May 1, 2017

Hey what up guys!

This week was a little crazy with temps reaching 113.... but dont worry, a shower at 1 30am completely dressed keeps me cool enough to sleep when its still 90 degrees at night!

We started the week doing a service project at a bilingual school founded by this guy from virgina.... he came to honduras when he was 18 and started charity funds to build houses, and now, 10 years later it has grown into its own little town and school that teaches the literature that they teach in the states.... which is pretty difficult out here.... and the school is run mostly by Gringos!

And we ended the week with a baptism!

And we had a backyard tarde de hermanamiento in the house of our progressing family of Samuel! It was a pretty cool little meet up and the 6 liters of Pepsi i brought made it gold!

so we took the older guy to do a vision test, he actually has cataracts and cant see properly.  now the bishop is actually willing to help so we will see what happens, the operation costs is around 100 to 150 bucks, but ill work with the ward.

April 24, 2017

This is one of my investigators!

His name is samuel and he is pretty funny. He used to live in miami and his Spenglish is pretty fluent. With love he calls me Siervo Hijo de Donald Trump and keeps me informed on the world wars and whatnot that ¨ese viejo gringo trump´´ does.

This week we made plans for him to get married which was then celebrated with a bottle of welchs sparkling cider..... the man had me dying of laughter as he ´´popped some bottles´´ of non alcoholic beverages..... haha wish me luck with his marriage.

ok well this week was good. Things have gotten better.... placed a number of baptismal dates and we may have baptisms every week of this change..... 

This last saturday we had a part member family baptisms..... just a little kiddo.... family is active.... he just always rejected getting baptized for some reason..... well i Wrestlemania slammed the kid into the waters of repentance and pulled him off of his feet nearly into the celestial kingdom since his biggest fear was drowning during his baptisms lol. went well. mint.

we have a recent convert who is going to the temple, a rather old fellow who cant see because his vision is fading and his glasses are not even prescription glasses....been wanting to do something.  he doesn't work because he is handicapped and he cant read the numbers off of bills but if we get him good glasses he could sell fruit and at least see.  I'm gunna take him to get an eye or vision test this week and see how much glasses would cost. Read Mosiah 4

the wiring of honduras......

April 17, 2017

and to think i didnt like avacados before i got to Honduras

getting a real kick out of exploring these hondi jungles.....

Still no tigers to be seen

April 10, 2017

well this week was fun.

Big cheeseburger

missionaries not watching tv at all lol

dat fruit diet 

got to see douglas´ mom from San Juan

the big guy that always gave me food!  his mom works for the mission and was going to bring some of her family to meet me but they had to work or study.

meet a guy from fort worth, wife is from here.... was waiting on her papers....avid top golf-er haha

all day volleyball followed by fried chicken and tajadas.... as usual

got good news this week

jose bonilla, the older guy that has been a going to church for a while that was going to get baptized but couldn't, now can

his case is rather rare and he has been making a new house so he can get that nasty x wife, that keeps him from getting baptized out.  however due to this (and that she only lives in the same house cuz their kids in the usa bought them the house and they live separate live) pres. said he can now get baptized...... so we are working with him and his granddaughter.

yeah we should have some serious baptisms coming up, we've got some good investigators coming through as well, its a really hard ward but I'm going to try to baptize more here than anywhere else. Baptisms should be good. This change should be good.....  working to better my relationship with my comp so it isn't as awkward.  But I'm working on a plan to work more with the members, and to take advantage of the few meeting i do have with them.  We had stake conference, and the night before we had a priesthood meeting which was a machetazo (a machete AKA stake pres. was going off a bit) in regards to priesthood growth in the ward.  i think this change i should have around 7 baptisms (yes. 7 in one change...... hard work paying off) 2 ordinations to melq. priesthood and 3 or more to aaronic.

 

not having to pay for a cook or to wash clothes, or pay for anything really has left me with A good amount of money just about always..... so i went with Neilson to pizza hut like 5 times this week and burger king a few and what not......basically since i went to chilis i have been on a Eat-a-thon...... its been fun really. whats sad though is i can say that eating at these fat food places is probably more healthier than what people freely give me haha.  transfers are this Wednesday, Nielson goes..... bummer but ill see him at the last dinner in pres. mansion lol,  one new kid will be training, I'm bummed that i got screwed out of training with my Original comp getting stuck in Guatemala and the next one waiting on visa and all that. 

trying to help this area , 600 members.... only 67 go on average.  stake pres. was giving out tons of dats.

was messaging pres. during the meeting.... got some ideas of ways to help

April 3, 2017

This week i went to the big city San Pedro Sula to do my final paperworks to be legal here for my mast 3 months..... did i mention that.... last three month?

While on divisions, my house got raided by the neighbors chickens.... good thing Jackson is from some tiny small town in arizona where they know how to give intruding chickens a good beat down with a broom.

Well this week was good...anyways while out and about in the worlds most dangerous city i took a pit stop at the rare Chilis..... and lets just say in celebration of how much time we have, We ate. A lot. And I'm not talking beans and rice.

Big cheeseburgers

After that we saw the few sights there are too see in the Famous San Pedro Sula...

on tuesday we had a multi zone meeting which was chill.... after that i did divisions with elder Jackson from the other area in my District. i do it cuz im the district leader here i do what i want and to get away from my comp because he was pushing my buttons

I dont have a lunch cook and usually i just eat now whatever i want since it leaves me with extra money so we had a huge fruit salad.

got good news this week

jose bonilla

the older guy that has been a going to church for a while that was going to get baptized but couldnt, now can, his case is rather rare and he has been making a new house so he can get that nasty old hag that keeps him from getting baptized out

however due to this (and that she only lives in the same house cuz their kids in the usa bought them the house and they live separate live) pres. said he can now get baptized...... so we are working with him and his granddaughter 

Then on the weekend we watched General Conference..... (with a couple from fort worth texas.. his wife is from here, waiting on her papers, an avid top golfer haha... wutttt) and made large amounts of unnormal pancakes....

got to see douglas´ mom from San Juan

the big guy that always gave me food!

his mom works for the mission and was going to bring some of her family to meet me but they had to work or study

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.