Day #641 | Week #91

This week was really busy. My companion and I have been trying to organize ourselves and work in our area. Sometimes it was hard, because our appointments fell through, but we just kept moving forward and working. The secretaries of the mission came and we helped them take out some of the stuff that was in the other missionaries apartment who left the area. 

We had a pretty good attendance at church. We are going to start teaching some references that we received this last week. Things are moving pretty well here in Ocotillo.

Elder Shoaee

Day #634 | Week #90: Moving Blocks & A Bigger Area

This week was crazy! We were able to do two service activities. The first one we helped move adobe blocks down a mountain and the second one we helped cut down a tree for one of the other set of missionaries investigators. 

Elder Nolasco and I are looking for new people to teach. It was a little rough this week as a lot of our appointments fell through, but we made the most of it. We contacted, did some service, and we taught all the people we could with the time that we had. 

Good news! Our area is getting bigger. In our ward right now we have four missionaries, but the area that the other set of missionaries are assigned to is getting closed. They are both leaving tomorrow so we will  get to take their area from them. Now we will have a lot more stuff to do. 

That's about it for now.

Elder Shoaee

Day #627 | Week #89: 1 Baptism, 1 Latrine, and 8 Blisters

This week was great!  We had the baptism of David, who is the brother of Nadia and Lorena. We had baptized Nadia and Lorena last change and now we taught their brother this change. We have also started teaching their parents. They are awesome and know a lot about our church. 

 

 

 

We also got to make a latrine, which is basically a huge deep hole in the ground. 

Three elders and I made it deeper and wider. 

 

  

 

We also found two more people to start teaching. They were a reference of a member and they are a mother and a daughter, their names are Sonia and Sindi. They are super awesome and really nice, I hope they can progress.

Things are going good in this area and hopefully we can keep going at this pace.

Elder Shoaee

Day #620 | Week #88: General Conference

This week was awesome! We helped chop down this members yard with machetes. 

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Elder Nolasco and I have had some amazing lessons with our newer investigators. Also we are still working with our recent converts and with their families teaching them. We had an Elders Quorum activity on Friday. We had a BBQ and helped cook the meat. We made salsa too. It was super fun and it was great to help support the ward. 

We were able to go watch the 186th Annual General Conference in San Pedro Sula. All of the talks were awesome, so all of them were my favorite. 

Elder Shoaee

Day #613 | Week #87: Holy Week

Here in Honduras, last week was Holy Week. There wasn't a lot of people around, but we still kept working. We had an Easter activity last Friday. We explained Holy Week and then we showed Bible videos of Jesus Christ of some of the important things He did the final week of His life. It was a great and spiritual activity.

On Sunday we did a lot of service and some members helped us know the area a little better and gave us names of some of the less-active members in the area. 

The week  really passed by fast and it turned out really well. Also we normally don't have lunches so my companion and I started cooking. We made some pretty good meals that really weren't expensive.

Week #86 | Two More Baptisms

This week was pretty chill. Elder Nolasco and I have two baptismal dates set. They are both from part member families. The first one is David, he is the brother of Nadia and Lorena who where baptized last month and the second one is a girl named Victoria. She has been going to church forever and turns 8 this week and she wants to be baptized. We are going to teach her and prepare her for her baptism. 

Also this week the power went out for one day, so we had to go back to the house early. We also got a bunch of references from some members in our area so we are going to work with that this week.

Elder Shoaee

Day #599 | Week #85: New Companion

Elders: Nolasco - Shoaee - Ruiz

This week was a great week. I got a new companion, his name is Elder Nolasco. He is from El Salvador and I will be his first companion in the mission. He is a super cool, nice guy and I am training him right now. 

This week we had a little bit of everything, we contacted, looked for references, and visited our recent converts. We also had the opportunity to do some service. We helped some members move a ton of dirt to their house. It took a while, but eventually we got the job done. 

We are still working on finding more people to teach. We had two new investigators this week. They are two brothers that have friends that are members. They are interested and want to know more about our church. We see a lot of potential in them so we will see how things play out this next week.

Elder Nolasco & Elder Shoaee