Week 43 El Bosque

Another week down.  I am trying to get caught up after being gone for a week.  We had a good trip to Utah to visit some very dear friends.  We haven't played in the snow for some time and the company was great. I wish we had more time to do things like that.  We can see that Chase continues to work hard and continues to have success and disappointment but he pushed through.

Hey Family,

I am glad to hear everything went well with your trip. Also dad got to enjoy some fun with old high school buddies. I love talking to my high school friends and talking about things we did back then. Fun time lol. Also I am jealous about the snowmobile riding and the Razor thing too. Hey tell Stefani and Aunt Heather I said hi for me please. I miss Aunt Heather lol We use to always bother each other a ton lol. Funny times. Also with the package send my spanish hymn book please. I really want to use it here. Helps out new people see the letters of the Hymn. Also I am going to try and send the tape recorder back and my Oakley glasses. I cant use sun glasses on the mission. Well sounds like dad is traveling as usual and hopefully everything is going well with his new job.  I am glad to hear Grandpa Hall is doing better and Chelsey is starting to train again haha. Also I miss guys vball, it was always a fun season to play.

 

Well this week was good until Saturday. We were meeting with Esteven everyday to make sure he was ready for his baptism. So we had him all set up and interviewed to be baptized. Well he was interviewed on Thursday and then we came back on Friday to make sure he was set to go, and we showed up asked how he felt and all of that. Then he just straight up told us he doesnt want to get baptized? So we started to ask why and tried to help him have the desire to be baptized and everything, but he just said I dont have the desire? AWWW. Frustrating after all of the work we went through and everything. We asked why he didnt want to get baptized and turns out that he feels obligated by everyone and just never really wanted to be baptized. Well we couldnt do anything else, so it was hard to have that baptism fall. So we continued on and tried to not be frustrated and focus more on other investigators. Sad but we cant do anything else. We also visited Andres and he is doing well. The only thing that we are trying to help him out with is his smoking problem. We are going to buy a big bag of gum for him, so everytime he is tempted to smoke he can chew on some gum. Then we have a joven named Carlos who is super cool and has the desire to be baptized, at least I think. He is really nice and loves going to church with us. He will be baptized on the 25th too. Also a woman that has a fecha for the 25th. The woman who lives in la Finca which is way up high in our area. It was the appointment we had up there but fell because she wasnt there haha. She is really nice and came to church with her son. She like it a lot. Thats the work as far as this past week. It had its bad and goods haha. As for Honduras right now its hot during the day and cool at night. It rained a lot today and I think the summer season is coming pretty quick. My clothes are doing fine and my shoes too. Well I think that is all for now haha. Thanks for the letters and your prayers. You are all awesome. Love you all a ton. Hasta la proxima semana.

 

Con Much Amor,

Elder Hall