So its the 22nd and its bright and sunny and hot here in Honduras. Super different to not have the snow and coldness of Utah in this time of the year haha. This week flew by like I feel like it was PDay yesterday. But lots of fun, good things happened this week!
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| So much fun! |
For starters today we woke up and I made some really good cinammon panqueques (pancakes) and then we went to go play soccer on this turf caged indoor field kind of like the ones in Lindon! It was super fun 5 on 5 and we played for an hour! I must be super out of shape or something cause I was dying after like 30 minutes, but my team won! Like 25 to 20. It was legit! Tons of fun!
This week we had our Cena Navidena! Ward Christmas Dinner and it was awesome! There was so much work that went into it though! For one we performed as a choir and weve been practicing like at least twice a week for 2 or 3 hours every Sunday and Thursday and we also had to set up the lights and trees and decorations for the dinner and that took a while cause we got out the lights and like 10 out of the 40 strands worked so we couldnt go buy new ones cause we dont have a lot of money here in Honduras so we had to take each light and test it on one that worked and then replace it on the strand until you did every single light like 150 or something like that and my first strand after all that effort didnt even light haha so that was fun but we finally got all them working after a while and set up everything and it looked really good ill send some photos.
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| A lot of work turned out to be a lot of fun! |
Friday was the Cena Navidena and it was a great turn out! We had the investigators there that we wanted. Omar and his son Kenith and their friend Johnny, along with Yolany and Cory. I dont know if any of you have heard about Miss Worlds or know what that is or if you heard about what happened to Miss Honduras like a month ago but Cory is the sister of Miss Honduras which is really cool. Miss Honduras was killed a month ago and I dont know all the details about that but her and her sister and her mom are all members and we visit her mom a lot and Cory is the only one of them that was never baptized so were working with her real good right now. That family is amazing. The choir did the best we ever had and I could feel the spirit really strong as we were singing. We then had Dinner and some of the ladies in the ward did a little funny dance and then santa came and all the little kids got a little toy car or a doll. Pretty cool to see being as for a lot of them, that will be the only present that they receive. Makes you grateful to have so much. Our investigators really enjoyed the dinner though and it was a great turnout all and all.
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| Merry Christmas! |
So I said last week that Yolany was gonna get work off but I guess Hermana Lucia didnt tell us the truth cause we talked with Yolany this week and she said that her boss didnt say that. So that was a bit of a bummer but I told Baird to not worry cause we fasted and maybe it just hasnt worked yet. So we kept up the faith and she talked with us 2 days later and said that she quit her job because she wants to go to church and its that important to her. How amazing. A little Christmas Miracle.
Another Christmas miracle is that lately ive been able to understand a lot more of spanish and speak a lot better so thanks for your prayers. To finish I want to share a something that Gordon B. Hinckley said in a video about Christmas that I watched. The video is of him in Jerusalem and he talks about how 2000 years ago our savior walked these roads and worked miracles in this city. Alot of people like to go where the Savior has been and walked where he walked. But he then goes on to say that it doesnt really matter that we walk where he walked but how he walked. In this Christmas season we need to try to think more in the savior and be more giving to others. Read the scriptures more and try to share Christ with more of our friends who arent members. The biggest gift we can give to others is the gift of Jesus Christ. To let others know that his church is once again restored on the earth and through him we can live again with our Father in Heaven.
I love you all and hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!
Love Elder Haden
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