"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found"

25 de Mayo:

"Porque por el agua guardàis el mandameinto; por el espìritu sois justificados; y por la sangre sois santificados;" Moises 6:60

translation:  For by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified;

·Emma, the abuelita that we always teach when her grandkids aren't there? Well she has been going around and progressing right under our noses! She has been reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and has set a goal all by herself to read the whole dang thing. She feels that it's true, but she's very active in her church, all her life, and she doesn't want to lose that.

Jueves 26 de Mayo:

"Enoch knew, and looked upon their wickedness, and their misery, and wept and stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide as eternity: and his bowels yearned; and all eternity shook." Moses 7:41

 

Dude...the whole city of Enoch dipped and left Methuselah behind...Moses 8:2

We talked to Jeff today. Jeff is from a part of Honduras called the Mosquitia. It's a different language and a different culture. But he came to Ceiba to study.

The restored gospel has not reached la Mesquitia. 

This drives me nuts and everytime I'm reminded of this fact, I want to pack up my bags and preach to all of the Mesquitia.

The pronunciation is easer than Garifuna, I could pick it up quickly enough.

In the evening we finished our last appointment a half an hour early. My comps didn't know what to do.

I wanted to contact (because it's my favorite) but they were like ok but everybody's going to be sleeping (at 7:30 are you kidding me?) or busy or whatever but was praying like ok God I'm going out on a limb here I have to carry these ladies but if you could just please just this once drop someone into our laps.

Lo and behold! Literally the second person that we contact is a lovely, intelligent, open-minded teacher named Vilma and she let us in even though all I said was that we were missionaries and that we wanted to talk to her and she was like aight.

We shared an interesting conversation and finished with some grapefruit soda and a beautiful prayer where she was holding both my hands in hers. 

a quote from an article by D Todd Christofferson comes to mind

"Thank you, black missionary name tag, for giving me license to have intimate experiences with complete strangers"

Viernes 27 de mayo:

"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near; Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord; and he will have mercy upon him: 

and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon" Isaiah 55:6-7

I'm gonna be honest, today I felt frustrated. I feel like you cannot make these companeros hurry for anything. We were late to every. single. lesson. and they were casually strolling along. It annoys me so much. I know it shouldn’t but it does. For me, it's disprespectful to not care about arriving on time...

Today I made a grown man "pinky promise" that he would go to church. He says he doesn't feel ready and I told him church is like a hospital, we don't go if we're perfect and healthy. And he just tells me but most people don’t like hospitals! They'd rather just stay home and be sick! 

I said you got a point there. But God wants you to go. so do it.

Sàbado 28 de Mayo:

 The Bantan New College Spanish and English Dictionary defines the phrase: "Meterse en Honduras" as "to go beyond one's depth"

yep.... pretty much.

Domingo 29 de Mayo:

"I am not talking about obedience: rather I am talking to you about intelligence; I am telling you that there is only one intelligent way to serve a mission; the way that will bless and benefit, and change and uplift and empower and ennoble you.

It is the only intelligent way to go...

It is up to you."

We had 5 investigators in church today but only two of them were adults so our gospel principles class was still lacking in gente.

The topic was "fasting" and it was interesting that they discussed how in fasting we can sympathize with those that go hungry. Like we talk about that like oh, there's kids in Africa blah bhlah blah no, there's people in our neighborhood that maybe don't have anything to feed their kids today.

Lunes 30 de mayo: 

We hiked to pico bonito! it was bonito! It was also my first hike since my surgery more than 8 months ago! 

The funnest part was probably at the end when we just ran like crazies downhill. The waterfall was sick and I wanted to jump in, I was missing Hawaii so much too.

Afterwards we went to BK and I got some nuggets, fries, and a mint oreo shake. dope.

The power went out like 3 times and E. Irlenborn was like I hate hondy.

I don’t. 

Martes 31 de mayo:

Communion- a word used generally in Protestant and Catholic Christianity to memorialize the sacrament of the Last Supper. It is so called because in partaking of the sacramental emblems, one seeks fellowship with the master, for it is done in remembrance of him. 

A form of this word is also used with an opposite meaning, when a person is severed from the church for wrong-doing. Such action is called "ex-communication" that is, the former member loses the fellowship and communion he once had with the Lord, with the Holy Spirit, and with the members of the church."

8:55 pm and I'm eating cheetos for dinner. Don’t tell mom.

Hna Bonilla just french braided my hair and tbh I wanted to cry in the process but now it looks great and feels perf, not too tight not too loose, but let's see how it holds up tonight. Speaking of which, the AP's call at 10:30 pm asking if we can be in SPS at 9am the next morning.

So that was a struggle because my companions were already in bed and I had to wake them up and tell them that we're waking up at 4 and going to the bus stop.

Mièrcoles 1 de Junio:

"I am convinced that wisdom comes as we listen to the counsel given, keep the commandments and our covenants, then we really will be trusting in the Lord with all our heart. And he WILL direct our path. Which will incidentally be a happy path" My mother

"sister Nelson, God could have made you 5'4 and 300 lbs but he didn’t!" Just ONE of the many interesting things I heard from the mouth of my mission president in my interview today.

and that I'm a great person with laughter in my voice, so that was nice of him to say.

But alllllll of this happened after waking up at 4 in the morning, calling and waking up a taxi, the 4 hour bus ride, then the taxi ride to the huge church in San Pedro. Meeting hna Rojas's new comp (adorbs) and then saying goodbye (she cried) then going to the office and chilling with my secretary homies. Then going to McDonalds (sorry mom) with Crosgrove! and his new comp. "a ginger and a bald" 

Then going back to the office and helping elder Sandoval with his secretarial work until President came and gave me my temple recommend interview. Then we got to the bus terminal right on time and went back to Ceiba.