Hello!
I hope you all have been enjoying Semana Santa (Holy Week or just
Easter, I guess) This is always an interesting time of year because
everyone just kind of disappears. People go out to the pueblos to visit
family or go to the coast up north or down south for vacations.
Everything will be kind of closed Thursday through Friday,
so that will be interesting to see how the office work functions in the
city. It also must be a time of the year when people do stupid stuff
because all of the sudden people show up on the sides of the streets
selling fire extinguishers and those traffic triangle reflector things.
This
time of year is known to be very HOT and dry, but for some reason we
have been getting a lot of rain, which has been really nice. On Sunday
it was really hot, and then on Monday it was POURING rain. Yay! It
also makes good conditions for rainbows. Yesterday we saw this full
fluorescent double rainbow! "Double rainbow all the way across the
sky!"
On Saturday,
we ran by the distribution center by the temple and I ran into a member
from Sorzales and also Elder Gomez´s MOM! Haha. Their ward seems to
always have trips to the temple from San Pedro Sula. Now I have met
both his mom and his dad. Now I just need to meet his siblings. haha.
On Saturday
we had the baptism for Geancarlo and an investigator of the other
elders. It is a goal of mine to have a baptismal service that actually
starts on time sometime on my mission. haha. We were supposed to start
at 5, but didn't actually get going until 6. I guess that is Honduran
standard time. But the service went really well. Geancarlo´s brother
and aunt are members, but his parents are not, so it was cool to see his
mom show up. Some of the primary kids came and had a little song
prepared too, so that was fun. He is a really intelligent kid and was
so happy that night.
So
we ended up finding a reference through the Referal Manager. I never
thought I would ever have a Salt Lake reference from the computer,
haha. We realized that the reference was received in February (whoops),
but we decided to go contact him. I was surprised we were able to even
find him. According to the reference, his mom lives in the USA and
requested the missionaries to go visit her son. But when we got there,
he told us he had no idea that we were coming and that his mom said
nothing about it. But is was true that she lives in the States. He was
really cool, and has two younger brothers. We taught them simply about
Christ and the importance of keeping His commandments. We will see how
that progresses.
If you haven´t yet, go check out https://www.mormon.org/
Have a great week and a great Easter weekend! Christ lives!
- Elder Burnham
Hello! I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! Because of Semana Santa, most people had work off Thursday-Sunday,
so the city was a ghost town. Everything kind of shuts down and you
end up not being able to get much work done. Then we decided to go take
pictures on the roof of our building! haha
We
also went to go see one of the coolest things that they do here for
Semana Santa which are las alfombras (carpets)! Basically, the people
get a ton of sawdust and sand and dye it different colors and make cool
designs in the street. They spray it with water to make sure it doesn't
blow away in the wind. One on the coolest things I have seen in
Honduras. Some people got really creative with their designs.
This
weekend we helped a lot of elders move houses. That is what happens
when my companion is in charge of housing contracts and we have a truck
to help people move. haha.
I
really like the Easter season because we get to focus our lessons on
Christ and His atonement. We would read scriptures from Luke and Alma
and how they teach about the His suffering and resurrection, and all the
peace and joy we can receive though His atonement.
We were all pumped up to have a lot of people in church on Sunday,
but it was pretty empty. The attendance was about half the norm. I
guess people were still on vacations. But this week was really good for
finding new people to teach. We have been working in less explored
parts of our area and seeing lots of small miracles.
General Conference is this weekend! Make sure to watch it and be inspired!
Have a great week!
- Elder Burnham
