Familia!!
Como estamos?? Well so my week
was about as normal as a normal week can be. We are still working hard. Even
when its hard to work hard, we are working hard. There has been a drastic
change in temperture. Last week was cold, well this week has been very hot. The
sun has been shining very strong. Looks like ill be coming home as a burnt
tomato hahaha. The branch president has been telling me that i need to by some
bags of ice my last week, and that i need to make a scarf of ice to help me
adjust to the cold hahaha no.
So on tuesday we had a zone
conference. The mision is taking as a slogan for this next year, A Change of
Heart. President Ferman desires that we have a mighty change of heart, and that
we then go and change the hearts of the Hondurans. I aprove the message. Other
news, here in campamento there is a ton of kids who every night play soccer in
the church. The majority are not members. We have been playing and teaching
them in this past week. yesterday a few of the kids who arent members came to church.
It was good.
Reflective moment. well we have
an investagator named Ariel. He came to church last week and has been
progressing a whole lot. His wife is a member. They just lack the marrige, and
then right into the baptism water he goes. Wellllll... this past week a self
inflicted wound was opend up to us. Ariel told us that he is in debt the
equivilnce of 500 dollars to a bank for the use of a credit card. In Honduras,
500 dollars is a ton of money. They live poor as it is, and they cannot pay marrige
fee until they pay the debt. I have learned a valuable leson about the monster
that is debt. The debt that Ariel has literaly is impeding him from spiritually
progresing. He can not make a baptismal covenant untill he is married, and he
can not be married untill he is out of debt. He is having to make some heavy
sacrifices to free himself. He is enroled as a military reserve, and as a
reserve he has his milatary fund. Well he has 300 dolars in his fund. He is
having to use all his funds to cover the debt. If he would leave his funds in
his acount, it would grow trememdously in 5 10 years. He is sacrificing a nice
pillow in the future to save his debt. He also has a motercycle that is his
only way of transportacion. He has to sell his motorcycle to make up for that
missing part. I feel like un needed debt is a terrible thing. I feel like I
need to do all I can do to avoid debt, because I have seen firsthand how debt
affect one temporaly, emotionaly, and spiritualy.
Well the work continues..
3 Weeks..
Love ya
Elder High