so heres my update for the week
Sadly i dont carry my camera around much for security problems but things have been going well as of late.
I think i mentioned a few weeks ago that i was really focusing on the youth here..... and to be honest its been working out well
Before hand i wasnt the biggest fan of activities and all as i usually found them to be a waste of time but we have had a few changes in mission rules and now we have a little more liberty. We now longer report the numbers of lessons we do..... that being said ive been doing my best to use this newly found liberty to my advantage....
Like i said, beforehand i found acitivites to be a waste of good proselyting time so i typically avoided them.... now im all for it
We have been hosting regular young men futbol tournaments.... which has played out nicely seeing as we have 5 or so upcoming baptisms that are young men or soon to be young men.... the youth are becoming more and more active as we hold them responsible for not just coming to church to play. On top of that the youth have become actually really good friends with our investigators and have begun to take them to church and activities AND give us references....
On friday we did a cool acitivity for the youth in general..... we made arroz chino
I mean Chinese rice..... Between the bishop, one other youth, and i, we got all the needed ingredients to make the famous plate of chinese rice that is so craved here in honduras..... and it went soooooo well...... felt soooooo happy having all the youth come out and make arroz chino and just hang out... our ward is low on its activity level due to inactiveness but this activity was killer.....
Really seeing some of our efforts paying off within the youth.....
We had a baptism this week..... came from a part member family..... my goal when i got here (once i realized that there was nothing of investigators) was to find part member families and work with them as much as i could till i could find a good investigator pool..... and as of late its been working.... will have one more baptism coming up from part member families.... then i should see some of the people weve been contacting get baptized.....
Pretty fufilling to see how the hard work is paying off. Everything is pulling together nicely.
this is what it looks like when you clean a house in honduras:
