Mason's letter -- Feb 22, 2010

Hola familia,

What's up? How is everything in the valley? No mom I haven’t gotten any of the packages yet, but I'm hoping I will get them this Thursday at the multi-zone conference. That’s the beauty of living in La Ceiba, you only get mail twice a change. 

My Spanish is coming along good. I still have a ton to learn but I don’t worry about it anymore. I can understand basically every single thing people say now and I can communicate with everyone. I even confirmed the little girl we baptized and gave her the Holy Ghost in church yesterday. I just have to keep studying vocabulary and stuff but it's coming. 

Well this week was a pretty normal one. We just got done playing soccer on the beach again and once again the gringos beat the Latins. I'm proud to be an American. I'm going to miss this area when I leave, it's sweet. We had our 2 baptisms this week in the ward in Independencia, just 2 little kids. The one little 12 year old girl was almost too embarrassed to come out of the bathroom in her white clothes. So the baptism started a little late but we got it done. 

Next week we can't baptize anyone because we have a special conference for Honduras. I guess the Prophet is going to talk just with Honduras, so that’s pretty cool and I'm really looking forward to it. So we got 5 baptisms this month with only 3 Saturdays to baptize. That’s pretty good I think, our goal was 8 because we thought we were going to baptize the Martinez family. We have been working a lot with them still this week. We challenged them to be baptized on the 6th of March and they said they are going to pray about it. They said they might want some more time than that. So we will be praying hard for them because they are awesome. Yesterday like half the family went to church because like a cousin of theirs or something got killed on Saturday night, so they had been up and out all night figuring things out with the death. So Edgardo hadn’t slept all day and his eyes were all blood shot, but he still came to church. It was cool. 

We finally got to clean our house this morning, so now it is a lot better. We haven’t had water since last Sunday in the house, so we couldn’t do much this week. Every morning we had to carry our huge bucket to a extra storage of water that our landlord has and fill it up. So that was annoying, but I don’t understand why we didn’t have water because it rained almost all week.

Ingris still hasn’t returned from Tegucigalpa (the lady I gave the money to for the marriage). She said she's coming back tomorrow and I hope she is. So we should marry them this week and baptize them in March. 

That’s about it for this week. We are still working hard and being blessed.  I'm looking forward to Thursday to get some packages hopefully. I love you all.

Elder Mason Cardon