tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49074748430192570892024-03-13T11:44:15.112-05:00Cam's ChronicleCameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-1209108182048114852013-11-11T15:35:00.003-06:002013-11-11T15:35:44.427-06:00Week 103<div dir="ltr">
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Hey everyone! It´s finally coming to an end... two more days, and I´m done
with the mission. Next Monday, and I´m back in the States. I just wanted to say
thanks to everyone that supported me in any way during the last two years-
packages, letters, reading the blog, prayers. Thanks so much! It helped me get
through the tough times, and made the sweet times even sweeter! I love all you
guys! Until next week! I´ll be back on Facebook, and I want to talk with
EVERYBODY and catch up on EVERYTHING! Que les vaya bien!<br /></div>
-Elder
Birt (for a little bit longer ;)</div>
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Hey folks! Can you guys believe its November? Yeah, me neither.
Everybody keeps telling me I'm old and about to leave. But no! I still have
another full week to do work! Haha here are the highlights (and lowlights) of
the week that was:
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- The far-and-away biggest lowlight was getting that strange Honduran
sickness yet again. I won't go into details, but it wasn't pretty. I didn't get
any sleep Thursday night because of stomach pain and frequent visits to the good
old bano. Then, I had to get up early and travel by bus Friday morning to the
zone leader meeting in San Pedro. After getting back (and feeling like death), I
got permission from President to rest for the day. I just had to get that
sickness one more time! But luckily, I've been pretty much fine since
yesterday.</div>
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- Other than being sick in the last zone leader meeting, it was pretty fun
to see the whole gang. A ton (8 to be exact) of us finish the mission in nine
days, so it was more a celebration than anything. Still cool though :)</div>
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- I also had my final interview with President Dester, which went really
well. He gave me some good after-mission advice. If any of you see me after the
mission, make sure I'm reading my scriptures EVERY day cuz that's the goal we
put together. </div>
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- Today, we took the whole zone to Omoa, where we saw the castle and went
to eat fish on the beach! It was the third time I've gone (it's kind of the main
attraction in this zone, so we go pretty much every change), but I hadn't had
fish on the beach before. It was delicious!</div>
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- Rosemary will FINALLY be baptized this Friday. It's probably the baptism
I've fought for most in my entire mission, but it's well worth it. She'll be a
great member, and the ward loves her. We also have three more baptisms the
following Saturday, which, if things play out right, my parents and I might be
able to see...? We'll have to wait and see with that.</div>
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- So on what has to be like the 15th try of my mission, I was somewhat able
to make flour tortillas! They still weren't that great, but I was kind of able
to do it the Honduran way. They basically take the dough, and slap it between
their hands a bunch of times (kinda like pizza), and it creates a perfect flour
tortilla. Honduran women can do it in about 3 seconds. I do it in about one
minute, and they're not nearly as good. But hey, it's a start haha. Maybe I can
try to make some tortillas when I get back (trust me, tortillas here are WAY
better than any of that crap they have in the States)</div>
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Anywho, thanks for all the support guys! Can't wait to see you all! Love
you! Adios!</div>
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Hey everyone! It's almost Halloween! Which sadly, means next to nothing
here in Honduras. They don't celebrate Halloween! How lame is that? Anyway,
here's the update, bullet-list style, on the week that was:<br />
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- We
had 12 investigators in church yesterday! It was one of those weeks where a lot
of things went right. We found some people that were legitimately interested,
had some people go that have been off and on for a while, etc. It was my highest
total in Puerto Cortes, and should result in some baptisms, but sadly most would
come after I leave.<br />
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- We did divisions twice this past week, and I
really dodged a bullet when I left my area. Why? Because our cook gave the
elders yuka (this horrible, tasteless, vegetable), chicharron (pig skin) with
hair on it, and pig feet. That's about the worst Honduran meal I can think of.
Only slightly better was the mondongo (cow stomach) soup which we had the next day.
Needless to say, we might change cooks hahahaha.<br />
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- Ok, time for one
of the CRAZIEST stories of my mission. So we've been teaching this 23-year old
girl named Rosemary for about 4 months now. She's super awesome, and always has
kept all of our commitments... except baptism. What I haven't told you guys is
that her and her mom fight... like a lot. It's been getting progressively worse
for the last few weeks, and apparently it reached it's breaking point yesterday
morning because her mom kicked her out of the house! We called her after church
to find out that she had gone to one of the member's houses to stay. She'll be
there until she can find somewhere a little more permanent. The members are
being super nice about it, and giving her all the time she needs to figure
something out.<br />
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- Also, it's been raining a TON the last week, and
we got pretty wet. I once again dodged a bullet, and missed the day with the
most rain when I was out on divisions doing 5 baptismal interviews
:)<br />
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Thanks for all your love and support guys! Have a great week,
and I'll see you all soon!<br />
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-Elder Birt</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-76706402466820373482013-10-21T15:41:00.001-05:002013-10-21T15:41:22.395-05:00Week 100<div dir="ltr">
What´s up everyone? Hope you all had fantastic weeks! For lack of
time, I´ll just start with the list of highlights from the week...
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<br />-Carlos and Jade got married! It was awesome! She actually cried a little
bit during the wedding. To be honest, Honduran weddings are really simple and
somewhat lame most of the time. But the most important thing is that they made
the commitment and are now obeying another of God´s commandments. We can save
all the fancy stuff for the temple marriage (hopefully). They still have to
clear a few hurdles (he works on Sundays, they both drink coffee) in order to be
baptized, but that´s coming soon!</div>
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<br />- We did a crazy service project on Saturday morning, where we helped a
family that the sisters are teaching to move a GIANT heap of dirt and rocks to
fill in a hole under their storage shed. It was pretty brutal work, and I have a
nasty-looking blister now as a result. But the family went to church on Sunday,
so it was worth it!</div>
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<br />- We had a sweet zone activity this morning where we watched Rise of the
Guardians (watch this movie if you haven´t yet because it´s excellent!) and ate
some brownies! I hadn´t eaten brownies in sooooo long. I plan to never go that
long without brownies again hahaha</div>
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<br />Anyway, that´s it for this week. Apparently, it´s set that I´m coming home
on November 18th, so I hope to see everyone when I get back! Love you guys!
Adios!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-73795808787652191892013-10-14T17:07:00.000-05:002013-10-14T17:07:43.006-05:00Week 99<div dir="ltr">
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Hey, guys! Hope y'all had an awesome week (I included the y'all because I'm
trying to convince my comp that Texas is the best state haha). It was an...
interesting week here in Puerto Cortes.</div>
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<br />First of all, it seems like every drunk person in Puerto Cortes (which is
actually quite a few) wanted to talk to us this week. We had some of the
strangest conversations of my entire mission this week... it seemed like all the
craziness just came at the same time. The highlight though, was when a 104
year-old lady called us out in the street to give her a "Biblical answer" as to
why her potatoes had spoiled. Ya, you just can't make this stuff up.</div>
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<br />Ok, I lied, there were two highlights. The second was when an ex-convict
got up to bear his testimony in church. Apparently, he was baptized as a kid,
and just got out of jail recently. His testimony was very Evangelical, with a
lot of "Hallelujahs" and "Gloria a Dios." It was probably the strangest
testimony I've ever heard.</div>
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<br />In good news of the week, Rosmery FINALLY has a baptismal date! But for
some reason she wants to wait until the last week I'm here in Puerto Cortes, the
9th of November. In that time, she'll probably read a good chunk of the Book of
Mormon and be the best-prepared convert I've ever had.</div>
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<br />Also, we are FINALLY marrying Carlos and Jade this Friday. The sad part of
that news is they're not quite ready to get baptized because they both drink
coffee, and Carlos works on Sundays. But I feel like the marriage thing was the
biggest hurdle, so we're making some good progress!</div>
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<br />The biggest news in Honduras is that we're (I now refer to Honduras as "we"
haha) almost for sure going to qualify for the World Cup! We beat Costa Rica
this past Friday (absolutely everyone was in their house and we couldn't teach
anyone) and just need a tie or win against Jamaica on Tuesday to qualify! Go
Catrachos!</div>
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<br />I love all you guys, and thank you for your support! We're ready for
another week of success, and I hope you are too!</div>
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Elder Birt</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-73846581656866674102013-10-07T16:42:00.000-05:002013-10-07T16:42:22.116-05:00Week 98<div dir="ltr">
Hey everyone! What an awesome conference right? It seemed like it
passed by so fast though! My personal favorite talk was from President Uchtdorf,
whose talk helped me with some questions I had about my investigators and why
people should join the church.
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<br />It was an extremely busy week for me! First, I had what I call the "victory
tour" with Elder Polendo on Monday and Tuesday, where he said goodbye to
everyone from the zone and area. Wednesday was an awesome change meeting! It was
really weird to see so many good friends go home, and think that the next group
will have me in it! </div>
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<br />My new comp is Elder Williams, from Bountiful, Utah. He has 15 months in
the mission. I was actually in his zone when he entered the mission, so it's
really weird that we're together as zone leaders all these months later. I still
thought of him as the young buck that just entered the mission, but he's changed
a lot over the last year.</div>
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<br />They whitewashed one area and opened another in my zone, which meant I was
running around like a chicken with his head cut off, trying to help the
missionaries get situated and learn their areas. That took up a good chunk of
two days this past week. Also, there are now 25 missionaries in my zone, with 11
sisters. The mission is growing super fast, and like they said in Conference,
God is hastening His work!</div>
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<br />We had a really good lesson yesterday right after the last session of
General Conference, where we went on a visit with our bishop to an investigator
family we've been teaching for a while. We were finally able to sort out all the
problems, and agree on a definite plan for them to get married. We'll be turning
in the papers this Wednesday, and they should get married in a couple weeks.
It's really gratifying because I've been teaching them almost my entire time
here, and they're a special family for me. </div>
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<br />Well, that's about all for this week! I hope all you guys enjoyed
Conference and that you have a wonderful week!</div>
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<br />-Cameron</div>
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Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-46082927577438903532013-09-30T15:30:00.000-05:002013-09-30T15:30:00.041-05:00Week 97Hey folks! There´s not much time this week because it´s my comp´s last P-day in
the mission! So we´re gonna be doing some exciting things today. We already
watched a movie with the zone and ate together at Wendys. <br /><br />I
obviously will have a new companion this Wednesday. I still have no idea who it
will be though. And there are tons of changes in the zone. We´ll end up having 7
companionships of elders and 5 with sisters. It´s really exciting but sad at the
same time because I really grew to love the zone that we have
now.<br /><br />We should finally be able to have a wedding here in a couple
weeks. Turns out the sister was just hesitant because of money issues. If she
would have told us a month ago, they would probably already be married. But she
said she felt guilty telling us about it. We were able to get it out of her
though haha. Anyway, we should turn in the papers this week, and then they have
to wait 2 or 3 weeks for the government offices to prepare their papers. So
that´s what should happen, but you guys know how Honduran marriages usually are
pretty difficult.<br /><br />Well, that´s it for this week. I love all you
guys, and I´ll hopefully be able to write more next week about my new comp and
the zone and all the other changes! Thanks for everything guys!
<br /><br />-Elder Birt<br />
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Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-5604617347479917642013-09-23T17:30:00.000-05:002013-09-23T17:31:49.210-05:00Week 96<div>
This week flew by! To be honest, all the weeks are starting to blur
together, so I'm sorry if I repeat stories or something. Elder Polendo and I
keep so busy that it's just a constant whirlwind of awesome missionary work.
Here were the highlights (I think they're all from this week haha)</div>
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- We had a sweet P-day today where the zone got together to eat carne asada
and watch a movie! It took some serious preparation though! And honestly, if we
didn't have sisters in the zone, the whole thing would have been a giant
disaster. Thank goodness for sisters! Honestly, I've learned that the church
absolutely cannot function without the Relief Society. So thanks to all you
women out there for your hard work! Anyway, now that I'm off that tangent, it
was a really successful activity (a little stressful though so I don't know if
we'll do that again).<br />
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- To be honest, Elder Polendo and my greatest joy comes from the zone's
success. And being with the other missionaries are the best moments of the week!
I really love the whole zone, and we're working amazing together! We should have
about 15 baptisms this next week and October looks really good!</div>
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- It looks like we might have had a breakthrough with Rosemary, the
investigator we've been teaching for a couple months now. We had been giving her
a little space recently with the whole baptism issue, but we prayed, fasted, and
put a date with her for the 28th. She kind of accepted. But then she came to
church again yesterday, and between classes, I showed her the baptismal font,
and explained a little about how a baptismal service is. She seems a lot more
comfortable with the idea. We should get a definite answer from her tomorrow.
Whenever it happens, it will be one of the best baptisms of my mission. She'll
be a leader in the church one day :)</div>
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- My comp, Elder Polendo, is hitting that realization that he's finishing
the mission in 10 days. I think he's starting to freak out a little bit, but he
continues working really well. Also, Elder Hebert, my old MTC comp, turned in
his application to BYU! He tells me that something I told him made him change
his mind, and he feels really good about the decision.</div>
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I hope all you guys had a great week, and that you have an even better week
starting today! I love you all! Adios!</div>
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Elder Birt</div>
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Hey everyone! This week just disappeared! I can't believe how fast
things are going now!
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Elder Polendo and I are focusing a ton on helping the zone these days, and
we're seeing some great results! I think we had the most successful zone (as far
as numbers) for the second straight week, so that's reason to celebrate!</div>
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This past Thursday, I was on divisions with one of our district leaders
when it started POURING! I've never seen it rain so hard here in Honduras. We
got drenched, but the worst part was the flooding. We had to wade through this
one part where the water was almost up to my belt! And there were a bunch of
cars that had died and the owners had abandoned them. It was pretty crazy!</div>
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Yesterday, was Independence Day in Honduras, which basically ruined
everything at church. For some reason, the schools make it mandatory that the
kids march in parades. Anyway, our attendance got cut in half yesterday (a
mighty 63 in a ward), and we only had one investigator show up :( The majority
of the zone had similar results.</div>
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We had a couple really sweet experiences yesterday! First, we set up an
appointment in the morning with a member family that we had never visited
before. This family is active and everything, but we'd never really talked to
them before and they're not that involved with the ward. But we went over a few
hours after church, and they had their non-member neighbors waiting for us in
their house! We taught a simple, powerful lesson, and set up another appointment
for this week. But for all you members out there, there's nothing that makes the
missionaries more happy than doing something like that. I would know because my
comp and I were high-fiving after leaving their house haha</div>
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Also, we showed up at one of our investigator family's houses the other
day, only to receive the news that they had gotten married the day before! This
is after we had been working on getting papers for them for about 2 months.
Apparently, they just took matters into their own hands and got married
themselves! Now, we just have to help them get baptized, which will be another
project.</div>
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Thanks to everyone who still reads my blog! I'm impressed with everyone
that's hung in there for 22 months. Heck, I don't even know if I would have done
it haha. But seriously, thanks for everything and I love all you
guys!</div>
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Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-87720275275492730772013-09-09T15:10:00.001-05:002013-09-09T18:00:57.871-05:00Week 94<div>
Hey everyone! Sorry if anyone was waiting for my blog entry last week
(mainly my mom), but we had an activity that went a little long. We´re keeping
SUPER busy the last few weeks, and today is actually the first time in a while
that I´ve been able to rest a little bit. Here´s the breakdown:<br />
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- Tuesday, we had a zone meeting. Instead of the district leaders
controlling their own meeting like normal, Elder Polendo and I planned a totally
beast 2 hour meeting! We felt like it was time to machete the missionaries
(that´s what we say when leaders scold their missionaries for crappy numbers
haha). For those of you who know me well, you probably know that´s not my
personality at all, but that´s what the situation called for. And I think we did
it in the right way too. Then, we had a little church tour after that turned out
to be super spiritual! One of the sisters in our zone even started crying
because the spirit was so strong. All in all, it was a sweet
meeting.<br />
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- That same day, we did divisions. Elder Polendo went to another area to go
dominate, while I held down the fort in Puerto Cortes.<br />
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- Wednesday morning, we finished divisions by playing basketball in the
morning at the church. I´m a little rusty, but actually not as much as I thought
I would be. Also, just a fun fact, we have an elder in the zone that has a
basketball scholarship to go to University of San Diego, so he´s pretty dang
good.<br />
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- Thursday, we did weekly planning as a zone (we´re basically trying to get
the zone together as much as possible to help the unity). And then we had
another division, where I left the area with Elder Madsen to dominate and my
comp Polendo held down the fort.<br />
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- Friday, after doing a church tour with Madsen, the office called us,
saying that Polendo had to go to San Pedro so he wouldn´t get thrown out of
Honduras for being illegal haha. That lasted pretty much all day. It was super
boring, but I got to catch up a bit with my friend Elder Bergquist from my MTC
district<br />
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- Saturday, the APs called us on short notice, telling us that they were
gonna visit us in our area. I got to do divisions with Elder Hebert again! It
was a blast! And then the four of us tried to sleep on two mattresses in our
house. It was pretty uncomfortable - I´ll just leave it at that.<br />
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With all that effort, the zone improved A TON! Seriously, I´ve never seen
numbers in my entire mission as good as the ones we got last night. It´s
extremely satisfying to see an entire zone buy in to what we said and improve so
much. Elder Polendo and I just have to get even better next week
though!<br />
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Funny (and stupid) story of the week: On Saturday, we started a fast with
the APs, and prepared to break the fast Sunday night by buying a ton of junk
food. So after church finishes Sunday, we race back to the house, finish our
fast, and start going to town. We drank a couple cups of water each, ate a whole
box of Vanilla Wafers (thanks for sending that mom!), drank a 3-liter of soda,
and ate a bunch of other snacks. Turns out after, we felt pretty terrible. And
even more terrible when we went to our lunch appointment, and the lady gave us
soup. Hahaha looking back on it, we were pretty dumb, but hey, it was
fun!<br />
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We´re working on 3 weddings in my area right now, but they´re all getting held
up for various reasons. Also, Rosemary (I talked about her forever ago) is still
going to church (9 straight weeks, I think). But she still won´t get baptized,
although it gets closer in every visit. So there are baptisms coming, but we
just don´t know exactly when :(<br />
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Thanks for all the love and support! You guys are awesome! Love you all!
Nos vemos!<br />
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-Elder Birt </div>
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dinner every night. We pay for the lunch - the dinner no. It´s pretty much the
same honduran food as always, and I don´t think I´ve eaten fish the whole time
actually. I did, however, try sopa de mondongo (cow stomach soup) for the first
time a couple weeks ago. It´s probably the most infamous dish in the mission,
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there´s an international match. As missionaries, we literally know the score of
the game just from walking in the street and hearing the cheers (or cussing)
after every goal. There´s also some fireworks and the occasional gunshots when
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Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-43041595661696591852013-09-03T08:32:00.002-05:002013-09-03T08:32:40.321-05:00Week 93Time kind of got away
from us today with a zone activity, and there was an issue with the computer.
But I love you all and hope you're doing great! Sorry, I'll write more next
week!pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-13156549714832384832013-08-26T17:21:00.003-05:002013-08-26T17:21:28.579-05:00Week 92<div dir="ltr">
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Hey everybody, hope everyone had a great week! From what I've heard,
there's a lot of excitement with school starting up! Good luck to everyone who's
starting up! For me, there was a TON of change this past week, so I'll try to
hit the high points for you guys.</div>
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- My new comp is Elder Polendo, from Chihuahua, Mexico. He has 23 months in
the mission, and yet again, I will be someone's last comp (for the fourth time).
He was AP for the last 8 months, so he's regarded as one of the best. We're
firing on all cylinders right now, but we need to incorporate some of our ideas
to help the zone.</div>
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<br />- We'll have a baptism this week! Her name is Reina, a lady in her 60s that
heard the missionaries before. She's a little crazy- she doesn't have any
filter, so it's anyone's guess what she's going to say. She's already made a few
offensive comments, so we are going to try to fix that problem before it gets
worse.</div>
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<br />- Skousen and I found a sweet family about 3 weeks ago that have gone to
church the last two weeks. As usual, the woman wants to get married, and the man
doesn't for some reason. </div>
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<br />- We should have a wedding/baptism for Carlos and Jade, but it probably won't happen until the second or third week of
September. They're on board, but he has work on Sundays, which is the only thing
in the way.</div>
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<br />- We went to a place called Omoa today for a zone activity! It's kind of a
touristy place, and there's this sweet castle we visited. Then we went to the
beach after (to be honest, I don't know why we go to the beach as missionaries.
We all just wanted to get in the water, but couldn't haha). And we ate at Pizza
Hut after! So it was a sweet little activity.</div>
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<br />- Elder Duncan from the Area Presidency will be visiting this week! We'll
have a mission conference on Thursday, and then a leadership meeting for the ZLs
on Friday. I'm looking forward to it a lot!</div>
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<br />- Crazy story of the week: We saw a dog sleeping in the street one day. He
got up and there was a car coming toward him pretty fast. For some reason, the
dog didn't do anything and got nailed by the car! The collision was surprisingly
loud. But more amazingly, the dog just got up and ran away after. Everybody that
saw was just like "Did that really happen?"</div>
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<br />Well, that's about it for today. Hope y'all (decided to be Texan today)
have a great week! Adios!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-4759554964988205522013-08-19T22:04:00.001-05:002013-08-19T22:04:38.011-05:00Week 91<div dir="ltr">
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Hey folks! It was a wonderful week this week, and thanks to everyone who
sent birthday messages or packages! I can't believe I'm 21 now!</div>
<div>
<br />Well, my comp went home yesterday, so I'm currently with Elder Taafua, an
elder finishing his first change in Honduras. We'll just be together until
Wednesday, when we'll have changes for the whole mission. But for three days,
I'm the only zone leader for the biggest zone of the mission! Yippee! But I'll
be e-mailing you guys next week with another new comp!</div>
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<br />I gotta tip my hat to Elder Skousen, who worked until the very end. Heck,
we had three people go to church for the first time yesterday (and six total),
despite some challenges here in Puerto Cortes (more on that later). The APs just
came yesterday, and whisked him away to San Pedro though. Amazing how it all
finishes so fast!</div>
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<br />The members tried to throw a surprise party for Elder Skousen on Saturday.
They told me about it Saturday morning, so I could get him to the church at the
right time. It was all going perfectly- he didn't even have a clue what was
going on. And then, we were visiting a member in the afternoon, and she let it
slip. Skousen ended up finding out, but more than anything, he was just glad
they were throwing him a party. Also, the surprise would have been foiled anyway
when we showed up at 5 (the time they told me) and hardly anyone was there.
Latins are great, but they have a thing for being late for ABSOLUTELY
EVERYTHING.</div>
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<br />Also, there was like a 2 week-long party here in Puerto Cortes these last
two weeks. Apparently, it was for some Catholic holiday; no one here even knows,
they just know they celebrate with parties. It was pretty cool actually! Every
day, there was a party in a different neighborhood. And then, they had a parade
for the whole town on Friday and "Carnaval" on Saturday! We passed by a couple
of these parties during the two weeks they had them- not exactly the most Mormon
of parties... I'll just leave it at that. Also, our attendance almost got cut in
half because people all stayed up late on Saturday for Carnaval. What can you
do?</div>
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<br />We have a baptism set up for the 31st for a lady named Reina. She's
actually kinda crazy. When we first met her, we thought she wasn't all there,
but it turns out she's just a little odd. But she's super smart and knows about
our church from when the missionaries visited her in Belize. Plus she's super
nice! She gives us some kind of dessert every time we visit her! So we're happy
about her baptism, and hope it inspires others to follow.</div>
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<br />That's about it for this week! Thanks to my parents and grandparents for
the packages! I love them! And I love all of you guys! Adios!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-45314493841051671222013-08-12T15:11:00.000-05:002013-08-12T15:11:09.389-05:00Week 90<div dir="ltr">
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Hey peeps! Hope everyone had a great week! There was a little bit of
everything this past week, so we´re gonna go at this bullet-list style.</div>
<div>
<br />- First, we had a stake conference yesterday! It started at 8:00 though!
Whoever made that decision did not think it through. It made it pretty much
impossible to bring people to church (Honduran people really love sleeping), so
we only had 2 investigators yesterday. It was similar luck for most of the zone
as well. Also, they're splitting our zone in October!</div>
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<br />- Second, we had a multi-zone conference on Friday! It lasted five hours,
which is a little longer than usual. President gave some good advice, but the
highlight for me was Elder Hebert's great training class. </div>
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<br />- Third, we just went on a little shopping spree! Normally, that doesn't
excite me that much, but I just bought tennis shoes for 11 bucks! No Honduran
people have size 12 shoes, so they sell them for dirt cheap haha. Also, I bought
a machete to cut the lawn when I get back (I'm just kidding, it takes forever
and really sucks. But it's still a cool machete).</div>
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<br />- We continue to bring people to church, but NO ONE will accept a
set-in-stone baptismal date. It's driving me insane! We should be marrying and
baptizing a really awesome couple soon (hopefully by the end of the month), but
the Honduran government office isn't giving us the papers we need to marry them.
We always leave that place pretty annoyed actually. Just imagine the driver's
license office in the States, but like 500 times more inefficient. Yeah, that's
what we're up against :(</div>
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<br />Well, that's my update for the week. I'm surrounded by bagginess
(trunkiness) lately! My comp leaves next week, and my best friend Rory Jones is
finishing up this week! Congrats to them for finishing with honor! Adios y nos
vemos la proxima semana!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-29131151466223724382013-08-05T17:08:00.003-05:002013-08-05T17:08:55.497-05:00Week 89<div dir="ltr">
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Hey folks! Hope everyone had a great week! It's already August! What has
happened to 2013?</div>
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<br />Anyway, we had a sweet zone activity this morning! We had a water balloon
fight, played some soccer, and then cooked up some hot dogs! I think it was the
first time I've eaten hot dogs in Honduras haha. Go America!</div>
<div>
<br />This week, the zone recovered and got back on track! We basically got back
to the old numbers we had before all the disasters of 2 weeks ago.</div>
<div>
<br />In meetings news, we had our zone leader council this past Friday. This Friday, we will have a multi-zone
conference with President Dester! And Saturday and Sunday, we have special
meetings because they're dividing our stake! That's just evidence of some good
missionary work over the past few years, so everyone is stoked!</div>
<div>
<br />So we talked with this drunk guy a few days ago. He was one of those
friendly drunks that says outrageous things, so it was a fun conversation. Also,
it seems like every Honduran drunk person knows a little bit of english, so they
always try to talk with us in their terrible english haha. Anyway, this guy
thought he was a sniper, and even started to do sniper moves with an imaginary
gun. My comp and I just egged him on a little bit because it was hilarious
:)</div>
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<br />The challenge we're facing right now is setting baptismal dates with our
investigators. We have a bunch of people who go to church and want to get
baptized. But when we try to set a date, they get scared and say they're not
prepared and a bunch of other excuses. It's frustrating, but hopefully we'll
have a little success before Skousen leaves in a couple weeks.</div>
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<br />Thanks for all the support! Love you guys!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-35243892188966613402013-07-29T16:49:00.000-05:002013-07-29T16:49:24.753-05:00Week 88<div dir="ltr">
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Hey folks! Hope you all had a great week! As for me, things have calmed
down a little bit with the zone and our own area. Things are getting back to
normal! At least, that's what I hope...</div>
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<br />- The problems from last week are being resolved, and to be honest, it's
about the best we could have hoped for. There haven't been any issues after we
and President Dester had separate interviews with the one elder. And the
companionship that was having problems had a good week, and it seems like the
elders are at least putting up with each other. </div>
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<br />- President Dester, his wife, and the Johns (missionary couple) came to our
sacrament meeting yesterday! It was kind of a shock since they told us Saturday
night. But it was great! We ended up looking really good, because the attendance
was the highest it's ever been, and we could barely fit everyone into the
chapel!</div>
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<br />- We found a sweet family this past week! The woman, Jade, has gone to
church for quite a few years, but has never gotten baptized because she lives
with a guy and they're not married. The problem was the guy was usually out of
town for work. But he came back this week, and it seems like he has changed
completely! They told us they were already planning on getting married, and the
guy, Carlos, is even thinking about baptism!</div>
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<br />Ok, I gotta go guys! Espero que tengan una buena semana! Sigan adelante!
Les quiero! Adios!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-82534566219400832142013-07-22T16:53:00.001-05:002013-07-22T16:53:52.142-05:00Week 87<div dir="ltr">
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Hey folks! Hope you all had a lovely week! As far as mine goes, it was
pretty insane. It seems like we´ve been running around everywhere, trying to
clean up messes that other missionaries are causing. Fun, right?</div>
<div>
- First, we got a call last week about an elder that wanted to get
emergency changed. He and his comp hate each other, they never even talk, etc.
So Elder Skousen and I sat them both down on Tuesday, and basically forced them
to talk it out. It was awkward, but at least they´re communicating again. And
then, Elder Skousen worked with both of them on Tuesday, while I went with two
other elders. That means we just completely abandoned our area all day Tuesday
to try to help the zone!</div>
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<br />- Then on Thursday, we heard an Elder´s mom had called the mission
president, complaining that her son´s companion was up to some shenanigans
(telling girls he loved them on his own cell phone, not wanting to work, etc.)
So we went to interview both of them Friday morning. Turns out the accusations
were true, and it was actually worse than what we had heard. The mission
president ended up interviewing the elder afterwards, and he´s apparently going
to change and start with the repentance process. He's on a pretty short leash for
the mission now though. Oh, I forgot to mention that this elder is one of our
district leaders :(</div>
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<br />- Another district leader is super bummed about the work, and it shows in
his numbers. And another still does not have a phone, meaning we can´t call him
at all during the week. </div>
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<br />With all these problems, we didn´t have a whole lot of time this week to be
in our own area, but we did manage to have a decent week. Rosemary went to
church again, and should get baptized at the beginning of August. We had an
awesome Ward Talent Show on Saturday night (the sisters in our ward really came
through to put that together). And I´m really blessed to be with Elder Skousen
for all of these problems. It´s good to know that I don´t have to worry about my
comp and we can be united to face all this stuff together. </div>
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<br />Hopefully, this was just one of those crazy weeks, and things will settle
down again now. Personally, I´m doing great, but I´m pretty worried about the
zone. Apparently, they´re splitting the zone soon, so that should relieve the
pressure. Thanks for everything guys and have an awesome week!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-77514792319895873682013-07-15T18:55:00.000-05:002013-07-15T18:55:00.959-05:00Week 86<div>
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week! For me, this was probably one
of the most tiring weeks ever. Not necessarily in a bad way. It just felt like
we were running around EVERYWHERE doing errands... probably because we
were.</div>
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Anyway, here's the quick day-by-day rundown:</div>
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- Tuesday started with a district meeting! And actually, two of our elders
gave their testimonies because they were leaving the zone. It was weird
considering I only knew them for two weeks. Also, in preparation for a new pair
of missionaries coming, we had to prepare a house by moving in beds, mattresses,
table, chairs, etc. With the new companionship, we now have 24 missionaries in
the zone and 4 districts.</div>
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- Wednesday was the change meeting, which we didn't end up going to. And we
ended up getting to work our only normal day of the week.</div>
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- Thursday, we had to deliver the money to the elders who moved into the
new house. The owner was already getting mad that they didn't have the money, so
we had to go save the day! Also, we found out the new elders don't have phones,
meaning that 3 of our 4 district leaders have phone problems. That's been kind
of a disaster :(</div>
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- Friday, we had a zone leader council in San Pedro, where we presented our
ideas and "vision" for our zones. </div>
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- Saturday, there was a meeting with the 4 zone leaders of the stake along
with the stake president and bishops. We basically had 5 minutes to present what
we thought was most important as far as the members helping the missionaries of
their areas. </div>
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- Sunday, we had church, so I guess that would be considered a normal day
too. We were still able to get 5 investigators to church, and the attendance
raised to over 100! Although, I gotta admit a lot of that was due to the sisters
in our area, who had an excellent week with the less actives.</div>
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Rosemary went to church again, and she loves it! She says she wants to get
baptized, but she is still unsure about a date. Apparently, she feels like she
needs to learn more. The good thing is that she's reading a lot in the Book of
Mormon, prays, and goes to church. So... that's pretty much the formula to get
baptized. We also have a handful of other investigators who go to church, but
have other issues that need to be fixed before baptism. </div>
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The sisters and us are pretty stoked about a missionary activity we're
going to have this Saturday- a talent show. Thank goodness that the sisters have
taken the lead in preparing stuff for Saturday. The plan is to get the members
more pumped about doing missionary work. And for all you members that read my
blog, GET PUMPED ABOUT MISSIONARY WORK! As missionaries, we LOVE working with
the members. It's SO much more effective. Ok, rant over.</div>
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Hope you all have a great week! I love you all!</div>
pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-74211839314263329862013-07-09T18:37:00.002-05:002013-07-09T18:37:47.605-05:00Week 85<div>
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a good week! For me, this week was pretty
nuts. Here's the most important stuff, and hopefully I remember
everything...</div>
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- We had a baptism! I think I somehow neglected to mention this last week
because it wasn't completely set in stone yet. It was an 11 year old boy,
Darwin, in a family that recently became active again. His 8 year old sister,
Kristen, also got baptized. She didn't count for the mission, so we weren't
quite as involved, but it's still awesome!</div>
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- Our zone had a total of 8 baptisms last week! For all you women out
there, you'll be proud to hear that the other 7 were baptisms of the sisters in
the zone. I have to admit, the sister missionaries are tearing it up!</div>
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- This past week, we found what will most likely be one of my favorite
investigators of the mission. On Friday, we had an appointment fall and were
left with about 30 minutes to kill. So we contacted a little bit... and struck
gold on the second house. I didn't think it was anything special, I just felt
like contacting a house we passed. A 22-year old girl named Rosmary answered
and invited us in. We found out that her father is an active member that lives
in the States, she's been praying lately to find a church to go to, and she
felt that us contacting her house was the answer to her prayer. We invited her
to church, she accepted, and Sunday morning, she was waiting for us when we got
there. Turns out she's also friends with the bishop and his family! Also, she
read our entire pamphlet, knows everything about Joseph Smith, and wants to know
about the Book of Mormon. And... she invited us for lunch tomorrow with her and
her mom. So basically... she's the perfect investigator! :)</div>
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- We have changes on Wednesday! This is just to get us on the right
schedule, and Skousen and I most likely won't be affected, but we'll see.</div>
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Well, those are the coolest stories from the week that was! This work is
true! I see it every day! Thanks for all your love and support, and talk to you
next week :)</div>
pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-54452541964793234702013-07-01T16:02:00.001-05:002013-07-01T16:02:24.639-05:00Week 84<div dir="ltr">
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Hey what's up guys? It's been a bit of a hectic week with all the changes,
and it seems like this week will be no different. Let me just say that I'm glad
Elder Skousen is my comp and that things are getting back to normal at least a
little bit.</div>
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<br />First, I'll start with my own area. It's almost like we're starting from
scratch because Skousen and his old comp were working almost exclusively with
less actives (there's a HUGE problem with less actives here, so it made sense).
However, sisters just came to work with the less actives, leaving basically
nothing for us. The senior companion for the sister missionaries is kind of a
Nazi, but she's whipping the members into shape. It's slightly annoying, but we
think it is what the ward needs.</div>
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<br />Second, the zone. We ended with 29 baptisms and 2 families for the month of
June. None of that had to do with me, but that's the baseline I have to work
with. It's pretty solid, but there's room for improvement. It looks like we'll
have a few problem missionaries in the zone, but we also have a couple solid
district leaders to help us out.</div>
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<br />Third, the new mission President! We had a meeting with him as the whole
mission. To be honest, it seems like he was pretty nervous, and is a little
uncomfortable with Spanish. But he seems like a really great guy, his wife seems
awesome, I think we'll be able to do some good work with President
Dester.</div>
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<br />We have my first district meeting as a Zone Leader on Tuesday, and
interviews with the new mission President on Wednesday. It'll be a ton of
traveling because my area is super far away from everything. </div>
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<br />Thanks for all the support guys! All of you are awesome! Have a good week,
and talk to you next Monday!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-26647584457120639532013-06-27T14:22:00.000-05:002013-06-27T14:22:27.661-05:00Week 83<div>
Well, it was a pretty crazy change meeting! I'll have to go bullet list for
interest of time, and start from the beginning...
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<br />- We got the news on Monday night that I had changes. I spent part of
Tuesday visiting my favorite families, converts, etc. That part is always really
sad :(</div>
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<br />- The mission officially got divided, and I landed in the west mission.
Apparently, the APs of the two missions had a big battle to win me for their
mission, but Elder Hebert (AP of the west mission, my MTC companion and very good friend) won out haha</div>
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<br />- President and Sister Veirs finished their mission and said good-bye at
the change meeting. The new mission presidents for both missions come today or tomorrow.</div>
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<br />- My new area is called Puerto Cortes in the Choloma Zone. We're about an
hour and a half north of San Pedro, right by the beach (hopefully you guys can
find me on googlemaps with that description haha) It's one of the biggest zones
in the mission (11 companionships), and I've been called as zone leader.</div>
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<br />- In the biggest shocker, my new comp is Elder Skousen, who was my comp
before in Utila. That almost never happens, but I'm stoked about it because we're really
good friends already :)</div>
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<br />- We spent all of yesterday helping two sisters open an area and move into
their new house. The sisters will work in our same area, but have the special
assignment to work only with the inactives. Sadly, it was my P-day and I didn't
have the opportunity to write. So that's why I'm writing today, with limited
time since we have to plan for the week in a few minutes.</div>
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<br />Thanks for all the love and support! And congrats to those are getting
engaged! Have a good week everyone, and talk to you next Monday! </div>
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<br />-Elder Birt </div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-35986386326598524022013-06-17T17:32:00.000-05:002013-06-17T17:32:36.232-05:00Week 82<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1371508189811_1797">
Hey folks! It was another great week in Las Lomas! And sadly, it could be my last P-day here in this area :( Next week, P-day will be on Wednesday, the day of the changes, so I'll have all the new info about where I'm at and who I'm with (or maybe it will be the same, who knows?)<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1371508189811_1860">
<br />We're still progressing with our recent converts, and some of them will make their first trip to the temple this Friday! We're super excited for them, and we're still working on getting a few more people to go :)</div>
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<br />We found a new family recently, and the dad is a boss! We met him on Wednesday, and he already went to church! We might baptize a lot here, but it's always hard to find a good man that's interested in religion. Plus it's a family of 4! I'm really excited about it. Not that teaching single people is bad, but families are what the church is all about! </div>
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<br />Also, we might squeeze in a baptism this Saturday before the changes! It's still up in the air though, so we're kinda playing the waiting game right now. The investigator, Annie, wants to get baptized, but is a little unsure about the date. Plus, a couple of her sisters are inactive members (and I mean WAY inactive), and she has the fear that she won't stay in the church after her baptism. We told her to pray about the specific date of the 22nd. If she does it, I feel pretty confident we'll have a baptism this Saturday!</div>
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<br />Funny story of the week: We had an AP come yesterday to help the elders in the branch to bring people to church. So the elders from the branch decided to play a joke on their Branch President. One of them hid, and the other one told the Branch President that his companion got sent to another area for punching a drunk guy in the street the day before. The new elder (who was really the AP) was here to replace him. They went on with it for a good 10 minutes before the other elder finally came out and told him the truth. But the really funny thing is that some of the members of the ward heard the story (just passing by), and started spreading the rumor! So now, about half of the ward thinks that an elder got sent away for punching a drunk guy. This is how gossip spreads guys! Be careful haha</div>
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<br />Well, that's all for this week! Talk to you guys next Wednesday! Nos vemos!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-54435449802668132502013-06-10T17:32:00.000-05:002013-06-13T17:33:53.994-05:00Week 81<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12px/normal "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hey folks! Hope everyone is doing great! It was another awesome week here in Las Lomas! It's really gonna be a bummer to leave this area when the time comes. It's been fantastic!</span><br />
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We had another baptism this past Saturday! I can't remember if I told you guys last week, but her name is Andrea. She's the oldest daughter of a member family that just became active recently. Again, it was amazing to see the change with her. She's SUPER shy, and the first time we visited her, I don't think she said a single word to us the whole lesson. We asked her questions, cracked some jokes, tried to chat about non-gospel stuff... nothing. We decided to give it one more shot, and visited her with a member friend her same age. And what a difference it made! She opened up, started participating in the lessons, agreed to baptism in our third visit, and the rest is history! :) Looking back on it, I think the difference was the help of the members and obviously the help of the Big Man upstairs.</div>
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Also, we're having some great success on the recent convert front. Wilmer, who got married and baptized a few weeks ago, received the priesthood, blessed the sacrament, and is the new secretary in the YM presidency! Carlos will receive the priesthood next week, and already brought a friend to church! And a bunch of my converts are preparing to go to the temple for the first time at the end of this month! It's wonderful to see people get baptized, but it's equally amazing to see them progress and thrive after their baptism. Hopefully, the progress continues...</div>
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On an extremely sad note, the son of one of our investigators committed suicide yesterday. He was only 17. She and the rest of the family were a wreck. Keep them in your prayers.</div>
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Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295190414938684828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-39629143672681150502013-06-03T17:01:00.000-05:002013-06-03T17:01:30.583-05:00Week 80<div dir="ltr">
Hey guys! Can you believe it's already June? Crazy how the time
flies right? Well, we had a wonderful start to June this past Saturday with the
baptisms of Carlos and Yoany! It was a wonderful baptismal service, and tons of
members showed up to give them support. I even got involved in the baptism mix
again by baptizing Carlos! And I'm happy to say that I'm not rusty. Everything
just went really smoothly, and we even got a cake for the refreshment!
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<br />Making the baptism even more special, Elder Hebert showed up to see his old
pals from Las Lomas. He baptized the mom and sister of Carlos, and they wanted
him to come for Carlos's baptism as well. And somehow, Hebert was able to get
permission. So he went to the baptism, spent the night at our house, and then
helped us bring 11 investigators to church Sunday morning! </div>
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<br />In a stroke of brilliance, I came up with a great nickname for my son,
Elder Nimatuj. He is now known as Pikachu! Hahahaha his last name sounds exactly
like Pikachu, right? Also, some people have started to call me Ash, since I'm
training Pikachu. Others call me Pajaro, which means bird in spanish. There were
some people that knew a little english, made that mistake, and it kinda stuck
haha. We have fun with the nicknames though, and everyone is a good sport about
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<br />Hey, have a good week everyone! Talk to you next Monday!</div>
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pcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553949099495059186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907474843019257089.post-23128114544465854922013-05-27T19:41:00.002-05:002013-05-27T19:55:05.882-05:00Week 79<div dir="ltr">
Another week has come and gone, and the work continues to move
along here in Las Lomas! I have to admit, I really love this area! It's been my
best so far.
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So I guess I wasn't very specific last week because my parents thought
Carlos (the 20-year old that quit smoking and wanted me to baptize him) had a
baptismal date for this past Saturday, but really it is for this coming
Saturday, June 1st. We did, however, have a baptism scheduled this past week
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This coming Saturday, we will have Carlos's baptism, which should be
amazing! And possibly, we will baptize two young women, Dayana and Yoany. I say
"possibly" just because of the parents' permission. They both want to get
baptized, have a ton of support from the members, understand all the missionary
lessons, and have gone to church and seminary. But it's a little dicey with the
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Also, we were celestial zone for the month of April! It was kind of
anticlimactic to be honest, especially since we're celebrating it at the end of
May with a completely different zone than the one that did all the work. But
hey, we got to eat at President's house today, so I'm not complaining. If you
want to see pictures, there should be some at <a href="http://veirsblog.blogspot.com/">http://veirsblog.blogspot.com/</a>.</div>
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Hope everyone has a great week, and is doing well! The mission really is
like the best thing ever, so I don't have any complaints here! Haha
adios!</div>
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