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