Week 29

So this week was super long for me and we didn't even do anything all week. My companion was sick AGAIN with a cold so bad that he lost his voice so we literally couldn't even teach. Then Wednesday and Thursday we had these conferences so we didn't even get to work too much those days. So really we only worked on Tuesday and Friday and then Saturday my companion was sick and then yesterday we worked with a member so we just visited specific people and didn't really contact. So a really slow week.

SO I had some super great news up until yesterday. We are literally killing it out here in Cantarranas. We have 8 SOLID baptisms that will happen in February I think. It just sucks because I think I am getting transfered before all of the baptisms! My companion will get all the credit haha oh well.... One is a complete family of 5 and they all prayed together after the first lesson and they all got an answer and are super ready to the gospel. The other is Ronald who I talked about earlier. But the last and the most important is MY FAMILY here in Cantarranas. Hermana Sonia and Hermano Hanibal are going to get married and then baptized!!!.........or so we thought.


Hanibal said he doesn't want to get married so we did a family home evening at their house with President Pavon(president of our rama) and we talked about the family. We used my Rubiks cube to demonstrate a perfect family and then I mixed it up to show what a jacked up family looked like. Then we explained the steps that a family needs to do to be united and have love and gradually I fixed the Rubik's cube. It was actually a really cool lesson. I'm proud of myself for knowing how to do a Rubik's cube to do that lesson. Then the family of president Pavon talked and bore testimony and then my companion and then me. I talked about how hard it was to leave my family and how sucky the first part of my mission was but how when I went to their house to eat dinner every night I forgot about my problems. I told them that even though I left my family I had found a new family and how she is my new mom and he's my new dad and they are all my new brothers and sisters. I told them that I did't' care if they got baptized or went to church but the thing is that because they are my family I wanted the best for them and that is through marriage. The whole room was crying! The dad is this big strong carpenter guy and I had him in tears. I don't know if they will get married but everything is up to them now. Its all in Gods hands so I feel super at peace about it.
That was like the best moment of my mission and I remembered a part about my patriarchal blessing about how there are certain people who only I can bring into the gospel and I feel like that family is one of those people that my blessing talks about. But we will have to see how it goes.

And I gave a blessing to a woman I had just met yesterday and in my blessing I basically told her she will not get better unless she goes to church. That was the weirdest blessing I have given but it was cool. After blessings I am always shaking because is literally spiritually draining. It is a real power and I am so grateful to have it.


So that was basically my week.
I love you all so much! You´re the best! And Hermana Xiomara says hello!!!
Elder Garry

Week 28

So this week!!! Was the most spritual of all my weeks because we got to go to the Honduras temple!! That is the most beautiful temple that I have ever been in. I don't have a lot of temples to put on my list of temples I've entered but this one is the best!! Just a nice latino spirit. Loved it.

But because we went to the temple and because the buses here are sucky, I missed 2 days of work in my area. That sucked!! We have stuff to do!! I cant afford 2 days less!!! I keep getting these dreams that it is my last day of my mission and I wake up in a panic like I have to go an work and work and work as hard as I can. It is freaking me out. And now that I am getting closer to the transfers I feel like I need to work as hard as I can to help this area!! I am just racing with time and I hate it. I feel like I haven't done anything and that I need to make up for all of the time I wasted not working as hard as I could. It's a bad feeling. It is showing me that I need to work like it is my last day of my mission everyday. Some times I just grab some cookies and call it lunch so that I can work during lunch. My companion doesn't like that because he just wants to rest all day(parasites).

Speaking of my companion, he is dead. Just 100 percent done. There is nothing I can do to help him so I wrote a letter to my president and marked it urgent so hopefully we can do like an emergency interview. That would help. I literally ask him everyday if there is anything I can do to help him but he never wants me to help. I'm just trying so hard for my little Columbiano amigo.

Another highlight of my week is that the chips that they sell here come with these little circle things and this time there are dragon ball z ones and so I am collecting all of those. I have like 20 because all of the niños in my area give them to me. I love it. I will buy the chips pull out the toy thing and give the chips to the first niño that I see in the street haha good times

I love you all

Elder Garry

Week 27

I just would like to start off by saying that I almost didn't do anything this week. My companion is sick with parasites and has to take 8 pills everyday to kill the parasites and it has just killed him. We work for like 3 hours everyday and then he has to rest from the lack of energy and war that is going on in his stomach. So that has been my week. Sitting here writing, I feel super sick so we shall see what I have. Maybe parasites. wouldn't that be fun!!
So our baptism fell for this Saturday because he didn't go to church yesterday. Not sure why but we will figure it out tomorrow. I guess everyone thinks he is gay so we need to really be delicate and find out what it is we need to do to figure it out. We taught the law of chastity, which surprisingly isn't as awkward as you would think, and he said that in the moment he doesn't have any problems so we will just see. I feel like we could baptize him for sure though! He just needs to understand that church is important and that he needs to go!
So I am really getting comfortable with teaching and Spanish. I find myself asking more inspired questions now. Those are so much better and make the lessons not as robotic. And yesterday I taught Sunday school and gospel principals. So basically I had the entire branch in my class and it was like 50 people and I taught very comfortably! I taught about prophets and I had the class laughing and involved. Just a good time! Whats funny is that at first, I hated teaching. Then I remember something in my Patriarchal Blessing that tells me that I will learn to love all of my callings and that is just what happened!! I really do LOVE teaching these classes! I feel like I have all of their little souls in my hands and it all depends on me!! I enjoy it haha
So other than that, we didn't do much because my companion is sick and only wants to hangout with one member and that's it alllll day. When he is sick, we just sit in the house, when he is healthy, we just sit in the members house and that's it. He tried telling me that we need to set our goals lower because we never accomplish them and I kind of yelled at him about how we set goals to work harder and then how we need to work more efficient and we could do it. He didn't like my input very much. Its funny being with him. Like we work and we get along but I feel like because he is DL, I shouldn't have a voice so when i tell him that we are doing things wrong, he gets pouty. All I'm saying is that I'm out in February so just endure to the end right?
I love you so very much!!
Elder Garry

6 Months!!

So here I am with the weekly update.

We are now working with the Branch Presidents son and he is literally a walking Bible and BOM. He knows everything. I mean he could tell you the color of the house Jesus lived in and explain how it is significant to our salvation. He knows it all. So I am learning so much from him. In school, I just showed up, did enough to get a good grade, then left. HERE, I have a desire to learn. Like I am hungry for this stuff. In the morning I read Jesus the Christ and in the night again and I have learned so much!! It is so fun to blow peoples minds. Especially the people who try to fight with us and then I whip out some sick scriptures on them. So I am really enjoying working with him because it is making me smarter.

We are still working with that Ronald guy and he is so awesome. He went to church yesterday and bore his testimony!!! Even the members don't do that and he went up and told his story about his brother and how God has sent us to his house 2 times and how he knows that this is the true church!!! HOW GREAT!! So I am praying that these next 12 days come by really quick so that nothing bad happens. We will visit him like every other day and make sure that he is cheque!!! And we have some more prospects as well so I think this month could be solid!! I am just going to pray and pray that everything goes well.

My companion was sick this week so we had to go to Tegucigalpa and it was his turn to poop in a cup!!! He was so nervous and so ashamed. It was great haha I had to fight with the lady at the counter because she was trying to tell us that we couldn't do it because we didn't have the forms but all of it was on her computer but she didn't want to look. I won a fight. IN SPANISH. YEAHHHH after about 6 months I am a Spanish speaker. Every time I think I am good at Spanish, Heavenly Father humbles me again so I am trying to be super humble and every like 10 minutes I pray in my mind and thank Heavenly Father for this talent hoping he doesn't take it away again hahaha

Well I love you so very much!! And I will talk to you all next week!

Elder Garry

Week 25

So this week was really weird.  There is a word here in Spanish call baggy which means like home sick.  And after the skype call home, I was super baggy.  Like incredibly baggy.  I had like zero desire to do anything that day and the next day but now I'm back in the game and teaching like a missionary should!
I have a super cool story to share.
So this week we had divisions and I was with a missionary from Nicaragua and we were in my area so I was in charge of the lessons and everything.  I planned for that day but when we started to work, I just felt like my schedule was just bad.  So we just improvised as we went and we found a ton of new people, taught some really powerful lessons, and had some super good success.  But the best part of it all was with this guy named Ronald.  He was an investigator of Elder Reinoso and mine and we would teach him and yeah.  That's like it.  But I hadn't talked to this guy since I was with Reinoso because he wasn't progressing and because we could never find him at his house.  SO fast forward to Monday, I am working and we are kind of near his house and I was just like "we NEED to go to his house" so we go.  He is sitting outside and he like like ELDERS come in come in!! We teach just like a small message about whose fold we want to be in.  He just tells us this long story about his first experience with the missionaries.  How his brother died in April and he wanted an answer as to why.  He was super sad and depressed and he prayed like a week later and said "Send me someone today!!" like 5 minutes later Elder Reinoso showed up.  Then he was like what the heck.  You sent me Mormons??  So he listened and liked it but never went to church or anything.  And then later in our lesson, he told us that he was sad again, and he prayed and asked for someone to come and give him the Word of God, then like 5 minutes later, WE SHOWED UP!! and he said that it just blew his mind and how he doesn't know why we came but that God clearly wants us there with him and how he is ready to go to church and wants to get baptized on the 16 of January!!  How cool!!
The Church is so true.  Heavenly Father puts us in the paths of people who are ready all of the time.  It  just depends on if we, as missionaries or members, are willing to listen to the still small prompting of the Holy Ghost and then act on that prompting. I love to be a missionary.  I miss you all terribly and I might get super baggy sometimes but unfortunately for all of you, you need to wait until July of 2017 to see me in real life.
I love you oh so very much!!
Elder Garry