Wednesday, June 28, 2017

week 98 Busy

Not a whole lot of time today! 

Today we went to the temple which was awesome! It was a really good week, Elder Marcellino is awesome, everything is excellent. Um... We made banana chocolate chip pancakes the other day...

We have  anew family we teach, I kind of talk about them in the recording that I`ll send in a sec. Well.. I really don`t have much to say. Love you guys.










Monday, June 19, 2017

week 97 Elder Marcellino, Testigos, and Stomach Pains

This was a really really good week! So we had changes and my new companion is Elder Marcellino, he is super cool. He´s 20, he´s from North Carolina and he went to BYU for a semester before coming out on the mission. He almost has 5 months, and already speaks spanish super well.

There was a really funny moment on our second day together, we got up in the morning and started doing laundry in the landlady´s house. We always start the loads and go back to our room and then go back down and up and down to keep the loads going. But one time we left the room, and as soon as we walk out there were to Jehovah´s Witnesses out front. We were still in our PJ´s and we didn´t have our placks on and so they didn´t know we were Mormons. They immediately start teaching there lesson, and Elder Marcellino and I quietly listened, responding there questions and looking at each other really awkwardly. It was actually super funny and I think we must be some of the most positive investigators these JW´s have ever had. They asked if they could enter our house and keep talking but we said we were going to leave. At the very end they asked our names, and I responded ¨uhh... Anderson´´ and my companion responded ´´Marcellino´´ which was hilarious because both names happen to be first names here in Honduras. As soon as they walked away, we walked into the house and started laughing. BUT THEY DID A GOOD JOB, THEY JUST FORGOT THE SECTION IN PREACH MY GOSPEL OF HOW TO BEGIN TEACHING, AND TESTIFYING AND PROMISING BLESSINGS. One´s name was Omar, the other one I don´t remember.

SO it was my birthday, and I had a really AWESOME birthday, the members in my ward are super awesome! After contacting in the afternoon we went to our dinner appointment where I was greeted with a surprise birthday party, with the lights turned off and everything. They had made us LASAGNA, with presents and signs and everything. It was the nicest thing anyone has done for me in my whole mission.









Saturday, June 17, 2017

week 96: CHANGE NUMBER 17

This Wednesday is my last change. Elder Cuevas has changes and I'm staying to finish, so the 21 de Octubre is officially my LAST AREA. And my next companion who comes on Wednesday is my last companion. His name is Elder Marcellino and is from Utah or something. I don't know I've never met him (he's newer.)

At church I wiffed it, and broke my knee... not really but it hurt, and was embarrassing, haha.

I don't know what to write this week to be honest, just a fun week! 
 
Love you guys enjoy the pics.

Rainy pic
Pics with some Families
and one day we came home to study and laid down by the fan on the floor cause it was so hot.







week 95: Los Ortiz


So for a little while now we've been teaching a less active family, the Ortiz Family, they are pretty cool, and we have started to work them A TON. Originally, the plan was just to reactivate the family, because they are a TON of people, (The Grandparents, 5 of the Kids, a million grandkids, and a few great grandkids) in just one house. BUT little by little they have been giving us references. Out of this family we've started teaching Eduardo, (super duper positive, boyfriend of one of the grandkids) and like 5 of their cousins who live nearby. They are super dope and super helpful. Including bringing their cousins to church, and sewing my ripped up shirts. 

Also this week, we did divisions and were able to find some cool new families in the ward.

ALSO we had a sweet family home evening with a sister and her family. Even her husband came to church this sunday, and he hasn't gone in forever.

It's been a really busy week, awesome experiences, but nothing really funny to tell.

On Saturday, President Figueroa of the Tegucigalpa Stake Presidency called my companion and I to give a 20 minute lesson to the Stake Deacons on Sunday, on how they can be part of the mission work and share a book a Mormon with their friends. It was actually pretty fun preparing the lesson and I think we did a great job. Unfortunately only 6 deacons in the ENTIRE STAKE showed up haha. So he thanked us and asked us to do it again on the 25th. It was actually nice when he called because he said "I want you to come teach, blah blah blah, because I've seen how you and your companion work together and get along and I like it, so I want you to be an example for the deacons." 

While at that same meeting, our Stake President realized that he was companions in the mission with my companions cousin, and our Stake President got excited like a 10 year old with new legos, because he loved my comp's cousin. It was especially funny, because our Stake President, is HUGE, Ripped, and bald, and it was like seeing Vin Diesel turning into a little kid again.

Good Week, pics included.

1. Dog Poop
2. Trapped under the stairs in the church.
3. Pres. Figueroa