Week 41 Famous in Marcala

Famous in Marcala 

Lots of crazy things are happening in the mission right now. President Fortuna is done this change. This might be my last week here in Marcala. Wednesday I am Baptizing Fredi in a waterfall.

Had a super hard week work wise. This little town beats me up sometimes. I never have worked harder in my life then I have in this area. And I mean both physically, mentally, and spiritually. I think the last one is the hardest part in the mission for me. Because I had next to no experience when I started my mission. You have to be so focused spiritually here in the mission and if you aren't you aren't going to help anyone. I think that is something I am starting to understand now. That quite often I think someone is progressing and is ready for baptism and then they pull out this weird excuse to not be baptized. This has been happening with Fredi Garcia (going to see if I have a picture of him) for almost my whole time here. He always comes to church, he has read like 150 pages of the BOM (more then me before the mission) but he still just couldn't commit to be baptized. Turns out his mom (the dude is 45) was sending people form other churches to visit him and tell him not to be baptized. Well long story short he ended up praying with us to see if he needs to be baptized. Tomorrow I am going with him at 7 to check out his waterfall in his field to see if we can baptize him there.

Had the Zone Leaders here on Friday. We are so far away that they just slept here lol. 

Other crazy good news. Elder Edwards (my very first comp that went home in the CCM) is going back to the mission!! But to Washington Tacoma. 

Also got a package from the young women in my ward this week!! hichews for days lol so happy. 

Love you kids.

ELDER THORN

Played in a bouncy house today. 

radio crew. i will be talking on the radio again this Wednesday at 6 look up radio cafe Marcala on ustream if you want to listen 

Ever's birthday

lol i bought a cake that said FOR EVER. lololol no one got the joke though. 

This is Ever who is one of my favorite kids here in Honduras he is trying sooo hard to get out on a mission but his mom legit cant live with out him. it was his birthday this week and we went and smashed eggs on his head at 6 in the morning lol its a thing they do here.

Week 40 Ima Think of a Title Later

Ima Think of a Title Later

I had a dream the other night that I was a professional baseball player. needless to say i am really changing here in the mission.

Things are sooo whack right now. Elder Lopez and i are doing the craziest things to try to find people because just contacting hasn't worked at all here. I got to talk on the radio for an hour the other day!! mostly talked about the free english classes we have and all these people were calling and asking us questions. Like 5 people asked me to marry them, including a dude. But in the end we had over 30 people in the english class!! and all week people were like hey gringo was that you on the radio. Really just trying to build the church´s rep here because its just not good to say the least.

Jose Trino (the blind dude) took second in the 5km race this week lol. Ya he runs along side a person who can see with a little rope. The best part the dude he was running with took 3rd. He told me he knew they were done and he just dropped the rope and sprinted. Craziest dude in the world. Still not coming to church though. He travels sooo much. 

Just want to bare my testimony that there is a joy in keeping the rules. I see and hear of too many missionaries that think they know better then the first presidency or really in the fin our Heavenly Father. Keep the rules weather you're in the mission or not.

ELDER THORN 

Zona La Esperanza

Took out the five young men we have yesterday to visit less actives. All are converts. Noah has the most time in the church with like 5 years.

Random waterfall this morning

It's was like party week here and this was a game they played. hahah best part was all these dudes are soooooo drunk and couldn't even walk let along climb.

Lol so presidente Diaz asked me what I missed the other day and I said pancakes. He invited us over for pancakes and well ya eat pancakes with beans....still miss pancakes.

Week 39 Radio Lessons

Radio Lessons

Weeks are flying by and next thing I know I am sitting here trying to think of all the things I want to share. 

I was blessed with a opportunity of taking part in a miracle this week. We went to visit familia Hernandez, German y Carla, and like normal super powerful lesson. This family is seriously gold but they need to get married and its nothing short of a miracle to get people married here (unless its in the catholic church). At the end of the lesson my comp asked if there was anything that they needed help with, like stuff around the house, and German started crying. Big bearded man of like 35 years starts full of crying. All he said was that tomorrow they weren't going to have any where to sleep. I was super confused because they are a pretty nice house. He explained to them that the lady that owns their house was asking for the past 8 months rent because they hadn't been able to pay it. it was 20,000 limps or like 1000 dollars. My comp shared an experience that he had with his own family that was far too perfect for me to share here. But in short his family had passed for a similar situation. We invited them to do a fast as a family to ask the Lord for a miracle or for some way that their family could have somewhere to sleep. The next day around 4 he called me with an energy in his voice that was unmatchable. The lady who owns the house had visited them that morning to kick them out but instead presented a new plan for them to pay what they owned. German also received a bonus in his job and was able to pay about a fourth of what they owed.

Too many miracles happen here in the mission. I have truly seen the hand of Christ work miracles here in Marcala. 

Went to the Chiflador again today and it was even more steller than the first time. and we got this investagador to give us a ride. buuttt he goes to jail Tuesday.. lol long story short he was cutting trees in a place where you can't cut trees and haha ya he was to go to jail for 4 years. His name is tuke 

Oh the title lol. the radio guys love us and this Tuesday we have a half hour to answer people questions about mormons its going to be freaking awesome. 

Went out and found this contact this week. not the most positive but taught 2 families.

 Tuke

Other waterfall we visited on the way to the big waterfall

Seriously love this kid!  Not every comp is a friend but Elder Lopez is a homie.

Week 38 Mission Summer Break?

Mission Summer Break? 

Had the best week of my whole mission this week. Went to the temple, had my last zone meeting with President Fortuna, had a family night with more than a 100 people, brought all of our investigators to church (on an hour bus ride) to go to district conference and visited a waterfall/caves today.

First off i want you to think about the last time you went to the temple, if it was more than a month plan a day this week to go. We only get to go to the temple like every 4 months so this was only my second time here in the mission. We are sooo blessed in Utah to have a million temples but we only go when we have time or when the ward goes or whatver. The temple is such a rare thing here in the mission and every time i just end up with the most clear vision of who my father in heaven wants me to be. 

Im just going to start sending all these fotos because I wont have time if i don't. If you're not in the mission get on the mission. If you're not worthy get worthy. There isn't anything more important in this life than to help those around us, help them to understand the blessings that their families lack. lol and if you're already home from your mission talk to your converts it means the wooorrrrld to these people when an Elder talks to them AFTER the mission. 

Im going to cry if I can"t send these fotos home. 

Elder Espina (Thorn)

these are the buses we took to church sunday. was an hour and a little bit on the crappiest dirt road 

inside the bus with all the jóvenes , lol frekin locos  

branch family night that waas BOMB 

P days here are the most crazy things in the world. legit just asked around today where the closest waterfall was and ya. ended up finding some caves too. There was chalk marks on the wall which blew my mind I'm pretty sure someone climbed it.

legit just told these guy i liked his bag and asked him where we baought it and he is like here you go its yours!!! almost cried. 

The overlook of Marcala

Week 37 ELDER LOPEZ

ELDER LOPEZ

So my new comp is elder Borge. lol nah its elder lopez. 

I laughed at that for a bit. Things are steller here in Marcala. Still working my butt off to try and find how I'm ready to change. I think that is something I learned this change. Its honestly really easy to find people to talk to. I honestly can make a lil joke and almost anyone will agree to listen to us. Finding people that are going to read and pray or attend church is a different story lol.

My comp is from Nicaragua and has like 20 months in the mission. Butttt he still is working hard and is hyped to be here. Plus he is funny and isn't hard to talk to. Like I can just be chill with him and enjoy my day which is refreshing. He has had a ton of baptisms in his mission and testifies challenges like a boss. I think he is going to teach me a lot about how to be a better leader and how to better help people come unto Christ.

Did some service this week for a family that is super chill

ELDER VAIL WENT HOME. ya the kid who trained me is now a man and is probably kissing his girlfriend right now. 

This kid is awesome! He found my blog and his dad wrote me. Finally found him at changes.

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Elder Quispe and Elder Vail. ( Trainee and Trainer)

 bus heading back to the area.

Week 36 Blind Dude Learns English

Blind Dude Learns English

This was my worst week of my mission lol No for real though.

We were hardly in my area all week between all the meetings and traveling. But I did have one of the dopest days of my life on Wednesday.

I have been stressing out over this whole english class thing. Like it's hard bro to start a class and just put out flyers and junk. Not really something I love to do. But all that being said we had the English class again Wednesday and like 20 people showed up. One being this blind dude named Jose Trino. I was crying laughing in the class because the dude is just like "shhhhhhh I can't hear I want to learn enlgish" lol. We ended up having a lesson with him later in the week which was super short because he had to leave to run a 5k. lol ya the dude runs with a string attached to someone else who can see. But in the end of the lesson we asked him to kneel to pray. He started his prayer like almost all catholics do, which kills me because its just a repeated prayer from mateo, but he finished so strong. He prayed that we would be able to download the Book of Mormon in audio for him and said he was grateful for these THREE men that taught him today. Was a wild experience and knew as sure as he did that it wasn't just elder Cabrales and I teaching.

My comp has changes tomorrow and so I'm off to la Esperanza today which is the worst ride on the face of this earth. i honestly think of outer darkness when I think of the bus ride to la Esperanza.

Love the mission guys. It's hard to be away from my lil family sometimes. But I hope that I can bring just one other family here in Marcala to the blessing that my family have. 

Elder Thorn

This is a field I go run at when my comp feels like waking up.

lol so I'm starting yoga classes too. Back patio, 6:15 sharp, i have a yoga a degree and I'm really in touch with my inner persona 

This is a lil kid that I always mess with and say he is my cousin. Legit is whiter tan me. His name is Hector he is the son of an investigator. I always speak english to him its awesome.

Week 35 Desire to Believe

Deseo de Creer

Decided that I'm going to start writing in spanish a little because one it will save me a lot of time and second you will understand more through google translator than my english spelling. No in all honestly though I realized today that I was converted to the Gospel in spanish. My testimony this time last year was next to none. I didn't know anything about the duty I have to share this gospel I didn't know anything about the plan my Heavenly Father has for me. Oh how that's changed. 

Crazy stuff is happening here in Marcala. The branch is soo much better and we are working with members almost every day. Mostly young men but we had a few lessons withe Pres Diaz which was awesome. Really is such a bomb guy he just gets a lil off track; don't we all though. Probably the worst thing that is happening is the Jehovah's Witnesses are super strong here. They have a branch of like 100 people or something and they like trying to snatch all our members it sucks. 

Probably my last week with Elder Cabrales and I have learned sooo much from him and he has helped my spanish grow leaps and bounds. But more than anything I want to leave my testimony that God knows each and everyone of us. That Christ suffered for us personalmente. There was a moment when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane pleading with the Father over your sins and your life. Remember that. If I could instill one thing in each and everyone of you it is that, the atonement is real. 

Oh also we started english classes this week and I got it announced on the radio here!! It was soooo kool. Legit I have been begging these dudes to help me and then one day the owner was like hey come here and was like what do you want to say on the radio. I was hyped, and I got to talk on the radio so life is steller. 
Elder Thorn

Radio Station