Baptisms in Mezapa

What in the world just happened?

Yes I am alive and confused and loving it. 

My companion that'll be training me for the next 12 weeks is Elder Villalobos. He's awesome! I am in a town called Mezapa and love it!

I don't have tons of time but I would like to share a message with you. 

Well it's not a message but just something that I have found interesting.

I read a talk this last week from President Ezra Taft Benson titled "Beware of Pride"

I want all of you to read it (print it, mark it, enjoy it)

The gospel is true and all that accept and live it's teachings will be blessed beyond measure and I know this because I have been blessed and I have seen it in the lives of the People here in Honduras.​

¡Bienvenidos!

Dear Family,

We are pleased to have your son, Elder Beardall, here in our mission.  He arrived this morning, Tuesday, August 15th, and was assigned his new companion, Elder Villalobos from El Salvador. They will be serving in the Progreso Zone in the town of Mezapa, Honduras. 

Thank you for the opportunity to serve with your son.

Sincerely,
President and Sister Carlisle

HOORAH!!!!

Heyoooooo!!!!!! Man emailing all you guys is like christmas morning. It's one of the highlights of my week!!!! The temple this morning was unbelievable!! I love having the spirit with me to start out my day.

Not much happened this week. Oh ya this is my last Pday at the CCM and then next week I'll be shipped off to San Pedro!!! Man I am pumped to share this great message with everyone I see. During our devotional from the area 70, his wife shared a story about how the missionaries were walking down the street and they were just smiling talking to the people and then a woman on a bus saw that they were so happy and wanted to have that same happiness. So she found a way to find the missionaries and find out the happiness that they had. She took all the lessons and was baptized. All because the missionaries were smiling. Hopefully I can have a smile of my face everyday, even when times are rough, so I can help others receive the happiness that I have through the gospel. 

This week I have had a eye opening experience with the spirit. I won't go into details but what I learned from this experience is that the spirit needs to constantly be in our lives. Even if we aren't learning anything spiritual or gospel related, just having the spirit in our lives brings peace and comfort. Missions and life is hard but the spirit will bring the love of God into our lives and help us be happy. 

During a district meeting we had earlier this week one of the Elders shared a quote that I love and would like to bless your lives with:

"Don't give up when everybody wouldn't blame you for giving up"

Man I just got chills writing it! Keep going. Keep growing. Keep loving!

Love you all!!

Elder Beardall

Que lo Que

One month down and I have no clue where that went. I have been blessed beyond measure. All the people around the world that are praying for the missionaries..... I can definitely feel the blessings being poured upon us. Everyone here i progressing so much and you can see the progress. Day by day, poco a poco. 

The new guys came in this last week and lets just say there are a lot of Americans. I miss the latinos for the most part. There are only Nortes on our floor now so it's not as loud at night and we don't get to speak and work on our chill type of spanish. Like casual talking not gospel spanish. After the first two nights that they were here a couple of my buddies and I decided to read the Book of Mormon after we got ready for bed during our chill time at night. In just a week I've seen an improvement of just one week of reading. I can now understand whole verses in spanish. Haha before the mission it took me like five minutes for a verse because I was looking up basically every word. God really does bless you when you are doing his work. 

We were blessed to be able to watch another devotional from elder holland and it was again an uplifting experience. In part of his talk he talked about "astonish them with your words". He went into the detail of it by explaining the greek or whatever it is root of the word astonish. Astonish in greek means thunder. So if you put that into context we need to preach the word of god with thunder. If you think about it thunder can be heard from far away because it is powerful. Same with the gospel of jesus christ. It is powerful and can change our lives. We teach with a voice of thunder but we also need to have the companionship of the holy ghost to help touch the hearts of our investigators. And so my friends PREACH WITH ASTONISHMENT!!!!!!

Love you all!! Be examples and make your Father in Heaven proud!

Elder Beardall

ps que lo que is something dominicans say apparently. It means like what's up or whats happening. My buddy Elder herrera is dominican and apparently he lives two doors down from Big Papi so that's cool i guess haha