March 27, 2017

Hey everybody.... another crazy week out here in honduras..... however ill stick to this weeks highlights.....

Saturday was a pretty hectic day..... my ward isnt known for doing many activites..... or really anything...... but saturday everyone decided to do an activity..... 

In EQ we planned on doing carne asada! (basically ghetto BBQ)..... and they would then watch a 100 percent not pirated (because here there are no pirated movies whatsoever) movie.... 

On paper it was a great idea.... a way to get our struggling elders quorumn together for something fun.....

As i ate the so called steak.... i was called to remember the stories of the early pioneers..... and how they were forced to eat raw hides off of their own handcarts..... The quality of the so called steak left me feeling like one of those pioneers.....

At least we had a good attendance and we were able to bring some less active brothers back to the flock to watch a 100 percent NOT rated R movie choosen by my EQ president..... haha

Meanwhile they watched the movie we had a baptismal service.... hoorah

as is well that ends well i guess......

Oh and i learned that my new companion has maaaaajor sleeping issues and might be scared of the boogyman or something because he has to turn on all the lights at 3 am! Every night!

Ive become slightly grumpy but hey...... character building experiences!

Ill be in the stake center all weekend watching the conference in english with neilson..... should spend the night with him too, and we are going to SPS to renew our residency..that basically means I'm about to go home lol

out here playing kickball

trash and rocks as bases...... with Neilson

March 20, 2017

This week on Survivor Honduras (in a jeff probst voice)

Things got intense this week in camp as the new recruit didnt look both ways before crossing the street and the medical team was rushed on the scene 

Luckily Juarez will live to see this weeks tribal council which doesnt look to bright for him given his poor preformance in camp and in immunity challenges.

Tribe Corocol was already low on strength due to a strong case of chicken pox which brought camp moral down to an all time low, still feeding off of mini bananas

But nonetheless dover was able to win the immunity challenge and lives to see one more change while all votes were casted against Juarez sending him on his way to the MTC.

With changes on the way elder dover will have to make some new aliances in order to make it to the final four.......

well being on divisions these days has put me with a elder who just left one of my old areas..... he was telling me about an old couple that got married and baptized.... when i realized it was a couple i contacted over a year ago..... they had tons of problems but the wife had a firm testimony..... she had leg problems and lived on the other side of a mountain and couldnt go to church alone and was really dependent on her unmarried husband..... we had done a fast with her when i was there and her husband from then on out started to go and it was cool to hear that they just got married and baptized.

March 13, 2017

hey whats up yall

quick update

Got a new sombrero 

Got a call this morning from the secretaries saying that my comps papers came out.... something that we expected would take months..... and he leaves next tuesday..............so yeah...lol

I get another new comp.....

There are going to be some changes in the mission..... as there are 3 people leaving for the MTC now..... not sure whats going to happen.... an idea is that ill be with my WOULD HAVE BEEN comp that got stuck in Guatemala since he is in a trio.... but who knows..... there are now going to be three missionaries in need of companions (me being one of them) and there is only one trio so idk whats going to happen.....

well i dont have a lot of pics this week but i did buy a sombrero to keep me from getting burnt

this week was long as heck because a few missionaries of my district got chicken pox and ive been running them meds...... and went to their area twice to do a baptismal interview that never showed up..... 

big mess..... all in all im slightly sunburnt and now have a memorized route to the other districts.....

really sucky situation, been running back and forth from their area to mine trying to help, was gunna do splits to help them but the gringo got sick too so they are kinda screwed.  Thursday i went to do a baptismal interview

kid wasnt there.  Friday i went to go pick up the gringo so we could have our interviews with Pres..... his comp stayed at home with a member.  Sunday both were sick but the ym pres. of their ward calls me and tells me to come over asap to do the interview.  I go.... wait for a few hours and nothing......

Training is going well..... sometimes it takes a little patience..... even more so when my comp is in his own world zoned out... lol but oh well.... been there too..... Its just tough because like i said last week he hasn't even gone through the mtc so its kinda starting from scratch really..... but its cool to study all the same principles and lessons i studied with de la cruz back in 2015..... yeah wow.... back in 2015

He does well though.... obviously there are just some small stuff he needs to learn as we work with our investigators....

Things are going well with the investigators...... still been teaching and working with the youth.... been trying to find some adults but its hard.... on the flip side Jose Bonilla, in order to get baptized, is just making another house for his lady spouse parnter thing whatever you wanna call her so hopefully with time it'll be set..... the walls are up..... so maybe in a month or two or who knows really..... but i plan on going over one of these days to lay some blocks and help get it done

we have a few baptismal dates for the 25th

im hoping that we have 2 baptisms

Alex..... a 13 year old kid thats been going to church for a while...... just trying to get permission from him family

And Lidennys..... a 15 year old girl who moved here recently and lives with a family of members..... shes basically set

been saving some decent parts of my money here.... decided to go outa do spend money on my breakfasts and eat better

March 6, 2017

My new kid, my other kid, his kid, and the kid of his kid  

well as always im only on for a bit in the morning to send off some papers and pics to the secretaries.....deff missing snow here but oh well.... it rained this week so it wasnt too hot

The investigators are going well.... we got a lot of potential.... just trying to work out small issues and details with them......We made some commitments this week.... currently have 5 dates set.... with more on the way but as always these dates are goals for our investigators.... they dont always reach em tho...

my new companion is interesting to say the least.....

So I had a last minuet switch up due to my comp getting stuck in guatemala for an extra ten days for some reason and I was given a visa waiter as a companion, who was going to be in a trio as he waited for his visa.... but now he is with me so I wouldn't be alone, while the trio can keep working without him..... He is from san pedro sula.... and he comes from a place called jardines del valle.   To say the least its one of the actually nice places in honduras ($$$) He is 22, the only member in his family annnd yeah.... little odd.... but all good

He is catracho but i think im more catracho than him because he doesnt eat with his hands and is really out of loop on some stuff that goes on in these poorer parts of honduras..... kinda makes me laugh like i said..... i act more honduran then him

but yeah 

he hasnt even gone through the mtc so i basically have to teach him everything..... everything.....

for pday today we are going shopping... then to pizza hut with nielson and various other missionaries to eat and play phase 10

so while going to the new trainers meeting i saw ariel..... not sure if yall remember him.....  my ward mission leader in san juan... who came and saw me in sonaguera.... he was dropping the missionaries from san jaun (elder maldonado who was with me in sonaguera before) at the same meeting and i got to caught up with him

What ive learned most is how to work effeciently and how to use my time wisely...... When i see that someone has lots of potential i visit them more often.... I can find people that are ready a lot faster..... i dont know how to explain it.... ive just become really good at finding people quickly and getting them baptized..... ive just set a rythmn of frequent baptisms for myself and when i dont have that set, i work quickly to make it happen

i always share james 2:17 with my investigators because a lot of times they are lazy and dont do anything

February 27, 2017

hey yall

time is flying.... just finished another change and we are basically done with febrero 

My current comp is on his way home and has finished his mission..... i got 3 changes left which is crazy (1 change is 6 weeks)....

And the best part is, these next twelve weeks will be spent training a new missionary! He arrives tomorrow.

Things shoud go pretty well here on out! Having some good sucess out here

well the week started well, we did divisions with the ZLs and we ended up getting eaten alive by mosquitos in their area even though i sprayed down everyday, but it was fun being with Nielson again,  here are various pics playing cards in my batman suit and breakfast at bk

helped a family set up their wood sale! firewood for cooking!

The last baleadas for for my comp tarqui

road side food

He got on to email for a few min, but had to go because his comp needed to go to the bank and get shoes.. so he came back on and was so irritated. This is what he said.. it made me giggle that something like and iron would get him fired up! ....

I'm now so glad my comp is leaving. I thought we were going to get him shoes..... we only went so he could sell the iron we had to some other missionary..... there are no other irons..... .looks like i gotta do some shopping now. I'm mad, everyday i iron my clothes and my comp sold the dang thing. 

February 20, 2017 

hey whats up yall

Pretty good week..... lets just say it had lots to do with a batman onesie (Addison sent that) and eggo waffles that i found....

anyways we started the week on wednsday with a multizona meeting..... got to see some old comps and friends and the Pres. bought us pizza.

I gave a capacitation to the two zones on how to teach investigators to pray..... Focused on 3 scriptures.... basically explained that the investigators need to understand that there are many reasons we need to pray. for forgiveness or strength. Counsel and help..... stuff like that.  All in all it went well!

Got to see elder gomez ´´my son´´ who goes home this change

At the end of the meeting i finally got some scripture covers......

that same day we had a nother baptism from the same part member family..... his name is mario

Now that ive gotten 3 baptisms from part member families its time to focus more on finding and baptizing my investigators

Today we spent the morning cleaning the literal pounds of dust from the house windows and filters.... this place is soooo dusty....

got some help from the ym and they were properly rewarded 

February 13, 2017

Hey guys whats up

This week was a little slow and really lame to be honest..... numbers where a bit low... didn't have a good turnout to church

Met some good new investigators....

Found a really cool family thats really into the idea of going to church and everything..... so we used this weeks family history activity as a way to get them involved in the church and to meet members....

Sadly the ward completely failed in every possible way of prep for this activity because nothing was ready at all and it was a huge hair pulling mess..... 

It got a worse when the cool family showed up.... and brough 12 more people..... great missionary oppertunity but the ward activity was a mess and i was losing it with the lack of organization and planning and everything....We at least in the end saved the day at the end with the families by setting up old school games like jump rope and some other games that i don't know what they are called....I was really annoyed because the activity was nearly a flop but the mom of the family actually walked away saying it was amazing and that she loved the organization (wut lol) and we set up a visit to meet the 12 other members of her family.... so at least there was a small win....

Today we had our meeting with 2 members of the 70.... went well.... did some self evaluating and am going to make some big changes here on out. It was good..... we had to leave pretty early like at 6 15 am we took a bus with another zone to the center in san pedro outside of the mission..... They gave good talks.... along with their wives..... then did some Q&A which was good.... gave us advice on how to teach... analyzing investigators needs.... importance of studying and stuff like that.   More than anything making sure the investigators understand the message of the restoration before anything else.... making sure they understand well the principles and meaning of the message that way they are not getting baptized just because..... What they want is real converts. Not just whatever baptism. If they don't understand the restoration they wont understand the need or importance of the other lessons

I got to see Josh! josh is good...sadly I didn't get to eat with him but it was good to see him.... almost like efy again or something lol

theres a pic of the dead center of SPS

some other church that just happens to be ours.....2 floors