in coban! but we wanted to go back home so that we could bring some investigators to the sunday mornign session!! so we left the stake center about 8:15 and had to walk like 45 min to get to the road that leaves cuz after 8 there is no buses to San cristobal, so we get there are are are trying to ´´jalon´´ but nobody stops!! so finally about 9:15 a micro bus comes that is headed for San crist. so we pile in! and man there was seriously like 30 peopl in this tiny freaking little bus!!!! but we made it home!!! then sunday morning we ran around to pick up the investigators we had invited! but like none could come!!!! Hno. Oscar, (he is the one who just showed up to church one time! we still havent even had a lesson with him but he has come to church 2 times and said he would come with us to conf too) but when we called him he said he had to do something but would meet us there! :/ we where a little unsure cuz coban is like really far, like hour bus ride, and he had never been to the church there, but we explained where it was, and he said he would be there!! (we where praying hard he was telling the truth!!) anyway so none of our other investigators could come! but ´´hermanita´´ said she wanted to come! (she is the lady we live with!) so she and her two kids went. we went in the back of her pickup! she droped us of in front of the church and said she just had to run to the mall real quick and then would be back! so my comp went into the spanish and i watched in english!!! AGIAN, CONFERANCE WAS SOOOO GOOD!! ah! but ya, then after i met up with my comp, and he said he didnt see any of out Inv.! so we decided to wait at the door as everybody was leaving to look to see if any came! sure enough Hno judy (member) and his wife(Alicia) and daughter(investigators) came out!! WOO!! so we talked with them and they loved it! the Hno Oscar came out!!! woooo!!! talked with him and he also loved it alot!!! ya but hermanita didt come back!!! haha but ya it was a good session! then after the afternoon session we came back home and worked a little bit!

the work is coming along! we are working real real hard, but not seeing very many results yet :/ but i know they will come! Hna Alicia still does not feel like she has recived an answer that this is the right church, she has the desire to get baptised, she is just waiting to recive her answer!!! but we are praying hard for her! and also we explained to her to pay close attention to the other ways the spirit can give her an answer! not just a dream, but it can be through feelings, thought, peace of mind! so we explained that to her and she said she would keep praying and waiting! also this thursday me and my comp printed a picture of the two of them on their wedding day and gave it to the as a gift, along with a big picture of the Guatemala temple! with a picture of there family in the corner! reminding them what their big goal is!!! they were really happy with the gifts! and ya
we are working hard hard hard! and the results will come!!!
but ya other than that not too much going on,
my stomach has been bothering me alot! but im trying to figure it out and eat better or something idk! haha its not bad, just just a little nerver racking when you got an emergency and got no where ´´´to go!´´ haha :)
i haven´t gotten the package you sent yet, but ill let you know when i get it!!
i don´t need anything really! haha but ya! keep being awesome!!

man idk if you guys saw it but for me this conferance had a huge focus on ´´MISSIONARY WORK!!!´´ and so ya you guys need to work harder!! BE MEMBER MISSIONARIES!! invite your friends to activities! and invite them to hear the missionaries with your!!! this gospel is the greatest thing we have!! and we need to share it with everyone!!!! have no fear!!! share the gospel!!!

LOVE YOU ALL WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!
Elder Kumpf!

 

 

 

4/1/2013

hello there!! haha well this week was a pretty good one!! it was ´´semana santa´´ so like everyone was on vacations! and also a cool/weird thing they do here is they take saw dust and they creat these ´´alfambros´´ they dye the say dust differant colors then like sprinkle it in disigns, or use cut outs to make designs! but they are cool! ya they make them durring the day, andthen that night the priests and prossesion with the big saints statue float thing pass over the areas with the alfombros. very catholic thing, but they have been doing it here as long as anyone can remember! but ya ill put a couple of pictures of the saw dust things!! but ya im not sure if it is just something they do here or if it is like a central america thing, idk! but it sure is differant! anyway!! the work with our investigators is going good!! we are working hard to keep them progressing!! didn´t have any baptisms, but we have a date with Hna Alicia and her daughter! for this week end!!! we are praying real real hard for her! she want to be baptised she just doens´t feel like she has recived her answer that this is the one true church!!! but we have a FHE with them tonight and we are gonna see how she is doing and if she has got it yet!!! other than that,
we had 51 for attendance this sunday and 8 were our investigators!! one is this guy named oscar!! he is super awesome! a real gift from god!! he showed up last sunday and i had never seen him befor but i went and talked to him and he was like ´´ya i live here and am investigator!´´ we were like ´´WHATTT´´!!! so ya but he works late during the week so we couldn{t have a lesson with him, but he came again this sunday!!!!! so ya we are gonna try hard hard to meet with him this week! aperantly he has a GF in the capital that is a member or something! but ya we are real real excited for him!!! he is GOLDEN!!!
we also had a family! the kids have come with us a bunch of times with us to church but the mom works 24 days away and only has like a 4 day break, then back to work!! so they are usually with their grandma! they assited with their grandma the first time, then solo the next couple times, then with their mom this sunday! the big problem we have with them is they dont speek or understand very much castillaño (spanish) they speek Poqomchi´ and so they have a hard time understanding, and the teaching them is going slow!! but we are working hard and teaching them at their needs!
Hna Milna didnt come and we were really sad!!! we have been working with her for like two months and she has still not come to church! it is like the only thing that is keeping her from being baptised!!! :/ ah! but she is so awesome! one day this week we went by at random to visit with her and she was sitting in her doorway reading the BOM! man i was like WOOOOOOO!!! ya she is super awesome! she just needs to come to church!!!
anyway besides that, we had a 2 zone conferance friday! it was the zones coban, and verapaz! it was a real real good meeting! it lasted a long time! from 9 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon! but it was soooo good! president and his wife spoke and we did some practices! and ya just learned alot about little things that i can do alot better!! but it was in coban and coban has a mcdonalds! so we went there in the morning!! other then that not to much new, just working real hard her!! and excited for changes in 2 weeks idk if i will get changed, but i have a feeling i might!! we find out like saturday the 13th and then if i do ill be shipping out tuesday mornig usualy! will see what happens!

dad had a question about other churches! well sancritobal has two big catolic churches! one up the mountain, and one in the center park! and other then that there is litterly a church on every corner!!! from eveangelico theo 7th day adventist to jehovas witnesses to penticostal!! there are so so many churches! and so its a big problem cuz everybody already goes to a church! and like everyone here belives that ´´if its talking about god, then its good!´´ witch is good and bad, good cuz they will here our message, but bad cuz they just can´t seem to grasp the idea that there is only one true church!! but its ok we are working hard, and trying to find the people that the lord has prepared for us!

the weather here is random!! haha its never just one weather! its either hot hot or ´´chipi chipi´´ cold! and it usualy goes in about 3 day cycles! 3 days hot -sweating! and three days cold! -sweater and rain jacket! but ya its interesting! haha

thanks for the calender it is so so perfct!! and thanks for forwrding the letter from kenny! ill send him a little note!

 oh and last week i sent a picture of these two kids i saw in the street! but the little one was dressed in all cammo! and it looked just like noah did when he has a little kid! thought it was so simalar!!!

love you all!!! hope your doing well!!! ill talk to you agian next week!!!
LOVE YOU!!
ELDER KUMPF!!

 

3/25/2013

 

well well another week flying by here in guatemala!!! this week was ok, although i felt like we didn´t get alot done :/ i feel like idk we are missing something, or like we are failing a little bit! :( we had 74 in attendace this sunday, pretty good, but we only had 6 investigators, 4 of them were kids, (the brothers and 1 sister of Mario) but mario himself didn´t come... sad... :( and we had Hno. roberto! which was real real good he is an old, kinda eternal investigator! he is a super awesome guy but just doesn´t want to take the step further to be baptized! :/ but we are working hard with him and it is showing, in that he came to church! and the other onvestigator at church was a guy named Oscar! he was there during sacrament, and i thought he was a member, but after i went to talk to him cuz i didn´t recognize him, and he said he was an investigator! i guess he has a girlfriend in the capital thats a member or something like that, but ya he came all on his own, i have never seen him befor! but now we are gonna work real hard with him!!!
as far as our plans with alicia, we had a lesson with her like tuesday, and we couldnt get her alone to talk to her about a ´´birthday presnt´´ for her husband Judy, but we had a lesson with the two of them together, and talked about eternal fameilies, and ya it was good! and she keeps saying ´´i want to get baptiozed, im just not ready´´ but i know she is ready! so we set a plan with her we told her that we had prayed, and we know she could be ready for her baptism the 30th of march, and she was like ´´wooo no way´´ and we told her to pray and ask if she was ready for her baptism this date, she said she would, so, will see!!! we are praying hard!!! but i feel like she isn{t gonna pray and ask cuz she ´´already thinks she knows´´ she is not ready... so we will see, but that was tuesday, and we tryed to have another visit with them, but couldnt untill friday, their wedding! (ill send a picture of them) they got married and it was good and they had a party and stuff and we went for a little bit! but could talk to her about if she had prayed and how she felt... then saturday they had their honeymoon, and we called saturday night to see if we could visit them but they said they were busy, but they said they would be at church the next day for sure!! THEY DIDNT SHOW UP:( :( sad! then we called and they said we could visit them at 6 sunday night, we went waited, nada!!! so ya that was a big bummer!
other buig bummer was with Hna Milna! she is an investigator that we have been teaching for a while! she is super awesome in reading the bom but has never comee to church, she always says she can on like tuesday, but then by friday she has someother thing she has to do, usualy in another town! :/ but this wee on tuesday she said she coulnt come, then when we visited her on thursday she said she had changed her plans so that she could go!!!! we hwere so so excited!!! but then on saturady, we went by and she said she could go. :( but i think there is a more serious problem, i think her husband is super against us! he is ot usualy there, and so we always have lessons outside, so its not awkward or anything, but ya he was at home on saturday, and so i think she was afraid of him and thats why she changed her mind about going!!! so ya pray hard for her to have courage, and for her husband to not be a jerk , or bully or whatever he is. but just pray for her, cuz i know she wans to fallow this gospel, and i feel like he might be the only thing stopping her...

but ya thats that kinda bummer week we had here, but we are not leetting it get us down, just letting it make us work harder!!!!!

we also did a ton of service this week!!! one moring we helped Hna Milna haul a bunch on huge rocks up the mountain to her house! we loaded a wheel barrow and tied a rope to the front of it, so one of us pushed and one pulled! we worked for about 2 hours, and barly made a dent in the huge pile that she had bought and still needed to be hauled to her house.

then two other morings we went up two the house of Hna Angelina (less active) and we were helping her re-do her roof! this exmiossionary came, he was the one who baptized her, he served her in 94, and ya he bought all the stuff for her to red do her roof, ned wood beams and nedd tin roofing, so we heped them replace the bords and stuff, and is was fun hard work! the gringo x mish was only her for like 3 days but he was a nice guys,

the member and investigators are a mix, alot are in the city and alot are on the outskirts, in the jungle! but ya its awesomely gorgeous here!!!!!!!
but there are not any ruins here, kinda a bummer but ill get my chance to see them in other areas!
we have zone conf about once a month, but the president does not come. but this friday we have a multi zone conf. in coban and he will be there, so im excited for that!!!

anyway out of time! man i need to learn to type faster! but ya!!! love you all so so so so much!!!
be safe ans share the gospel with people!!! members are real missionarys!!!
Love
Elder kumpf!

3/4/13; 3/11/13 & 3/18/13

3/4/2013

hey hey! so its a short letter this week! but ya,! haha we are working hard with our investigators!! not to much new! we had 8 investigators at church this week! one new famly (gma, and 3 kids) and two other famlies!! it feels good to be working with famlies finally! but ya no dates for baptisem thi week but this coing week we are planing on putting a bunch!!!

anyway your questions,

my companion is great!! we are getting along so so good! i have really started to love him! we are lie real good friends!

the language is ok! im stilll progessing everyday. little by lttle! i can hear most of the words people say, but that doesnt mean i know what they mean! haha and m still working on my conjugations, but it stilll does not stop me from talking!! haha

i used the money just for some suvieners, so ya, but thanks for keeping an eye on it!!

the kitchen stuff we have it a fridge, hot plate, and microwave!! but im surviving good enough!! haha

thanks for the package you sent, ill let you know when i get it, and thanks for the ties that you will send!! that will be awesome to give away!!!  a couple other things i thought of that i might like is, a frizbee! a good quality one, my companion wants a mini english hymn book! they dont haave them here so if you could send one that would be sweet! and there is this type of pen i bought at the mtc that i really like and its almost dead (the pens here are junk!), if you could maybe buy 4 and send them id really appreeciate it!! ill send a pcture of what they look like but i think you van buy then at walmart. and that all the things i could think of this week!

ill answer your other questions next week!

(sorry the spelling is extra bad this week this keyboard only has like half the letters printed on it...)

thanks for everything!!! 

love you all so so much!! 

Elder 

Kumpf!!

3/11/2012

hey hey hey Elder kumpf signing in!!!
haha well this week was pretty good!! it was a week of changes, (the last change was 7 weeks, idk why t was 1 week longer then normal, but it was...) but me and my companion did not have changes. but i finish my training at the end of this next change!!! so in about 5 weeks something will probably happen with one of the two of us!!! but im not too worried about it!! this week was ok, but i still wish i could see more progression in our investigators! at church we had 62 in attendance, 6 were our investigators! but they were mostly patojos with the exception of ´´Mario´´(22) we found him and his family on wednesday, we knocked the door and they let us in and we gave them a lesson about the restoration, it was his mom ´´angelina´´ his sister ´´flory´´(18) and him, then we invited them to the ´´noche de videos´´ we have every wednsday night! they said they would come! so we went and picked them up and his mom couldn´t come but one of his brothers did, cant remember his name... but ya so we went to have NDV with them, but we got to the church and waited for some members to show up, like the usual 10 or so that come... we waited and waited and no members came at all... infact no other people came, so we just played some fut with them in the field of the church and then took them home... but ya mario and his brother and two of his OTHER siblings (twins - boy/girl (10)) came to church on sunday so that was awesome!!! but his mom and sister flory couldn´t make it... bummer!!
and ya we  were bummed cuz like some of the investigators that we have that are really golden couldnt make it... :/  one of them is´´milna´´ she is awesome! we had a lesson with her on last sunday and she was on page 5 of the bom. then tuesday when we went back she was on page 27!!! she had some questions and we were able to answeer them, (mostly about like ´´what is going on here!!´´) but we kinda helped her sumerize whats going on and put the story in more simple terms for her. and we also told her she could underline stuff she likes and write in the colums to help her understand. and when we went back friday she was on page 67!!! she is so awesome!!! and she had a ton of  stuff underlined and was able to fallow most of what she read!!! so we talked with her more and read about baptism and then asked if she would fallow christs example and be baptized, she said yes, then we put a date for the 6th of april!!! she was a little hesitant but she accepted it!!! we are super excited cuz this date means that finally we are progressing with our investigators, not just kinda runnng in circles!!! haha but ya we are really excited for her!!!
but this wee our goal is two put dates for baptisem with our other investigators, and to visit them more often!!! we have a ton of investigators, and my fear is that like we have too many and aren´t helping them progress enough!! but that will change this week they will all be progressing a ton!!!!
and ya that is basically how the work is going here!!

like i said we had changes at the beginning of last week so Thursday we spent most of our day in Santa Cruz(the town/area closest to our town/area), because they pulled both the old elders out and put in two new ones, so we had to show them to their house and where a few members lived. but we dont know very much their cuz its not our area and we have only been there a few times to meet up with the other elders. so ya that took up most of one of our days.  bummer:/ but other then that no real big changes with the changes haha

we did service this week with one of our investigators roberto!!! we were hauling like cement mix up this mountain!! it was only like 200 yds but it was like straight up!! we where using what they call here ´´mecapal´´ it is basically this pad you put on your head and then it has i rope loop that you put around a sack full of whatever! in this case cement!! and yeah it had to of been like 150lbs but with the mecapal you dont feel the weight too muych, just in your legs! but it does take some getting used to!! but it was real real fun and exuasting!!!

i have born my testimony both fast sundays we had here, but other then that i have not had to speek! but i think ill talk with our president and tell him if he needs someone, im the man !!!!

i have had a little contact with my friends, rylan and i are sending short little notes back and forth! and i have heard from a couple people, but like spencer and bryce and a bunch of chambones! (thats what they call lazy peole here!!) haha but yun and jess, and catherne haycock and david barrera have sent me a couple notes!! wich is sweet! but note getting anything from friends doesnt really bother me too much!!

how sweet is that the kenny gave ryan a job!!! Kenny is such a stinking nice guy!!! but tell ryan to bve patient and ya, cuz kenny takes so getting used too!! haha but i lovce and miss him alot!!

how freaking sweet is it that noah had state!!!! freak that is so stinking cool!! he better be getting stinking good at climbing with a wall in his stinking room!!!!!

i have been real healthy! the food has not bothered me too, much!!! not to say it has not messed me up, cuz there has been day when i needed to find a bathroom in a hurry!!! haha but for the most part i have been fine!!!

a few things that i could use in your next email or so is like a callender or lst of dates!!! haha like mothersday fathers day birthdays ya beacuse i dont remeber any of those very well!!! and also you might like look up the comversion of things from standerd to metric like miles, lbs ft cuz i dont know how it converts very well!! haha
 anyway love you all so so so so so much!!!!!
keep it real and share the gospel with your friends!! members are the key to the work!!!

LOVE 
ELDER KUMPF!!

3/18/2013

hey hey hey!!!
well well we are sure working hard her in Guatemala !!! we have a ton of investigators!!! so are progressing and some not so much!!! haha but that is my goal is to get ALL OF THEM!!! its hard tho! i feel like they are all perfect, but we just dont have enough time!! like if we worked hard with each of them individually they would progress real real fast!!! but have so many it is real real hard to ´´balence them all´´! :/ but we are working hard at it!!!
so exciting news!!! Alicia! (the inv. not wife but living together) of Judy (member) are gonna get married friday!!!!! woooo that was like the only real hurdle we had with her baptism!!!! but she is still a little timid about the baptism and has not made a desicion. but she is gonna throw a little birthday party for judy on thursday, and she like asked of if we could come and give a spiritual though, and hang with them at their little party for him. and she also asked us to think of ideas of something special for his birthday!!! so the other day E. gutierrez got ´´THE IDEA´´ !!! its perfect!!! she could get baptized!!!!!!!!!!! so ya that is our plan to help her understand that an eternal family is the greatest gift she could ever give her to be husband!!!! so ya we are working hard to make it happen!!! but basically it would be birthday party thursday, wedding friday! and baptism saturday!!!!!! how perfect of a week end!!!! ya we are super exctied and praying hard hard that it will work!!! but other then tht we dont have any fechas (dates) for baptism... :/ but we are gonna put a ton this week for sure!!! 
this suday was stake conferance! our branch is part of the Coban stake. even though its not our misssion (i know its wierd) but ya so sunday we had a bus at the chapel to haul us all to coban!!! we took 10 investigators!! Mario (22 same as last week) and his 4 younger siblings! then alex and erick!! (they are awesome!) andsome other patojos! kinda a bummer that we didnt have any adult investigators come... but were working on it!! and ya so we went to coban they had to have two sessions of stake conf. the chapel was loaded both sessions, we ended up sitting on the edge of the stage!! but ya it was a pretty good meeting, (altho i didnt get to pay very good attention cuz i was trying to keep all our kids reverant the whole time!!!) STINKING KIDS!!! haha but it was good! 
other than that the work is good!!!! hard but good! one thing that i have been strugling with here is helping understand the importance of ONE TRUE CHURCH! like so so many people and some of our investigators are like ´´oh its of good its true´´ and like they just dont get that there is only one true church, one true authority of god, and we are the only ones who have it!!!!! no matter how many times we teach about the autority or the restoration of the one tru church, they just dont get it, and its a problem cuz they dont see why its important that they go to ´´our´´ church or have ´´our baptism´´ and ya idk ANY IDEAS!?
but ya other than that is is going well im getting comfortable with the language and with teaching, i dont have to much fear talking to anybody about anything, i can understand pretty much everything, and ya i just real need to better my language study a little, beacuse i can get my point accross to everybody, but i just wanna make it to where it is more smooth and like there is no hicups, so the spirit can flow smooth too!!!
well this week i hit 2 months in GUATEMALA!!!!! im loving it!!! haha i dont have much home sickness at all anymore (not to say i dont love you all haha) bu im real glad cuz homesickness is real real hard!!! im used to the people and the way of life!! haha ya its sweet i really really love it here!! 
it is so so different but it feels like home hahah.
this week we have been trying to save some money so we started hitchhiking when we have district mtg and p-day, cuz district mtg is in tactic, witch is 2 30 min bus rides, and cost 7 quetzales each way!!! so by hitch-hiking we save about 30 quetzales a week! and i can buy a bunch of tasty pastries with 30 quetzales!!! haha the word for hitch-hiking here is ´´jalon´´ (ha-loan) but you do it the same way -  thumbs up!!!! we usually have pretty darn good luck.

last week for p-day we checked out these caves! they are like on the side of the road near Santa Cruz. they were cool but weird. they are some old myan teple or something. and i gues a bunch of people still belive in the stuff cus there is like candles buring in them and stuff! we went pretty far into them but not ´´stupid far´´ haha they were pretty cool but nasty with sut from all the fires...
and this week for p-day we just played soccor :/ im ok, haha but idk i dont really like playing that much! im excited to get my frizbee and play ulitmnate with the elders!!!

other than that, my shoes are good!! they probably looked worn cuz they are always dirty!! haha i dont bother to polish them (except special days) cuz they just get dirty again in the dirt roads here. but really i love them! they are comfortable durable and water proof!! havnt had any blisters or anything, and i have also used my boots a bunch too! when ever there is alot of and and alot of mud! or when we do service!!! they are awesome too!!!

ya hermanita does our laundry! its all wash by hand and air dry here!! haha but she does a good job! and she irons everything after! its nice!!

for mothers day! idk if we will get to skype, and idk if i want to, its a little laggy in the states and im sure it is worse here! i think a phone call will be better! and on that same note! could you please email me a, idk list of birthdays and dates (mothers day fathers day...,etc) cuz they are different here, and i can remember for beans when these holidays are in the states!!!

yup im doing good!!! working hard hard hard for the lord!!! and loving it!!!
love you all so so much!!!!

Elder Kumpf!!!

also idk if i told you but last Monday we had a baptism for the ward!! he was a stud and gave his testimony and an article of faith!! my comp baptized him cuz there was nobody else to do it!! here are some pics!!!
they are an awesome family!! i don't think she has a husband...