My new comp, Elder Young. Had 2 baptisms this week. I.... gulp... Dirigi the baptismal service. Sorry, the Spanish is getting too strong. The girl is named Jennifer and the boy is Albert. I was able to do an interchange this week with Elder Briggs one of the missionaries that came with me to Honduras. And guess what!? I did the interchange in one of my past areas... Tiloarque! I got to see a bunch of homies even some of my converts so it was fun experience. My comp and I have been working super good together and I'm honestly the happiest I've been so far in my mission. We've had so many spiritual experiences with our investigators and we're hoping to baptize more soon. I gave a talk in sacrament meeting on the atonement. I was able to learn and comprehend better the atonement because of that so I'm grateful. I talked about how we need to use the atonement in our lives. Each week we should take the sacrament being a better person than the week before that way we will know that we are applying the atonement in our lives. We can do this by repenting every single day and following the spirit just as the prophet has invited us to do. Peeeeeace out!
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I can see Las Mercedes, my second area from my window. I can see the house of Christopher but it's not in our zone so I can't go visit him. I got transferred kids! I'm in Mision Comayaguela, Zona Comayaguela, Area Comayaguela! This is my 3rd area in this same Zone but I'm stoked! Pradera and Tiloarque are both in this Zone. My new comp is Elder Young, from Riverton. He has 8 months in the mission. He's a super chill dude and weirdly reminds me of... ME! I also got Elder Briggs in my zone and this other bro from St. George! I'm happy and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna finish my mission like this. A lot happened this week let me tell you... On Wednesday we traveled back to my old area to give a capacitation in the church by the temple. It was a capacitation for the missionaries that are going to train new ones. We also had to do a an example of a companionship study. It was funny because I found my old district in the chapel having their district meeting. I got to eat Sopa de Garrobo! Thats iguana soup for those who don't know. Guuuulp... It was good!! We actually bought the soup because we really were interested in what it tasted like. If I could describe the meat.... it was like chicken but firmer and rubbery. I liked it though and I was hopping around like and iguana afterwards. I'm scared to tell you this but... we were headed to the house of a referral named Browli we had received from a recent convert. As we headed to knock the door there was a ripped tattooed man with his shirt off filling his outdoor pool he had set up in the street. He said "Hey! Don't go in there cause you'll just come out with the devil inside of you! I'm tellin you a Devil! I was weirded out but I forgot about it and we walked up the door. It was open and the recent convert came over to us. She's old about 60 something and she said Come on in! We went in and another lady came over but I've just gotta say I had a creepy feeling in there and these ladies look like straight up witches dude! The nose, the laugh, the creepy grin, everything! Anyway they were whispering and telling us that Browli was on the second floor in his room. The lady whispered the devil is up there. She said he looks like he's dead cause his chin hangs down. We heard some weird yelling sounds coming from upstairs. We kind of chuckled. Then the lady whispered Are you scared with a creepy smile? My comp and I BUUURSTED out laughing and we couldn't stop because we didn't realize what we had gotten ourselves into and plus you guys know that's my weakness. They started laughing with us and about 2 minutes later I finally controlled myself. We were ready to go up. One of the ladies walked slowly up the stairs and took the lock of the door and ran back down and said okay go ahead with creepy grin. I was sketched and asked her to go first. She said no way. I'm not going up there. There's a devil! You guys go! We went up the stairs and saw the door of Browlis's room opened. We walked sloooowly and we saw him! He was sitting on his bed with his back facing us. He was twitching and moving weirdly. I was sketched!! My comp asked how are you? He yelled really loud "I'm good, I'm okay, I'm veeeery goood!" I started laughing. We introduced ourselves and asked if we could talk to him. He turned around and his eyes were crrreeeeepy as if he was on some kind of drugs. He walked out of his room and we went on his balcony and sat down in some chairs. We tried sharing a message but he was trippin out saying how he didn't like our church. Some loud Jesus music turned on in the background and Browli started laughing creepily, so once again my comp and I started laughing so hard! I thought we were gonna be possessed or something if we didn't get out of there so we bailed. Not going back again. Sorry for such a long story. It's just that nothing crazy like that has happened in a while. We have great investigators here in the area. I'm excited to keep working with Elder Young. We already had many powerful spiritual lessons this week and I hope to baptize lots with him. Love you guys have a great week! Iguana Soup! Mexican tacos from last Monday. They were so good!!
Last week of the change went by fast! I'm still not sure what my changes are and I won't know until tonight. We had a baptism this Saturday! His name is Aaron. He's 9. His mom, Bessy, is going to get baptized soon. We just have to wait until she gets married to her boyfriend that's a member.
We had a really good lesson yesterday with a family we've been teaching. They are really poor and live in a small wooden house. The boyfriend's mom died when he was 5 so he grew up on the streets, but luckily he met his girlfriend who goes to a church so it took him off the wrong path and onto the right one. We taught them The Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a super spiritual lesson and they even said they felt peace and joy and that they felt like they were needing to hear our message all day. They are really interested and want to keep learning about the restored gospel. Well, that's all for this week. Love, Elder Sullivan The food trucks here are so good! This week passed by tooooo fast my friends. It was a week of pure meetings, interviews, interchanges and conference. I enjoyed conference a lot and everyone here is goin creg because they're gonna build a temple in San Pedro. That will be the second temple in Honduras.
I already was able to set new goals after listening to the advice that the speakers gave us. It was awesome because no one was assigned topics, instead they all prayed to receive revelation in order to know what to speak about. They really emphasized the importance of creating a spiritual shield from evil by living carefully and not casually the gospel. Also, the importance of making our homes refuges from the world where the Holy Ghost is always present. I'm even more grateful now that I live in Utah because its very difficult to put those things in practice with so many temptations and wickedness here. I challenge you guys to study the conference talks and set goals based on the revelation you receive. Have a good week kids! Well kids it was preeeeetty hot again this week and its only getting worse until May when the rainy season starts up again. We were able to find a few positive investigators to teach. One of them is a girl that's married to a member. He's been a member for 36 years but she hasn't been baptized yet. Allll of the missionaries have tried teaching her and she always has the same doubts and questions so she always says no to being baptized. Well, this week we went to visit her with the bishop and we shared the restoration with her. We then showed her a video on the Book of Mormon. It was the talk by Callister when he talks about Joseph Smith and how it was litteraly impossible that someone translate the Book of Mormon without the help of God. It turns out that that was the doubt shed had about the Book of Mormon, but after the video she said that we did what no other missionaries were able to do--answer her questions and clear up her doubts. We felt really good after the lesson we were in there from 730 to 10! We didn't even eat dinner but it was such a spiritual experience.
The Coronel Zuniga, he's a member in our ward invited us to eat breakfast in the tecnical school for the armed forces suuuuper coool. They served us so nicely. When we entered they led us to his office and said what would you like coffee or gatorade super cool. We ate on some doooope big plates in his really elegant office. When the coronel arrived everyone saluted him with their hand and bowed like they do in the army. Then he gave us a tour of the school. As we walked through the halls it was totally like a scene from star Wars!!! I'm SERIOUS! The coronel was like Darth Vader and the soldiers were like the clones because as we walked behind him if a soldier passed he'd have to salute him and bow and we passed like 5 people and they all did the same thing. Hahaha it made me laugh soo hard haha. I really thought he was gonna start force choking those dudes! Hope you have a good week! Elder Sullivan |
AuthorElder Christian Sullivan Archives
July 2019
CategoriesComayaguela, Honduras Mission
July 26, 2017-July 2019 Email: |