“Laughing Under Lightening"

We had a pretty great week. Definitely full of ups and downs but things are better. I'm learning to let a lot of things go and not let so many things bug me. But I've been learning a lot of patience and humility I hope...or maybe by saying that I haven’t learned any humility ;) But it's been a good experience. For our super exciting pday today, once again we didn’t do anything as a zone. Being here I've learned that having regular pdays as a zone is so important to build that unity! But we spent the day washing clothes (wohoo!) sleeping (me, my comp can’t sleep when it’s so hot...but I sure can!) and we ate the leftover soup we made together last night.  So healthy thanks to the mission nurse Hermana Bennett one of my CCM companions! Then WE FOUND A ZOO! Well we had some less active girls tell us about it and then we asked around in the street today where the zoo was at and everyone knew. I love being able to ask random strangers if they know where the zoo is and they’re just like "Oh yeah, it’s down the street...to the right...in a white house". Gotta love Honduras!

So we followed the Catrachan directions and found the house! We asked the guy (turns out it was the same in the video with the monkey!) if it was a zoo and he was like "No, it's just a house..." So we had a good laugh and he took us on a little tour. He showed us some pretty birds and there was a huge parrot! It was really cool how they had all the little paths going through their "backyard" basically and how they had the vines and trees being grown to sort of make a canopy. We asked the guy about the monkey we had held a couple weeks ago in the street and he said it was sent over the river and that they’ll get it when its bigger, so we were pretty sad about that until we saw a huge monkey on a long chain. It had room to play around but poor thing, I felt so bad, it definitely needs more space. It was cool to take videos and pictures though! And we didn’t even have to pay anything :) The monkey was just right there! But it was a female and that kind of scared me cuz he said they’re usually more like prone to be angry...which I totally believe. So we kept our distance but got some neat pictures! It was cool though to be there with just my comp. Then we saw a squirrel (haha super exotic) and then a bunch of really pretty green birds and one of them talked :) So there is a zoo in Santa Rita y'all :) You just have to ask around! But it was neat to have a little fun together on pday!

I forgot to tell you all about the super interesting bus ride me and Hermana V. had on the way back from saying goodbye to Hermana A. We sat across from each other cuz there was like no room, so the isle was in between us and about 5 minutes later, there was this black guy that stands up in the isle towards the front with a striped button up shirt on and a weird tie with a bible in his hand and glasses and then comes the usual sigh of "oh no...." It was actually really funny...I took one look at Hermana V, cuz she had told me about this preacher before. So he like holds his bible really close to him, then he opens it up, reads something to himself and closes it really fast and is like really fidgety. Then he starts preaching....and he gets really into it and starts like yelling and jumping and is all "¿quién vive?....¿qué es su nombre?.....¿quién vive?!" It was actually hilarious. Until he went on for about 35 minutes. This whole time was just going nuts and yelling and sweating and I'm just sitting there trying to relax on a nice bus ride to Santa Rita and look at the pretty African looking plains and mountains and trees. But it’s just evidence that the Spirit is really powerful and that the Spirit is a calm and still voice :) It's quiet, but it's powerful. Yay for Catrachan bus preachers :)

The other day when Honduras was playing there were some kids in the street and they all had little flags on their cheeks so one of the little girls came up to me and smashed her cheek on mine so I had a little Honduran flag to wear around! But Honduras actually ended up losing, but I fixed up the flag a little bit with some marker and wore it to our noche de hermanamiento!

Tarantula visits church

One of our ZL's Elder J. went home this week as planned even though he got sick right before he left, so we were all really sad to see him go but we got to say goodbye and everything. We have a new ZL though Elder M.! He was there with me in Miramar so that is really fun to have someone from Ceiba :)

Tuesday it just dumped rain and I mean it dumped rain. It was nuts. The streets were flooding and usually we just like walk through the water. No, we were like treading through the water and usually we just dodge the trash that floats by? But this time we were literally like trudging through the trash. It was crazy?! But it was actually so much fun. I hadn’t laughed that hard in so long. I'm sitting there trying to scream a story to my comp through the storm as we're trying to share an umbrella since she had lost hers and we just couldn’t stop laughing. We were completely soaked, the umbrella wasn’t doing a thing, but we were having so much fun. I just wished I had my camera because the streets were absolutely nuts. And it was just raining and pouring, the lightening was insane and my comp was super scared but I wasn’t. I was loving it. Like when you’re laughing so much and smiling so much your face starts to hurt? Yeah, it was like that haha :) But we went up a little hill to go see if an investigator Y. was there and she was! We had tried to visit her like 6 times and she was never there, but this time she was. So after like 3 sentences we asked her if she had received an answer to her prayer and that’s usually when I sort of check my heart out and expect an answer of "fijese hermanas que.....olvide..." but then in all that pouring rain and lightening she was like "Si, sé que es verdad...sé que la iglesia es verdadera..." And I just sort of stared at her, with everything dripping wet I was like..."Huh?! ¿De veras?..." In my almost 11 months of being on the mission I don’t know if I've ever had anyone tell me so straight up that they have received an answer to their prayers and they know the church is true. So that made walking through a tormenta all worth it!

Us four hermanas were walking together after a missionary correlation Thursday night when we passed a street corner and a tall guy was shaking his finger at someone and yelling and we all thought he was yelling at us, so Hermana V. was at my side and was like "walk faster..." so we did and then my comp started running so I started running and pretty soon we're all running for our lives! I look back and see someone running behind us. For a split second I thought it was an investigator of ours, when originally I thought it was the guy that was yelling. It was horrible and we all must have looked like idiots as we were trying to run up a stupid hill with our huge missionary fanny packs and not to mention the rocks were huge on that hill!!! So we were stumbling and screaming and running as fast as we could and I just started to laugh and sort of cry out when I was thinking "He's gonna grab one of us and we're all dead!" Then the guy runs past us and down another street and I was super confused and my comp was like "It was Luis!" He's one of the jovenes from the fruit stand and I'm like "wait what?!" So he took off running and I was like "Where in the heck did he come from? And where’s the other guy??" So we all stopped running after a while and calmed down and all started talking about what had happened. Then Luis came back around and we were all like "what happened?!" So turns out the tall guy that was shouting was bothering someone and Luis was there so he started to run away, too bad we thought he was the guy so we all started running too. But we were all fine. The worst part of it all? Luis isn’t progressing?! He can’t read one single paragraph of the Restoration pamphlet we left him?! Haha but it was definitely an experience.

The other day the USA team was playing against Portugal in the Mundial and one of our investigators is a 16 year old and he is just crazy about futbol so after we said "buenas" he immediately was like "los estados están jugando!" so we watched the last 3 minutes of the game. Not half an hour before Portugal had 1 and Los Estados had 0, then the states were up by 2! In the last like 30 seconds of the game Christiano Ronaldo had the ball and kicked it to a teammate near the goal who then bumped it with his head into the goal. It was a gorgeous play but I wasn’t mad or anything that they had tied even though the investigator was trying to tell me I should be mad haha. But it was nice to sort of connect with our investigator and then get down to business and share some really great Mormon Messages with him! We've been using them a lot more lately with those that have TV’s and we've really seen the benefits! It’s given us a little break from saying the same things over and over again and some of them are really, really powerful and have a big impact on the people. We've also been showing the "Gracias a Él" video which is just PURE PERFECTION. I never get enough of that video. It is truly incredible. After we shared the videos with Axel, that investigator he was really just thinking and thinking. Videos are definitely powerful.

We've heard some really sad stories from people lately about having Jehovah's witnesses visiting them in the past, one of them getting a little too close to the investigator’s dad, then he ended up being shot by someone that someone else had sent - right in front of his family...(My Spanish isn’t so bad that I got that messed up, I clarified the story with my comp like 3 times). We also heard from our fruit stand investigators that the gang members come around regularly and ask for money that’s to be paid to them regularly. It's just awful, and if they don’t pay, they get killed. And these are with people that we teach?! And it’s just so sad to look into their eyes and see the fear that they live with on a daily basis. One of our less actives who hasn’t gone to church in like a year since getting baptized who we visit as much as we can, is having issues with her dueña and she had a friend stay over. But the dueña ended up coming and hitting her friend and while we were there teaching her someone else came and started yelling a bunch of foul stuff to her. I was happy that I didn’t understand...and after trying to do as much as we can, I remind myself of the importance of family, obedience, church attendance, paying your tithing, reading the scriptures, choosing good friends, going to school, getting an education, not fighting with people, and having kids after getting married...lessons of life that some people just find out a little too late...

It's interesting to note that our investigator pool sort of goes through trends. We find ourselves teaching a lot of kids, then a lot single mothers, then we find a lot of young couples, or old people, or lately we've been teaching a lot of jovenes. It's good cuz they’re very receptive and innocent, but they’re also pretty lazy. But it's been good because they really respect us and listen to us. Lately we've been asking people straight up, what they want out of life, and what is important in their lives...it's been really humbling to ask people and then get a response of "a better life..." I really feel for a lot of these kids who have grown up in these circumstances. Most of the time, it’s not their fault, but they’ve been handed this life and it’s their decision what they’ll do with it. They have the desire to change their lives, they just don’t know where to start. The door is there, we're giving them the key, and sometimes we've even put it in the lock for them, but they still have to make the decision to turn the key...it’s called "agency" and sometimes it still drives me crazy but salvation never was easy!  It’s up to them. And it’s also up to us as missionaries, the messengers and representatives of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday we decided to go on divisions after church, so I went out with an older lady, R. who is just the sweetest little lady here. She is a little fireball. One time we were with an investigator and the investigator wanted my companion to pray but R. thought she said her name, so she randomly stands up and is like "vamos a orar" all Catholic like and starts praying and we're all just left like covering our faces to keep ourselves from laughing. She loves to visit and has such a powerful testimony. She likes to talk though haha. It was neat though to be sitting there in the lessons we had and to find myself taking charge of things and leading the lesson and asking inspired questions and what not and helping the member be involved, without my companion! It was really good practice and I actually really enjoyed it. Sometimes I forget that I'm in Honduras, sometimes I forget that I speak Spanish all the time...so it's nice to walk away from a  cita and be like, "I just did that?!"

We got thanked for our work a few times this week, from like one investigator and a less active, and from our ward mission leader who just got released. It is just a nice feeling to hear some thanks after the work we do and the heartbreak we feel after waking up at 5:50 on a Sunday morning to wake people up. (Not my idea but it had its benefits!) and to only have one less active family come. But it was one family and that’s great! It's better than no one! I swear I should keep a little book of the excuses people come up with for why they can’t go to church. But really, getting thanks from people is just the best, it makes it worth it. It makes the sweat that literally runs down to your eyes, worth it. It makes the 4th flour tortilla that has who knows how many calories, worth it. It makes the exhaustion of your body worth it. Our ward mission leader said something to this effect, "los misioneros son los ángeles del señor quien bendicen nuestras vidas". That’s neat to think about, that people see us as angels :)

We get to go see Elder Ochoa tomorrow in La Paz! I'm super excited to hear what he has to say and to see what the Spirit wants me to learn :) I hope everyone has a great week! Happy belated birthday to my fabulous dad and happy birthday to my little brother!

Love,
Hermana Despain

We're gonna be neighbors!!!

This update will be pretty short since I spent most of my time talking to everyone about my brother's mission call! I’M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! He's been called to serve in the El Salvador Santa Ana Mission and I couldn’t be more proud to call him my future neighbor! Watching the video brought back so many great memories of holding those papers in my hands that would be change my life :) It was the scariest feeling but after you read where you're going you just feel this calm feeling that that country is where you were meant to be all along. I can't even describe how excited I am to have my little brother serving right next door :)

Something tells me someone knew we would be serving in Central America together when we went there for only a week a few years ago to visit Costa Rica with my parents. I remember having everything be so different but having the comfort of having my parents and brother there with me...and pretty soon by the end of the week I was feeling so torn. I didn’t want to leave at all. I wanted to stay and stay and stay! And here I am serving in Central America. So I guess part of my heart was always here :) Hearing about his call has gotten me almost re-motivated to serve with everything I've got. I'll probably wake up tomorrow morning and still be freaking out. It's just so exciting! And yeah just like my brother and sister said, my reaction was pretty much like the girl in College Road Trip when she yells "We're gonna be neighbors!?!?!?" I was shaking I was so excited! Every call is meant for each person, each missionary. It is something so special and so personal. It changes a person's life and can impact your eternity if you let it :) Love that me and him will be physically closer in a few months than we have been for this time that I've been apart! I know he will do a great job and that he will be such a good example for me :) Now we'll have two Despains walking the streets of the CCM in Mexico, and later working the streets of Central America :)

This morning I put these golden locks in the hands of a Catrachan! Yep, I got my hair cut today! It feels great. It's just a tiny bit shorter, I just wanted it to look a bit healthier :) Great experience though, the lady was very kind. As usual asked where I was from and if I was married...."no todavía...."

Just as a quick update of the work, we had a pretty good week. Our numbers hasn’t taken too much of a hit as a result of the mundial (World Cup) but it does distract a lot during the lessons and having to ask people to turn their tvs off is awkward cuz we want to watch it as much as they do! But it’s a great feeling to have their time and attention and respect. We thought we weren’t going to have anyone in church with us as far as investigators go but we passed by some kids we're teaching and they were like "yeah yeah, we'll get ready" and usually that’s an easy time for the mom to tell them no...but as we were walking back about 5 minutes later, they were there waiting in the street!

Not only the two kids, but their little sister and their little friend! So we all walked to church together and took good care of them in the meeting. they were all so well behaved and all I had to keep them from getting bored was a bunch of pictures I keep in my scriptures I use sometimes in lessons. It was great and it worked so well. I felt like such a mom :) my comp gave a talk and the lights went out in the middle of it so it started to get so hot but about 30 minutes later the power came back when we started to sing "There is sunshine in my soul today" in principios del evangelio. So there really was sunshine in our souls that day. One of the members of the class that goes to an evangelico church put his hands up and was like "Amen!". So I guess sometimes you just have to put up your hands and say "amen" and give thanks for the little things in life :)


We had to say goodbye for a little while to Hermana A. this Friday since she's had to go back home because of una enfermedad. But she'll get better treatment there, that’s for sure. Me and V. went so that was fun to be on divisions for a little bit. I love love love traveling on the mission. It makes me feel so cool. It's like "I'm on a bus in Honduras!!....." We didn’t know exactly where we were or where we were going but sounds like we were in one of the most dangerous cities in this part of Honduras, we were in Planeta in La Lima. It was cool though cuz we went and got licuados with her and her companion and the zls. It was great to say goodbye and I had heard a ton about those licuados :) Me and V. and A. all ordered the "beso loco". It was so yummy! Just a ton to eat :) It was sad to say goodbye but we're hoping she'll be back soon :)

Saturday morning we went to the fruit stand again to visit some of our investigators who are like 3 jovenes. They are super amable and really good guys but they still haven’t come to church yet, drives me crazy. But they’re really receptive and respectful and sincere. As we left the owner of the stand offered us cocos....so we walked away drinking cocos :) Definitely one of the best memories I'll have of Honduras...the nights of running to a cita eating baleadas, running through the jungles of Pico Bonito with the rain pouring down and drinking cocos after a cita under the hot Honduran sun :)

I hope everyone at home has a great week, and that all the missionaries work their tails off and enjoy the little moments :)

Love,
Hermana Despain

Pause while I hold this monkey...

You know you're serving in Honduras when you walk down the dusty hill towards a street corner and see a bunch of people huddled around what you think is a cat...and you realize it’s a monkey. A MONKEY. IT WAS SO COOL. AND I TOUCHED IT hahaha. The thought of catching rabies or something did cross my mind but it was like "this is a monkey, and I'm in Honduras and how am I going to pass up this opportunity??" So yeah it definitely climbed all over my head it was hilarious. It was the sweetest little thing...I took a video of it and we took some pictures! Just super neat to be able to play with a monkey between citas :)

We also had a run in with a bigger lizard that got into our house this week. My comp, once again like most in the past, is scared of a lot of things, so animals, loud noises, dirty things...not her thing. So there she was like standing on a chair while I was outside trying to take off a little bit of fuzz from the eye of the poor lizard with my eyebrow tweezers after he had run under our fridge (sorry, tons of prepositions...I blame the Spanish). We took some pictures though and a video of course.



We also spent some fun time with some cows and their little babies as we were out doing visits. We contacted a nice looking house because usually they’re the ones that are married. We yelled "buenas" and then "de repente", like literally 6 little husky puppies come running to the porton. CUTEST THINGS EVER. And it was such a little miracle because that morning I was not happy.....para nada. I was super annoyed and just frustrated how everything was in my life at that point. But then you throw in six husky puppies and suddenly things look a little brighter :)

We're getting SUPER SUPER excited for the mundial (World Cup) this Thursday. (NOT. Cuz it definitely means we will have no citas). But we're pumped cuz we went to Progresso today and bought matching cups that say Honduras and Brazil 2014 or something. And we also bought matching shirts that say like "we left one in Brazil" and its got a thumb print with the Honduran flag on it. It's the coolest looking thing! So we'll wear those on Thursday....in the house....when we aren’t out working I guess haha. Or maybe we'll just pair our shirts with some nice faldas (skirts) ;) Anyways, we'll see if we have some éxito (success) that day with all the craziness of the mundial. The streets will probably be totally deserted.

I have been sick the past few days though. Don’t really know why, but I've just been sort of congested and my head has hurt and my throat was bugging me. But nothing like a little sleep and hard work and polvo and visiting sick people and walking in a thunderstorm to cure you....I'm doing better though. But I also felt like I was losing my mind recently. I don’t know, it was weird, I asked the Hermanas, I was like "Can a person really go crazy on their mission?" Just after doing the same thing over and over and over again and being disappointed in the same ways over and over and over again you start to sort of lose it and invite people to do things and wait for them to say "bueno......fijese que...." when you just explained about the importance of putting God first. Just sort of interesting....But yeah we're all just like "it's got to be Santa Rita, or the sun, or the polvo...something!" But I think we'll be okay :)

We had ward conference this Sunday. I thought it was okay. We had 5 inactives and less actives in church! But one of them was Rolando! Man I was so happy to see him, I felt like he was an investigator because he hasn’t been to church in what I think is 16 years? So, so cool. We have a noche de hogar planned tonight with him and a pilas family in the ward so we're super excited for that.

Even though I feel like I'm losing my mind, I've been doing better. Feel like I'm in rehab a bit but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and I'm just trying to make the months count instead of counting the months like my brother-in-law told me :) I'm learning from the past, living in the present and excited for the future :)

Running in Slow-Motion

Sometimes you just need to take a break from companionship study and go out
back and bajar some mangos. We have a lemon tree, an avocado tree, a banana
tree, and a ton of mango trees in our backyard. It's pretty neat. So we had
fun taking pictures, laughing and dodging the dropping mangos.

I was so, so sad to not be at the wedding of my brother and my new sister
in law, but I am so happy for them. It sounds like it went perfect of
course and I just want to say congratulations! I wish with everything I've
got that I could have been there, but I know they'll be happy for eternity

R. left again for Tocoa. I was so sad to hear that he was leaving. I
just looked into his eyes and it was like "he's leaving again..." each time
it's like Satan is pulling him away, distracting him from what he knows is
right just because of his work. But we all ended up talking about how
Olanchito and Tocoa and he told us how pretty it is out there. I really,
really hope I get to serve there, it sounds just perfect. His dad was
cooking when we came up to the house and we asked him what he was
making...turns out he was making "mangos dulces" or something. Basically he
was just boiling the sugar blocks they create from the sugar cane they burn
here and put some mangos maduros in. It was really fun to eat, quite the
experience though cuz the mango gets all stuck in your teeth and the whole
time I was trying to sort of scoot the 6 ants I found to the side. But it's
just sort of what you do. R. should be back though in a few days so
we'll keep up with him.

There's been a lot of dengue going around lately so that's a little scary.
I also keep my bug spray with me though so lets hope I don't get dengue and
die.


When we were visiting with the two Rolando's this week, there were a lot of
falling mangos...since they're starting to ripen, they start to fall
randomly and the tree was right above us! So we'd be sitting there teaching
when randomly we'd just hear one hit the tin roof of the house near us and
we'd all duck and it'd just be like "I'm trying to feel the Spirit here!"
So we can now add "falling mangos" to the list of things Satan uses to
distract and interrupt lessons...

I saw a tarantula for the first time this week! It was just chillin' there
on the church wall outside before we went in for correlation! I was so
freaked out cuz I've only ever seen those in zoos....We saw a snake in the
street that night too. Super tiny and black though. There have been a few
dead dogs lately so that's always fun to walk past or drive past in a moto.
Ew.



I went on divisions yesterday with a member from the ward. It was a really
positive experience and I was able to focus more on the investigator and
not be so stressed about what exactly we were teaching or how we were
teaching and I didn't feel so judged. The member did a great job and she was
such a hard worker. Again, it was a really positive experience.

We had correlation the other night and it was really good again. It has
really improved even though according to the others, it was really bad.
It's been interesting to see how my view has changed with a lot of things.
On Sunday I was sitting up behind the keyboard and realized how much
reverence there was and I was so impressed with everyone. So I think I've
learned some tolerance...and just an acceptance of how things are but I'm
still trying to keep that view of how things can be so that we don't settle.
But yeah there I was, getting along with my ward mission leader and
laughing and joking with him and he's like "esta hermana, me calle bien..."
never thought he would say that. Just goes to show that in 4 months you can
actually come to get along with someone who bugged you at first. My comp
walked away super angry from the correlation and little Hermana Despain was
just smiling like "it's whatever, you'll learn what Santa Rita is
like...just have patience little grasshopper..." 

I'm learning a lot of patience.

I was watching a few Mormon Messages and I really liked the one "Rescued by Christ" 

The part that stood out to me was when he says "a lot of people
wanted to put him down, but I wouldn't, because when I was a bit of an
idiot, nobody put me down..." As a missionary or any person really, you can
apply it in a ton of ways. As a missionary, we visit people and visit them
and invite them but they still have their agency. It's like we're Christ in
that aspect, if that's not too blasphemous or llena de apostasía. We're
like Christ because all we do is invite. We give ourselves to these people
and we invite them to share in the happiness we have and are hopefully
experiencing. We sometimes do have to let people go for a time, but because
they're people with souls and hearts, we never really put them down. We
give them the opportunity and let them choose. But it's like us, we're
given the choice to obey and be happy, but we suffer the consequences or we
enjoy the blessings. Christ will never "put us down" so we should never put
ourselves down either...physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually.
We have to lift ourselves up. We're given challenges to strengthen us and test us.

At the end of the video it says "There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, 

minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. Are we doing all we 

should?" And that's from President Monson. It's true. We need to help other people,

but we also need to help ourselves along the way.

Towards the end of our lessons, we'll be like "¿Cuáles preguntas tiene?,
¿comentarios? ¿dudas?" and normally the response is the same...but I think I
can count on my hand how many times people have sincerely thanked us for
visiting them. It happened with the two Rolando's and R. They thank you
and you just know they really mean it. Normally when we ask people if there
is anything we can do for them (usually we mean service) they say "solo,
siguen visitándome..." and sometimes that frustrates me because I get the
sense they just want to lay back in their hammock and receive what the
"palabra de Dios" has for them that day instead putting down the baleada,
getting out of the hammock and going to church. But then you have to look
at them like nursery kids, or the bruised, hurt, abused adult that they are. 

It's interesting to look into people's eyes and try and imagine their past, 

where they've come from and how they've gotten to the point in their lives that 

they're at. Then you're able to connect with them a bit more and realize that 

you're just like them, you're imperfect and you need just as much help as they do. 

I guess that's why I like working with less actives and inactives so much, even if 

it drives me nuts sometimes...you just connect with them and try to do what you can

for them as the child of God that they are. I also love when they say that they 

know that God has placed us in their path for a reason as cliche as it is, 

cuz you really start to believe it.

After watching so many Mormon Messages and especially "What Matters Most"
and the video "Gracias a Él/Because of Him" about the Savior, I've really come to

love the
little things in my mission, throughout my day...the rocks I trip on, the
dust storms that I'll probably never experience again, the dirt I think is
a tan line on my feet, the random trickle of water down a hill, or the six
girls in white tops that came running towards me one afternoon as we were
walking back down Calle Ocho...(like in the Gracias a El video where
all the kids are running). I saw them all playing together and we
really don't know them that well but they helped us find a house once. They
all turned and just started running for us and I realized they were only
running for me and they just ran and ran and ran and all hugged me. It was
one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. They're the things I wish I
could record. The things I wish I could watch in slow motion over and over
again...six little Honduran girls running and laughing to hug a gringa just
because... with the dust kicked up in the air behind them and the palm trees 

swaying in the warm dusking evening as the sun is setting behind them. So we can
submit a new video entitled "What Matters Most on a Mission..." where we
record the real smiles and tears of random strangers...the women with their
backs aching from making and selling tortillas all day, the men with real
cowboy hats sweating under the hot Honduran sun, the poor kids in dirty,
ragged clothes that go galloping off on a horse past me...and six little
girls all in white running towards me.

Love,
Hermana Despain