I found batteries for my scale this week! They cost me 55 lmps each so it was like 5 dollars in the end but it was worth it! It feels great to know where I'm at with my weight and everything. Plus its nice to weigh bags and everything, especially for my companion as she's packing things up. So I'm grateful for men on street corners that sell batteries :)
There were 2 deaths here in the neighborhood this past week, so that kind of shook things up. One was expected but the other was an accident as a result of some ladrones (thieves) that ended up choking a man apparently. Horrible, horrible things. But mostly it’s a result of people being on drugs. So what do we learn from this? Don’t do drugs...
So I'm getting excited for the changes meeting. It's always a ton of fun to see friends and best friends and see how people have been doing and how people have changed. It’s always exciting to see where people go. Having the mutual drive to work through the entire day can be challenging. We keep going even at 7:30 at night when the day for us ends at 8. It's a great practice to learn more about the real meaning of "perseverar hasta el fin" (endure to the end). We teach it all the time but now I'm actually living it!So not only are we out here saving souls, but we're here saving little kitties :) We were out making visits with a member when we were walking out of an alley and saw like an old rusty cake pan full of not cake, but cats! Poor babies were like 15 days old and hadn’t even opened their eyes. We didn’t really know what to do and we figured we couldn’t do anything for them...but after like two citas I turned to my companion and I was like "I want to do something for the cats..." So we went back and dropped the member off and carried them back to our house to take pictures of course, and then asked around if anyone could take care of them. It was actually a great way to find people to talk to! We ended up being able to give them to a family of recent converts and they’re still taking care of them. So that felt good, to save three little kitties from death in an alley.
I ran everyday this week! It was great. It’s still hard but it’s worth it. But the little dog we take out to run with has started getting a little crazy...I walk out to grab my shoes and one of them was missing....then I look out to where the little dog is waiting and she's out there with my shoe like 12 feet away. It was actually hilarious. So you could say she motivates me a bit and is out there waiting for me :)Sometimes it's hard to be on a mission and have the desire to just go to a library and read a book by myself or watch a movie like 12 Angry Men. I never wanted to do that before! Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy, but it’s all worth it.
N___ was asked to say the closing prayer on Sunday and he did a great job! He's always so willing to try new things. He's great. We went to go visit him on Sunday and he was like talking about his prayer and then he was like...."Yo voy a ser obispo"... (I'm going to be Bishop!) He was just joking around but he had us laughing. He's fun to be around. But we were telling him he could totally be the bishop and he was like "No, I have a lot more to learn". I love how even at his age, he’s so motivated to learn more. I feel like it’s the same in the mission, even at the point I’m at, I’m still learning more every day. The learning never ends and it’s a really positive thing. We can always make more improvements or fix things...I’ve learned that by using my planner and making a plan and keeping to the schedule keeps things less stressful. Even being here in Honduras where the culture is so loose about things, if things don’t go the way we planned, we can still feel good knowing we made a plan. I’ve heard people say that if you fail to plan, you just plan to fail. The missionary schedule was made my inspired people and it just makes sense.Didn’t have a ton of time to write since today was Independence Day so things were a little different, but we had a good day in B____ with our district cooking lunch and just relaxing.
Love you guys and I hope you all have a great week :)
2 weeks until changes!!!
Love,
Hermana Despain
