Elder Lund's Zone
Another week here in the mission field. We had a lot of great lessons
and memorable experiences this past week, but only one showed up at
church. REALLY frustrating right now because we have a large group of
investigators who have awesome potential, but no one is coming to
church, entonces, no one is really progressing towards baptism this
change.
We went to Santa Barbara to do divisions this
past week. I went in a trio with Elder Martinez from Monterrey, Mexico
and Elder Nelson from Arizona. We really had a great day. On the way
there, a predicador got on the bus and started preaching. He was very
enthusiastic and had that classic honduran preacher voice. At the end,
he asked for ofrendas and many people gave him money. Moving on...we
contacted a lot of people and found some really good nuevos as all the
citas fell. We taught some really good lessons and the people were more
receptive than usual. Near the end of the day, there were some riots in
the streets and people with antorchas as they were protesting the
government corruption that is going on. We avoided any trouble by
letting the riot pass until we went to the next lesson.
We
found a new family this week. Familia F-M. There are 5
potential baptisms and the oldest daughter was baptized when she was 11
but is less active. They are SUPER poor economically, spiritually, and
have low enthusiasm in general. They really need the blessings of the
gospel in their lives. We hope to see some progress because they are
friends with M, A and I (recent converts)
and they are going to help a lot.
Speaking of
those recent converts, M (the baptism from last month) was
able to go to the Temple in Tegucigalpa this past weekend and literally
loved it. I am very confident that she will not go inactive. We are going to focus on temple attendance with new converts in
the stake so there is better retention.
We went to a priesthood conference in the stake center in Chamelecón on Sunday.
It was on awesome meeting and I left edificado. I learned a lot, felt
the spirit, and received more animo to work more efficiently as a
missionary.
We had a lesson that went downhill.
Not going to explain it all here, but the investigator is named A
and we are teaching him and his family. He has some serious learning and
behavioural disablities, but he contacted us and said he wants to get
baptized (missionaries taught him around 6 years ago but because of the
same issues at age 9 they didn`t move forward) so we began teaching him.
Basically, he got up "de la nada" and left for 2 minutes. "Where are
you going A?"..."voy a hacer un mandado (I´m going to go run an
errand)". It may not be funny for you guys, but in the moment it was
super funny. Later on, one of the neighbors was present and we invited
her to church and she said no and then A ´spilled the beans´ as he
said "no va a ir, se lo juro por dios que va a jugar naipes con la mama
(She´s not going to go, I promise you guys that she is going to go play
cards with her mom (gamble))" Finally, near the end of the lesson, A
was sitting on the edge of the pila and fell in with his legs and feet
up in the air. I went running to the pila because you could easily
drown, but he was able to get up on his own quickly. Que loca esta
lección.
Well, we watched "El Monte del Señor" and played futbol and basketball as a partial zone today. Good stuff.
Well, that´s all I have. Oh ya, I hit the 18 month mark...yaaaa Cheque
-Elder Lund
Cofradía 1, Zona Cofradía 6/22/15 - 6/29/15
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