Going Out in White -- What a Way to Go!
The HOV concept taken to extreme!
.jpg)
About Me
.jpg)
- Mailing Addresses
- Mason is now home (on Thursday September 22, 2011) and not accepting letters in Honduras anymore :)
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Mason's Final Letter -- September 19, 2011
Hey,
This is my last email being a full time missionary. I feel normal, and not one bit weird. I don't think that it has hit me quite yet. It never does until after.
Well everything went well with the baptism of the family. It was awesome and a great way to finish the mission. Also Elder Jackson (my MTC comp and ZL) baptized a complete family on his last weekend, so that was cool for the both of us. I feel like we really helped the zone out a lot. We should get close to meeting our goal for the month in the zone...unfortunately some areas didn't contribute at all and didn't baptize a single soul.
Well since you all are wondering about my plans, i will give them to you....well I really haven't thought about too many details...just like long term goals. I'm kind of just going to go with the flow there and see what you guys want to do with me. Man, real life is so complicated. But I plan on waking up Friday morning bright and early and maybe going to a temple session....well that all depends on when I am getting released. But that's what I would like to do, and then go from there and spend some time with you all.
And yes, I need to go clothes shopping. My shoes are completely destroyed...you will see. So I will need something for Sunday. As for Saturday, I didn't know that Andersen was going to come up there, but that's awesome. I really don't know too much haha Sorry.
Oh, but yes I am planning on going to USU and living at home for the time being...I was thinking about living with Andersen but he ended up going to BYU. So I think I would start in January or whenever the semester starts. And I want to start working right away as well, maybe even get 2 jobs to have some extra money. So I will think about that as well. But I don't want to waste too much time just so you know.
Yesterday was cool, they threw me a surprise goodbye party in the church for all the members and stuff. They all went one by one in front and said good bye to me and thanked me, it was really cool and nice of them. The members here really love the missionaries. I feel good with the work I did here and I hope that it can continue to grow.
I am excited to see you all. I have been wondering if Brock and Ashley are going to be there. I guess I will find out, but I hope so. If not then I would like to get out there and visit them soon.
Well thats all. I love you all so much. See ya soon...(thats weird to say).
Elder Mason Cardon
This is my last email being a full time missionary. I feel normal, and not one bit weird. I don't think that it has hit me quite yet. It never does until after.
Well everything went well with the baptism of the family. It was awesome and a great way to finish the mission. Also Elder Jackson (my MTC comp and ZL) baptized a complete family on his last weekend, so that was cool for the both of us. I feel like we really helped the zone out a lot. We should get close to meeting our goal for the month in the zone...unfortunately some areas didn't contribute at all and didn't baptize a single soul.
Well since you all are wondering about my plans, i will give them to you....well I really haven't thought about too many details...just like long term goals. I'm kind of just going to go with the flow there and see what you guys want to do with me. Man, real life is so complicated. But I plan on waking up Friday morning bright and early and maybe going to a temple session....well that all depends on when I am getting released. But that's what I would like to do, and then go from there and spend some time with you all.
And yes, I need to go clothes shopping. My shoes are completely destroyed...you will see. So I will need something for Sunday. As for Saturday, I didn't know that Andersen was going to come up there, but that's awesome. I really don't know too much haha Sorry.
Oh, but yes I am planning on going to USU and living at home for the time being...I was thinking about living with Andersen but he ended up going to BYU. So I think I would start in January or whenever the semester starts. And I want to start working right away as well, maybe even get 2 jobs to have some extra money. So I will think about that as well. But I don't want to waste too much time just so you know.
Yesterday was cool, they threw me a surprise goodbye party in the church for all the members and stuff. They all went one by one in front and said good bye to me and thanked me, it was really cool and nice of them. The members here really love the missionaries. I feel good with the work I did here and I hope that it can continue to grow.
I am excited to see you all. I have been wondering if Brock and Ashley are going to be there. I guess I will find out, but I hope so. If not then I would like to get out there and visit them soon.
Well thats all. I love you all so much. See ya soon...(thats weird to say).
Elder Mason Cardon
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Some New Pics! -- Bautista Family Baptism, Etc.
Service With A Smile
Missionary Horeseplay
A Beautiful Day for a Beautiful Family
Monday, September 12, 2011
Mason's Letter -- September 12, 2011
Hey everyone,
Well this is my last full week in the mission field. I feel normal and actually I don't think it has hit me yet that all of this will soon come to an end. I'm so thankful that I could serve here in Galeras and meet these wonderful people. I have been too busy to be able to think about home. Also I don't want to talk about it to my comp and rub it in his face because I don't want him to get too homesick. So all that helps me to keep focused and working hard.
Mom, I found your package this week. Apparently Pres Veirs was going to bring it to me, but left it in a chapel about 5 hours away from here...good one Pres. So I heard a few rumors that some bishop had my package so I made a few calls and found it. Now my zone leaders have it and I should get it tomorrow. So it got to me before I left the mission...thanks mom!
This week we had our baptism of the Bautista family. They were so excited all week and it was probably the most spiritual baptismal service that I have ever been to. We prepared everything really well. I bought a cake, and there was some good member support. The sad thing was that the branch Pres couldn't make it...so we were the only priesthood present, so the elders from the other area here had to stay and be the witnesses. But it was super awesome and afterward sister Bautista shared a powerful testimony. I felt so happy that we got everything worked out with them. Unfortunately the husband had to work and leave town, so he didn't show up and couldn't go to church. We are still working with him, but he's still a little bit hard. I feel like I have really made a connection with him, and his wife says that he respects me a lot. So that has helped to break the barrier.
Our other family will be baptized this weekend...my last baptisms...and a complete family. That will be awesome. But our goal is 8 baptisms for this month and we have been working hard towards it, and we still need 2 more. So we prayed for that, and got a reference this week that we put a date for the 24th of this month, and an 18 year old showed up to church Sunday that we had invited in the street on Saturday, and we put the baptismal date in the investigator class for the 24th as well and he accepted. So the Lord has blessed us to be able to get our goal this month. I know that it will get done, and I feel happy to leave the mission like this.
Also I feel happy this week because I found out that in the area that we worked in when I was AP, an investigator that we had got baptized on Saturday! Rodas and I had started to teach him, his wife is a member. So we started to work on him and it was really hard at first and he didn't want anything with us at all, and many times he wouldn't receive us. Then with Elder Lopez, we continued there, and one day he just came out of him room after rejecting us and said that he had a weird strong all of the sudden desire to listen to us. Every time after that he listened to us intently. However, we tried many times to get him to church and he kept saying that he didn't feel a desire yet and that one day he would go, and when he would go he would be there to stay. So we kept pushing him, and when I left the area he decided it was time and he went to church and got baptized.
I feel good because we tried so hard with him and kept being persistent, and the Lord changed his heart.
I'm excited for this week. I love this work and I don't know what I will do with out it. I wish I could do this for my whole life. And I suppose that I will, because it doesn't stop here.
Love Elder Mason Cardon
Well this is my last full week in the mission field. I feel normal and actually I don't think it has hit me yet that all of this will soon come to an end. I'm so thankful that I could serve here in Galeras and meet these wonderful people. I have been too busy to be able to think about home. Also I don't want to talk about it to my comp and rub it in his face because I don't want him to get too homesick. So all that helps me to keep focused and working hard.
Mom, I found your package this week. Apparently Pres Veirs was going to bring it to me, but left it in a chapel about 5 hours away from here...good one Pres. So I heard a few rumors that some bishop had my package so I made a few calls and found it. Now my zone leaders have it and I should get it tomorrow. So it got to me before I left the mission...thanks mom!
This week we had our baptism of the Bautista family. They were so excited all week and it was probably the most spiritual baptismal service that I have ever been to. We prepared everything really well. I bought a cake, and there was some good member support. The sad thing was that the branch Pres couldn't make it...so we were the only priesthood present, so the elders from the other area here had to stay and be the witnesses. But it was super awesome and afterward sister Bautista shared a powerful testimony. I felt so happy that we got everything worked out with them. Unfortunately the husband had to work and leave town, so he didn't show up and couldn't go to church. We are still working with him, but he's still a little bit hard. I feel like I have really made a connection with him, and his wife says that he respects me a lot. So that has helped to break the barrier.
Our other family will be baptized this weekend...my last baptisms...and a complete family. That will be awesome. But our goal is 8 baptisms for this month and we have been working hard towards it, and we still need 2 more. So we prayed for that, and got a reference this week that we put a date for the 24th of this month, and an 18 year old showed up to church Sunday that we had invited in the street on Saturday, and we put the baptismal date in the investigator class for the 24th as well and he accepted. So the Lord has blessed us to be able to get our goal this month. I know that it will get done, and I feel happy to leave the mission like this.
Also I feel happy this week because I found out that in the area that we worked in when I was AP, an investigator that we had got baptized on Saturday! Rodas and I had started to teach him, his wife is a member. So we started to work on him and it was really hard at first and he didn't want anything with us at all, and many times he wouldn't receive us. Then with Elder Lopez, we continued there, and one day he just came out of him room after rejecting us and said that he had a weird strong all of the sudden desire to listen to us. Every time after that he listened to us intently. However, we tried many times to get him to church and he kept saying that he didn't feel a desire yet and that one day he would go, and when he would go he would be there to stay. So we kept pushing him, and when I left the area he decided it was time and he went to church and got baptized.
I feel good because we tried so hard with him and kept being persistent, and the Lord changed his heart.
I'm excited for this week. I love this work and I don't know what I will do with out it. I wish I could do this for my whole life. And I suppose that I will, because it doesn't stop here.
Love Elder Mason Cardon
Monday, September 5, 2011
Mason's Letter -- September 5, 2011
Hey fam,
Well this week was a really good one. First off I will answer mom's questions though. Well, my comp Elder Peterson is from Orem Utah.... U-tard to the max. haha he is a good worker and is obedient. He struggles with talking to people and knowing what to say just in conversations. He can teach fine, and we have been practicing a ton every morning all of the lessons and I've been giving him a bunch of tips. When he teaches he never makes eye contact and fidgets a lot and says ummm like a billion times. So I've been helping him get rid of all of that. Some of it is just inexperience, and I hope I'm not too hard on him, but every time he says umm or fidgets while we are practicing I just give him a ¨beep¨ that means wrong (like in game shows and stuff).
He's been getting a ton better and I think one day he will thank me for it. My trainer never taught me how to teach or do stuff like that, so it will help him. Also I have been just throwing him into a bunch of situations. I make him start lessons and challenge people and start talking to people on the street, but he is never scared and he just does it. But sometimes he starts to talk to people and then doesn't know what to say and just sits there staring at the person and the person just stares at him and kinda looks at me like what is going on here. So I usually jump in, but he told me the other day that he doesn't want me to jump in so that he is forced to learn. But I like him and we get along, it's fun to train because he does everything I do, I mean everything. So I have to put a good example. We don't have a lot in common, he doesn't like sports and was just kinda into like books I think. But he has a ton of faith and will be blessed for his obedience and hard work.
And about that little kid. He's actually 24 years old. He's from Guatemala and he had some hormone problem when he was a kid, so he stopped maturing physically. He's fine now, but yeah he looks like he's 12. I'm sure he's had a hard time with it and it said in his carpeta that he was made fun of a lot. But he came to the mission and all the missionaries gave him a good welcome and we tried to make him like the star of the show, so it was cool.
About my birthday. Well I haven't got the package yet, hopefully tomorrow I will get it in our zone meeting. On my bday we just worked like normal. There aren't any restaurants here because we are in a little village. At the end of the day though our cook bought me a cake and they surprised me and threw confetti and stuff all over me, so that was nice. But I guess you can say it was my last crappy bday in Honduras haha jk. Serving the Lord is the best thing someone could do.
Ok, so this week we got our 2 families married. Our one fam was good to go cause we got the papers in on time, but the other fam wasn't so sure. But we pulled some strings in the municipality and got them married as well. It was a huge free wedding of like 34 couples...we were there from 2pm until 6 pm...and the power went out in the middle, so we were sweating our....heads off. So our one family will get baptized on Friday, but the dad of the fam is being difficult and there are some problems there, so he can't get baptized yet. And then the other fam will be on my last weekend here. Other than that we have a few more possibilities. We are working with a bunch of couples, but it seems to be that in every single couple that we have either the husband or the wife doesn't want to progress. so we are fighting there. But we continue to work.
I'm not baggie (trunky), but i do feel some anxiety about getting home and starting my life. I have made some goals and I think I know pretty much what is going to happen. But I don't want to talk too much about that. We still have work to do here, but making plans for the future is always good.
Thanks for everything, I love you all.
Elder Mason Cardon
Well this week was a really good one. First off I will answer mom's questions though. Well, my comp Elder Peterson is from Orem Utah.... U-tard to the max. haha he is a good worker and is obedient. He struggles with talking to people and knowing what to say just in conversations. He can teach fine, and we have been practicing a ton every morning all of the lessons and I've been giving him a bunch of tips. When he teaches he never makes eye contact and fidgets a lot and says ummm like a billion times. So I've been helping him get rid of all of that. Some of it is just inexperience, and I hope I'm not too hard on him, but every time he says umm or fidgets while we are practicing I just give him a ¨beep¨ that means wrong (like in game shows and stuff).
He's been getting a ton better and I think one day he will thank me for it. My trainer never taught me how to teach or do stuff like that, so it will help him. Also I have been just throwing him into a bunch of situations. I make him start lessons and challenge people and start talking to people on the street, but he is never scared and he just does it. But sometimes he starts to talk to people and then doesn't know what to say and just sits there staring at the person and the person just stares at him and kinda looks at me like what is going on here. So I usually jump in, but he told me the other day that he doesn't want me to jump in so that he is forced to learn. But I like him and we get along, it's fun to train because he does everything I do, I mean everything. So I have to put a good example. We don't have a lot in common, he doesn't like sports and was just kinda into like books I think. But he has a ton of faith and will be blessed for his obedience and hard work.
And about that little kid. He's actually 24 years old. He's from Guatemala and he had some hormone problem when he was a kid, so he stopped maturing physically. He's fine now, but yeah he looks like he's 12. I'm sure he's had a hard time with it and it said in his carpeta that he was made fun of a lot. But he came to the mission and all the missionaries gave him a good welcome and we tried to make him like the star of the show, so it was cool.
About my birthday. Well I haven't got the package yet, hopefully tomorrow I will get it in our zone meeting. On my bday we just worked like normal. There aren't any restaurants here because we are in a little village. At the end of the day though our cook bought me a cake and they surprised me and threw confetti and stuff all over me, so that was nice. But I guess you can say it was my last crappy bday in Honduras haha jk. Serving the Lord is the best thing someone could do.
Ok, so this week we got our 2 families married. Our one fam was good to go cause we got the papers in on time, but the other fam wasn't so sure. But we pulled some strings in the municipality and got them married as well. It was a huge free wedding of like 34 couples...we were there from 2pm until 6 pm...and the power went out in the middle, so we were sweating our....heads off. So our one family will get baptized on Friday, but the dad of the fam is being difficult and there are some problems there, so he can't get baptized yet. And then the other fam will be on my last weekend here. Other than that we have a few more possibilities. We are working with a bunch of couples, but it seems to be that in every single couple that we have either the husband or the wife doesn't want to progress. so we are fighting there. But we continue to work.
I'm not baggie (trunky), but i do feel some anxiety about getting home and starting my life. I have made some goals and I think I know pretty much what is going to happen. But I don't want to talk too much about that. We still have work to do here, but making plans for the future is always good.
Thanks for everything, I love you all.
Elder Mason Cardon
Monday, August 29, 2011
Mason's Letter -- August 29, 2011
Hey familia,
Well it has been another week for me in the mission. Things continue to be good. This week was full of some traveling, but we got a lot of good work in as well. my comp is progressing well, and his Spanish is really good. Yes we do pay the branch president's wife to make lunch and dinner for us. As for clothes, we are still trying to figure that out. Apparently the other elders had to wash their clothes by hand in the pila. I didn't want to do that haha, so for the first 2 weeks we gave our clothes to a neighbor lady who has a washing machine... but I feel bad asking her every week... so I think today will be by hand...bummer!
The branch is doing pretty good. We are really trying to work on getting more priesthood, basically its the branch pres and us. There are no other faithful priesthood holders. There are a few other men, but they just show up on Sunday and sit there and don't even participate and don't have callings.... they go from inactive to active every other week, and they are returned missionaries! So those are the challenges. After the priesthood class on Sunday (we give the priesthood and investigator classes) I asked one of the other priesthood holders to prepare the class for next week. So that should help a bit, and I told pres to make him the permanent teacher.
This Sunday was kind of crazy, our branch pres is way way good, but this week he accidentally slept in. Oops. So we got there early after getting some investigators and set it all up, and I didn't really know what he had planned, but I just made the agenda real quick and I knew who the speakers were (me and my comp). I was about to just start the meeting without him, and he finally showed up. So that was good.
This week on Tuesday we traveled to the zone meeting. It was pretty good. Unluckily the zone will only end with 5 baptisms this month, that's terrible. So we will turn September around. In our area we are positive in baptizing more than 8 people, so hopefully we can get the whole zone excited and working harder.
Wednesday we had the multi zone conference in San Pedro. It was way good and we felt the spirit really strongly. I loved just going to enjoy it instead of being super stressed out getting everything ready. All of us who are going home this change got to share our testimonies. That was weird being up there as the old ones of the mission.
The rest of the week we just worked really hard and normally. our one family is getting married tomorrow so hopefully that works out fine. They were going to get baptized this Saturday after the wedding... but yesterday they told us that their little boy turns 8 on the 11 of this month. So we will just wait until then to do the baptism and get the 3 of them instead of just 2. Awesome. The other family that we have will put their marriage papers in today and will get married next Monday and baptized on the 10th. Awesome as well. Right there we have 7 baptisms. Then we have a bunch of possibilities as well.
Last week we were contacting and we passed by some apartments and my comp thought we should go and contact there. So we went and talked to a man outside for a bit but he didnt listen to us so we kept moving. We were leaving the apartments but hadn't contacted one of the doors. Well at the end of the street my comp felt like we needed to go back and knock the last door. So we went back. It was a young family with one small child. The husband is from Colombia and speaks really weird. But they let us in and we shared a nice lesson. We didn't have much time so we put on appointment to return. Well we went back last week and they guy had read the whole pamphlet and had marked stuff he liked like the priesthood and stuff. Well he said he just needed more to read to find out if it was true. We went over the Book of Mormon and he was way stoked. They agreed to be baptized the 17th.
There is another family that we found that is really cool as well. We always pass by this one house and there are always a ton of people outside. Well every time we walk by all of them stare at us as we say hi and walk away. I just thought they thought I was cute (well I'm sure they do haha) but we finally decided to talk to them one day. They had told us that lately they have felt a strong impression that they need to look for something more and change their lives.... well they also agreed for baptism the 17th.
We found another man while looking for a less active. He walked by and we talked to him and he invited us over to his house. He had received the missionaries before and had the Book of Mormon. We challenged him to be baptized the 17th as well. He agreed and went to church as well with us yesterday.
We have another lady with her sister who we found like our first day here while contacting in the rain. She is progressing well, but isn't sure about marriage with the man that sort of lives with her. Well yesterday we had a powerful lesson on sacrificing our own desires to follow Christ. She said she felt an amazing feeling in her heart while we talked. Hopefully she makes a decision soon.
So there are people here that are ready. We have been finding them and challenging everyone to be baptized. I think we have challenged like 20 or more people lately. And we have felt the spirit strongly with many of them. I love this work and we will work hard for these last 3 weeks!!
Love Elder Mason Cardon
Well it has been another week for me in the mission. Things continue to be good. This week was full of some traveling, but we got a lot of good work in as well. my comp is progressing well, and his Spanish is really good. Yes we do pay the branch president's wife to make lunch and dinner for us. As for clothes, we are still trying to figure that out. Apparently the other elders had to wash their clothes by hand in the pila. I didn't want to do that haha, so for the first 2 weeks we gave our clothes to a neighbor lady who has a washing machine... but I feel bad asking her every week... so I think today will be by hand...bummer!
The branch is doing pretty good. We are really trying to work on getting more priesthood, basically its the branch pres and us. There are no other faithful priesthood holders. There are a few other men, but they just show up on Sunday and sit there and don't even participate and don't have callings.... they go from inactive to active every other week, and they are returned missionaries! So those are the challenges. After the priesthood class on Sunday (we give the priesthood and investigator classes) I asked one of the other priesthood holders to prepare the class for next week. So that should help a bit, and I told pres to make him the permanent teacher.
This Sunday was kind of crazy, our branch pres is way way good, but this week he accidentally slept in. Oops. So we got there early after getting some investigators and set it all up, and I didn't really know what he had planned, but I just made the agenda real quick and I knew who the speakers were (me and my comp). I was about to just start the meeting without him, and he finally showed up. So that was good.
This week on Tuesday we traveled to the zone meeting. It was pretty good. Unluckily the zone will only end with 5 baptisms this month, that's terrible. So we will turn September around. In our area we are positive in baptizing more than 8 people, so hopefully we can get the whole zone excited and working harder.
Wednesday we had the multi zone conference in San Pedro. It was way good and we felt the spirit really strongly. I loved just going to enjoy it instead of being super stressed out getting everything ready. All of us who are going home this change got to share our testimonies. That was weird being up there as the old ones of the mission.
The rest of the week we just worked really hard and normally. our one family is getting married tomorrow so hopefully that works out fine. They were going to get baptized this Saturday after the wedding... but yesterday they told us that their little boy turns 8 on the 11 of this month. So we will just wait until then to do the baptism and get the 3 of them instead of just 2. Awesome. The other family that we have will put their marriage papers in today and will get married next Monday and baptized on the 10th. Awesome as well. Right there we have 7 baptisms. Then we have a bunch of possibilities as well.
Last week we were contacting and we passed by some apartments and my comp thought we should go and contact there. So we went and talked to a man outside for a bit but he didnt listen to us so we kept moving. We were leaving the apartments but hadn't contacted one of the doors. Well at the end of the street my comp felt like we needed to go back and knock the last door. So we went back. It was a young family with one small child. The husband is from Colombia and speaks really weird. But they let us in and we shared a nice lesson. We didn't have much time so we put on appointment to return. Well we went back last week and they guy had read the whole pamphlet and had marked stuff he liked like the priesthood and stuff. Well he said he just needed more to read to find out if it was true. We went over the Book of Mormon and he was way stoked. They agreed to be baptized the 17th.
There is another family that we found that is really cool as well. We always pass by this one house and there are always a ton of people outside. Well every time we walk by all of them stare at us as we say hi and walk away. I just thought they thought I was cute (well I'm sure they do haha) but we finally decided to talk to them one day. They had told us that lately they have felt a strong impression that they need to look for something more and change their lives.... well they also agreed for baptism the 17th.
We found another man while looking for a less active. He walked by and we talked to him and he invited us over to his house. He had received the missionaries before and had the Book of Mormon. We challenged him to be baptized the 17th as well. He agreed and went to church as well with us yesterday.
We have another lady with her sister who we found like our first day here while contacting in the rain. She is progressing well, but isn't sure about marriage with the man that sort of lives with her. Well yesterday we had a powerful lesson on sacrificing our own desires to follow Christ. She said she felt an amazing feeling in her heart while we talked. Hopefully she makes a decision soon.
So there are people here that are ready. We have been finding them and challenging everyone to be baptized. I think we have challenged like 20 or more people lately. And we have felt the spirit strongly with many of them. I love this work and we will work hard for these last 3 weeks!!
Love Elder Mason Cardon
Monday, August 22, 2011
Mason's Letter -- August 22, 2011
Hey familia,
How is everyone doing? Thanks for all the e-mails... apparently everyone starts remembering you exist when it gets close for you to come home hahahaha totally joking. Well this week was a good one, we worked really hard and my comp is starting to get used to it all, even though he continually has diarrhea.... i just say ¨welcome to Honduras. there's nothing you can do about it. But he's hanging in there.
The work here continues to go forth. We have 2 families that will get married on the 30th (hopefully we can get all the paperwork done). So that will be 6 baptisms for the first week in September. It was cool because with the one family, the dad used to be kind of hard and put off by the gospel, but we have been working with him and gaining his confidence and the wife is super super faithful. she has been praying so that he listens, and he has and they decided to get married and we challenged him to baptism as well and he said yes. So that's awesome.
The other family went through a trial this week. The father used to be part of a gang when he was 15, so he has a bunch of tattoos. and only gang members have tattoos here and nobody will give you work or respect you if you have them. So he has had a struggle with that his whole life. But lately the cops have been abducting people with tattoos and killing them without any reason lately... well he got abducted this week and we were over at his cousin's house painting when they called to tell us the cops grabbed him while he was selling food house to house. Everyone freaked out and thought he would be killed. So they took his kids over to the police to prove that he wasn't a gangster, but the cops wanted to see his ID. Luckily I had his ID in my backpack to give to the Municipality for the wedding, so everything turned out fine and he was released.
We were supposed to have a baptism this last week but Satan got in the way and she couldn't get baptized, now she thinks that God didn't let her get baptized and that she shouldn't do it. So we will go with her tomorrow and see if she prayed and how she feels about it all. Hopefully that goes through on Saturday.
We continue to look for families. We have found a few more and are excited about that. the ZLs told me this week that the other elders said that here it was impossible to teach more than 3 lessons a day, and we have been doing an average of 7 per day. So I know that will help the work out a ton. we did an activity this week in a member's home and it turned out way good. Almost 30 members showed up with 5 investigators. That's like almost what they get out to church on Sunday haha. So we will do another activity here. We came up with some good games and the people loved them and went a little crazy.
We have gained the confidence of the branch president and he's excited about the work as well. It's amazing what a positive attitude can do. When I leave I hope Elder Peterson will have this type of mindset about the work and the area and from then on there should be positive feelings here and faith. I feel good here and feel like I'm working the best that I ever have, and am putting all the experience from my whole mission together. We are really being efficient. I love this work. It will be sad to finish and leave this great people. thanks for all your support and love.
Love Elder Mason Cardon.
How is everyone doing? Thanks for all the e-mails... apparently everyone starts remembering you exist when it gets close for you to come home hahahaha totally joking. Well this week was a good one, we worked really hard and my comp is starting to get used to it all, even though he continually has diarrhea.... i just say ¨welcome to Honduras. there's nothing you can do about it. But he's hanging in there.
The work here continues to go forth. We have 2 families that will get married on the 30th (hopefully we can get all the paperwork done). So that will be 6 baptisms for the first week in September. It was cool because with the one family, the dad used to be kind of hard and put off by the gospel, but we have been working with him and gaining his confidence and the wife is super super faithful. she has been praying so that he listens, and he has and they decided to get married and we challenged him to baptism as well and he said yes. So that's awesome.
The other family went through a trial this week. The father used to be part of a gang when he was 15, so he has a bunch of tattoos. and only gang members have tattoos here and nobody will give you work or respect you if you have them. So he has had a struggle with that his whole life. But lately the cops have been abducting people with tattoos and killing them without any reason lately... well he got abducted this week and we were over at his cousin's house painting when they called to tell us the cops grabbed him while he was selling food house to house. Everyone freaked out and thought he would be killed. So they took his kids over to the police to prove that he wasn't a gangster, but the cops wanted to see his ID. Luckily I had his ID in my backpack to give to the Municipality for the wedding, so everything turned out fine and he was released.
We were supposed to have a baptism this last week but Satan got in the way and she couldn't get baptized, now she thinks that God didn't let her get baptized and that she shouldn't do it. So we will go with her tomorrow and see if she prayed and how she feels about it all. Hopefully that goes through on Saturday.
We continue to look for families. We have found a few more and are excited about that. the ZLs told me this week that the other elders said that here it was impossible to teach more than 3 lessons a day, and we have been doing an average of 7 per day. So I know that will help the work out a ton. we did an activity this week in a member's home and it turned out way good. Almost 30 members showed up with 5 investigators. That's like almost what they get out to church on Sunday haha. So we will do another activity here. We came up with some good games and the people loved them and went a little crazy.
We have gained the confidence of the branch president and he's excited about the work as well. It's amazing what a positive attitude can do. When I leave I hope Elder Peterson will have this type of mindset about the work and the area and from then on there should be positive feelings here and faith. I feel good here and feel like I'm working the best that I ever have, and am putting all the experience from my whole mission together. We are really being efficient. I love this work. It will be sad to finish and leave this great people. thanks for all your support and love.
Love Elder Mason Cardon.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
