¿Cómo están todos? Another good week down
here in Honduras. First off, thank you to Brett and Ashley for the
Easter package! I haven’t had a ring pop in a really long time haha and
the nerf gun is awesome…I pass time by shooting the lizards in our house
with it. Also to answer some questions from your letters: Yes the
office has air conditioning, which is awesome because this is the
hottest time of the year. Mom, we call our district meeting lessons
Temas, what are they in German? And Brett, your Spanish is still pretty
good…looks right to me at least. Also, thanks for doing my taxes dad,
that was a lot bigger tax return than I thought i´d get. That’s crazy
that cole is already back home and at BYU. How is he doing? I´m still
waiting for the package from Dad, I hope it gets here soon. We go to the
post office every Wednesday, so hopefully I’ll see it there. That’s
also cool that Jason Esplin was the financial secretary in Brazil…we´ll
see if I’ll be a CFO haha. I’m thinking that what I do is a lot more
accounting than finance stuff…or at least I hope because if not I’m
changing majors hah.
This week kind of flew by so its hard to
remember everything that happened. I have a new companion, his name is
Elder Gonzales. He is from El Salvador and will be Elder Quevedos
replacement. Elder Q is training him to be the materials secretary
before he gets changed on the 9th. I`ll be sad to see Elder Quevedo go,
he has been my favorite companion by far.
Things have been going pretty well in the
area; the ward is still struggling but things are headed in the right
direction. Attendance has been going up slowly but surely. The ward is a
little bit more excited about missionary work now that we´ve been
bringing investigators pretty consistently to church. Yesterday we had 5
in the sacrament meeting…we were expecting a lot more, but it was still
great. We also started to teach a Gospel Principles class for the new
members and investigators because they will be able to learn more than
in gospel doctrine..and frankly they other class was really boring, so
we had to do something to switch things up. There`s a ward that had 65
investigators in sacrament meeting last sunday and over a hundred
references because each member commited to bringing someone to church.
Once the Bishopric got the names of the people they wrote personalized
invitations to each person invited and gave them a set of
scriptures...it was a huge success for them. It really shows that if a
ward will magnify their callings and work together they can do a whole
lot more than just the missionaries
Samir showed up like always, he still has
his baptismal date for this Saturday. He works a lot though so its hard
to find him and we still have a few more lessons to teach him before
the baptism, so let’s hope everything goes well. He´s awesome though,
his best friend just got back from his mission in Chile so that helps
out a lot too.
We also had this other Family come to
Church, la Familia Súniga. I wrote about them a few weeks ago about how
the mom and the sister in law just showed up to church without being
invited. They are a really great family except for the husband wants
nothing to do with us...and thats kind of the reason why the mom doesnt
really want to get married to him...even though they have ben together
for 25 years and have 5 kids together. Its a hard thing for me to
understand. But We are going to keep trying to talk to the dad and see
if he will soften his heart if he sees the whole family going to
chuch...at least to the point where he will be more loving towards his
family and maybe then they will want to get married.
Its a similar situation with la Familia
Matute...The husband wasnt really sure if he wanted to get married the
the wife...which is kind of understandable because she is 15 years older
than him and is pretty mean to him...BUT nonetheless he finally decided
that he wanted to get married and get baptized. So now we just have to
get papers moving for the wedding...I really had no idea before the
mission that i would be helping so many people fix their marital
problems. Im just glad that I have a great example in Mom and Dad and I
know how a marriage and a family is suppposed to work and how it can be
happy. A lot of people say that i dont understand their problems and
that i cant help, which is partly true...I`ve never been married or
anything, but I tell them how happy my family is and i know that it is
because of the Gospel, and i know it can change their family life as
well.
Alright, well thats about it for this
week. I love you all. Thanks for your prayers and your support! hope all
is well in Germany, Florida, Salt Lake, Colorado, St. George, and LA.
haha. Hasta luego
Con mucho amor,
Elder Archibald
ps. Mothers day is on the 10th of April
in Honduras...i forget when it is in America, i think its the second
sunday of the month, right? anyways, im sure that we could do the whole
webcam thing again this time and it will be a lot easier now that i`m in
the office. You`d just have to talk with Elder Ray and he can help us
set it up. I am available monday through Friday from about 9 in the
morning until 3 in the afternoon.
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