Wet but Not Wet

Once again I survived another week under this blazing sun! Makes one miss the freezing winters in Utah. I feel like it never cools down here. On a side note, Shout-out to all the homies from Mexico to Panama because they celebrated independence from Spain on Saturday. On Wednesday we had a district service project. That's something cool we've planned out. Every area has a week were they have to look for a big service project so that the whole district can come and serve. There's 10 of us (5 areas) in the district so with many hands makes light work. We were able help a sister fix her roof because it got ruined during a rainstorm on Tuesday. 

It rained a ton on Tuesday like tropic rainstorm. Nothing like what happened to those in the Carolinas but strong. Actually cool thing about that is we were with an investigator when it started to pour rain. Not only did it pour rain but there were also a ton of lightning strikes. The thing is here in Honduras the lightning can strike 10 miles away and it sounds pretty close. So we were in this house and the lightning and thunder were picking up when out of nowhere I glance outside and BAM!! About 30ish meters away (I think that's about 90ish feet away) this flash of light strikes and man did it shake the whole world haha. I have never been so close in my entire life. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE! It had so much force that I naturally sat back in my chair. It was such a weird experience! But yeah that storm soaked the whole town! It was nice because that night it was nice and "chilly" (if you can even say that about Honduras) at night but the rest of the week was HORRID! Just imagine that you're walking midsummer day and the sun is just killer and then on top of that the ground feels like its boiling. It feels like it's raining but in reverse. We're trapped in a water bubble here in good ole Honduras. Thanks BBDALL for the weather report now back to you Elder Beardall for a report on the mission work of the week.

This week we were able to meet with our awesome investigator! So this week we were only able to meet with her once but it was such a great lesson!  I don't know if I've explained this before but she gets a little side tracked during the lessons so we've had to go simple so she can learn but when she listens she really does learn which is awesome and we love it! She had some doubts about prophets and Joseph Smith but we committed her to pray about it. It was super cool because she said that she always prays (apparently there's been lots of missionaries in the past that have visited her) and that she would pray to find out. We then read Moroni 10:4-5 with her and testified about the spirit and how He reveals things if we have faith and ask with a sincere heart. Man the spirit was super strong and it was interesting because there was a pause where no one talked but it didn't feel uncomfortable. Such a spiritual lesson! 

Elder Beardall