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My Last Week in Sigua

 Well.... last week

Yeah, not much worth writing about happened the past week. I got my package (thanks mom and dad) and we had zone conference. So I guess I can talk about that.

We arrived in Comayagua the day before. When we arrived I found my package which made me happy. We had 3 talk seminar lesson things (like I know what to call them). The overall messages where about how obedience and stability leads to success. 

It was cool to see the vision the mission president has for the mission. He also talked about how the most important thing we do on our mission is to convert ourselves. When he does go-home interviews, the only questions he has are about how we have grown personally.

We did our interviews with the president after the zone conference. He asked me about my Spanish and if I felt ready to train. I shared with him the principal in 1 Nephi 3:7:
"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath      commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall  prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."

That was about it for last week.

Tuesday: Baptismal Prep
To help out with the wedding preparations, we went and visited the lawyer of the member we want to marry. It was strange being in a law office for the first time but the lawyer committed to help her out fill out some of the forms which was great After that, we prepped Jose (someone we have with a baptismal date) for the baptismal questions. 

Wednesday: Tracting
On Wednesday we went door knocking and accidentally ran in to a family of members (bound to happen eventually). We met with her and talked with her about Come Follow Me. It was fun to visit with her.

Thursday: Member visit
One of the members invited us to visit and teach her mom so we went and visited her. We socialized and chatted and invited her to come to church (she didn't come)
 
Friday: Baptismal Interviews
Because we had baptisms the next day (and the zone leaders needed help) we spent the entire day doing baptism interviews either for ourselves or the ZLs. Lots of interviews but that is just about it.

Saturday: "No hay luz!"
That expression literally means there's no light. Its local meaning is that there is no power. Power outage nearly all day, yay....

To make things worse, we had two baptisms that day and we need power to use the baptismal font. We had to hope and wait that we would have power before the baptism

Luckily we were fortunate enough to get power before the baptism. We baptized Carolina (someone who was ready when we met her) and Jose (who we have been working with all transfer). We had a ton of people from the ward come, which was great.






Sunday: Going to Primary
Yeah.... going to primary. We brought Jose to church with us and it turns out he is technically primary age (10). He didn't want to go to primary by himself and so we were there with him. We sang songs and had fun in class. Primary is weird now because it's only one hour and it goes by really fast.

There was also the young adult devotional at night and we watched it at our pensionista's house. It was great overall.

Today: The reason for the Title
Well.... I found out this morning I was getting transferred to an area in Tegucigalpa. My companion is going to be Elder Ramos from Mexico which is interesting but that is about all I know.

Elder Xicara
Well, time to say goodbye to Xicara. He was forgetful and unorganized, but he was willing to do anything that was necessary to get people to progress. He values making good relationships which is great. We would spend hours of time with people and hang out with them and because of his desire for friendships, we had one of our baptisms. Jose and his mom weren't too interested in being baptized, but because of our efforts he was.

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