Hey
everyone!!!!
So like I wrote in the
title this is my last full week here in Honduras, my second home. I really don’t
know how to feel. I try to not and focus on it too much because if I do I start
freaking out a little bit and it really does distract me from work.
Okay let’s see... my
comp Hermana Bradley. She is from Washington State. She is 23 years old and she is awesome!!! We
nerd out together about everything fantasy. She is part Chilean because her mom
is from Chile. She is the oldest of four
children and likes to write stories. She
has a very strong testimony of the gospel and I admire her strength and her
willpower and faith. One of the reasons I admire her is because she has a
stutter and she can’t speak Spanish that well, but that doesn’t keep her from
giving up. As well she has depression and she takes pills to keep her going. Additionally she has asthma and the heat
kills her. We end up staying a lot of
time in the house because she just can’t go out in the heat all day. I have learned how to have a lot of patience
with myself. It’s easy to be patient
with her because she is amazing. I get
frustrated with myself because I can’t find anything to do when she’s sick, and
splits are hard to do here in this area. But she has taught me a lot about
unconditional love and charity. I am so grateful for her.
This week we are going
to have two baptisms that have been miracles for us, especially with the state
of my companion’s health!!! Their names are Yesennia and Kinberlin. They’re
a mother and daughter. Here is their tough story. When Yessenia (the mom) was a
girl her mother started her in something horrible.... her mom made her go into prostitution
and she has been in that for such a long time. She had a really, really hard
life because when she was in those kind of things someone burned her face with
acid and she has horrible scars on her face. She has given birth to five
daughters and they have all been taken away from her by children protective
services. When she was pregnant with Kinberlin the government that is in charge
of child protection told her that if she wanted to keep her child she needed to
give up prostitution, and she did so that she could raise her daughter. Hermana
Bradley and Hermana Cerrate met her and began teaching her before I came to
this area. Then I was transferred here
and taught her, and she accepted a baptismal date and she has changed her life
and is wanting the best for her daughter. She looks so much happier than when I
first met her and they are now getting baptized on the 2nd of April.
When I first heard her story I was shocked because I had no idea, she didn’t
look like someone who had lived that kind of life. When the missionaries found
her she wasn’t living that life anymore but the past was still with her. I know that God and his son Jesus Christ go
after the lost sheep, which is why there are missionaries. When someone really
finds the restored gospel of Jesus Christ their souls recognize it and they change
their lives.
I am so happy for this
opportunity to have taught them.
Con amor
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