The life of a missionary is rough. Straight up.

So I wouldn't say i was having suicidal thoughts this week....but I was pretty much thinking like the guy in the movie Holes, at the beginning, when he's so miserable that he goes over to the rattlesnake and gets himself bit on purpose so he can go home. I don't want you guys to worry, just know that I was that miserable that I was feeling like that. And it's scary cuz I could totally die at any point here, the cars drive so close to you and everything.

I drink water all the time, but I also sweat all the time, imagine that. We went grocery shopping today, they have Nutella and peanut butter here! and wait for it....CHOKIS!!!! so yeah it's a miracle.

I haven't gotten sick yet, that has truly been a miracle. I should be dead by now because of the serious lack of hygiene. when you think ghetto, think 10 times worse and then you have some of the homes here. They're like the size of two of my closets back home. Sad life. And then you have some houses in La Residencia that are HUGE. Think of a house in Regency and then double that and there is a house in La Residencia like that. its just huge. such a difference. you can see the mountains and the ocean at the same time at one point in La Residencia it's cool, that's part of our area.

So there are little geckos here that just sort of run around in the houses but you love them cuz they eat bugs. I haven't really gotten bit, only have like 3 mosquito bites. the geckos make weird clicking noises though but they're cute. And there are chickens and dogs everywhere. There's also a rooster here that is about 20 minutes off. Haha!  And a stupid dog across the Street, but you learn to deal with it.

Our área is called la Miramar and it's a good área. Part of our área is called Buenos Aires and it's where you can see all the mountains and it is beyond gorgeous. But it looks a little less gorgeous when you're sweating a ton. They do the central american hand/finger snap which i already have down, mom you can explain this more :) They also say "maquico" which is not too annoying. I like how they say "puchika" its like saying freak, or dang, but missionaries say it so i guess its ok yeah? And they also say cheque, regretably. It basically means "cool". Maquico means like "good". I've eaten baleadeas and lichas which are a super weird fruit here that taste and look like grapes but i wouldn't eat them again, mostly just for the experience. I've also had some juice here. 

Seriously you guys, idk how I'm not sick. Actually it's because Heavenly Father blesses his missionaries, that's how I'm not sick. the puperías are like Little tiendas (stores) along the streets here that you can get stuff from. They're pretty useful. My skin is freaking out here, hence the lack of selfies. the pure bio (hand santizer) saves my life here, theres just no hygiene. 

Its cute when the Little kids here come up and say "hermana, hermana", that makes things worth it. I saw some super tiny, tiny baby kittens here and they were adorable but don't worry, i didn't touch them! I dont touch any of the animals really and most of the dogs ignore you. I also dont touch much of anything, like I dont touch any of the doors or light switches or anything, you just learn to not to. Sometimes I've felt like the guys here look like Satan and you just know not to look up, it's sad and scary but it's life here. 

To go visit one family, we had to literally climb down a hill and it was so scary, I was like okay this really is Honduras! It's crazy! You go from walking on a nice paved road with a mansión to a gravel road, to a hill with some rocks and random chunks of wood. There is so much poverty here. They don't sing here, duh, so that bugs me when we have to sing a song with members, but I'm learning to just sing my heart out and go with it. We heard a Justin Biebver song here and it was like gold to my ears, pure gold. we walk a lot and my feet and hands get puffy in the heat so that's just really attractive. 

We live close to a católica escuela so that's fun...i miss the CCM a TON. oh  my goodness i think about it and home a lot. But I'm trying to stay positive. Some members ignore me and others don't, it's sort of a hit and miss. It's so hard to judge people's age here but its ok i guess... lots of the girls here have kids and they're like 17 or 18 with kids that are like 3 already but its just sort of a common occurrence. There was no reverence in church on Sunday.

Now for the good things!

........i love getting emails! its great! i eat oatmeal which i like, and we went shopping and i bought granola and eggs and milk and vegetables and tang and bread and some more healthy stuff so i feel better.

the life of a missionary is rough. straight up. we already had a missionary go home here in our zone. it is so hard here, i think about time all the time which is hard but its just something i have to learn to adapt to. the members are mostly good, people here are just lazy though. ive learned a lot of spanish, mostly conversational. im learning to speak more during the lessons. i invited someone to be baptized and he said no. which has happened to me once before. so much fun but im just like whatever, it's your salvation, not mine!!! so everyone has their agency! mostly they just dont want to do much here. but we learn to deal with it.

we watched Wreck It Ralph this morning and ate pizza as a zone, tons of fun haha i was like we're allowed to watch this? and we played missionary style mafia haha so that was interesting. Elder R. has stuck it out so that's good to see! We're all getting through this together. 

I read a scripture this week in Matthew 19:29 that says "And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

The other night we went over to a different families house to eat some Tres Leches cake for Mercedes, a member who is just so sweet, she made my first baleadas :) She sells them. Shes the one that lives in the house with the huge hole that drops to about 15 feet, not 5, i checked....so we're there eating the cake and i had finished when they're talking about how all the kids there were sick and seriously every house we go to, there's someone sick. and then i grab my pure bio sense and spray it like twice and smile to myself. so yeah suddenly this Little girl just starts throwing up and then BAM within seconds, they have the girl in the bathroom, some kids shirt over the throw up and then two seconds later they have cleaner on the floor, like it was a common occurrance. CRAZY! Then we said we regretably had to leave, it was an insane experience but it was good. We contacted a new family from a "recibida" that we got from someone! They were really sweet and nice but the parents work a ton and the dad works for the military so his schedule is random and doesn't come home for like months at a time, crazy yeah? So we sang a song and shared the 12 points about our message and left! I talked a lot! It felt great! there are some things to be happy about here :)

 

I wish i had more time to write, but i love you all! Sometimes this feels like more of a punishment than a privilege, but it will get better. it better get better Haha. I'll send more pics next week! Please pray for me, know that I'm praying for you all too! I love you guys and miss you so much, kiss the American soil for me, I miss it!!

love,

hermana despain

¡Estoy aquí en Honduras!

Arrived in Honduras Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013

 Thursday Sept. 19, 2013

Okay -  so I have like no time, classic yeah? 

Our p-day is Monday and I'm in La Ceiba, which is like right by the mar pretty much. 

I had to call for water this morning from our balcony, crazy yeah? So the Spanish is better than I thought, my comp is Hermana L. from Guatemala. She is good but mumbles a bit when she speaks :) 

It was so sad to say goodbye to Hermana B!  She stayed in La Lima where we all met first so that she can learn all the nursing stuff. I'm taking pics! Our other comp we basically were in a trio with for the first like 24 hrs here was assigned to Roatan (islands north of Honduras)!!! They have Hermanas there now! They're opening a new area so it's good. 

San Pedro Sula Mission Boundaries in Red (along coastline)

I'm wearing contacts but I'll probably just start wearing glasses, we'll see how the heat goes. Couldn't brush my teeth last night because we didn't have enough water. Ridiculous. :) We ate at a member's house last night. Afterwards we talked about 1 Nephi 15 with them - Hermana D. y F. I swear they're twins. They're studying nursing. Apparently everyone I'm coming in contact with is a nurse! 

So the weather? Straight up HOT! I went from hot in NC to cold in Mexico to hot here. Ants on the floor. My bed is good. We have a couple huge fans so that's good. I understand about 80 por ciento de what my comp says.:) This morning was rough though before our zone meeting. I was really frustrated and just straight up sad. I felt like 18 months was going to be FOREVER. So we'll see. I just had the perfect life at the CCM. I seriously miss it so much. 

On our way to the stake center here where I''m emailing from, we saw a dead cat. I could have touched it we were so close. Disgusting with a capital D. So yeah, it's great and I'm learning stuff but i just can't think about the time. My companion has been out 9 months. She's been here like her whole time so she wants me to help her be excited. Haha. 

We ate fried bananas and beans with the members last night. I couldn't eat it all so I took some home. I talked with them a lot. They were really nice. I've already been called "honey" here, idk who said they don't feel "unprotected" here cuz I get scared as mess. Everyone stares.

I'll email more next Monday, I love and miss you all!!!!

Sis. D. Jr.

Leaving the CCM

I can't believe I leave for Honduras tomorrow but I am really excited! I'm really, really nervous but I just have to remember thanks to some words from my incredible mother, that I've done this sort of transition before! Don't get me wrong, it will be really, really different, but we've done a lot of research and I think I'm pretty dang prepared :) 

It's always a little scary to hear the Natives speak to us and when it registers that they aren't just talking to themselves, my heart sort of stops and I'm just left there being like "¿Cómo?" Haha so it's starting already to feel like I haven't even learned Spanish, but we're doing the Lord's work and we're here to serve. Gone are the days of selfies and make up and fun jewelry and feeling safe all the time, but something better is around the corner! 

Yesterday we heard Elder Holland's devotional given in 2011 and he talked about how Peter really loved the Savior and it was after the Savior told them to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, they had to trust him. I think that is incredible! They had to have faith after a whole night of getting no fish, no pescados! So after this 6 weeks of living in a wonderful, comfortable bubble of missionary perfection, I'll have to exercise faith and pray my heart out and remember why I chose to do this. Elder Holland also said "you are feeding his sheep, forever...you are serving, forever". So I know my mission won't last forever, but I love the Savior and I've committed to serve Him for a year and a half. I'm excited to finally feel like a missionary and meet my new companion. 

We haven't really felt like missionaries here because we're so surrounded and protected so I can't wait to experience that and feel a little more alone, I'll feel a little more empowered I think. One of the things I mentioned about learning here is that when you're doing what's right, the Lord is always on your side, always. So that's comforting. 

I'm so grateful for everyone's prayers and for reading my updates, it's nice knowing I am loved! Hermano C, the one that trains a lot of the teachers here said to all the Americans through the translation headsets the other day, "Let's do this for the folks back home!". So I'll do this for the folks back home :) I'll serve and pray and work and serve some more :) 

I don't know a lot of what to expect from Honduras, I've heard a lot, but what I do know is that God lives and He loves us. He watches over His missionaries. He wants us to be happy. It's our choice to choose light over darkness. This gospel is true and people are waiting to hear about it! This is the time I have to prove myself and I'm ready! I'm going to miss Mexico with all my heart but I couldn't be leaving at a better time! The country celebrated it's Independence this weekend and now it's my turn to celebrate my independence and go out into the big scary world and serve and teach the people of Honduras! Have an incredible week or however long until I write again. ¡Adios Mexico, y hola Honduras!

#scared #nervous #confident #wordstodescribemythoughts #hondurashereicome #catrachosarewaiting #lorddismissuswiththyblessing #bestsongever #adios #amor #anythingispossiblewithdivinehelp

Buena suerte y con mucho amor,

Hermanita Despain <3 p="">

"Savor every single, solitary minute!"

So yeah, such a great week!

The following is our basic schedule for the day.

6:15 Wake up (Which really means, listen to the alarm go off for Hermana B2 to take a shower and for me to groan about how tired I still feel or get mad about how a stupid mosquito kept me up from probably like 5:45 on. I start saying my prayers at about 6:30. We get ready until about 7:13 which honestly is more than enough time for me. I've become such a boss at getting ready in no time ;)

7:13 We walk over to have el desayuno at the comedor. I love breakfast!! Actually I love lunch more but I'm usually dying of hunger by like 9 at night so that's always nice to eat breakfast :)

7:45 After eating and staring at each other for a bit because it's early, we start heading out the door. But before that! Hermana B2 goes and makes herself another half sandwich of nutella/peanut butter and I get myself a spoonful of either one. #noshame After that we walk over to our aula which is in the Lorenzo Snow building. The CCM by the way is the second largest MTC in the world! Idk if that means missionary wise or acre wise because it's actually 90 acres. Crazy yeah?

So this is where the hours of death commence.... #cantbelievewemakeitthrough

From 7:45 until 12:15 we sit in a classroom. Who ever decided that was okay?? #notokay So we have personal study until 8:40 which is when we sing and pray together as a district. Usually picking a hymn consists of Elder M wanting to sing A Vencer and me wanting to sing Con Valor Marchemos and Hermana B wanting to sing some hymn about a flock. When we all finally decide our teacher Hermano M walks in and we start Language. It's SO early! It requires a lot of brain power is all haha. But we get used to it. So we usually go over some practices and they're honestly not hard at all for me. It's fabulous! It's just applying it and incorporating your own twist on things and making it personal that gives me a bit of a challenge. Lately we've been working on the Subjunctive though and I will admit that those practices and Passive Voice did cause me to tear up a bit. What can I say, I'm a girl, we'll just blame it on that. After Language Study we have Coaching which we're all still trying to figure out. It involves the teacher almost mentoring each companionship on certain areas of missionary work that we request help with. Sometimes it just turns into more Personal Study which we never complain about.

After Coaching we usually have Progressing Investigator which is where our teacher goes and pretends to be our investigator. Oh it's great awkward fun #supsawk Fernando was a great investigator but we had to say goodbye to him the other day and tell him that we were being transferred :( So sad. He committed to baptism though and we ended with discussing the tree of life and he said he wanted to share the fruit with his wife and I was like well duh ;) He was a really easy investigator honestly, so that sort of concerned me sometimes. But Hermana P. who was Raquel for us during the night, was good too but she was a bit more work.

So at 12:15 we are released from our prison and we go back to the comedor for LUNCH!!!!! My favorite part of the day of course, I love the rice and beans. They only offer the rice and beans during lunch. And they really simplify for dinner so that's always interesting. But they offer cereal during dinner so that's nice, but one can only have so many cocoa crispies...It's all good though! Lunch seriously is fabulous though. Love it.

At about 12:45 we dump our trash and trays off and we go back to our casa so Hermana B2 can nap until 1:15 which is when we have TALL. I used to nap but then I always felt groggy even after a 20 minute power nap. Guess there's no such thing as a healthy power nap on a mission #ohwell So Hermana B2 usually redoes her makeup and hair during this time and I do a combination of both. Usually I don't care. #arewesurprised #classic

1:15 we walk over to TALL and that's always a fun afternoon walk in the sun. Hah. #walkinonsunshine. Most of the time it usually consists of me being like "el sol!!!!" and pretending I'm a vampire cuz we're cooped up inside all day. TALL is fun cuz we listen to motab and efy music during it. It's great personal grammar study time for me honestly and I get answers to all my never answered questions dealing with random things about the idioma of spanish that I just never thought about.

2:15 We have Companionship study and Language Study after that I think. These hours are always rough cuz we are tired and full and don't feel like doing squat. Companionship study begins with us having Companionship inventory which mostly turns into us laughing and talking and getting good things said. It's helped us a ton. Usualmente I end up being the therapist for my companions and I impart my wisdom from parents and grandparents and such. It's great fun. It's sooo much fun being with girls 24/7...too bad I'm one too! ;) We also share what we learned in Personal Study that day and incorporate it into the lesson we'll be teaching next.

3:45 We walk back to the casa to change and not happen to forget our name tags to go run our buns off on the field or cycle our legs off in the gym. Or Hermana B2 likes to play ping pong with our Elders. This is also a fun time for me to be a total beast and lift a whopping 10 pounds and do some girl push ups and watch this one teacher lift like 45 pounds and I'm over there like "um I'll just put these 5 pounders back..." Usually if I ever do the elliptical, I end up stopping at the top cuz I like feeling tall and I "zone out" according to my companions. It's always fun when it rains cuz the gym turns into a mad house of Hermanas. I love gym time!!!

4:40 We start heading back but just happen to find ourselves in the tienda ;) To buy, oh yes MORE CHOKIS!!! Oh and did I mention our cards got denied this week! There we were in the tienda trying to buy chocolate milk, extra chocolate chokis and hershey bars when BAM Hermana B2's card got denied. Then I tried and mine got denied too!! Probably a sign from above that I shouldn't buy/eat so much dang junk. But if I've learned one thing here about eating at the MTC, it's that you eat your feelings and I've become quite the pro. So I ended up only being able to buy the chocolate milk. Sad day cuz it was good but it was gone within the walk back to the casa. Word on the street is, they don't put more money on your card the last week you're here. And to think I wanted to buy more pens :)

4:50 It's Hermana Despain's turn to shower!!! Praise the heavens. Almost the best part of the day. So I shower and freshen up my makeup and usually walk out with wet hair. According to my companions though, I can rock the wet hair. Thank goodness cuz that's what it will be for the next 16 1/2 months!

5:20 We race back to the aula cuz we're 5 minutes late for planning as usual. And so is everyone else in the district! Surprise, surprise. We plan and then go to the bathroom and go to dinner.

5:45 DINNER!!! Not as good as lunch but it's still pretty dang good and it's food so I'm happy. The tria of hermanas from district 15E (that's us) is fun, know why?! We sit in our corner and people watch us shove food in our mouths and periodically raise our eyebrows at each other or comment about this Hermana's hair bun getting bigger everyday, or laughing about how we don't know how they're aren't more accidents in the comedor with missionaries running around like chickens eating their food. It's a madhouse but you become a real boss at it.

6:20 We leave and because they have the nutella/peanut butter makeins again, we get a half a sandwich and eat it on the way back to the aula #supafun #traditions #cantgetenough

6:30 We have class with Hermana P. which means the Elders are entranced and they chatter like little school girls. They all really love her- it's fun. We have Language Study again and Progressing Investigator and Coaching.

We sing and pray at like 9:20. Then we book it home and write in our journals and go to bed.

I should mention that about every half hour we go to the bathroom.

Here's our pattern of how we get through the weeks here. Sunday is just great cuz we're all together pretty much as American's for a ton of meetings and devos and classes and videos. Mondays are hard and we look forward to Tuesdays because Tuesdays we have Devotional so that means no night classes!!! Praises! Tuesdays we look forward to Devo that night. Wednesday we have TRC so that's a nice change but it's also P Day eve! But mostly we look forward to Thursday because it's PDAY!!! Thursday's are good usually or bad as mess cuz you miss family and friends like you've never missed them before. We look forward to Fridays because that means an hour of service! And an extra hour of gym pretty much which gives me more time to shower! Fridays we look forward to Saturday because it's almost Sunday. We love our pattern :)

Oh my goodness this weekend is the celebration of Mexico's Independence. The city is about to go CRAZYYYY. And they already set bombs and cannons and fireworks off like three times a day!!! We get to participate in a cultural night on Saturday I think so we're excited to go out with a bang. Literally. It will be a cool week to leave. Yay for Mexico :) They had different desserts out this week in honor of the celebration so I was always super brave and tried the crazy stuff. Like this cool lime dessert made from coconut!

And this weird disk of like sugar stuff that definitely didn't taste like sugar. Then they had this random paper looking fan of like who knows what that I swear we weren't actually supposed to eat. It had random like glue made from weird (i mean different) syrup keeping it together and this random sunflower seed? Mexicans be cray!

The flautas were INCREDIBLE. Totes pic worthy so yeah. They were amazing, same with the tamales. I'm really lucky. The Emperador brand of cookies here are so good! I'm saving the wrappers. Elder M's mom sent Krispy Kreme doughnuts this week! Can't even tell you how fun that was. And of course we wore the hats.

You know you're in the Mexico CCM when you're emailing home with a mango chillin' next to your desktop...Yep, that's right! I asked an Elder if the mangos are good and he said they were and that I could just take the one he was holding, so I did!!! It's a little squishy and he said they're juicy but that will just have to be for later :) Cool stuff.

So just some random things about random times here....

That girl from Chapel Hill would always call me Cary, which I loved!!! So she would be like "Hey Cary!" It was seriously the best.

There's a Native Elder here we contacted the other day and every time he sees me he's like "Hermana Despain!!" And I probably make the weirdest face being like "someone knows my name??" And then I notice it's him and I'm like "oh heyy!" The other night after TRC, he was like asking me all this stuff and was like "mail?" and I finally figured out that he wants to email and write while I'm on my mission and of course I had to just be like "oh! haha ok! por su puesto!!" and then walk away like "uhhh what just happened". He wants a pic on Sunday, joy :) Hermana B was like "he wants to marry you" as we were walking away, we had a good laugh. Gotta watch out for those Nativos! ;)

So that song from Rudolph got stuck in my head randomly this week, the one that's like "we are Santa's elves, building Santa's shelves, blah blah blah, something something, we are Santa's elves". It was so random but had me cracking up.

We FINALLY found some Elders going to San Pedro Sula East!!! I think their names are Roberts and Williams. They are super nice and the other day at dinner when they let us cut in line because we're Hermanas and it's like a rule here, Elder Roberts was like "it's a good thing you're going to my mission!" So pretty much we treat them like brothers, it's great :)

We have in-field training tomorrow actually! We don't really know what to expect but we can't believe it's finally here!

We got to watch the World Report video on the Mexico CCM! It was so cool and totally exciting! If you haven't seen it you should check it out! It was recorded too early for me to know any of the teachers in it or the missionaries, but it's still neat. It's so sad to hear them talk so much about how sad all the students and families were to hear that it would no longer be the Benemerito school of Mexico City. It makes us appreciate and respect it a lot more, we're really lucky.

The other day during TALL I heard an elder log on and be like "There's a file here that says "top secret missionary no-no's", why is it there? Is it trying to tempt me??" Oh the things that become funny when you're a missionary :)

I met an Elder M. from Gilbert Arizona who knows the Eastley family! Pretty cool!

We went contacting last Thursday night and it was the coolest thing! We had so much fun and the Natives were so sweet to us and helped us out! I was so impressed with our ability to focus and speak con fluidez and just really go with it unplanned! We had a blast.

The other night we taught Raquel who is alcoholic and my heart totally went out to her, I mean I'm not an alcoholic but life is hard! I felt such love for her, it was the COOLEST thing. I loved it. A lot of the lesson was us listening and it was a real benefit to the lesson. I wanted to do everything I could to help her and I wanted to stay with her all night and just tell her everything would be all right and that addictions are just the worst but that Heavenly Father has provided a way for us to change because repentance is the closest thing we have to a time machine. There have been times in my life where I've just been like seriously? Can I get a time machine up in here? So I've learned that repentance is real and that the most important thing to learn from it all is to MOVE ON. Life goes on and we'll never change if we don't allow ourselves to.


So some lessons I've learned since being on my mission are as follows...

1. Others before yourself, selflessness
2. Love others
3. Doctrine: Principle: Blessing
4. The Lord provides a way
5. Positivity
6. Heavenly Father answers prayers
7. No one that reads the Book of Mormon falls away (Elder Holland)
8. Love is everyone's native language (Hermana Pratt)
9. Listen, don't interrupt (said of course in your best bon qui qui voice)
10. Go and sin no more (Christ)
11. We sacrifice for the things we love and we love the things we sacrifice for (From a devo)
12. You're not ever supposed to go back to what you were, even if you were terrific (Elder Holland, of course ;)
13. He is always on our side when we do what is right (Can't remember who this is from)
14. Silence is more than okay
15. It's better to be slow and right, than quick and wrong
16. God has called you to be you (Hermana B but it doesn't mean we can't be a better version of ourselves)
17. It isn't weird, it's just different (Genius words of mom)
18. Exact obedience
19. You can only control yourself
20. Light vs. darkness
21. It's your attitude that determines your altitude, not your aptitude (Elder M's little book of missionary reminders)

At first I was wondering if I really wanted to share these because some of them are pretty personal, but then I was like "What the heck, I'm on a mission, everything is personal!". So I hope these inspire or benefit some of you! Plus I figure if you're still reading my emails, you're probably really special and important to me :)

Some notes I took from a devotional by Elder Holland to missionaries...

-He wants you to work a little harder
-This is as close as you'll get to real life
-You're never going to have this chance again
-Who/Where I married was affected by my mission
-Have one convert, yourself
-This is the only time you'll devote everything
-Savor every single, solitary minute
-Don't let anyone down
-You don't have to be perfect
-Carry the torch for the next generation

Loved those! So it's pretty great here because sometimes they'll announce who is giving the devotional and anytime it happens to be Elder Holland every FREAKS out. It's beyond hilarious. You would think that we were going to a concert for like the most popular artist in the world. He IS practically is the most popular artist in the world! Except he's an Apostle ;)

So this week was really good but I can't believe that by the next time I am writing home next week, I'll be in Honduras! My home country for the next 16 1/2 months! I'm nervous, I'm not gonna lie, but I know I have a ton of support from back home, in the mission and from up above! I'm excited to go to Honduras but I'm also scared out of my mind. I was scared out of my mind to come here though so we'll just have to see. It will be an adventure, that's for sure! It's great what a mission can do to the connection you feel with Heavenly Father, key word "can" because a mission will change you if you let it!

I love this gospel, anytime I think about it, I just think of cleanliness and purity and perfection and it makes me want to be better. There is always an answer and there is always a tool to help us overcome anything, but it's our decision to put forth the effort and make the change. Heavenly Father loves us and I love this church, it amazes me more and more everyday! Thank you to the stars and back for all your support and prayers, I can definitely feel them. Good luck in this next week, I hope you all have amazing weeks. We're so blessed! Pray for me on my trip over to Honduras, I'm going to need it! The next time I write, will be from the amazing country of Honduras :)

Love,
Hermana Despain