Hola familia!
How is everyone doing? well it has been an event
filled week. First off, It is blazing hot right now. And it should only
be getting worse for the next few weeks. it gets pretty exhausting.
First off, unfortunately La familia Rivera did not get baptized. We had
their wedding on friday and everything went great, but the mom, leily,
got really really sick and couldnt make it to the baptism...so it will
be until next week. Also Luther did not come back from work in the north
coast so he didnt get baptized either...it was pretty hard week for
that and i got pretty sad to be honest with you. I really hope that the
baptisms come through for the next week, even though they will have to
wait a week to be confirmed because we have a stake conference. They
will be calling a new stake president. Elder Duncan from the 70 will be coming to organize the stake. mom, did you say we were related to him some how?
On Saturday night we went to the stake center here to
watch the broadcast of the Cultural event which was held in a stadium in
Tegucigalpa. President Uchtdorf, Elder Holland, Elder Martino, Elder
Amado, Elder Duncan, and one other 70 thats shweizer? i cant remember
the name. Pres. Uchtdorf started off the meeting saying how he had met
with The president of Honduras a few days ago and that he would have
liked to come to the event but that he was going to rome to meet the
pope. And then president uchtdorf made a shout out to the pope haha. He
wished him luck and it was really respectful. The first stake to present
their dance was from Comayagua. They did something with Nephi`s vision
of the americas in the future. It was really cool. The rest of the
stakes did lots of Mayan and Lenca Dances and the stakes from the north
coast did some of their like tribal dances and drums and stuff. It was
so cool. Also all the youth signed a book committing themselves to
serving fulltime missions and gave it to president uchtdorf. It was way
cool seeing a bunch of youth from my other areas and some adults that
appeared too.
On Saturday we went to the three sessions of the
dedication. It was amazing. There were some really really inspiring
talks by Elder Holland and Elder Uchtdorf. Really helped my desire for
other people to have temple blessings. For the last session we went to
go pick up some members from the base, they loved it. unfortunately the
mission president told us that missionaries will not be allowed to go to
the temple...he says we dont have time to do that. I guess he´s right,
we should stay more focused on the work...but still im sure we could
find time on a p day to go. That would be better than playing soccer. I
really really miss the temple. 2 years is a long time without going to
the temple. I just want to be able to do at least one session before i
go home.
alright well thats about it. thank you for EVERYTHING. I have the best family in the world. The church is true.
con amor,
Elder Archibald
ps. I got the package from mom and dad! thank you! last package from germany (sad face)
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