Hey everybody,
Another fast week here in Comayagua. It was
really nice talking to mom and dad on christmas, too bad i couldnt see
you all but i could hear a few screams from the nieces and nephews for a
few seconds haha. Its always good to hear your voices. My christmas was
a pretty normal day, but thats the missionary christmas and i really
wouldnt have wanted it any other way. Next year hopefully we´ll be able
to be together.
On the 24th we ate something thats called Torrejas with a member
family for a few minutes (they are like french toast but drenched in
condensed milk or honey...they are way good. Its a typical christmas
food) And then we left with the dad and a daughter from that family to
go visit la familia guzman. The daughter is like 18 years old and wrote
her testimony in a book of mormon to give to one of the daughters in la
familia guzman. That was a really nice gesture and i love how the
members are getting involved here. Then we went back to our house and
went to bed and then at midnight the fireworks started haha with a few
gunshots mixed in there haha but its not dangerous here at all.
Christmas is way different here but its still a lot of fun. They wait
til midnight and open up their presents right then.
The 25th was pretty similar, we were knocking doors most of the
day but we got to teach a few lessons. It was really kind of sad to see
how people were just laying on the street really drunk from the night
before. Thats not really the good cheerful christmas spirit we would
hope for, but we are helping people change their lives to really make
christ the center of everything.
On Sunday we woke up early to go bring investigators to church.
We went to la familia guzman`s house and they were all asleep so we kept
knocking on the door hoping to wake them up, Then we continued on
getting other investigators. Then we came back and they had woken up and
said they were going to meet us there in the church so we left to
church after that. But we were waiting there and waiting past the first
and second hour and they didnt come. Before sacrament meeting we left
again to go to their house to bring them and luckily we got the mom and
three of the kids to come with us haha. It took a lot of effort on our
part but they came. I hope they had a good experience but i was kind of
bothered about how irrereverent some people were being. Like this dad
was just running around the benches with his daughter making a lof of
noise...i dont know how people like dont realize that they are being so
disruptive. Honestly for myself i dont care, but its just embarassing
when we try SO hard to bring people to church and then there are people
acting like that...but i also have to understand that the church is
really young here haha.
Today will be pretty similar to the 24th. They are
actually exactly the same, just today there arent presents, but more
fireworks.
anyways thats it for this week! i
love you all. i hope you have a happy new year. 2012 went by so fast and
it will be one of the only years in my life where i was able to give
all my time and energy to heavenly father for the entire year. 2013 itll
just be half haha.
con mucho amor,
Elder Archibald
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