No Stinkin'!

Hola Mi Amigos!!!

 

This week has been a great one!

It went by real fast starting with a quick Tuesday full of lessons! Something that i really like about my comp is that we WORK together. He teaches me so much but also makes sure that I don't feel too much like the student. He is very very complementary and we are always laughing! This week was full of contacting and dropping investigators that weren't progressing. That is the hardest part of missionary work right now, to say OK, we cant help you until you help yourself... it's actually much much much harder than you think. At least harder than I thought!! Anyways we continued on with our week and got another baptism for the twenty third, Right now we are focusing ourselves on part families and men so that we can get the priesthood goin down here. Honestly most all of investigators in the past are girls. There's a term down here called "mujerdocio" and man it hurts that the men are so caught up in their jobs/work that they forget their spirituality and leadership for their family, but its ok we are not down at all!

Something that I really have been smackin' myself in the head about is reading the Book of Mormon more alone. WHY DIDN'T I READ MORE BEFORE THE MISSION???!!!! The truth is that i thought i never had time, but if you ask my dad he can a test that i had a lot of time and i wasted it playing video games or watching TV, what a bummer!!! I hope you all can make the decision to read it more than just at family time. It needs personal investiture. If you want a testimony of the church of Jesus Christ, read the Book of Mormon. If you don't know if Joseph Smith is a prophet, read the Book of Mormon, if you're bored read the Book of Mormon, to have a knowledge of this book is priceless!!!  This past week I was reading the Bible a ton because many were wanting to challenge us, just "bashing" with people and it didnt really help a ton to be honest, haha! The people still disregard the words of Christ whether it be by his own mouth or the voice of my servants it is the same. I know I tweaked that scripture a little bit but I am a servant of Christ. I know he lives and that he established his church on the earth and that today it is here again. The Church of jesus christ of latter day saints is led by Christ. Read the Book of Mormon daily and know the Bible but never Bash!

Well...I STINK PEOPLE!  A bummer is that right now we have no water at our house! No water in our area!!! Today is our third day without water and wow I never realized how much we need water!But we have a pila(tank) so we are makin it work, little by little its goin down though! Hopefully the colonia(town) figures their problems out soon! Theres one colonia in our area that was without water for a full week! I have no clean clothes after today :((( so please pray for water para la victoria! The people get all mean/grumpy when their is no water haha hopefully we can brighten their day with the gospel. Please help us by simply praying for water, its a bummer without it.

I love you all have an amazing week! Mom and Dad HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!! You are still both very attractive;)

Love

Elder Ty Toolson

Photos:

I've been spoiled, the good people of Honduras love a Birthday Party!

Yes, they tried to shove me in the cake!  ha ha ... Feliz Cumpleanos

Elder Ty's Wonderful Week

 

Helloooo Fam & Friends,

What a wonderful week here in Honduras! Full of lots of walking and lots of contacting, but every aspect of the mission is wonderful! We had two days were every single one of our lessons fell through and we had to contact and get in a door to teach a lesson. We found some great people and then some others that were not so receptive! I know the Lord is preparing the elect and i love finding them and teaching them! I am still getting to know our area. Elder Roberts and I focused and taught in places close to the chapel, but me and Elder Meono are determined to invite all that live in our area to come unto Christ. Although there are people who live about a forty five minutes walk away they deserve the gospel and so we pick out certain days to go to certain areas that are super far and its awesome:)

We have two baptisms this Saturday and another one the next week, we are loving it out here! The language is coming along as well, but I did say something that was wrong... just wrong. There was a less active sister we were reaching out to during a hard time and I said my companion and I would comfort her but I used a word that here in Honduras it means an "intimate kind of comfort" and everyone was in SHOCK...Awkward silence... and no one would tell me what I said for like 2 mins because it was just  aaaarrrgghhh awkward!  It was Terrible!! Well that's what happened when a Gringo speaks Spanish in Honduras! I felt so bad.

Anyways don't have a lot of time unfortunately I wasted most of it staring at my family photos and how tan they were! You all look so beautiful! Thanks for the Birthday shout out photo and for the $$ Grams and Gpa! Love you! 

This Sunday was Fast Sunday and the testimonies were beautiful, absolutely beautiful! All were filled with the spirit and very inspired, I felt that many testimonies were meant for me to hear as well our investigators, so then we went to gospel principles and we had a wonderful lesson on obedience! At the end of the lesson one of our investigators raised his hand because he wanted to say something. He stood up and said "there are going to be two baptisms this week... but why not three?" He looked at us with a big smile and said "What stands in the way of my salvation" and sat down... WHOOOPP WHHOOOOPPPP!!! This guy is ready for baptism and I have been waiting for him to make that decision since the first time we taught him! It was a miracle for us because we had been fasting for him and for the other investigators that were close to baptism. The Lord answers our prayers and fasting is more than starving ourselves!! HAha I hope we all realize that the Lord is waiting to bless us, but god is a god of covenants and only through baptism and the temple do we receive the opportunities to be blessed. GO TO THE TEMPLE! It is the house of the lord and if you are not a member you can still go and walk around the gardens there is a peace there that is not of this world (john 14:27) (i think) ui hope we all have a great week and that we are constantly praying for and expecting miracles in our lives:) I love you all so much! Have a beautiful day!

Love

Elder Ty Toolson