30 July 2018

Hey everyone well this week was cool. This will probably be my last week as a Zone Leader. Crazy, right? Well sothis week we were contacting and we found a lady who she was positive, she accepted a little book and we said that wed come back, but she told us itll be hard teaching me because this isnt my house, i just take care of the kids and the owner is grumpy. so we decided to go back. and we meet the owner.. and man he says, COME ON IN!" but he was super happy. and my comp and i look at eachother and we didnt say a thing but we KNEW he was a pastor. and so we sit down and we start talking and we find out that hes not a pastor but a lost sheep (a less active member of the church) and we shared a lesson with him and after we told him that if he needs anything that were here to help and he asks us, "is it possible that you guys pass by like once a week." and continued telling us about his schedule how hes busy studying and working but on the weekends we can come by and visit with him. Man, some times when we find less active people the hide or lie or like a lost sheep is frightened but this guy just jumped into our little arms.
Also the grandpa of some kids i teach (also less active) started going to church again, he wants his grandchildren to get baptised but theres something that holds him back from saying yes. but we thought that if he could baptise them, hed would be more than happy to let them be baptised. so hes probably going to be given the preisthood real soon here.
Well i have so much to say to you all but i just dont have the time.


love yall




Elder Owen

23 July 2018

Hey everybody. its been a great week. i spent most of it visitng the people and cleaning my hose in my free time. umm, im doing great, we were going to baptise a few kids here in the reinel but they grandpa said no like two days before. so next month the grandpa is gonna baptise them well a t least thats what we want, also changes are soon and i hope i stay to see these little guys get baptised. if not, its cool. also this week i killed another rat. but this time it was with my hand i just crushed his little windpipe and cheke. haha also i have killed 232 cucarachas.


well honestly i have no more time to write. i have to go back to my area walking today cause theres no transportation to day. so i gotta get going soon. haha but anyway the church is true if you dont know that read James 1:5 and do as your told.


love yall!


Elder Owen

16 July 2018

Hey everyone, its been another great week in Mission Honduras Comayaguela ja. Im loving out here and am kinda sad that its coming to an end. Everyone missionarys members and investigatoers all tell me, wow youre almost gone. and i dont like thinking about that. well. thiss wek was good. Pres. Mejia has mad some changes in like what days we´ll have our meetings and stuff like that.
The work in my area is going well, we had six investigatores in church yesterday, and the grandpa of 4 of them who has been less active for 5 yearsish showed up too. the sad thing is that we had to leave right when we got there cause Valde is still sick and i had to go take care of him in his house so i didnt go to church yesterday lol. Also In my area we have found a few new people that wanna listen to us. Its a new goal in the mission or maybe not goal more like standard like we have to do it. so weve found more people just by having that "goal" also we are trying to do lots of service and thats helping out. I also got sick again, just a little cold and i couldnt talk for like a day, which is the worst whe youre a misionary cause all we do is talk and if we dont talk we worthless, haha, but im better now.
also this weekend Mario was baptised and called us on his way to Sigua last night and said that he felt so good being baptised, and then he asked me, "whats next"? whatta good question, right? and it mad me think, allthe time we do great things but we stop there and we never ask the Lord, whats next. The lord has a plan for us and if we feel lost or confused or worried or whatever, we just gotta look ahead and ask him whats next. He´ll tell us, he alwyas answers our prayers. Mayve not today or tomorrow, but he always answeres.
well love you guys.


Elder Owen

9 July 2018

Hey everybody. HOws it? its been fine for me. This week was crazy we got our new mission presidente. hes cool, SUPER strict and is down to send everyone home. I love him haha. He said en every meeting that we had that hes fine being here with 80 missionaryes if they obediente. so cool haha.


so because of these meetings i didnt get to work cause we had to stay with the assistentes so that they could get to theyre meetings, and then outta no where Elder Valdetano one of y xcomps. got apendisitis and had to get a surgery so i stayed here to cover our areas and del hoyo stayed with him in the hospital. its been crazy. and today i was with him until now so thats why im writing so late.


but some cool stuff happened this week, well one thing happen last week. Naum and his wife (family of the mennonites that i found in Siguatepeque) got baptized! They got married and were baptised in the same day. I remember finding him he was so stressed about his life. He had two kids and a wife and didnt even have a roof to cover them. They live in an adobe house with black garbage bags as a cover. but after seeing all that he told me that he just needed and wanted spiritual help. and he finaly got baptised. ALSO Mario, the guy i was teaching is sigua called Valdetano today, and because i was with him i could talk to him and he said that he is going to baptised! hes been going to church for like 8 months and lately hes had a ton of problems in his life but he said, "Ive been chatting with God and he told me that now is the time.." so hes gonna be baptised. aldo hes been going to the temple every weeked just to sit in the gardens. he said he needs this in his life.


The Gospel is so true, God blesses us,and he loves us so much. I know just as these people that i teach have had so many changes in their lives, we can too. God is there waiting for us, we just have to decide to follow him.


love yall.


Elder Owen

2 July 2018

Hey everyone. well this week was great, the house is still full of rats and fleas. but im doing fine i killed two fleas this morning. yuck. theyre the worst cause when you see them they get spooked and start jumping all over the place and i lose them casue the floor of my house has black specks all over so everythign looks like a flea. haha.


this week we had some cool things happen. first we found some more people who love the church and wanna get baptised (hopefully) and they are neamed faviola and yohan. theyre from españa, their accent is really weird and instead pf calling us misionaries they call us mormons. haha it kills me.


also this week we went to visit a member named Santiago Espinoza. They call him "El Tio" who knows why.Hes a great guy has like 6 years of being a member and hes just a humble liitle guy who sells vegetables. We went to a place that is suposed to be super dangerous but its chill there, it a little town behind a few mountians. we had never been so we got there and just started asking people where he lived, and we just got to a house on a big property and i said, lets ask here and looking accros the property to the house i see el tio, and man, he was so happy that we got there. At the end of the visit he told us to come by more and his wife as well (even though she goes to a church that preaches againtst our church) some good people .


I also had a great cahnce to learn a little more about loving the people this week. we visit a family named Familia Banegas and they have been members for a really long time but because the hno got sick and nobody from the church visited him he started going to another church and we knew for a long time but a little while ago he told us. and at first i was mad, and was going to machete him ha. but a few days later we visited hiima gain, and nothing changed. Still wants to go to his other chruch but i wasnt mad at him anymore i just thought. Poor guy is suffering he doesnt have friends in church he just is going where he feels loved. But i dont have to be mad or turn against him for his decsion, i just gotta love him. and thats a blessing of the gospel is that we learn to love everybody regardless of what they do.


love yall.
good week.


Elder Owen

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25 June 2018

Hello. everyone. how is it oging? im well. A little sick, but doing well. My comp is sick as well. haha, we didnt leave the house for a little bit this week, cause you know its tough when youre sick. but were getting better now so its cool.


This week we have changes, but were staying together and were staying here in El Tizatillo. the zone is gonna have changes too which is nice because theyre all plancheros and dont like to do what they need to do. and some good elders are coming in. also at the end of this week we´ll have a new mission presidente. Pte. Mejia de Guatemala. itll be cool and weird. I wont really get to know him too well but oh well.


Ive got 3 months left in the mission and i feel really nervous to stop living this way. its cause i really enjoy doing what i do the time is flying by, and they say that means that youre having a good time.


well love yall.


Elder Owen