Hey guys, it's been while and a lot has happened in that time. I'm doing good out here in Honduras! It's definitely going by slow, but I know it will speed up in a few weeks, I think. Anyway, the flight here was so sketchy but I made it. It's beautiful here!
I went to the mission home first thing and met the mission pres. He only speaks Spanish though, so my interview was a little bit of death. I met my new comp. His name is Elder Valadez. He's from Mexico and is 19. He's super chill and guess whatt? He speaks English!!! I will be here in the Catacamas area for 3 months during my training under my Jedi master. It's 4 hours away from Tegucigalpa and it's pretty dope. There are mountains surrounding me, but it's flat in between. It is a pueblo area, which means there's a bunch of cute little houses aronde and the roads are dirt. My house is 1000 degrees at all times and it has a prison door in the front. The people here are reeaally nice. Every night outside our house there are some crazy evangelical preachers that yell to a bunch of people so it's a little hard to sleep sometimes. I don't understand much of anything people say to me and I answer a lot of questions wrong, but people always think I'm from Spain because my accent is pretty good. I sleep on a mattress on the floor and luckily we have fans that we plug in by our beds. I take an ice cold shower every morning. We have a pet spider in our shower. He is always there to say hi to us. I've been learning a lot out here, pretty fast too. I can contact and teach some parts of the lessons. I actually asked two people to be baptized and they both said yes!!! We don't get bikes, so we have to walk a tooon. The food is pretty good, except I filled up on Oreos before a meal and I had to eat dinner right after at a member's house. Death mistake. We stayed there for a loooong time so I could finally finish my meal. It was embarrasing. I kind of wanted to sneakily throw my food to the chickens or dogs that roam the streets here. I've been eating baleadas, tacos, chicken tenders, chocolate milk, and soda. Some sketch thing happened. We were getting a taxi to get here in the first place to Catacamas. We were walking in Tegucigalpa, with my suitcases, in our church clothes (in the most ghetto place you've ever seen) looking for a taxi. Some bro comes skidding in, hops out of his car without a shirt on, and starts throwing my bags in, so we just let him take us. Also, we locked our keys in our house so we said a prayer and about 2 minutes after a dude came and opened the door to the complex. Our door is another door after that. We were sketched because we didn't want to sleep on the road. We said another prayer and the same dude comes out with a flashlight to help us see into our our house. We grabbed a long stick and stuck it through the window and pushed the lever open and got in. Apparently that guy is only at his house once a month. I think that was a miracle. I've been drinking water out of bags and chocolate milk too ha, ha. It's actually really good. Maracuja is the best juice I've ever had in my liffe!!! Tons of people turn the front of their houses into little store snack shack things called pulperias, and that is their job. I buy a lot of stuff from there like malteadas de leche, or chocoleyde, to be specific, and chokies-- chips o' hoy bacically. It's crazy how people live here. It's sooo hot, hottest place in the mision. A lot of people don't have doors and there aren't any street signs, so we have to remember certain objects to know where we are out here. Everybody rides motorcycles here and they haul and honk a lot to make sure no one runs in front of them. Also, I can finally buy a pillow today! I've been living off a pequeno, ratty pillow I bought on the first day in the nastiest store alive! Well, I had to randomly go up in sacrament meeting and talk for 2 minutes with no warning. I just said some stuff about me and bore my testimony and it went good. We have an investigator, Nayeli. She's 17 and has a baby. We invited her to go to church because if she goes she can be baptised. She didn't show up, but my comp said a prayer to himself and a few minutes later she walked in. Man, the Lord is blessing us out here. I forgot to say, but in the night the power in the city randomly just goes out and its soooo sketchy. It reminds me of that one movie. Anyway, I want to share something about happiness from the Liahona this month. The only way to find true happiness is through the gospel. Happiness comes to us when we least expect it, so we always need to be striving to live like Christ and the Lord will give us happiness. I don't think God intends to give us happiness 24-7 because we need some unhappiness to appreciate the good. Read Mosiah 2: 41. It's pretty good. This life is a quest for eternal happiness and the only way to achieve it is through the gospel. Something different happens every day and I'm excited to see what's next for me out here. Loove you guys! Elder Sullivan
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AuthorElder Christian Sullivan Archives
July 2019
CategoriesComayaguela, Honduras Mission
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