Longest, shortest, craziest, most beautiful week of my mission. Ha! So many things..well we'll start off with Monday.
Soooo Hermana Martinez sorta got sick with the pancreas so we had to stay the night on Monday at Doctor Mendoza's house while they watched her and we wok up at 4:30 in the morning with her screaming and then throwing up and then Doctor Mendoza singing hymns. Ha, we thought something really bad happened but she came in and told us she just threw up but needs to go to Tegucigalpa ASAP. So at 6:00 we left in an ambulance to Teguc 3 hours away but 1 hour and a half in ambulance. BTW we weren't even allowed to ride in the ambulance but we convinced him and good thing because we almost dies twice with him at the wheel. haha! But we got there, dropped her off and then had to take a bus to the bus stop to go back to Sigua, but we had to go to Otoro which is even farther to get the sisters things and go back to Teguc the same day. So Tuesday we spent the whole day on a bus...9 hours people. Then we had to sleep over at the secretaries house and go home the next morning at 6:00. Man Alive. But she's good now! But man was it a hoot with Elder De La Rosa. We laugh a lot. His 2 quotes for the week are 1st, as he tries my protein for the first time, "OH! This tastes like chicken food!" haha and then in the District meeting he directed the Hymns right and so he get up there and we're all ready and he says, "ok the hymn goes something like this.." and then he starts to sing, "I don't care! I love it!" hahaha now remember this is all in Spanish and out of nowhere sang that song. Too good.
But man the district meeting was poderososisimo! Best one I've been to in months! And that day was awesome as well. But oh Saturday one of the most powerful and tender moments that happened. 1st we had the baptism of the kids of a family the sisters from the other part of Sigua, and I got to baptize them with Elder Jensen! The parents get baptized next month. But then after we went to Puran and, people! Hermano Pe** straight up told us he wants to get married and baptized and be a member of the church! He has his answer and he's ready to roll! He's just so humble and loving and we're going to need to help pay for the wedding but we're going to sell taco's! and then...well we were walking and it was dark and a man was carrying 2 shovels and his 11 year old son with a bike. We contacted him and asked if he needed help. So we helped him and we asked where they were coming from and he said work and I started talking to the kid and he told me they didn't pay Papi like they said they would for the weeks work. And then we found out this man lives on a hill, like at the very top, and has 8 kids...and 5 of them less than 8 years old and they live in a house that doesn't have power, and that his wife left them. And so we get there and these kids come running and you can just see their smile in the dark and they are so happy to see their dad and they were all so good-mannered and just the cutest kids and one of them asks if they brought food. And man did my heart just break as I saw this man, humbler than humble, have to tell his kids they didn't pay him. And so we said bye and ran down the mountain and bought rice, eggs, and milk for the fam and took it back up to them and man. To help a family of 9 like that was a privilege. Moroni 7 really hit me hard in that moment.
But they said they're going to come to church next week.:)
So I kinda feel like I'm going to leave this area Tuesday. Changes are here and you have no idea how much I've begged to stay here. We are going to have so many baptisms this month. But like Alma 29:9 says, we're just instruments.:) But sure do love Tuki's fam and I wish you see their faith and devotion in only 6 weeks. Jean Carlos (who's 14) went from never going to church to being at the church every morning at 4:30 a.m. waiting for seminary and memorizing all the D&C scrips in just a week. While Tuki is literally memorizing the Book of Mormon, and Karen (the mom) is preparing to go to the Temple. If I go, I'm absolutely filled with joy to be able to help that family for such a short period butttt I don't want to leave! Also, cool thought. Want to know why there are more women than men on the earth? Because in the premarital life the 1/3 that followed Satan were made up more of men, and more women stuck to the truth. There is evidence of it in our society today!
This week I'm thankful for pineapples, Mormon Messages, my journal, the new family's we found and taught, that a lot of 'the chosen' are being found, the Temple, sleep, Puran, chopping wood, Scriptures, Preach My Gosepel, good doctors, the highway system in Utah, my comp, and the God watches over His children.
Love you all! F.I.E.
-Elder Alec Johnson
Scrip D&C 6:33
Soooo Hermana Martinez sorta got sick with the pancreas so we had to stay the night on Monday at Doctor Mendoza's house while they watched her and we wok up at 4:30 in the morning with her screaming and then throwing up and then Doctor Mendoza singing hymns. Ha, we thought something really bad happened but she came in and told us she just threw up but needs to go to Tegucigalpa ASAP. So at 6:00 we left in an ambulance to Teguc 3 hours away but 1 hour and a half in ambulance. BTW we weren't even allowed to ride in the ambulance but we convinced him and good thing because we almost dies twice with him at the wheel. haha! But we got there, dropped her off and then had to take a bus to the bus stop to go back to Sigua, but we had to go to Otoro which is even farther to get the sisters things and go back to Teguc the same day. So Tuesday we spent the whole day on a bus...9 hours people. Then we had to sleep over at the secretaries house and go home the next morning at 6:00. Man Alive. But she's good now! But man was it a hoot with Elder De La Rosa. We laugh a lot. His 2 quotes for the week are 1st, as he tries my protein for the first time, "OH! This tastes like chicken food!" haha and then in the District meeting he directed the Hymns right and so he get up there and we're all ready and he says, "ok the hymn goes something like this.." and then he starts to sing, "I don't care! I love it!" hahaha now remember this is all in Spanish and out of nowhere sang that song. Too good.
But man the district meeting was poderososisimo! Best one I've been to in months! And that day was awesome as well. But oh Saturday one of the most powerful and tender moments that happened. 1st we had the baptism of the kids of a family the sisters from the other part of Sigua, and I got to baptize them with Elder Jensen! The parents get baptized next month. But then after we went to Puran and, people! Hermano Pe** straight up told us he wants to get married and baptized and be a member of the church! He has his answer and he's ready to roll! He's just so humble and loving and we're going to need to help pay for the wedding but we're going to sell taco's! and then...well we were walking and it was dark and a man was carrying 2 shovels and his 11 year old son with a bike. We contacted him and asked if he needed help. So we helped him and we asked where they were coming from and he said work and I started talking to the kid and he told me they didn't pay Papi like they said they would for the weeks work. And then we found out this man lives on a hill, like at the very top, and has 8 kids...and 5 of them less than 8 years old and they live in a house that doesn't have power, and that his wife left them. And so we get there and these kids come running and you can just see their smile in the dark and they are so happy to see their dad and they were all so good-mannered and just the cutest kids and one of them asks if they brought food. And man did my heart just break as I saw this man, humbler than humble, have to tell his kids they didn't pay him. And so we said bye and ran down the mountain and bought rice, eggs, and milk for the fam and took it back up to them and man. To help a family of 9 like that was a privilege. Moroni 7 really hit me hard in that moment.
But they said they're going to come to church next week.:)
So I kinda feel like I'm going to leave this area Tuesday. Changes are here and you have no idea how much I've begged to stay here. We are going to have so many baptisms this month. But like Alma 29:9 says, we're just instruments.:) But sure do love Tuki's fam and I wish you see their faith and devotion in only 6 weeks. Jean Carlos (who's 14) went from never going to church to being at the church every morning at 4:30 a.m. waiting for seminary and memorizing all the D&C scrips in just a week. While Tuki is literally memorizing the Book of Mormon, and Karen (the mom) is preparing to go to the Temple. If I go, I'm absolutely filled with joy to be able to help that family for such a short period butttt I don't want to leave! Also, cool thought. Want to know why there are more women than men on the earth? Because in the premarital life the 1/3 that followed Satan were made up more of men, and more women stuck to the truth. There is evidence of it in our society today!
This week I'm thankful for pineapples, Mormon Messages, my journal, the new family's we found and taught, that a lot of 'the chosen' are being found, the Temple, sleep, Puran, chopping wood, Scriptures, Preach My Gosepel, good doctors, the highway system in Utah, my comp, and the God watches over His children.
Love you all! F.I.E.
-Elder Alec Johnson
Scrip D&C 6:33
