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| Thanks grandma and grandpa! We loved your gifts!!! |
Hey
family
We
had a pretty off week with Christmas. The 24th and the 25th we pretty
much did a dive bomb with lessons. No one wanted to receive us, so that
was a bummer. But we did get invited to a couple dinners so we were
pretty stoked about that! We ate nacatamales and torrejas. Torrejas
and nacatamales are pretty much what the Hondurans eat the week of Christmas.
Another tradition the have here on Christmas
Eve is fireworks! But when I say fireworks I don´t mean the cute little
spark fountains and ones that have pretty colors. These things are
straight up bombs! I wish I was joking. It literally sounded like a
warzone that night. Most Elders didn´t even get to sleep! Those things
make a sound so loud it must be a blessing from Heavenly Father that they all
still have eardrums intact. I saw a lot of people just get a bunch of gun
powder in one spot, put a rock on top of the pile, then throw a bigger rock
down to light it off! And they´re all drunk doing it. The next
morning was like a ghost town. Everyone was zonked out the whole day.
Hey guess what? I found eggnog in one of the pulperias [small grocery store]!!
It was so great.
Still
working hard on the spiritual side of things, but yesterday Q dropped us. He
informed us yesterday that this would be his last time coming to church.
He´s pretty lost in his life right now and this gospel is exactly what he
needs. Do you know what makes missionary work so hard?. When you
are putting your whole effort, mind might and strength into that one person,
with a real love and preocupación [concern] for them, and you know
that the gospel is the one thing that can bring them the real joy and help that
they are searching for in their lives, and they say no. That´s why it´s
hard. The rules and walking and studying are nothing. We are trying
to improve in finding new people to teach and so far we´ve found a few pretty
positive people, so we´ll see how it goes this week! Love you guys
Elder
Cook
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| nacatamales |
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| torrejas |
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The grandparents sent
Elder Cook some money,
he bought lots of food!
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