Week 97

Dos Gringos!

Dearest Family and Friends,

Hows life? Things are going great for us here in honduras. We had changes this week. Elder De Leon left for guatemala. I love that kid. Best companion ive ever had. He will always be my hero because in his last change he worked his hardest. We were always baggy together, but we still worked as if we had a year in the field! He was happy because his last sunday, 6 investigators showed up to church! and His last saturday, he had a baptism, just not in our ward! Its a cool story really. My 2nd cousin, Derek Larkin, served his mission here like 7 years ago. Well, in his first area he baptized the Garcia Family, but they had 2 kids under 8 years old. Well Elder De Leon when he was in one of his last areas, he had reactivated this family and had prepared the kids for baptism! I was a DL at that time and I had done the baptismal interview! It was sad because the day of their baptism, people talked bad about the church and the baptism fell through. Well a year of visits from the missionaries, the family is fully active, have gone to the temple, and the kids got baptized on saturday! So it was awesome. One of the 2 kids asked if Elder De Leon could do the ordinance and it was an awesome experience. 

Things are going so great in our area. We have the best investigators. God has been great with us. Eric is progressing wonderfully. He went to church last sunday and is excited to attend every sunday forever! We also should have a baptism next week with a man named vidal, hes a older man, 60 years old, whos been coming to church. He loves the idea of having the priesthood and serving god regardless of his physical disabilities. We also found an awesome family, the Mata family. They loved the restauration. Very smart people. I know that the Lord is always working, always preparing people for us to find and bring unto him. He does all the work. All we have to do is open our mouths.

My new companion is a white kid! For the first time in my whole mission I have a white comp! Its awesome! His name is Elder Hansen and weve been great friends ever since I was in Santa Rita. Im pumped to be with him and work hard for my last change.

Always,
Elder Hodson

 

Elder Hansen & Elder Hodson