Hola familia y amigos!
Well this week has been good, it’s just been super hot…it’s unbelievable. My area is all dirt so it just makes it even hotter and some days are just terrible, and lately it has been raining at night, and then it’s sunny during the day, so all the pooled water just adds to the heat.
This week has been good though, I kind of feel bad because when we teach I don’t feel like I leave my comp enough time to talk. Sometimes he wants to say something and when he doesn’t is when I ask him to share something. I just feel a little out of it being with someone that has less time than me. I’m still getting used to it, but we should get it fixed. The Multizona we had was really good, even though as of late we as a mission haven’t been doing so well. A lot of people have music, DVD’s, all sorts of stuff they shouldn’t have, so we were supposed to hand over anything that could impede us from working. President talked about 4 types of missionaries, the disobedient rebellious one, the disobedient one, the obedient one but that doesn’t have his heart in it, and the obedient one that puts everything he has into the work. It was a really good capacitation and he committed all the areas to do better and to baptize more, so hopefully we can step up the work.
There is an interesting story that I have failed to mention before. When I first got here we went and visited an inactive member that got deported from the states. He is really cool, speaks English, but he has had a really tough life, lots of family problems, especially with his wife. They both are members and he had been involved in drugs, alcohol, his wife cheated on him, it was all a really big mess, and because of the pain he did the same, out of anger. He told us that he just felt really bad. We have tried getting him to church, to pray, to tell his wife, everything, and one visit we were sitting there listening to him and an idea popped in my head to give him a blessing. Right after that thought came in my comp asked him if he wanted one, and he said yes. So we gave him a blessing and afterward he said he felt like something had left him. The next visit I was on divisions in another area and Elder Elison came to see him and he told them that he started praying, that ever since the blessing he has felt so much better. We saw him on Sat. and he told us that he told his wife and that he felt all this pressure just leave him. His wife of course was upset, but now she is trying to help him and it’s incredible to see him progress. Before he would complain about everything and now he jokes and smiles more and it’s great to see him getting better.
We have had some investigators that are progressing really well too. Elvin, a black guy we contacted, has had family problems and he feels changed now that we are teaching him. We left him the BoM to read and he read 10 chapters and asked for more material to study! We took him to stake conference this week and he enjoyed it, even though 2 members were talking with him in the middle, but he enjoyed it. We also have Darwin, who went to church just to go in Comayagua, but the missionaries never taught him, and he read as well from the BoM and really enjoyed it. We have yet to go back with him because he has working conflicts, but we have them and others. We have been trying to contact a lot to get new people and hopefully we can get a few of the others married and baptized. We are already halfway through the change, it’s pretty crazy! Hopefully we can get some more baptisms while we are here. I hope everyone back home has a great week and that abuela does well with her surgery!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Neher
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