Week 54

Hey everybody, Hows it going? Im doing fine, I feel like i just wrote a weekly letter an hour ago. The time is going by so fast i cant believe it. Well this weeek we didnt really have a lot of time in our area we went to comayagua to have a meeting multizona. (I love comayagua so much.) And i got to go do a baptism interview in zambrano which is like two hours away and we were in the Divina Providencia, which is like an hour away so we were supposed to get there at 4 we got there at like 5ish. and it took so long waiting for a bus, we started walking there cause there werent any, and then finally there was a bus and it was full but we forced our way on. we ended up half way in and half way out riding up a mountain. I love Honduras lol. But the interview went great the Guy was ready and his mom was stoked to see him get baptised. So that was two of the days of the weeek working outside of my area. But something ive learned is when Im serving in the other areas God works in my area for me, so it balences out.


So this week we had a little miracle and had six investigatores in church, theyre really good people. Just some of them neeed to get married and thats complicated here. Others are little kids who dont have support form their families but are going to church. How cool is that.


But Daniel didnt go to church (i think its for his girlfriend, shes in a different congragation. And the pastores tell them that its a sin to listen to us. lol) so Daniel is doing really well. he just needs to make a decsion. he is reading the book of mormon, and he Loves it! but his mom doesnt like the church and he really respects her. so hes got some problems, but he'll be fine. But i was really bummed when he didnt get to church, like, church is a little thing we can do to show our faith. andfor me its really simple. go to church get blessed. who doesnt what blessings? Daniel cause he doesnt wanna go to church. jaja.


Weve also been visiting a guy named Danilo and his wife sofia. and hes super cool. he works at a metodist school and works with greengos. but everytime i go to there house the whip out the peanut butter and jelly and they tell me, "we know greengos love this stuff." Right now theyre not going to church, but. They will soon, Danilo saw General Confrence. he liked it. and wants to know more.


Oscar is a youth that we are teaching. He is 13 yrs old and a little difficult, he always has his friends over and they make him embarassed to listen to us. And he has a hard time paying attention. So when we go there weve started going when his moms not there, cause when shes there she just tells us everything wrong with her kid. and we just start talking with him. He always reads what we leave. and in the middle of our normal conversaciones he'll ask us something about the gospel. and yesterday he said that he wants to be baptised and his mom is a member so the permission isnt a problem. the only thing is is that he goes to another church and he only goes there cause they pay his scholarship. so he just has an hour to come to church with us then he goes to La metodista.


This week was halloween. we carved some sandias and put them outside with candles. and the day after some kids asked us if we had pumpkins.


My comp and i are doing well, hes funny. He literally breaks everything and is just a goofy goober.


Well I love yall


Elder Owen




Elder Owen's answers to his mama's questions:


Ma:  Did you get your package?
Elder Owen: yes!!!! gracias!


Ma:  Do missionaries ever make their own ties?
Elder Owen: Yes ive made one. it has pandas and bamboo


Ma:  Do you drink yerba mate with a filtering straw? (We tried it and it tastes like something you would like. Dirt and sticks! Ha! We figured you probably prefer yours with a rock in it!)
Elder Owen: yes!! I love mate we got the secratarys buying us some rn lol


Ma:   How is Elizabeth? She looks like an angel in her baptism pic.
Elder Owen: Ohh, i love her. she is an angel haha. no shes doing fine her dad is coming to chruch now and has some good questiones

Ma:  Do you listen to music every day?
Elder Owen: nO hardly ever listen to music. i dont have time. to pass my time i do rubiks cube or i read the bible, and bom but righ tnow im diggin mathew


Ma:  What did you study this morning?
Elder Owen: how to clean the house in honduras.

Ma: What will you name your first child?
Elder Owen: Ezeikel? Yair? Rosemary


Ma:  Have you had diarrhea since Easters?
Elder Owen: My stomach is great, i can drink tap water here and it doesnt do me damage. #faith

Week 53

hey everybody. hows it going? Im doing great. Loving my life here in Cuidad espana. This weeek has been goood, ive had better. But i for sure enjoyed myself. Actually this week has been super cold for a hurracane that has passed, like we couldnt sleeep cause it was so cold. all week haha. But i love the cold air its kinda nice.


So this week we spent a lot of time teaching, we have been visiting this family, the family palma cause their kid kaden doesnt wanna go to hell and wnats to get baptised. So were teaching them, but weve decided, cause hes a little kid of eight years old. that we would use videos to teach them. And luckily theyve got internet in thier house. so weve shown them a ton of church videos. theyre really great, last night we taught the Plan of salvacion. and even the family who are all members said that they learned some stuff that they never knew.


So with Vivian we have kinda stopped teaching her cause she said that she would need a few months to get baptised, and that she wants to be baptised but that she wants to be more perpared, but she never comes to church. lol how can you get prepard to be baptised if you dont go to church? heck if i know, but maybe ill ask her, im sure shes gotta plan, lol


As well Wendy is doing well, she couldnt come to church cause her babies have gotten sick and in the cold she cant take em out of the house.


theres tons of other people progressing. but i dont wanna write more my fingers are cold and tierd.


Well, i hope yall know that im happy for making the decision to serve a mission. Im happy to be here in honduras and to be a follower of Jesus Christ. And if yall arent following Jesus, youd oughta. Its a lot better that way.


love yall


Elder Owen

Week 52

Hey everybody! So this week wsa my first week with Elder Del Hoyo. Its been cool. Hes cool, we get along really well, hes been sick.. Well weve both been sick but ive been taking care of him but hes really nice and tells me thanks for stuff.


So this week has been awqesome but yesterday was a little dissapointing. Hardly any of the investigatores came to church. But its fine. Not a big deal. Wendy couldnt come her baby is sick. Daniel had school,JOse and <Gloria got mad. maria and selso, i have no idea. But leila came, and shes really positive.


Leila is the wife of a member and when i first came here she was against the church but then she got super sick and left town. And she came back and now she loves the curch, she cant wait to get married so she can be baptised and be a mormon haha. She loves it. SHe told us about how she likes the peace that she feels in church, and i mean peace is the spirit so its gotta be true, right?


So Daniel didnt come to church but hes loving leartning more. He started reading the book of mormon and we gave him an assignment to read he loved it. (3 nefi 11- talks about Jesus and baptism and autoirity) and he asked us if he could keep reading the Book, but from the start.


Gloria and Jose are not coming to church anymore, cause, the rumor is, is that she only started going to church to get food. and we didnt give her any so she got mad and stopped coming, and then she got more mad when we wouldnt let her get baptised while being in foracation (unmarried) and so one day we visited the gal and she gave us beans and tortillas. and i got sick and so did my comp, and After the bishops wife tells us, hey dont eat with her she likes to do witchcraft. So, yeah.. Were not visiting her again, who curses somebody for not giving them food? lol


As well we were contacting and we found a lady with a dead goat so she was crying and everything cause shes a pastor of animales. haha and so we went and found Heber, wendys man. and said that we needed help buring a goat. he got his tools and went right to work, whatta guy. right?


well thats all folks


love
you
all


Elder

Pictures from Ciudad España

Week 51

Hey everyone. Oh its like three. And i just started writing. Its casue my comp is dead and has been taking his sweet time with everything. But i am very grateful that he decided to do so his last day rather than his last change. As well this week we start a new change. I am staying here in cuidad españa and Elder Del Hoyo is coming here. Cool dude, he was born in country ( my first zone) with me.


So a ton happened this week, we have really been super blessed. We have lessones everyday. (Even today) but i love it.


So Elizabeth got baptised!! Finally and she did it all secretly it was really cool. Shes pretty bold haha. We decided the other thursday to visit her and she asked when is my interview bautismal. Then friday she snuck outta her house to come to the chapel to have the interview. and the saturday she snuck out to be baptised. BUt sunday she came to church, but with her dad who didnt know that she got baptised (but he did give persmsion) so when she got confirmed it was a suprise., but he was happy for her.


Okay really thats all i got time for.


Love you guys


Elder owen

Week 50

Hey whatta week. We have been looking for computers all day haha. We took a bus to another town to find an atm. Haha i love it here.


So this week we visited Elizabeth. She is doing fine. Shes still waiting on permision to get baptised from her Dad. but shes wanting to get baptised this weekend. We´ll see what we do tomorrow. shes super stoked to be baptised, and she loved the confrence. I looked over at her and she was taking some notes and all. hah


So as well, weve been visiting Gloria and Jose. Wow. Theyre something. They wanna be baptised, really bad. They come to church and everything but, they just dont see it impotrtant getting baptiseed. We have explained it backwards and forwards. But they just dont understand it. we visited them three times this week. and everytime Gloria said "i gotta question." she says, "why do I gotta get married to get baptised. were not breaking any rules." and her husband says, "were living like brother and sister right now,." makes sense right? but theyre living together. it doesnt work like that lol.


We also visited Jose and Vilma. Oh man, they are awesome! The day they get baptised will be the worst day of the Devils life lol. We explained to them how we dont take offerings in the congragation and how we all live by working. they were amazed. we showed them a tithing slip and theyre minds were blown about how perfect the organization is of the church.
also we visited em. and they had some neighbors over, and Jose started testifing to them about how this chruch was reveled by God, and jose smith was just an instrument in Gods hands. And said to his wife, "they are in the truth." we gave him a book of mormon and he was excited to read it.


And Eduard is fine, he didnt come to church and so we moved his baptismal date.. again. and so i shared a scripture that says, do what you say youll do. so well see haha


In this week a lot of people that we contacteed asked about Jose Smith and, one lady said, "ive always thought abou toging to your chruch.. but i would just feel uncomfortable praying to him" we dont pray to him haha
another guy asked, "wait, you dont have idols of Jose smith in your church?" nope. haha
crazy people here believe whatever they hear.


I also was studing this week and was thinking alot about charity and how its really the love of God. Like we gotta realize, how much God really loves us. Like, we just get little miracles everyday just outta his love. and then i think we all gotta be more loving. If we loved like how God loves us, we would never have any problems.


love you guys a ton


Elder Owen

Week 49

Hey everybody. This week was nuts. It went by so fast, i was seriously all over the place. I took like 16 busses in 4 days. Doing all kinds of stuff. We went to a place called siguatepeque, which is 4 hours away. We had baptismal interviews and interchanges. But it has been a blast.


So our investigatores are fine. Eduard is doing great a little worried about leaving coffe but he really wants to be baptised. He is super stoked, but doesnt wanna go to church so well see haha.


It turns out that theres a lot of people here that wanna be baptised but never come to church. Like i found a lady that we were teaching but that we stoppped visiting cause she never had time for us or to go to church. But yesterday in the street she stopped us and sasked if she was still gonna be baptised. I was shocked, how can you be baptised ina church that you have never been too? How will you know how to get to your baptism? haha


But we are teaching two families. Wendy and eber. and Gloria and Jose. but they arent married so were gonna have to get them married. theyre cool. They love the church and wanna be members. and they all wanna get married, but theyre just poor. but God will help us out, theyll find the money.


We have been teaching this lady and her sisters named vivan. we had a lesson where i didnt say a word. everytime i tried talking my comp cut me off. he said the opening prayer and the last prayer. and trust me. it wasnt my fault i wanted to talk but he didnt let me. but you already know, when i got outta that lesson. i just looked at him and said, "buddy, i love you. youre a great missionary. but are you kidding me?" and he felt really bad. its funny now. and now we are really working hard on having equal talking time. haha but in a later lesson with her we started out by inviting her sister to pray and she didnt want to. so vivan pipes up and says,"just say Lord Jesus!" haha. theyre so weird but i love em haha.


so down here theres a drink i dig called mate. and i was drinking it in the house of some members and the daughter ( shes like 5) told me, "your breath stinks. and so does that drink. can i have some?" i said, "youll hate it." but i gave her it. and she spit it all over me. haha, my shirt had some gnarly green stains all over. but nothing that bleach and a wash board cant solve lol.


I also saw a drunk fighting a drunk lady who had a baby in her arms. the drunk stole her babay and took it to her house. and some guys from the chruch that they were fighting infront of got into it too. and then some gangsters went in to break it up. it was nuts. haah


it has been a great week. if you guys want something good to read Read Mosiah 4 in the book of mormon. Quality stuff. talks about giving. and who we should give to. READ IT.


love yall.




Elder OWen