Week 102: the best END

So the end has come, the time is far spent. I am very excited to see all of you guys again and to share experiences with all of you! 

This week we had the baptism of Orlin! I am very thankful I could end these amazing 2 years with a baptism. It was the best end honestly.

I love all of you guys and as it says in 3 John 12-14 I will be seeing you guys soon. 

love you guys! 

Orlin's baptism was great! It was probably one of the smoothest baptisms I have had on my mission.  There are normally some complications, but with Orlin it was calm... really calm.

Crazy thing to come upon or to find in your yard. When we got there they had killed it with a bunch of rocks. They think it ate a cat. What?!  

I got to visit a couple of families in the Nueva and say goodbye before I leave. I can't believe I taught and baptized a number of them 7 months in to my mission.  It has been too long and I am afraid will be a long time before I see any of them ever again. A mission is an amazing experience one will never forget.  I love these Honduran people!! 

This is Valery and Mercedes. They are both baptisms I had while serving in the Nueva Capitale.
Valery just had a baby! 

This is another one of the families I am going to miss. Angelica (Christhian's sister), Neymar, Nataly, Marcela, Nora, and Julissa and Glenda.  Christhian, and Rueben weren't home for me to say goodbye. 

Week 101: Ilumindo El Mundo

Ilumindo El Mundo
Light the World this Christmas 2018

So this week finished with a multi zone conference that went really well. We were visited by Elder Zeballos, he shared a really good message. He spoke of teaching repentance which is something I think we need to refocus on. 

Then on Saturday we had a service activity for the Light the World initiative. We cleaned the streets in Comayagüela and we then cleaned a couple of parks. It was honestly a lot of fun!  7 out of 10 of the zones in our mission were with us as we went about working and I saw a lot of familiar faces.

Other than that I’m very excited to see all of you guys in just over a week. I don’t have a whole lot to write. I do have a lot of thoughts in my journal as everyday is more and more spiritual as I realize and complete the experience of a two year  mission. I know I have to keep working hard, I cant take a day off. I want to finish strong knowing I gave it my best.

Well, I love you guys and will be seeing you next week!!!

Love, Elder Christian Joshua Roberts

We worked from about 9 to 12. Our mission swept 14 streets, our zone was in charge of 4 of them.
We then made our way to park and finished with the service project there.

Elder Caal and Elder Ozoria 

Elder Beus from Soda Springs Idaho with Elder Caal. 

Elder Chinchilla from Guatemala.

Elder Lopez from Utah, with Elder Chinchilla

The park where we all met up after we had all finished sweeping our assigned streets. 7 out of 10 of the mission zones were able to participate in the service. It was a good time. 

Me with Elder Beus and Elder Madsen. Madsen is the Assistant to the President right now, and Beus is new to the mission. Both are in my zone just in the other district.

Caal, Ozoria, Maughan, Roberts, and Tun. We are from the Loarque Zone. 

Elder Arzac with the missions medical assistant, Elder Caballero who is on the phone. He is probably verifying a visit to the hospital.

Arzac and I with Elder Pearmain, He goes home next change too.  He is really funny and from Sandy, Utah.

It's Elder Sullivan. He is from my last area. He has about 16 months. He is from St. George.

Making sure he gets it all!

Elder Briggs

Elder Passoni and Elder Cordova (I don't know the other guy) 

Light the World ideas at LDS.org

Week 100: the work continues

a restaurant in Sabana Grande that was pretty good.
too bad they didn't sell comic books on the side! cha ching!

This past week was a normal one with some very unexpected blessings. Our baptism scheduled for December 8th is progressing well. He is reading the Book of Mormon on his own and loves it. We also received a reference of a little girl named Sahory, she is really timid, but wants to be baptized.

One of the things I´ve been focusing on these last weeks is leaving the area better than I found it for whoever comes after me. The Lord is blessing the area as I seek not for my glory but that His work may continue. I´ve seen His hand this week in Orlin (our fecha), and Sahory, the two of them will be great members as time goes by. 

This next week is going to go by really fast as we are full of meetings all week long. As busy as it is I hope that I can enjoy it. 

Other than that not a whole lot has been going on. I am excited for the meetings and the opportunity to continue serving!

I love all of you!

Love, Elder Roberts

the Elders Christmas Tree!
(someone's getting toothpaste for christmas lol)

Elder Arzac took this on our way out. I still don't have my converter.
I will get on later today and send you my pictures next week, I promise. 

This is Navarro and I and some others. We were joking around right before our Christmas activity. It is a fun group!