Goblins

Multizone Conference

 A member sewed all of the missionaries a skirt or tie.

One of the investigators we taught during  intercambios.

Hola Amigos,

Que ondas mis guirros? Todo cheque todo tranquilo todo tuanny todo macizo todo azul todo fresa todo tombado todo azul todo bien here in that one place. (Basically all of that means what's going on, everything is chill here). I'm pretty sure you know where I am. 

Anyway. Let me start off with some sketchy stuff aight. 

We were walking down this street and it's  pretty normal that bolos try to talk to us, but this time was deathly. He talked to us for about 30 minutes! He told us some creepy stuff. He said there are goblins from Ireland that live on this hill that have tons of girls in their house and that they smoke weed and stuff. Aparently it's prohibited to talk about them. He said if we go to their house they will try to kill us. He said will you guys prepare yourselves to meet the goblins? I want to take you there! It will change your way of life and the way you see me if you go! We kept trying to say sorry we can't and leave but he wouldn't let us. So fiiinally I was like yeah we'll come back tomorrow to go meet them alright? And he let us go. We saw him the next day from a distance and he saw us. He yelled Heyyy!!! and started walking towards us. We turned the corner and raann! We escaped. We actually saw him yesterday, but good thing he was passed out on a bench so he didn't notice us. Pheww. 

         We had a multizona this week so I got to see one of the missionaries that came with me from the CCM. (Elder Bowen) We learned a lot there about how to work with members and get references and stuff. Also,  intercambios with Elder Vazquez this week. He's from Mexico and pretty cool if you ask me. I went to his area for the day. We put a date with one of his investigators. It was dope. 

          Our fechas didn't go to church this week we were disapointed. We passed by to get them in the morning and they were all ready. They said they would meet us there in about 30 minutes but they never showed up. 

We introduced the Book of Mormon to Ricardo and Fabio and they were very interested and had a lot of questions. We also get along well and talk a lot. I have a feeling that we can put a date with them next visit.  Not really anything else that happened this week. Juan Orlando is officially the president now, but surprisingly it's pretty chill here. 

           

         I learned a lot about the sacrement this week and it's very interesting. I realized even more the importance of taking the sacrement every Sunday. I know sometimes when I took the sacrement I didn't really think about what I was doing all that much. I was just like dannng I'M HUNGRY! But I really am grateful for that opurtunity we have to go to church everyweek to partake of the sacrement. I challenge you guys to study something about the sacrement. Maybe search for a talk on lds.org about it or idk but you feel? 

Have a good week guys!

Elder Sullivan

Stomach Massages and DL 2.0

                       
                                          My new district

Hola guirros! This week was a little bit of a change for me. One of the areas in my zone was closed. (The area of the District Leader) Now I'm the district leader for the areas that he was in charge of. I am in charge of Country B, Residenciales, and Santa Fe. Now I can't really chill at night because I'm going ham calling everyone until I go to bed. 

       I've been sick this week with a gripa de infierno. It's actually almost gone, but I still have the cough of death and it might be the cough for life! 

        My comp and I cooked quite a tad this week if you ask me. We made some french toast and some breakfast burritos. I'll hook you gills up with some pics. 

        So there's this little girl in my area that is reealllly creepy. Let me tell you. I've actually never heard her say anything. Everytime she sees us she comes up with a wieiiiirrrrd smile on her face and starts squeezing my stomach and laughing. I just sit there like maaaaan this girl neessss soome millkk. Yeah, she trips haard. 

         We've been teaching our fechas trying to prepare them for their baptism. They couldn't hit up the iglesia this week so we had to extend their date to the 10th. We hope that they will be ready by then. They are suuuper humble and nice. It's 6 people but they aren't a family. They live in a small house inside of a cuarteria. Their house doesn't even have lights so we have to teach them with flashlights, but they really do want to be baptized and I hope everything works out my friends. 

        That's actually all for this week, but next week there will be more. IM SERIOUS! Good luck with your week and your goals and all the stuff you feeeeeellll? Peaaace!

I would like to challenge you to try and fast this week. It really can help you and god will bless you because of it. If you have questions, doubts, or goals. Just pray and fast and you will receive help from on high. 

Have a good week!

Elder Sullivan

Bolos (

My face after my first baptism!

                                                       My new comp, Elder Clegg

Hola Amigos,


Elder Clegg is doooope guys. He's from Spanish Fork and is going to UVU when he gets back from the mish. He has 15 months. We've been working hard this week and it has paid off! We actually didn't work on Wednesday because Clegg was throwing up. I think he ate something bad,  BUT after that things got better. 

We basically went ham this week trying to find new investigators and we ended up finding a gold mine! 4 investigators that live in the same house. They have all been to our church before! They are all teenagers but they aren't family. It's a little weird if you ask me, but who cares man! 2 of them actually have Mormon parents that are inactive! I'm excited to see if they can progress!

I had my first baptism this Saturday. I can't believe I had to wait almost 6 months to get there! But it felt good. Our ward mission leader is pretty lazy. He's cool but ya know he doesn't want to do anything. We asked him to do the agenda for the baptism, the talks the hiymns prayer etc. He said yeah man I do it. We showed up on Saturday for the baptism which was supposed to be at 5 pm. We waited for about an age for our mission leader to show but he didn't. We ended up having to make our own agenda in 5 minutes and we started the baptism at 6! It's all good now though because she's baptised and confirmed. 

DANG. Yesterday was a day of the creeeps. It actually started out good though. 

We passed by for those 4 investigators to take them to church but they weren't there. We were pretty bummed out for that. We were chilling about 20 minutes in to sacrament meeting and guess what!!! They all showed up!! i was smiling and suppper happy! 

The day went death from there.

After church we ate some lunch and went to contact. As we were walking we ran into this bolo (a drunk guy). Man he was tripping pretty hard. He stopped us and started saying some weird stuff. He had a magazine with pictures of super nice houses and he was telling us, "Hey we want to make Honduras look like this.  Can you guys help us out?" We said sooorrry dude. We don't have anything. He then said "Can you guys drive me somewhere?" We knew this bro was tripping hard. He eventually saw this car pass by and zoned out for a bit. We took our chance and bailed out of that gizzard.

The same street we hit another bolo! He begged us for money and kept asking to trade jackets with my comp. 

At the end of the street we turned right onto a street I've never seen. We walked up the hill and behold a gang of bolos!!! Even one of them from before was there!! We were gonna turn around but it was too late. We tried walking by casually, but come on we knew something was gonna happen. One the bolos with a hat on started chasing us saying "Come here, come here!" We told him we were in a hurry but he started running. He caught up to us and said "Hey, I need help can you please help me?" we said with what? He then walked us a little further up the street and showed us his house. It had a ladder leading into some creepy room. He pointed at his house and then took off his hat. His suuuuppper long hair came out and he started whipping his hair all majestically  like Justin Bieber of something. He said "Come into my house at least one of you pleeeaaasssee." He said "I look like Hesus don't I?"  We were like haha yeaaah suree duuude. He said "I am your Lord!" We gave him a pamphlet but he still wouldn't leave us alone. He grabbed our hands and started rubbing them on his face and kissing them. Then he got our hands and pounded them on his chest like Donkey Kong. He started singing iii hhaaaave the hooolly ghooosttt! Dang, I didn't think a man could triipp that hard. We said bro we gotta go but we'll go in your house another time. 

Wow crazy stuff am I right?! Anyway,  I just want to give you some scriptures to read that really helped me learn about recognizing answers to my prayers. Read Coctrina y Convenios seccion 6, 8, and 9 it talks about how to pray and what we should look for for our answers.

Have a good week pleaaaaaassssse!! love you!!!

Elder Sullivan

Dude, 2018!!! Cambios

Complementos-Kind of like a Chilean hot dog


Hey Amigos, 


 How's it going? Todo tranquilo aqui en Las Mercedes. I can't believe this change is allready over!! It was a doooope time con Zapata mi chileno favorito! And now it's time for another change mis amigos!

Area: Las Mercedes (Same area)

Companion: Elder Clegg 

I will also be the new District Leader here in Las Mercedes.

I'm stoked and ready for this change. First gringo comp too ha,ha. I hope I can keep my Spanish flowin. Anyway I'd like to tell you a tad about my week!

First of all I'd like to say.... It's a NEW YEAR! Let's make this year great! It's the perfect time to set goals, to lose or make habits! You feel? I will be in Honduras this whole year and tha'ts not a problem dude! I'm looking forward to continuie serving the people of this country!

This week we went out to contact with a bro. His name is Fernando and he's 13. We actually found a pretty good investigator. Her name is Nancy. She is very interested in going to church! This week she had conjutivitis,  but next week she's going. I can feel it. She's prob 40 years old and has 3 kids. The prob is that she's not married. Dang. We'll see how things go with her. 

We are having a baptism this Saturday. I don't know if you remember Natalie but she's cool. She's 9 and her family is inactive. But yeah I'm pretty excited for that if you ask me. 

So I bought this speaker for 1800 lemps and it broke the 3rd day after I bought it. I tried taking it back with my comp but the bro just pretended like it wasnt broke. 

I was pretty mad for paying that much money and getting una basura. So. This week I made a plan. I got the zone leaders to help me. We got ourselves together and went back. This time the dude was scared. We said a prayer that we could touch his heart to let us return the speaker haha. And it worked my friends. He took the speaker this time. I ended up having to spend 1800 lemps on stuff from the store so i bought a less expensive speaker that wasn't broke. We all good now!

My comp is a master at making these things called Completos! It's a comida chileno. We bought a loaf of french bread and some other good ingredients. We cut the loaf in half and  threw in some eggs, tomato, and  sausage. I put chile on mine but my comp doesnt like it haha. We cut it in half and we each ate our own. Mmmmmmm. 

I have pics but on my comp's cam. I'll send them some day.

Have a grrrreeeeeaaaat weeek!! Seeee yaaaaa!!!

Elder Sullivan

Christmas and New Years!

Hola Amigos, 

No email last week because I was talking to the fam! A ton has happened in these last 2 weeks! I don´t have much time to write today so I´m just gonna talk about the major highlights. 

Christmas! 

The people here celebrate Christmas very diferent. It´s basically New years. Everyone makes Torrejas and Tomales on Christmas Eve. Some are pretty good, but most of them are really nasty if you ask me. They call Christmas Eve Noche Buena. When it gets dark the people start to go ham. The music starts bumpin and the people start dancing. Tons of fireworks too. That goes on all night long. At 12 when it´s actually Christmas there are fireworks everywhere in the sky. We have some dope neighbors. We partied with them on Christmas. At 12 things got crazy. Some bro rolled into the house with a massive trash bag filled with some stuff. Not just any stuff guys, he came over to me and my companion and started pulling out Morteros as long as my arm!! They aren´t even fireworks. They are basically huge sticks of dynamite.  I had the opurtunity to light one off it was super dope! They are soo loud that it leaves your ears ringing! After a mortero blows up the whole street is filled with paper. And thats just from one, so by the end of the craziness the streets are fiiiiilllled man. Now the actual day of Christmas the people don´t do anything. They sleep because they are all hung over. I'M SERIOUS! On Christmas nobody is in the streets its like I was on The Walking Dead or something. 

New Years!

The exact same thing as Christmas except for more fireworks! Luckily we have a super dope balcony with a nice view so we were able to see all of the fireworks from last night. 

One more thing... This week I ate something reaalllly creepy. We went to our usual Saturday lunch at a member's house. Usually she gives us some normal pollo with tortillas and rice. This time she gave us a soup. The soup had papas (potatoes), rice, and some odd looking meat. We ate it. The meat tasted really weird and I knew something was off. It was all soggy and slimy. After we ate we were talking for a tad. We were saying goodbye, but before we left the lady said "Wait. I need to ask you something. Do you guys know what you just ate?" We were like HA. no. She told us it was LENGUA DE VACA! Cow tongue man!!! My comp actually liked it. I said I liked it but really I had to force it down. 

We have a really good investigator. Basically a for sure baptism. Her name is Natally shes 9 and wants to be baptised. Her family is inactive. We talked to her parents and they said they want her to be baptised so we have a date for the 13th of January. 

That's all for today. Sorry I didn´t write much. I had a small amount of time to write. Have a great day!

Elder Sullivan

Gippers? Not Again!!

Hola Amigos,

I wasn't expecting to be able to write today. We were locked in our houses again for the day. But pres. is allowing us to leave to email. Usually I take little notes from my journal of what I'm going to write about on pday but I didn't for the reason above. I'm just gonna give a quick update of how the wave is down here and whatever else I can remember from this week. 

I'm loving Las Mercedes! It's super dope here! Everyday is a diferent experience. Yes, we are missionaries doing the work but we always see new things that interest us and we find new people everyday. This week was a nice full week of missionary work. I dig that. We have been teaching our normal investigators. We still have the problem of getting them to the church. If we can solve that we will have our success. 

We found a new fam this week. It's  5 girls--The mom, and her daughters--ages: 16, 13, 9, and 8. Let me just tell you they are crazy. We actually weren't even planning on teaching this family in the first place, but when we passed by their house the girls swarmed me and started interrogating me and telling me to translate stuff into English. It got to the point where they were begging for us to come into their house. They ended up feeding us dinner! The older girls are plain gippers, or flirters. We chatted with this fam for a tad and then we asked if we could share a quick message. They accepted. I think it was one of the most awkward lessons we've given. The gippers were staring at me the whole time and one of them kept  touching my ears. Gulp. By the end they actually seemed very interested in our message and wanted to learn more. As we were leaving their house my comp walked through the gate. Here it gets creepy. As my comp was on the other side the mom shut the gate and locked it so I couldn't leave. I was trippin. I knew they were joking but they kept me locked in for like 5 minutes! They talked to me about marrying a Honduran girl and about my eyes and other weird stuff! Finally the mom let me leave.

We have 2 other girls that we teach that live exactly across the street from the creepy fam. One is 17 and the other 15. They saw us talking to the creepy fam yesterday and now they are jealous. They drew us pictures of hearts saying I love you. They are trying to win us over. Enough with that craziness. We are teaching a few other people our goal is to get some of these people to the church. 

Hey guys. If you didn't know it's almost Christmas. I'm very happy to be in this country for that special day. It's really gonna help me focus on the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of our Savior. I challenge you to try and give as much as you can in this epoca navidena (Christmas time) and focus on the true meaning of Christmas. Keep on Illuminating the world and being cool. Have a grrrrrreat week alright?

Elder Sullivan

Knife to the Femur

Hola Amigos,

Entonces (so) we couldn't leave the house until Wednesday this week, but I learned quite a bit during the time we were stuck in our house. Usually the agua is supposed to arrive on Tuesdays or Fridays but it didn't come until yesterday. We had to take buckets down to our neighbors pila and fill them up. We've been showering with a cold bucket of water every morning. The water came yesterday, but now our shower and toilet still don't function so it's the same, but we fill the buckets from our own pila now. 

This week I got to know more of the members in our area. We even played cards with some kids one night after dinner. I met some dude that cuts hair. He's super funny! We ate dinner last night with his fam. I think I found my new barber here. 

We had our first district meeting on Friday, haha. There's only 4 people in our district (us and the zone leaders). 

Well. mis amigos. we have some good investigators these days. Blanca y Geraldo. They are really good and want to be baptised but they need to get married. The problem is that one day they want to get married and the next they get into a fight. One day we showed up to their house but only Geraldo was there. He then told us a sketchy story from his past. 

Blanca and Geraldo were in a fight. She was going ham yelling and getting out of control. so Geraldo came up behind her and hugged her to try and calm her down. Backfire. Blanca grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed it into his femur and ran away. Geraldo was in a lot of pain. He then pulled out the knife and tons of blood started to run down his leg.He started to hobble to find help and eventually someone took him to the hospital. Crazy stuff right! but we hope that they can improve their relationship and find the gospel in their lives. 

Suyapa, Jessica, and Jairo. Suyapa is the mom. She is 27 and her daughter Jessica is 14. Jairo is the son. He's 9 years old. They are super good! They are such humble and friendly people! They have a date for the 23rd of this month to be baptised. Alll they need to do is attend to the church. They couldn't go this week because they had a family member visit. We really hope to get them to the church next week and baptise them this month!

The weather has actually been pretty cold lately at least for Honduras. It's mostly just because of the wind, so i've been wearing a jacket lately.

Yesterday was my first visit to the church in my new area. Last week we couldn't go because of the craziness here. The church here is big and there's about 3 times the members than in Guayape. Church was good untill sacrement. 

My comp had to give a talk. While he was talking, two little girls came up to me. They had already stolen my comp's phone somehow and they were basically yelling at me to unlock the phone. Everyone was looking at me because they were sooo loud. I was tripping and didn't know if I should take the phone back or just let them go ham. I decided to try and take the phone but they just started crying,  so I let them have it. Then they got into my comp's bag and took 15 lemps and an orange. Then they finally gave me the phone and ran. 

This week we've been telling people about illumina el mundo. I really dig the vids on the website and I don't know who wouldn't, so we've been handing out little cards to people lately with a link to mormon.org. I'm sure you guys have already heard about it, but if no,  check out mormon.org or on their youtube channel to see some dope stuff! 

I love you guys and I hope you have a great week! 

Elder Sullivan