Let the Rain Begin!

So this week was another one of those challenging ones. By challenging i mean our ability to find new investigators was super low. But that means that we've gotta work a little bit harder. 

THERE'S CHANGES!! My comp is headed out to Progreso. He'll be in my first district so that'll be exciting! I'm gonna miss my little Peruvian but super excited to teach with my new comp. His name is Elder Arsturias and he's a Chapin (from Guatemala). There's lots of work to do and lots of stuff to enjoy here in La Ceiba!

This week we had divisions with the young men that are preparing to go out on their missions. It is super cool here because they have a desire to come and learn how to teach and love the people. They're the ones that call us not us calling them! These kids are prepared to serve the Lord!

Wednesday was Service day. We literally served the whole day. The other Elderes from our district called us in the morning and asked if we could help with a service for one of their investigators. We chopped grass/weeds and planted some plants in their garden. The dad just had back surgery so that's why he couldn't do it himself. The nice thing is they made us breakfast and a lot of it was organic from what they grew at their house. Really good!!

The other service was for a recent convert in the ward but in the sister's area. Basically we were out of our area the whole day which felt weird but I loved being able to serve. Thanks to my young mens leaders I know how to tolerate long service hours. Now I know why they made us go and weed a lot because, well, here in Honduras we do a lot of that haha

Our investigators didn't come to church this week............. super sad. We weren't able to go bring them to church because this weekend I caught a Cold or Virus which barely allowed me to go to church but I wasn't gonna miss my chance to renew my covenants with my Heavenly Father. The Sacrament is really important to be able to partake and to partake worthily. I feel so blessed to be able to partake every week to be able to improve and become more like our Savior Jesus Christ. My sister shared a quote with me that I love, "Keep your Repentance up to date." It is necessary to keep ourselves clean. My mission president shared this at our last zone conference, "It is easier to maintain the flame than it is to reignite it." If we continuously keep our repentance up to date and have the flame of the Spirit in our lives we will not only feel better but to also be able to help others feel the same.

Elder Beardall

*** This is Brayden's dad. I asked him if he had heard about the missionaries being removed from Nicaragua because of the political unrest and if any of them had been moved into his mission. He said, "Oh yeah they loaded our mission!! They're opening 5 areas this week of changes!!! Super crazy stuff!!!"

Hno. Carlos took us to this animal reserve place so we took some pics. He also took us to this beach lookout place which was hard not to jump in the water haha