Elder Dover

Nov. 16th

Hey whats up all!

Had a pretty crazy week.... tons of service projects!

Moved some families out of their collapsing house

Chopped down endless amounts of forrests with my machete

But yeah... we do a lot of macheteing out here

a common service activity is chopping down overgrown forrests, all while chewing on sugar cane!

Sooo yeah we had a baptismal service, and we accidentally filled up the font a little too much... and flooded the church. There used to be a hole in one of the pipes, and that meant we had to slowly fill it up.... the hermanas said it would take three or more hours. Well, My comp and i went and fixed it, and we figured 40 minuets would be good. So we went and started it, went down the street, had lunch, and came back to a mess lol. This happened to the other missionaries two weeks ago too, but that was because of the hole, basically this has happened a few times.We had no clue how long it would take to fill the font, since we are both pretty new! But all is well..... we cleaned it all up, and ended up having a clip n slide in the church basically with all the youth.

We had a baptismal service for a few investigators, and one of ours showed up very late. Light right before I baptized one of the investigators of the hermanas. Instead of rushing him to get dressed for the baptism, we decided best to postpone the baptism. I figured that a baptism is a sacred thing, not something just to be rushed through. We figured we could make the experience better for our investigator if we held off till next week.

I believe that feeling the spirit is a crucial part in baptism. The spirit can testify that what we are doing is right or wrong in the eyes of the Lord. I knew that if we just went on with his baptism, without his family, without listening to the talks and everything, he wouldn't have felt that confirmation.

It would have been nice to have a baptism this week, but Id prefer our investigator to recieve that confirmation through the power of the holy ghost.

All is good here in Honduras!