Mason's letter -- February 8, 2010

Family,

Thanks for all your letters this week. Sounds like the family is doing as good as always. This week was really good for me. All 3 of our baptisms went through on Saturday and they all got confirmed yesterday. One of the baptisms had to get interviewed by the stake president, but she passed and was baptized. All 3 of them have really changed their lives around a lot. 

The baptisms were kind of stressful though, we didn’t have enough clothes for them, so we had to find some clothes at like the last second. Also it was raining so we had to go run around and pick up the girls because they didn’t want to walk. So the program started like 45 minutes late, but it was all good. We are working hard to baptize a lot of people this month.

Oh also, changes are this Wednesday and I wanted to stay because we have a lot of people that we are preparing right now. So we found out this morning that I am staying and so is Elder Brown. So we have another change together.

The goal for the mission this month is to baptize a family. We found a family last month and they are our focus this month for baptism. They are really cool and really like the church. They seem to be amazed with missionary work and think it's incredible. So they invited us over to lunch yesterday after church (yes I know it was fast Sunday, but we had to take their invitation, so we are fasting today). 

E Brown and I were saying yesterday that they are basically already a Mormon family. We got there and we played Monopoly with their kids while we waited for the food. He then brought us out an appetizer while we played. They are a really tight and unified family. We are going to challenge them to be baptized this next week I think. The kids really like going to all the church activities and cry if they cant go. So… yeah, we will baptize them.

We are also working with 2 other couples. One couple we just are still waiting for their papers from Tegucigalpa. We asked for papers from there a long time ago and still we haven’t got anything. So this week a general authority that lives here in ceiba is going to call them for us and get the papers going.

The other couple is really fighting against us for baptism. Her mom is really catholic and is feeding her bad information. So they stalled on progression this week, but that’s the work.  If they don’t progress we have to move on and find others that will. But we will work a little more with them this week and give them a chance because it was a member reference. 

The rest of the week was just a lot of preparing the 3 people for baptism. We had to teach them a lot because all 3 of them accepted the baptismal dates like the first time we taught them. 

Yesterday we had a little adventure. We went back to the house last night to get a dvd and stuff to watch with a member. On the way we met a crazy drunk guy who stopped us and said he was going to kill his girlfriend. We tried to talk him out of it, but he was crazy like I said so we left him alone. I hope I saved his girlfriend's life haha. 

Then on the way to the member's house we always have to cross a bridge. Well we got to the bridge and there was a ton of people on it. So we went to cross and I could tell something crazy was going down. We got on the bridge and we saw what was happening. A team of horses had tried to cross the bridge, which is made of ghetto wood and has like 6 inch gaps. I guess a car was following them and they got scared and one of the horse's legs slipped through the gaps of the bridge. So both his legs on his right side just snapped in half. When we got there they were trying to saw out chunks of the bridge to get his legs loose because they were stuck. So there was a bunch of people trying to hold him down and stuff. A few times he freaked out and kicked all the little latins off him. Haha they almost flew into the river. But finally they got him loose and dragged him off the bridge. His legs were just completely shattered. It was really sad and crazy.

But that’s my week. I love you all.
Elder Mason Cardon