La Vida es una Autopista pt 3

If you couldn't tell by the title, this week brought changes. Saying goodbye to Las Canas was pretty tough, lots of awesome families, a dope companion, Candido, everything. But asi es la vida en El Salvador. Wednesday morning we all met up at the bus terminal and I got to meet my new companion, Elder Felipe. He's a cool dude from Guatemala and he's teaching me Kaq Chiqel which is his native dialect. Our area is Cojutepeque, an awesome little city near the border of Honduras. Its like a mix of city and straight jungle. One minute we are dodging buses and cars and the next we are hiking mountains to get to people's houses. Its pretty crazy here. We got to wash someones dog this week, which we only did on the promise that they would finally get married. We carried canastas through the streets on our heads, ate some more liver, had a giant festival in our pueblo fill all the streets and ruin all our appointments but we also had the baptisms of Stefany and William. Stefany is a little girl in the ward and just recently turned 8, and while the actual baptismal service was a little crazy and Elder Felipe and I -who are both relatively new in the mission- were scrambling to pull it together last second, it was a special experience. Secondly, William. This guy is just awesome. We met him my first day here in Cojute and he is just a straight stud. 21 years old, told me he wants to get out on a mission ASAP. He already is killing it as a missionary. He was talking with his family about his baptism and everything and long story short, there are about 15 members of the Beltran'Alvarado family that are investigating the church now. Total Stud. 

Just to fill out the reason for my title and get spiritual with it as always. I wanted to share that we don't know what tomorrow holds. As they say in the greatest movie ever made, ¨Today is a new day,¨ and that means new experiences, new people, new opportunities. In the mission this rings very true. Every day we see something new or get to know someone with a unique story or problem. And in the short time I've spent in this country that's a lesson I have really come to find out. We don't know what tomorrow holds, but we can decide how we face it. So your cheesy Elder Moulton advice for the week is to take advantage of every day you get and every new experience that you find, cuz God is going to put new things in front of us every day, we just gotta choose how we take it. Hope every one has a great week! Thanks for all the support.

¡Salud!

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Elder Moulton