Naco Week 15

Hey fam!

Kind of a busy week! Tuesday we had a multi- zone conference and it was great to see alot of friends. Then on Saturday we got to hear from President Nelson who was in the Capital! It was so cool to hear his stories! He was HILARIOUS. He would call up some Elders and just make fun of them it was great. He said that we need to have the gospel in our bone marrow. Then he said, so when we give a bone transplant its like spreading the gospel hahahha it was so funny. At that conference I got to see everyyonneeeee it was so nice!

Elder Ambler!

With Elders Porter and Dye

One night I was sleeping and woke up to a spider biting me on my hand! for 2 days my hand was all puffy and red and it itched like crazy! But it finally went down so I'm good now but it was pretty sketch because the spider was HUGE.

I was able to do divisions with the Elders in San Marcos which is forever away so that was also a fun experience! 

Divisions with Elder Quiros who is from Bolivia

Really that's alllll about that happened.....sorry....just alot of contacting and trying to find men! On Sunday we gave talks, taught the gospel principles class, and gave a lesson to everyone in the 3rd hour alllll about missionary work! It was alot of talking but it really helped everyone understand their role in the work and we got everyone pumped so we will see  how these weeks go! Love you guys have a great week!

-Elder Sessions

Lunch with Sadyn and some members

I just had to take a pic with my best friend Taylor Swift!

Naco Week 14

Andrea and Daniel

Hola Family!

Pretty great week! Also a little stressful. A little bit of everything! Honestly time is just flying by with Elder Coniam. Always a funny comment coming out of his mouth to make me laugh. Not a whole lot to comment on this week but really just walking and teaching you know how it goes! Contacting is not very effective here so we rely on references like crazy. But Hondurans are naturally so shy so its hard to get them out of their comfort zones. But they are starting to trust us more so we will see how it goes!

Really funny experience this week! We were teaching a family outside their house and it was going great. She was cooking chuleta( like fried pig) for us and it was in the kitchen on a plate and all the sudden we hear a CRASH and a dog runs out with a huge piece of meat in his mouth! He ate all of them and the last one made the plate fall! The worst part was he came back like 10 minutes later to see if there was more hahaha it was hilarious!

Well Andrea(15) and Daniel(12) were able to get baptized this week and they were so happy! They have been waiting for a long time now and they noticed a big change in their lives! Sadyn is doing great and her testimony is growing everyday. Little bits of challenges but she is still excited for her baptism! 

Well I just have lots pics this week soooo have a great week love you guys!

-Elder Sessions

Activity with the church and they had cake afterwards!

Andreas birthday and we go tto fill her face with flour and eggs but that is tradition so don't get mad at me! 

Birthday cake and dinner

Divisions with Elder Paraso from Utah!

Masapan-it's like a potato

Putting up the sign for our church--epic!!

Naco Week 13

Hey Family!

Pretty awesome week! A lot of success which is just a great feeling. We got a new record of people at church! 54 people! and 9 of our investigators showed up so that was so amazing to see their desire to learn more. Here in Naco I've come to notice that the church is just attacked and attacked and the people who talk to us or who receive us or come to church, get hazed or made fun of. It's really sad but it really shows who the courageous ones are! This last week we had a couple problems with internet pages that were against the church and we lost a lot of great investigators. :( It's pretty sad but maybe with time they will come to realize the truth.

We were able to help again get and chop firewood for the activities the church is doing! We got to help sell the bread and other typical Honduran foods! November they are going to the temple so it's to save for the bus! So our job is to find everyone we can to fill that bus up!

Our investigator Deña is so great and she's is a huge example for her family! They don't want her to get baptized but she told us that she doesn't listen to them and she knows this is the true church! The only problem is that she lives right next to the bishop....over an hour walking to the middle of nowhere haha. We have to do it a lot and it's always a funny experience. Everyone just stares at us like wild animals because they haven't seen missionaries before! But if all goes well she will get baptized with Sadyn this week! For an activity in church Sadyn was challenged to give a B.O.M. to a friend and she found this guy named Arnold and he seems so prepared! Investigators finding investigators!

This last week was changes but I lucked out and me and Coniam are still together! I'm the district leader of 8 missionaries and they are all so great! The only problem is that they live like forever way. This with be a change of success! Some times it seems we have so many challenges or problems and really they end up being so small and we can find the hand of the Lord helping us everyday. I Love being a missionary and helping people come unto Christ!

Love you guys!

-Elder Sessions

Hermana Hilda is the best!

Just taking the bike for a spin...

My shoes are falling apart!

Walking the Long and Dusty road!

Naco Week 12

Yummy tacos!

Family!

Great to see everyone at home doing good! I just got done playing soccer again! I know...I know... shocker Elder Sessions playing soccer. Well this Zone has nothing else to do! But the other missionaries are homies so we get along great. 

I'm not going to butter up this week because honestly it was a little challenging haha. We still had some great experiences and I really feel like we were guided by the spirit!

So remember how I was kinda making a joke about the other missionaries that got robbed? Welllllll karma came back to me. People broke into our house! Pretty strange because Naco is suppose to be chill.... Well they broke off the front lock with a hammer and flat head screw driver then went around back and smashed down the back door! They robbed us at like 3 or 4 in the afternoon! Like how does that even happen?! Well we were reallyyyy blessed because we decided not to take out money until today! They only took a little bit of my money, some memories with gospel talks and stuff,  and my little speaker to listen to music. Elder Coniam didn't luck out as much and really got a lot taken. Those guys are really lucky I didn't catch them because I would have given them so many pamphlets...

This Sunday I had the chance to bless a baby! Wow what a cool experience. His name is Jadyn and he's a cutie! The family is really special for the missionaries and the dad we have been teaching for a while and he's been progressing alot! Practice for the future right? ;)

So Sadyn is doing fantastic. We have decided to push the date a little father back just to give her a little more time to prepare. She had a really hard week with people judging her for reading the Book of Mormon at work and by herself she had to defend herself against a jehovah's witness, a Catholic and a Evangelis. She said her best friends turned their backs on her and really it made me think about how blessed we are to be members of this church and not have hate for ANYONE! No one can judge someone trying to get themself to God. Sadyn is strong and says her testimony hasn't wavered! She says there is power in the Book of Mormon!

The bishops family gave us a reference of a lady named Deña. Bishop's family says they have been praying for missionary experiences and the next day Deña showed up and said she wanted to go to church with them! Such a great testimony of prayer and missionary work! She has a date for this 15th and she is progressing alot!

Well hope you all pray for missionary experiences and have a great week!

-Elder Sessions

Naco Week 11

Hey family!

Finally I'm able to write! Power has been out and it keeps going out and coming back. Hope this makes it to you guys. Played some soccer today so that was fun! I got like a year of playing and still get schooled by 13 year olds. It's all good cause I'm gonna keep practicing. 

Interesting week! The lights have been going out a lot at nighttime so sleeping has been hard...sweating to death! Besides that we had a great week! Really had some amazing lessons and people are progressing! It's funny our investigators are more active than most of the members! They always come to activities and are at church on time! It's been a great blessing.

Funny story! Wellllll for me at least. So I was on divisions in a different area and when we got back to their house after working we noticed that they had been robbed! An elder was like "hey have you seen my camera" and another was like "all my money is gone" and the other said "They stole all my gum!" like a bunch of 11 yr olds got into the house! They hardly robbed anything and the Elders were all laughing and was like "I'm not going to sleep tonight". Honduras is sketch sometimes.

We were able to help Sadyn take out some walls in her house and dug holes for some posts for a new fence! It was a great time! It felt so cool destroying stuff. The young boy coming out. But Sadyn is seriously the best! We had an activity Sunday about missionary work and she bore her testimony with everyone about the church and helping others find the gospel I was just like open jawed... she's going to be great for Naco! Her baptism is next week so if all goes well we will have a great day Saturday!

I don't have lots of time so I'll put the other stories in next weeks letter! Have a great week!

-Elder Sessions

Wednesday Night Activity

Naco Week 10

Hey Family!

Really long week this week! I don't know if it was the heat or the walking all day but overall busy busy week. We had interviews with President Dester and that's always nice. He really knows how to talk to us and is a really loving guy. A couple good days this week and a couple so-so days! On Saturday I was so stoked because every hour was full with a set appt and we had a couple members that were going to help us. Well it didn't turn out how we wanted.....There was some huge accident in San Pedro and since there is only a one lane road that goes all through Honduras, traffic was backed up for hoursssss. Everyyyyy single appt fell through because they all work in San Pedro or go there for errands. It was so annoying to change plans but it got better when we were able to find some new familyies to teach. The Lords has his own time frame I guess!

Sadyn is doing sooooo great. She is one of those golden investigators that everyone prays for! Anything we give her to read she reads and really studies! During church and our lessons she takes notes and I have noticed a huge change in her life. They are shutting down the plant where she works at and she tells me, " Elder don't worry I'm only looking for job where I don't have to work Sundays" I was just blown away! Because the people that work on Sundays get a lot more money so it's a huge sacrifice. I dont know if you remember Olga but she and Sadyn are homies so that really helps.

Our best friend - Sadyn's little girl

Remember the Hermana Gloria that left to Costa Rica? Well we have taught her daughter who is 20 he name is Kelly and she is getting baptized in August! She is awesome and really loves the church. But she lives in San Pedro in a different ward The other 2 kids that Gloria has, Andrea and Daniel, as well will get baptized with her! They come to church every week and have grown so much in the gospel. They constantly tell us about how the church helps them not fight as much and how happy they are now! 

So everything is going normal here you could say I hope you all have a great week! Thank you for the prayers!

-Elder Sessions

Honduran logic - using a knife to hand up the curtain!

The power went out=Baleadas for dinner

Naco Week 9

Hey everyone!

Well this week's letter is going to be a little different. Honestly don't have a tonnnn to say but over all it was a good week. It was a little rough through the days because any appointment that we had set for the day with someone fell through. I really can't think of any appointments that didn't fall through!  So it was a lot of contacting. Alllll day. We took time to know more of our areas and talk to people that have never seen missionaries so that was nice. Hard to get people to progress without the help of members but we are trying our best!

Sunday was actually the best day because our attendance went from 20-25 to 50! It was great to see so many investigators and less active people come to church. We ran out of chairs but that's a whole different problem haha. Sergio came to church which was a huge blessing! He loved it and got along really well with the members. Katy, well her real name is Sadyn so I'm going to call her that now... is so amazing! She is going through some really hard trials but keeps on going! She loves the church and already has a lot of friends! Great Blessings! well I hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Sessions

On divisions with Elder Ruiz

Baby birds in a nest on our porch

This water has gone bad...I think...