2 years of using these keyboards, and i still dont know how to do a semi colon...
Hey family!
ill start off with the good news...Im still here in comayagua! and im
loving it. Monday a family took us shopping for groceries, but i didnt
buy much because i wasnt sure if i would be leaving or staying. Then on
tuesday morning we got the phone call from the asistents saying that we
didnt have changes. YES! i was so happy haha. We went to the changes
meeting on wednesday. 40 new missionaries came to the mission! 5 are
from brasil and 1 from ecuador which is pretty cool...unfortunately none
of them are in the zone haha so i wont be able to practice my
portugues. The were some changes in the zone, we lost a district in a
city up north called Siguatepeque, which was a bummer because i loved
doing exchanges up there and one of my good friends just got made the
district leader there, but i wont be seeing him much anymore. But
president put a lot more missionaries right here in the city so we still
have 4 districts and 13 companionships. There is another companionship
here in the branch with us now.
Friday we went back to tegucigalpa for the zone leader councel
in President Fortunas house. He told us that we can go to all the
sessions of the temple dedication if its broadcasted in our church
building...and thats good because we are in the stake center. And no
missionaries can go to the cultural night which is pretty sad, but we
can at least watch it in the chapels where it will be broadcasted. Right
now we need to be working a lot with the references from people that
went to the temple. Unfortunately in my area there arent a lot of
references...only 1. but in other areas there are more...but there were a
lot of people that came on the first trip that didnt fill out
information cards in the temple so that we can contact them because the
sisters in the temple kind of dropped the ball the first few days and
didnt do a good job at directing people to the info tent. But we still
have a list of everyone that was on our bus and we´ll go around to the
members asking who they invited.
There are a lot of people who have been attending church for
awhile now but for whatever reason havent wanted to get baptized, but we
are using the temple dedication as incentive for baptism. Theyll get
baptized and have permission to be confirmed the same day this week so
they can go to the dedication on sunday. The parents of la familia
rivera (johnson´s parents), and Luther Hyde will be getting baptized
this week before the dedication. and there are about 8 other people that
we are going to visit with that we are pretty sure will want to be able
to go to the dedication. We have lots of work to do. There is one
family that we still have to meet with that is a reference from the
branch president. The dad was less active, but his wife and 4 kids are
members but they went to the temple and the rumor is that they all want
to get baptized now...theyre called la familia Paz. We´ll see what
happens. We have an appointment with them tonight.
On saturday our investigador miguel from the base invited us to a
boy scout thing he was sponsering because he knew we were eagle scouts.
So we went to the bonfire they had and made some smores and got to know
some other military people that want us to come visit them.
On sunday we had quite a few investigators in church, including
some from the military base. They were remodeling the church so all the
ceiling was missing...so that was pretty ugly. but they are getting it
ready for the dedication i guess. Saturday at 1800 hours we went to the
sacrament meeting on base, it was pretty small, but we helped with the
sacrament and i gave a talk...it was horrible haha i could NOT do it
well in english. More people came that day because they heard we were
coming so they got excited. There are a lot of recent converts there.
Tonight we are having a family home evening on base with them too. They
are really great people but just need a little more spiritual
attention...it has to be pretty hard to avoid temptation in their
situation. And now all these recent converts want us to meet their
friends. So we´ll see what happens in the future there. Its pretty cool
because we are friends with some pretty high rank people. The guy who
runs the group on base is Chris Parker from Blackfoot ID...does the name
ring a bell dad? he says he knows grandpa. All these guys have pretty
sweet stories from Iraq, and they love it here in Honduras. we are just
trying to figure out how the members here can go to the dedication
because they dont have their records here and not very many are endowed
and have recommends.
Congratulations mom and dad for finishing your mission. Im so
proud of you for dedicating that year and a half completely to the lord.
just dont leave on your next mission before i get home! unless you come
here to Honduras haha. Those pictures from Croatia look sweet.
Any news on class registration for fall? any suggestions of classes that i should take?
I love you ALL, thank you for your prayers. youre in mine. The book is blue, The church is true.
Con amor,
Elder Archibald
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