San Pedro Sula Week 8

HOLA!

Hey everyone! How are you guys doing? Man was I blessed this week to feel better! Earlier this week one night I just couldn't sleep and my stomach just had the worst pain ever. And I asked my comp if he could give me a blessing so I could fall asleep and feel better for tomorrow. I don't remember him finishing the blessing because I'm pretty sure I fell asleep....haha it was amazing! I am so thankful for the power of the priesthood and that I was able to recover and feel better this week. And I'm grateful for my companion! He is such a stud. He is sooooo funny we just pull pranks and joke with each other alllll the time. I really haven't laughed like this for a while! He helps me enjoy the mission which is great.

When we stopped by one of our members houses this week we saw the mother of the family painting all by herself. This family owns all the 5 apartments in the building and she was repainting alll of them. When we went to help her I thought it was going to be a quick thing and we leave. But no thats not how life goes....we came back every day this week and painted all the houses!! It was super fun but now i have bright green paint all over my clothes....I forgot my camera today so i can't show any of the pictures but next week I will send them all! All the appartments turned out really good ( for Honduras ).

One of the best things I'm learning from my comp is to lose allll fear and just talk to everyone. He's really great at just saying whatever and getting people to talk. So we have been contacting alot and its been so cool to see the hand of the Lord. When I was with de Leon we came across a sister that seemed interested but we only talked in the street for a little bit and I felt like we needed to talk to her more but I had fear in a what to say. I was so mad later that day that I didnt say anything. Well weeks and weeks later, Olivas and I were walking and searching for a reference and we were asking some neighbors where this guy lived. And we came to a house to ask if they knew this guy and the woman that I met in the street answered the door! It was a second chance and it was so cool and trippy to find her in her house in a part of our area we hardly visit! She was super open and she came to church! Cool experience.

This saturday we have a baptism and I'm super stoked! His name is Jorge and is the son of one of the families we are teaching. His parents are going to get married this next month then they will get baptized in december! They are so diligent... its so great to see their strong testimony. The son was going to wait and be baptized with his dad but he told us he got an answer that he should be baptized sooner. They all read the Book of Mormon and they all pray together. They are so awesome! Teaching families is the best part of the mission.

Well this week was really busy and really fast and I can't remember anything. So sorry I can't write more :/ Oh ya if you guys are reading this and say wow Sessions can't write to save his life he just uses the same words over and over again, just know its because spanish is messing with my brain. Here in honduras they have the worst spanish so I have bad habits I'm sorry! haha love you all! 

-Elder Sessions

San Pedro Sula Week 7

My zone in El Carmen!

Buenas!

Wazzzz up family!? How are you guys! Que loco this last week. It started with transfers and I had to say bye to Elder de León! I really learned a lot this last transfer and I'm glad I had the opportunity to work with him. And as luck would have it I got another Guatemalan! His name is Elder Olivas and he has the same time out as me! I'm really excited to work with him and tear it up here in the Smith! He loves to contact and its awesome because we are in need of some new investigators! He is also super hilarious and its so nice to laugh and enjoy the mission like we should. I am super happy for this transfer!:) My bro from the CCM-Elder Porter had a change too and he got put in my zone! We are even closer now! It's the besttttt.

Same tie as Elder Itaehau at transfers!

So our first night together started out not so good....we had 3 appointments in the night time and EACH one fed us dinner. And it is super rude to say no so we ate with smiles and crying stomachs. Each meal was huge and that night I got super sick and that was 4 days ago and I'm still sick. I got food poisoning and it has been the worst. I can't sleep and walk a lot and have a huge fever. Sad to start the week out like this with my new comp but it just won't go away! I hope to feel better soon!

Even tho I have been sick, we were still able to have some good experiences and were really blessed. We have an investigator that is really amazing named Tañia who finally came to the church this last sunday with her little girl and it was great to see her talking with the members and getting along with everyone. She told us she really wants to be a better mother and wants us to talk to her husband but he won't receive us :/ but we are still trying don't worry haha. She came to all 3 hours of church! This was a miracle for us :)

I think I might of shared a story about this family that we are working with right now that are getting married to be baptized. Wow I love this family! They are so animated for this gospel and they came to church with white shirts and ties this last sunday and it was so great to see them all together and smiling. The father wants us to visit his family everyday he's so funny haha when we do visit them all of the family pays attention and they have great questions that shows they really want to learn. They always testify that what we taught them is true right after we teach it! And they invite friends over to hear us and they are already trying to be member missionaries haha! This family I will remember for my entire life.

I'm sorry I didn't have any funny or crazy experiences to share this week, too busy dying from food poisoning haha I'm just joking but I love you guys! Thanks for your prayers!

-Elder Sessions

San Pedro Sula Week 6

Eating soup of the sea....crab, fish, shrimp yayayaya
(the one food he was dreading eating)

 Family!

Yay P-day! I love being able to see how you are all doing! Had an interesting week here in La Smith. I cant believe I've already been here for a change! My comp has a change so I get my new comp this Wednesday! :). It rained a tonnn this week which was so nice to have some cold air in the nights. Oh and we also had interviews this week with President Dester! He really is such an amazing guy. I am so blessed to have him as my president for the 2 years im here! He really inspires us and gets us animated for the work.

We had something super crazy happen this week in our area. The majority of our area is nice houses and cement streets. We have one area that is just dirt roads and is more of a poor area and we were there one day going to teach a lesson. When all the sudden 15 horses started to stampede down this little road full of people. There were a ton of little kids playing in the street and in like two seconds we ran and grabbed 3 little kids and rushed them over to the side of the road right has the crazy horses ran by! It was insane! We were so lucky to be walking towards them and saw them sooner. The mother of the kids took our pamphlet  and we got a appt. with her next week so thats cool how it all worked out! crazy honduras horses...

We were visiting this part member family this week and the father and son are getting baptized later this month and we had an awesome experience with them. After one lesson the son told us he has been seeing things in the house like dark beings and has had weird feelings and they they started once he started taking the lessons from us. And at first I thought he was going to say that it was because we don't have the true church and it was a sign not to listen to us. But he told us it was Satan trying to pull them away from the church and he told us he is going to push forward and get baptized! We got to dedicate the house after and that was also a very cool experience. 

I am so glad I have the examples of my parents to teach the importance of the sabbath day because here in honduras....no oneeee follows it...everyone buys things at the store and stuff and they try to hide from us in the street when we walk by and they have their bags from the store haha its funny sometimes to hear their excuses but really its sad. It's more of a culture thing then a commandment here! But its something we are working on with the ward. But we were able to have a baptism this week of 2 kids of a family that is getting reactivated! really great to see the change in their lives and to see their testimony grow.

Have a great next week I love you guys!

-Elder Sessions

baby drinking pepsi in a bottle...

cool silver dudes that didnt move!

cool silver dudes that didnt move!

San Pedro Sula Week 5

Hey gringos

What a great week right?! You guys look like you are having a blast-that's awesome! One thing I realized is that this will be the first year I don't get to wear a halloween costume...sad right? This is the time when a boy becomes a man haha. This week was good but I was super sick off and on. It was rough because I never felt like eating but then later I wanted to buy like 10 baleadas (burrito things). Today we played soccer with 2 zones and that wasn't a good idea because now I feel super sick! Life in Honduras...

today playing soccer with 2 zones!

I have been studying Preach My Gospel a lot more lately and it has been a great blessing for me. I've realized I am so blessed to be a missionary in this time! The old missionary handbook was great and really worked for that time but now the world is different. One thing I love about PMG and something that President Dester talks a lot about is our job is to get people converted to the gospel and not just baptized. We have hundreds of inactive families in our areas that have fallen away for some reason or another and I love getting the chance to help them receive blessings the Lord has for their family. We have a couple families that are preparing to go to the temple now and to see the change and joy they have in their families is worth it all. Love this work!

We were able to get in contact with a family this week that is very prepared for the gospel. The mother is a member but hasn't gone to church since she was baptized at age 13. The husband is really really really excited for this gospel and already has a strong testimony and we love seeing his enthusiasm! They also have a 14 year old son that is a genius and understands everything. They all went to conference and had a great experience and are going to be baptized in a couple of weeks. One problem we had was that the parents aren't married and when we asked the mother what she thinks about that she said,"I told myself I would never get married to this man, never never, but if it means he can get baptized then yes we will get married" I was just like WHATTTT this neverrrrr happens! I have taught sooo many people to get married and not one has done it....it was a miracle! They are getting married this week! wooo yaaaaa!

How amazing was conference right? So many great lessons to be learned. I loved how the general authorities could speak in their native language! 2 talks in spanish ya ya! I loved on sunday how three talks in one session talked about the importance of following the prophet. Then when the prophet spoke he talked about following the Savior! Really powerful talk from President Monson. I love how he talks about the life of the Savior a lot and uses scriptures from the New Testament showing his love and mercy for all of us. I was able to watch all of conference in english so that was a huge blessing! I would love to hear about your guys experiences from conference so please write me about them! 

Enjoy your guys week and be a member missionary! love ya!

-Elder Sessions

eating at dennys after conference!

in front of the huge catholic church in the center of SPS.

making baleadas with a family!