For Pday we played soccer at Choluteca, so as you can see... we are really burnt!
Well, this is going to be a sad week... the northamerican missionaries that came with me to Honduras from the MTC about 2 years ago are going home! That includes some of my best friends of the mission like Elder Akubeze and Elder Lindsay! I cannot believe it! I am officially the oldest fart of the mission! Just 6 more weeks and I´m home! But its not like im thinking about that! ;)
Anyway, this has been a great week! We´ve had a lot of awesome experiences! Here are some of them:
-Well a couple weeks ago we were walking to our next appointment and when we arrived we noticed that the dad had a huge pile of cindler blocks outside of his house, and he was talking them behind his house. And so we ask if he would like some help, he just looked at us, and said "No dont worry, you will get dirty", and then he walked to the back of his house with the blocks in his hands. So I look at my companion and say, Lets get dirty! So we grab some cindler blocks and start taking them to the back of the house. He was obviously very surprised that two strangers were grabbing his things and going into his property, but we also saw that he was pretty grateful. We didnt say one thing to each other until we finished, and then he said Thank You. It felt good :) The cool thing is that when we finished I told my companion to remember that experience, because in your mission you need to help everyone, members, investigators, or just random people. We may see the blessings of doing so immediately or the next missionaries in the future will see it. The appointment that we had with that family fell.
-Now, fast forward to this week. We were contacting a really far little neighborhood one morning getting to know that part of the area. And we didnt find anyonnnne all morning! Until we knocked the last house that we were going to knock for that morning. The lady inside was a little busy but she let us in! We taught something brief and put another appointment with her. She was somewhat positive, but we didnt know if she was put in our path for a reason, so we made her a priority. Strangely enough she said that Yes we can come back, but not to that house, she said that she spends more time and her mom´s house and that we should go there instead. So she gave us the directions, lucky for us, it was in the neighborhood that we are usually in most frequently. And so fastforwarding that day of the second visit, we go and try to find her house. So there we are walking down a small alley and all we know is that somewhere on the next street we had to look for a green house. But as we were walking down this alley in our path were these two ladies who were resting from carry heavy bags, and so we said "Do you need any help with the bags?" and they said that they were going the opposite direction, and so we said "Dang it! We would help but we have an appointment with someone that lives over here and we are late". One of them asked who we were looking for, and we say "Riccy. She starts laughing and says that she is her sister! And the other lady there said "So where is the church here in San Marcos?" So we tell her and then she says "Okay, we´ll see you on Sunday". We thought it was a joke, but then she lets us know that she just moved into San Marcos and that she is member of the church, baptized in San Pedro Sula! And now she is living right now to Riccy! What a blessing!!! And then they tried giving directions to us, but it was pretty complicated and they didnt want to walk back down because of the heavy bags, but then, almost like if it were meant to be, the dad walks right toward us coming home from work! And so the sister tells her dad to show us where they live. So we follow him home, and we realized that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for us to find that house on our own! Yes there was a green house, but behind a gate and vicious dogs!! But luckily the dad was very nice and kept telling us go in! Go into the house! We knocked, but then he said No! Just go in!! So that he wouldnt get mad at us, we go in! haha and then the mom sees us and then says "Oh, hello! Come in take a seat" And we do so, but we are so confused!! Why are these people so nice to us!? Riccy was nice to us since the first day, her sister was nice enough to talk to us and show us where she lived, the dad was nice enough to let us (two strangers) into his home, and the mom, not knowing that we´ve spoken with any of her family, sits us down and gives us Pepsi almost immediately! What is going on?! So after introducing ourselves and stuff, we tell them to spill the beans! Why are they being so nice? And this is what she said: "Well, I dont know you guys at all, all I know is that you´re very nice people. We heard that you help Don Chayo." We said Who?! "Don Chayo is my cousin, he said that two very nice gringos helped him bring in cindler blocks into his home randomly, and that he was very grateful." And so because of that, not only did Riccy listen to our second message, but her whole family!!! They are super positive!
- This past week we had the awesome opportunity to have a Seveny visit our mission! Elder Zeballos came! We had two conferences with him, the city and the south. And so the office elders call me days before the south conference and say "Well, we just wanted to let you know that Elder Zeballos wanted to interview some misisonaries, and you have been chosen by him." What!? I was not expecting that!! And so the day of the conference came and at the end I had the opportunity to have a personal interview with Elder Zeballos from the CentralAmerica Area Presidency! It was an awesome experience, he was super nice and very smart.
-So last week I wrote about Eric, the investigator that we found as we were looking for Bessy, remember? Well this is the update with him. We went back to his house and guess what? He was waiting for us! he read everything he was supposed to read! And he understood ALL of it! He even made a list of questions! And they were all genuine good questions! But wait theres more! He invited his sister to the appointment too. She is the older sister and she kind of had that look on her face at first that says "Lets see what these wierd Mormons are teaching my brother". And so we include her into lesson and she was quite at first, trying to find any contradiction or error or anything! After a while we can see that she had that "hmmm...that actually makes sense" look. Towards the end of the lesson she was really interested in learning more and wanted some homework! She ASKED for an assignment to read. And they SHE asked, when are we coming back. And then ERIC asked when and where do we gather for church, they asked so many things that made it very clear that they are investigators made of GOLD! Pure 24K Gold! So then we came back for the second visit, of course, BOTH of them kept their commitments! We anwered all of their questions and they understood all of it! They said they would go to church...but we hear that alot. And so on Sunday we wake up and guess what? Its pooring rain and there is no power! We took a bucket shower with the little water we had and got ready, honestly not expecting no one to show up to church. So because there was no power we didnt have cellphone reception, so we couldnt call Eric to see if they were still coming or not. (We honestly thought that they werent) And so we had to go stop by their house to verify. Luckily enough, when we show up they are almost done getting ready! We were shocked! We were like ´Your actually going to church??´ ...I know, we werent being positive, but we were shocked! So they came to church, and according to them, they loved it!! We only had an attendance of 15 people, but also we had a member from Tegucigalpa come this week! She just randomly showed up on her own. But we are sooo grateful that she came because she comes from a strong missionary ward, and so she, being a stranger even to us, helped us with our investigators!! It was a miracle! This week is General Conference, so I hope they can join us as we go to Choluteca to watch it! :D
During one of visits with the members, we may have mentioned that we love grilled corn.
The next time we visited them, guess what? They surprised us with some super good corn! :D
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