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.

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.

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

week 94: BUSY

SO I didn´t make a recording this week, cause I´ve been busy. It´s been a good week. This Wednesday there were changes, but in the entire zone only one sister missionary had a change. 

Also on Wednesday, Elder Cuevas and I went to the dentist for his operation thing. It was pretty funny cause each X-ray showed up on a big screen. At first I saw the tooth, another picture of the tooth.... another picture of the tooth, and suddenly the next X-ray he had this giant rod straight through his tooth into his nerve. Looked super painful. Luckily they drugged him up. And lucky for you guys too, because his drugged up face is the funniest thing in the world (picture attached.)

The bishop finally this week is going to call a ward mission leader. Also... I have no idea what else. This month we have a couple of investigators with baptismal dates, but I´m not too sure if they´ll really ended up getting baptized this month. There´s a lot of work for now.

Anyway! Love you guys.

Also we tried burning Elder Cuevas´ tie for the longest time, but since it was part plasticy, it took forever. We ended up breathing those nasty fumes for like 30 minutes till we got the whole thing to burn.

week 93: Elder Cuevas Sure Has Got Some Nerve

This whole week Elder Cuevas has been complaining about a slight pain in his tooth, and I didn't really believe him, and didn't want him to make a dental appointment, cause I didn't want to lose time on P-day. Well anyway, it got worse, and he ended up calling the nurses, and they put a dental appointment today, so for that reason I am writing so lately. TURNS OUT. His tooth filling is damaging a nerve of his, and it's infected. SO he really was sick after all, and I'm just a bad companion hahaha. What nerve.

This week has been pretty good! We have placed a lot of new baptismal dates, and so we will see how that goes! This week there are changes on Wednesday, but Elder Cuevas and I are staying together. I'm happy cause he's cool and we work well together. This will be my second to last change, so I'm kind of thinking I might die/finish here in the 21 de Octubre.

Here's some pics that we took last night cause we didn't have pics to send this week.

ENJOY!

week 92: Mother's Day

Well it was kind of the coolest talking to the family yesterday, so thanks guys for that.

This week was actually incredibly busy. We had our baptisms and left a bunch of investigators the week before, so we went contacting a lot and looking for references this week. WHICH RESULTED WELL. This week we put two new  baptismal dates. One is for Eduardo, a 25 ish year old, who lives not too far from our house, his wife is a reactivating member, and his mother-in-law, is active. and Olga, who is actually Eduardo's legal cousin. SO it's been going pretty well. We also had a really cool mother's day activity on Saturday and my companion and I performed a skit. A member has the video, maybe someday she'll pass it to me. 

But I guess I'll share a thought on specific prayers. It's true that if you want a specific blessing or a specific answer, you really need to have a specific prayer. On Tuesday we decided to find new investigators. We went contacting and worked hard, but literally had 0 news. Hardly anyone let us in and those who did, didn't really have an interest. (An investigator isn't somebody that listens to the lessons, but rather somebody who is actively investigating the church with a desire to learn more and make a change.) And on Wednesday we decided to make a specific prayer asking for 3 positive new investigators. Without any surprise, before we had even eaten dinner, we had already found the 3 positives.

It was a really busy week. I'm not sure what else to write other than a funny story because I just barely talked to you guys.

Last Pday, we all got on the bus. The front was full, and so we went to the back, where it was completely empty except one seat 3 rows up from the back had a very pretty young lady woman person. I sat first in the very back and an Elder (Whose name I won't put, only that he is a north american.) Sat next to her. immediately the other North American elders began joking about him sitting next to her, and that he was dumb pretty much. He just laughed and raised his hands. While on the bus ride, he leans over and opens the window and her hair goes flying and everyone laughs again and jokes about it. AT THE END OF THE BUS RIDE, we all get up and one of the elders didn't have a enough for the fare, he turned to the rest of the NA Elders and asks for money. IMMEDIATELY THE PRETTY CHICK STANDS UP AND HANDS HIM THE AMOUNT OF MONEY NEEDED AND IN PERFECT ENGLISH SAYS "HERE YOU GO." HE ASKED HER IF SHE SPOKE ENGLISH AND SHE SAID "YES I SPEAK ENGLISH." AND SITS BACK DOWN. IMMEDIATELY WE ALL BROKE UP LAUGHING BECAUSE SHE HAD UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING THEY HAD SAID. Literally was the funniest thing in the world. LESSON LEARNED? ENGLISH IS A VERY COMMON LANGUAGE TO SPEAK.