"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." -CS Lewis

                                                                                                                                                        22 June 2015

Martes 16 de Junio:

Old lady flipped me off today. But I think she was crazy. 

I went to the house where we eat the first day I got to Honduras and I remember thinking that it was ratchet and cramped and I felt uncomfortable. But today I was like wowww this is a really nice house, spacious, well furnished wow. So there's that.

While we were teaching lecciòn 2 about mundo de los espiritus to this lady in a wheelchair that's always sick. She made this really good analogy to how it's like an operation and then you go to this room of recuperation to wait the results of the operation. And I was like yeah that's a really good example! Then she goes and tells us about how when her mom died and then her dad some years later, she had this dream; there was this big white field and everyone was dressed in white and it was really pretty. And she saw her mom. And her mom told her not to cry. Because she had been crying a lot and asking why her mom died if she was such a good person. And her mom told her that they were all just waiting and there was this realllly long line of people and they were all waiting as one by one they got to talk to the person at the front of it all and pass through. 

But she said that she never saw who was at the front of the line, who they were talking to...

And she had that dream twice. So I thought that was pretty neat.

Mièrcoles: I have an 85 year old guiper. (someone who has a crush) He said that I have a really nice body. Not creepy at all. 

But we have this other investigator that's really old too but he's adorable and his hair is super white and he just smiles all the time and has the cutest dimples. And today he told us okay after 5 months of recieving the missionaries I think it's time to get baptized. And I feel like nobody believes him but I do!

Jueves; We went to this neighborhood called casa nava but everyone calls it casanova. We talked to a family there and they said that they were the only members in their neighborhood and that the missionaries have been visiting for 7 years and havent baptized anybody. Yay!

New goal is to baptize someone in that neighborhood

Viernes: ¨Es una cosa seria de vivir en una sociedad de posibles dioses y diosas..No hay gente comùn. Usted nunca ha hallado con un simple mortal.¨ -("“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses ....There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.")       C.S.Lewis

We had a multi zone conference today! This was different from the other meetings because I didnt have to wake up at 4 freaking o clock in the morning to catch a bus out of the pueblito de Morazán.

Just had to catch a Rapidito and in like 10 minutes we were there. But I feel like it kind of makes it less of an event.

Part of one of the activities we did I had to ask an Elder to say the names of all four of his grandparents. And he was having difficulty so I was like Jose maybe? Jokingly but he was like yeah that's one of them #typicallatinonames

Sàbado: Wooohooo happy anniversary yo my fav couple Elise and Leo Silva

One of our investigators, Jose, is addicted to coffee. He drinks at least three cups a day. So when we taught him that it's not healthy for him physically or spiritually to be addicted to something he said that he would stop, but poco a poco...

But just the other day he said I haven't had coffee in three days. I tried to have a little bit but it made me feel sick.
 It's a little thing but it's an awesome thing for me.

Domingo: Today I was reading the Liahona magazine with all the conference talks and I wrote down in my study journal just all of the testimonies at the end of every talk, it was like a testimony meeting on steroids and it was really cool to see the faith of such spiritual giants all condensed like that.

The church is true and the work is hard but it's worth it

love you! 

My photos arent loading on dropbox...

Hola! from La Paz

I ended up in La Paz. You can look it up if you'd like.

Martes 9 de Junio: Last zone meeting in Santa Rita. I got to give my going-away testimony but it felt off. Like I didn't feel like I was actually leaving, like I'd been that zone my whole mission haha.

After the meeting we went to restaurant ¨International¨ and it was POURING rain and I spent too much on soup. Had to say goodbye to a lot of people I don't like saying goodbye. But there was cake, and pastelitos, and I finally took a picture in front of Pulperia Nelson!
Definition of PULPERIA. : a Spanish American rural grocery store often functioning also as a drinking establishment.

Mièrcoles: So I'm in La Paz and it makes me baggy because this was the first place we went after the airport in december. Well, after the chapel. Oh and there's an actual chapel in my area! 

Jueves: So I miss Morazan :( today was super long but we only had three lessons. We contacted for a long time but I started to get a little frustrated because I feel like we only contacted old people that are sitting outside of their house. Like all they do is sit outside all day, they arent going to have the initiative to change their lives but I guess you cant know that until you try. 

I'm getting eaten alive here by mosquitos. 

The members feed us a lot here though so it seems...Everyone's been really nice. Contacting however the people don't seem to be as receptive here.

Viernes: I can't tell if the dogs here are just meaner or they don't like my companion. here they eat pasta with rice a lot because they like to carbo load I guess.

Sàbado: This one guy I saw said I looked like I was from germany.

Domingo: Church in a real chapel!! 

"Adios Morazán"

"Hosanna" is a Greek form of the Hebrew expression for ¨Save us now¨ or ¨Save, we pray¨ 

 Martes 2 de Junio: We ordered pizza for lunch after our district meeting and it was pretty funny because there's no addresses here so Elder Mendieta just described where the house was as best as he could, and it arrived really fast! #smalltownbenefits

Some of my notes from reading Jesus the Christ, JT did a good job with this book.

¨No other man, however great his powers of physical or mental endurance, could have suffered so; for his human organism would have succumbed, and syncope would have produced unconcsciousness and welcome oblivion¨

Even bodily, the atonement of Jesus Christ is an awe-inspiring thing to consider. 

Also, Judas Iscariot partook of the sacrament. One of the guys that we're teaching, William, didn't like the fact that anyone could partake of the sacrament in our church if they choose to do so. We offer to everyone because how are we supposed to find out who is worthy or not??? That's not our job.

¨Herod is the only character in history to whom Jesus is known to have applied a personal epithet of contempt. 'Go ye and tell that fox' He once said to certain Pharisees who had come to Him with the story that Herod intended to Kill Him. 

As far as we know, Herod is further distinguished as the only being who saw Christ face to face and spoke to Him, yet never heard His voice.¨ #bloodisthickerthanwater #hekilledhiscousinJohn 

¨The present writer believes that the Lord Jesus died of a broken heart. The psalmist sang in dolorous measures according to his inspired prevision of the Lord's passion: ´Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.' 

We were all checking out our family history trees and I found an ancestor with the last name ¨Hansen¨ and Elder Hansen and I were like omg we're RELATED but nobody else cared I think they consider all gringos related.

Miercoles: Made a snake out of plastic cups and yarn with Wendy. 

Went over to visit our abuelitos and swept up the back yard and stacked some firewood. Then Rosita asked me if I was going to go ¨Misionar¨ and I told her not yet so she goes and makes this elaborate lunch and I didn't know what to say, they really just live day to day but they are so generous. 

Mario said that he would drive me to the bus stop on Wednesday with all my luggage and we all got a little misty eyed...

Jueves: We did the weekly planning and I was just like 

'whatever I'm not even going to be here. I mean I really DO care and all and I hope everything goes well but it's going to be out of my hands honestly." 

Bought some RayBans knock offs for like 5 bucks that now that I think about it I don't think I'm ever going to wear. 

And foundation that isn't as powdery as I hoped and too dark for me and smells like grandmotherly.

Then we all went to Negrito which is about 30 minutes away from Morazán and met three families that are members. They don't go to church because it's far and costs money. This one lady was suuuuper nice and made us all stay for baleadas and even though everyone before, was like we're only going to stay for five minutes because we have to go but then she brought up food and suddenly we had all the time in the world haha. 

Viernes: Spent the morning helping Ilda with her English, that's the thing I don't liiike. I thought I wasn´t going to have to do homework for at least a year and a half. #littledidsheknow Then I went to go ask Maribel if she could sew up my backpack and after an hour and a half and lunch she told me yes, she could sew it. Yes, she made us lunch, and yes I took a picture, and yes that is a chicken foot. you can see my meal in all it's claw-like finery.

But with the hna Maribel, I know that whatever typical food I'm trying, it's the absolute best version of that dish. 

We talked with this guy that was trying to tell us that God the father and the son were the same person and I'm just like that makes no sense. And he still didn't change his mind even after we talked about the vision Stephen saw when he was about to die when he said that he saw two people, God the father and Jesus Christ like you can't accept the new testament and ignore that simple doctrine that they are distinct beings.

Sabado: We passed by to visit Alejandra and she hid under a blanklet and didn't want to talk to us. 

Went and helped Dersi with her English homework and it was a little difficult because it was all banking terms like that's not a vocab that I know well. 

Domingo: There were good parts and not so good parts of today.

not so good- Carla didn't wake up to go to church and wendy didn't wan't to take her teething baby

good- the way Isis's face lit up when we came to walk her to church because she thought we weren't going to come

not so good- I cried while directing the last hymn in church.

good- this random little girl ran up and gave me a hug afterwards because she said she didn't want to see me cry.

not so good- we didn't study 12 semanas and we took a 3 hour nap. 

good- we were able to leave after and visit with Johnny and Bernadino. 

not so good- Marta shut the door in our face, fam Lemus hid from us and Israel told me he wanted to give the Book of Mormon back that I gave him and that he doesn't want us to come and teach him anymore.

good- I talked to Maria and she said that after our family home evening that we had with them, her husband has started to change and that they've been praying together as a family. 

not so good- both Selvin and Eduardo didn't show up for our planned appointments. 

good-Selvin's mom fed us dinner and I played (tried to) chess with Elder Alfaro while we all watched pinnochio 

"Endowed with Power from on High"

Martes 26 de Mayo

Santa Rita otra vez. The Mission President called me on the bus ride about this Sunday. And with some things I was asking the elders and he was like "Hermana Nelson...who else are you talking to?? Why do I hear a male voice are you in divisions or whatever you call it?" And I was like noooooooo I'm on the bus so that's why the Elders are with me! Because it was in the morning and we are just supposed to be in the house studying with our companions not hanging out with Elders haha. 

Went out visiting and a 19 year old señorita came with us and it went well, but she called me a boring person and I don't think I've ever been called that before.

The power went out around 7:30 so we had to go (almost run) back to the house early and we studied for my comp's 12 week training with flashlights.

Miércoles

I took a shower this morning for the first time in IDK how long. Still hardly any running water in our apartment. 

¨Peter, with all the fervor of his soul, voiced the great confession: ´thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.´ This was no avowal of mere belief, no expression of a result at which he had arrived by mental process, no solution of a problem laboriously worked out, no verdict based on the weighing of evidence; he spoke in the sure knowledge that knows no question and from which doubt and reservation are as far removed as is the sky from the ground¨

This made me think about the reason I'm here and the testimony I have. And how some people I talk to have tried to shake that and I was so surprised. It caught me off guard. That anyone would even feel satisfaction cutting other people down. Yes, we teach people of other faiths and it would be a lie if we said that we didn't try to change their minds. But the way that I see it, we are just trying to bring more light. Not create doubt. I always laugh a little bit in my head when people try to make me question my testimony of my calling and of this church. Like do you really think you have the slightest chance of changing my mind? I have been endowed with power from on high. I have been set apart from the world for this specific period of time and in this specific country. I may not know everything but I am absolutely positive that no outside force can make me turn away from the promises that I have made with my God. Only I have the ability to do that. And I will not. With all that I have seen and experienced in my own life and in the life of my friends and family, I can't. The Lord lives and this is his church. Just like Peter, what better answer than from God?

We received a referral from the Ramos family and we hiked over to see her. When we got to the house she beckoned us in but she wasn't smiling or anything so I wasn't quite sure if she wanted to recieve us. Then we got to talking and she tells us that today she came home from work, closed the door and just sat down and cried because she felt so alone. She was praying that someone would come and comfort her. I was really glad we came right away instead of waiting until later to contact that referral. By the end of the visit she was smiling and laughing and excited to go to church on Sunday. 

Jueves: ¨Porque el me envió, conmigo está; no me ha dejado solo el Padre, porque yo hago siempre lo que a él le agrada¨ Juan 8:29 ¨The evident earnestness and profound conviction with which Jesus spoke caused many of His hearers to believe on Him; and these He addressed with the promise that if they continued in that belief, and shaped their lives according to His word, they should be His disciples indeed¨ ¨Y conoceréis la verdad, y la verdad os hará libres.¨

Learned how to make ¨catrachas¨ today. You just fry (of course) corn tortillas and put refried beans and crumbly cheese on top. It's funny because ¨catrachas¨ is another name for the women from honduras. 

Viernes: ¨Amados, no creáis a todo espíritu, sino discernid entre los espíritus para saver si son de Dios; porque muchos falsos profetas han salido al mundo.¨ 1 Juan 4:1 okay happy 7 months to me.

¨ Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside; when the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none.¨

So my hija is sick again :(  I let her rest for a little while and then we left to work.

When we talked with one of our investigators, towards the end of the lesson her baby was finally asleep so we could talk normally but my comp was dying of the sniffles so we finally had to leave. 

Her baby literally does not let her rest. It's 18 months old but constantly needing her attention. 

We did an activity in the church and it was supposed to start at 6pm but nobody showed up until 6:30.

We were there for the spiritual thought and then left during the game to go make the catrachas, there was enough for everyone thank goodness. 

Sábado: I made spaghetti sauce and I got to let it simmer for a reaaallllly long time because my companion was sick and didn't want to leave the house. I couldn't find any tomato paste or canned diced tomatoes in the supermarket so I just used fresh tomatoes. 

Domingo: Today was the day that the mission president and his lovely wife visited Morazán! They both talked a little bit and it was great. Lunch was great, the salad turned out great and it was the same salad and bread that we had in that meeting for just the sister missionaries. And the spagetti sauce turned out really good if I do say so myself. President was really nice about it and said that all of us in the kitchen cooking together made him baggy. like he actually said baggy and removed his nametag part of the way hahah. IDK if I ever explained this, but baggy is what we say when we get homesick.

Like when I tried the cookies that Hermana Klein brought and almost cried. 

Oh and right when we wanted to all go our separate ways it started to rain cats and dogs (and it hasn't rained in quite a while!)

President took us to our house and we had left the windows open and water got in and also under the doors. Because it was raining and windy and for some reason in Honduras it's normal to have really loud thunder in the middle of the day. We stayed in the house a little while to try and get it dry and ourselves dry. I was absolutely soaked because I spent a good amount of time on the balcony just letting it all soak in. I think I'm gettting transfered to Progresso which is city instead of pueblito. Morazán is beautiful and green and I'm going to miss it. 

Also, I received the wedding announcement of Jennie and Walter on Sunday and I opened it in church after President handed it to me. Everyone wanted to see and said that my friend is very beautiful.

It breaks my heart to hear about her father passing away. Dan Lamb is a great man and always so kind to me and treated me like just another one of his kids when I was in their home.  How beautiful are the promises that we have that families can be together forever. My heart goes out to the Lamb family - I love them so much!

But this was the week! And I have one more full week in this area so I hope to enjoy it as much as I can.

"Happiness is true food . . ."

Martes: We had a meeting of just the Hermanas and I missed the stop so we had to take a taxi and we ended up arriving 45 minutes late... and they waited for us so that they could start! It was so embarrassing hahah. But I did get to see my favorite Hna Haight. Also Hermana Klein made salad with real romaine lettuce and I ABOUT DIED. There are so few sister missionaries in the mission I feel like we have to really put in work so that we can be effective but also improve the image that a lot of people have of the missionaries here. 

Miercoles: traveling in bus for the third day in a row but only an hour this time. I forgot to write this on monday and I feel like it needs to be said that on the bus ride I haggled for the price of the bus fare (basically less than 50 cents) and, referring to why this kid probably wasn’t selling a lot of coconut water I sincerely said, ¨it's cuz it's just so expensive¨  -again, less than 50 cents. 
                                                                                                                                        Hondy is changing me.

We took a photo as a zone and did the routine introductions even though we're already halfway through the transfer. We ate lunch at a restaurant named ¨International¨ but the only countries represented in the menu are México (one dish, tacos) and Honduras. So it's technically international buuut.....

Talked to a lady that says she won't accept our religion because Joseph Smith doesn't show up in the Bible and I was just like okay look, the purpose of the Bible is to talk about Jesus Christ. I don't think there's any part in the old testament that talks about John the Revelator but we still accept his prophecies. 

This one lady that we teach makes being a mom look like the hardest thing in the world and she only has two kids! I cant even imagine how my angel mother handled 6 haha.

But she said that she has literally no time to read the scriptures. So I took out the phone and set the timer and asked her to read two verses, it took her 45 seconds because they were pretty long. And then I was like what did you learn from these verses? did you get something out of them? and she said yes and told us what she learned. 

So then I asked her if she could set aside 45 seconds of her day to read. And she asked us to pray for her so that she could feel like praying and reading.

Then her dad arrived with a ton of firewood and even though we really had to go I offered to help and my comp looked at me like I was crazy. But they were happy that we helped and we were happy that we helped.

Jueves: 

¨Happiness is true food, wholesome, nutritious and sweet; it builds up the body and generates energy for action, physical, mental and spiritual. Pleasure is but a deceiving stimulant which, like spirituous drink, makes one think he is strong when in reality enfeebled...happiness leaves no bad after-taste, it is followed by no depressing reaction; it calls for no repentance, brings no regret, entails no remorse...happiness...springs from the deeper fountains of the soul, and is not infrequently accompanied by tears. Have you ever been so happy that you have had to weep? I have.¨ James E. Talmage

Found a member of the church while contacting today! She was interested when we talked to her about the temple trip. But later when we invited them to church they were like ohhh no no no no we go to a different church now. 

Viernes: ¨yeah rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.¨ AND KEEP IT. like i'm not shouting but really I think that their whole lives they've only acknowledged the first part of this verse.

Today one of the ladies that we teach told us about how it rains fish in Yoro around this time of year. But only one time a year. And not always the same time, and not every year. 

Sábado: Today it was decided by the elders that if I was a pokemon I would be jiggly puff because my singing puts people to sleep. ha.

The baby of fam Reyes, ¨Fichu¨ was sick in the hospital so we all came and visited her. She was so cute like “nooo I don't want you to take any photos”, while posing and smiling at the camera.

Domingo: Concerning the woman who touched Jesus´s robe and was healed, he made her come forward and confess that she had used her faith and the power of Jesus Christ to be healed. Sometimes I´m the same, I just want to be able to quietly sneak in and repent and use the atonement without any fuss. But really confession is a pivotal part to repentance. To acknoweldge that we can’t clean it up ourselves. 

 We had a conference and all the leaders from the stake came and told us why we still aren’t a branch. But we're close! 

As for the choir, we had to cut like half of the songs that we prepared because there wasn’t enough time. 

Afterwards, in the evening we played games with the elders and the kids that they just baptized, It was really cute. We played hot potato as well and I got caught with it so I had to tell a joke and I was like in Spanish are you kidding me so I told the talking muffin joke but instead it was with two tortillas on an hornija.

  

that's all I got time for love you muuuucho

It's the Little Things, or "Freckle On My Foot"

Lunes: Cleaned out the fridge and got rid of all the ice covering the freezer part. Felt like mom because it was always something that she had to do and a little like a maniac because it included chipping away the ice with a knife in a stabbing motion.

Had a family home evening with our abuelitos. Loved it.

Martes: We had our interviews with president. I was so focused on memorizing the 10 scriptures that we should have memorized that I didnt really think about what I needed help with and what to ask him. I just knew that I wanted to talk to him as long as I could. He told me that his lovely wife has been reading this blog and that statement definitely caused some reflection on my part to see if I had written anything too crazy. 

The taco that I had for lunch and the jamaica juice was really good, in case you were wondering.

Miérocles: For me, one of the saddest verses in the Book of Mormon is Omni 1:2 ¨Mas he aquí, en cuanto a mí, yo soy inicuo, y no he guardado los estatutos y mandamientos del Señor como debía haberlo hecho.¨ 

"But behold, I of myself am a wicked man, and I have not kept the statutes and the commandments of the Lord as I ought to have done."

Some parts of the scriptures sum up entire lives in one or two verse. This made me think, 

'what would my verse say?" With no room for excuses, no space to explain circumstances or ratio of good to bad. Just "did you walk after the ways of the Lord or not?"

Ahhh it's really weird, but I love studying the scriptures. Sometimes I just want to stay home and study all day. But if I don't go out and share what I've learned and put those principles to work, I'd just be getting spiritually fat. If we eat a lot we need to exercise a lot as well.

In one of the lessons a baby pigeon was trying to eat the freckle on my foot. It kept pecking at it and I was just like "sorry lil guy, it's attached pretty good."

One of our investigators wasn't home and it was her younger sister Carla that told me she wasn't there. And we were about to leave but I was like "well, how about we teach you instead?"

She was super receptive, and that's why I thought she had received lessons from the missionaries before. But when I asked her she said no, not even once. And the missionaries have been teaching her family for over a year off and on.

I got kind of nerdy excited because she's so receptive and smart but she has a lot of social anxiety so we just need to push her a little, but not too much.

Jueves: Went to La Paz for the meeting for the training of my companion. I talked to Elder Magalei and it made me miss Hawaii so much- but including him, I've only met one other missionary that's going to BYU Hawaii after the mission. Literally everyone else from the states is going to BYU in Provo hah. 

Got to talk to my family in the evening, it was great!  MOTHERS DAY - phone call

Viernes: Made flour tortillas to practice for an activity on saturday. They turned out alright...

Oh and okay so we passed by this house and we heard this creeeeepy voice telling us to come over there and preach over there. But when I looked over I didn't see anything weird just this normal young lady and I'm pretty sure it wasn’t her...

Sábado: So apparently the name for the tablet with the 10 commandments is called the decalog.

Remember Carla? We took her to see some baptisms and she really liked it! And while we were waiting to leave for the baptisms we were at a members house and we started talking about temples and the hna there showed Carla a magazine just about temples and she thought they were all gorgeous (well duh) and she wants to go when the ward goes in June!

Later we made baleadas and my flour tortillas actually turned out pretty good! Even one Honduran girl was like "why can this gringa make tortillas and I can't?" hahah

Choir Practice!

Domingo: Church was normal. But afterwards we had choir practice and as you probably know I'm the choir director, so I took a selfie with my choir. Where they are seated is basically the chapel. That's where we meet for our meetings. 

Today: I played futbol for like the 5th time in my life and the latinos were suuuuuper patient with me, hahaha. I'm such a clutz. I only played like 30 minutes and then I watched for a long time and this little kid with no shoes was schooling everyone, it was awesome. After a while we went with two other Elders to buy everything and then we went to a members house and made carne asada. There was like 20 elders I think and they eat a lot! But it was fun and I was glad we went even though I suck at soccer and we were the only hermanas and I know the elders think the sister missionaries are a bit of a bore but whatever hahah. 

I love you and miss you and bake something with butter and think of me okay? 

#justintime

Martes 5 de mayo: ¡arrrriba ay ay ay! Birthday shoutout to my beautiful sister Melissa!
 I really wanted mexican food today but there aren’t any Mexican restaurants here so I had to settle for Chinese. 

I learned from this old pastor guy that when God talks to us telepathically it's called rema and the stuff that's written in the scriptures are called logos. So that was interesting...
I wanna know what Sidney Rigdon felt or learned in order to accept the gospel even though he was a minister himself. That takes a lot of humility.

We went and visited the husky puppies again and they're like twice the size and squirmy and chubby and fluffy and I had like three in my arms at the same time and I swear I've never been happier.

Miércoles: Divisions. We wandered around a lot looking for houses to contact. 
One of the people that I'm teaching basically called me a sinner because he saw me wearing pants on monday. So that was cool.
But I thought it was cool that his first question was like "hey I like your religion, but do you guys ever get together to idk sing, pray, teach, together?"
And I was like well duh. I can't believe we haven't invited him to church before! And also he came out of his room holding a Book of Mormon and I don't remember giving him one... It's really hard to remember what we've done with this investigator because he always flakes on our appointments so they are soooo few and far between. 

Jueves: I remember the last time we made hamburgers as a fundraiser and I was so excited to have burgers and it turned out that they were catrachan hamburgers #myliiife so this time I had really low expectations and it was fine.

In the Spanish bible, Boaz is Booz. 
Put a baptismal date for Wendy, one of the lovely ladies that we teach, but I'm still not sure why she's wishy-washy about it.... I think she needs someone to go to church with.
Her brother goes religiously (hehe obvi) but they aren't very close. Her dad asked me if I've ever been scared that the plane that I'm on will blow up. And I said it's not very likely, but if I die, I feel like I'd be at peace with that. And he said "well God doesn't kill angels so don’t worry." I just smiled and laughed and ignored the fact that it didn't make any sense.

This day was the first time I've taught a lesson and found myself saying things and afterwards thinking hey that was kind of neat. My companion said she felt the spirit really strongly, so I hope that the couple that we were teaching felt it too...

We contacted a casa who's chicken was just hit by a motorcycle #justintime so we were able to offer consolation, haha. 

Viernes: We chopped vegetables for an eternity. I felt like I was back at school working in prep again. 
We went and helped the elders contact houses in their area and we talked to this girl for a long time, give her a pamphlet and when we passed by again with the elders we find out that she's a member. Like you could have mentioned that minor detail haha. 

I'm reading 'Jesus the Christ' and I could literally spend all day reading, it's so awesome. There was a part in there that I think David A Bednar based one of his talks on. 
When Jesus was tempted in the desert, the real temptation wasn't to make bread to satisfy hunger, it wasn't to make miracles for no reason by throwing himself from the top of the temple, and it wasn't for all the power of the world that Satan said that he had to offer.
¨There was...the temptation to put to proof the possible doubt implied in the tempters 'If' The Eternal Father had proclaimed Jesus as His son; the devil tried to make the Son doubt that divine relationship. (Matt 4:4)
The word that had proceeded from the mouth of God, upon which Satan would have cast mistrust, was that Jesus was the Beloved Son with whom the Father was well pleased.¨
The devil´s ¨If¨ ¨let him save himself if he be the Christ¨
¨If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.¨ 
The thing that the devil is most intent on with us is getting us to reject our divine nature. To think that we are less, that God has forsaken us so we're better off trying to just look out for ourselves. 

Also I really liked 2 Nephi 5:16 when Nephi talks about the temple that he made in his new land. It was after the model of Solomon's temple but he said that he didn't really have all the precious materials to make it just like Solomon's temple. He even sounds a little embarrassed because it's not as glorious as he would want the temple of God to be. But he said that it was still very beautiful to him. This made me think about how the church in Morazán is sumamente hermosa and it's not in a big pretty chapel, so bam.

Sábado: Made a bunch of cupcakes for Mother's Day. 
Talked to a preacher and he was being such a wolf in sheep's clothing I kept looking around for a big fluffy tail.
He basically gave us a lesson and we let him really because I was curious to see his manner of teaching.
For me the gospel is so plain and beautiful and he just twisted it all around trying to stir up contention behind a big smile and incessant words. 
I guess he felt like he was ¨winning¨ (against a 19 year old girl) if he just kept talking and changing the subject and not letting us talk. It was a blast.

Domingo: Happy mother's day to my beloved mommy and happy 5 months in Morazan to me haha. 
There were maggots all over the floor in the house this morning. 
Technology continues to be frustrating here and I hope that I will be able to video call with my family sometime in the coming week!