Week 26 La Colonia Kenedy

He is still doing great even though he has a few challenges to face.  His language and confidence in Honduras are obviously getting better as he is actually thinking what it would be like to become a trainer.

Dear Family,

Hey does Angel know english?? I didnt know that lol Well seems like there is some bad news coming with dads work.  I am glad that Chelsey is dating a lot and loves the fact that institute is the place to be. I loved that institute in college because everyone came to see what was going on everyday. And yes lots of single adults there lol. It´s funny that you should mention about becoming a trainer. We had interviews this past thursdayand President Hernandez asked me if I would like to train lol. I am not sure why but I kind of told him yes because he asked me. I am not entirely sure, so we will see at changes. I am glad Nick came back from his mission safely and probably loved every second of his mission. I am trying to remember who taft is but I cant remember what he looks like?? Is he tall or small? Anyways thanks for the love and support. I really do appreciate it and Cody sent me a email for his address lol. So we can write each other for sure lol.

Well this week was really hard to work with  my companion. We had a day where he didnt want to leave to work because we dont have anyone to teach. I wanted to leave and try and find people to teach but he was disanimated too. So we talked about it and he said that I wasnt happy and always frustrated. I was because no one is progressing and we cant find new investigators. So we had a good talk and I decided to try and be more happy and not be frustrated because the Lord wants me to be happy. Well I know I cant do anything if the people dont want to hear our message. But we continue to go on. The only thing that bugs me is my companion is kind of just waiting to go home. We have two weeks left in the change and I dont think we have any baptisms at all. So I am trying to be more of a friend to my companion and try to be happy and be patient. I am hoping to have a more successful week and work with members more. Because contacting doesnt work here in the city. Our area is really small and everyone has been contacted in the area. Anyways I am trying to be patient, obedient, work hard, and be happy. I am hoping my next companion is ready to work next change. Its interesting because a member of our ward can tell that my companion is ready to leave. two sundays ago he gave me a note in sacrament meeting and it helped me out a ton he said I need to be patient and keep trying to show the Lord that I want to serve the Lord everyday all day. Anyways I am trying to work hard these next two weeks and have a good time with my companion. He is really nice and knows a lot but has his mind at home. So anyways pray for me and it will be good. Love you all and thanks for the support. Anyways thanks for everything and you should send some of Grandpa Reids hot chocolate!!! I pray for you guys everyday and hope you guys will figure out things just fine. Thanks for everything.

Con Amor,

Elder Hall

Week 25 La Colonia Kenedy

Hey Familia,

I am so happy they got a hold of you because I gave her the home phone number but they said it was out of service, so I remembered that the house was struck by lightning and everything electrical was shot. So I gave moms phone number and I am glad yoou got to talk to them. As for things I need maybe some shave cartridges  for my razor and floss from the dental office. The kind of floss I need for my retainer on the bottom of my teeth. Pictures would be sooo sweet!!! I dont know anything you would like to send me. lol. The family you will meet will be the Valle family. They are super awesome and nice. Brother Valle or Angel, was sealed in the Mesa, Arizona temple in like 1973 I think. You will love them. Super nice people. Always bottling things this time of the year. I remember half the Relief of Society women were at the house always. I am so happy that you received my letters!!! I have been wondering if they were lost or something. Anyways the weather I miss in Arizona, the weather here has been rainy and hot. Last week it rained everyday and was super hot today!! Anyways as for the work this last week was super hard because we talked to everyone this week and no one wanted to hear our message. But we keep pushing on. We also had a baptism which was sweet!! and her name is Saraí she is an awesome convert. She was so ready to enter into the Kingdom of God and even though she is 25 she was so happy to know that there is more to life after this life. Other investigators we have one other who will be baptized on the 29th of this month. She told us she wants to be baptized and so we are going to help with that. Well I know it has been a hard week because Elder Reyes is really ready to go home and doesnt want to do anything. He works because I want to work so I have to push him till the end. I have to have so much patience for him and love him for who he is. We get along its just he wants to go home really bad. I have been stressed because my companion is hard sometimes to work with. But I am trying to be better and look in the best in my companion but it is soo hard sometimes. Anyways pray for me for help and strength to stand up to my companion to keep working and pushing on. Well thanks for the love and support and hopefully you all have a fantastic weekend. I know the Lord is blessing me and my family. See you guys later.

Con Amor,

Elder Hall 

Week 24 La Kenedy

Conference weekend in the mission field.  This brings back some very special memories as you learn in the mission field that the words of our Prophet are truly leading our lives.  You can see that he really enjoyed it and took everything in that he could.  Funny how perspective changes when you are doing the Lords work for a living!

Dear Family,

Conference weekend was so awesome!!! I loved every talk and they helped me with everything that I need to do and improve on. Yes I got to watch in English at the stake center. They had a room for english and the big sacrament room for spanish. All of the gringos went and watched conference in english we had a good time. I can´t believe they are building another temple in Provo!!!!! It is absolutely insane. Priesthood was really good and I enjoyed most of it except during President Uchtdorf´s talk and Presidents Monson´s the satellite cut out for 5 min. I enjoyed Elder Hollands talk on preparing for a mission because its so true for all the boys getting ready for their missions. I am jealous Chelsey went to conference haha and why does she want to go to the Y so bad???? I am actually not sure what I am going to do after the mission because its such a long ways ahead. 

One thing I learned when I was in Choluteca. Life in Honduras is really hard! Also I am sending a letter this week with a family to Arizona because they are visiting their family that lives in Arizona. They live in Glendale I think, so I am not sure when you will get it but they come on Saturday or Sunday into AZ. So heads up for that!

Anyways Elder Reyes is good and we work just fine together and I am starting to speak a lot more spanish. I am excited to have a latin. He is reallly nice and helps me with my spanish a ton. Our recent investigators are Harlem and Ruth who were references of a member and they seem really positive about listening and understanding. We also found two new families which willl be goood to teach this week. Also have another reference from another member to a girl named Indira. She talks a lot and asks a lot of questions. She might have some doubts but we are trying to figure it out and help her understand. I just think she needs some friends in the ward to help her actually change her life. She will progress well. Then we had investigators come to General Conference. An important one is Roberto Paz because he doesnt have a desire to change his life, but he came to a session of conference. With his family and so later that night we went to his house to see if he had any questions but he was sleeping. He had a dream I guess that his wife told us that he was in a plane and the plane was crashing into the sea. They survived and there was a floating car or tube that came and saved them all and they were mormons lol. So he had the desire to go to church. It was really weird lol. Anyways other than that we are still trying to find more to teach. Oh yeah we have a baptism this saturday with a reference from a seventy and her name is Saraí. She is super pilas to baptize and has a ton of questions to ask. She is ready to be baptized this week. Anyways everything is going well and we are working everyday. Thank you for the love and support. I hope you guys have a sweet weekend and continue on in liffe. Love you all and see you next week!!!

Week 23 La Colonia Kenedy

A little behind posting again.  He is doing great and has another companion but stayed in the city.  He is happy and healthy from all that he is sharing

Querido Familia,

Sounds like Lake Powell was a super fun time and the weather was absolutely perfect! I am glad that all of you are safe and sound. Yes I did receive my package and thank you for everything. It was so good to hear from all the Lake Powell friends and seems like everyone missed me. I hope not because you guys probably had just as much fun without me. Yeah we receive satellite for general conference and I am pretty sure we can watch it in spanish or english, so I am pretty sure all of the gringos are going to watch it in English. At least I want to! Congrats for Josey and I bet the ward is way different. Hey why does Cody feel lonely? I hope he is doing good and learning lots in the mission. Well I am pretty sure you guys will be fine with the help of the Lord and I will pray for you. With the baptisms we had two with Hector Vasquez and Grecia and they were really good! I was so happy to help them get into the waters of baptism. The work is so amazing because of the lives that I get to change. We did have Cambios and Elder Maza left for Cantarans and I stayed in the Kennedy. I received Elder Reyes fromEl Salvador, my first Latino Companion!!!!! He is really nice and kind but this is his last change in the mission. So he ends his mission with me in the Kennedy. The first couple of days were different but I am learning spanish really fast!! I can tell the difference for sure. The only thing is Elder Reyes is Baggi which means he is ready to go home and be done with the mission. He works because I drag him along but he doesnt complain to much. He is really smart and knows the scriptures really well. He helps me out a lot with spanish and enjoying my mission more. He is nothing like my gringo companions but he is good. We are going to have a really good change for sure. We have found some new investigators to teach and hopefully baptize at the end of the month. Investigators are just coming to church to learn of the gospel. I also found out I need to be patient with my companion with his shortcomings and try and help him. Because if he and I are not on the same page then the work is going to be difficult. Yes I am excited for the temple to be ready when I come back home!! Hopefully get to do a session first thing when I get back. I miss the temple but it will come in time. Our new investigators are Harlem, Ruth, Deysi, Jydal, Roberto, and Valeri. They are positive but they just have things holding them up to progress. Yeah I dont know it will be interesting though to see what happens this change. Oh yeah we have another investigator who is really weird but seems to be ready for baptism. Her name is Sarai and she received the missionaries in another area but she has to assist here in the Kennedy. Probably because of where she lives but she wont give us the address for some reason. She is super weird but has a lot of questions. We will see what happens with her for sure. Other than that the area is doing okay. I am excited for this change!!! Awesome Possum. Thank you for your help and prayers. See you next week.

Con Amor,

Elder Hall

Week 22 La Colonia Kennedy

Chase is still very positive and sounds great.  He feels like there is a change coming soon with Elder Manza but he will let us know next week.

Querido Madre,

WOW going to lake powell again!!! I hope you had a fun time in lake powell.  Josey needs to start practicing outside of softball practice with dad so she can work on her catching and throwing. That is how I learned the basics in baseball. Well I am sorry for Dad´s stress and I hope he can feel the spirit to help him and comfort him. He is really an awesome dad and knows how to be a real man. Anyways Steven and JJ are glad that I have the opportunity to write me. They are so funny to hear from.

 

Well this week was a little bit better and this coming week is cambios. So I think Elder Maza is going to leave because he has been here in the Kennedy since May. We still do not know for sure though. We will find out on Tuesday night. Anyways we have found some new investigators to teach and baptisms for this coming week. Grecia is getting baptized tomorrow and Hector Vasquez is getting baptized this Saturday. The family that we have, Jyron and Deysi, we are hoping to teach them more this week. Other than that we have been receiving references to single adults and kids. We are really trying to find families to teach but it is so hard to encounter families that want to hear our message. I am not giving up but hopefully this week will be better for sure with finding new investigators. Oh yeah one of our ward missionaries wants me to mention him in this letter. He is 20 years old and is a convert to the church. His name is Jaime and loves to work with the missionaries. He is studying English to become an English teacher. He knows English really well. He says hi by the way. Well not sure what else to say but this week it rained a ton everynight. Anyways I love you all!!

 

Con Amor,

Elder Hall

Week 21 La Colonia Kenedy

We shared with Chase that during an amazing lightning storm our home was hit.  It was quite an experience but after a lot of repairs all is well.  On top of lightning Chases email was a day late due to the mission conference they had......rookie missionary parents get worried if even an email is late.

Family and Mom,

Wow I can´t believe a lightning storm hit the house!! I have never experienced that before and that would have been cool to experience. That stinks that everything crashed in the house and you have to fix everything again lol I might know those two kids that played club volleyball because their names sound familiar. My last year of club volleyball was super fun and I learned a lot playing. Thats exciting for Josey to play first base and I am suprised that she is not afraid of the ball lol. Well I hope you guys are all safe and sound at home. 

 

Well this week was hard and we did a lot of walking and talking to people. We have some good investigators but we are struggling with finding new ones. No one seems to be interested at all listening to the message. I realized that we are working to much in the La Kennedy and we need to work in the other two areas we have. That is we work in Bella Oriente and Villa Nueva. So hopefully this week we can focus more on these areas and find some new investigators. Well  this week we have been teaching these really positive joven his name is Hector Vasquez and he reads everything that we give him and he always has questions for us to answer. He is really smart and has grown up in a rough life. Both of his parents were killed a long time ago by some gangs and he doesnt know why, but he has an older brother who is a member and now we are going to baptize him for sure. This coming saturday we are going to baptized Grecia because she should have permission from her parents to be baptized. The other investigators that we have are not as positive, but we are trying to make them more positive. Well I didnt write on Monday because we have a Zone Conference with Elder Carlos H. Amado!! He was really good to hear from and loves the work. He is super nice and really funny. He is part of the Presidency of the Central America area. We learned a lot from him and we were there for a long time. We were at conference for 6 hours learning and asking questions. Everyone had a good time at the conference and I learned a ton. We talked about mainly how to become an effective missionary and what the church expects of us. You can tell how Elder Amado loves the work and always wants to work with missionaries. Anyways I have been feeling bad and sad because this past week was rough for the work and I need to better myself though. Especially since there is only a week and a half in the change left. So I hope to work super hard this week and improve myself. I still want to go forward even when its super rough, but I know I will find a way for sure. One good thing is my spanish is coming I can speak to people and they understand almost everything that I say. So thats a good sign lol. Also I received a letter from JJ LeMoine the other day from Finland!!! I was so excited to hear from him lol. Well nothing else really to say but hope the house gets fixed. Love you all and thanks for everything.

 

Con Amor,

Elder Hall

Week 20 In the City of La Colonia Kenedy

Another great letter.  We missed him on a recent trip to CA but he remains very upbeat and doesn't seem too bothered that life goes on at home.

La Familia,

Hey guys how is going!! I am so jealous you went to San Diego!!! Also I am excited that Josey made the Softball team or Volleyball team?? Anyways tell her congrats! Its okay for Chelsey she probably has fun anyways! Well I am sure whatever happens everything will be fine and we will find a way to get through it. You talked to Coach Lujan?? What does he have to say!? Anyways I hope all goes well this week and you are all healthy.

Well this week was busy and we have two families to teach!!! I am so happy to be here in the Kennedy! Grecia is doing good she moved this weekend to another house in another ward!! But we put a fecha with her to be baptized on the seventeenth of this month. She is very intelligent and always has questions to ask. She will be a sweet convert. Ummm the two families are good we contacted one and received a reference from a member. They both seem positive. One family is very young and the lady is Deysi and Hidal. Deysi is 18 and Hidal is 21. They have a little girl named Marjerly who is almost one. Yes they are young but we can help them out for sure. Then we have Christian and his wife. They have two daughters and the wife is a less active member. The husband is nice and asked us a bunch of questions about the church. He seems interested but he might have a problem with tthe word of wisdom. We are excited though to teach them more and more. Anyways this week we also did divisiones with the ZL's on friday, and that day was crazy because we had to help a couple from another area get married this past Sunday. So Elder Rodriguez and I ran around in Tegucigalpa to get the paper work done for this couple. Also we got some teaching in too. We had some fun though. I really love being here in Honduras because the people are so kind and fun to talk to. There is actually a ton of fast food restaurants in the city and also some good places to eat that sell muy rica baleadas! I will show you guys how to make them one day when I come back. They are sooo good to eat! Well tell Chelsey HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow for me and I am sending her a letter and something as a surprise. Everything is awesome here though and the weather is awesome here. Some days are hot and some days not, but it is humid here. Anwyays everything is going awesome here Love you All.

Con Amor,

Elder Hall