September 23, 2013

Well another week has come and gone and this week has been a roller coaster.  We started off the week getting Tania ready to get baptized and everything was going awesome until we got to Thursday.  She had her interview Wednesday and was super ready to be baptized.  We showed up to her house on Thursday and she told us "I am not going to get baptized".  I just looked at her like what the heck happened.  I was so shocked and this day I learned a really good lesson.  I started talking and trying to convince her that she was ready; it wasn't doing any good and then the spirit spoke and told me to shut up.  I just shut my mouth and looked at her; we were there in silence for like 3 minutes.  It was a little awkward for a minute and then as I was sitting there the spirit came to my mind and told what to say.  I was able to share an experience with her from before my mission that helped her.  She started crying and so I expressed the love that our Heavenly Father and us as missionaries have for her.  As we were leaving she told "Yes, I am going to be baptized."  It was a really sacred experience.  I have really learned a lot about the spirit this week in helping my companion and helping investigators.  The words that we can say as humans really have little value but when the spirit enters into our hearts and minds and tells us what to say and do it becomes something that is eternal that the people really feel and know that God loves them.  The things that the spirit inspire us to do are PRICELESS!  It was awesome.  It is awesome to be able to feel the Lord direct me through the spirit.  I love it.  This week will be an interesting one.  I will have emergency changes this week and my companion is going home.  We will see what God has in store for us this week.  What a roller coaster.

September 16, 2013

It was an awesome week.  I love being a missionary; really there is no greater joy than being a missionary and helping people change their lives!  This week on Wednesday we went to the temple and it was soooo awesome.  I love going to the temple and learning there.  As I was sitting in the celestial room just praying and analyzing everything that has been going on and what we have been doing, the spirit just entered my mind and I heard the words "Son, I am proud of you!"  It was an awesome and sacred experience at the same time.  I know that God lives and that he is our father; he is always there waiting to help us and listening to our prayers.  This weekend we had two baptisms!  I got to baptize them both - it was awesome!  Fabrico and Jeanine!  It was a super sweet experience just to see how much they have changed in the short time I have known them.  I love seeing how people change.  The changes are always drastic.  It just makes me realize how awesome this gospel really is.  As we left from the baptism the spirit we had with us was so strong, we were basically running from appointment to appointment because we were both so excited.  Then yesterday Fabrico didn't show up to church so he wasn't confirmed but next week he will be.  This work is the best!  The love loves us and he really provides the way that we can change and be better.  I love this gospel and love being a missionary.

Pictures - YEAH!!!

 Love this Elder!

 Tegucigalpa Temple

 Missionaries doing service work

 Elder Lake with child

 Elders on the bus

Love this face - just can't get enough!!

September 9, 2013

It's been another week here in the mission; I don't know where all the time goes but oh well.  My companion got better just in time to pass it off to me and now I am sick! oh well!  We had a sweet experience this week.  I was on interchange this week with one of the Zone Leaders.  He came and we were working and went looking for an investigator; as we were almost to his house there was a little girl there.  She's like "Hey, I live down by the river with my parents."  So I asked her, "Are they there?"  She is like Ya but they are sleeping.  So we ended up not going.  We went to the investigators house and he wasn't there so we started heading back and we find the same little girl.  She asked, "Hey did you guys go to my house?" "No, you said your dad was asleep."  She is like "well my mom is there."  We listened to her.  This little 3 year old girl showed us who is boss.  We went down and found a bunch of members of the church that always go to the other ward but no one visits them.  We talked to them for a while and got a couple of references.  It was awesome!  I just love the little children.  Later that day we were talking to a 10 year old son of a member just outside so I asked him, "Hey, do you want to get baptized?" because he isn't a member yet.  He is like YES.  So I asked when and he said Sunday.  We responded with Saturday and he asked his dad and has a date for Saturday.  It was super awesome.  If all goes well we will have two baptisms this weekend.

September 2, 2013

WEll it has been another week here in the mission. Time flies and it is crazy. Weeks just come and go like it is nothing but that is alright we are having a good time. My ocmpanion has been sick this week so it has been very few days that we have worked the whole day without a problem. Thats alright though. I have been studying a lot this week and have learned soo much. I love reading in Nefi he is the bomb with testifying of the savior! We have had some sweet experiences this week! Yesterday we went to the temple to have a fireside with our mission president and it was awesome! HE is the man! They talked about marriage and eternal marriage! Our few investigators that went loved it and all learnned a lot! The spirit was awesome there! As I was there I was thinking a lot about the priorities in life! The most important thing in life is God! God is more important than anything else be it a spóuse companion or whoever else we owe everything to God first and then to our family and then to everyone else! When we put things in order how they should be we really see that the family and God go together unless the family tries to put themselves before God! IT has been really cool to think about and to know that God knows us all and loves us all personally and that with him everything is possible! Things are going great! This week I have to do like 5 baptism interviews and then next week we have a baptism! Pray for Jeannine she really needs it so she can be baptized the 14!!!

August 26, 2013

This week was awesome!  We didn't have transfers so me and my companion will be staying here one more transfer together and it will be great.  This week was a normal week.  We felt the spirit and helped a lot of people.  It really got interesting on Friday.  Friday I was really worried about district meeting for the first time; worried about how it would go but we had a really awesome district meeting and we all left spiritually uplifted.  That night we all saw the miracles.  My Companion and I put baptism dates with Jeannine and Kevin.  Jeannine is the sister that came and found us a couple of weeks ago.  The great miracle came that night.  I was talking to all the Elders in the district and we ended up putting 7 baptism dates that day and we are all super excited.  We are going to start the month of September with 9 baptism dates as a district.  Then on Saturday we spent the whole day running around.  We had to go and do an interview and then when we got back we had to go remind all of the members and investigators of a ward activity that we had that day.  The activity turned out to be a blast; we had about 10 investigators there and all the members had a great time.  Then of course it was a freaking downpour outside and the power went out right after the activity.  The Lords hand is real in our lives.  We have seen so many miracles and it is awesome.  We have a living God that loves and cares for all of his children.  I love this  work - it really is the Lord's work.

August 19, 2013

Crazy we are back to transfer week again; we will see what happens.  This week was awesome.  We went to the temple on Friday with President Fortuna, our mission president.  It was super awesome.  Just getting to the temple you could feel the spirit that was there not to mention the awesome lesson that President gave.  It was awesome.  One of our investigators said that one thing he has noticed about the Mormons is that they are persistent.  President stopped him and said the reason that we are so persistent is because we have the truth and we want everyone to have it as well.  It was awesome.  We had a really sweet lesson and everyone left super excited!  It was really interesting to see how God tries our faith.  This week we had Thursday planned out super awesome.  We were going to go visit people with the Bishop, one of his counselors and a sister missionary that came home this week.  We were going to divide and conquer.  We get to the first appointment and everything went well.  Then it started a great downpour and the lights went out so we had to go back to the house.  As we got back to the house, we had been there about 5 minutes, the power came back.  It was super frustrating because after only the Bishop left with us and all of the appointments fell through.  The Lord always finds the way to try our patience, we just have to learn from these experiences.  There is no doubt this is the true church with a loving and living God.