Talk of the week…! Or more like talk of all talks! If you read just a part of this email just read the talk! Or listen to it! Fav talk in the entire world. Felt like I have read it before butttt I could read it all day, every day. So good.
This week was a toughy! It was just a hard week with a lot of trials. But it ended really well on Sunday when we found a lot of new investigators that are positive. And Sunday and yesterday I just felt at peace and I really needed that. Just felt a lack of something the entire week and then on Sunday night I felt peace and on Monday I felt full. That was my tender mercy for the week. And it´s kinda like Christmas here… It´s easter and Semana Santa here in Central America and nobody goes to church.. #gofigure speaking of Semana Santa…
Sooo on Friday they do the famous alfombras right? Alfombras are when they prepare months making colored saw dust and then in the center or in other places on the street they make amazing art work out of colored sand dust! So on Friday we woke up early and went to see em in the center before we went to the office (once in a lifetime chance here) and before all the people came and it was so cool! And as we were finishing, the national news channel here HCH was there and they asked Elder Burnham if he could say a few words and he declined (because probably Pres wouldn’t have been happy if he saw us on tv at 7 in the morn in the center ha) anddd me being me was like “SURE! WE CAN SHARE OUR TESTIMONY ON TV!” not realizing the consequences.. And so they asked me who I was and what church we were from and how we supported people doing this and I totally got interviewed and testified of Christ on Honduras National TV hahhah and but I told Pres we went to see them after so we´re good haha that was fun.
Nothing much happened this week I can remember. We moved a house for 6 hours Elder Burnham and I because the missionaries had to move because they kinda got stoned and robbed in their area… Like literally the people threw stones at them! Stinkin´nuts. But they are totally fine.
On Easter Sunday in the morning I was able to finish Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage after months of reading it. It was such an amazing experience where I learned so much about who my Savior really is. I wanna keep using it to study because it really is incredible. And on Easter it was kinda tough remembering it was Easter just because there was nobody at church, none of the inv. that we had that said were gonna come came, it was so stinkin hot it´s not even funny, and it was just kinda a tough Easter. But then at night I just felt peace. Wasn´t anything all that special. I just felt good. And I guess that made me ponder about when Christ was resurrected. I bet that day didn´t feel all that spiritual to the apostles. I bet they were sad, upset, heart-broken that morning when they woke up. Then a little later they heard the good news. And it brought them peace. They still had a million things going on through their mind about what to do next, what they just went through with Christ for those years he was with them, I bet a million things were going through their mind. They had every reason to be stressed, confused, impatient, etc. But they felt peace as the Risen Lord showed himself to them. He lived and gave them peace then and He lives and gives peace to all those who seek now.
This week I am thankful for my Risen Lord Jesus Christ, for all the missionary emails I get, for perfect parents who I love so much, for Carter and that he still won´t be able to beat me at Madden or FIFA or 2K when I get back, for protein, for forgiveness, for little things during the day that make one happy, Elder Duncan, las alfombras, for good people, for butter, and forrrrrrrrrrr orange juice!
-Elder Alec Johnson
the church is true.
¨And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don´t believe in magic will never find it.¨-Roald Dahl
MATEO 5:14 SOIS LA LUZ DEL MUNDO!!!
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| All out of wood dust |
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| oh and they totally put a kid on a cross and reacted the crucification on top of a hill. Honduras tradition. |
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