Monday, January 8, 2018

Week 54: Good bye Banda - Hello Huscroft!

SO Im going to start this weeks letter off with a “sorry” for my mom. I didn’t take too many photos this week and it’s because Banda and I have been working our butts off! It’s been a good week all in all. 
And Banda had a couple “baggy”, “trunky” or “frito” moments depending where you served. He completed his 2 years on Friday. He gave his last testimony in the chapel today to our zone. It was sad the man couldn’t hold back the tears and the thanking of the Lord for his time serving the people in Honduras. 

This last week went by super quick and I hope I can get some of the highlights down. The Lord really helped us out this last Sunday and it took most of our week to pass by for people to actually commit to go to church on Sunday. We ended up with 5 people that came to church yesterday! That so far has been the most I’ve had in all my time in Olancho. So it was cool. Sometimes it’s just the little miracles. 

Then we had a cool moment with an investigator who had been baptized but had never received the Holy Ghost. In teaching and explaining it to her she said that she feels like she needs to be baptized again, and says that she’ll keep learning and listening. 

Now, what all us missionaries have been waiting for-- changes. My new companion will be Elder Huscroft. He is transfering from the city. He was a mission secretary for a time and now will be coming to Olancho. He’s super excited to work with me as the two of us have talked a lot in multi zones.  It was always one of our jokes to serve together in a pueblo and now we are doing it. He’s cool and is really calm or tranquilo as we say it in Spanish. He puts in a lot of work and I’m looking forward to learning from him. 
Hermana Gamez will be going to the city to finish her mission. She dies in February. Hermana Walton will be coming here to serve with Hermana Latimer. It is the last transfer of her mission too. I don’t know where Hermana Walton is from, but she is a gringo, so that that means that Juticalpa will have all gringo’s here as missionaries, which is pretty cool. 
Campamento will be receiving Hermana’s. It will no longer be an Elders area, which is kind of weird to me. Having to think that there will be no more interchanges there is a bummer. I think having sisters there will help out the area. The Hondurans definitely react differently to us Elders than the Sisters. 

I’m looking forward to the next change and how it will go. I hope it to be better than this last one which was pretty great! I don’t have much to write. I’m thinking more on who I have to visit with my new companion and how we are going to help our area and the zone to be better than it is.

I love you guys, have fun and 
keep truckin’

Elder Banda and I had these zone shirts made for the Christmas party we never got to have.  It wasn't until today that we were able to get our group together because of all the political stuff that's been going on. We didn't have a party we just ate lomo relleno.
We ate waffles at Oh Crepe's after our meeting in the chapel and then we plan to watch a movie. Banda picked it and asked president so it should be fun. 
who knows what's happening in this pic.  I forgot to put the timer on, so while trying to figure out what went wrong I got this picture. ha!


Elder Banda is excited and happy to be going home. He is ready.  He is at peace with all that he has done on his mission.  Tonight we will be saying goodbye to some members and then he will pack up his bags and we will go to bed.  Tomorrow morning we will go to Tegucigalpa.  I will pick up my new comp and he will go on to go home.

A note from Elder Banda to my dad: Thanks Brother Roberts, I love your son. Thanks to your family your son is a good missionary and helped me. The truth is he is one of my best friends.




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