the members that showed up for General Conference

Colton, Camilo, Noel

The Power of Conversion

Hey Fam,

 

Well what a week! Im now experiencing both sides of Honduras weather. The past couple weeks it had been raining non stop as you know but now as it is, we havent seen rain for over a week and a half! Its starting to get really really hot now which is good and kinda stinks at the same time but oh well.

Im having a hard time thinkin about everything that happened this week other then our baptism that we had of Camilo Mejia which your lookin at pictures of. We spent a lot of time on divisions because our District Leader had to come out to interview him but during the divisions when I was in Teguc with another elder, and Elder Broderick was there in Sabanagrande they asked Camilo who he would like to baptize him and he mentioned me because he knows im going to be leaving soon and me and him had just really hit it off as good buddies since the day we met him. So that was a cool experience for me to hear that he wanted me to baptize him. Saturday was obviously the day of the baptism and we had spent all day friday and saturday morning visiting with the members and inviting everyone to the baptism and what you see in the picture is all that were there. I believe there was only 8 total in the whole baptismal service. Something kinda funny though about the baptism is that the clothes that we had first picked out for him when he went to try them on... they didnt fit. I had already gotten dressed in my all white so we sent Noel and Elder Broderick to go grab the bag of other clothes and luckily we had one that fit better but ah Camilo, this 62 year old humble man, with no family or friends other then us the missionaries to see him get baptized. He was soo nervous about the whole thing and just not really knowing what to expect. We started the service and me and Elder Broderick gave little talks and testimonies and then I climbed down on in for the 3rd time now into that freezing cold water and then helped him and his shaking hands down, and did the best I could just to remember his 5 names haha but no it just went exactly as planned and was an amazing service. The spirit really got to me and I could tell it really touched him in realizing how real this is!

The next day at church, yesterday, we only had 22 but Camilo showed up early and everything with his soccer jersey, tucked in, because he has no white shirt or tie, but reguadless, we gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirmed him a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. Every baptism I have had up to this one seems like nothing compared to his. I believe its only beause I was a part of finding him on the street, to giving him the book of mormom, to placing the baptismal date, and confiming him. Its a confirmation to me that this is the true church, that it truely does change lives, and I  CANNOT DENY the power of conversion!

I dont really have much more to say, nor time but I want this to be a testimony to all of you that this is the true church, the church of Christ! The gospel is just as alive here in Sabanagrande Honduras, as it is in the states! Maybe not as liveLY but its alive! I gain a better realization of what true love is, and its that which the Lord has for me, and for all of us. That which is found in a family. I love my family so much, and this isnt me being trunky, or baggy, whatever you wanna call it. I love my family, extended family, and all my friends and want all of you to know of my UNBREAKABLE TESTIMONY! I feel of your love and support each day!

Thank you all!

 

Until Next week!!

 

Love Elder Gardner

General Conference

Hey Fam and Friends,

 

Obviously today isnt my Pday and here I am emailing but its just because we had no time to use internet in the city other then the 20 minutes I had in the morning and then when we got back to Sabanagrande somehow the internet had been knocked out because of the wind here I guess so we had no way to email so here I am.

Um just to jump into the update for this past week, it was awesome. We were in Teguc almost all week on divisiones and then all weekend for conference. I remember looking at this past weekend when we got the new september calendar and thinking it was so far away and now its already passed. Time is just going by way too fast. I just got my 4th calender already in the mission. I still feel like I just got here.

So this week we spend just as much time as we could visiting and inviting everyone that we could think of to come to the General Conference because the mission was helping us out with some money to pay for a bus to carry all the people that we could get to come to conference. With all the time that we spent traveling and going back and forth from Teguc and back it was really hard and we only had till wednesday and a couple hours thursday to gather everyone up before we took off to Teguc to stay for the weekend. Thursday we had our weekly district meeting and then booked it back to sabanagrande because we always have about an hour long bus ride everytime but it went really good. We set a companionship record for invites and lessons given in one day so we were really workin hard. Friday we had to be in teguc at 8 in the morning for a Zone Conference so we were up way early to catch the bus again and be there on time, plus we had to bring out suits and extra clothes and all that for the rest of the weekend cuz it wasnt worth it for us to go back an forth so much.

So anyways It was finally saturday morning and conference was about to start so we ran to one of the grocery stores down the street from the Zone Leaders house, where we stayed, and went to go buy us some treats and fatty snacks to eat while watching the conference. For conference we got our own room there in the stake center and all of us greengos just chilled and watched the english channel. I could go on forever about cool personal revelations that I got from the conference but I dont have time today.

Sunday morning showed and we were waiting for the bus with all of our members to come and sure enough at 930 they all show up and in a little van because turned out the bus driver couldnt come but they crammed 24 members, kids and all into a little rapidito van thing, of a non member... and showed. Its was such a miracle right there in front of us. I just love them all so much!!

I dont want to tell about a funny story that happened on suday night after dinner and sayin hi and checkin up on all the investigators of the zone leaders we were all walking back home together at like 9, all 6 of us. Theres this long dirt road that we walk down and it was late at night and there happend to be no one there on the road so one fo the elders said lets have a race.... good idea right, especially on the crappy dirt roads of Honduras. Well to make a long story short we started running and when I was slowing down at the end i stepped in this Honduras Pot hole and ate it hahah scraped up my elbow and knee real good and got my suit pants all dirty. To say the least... this weekend was a blast. We got to listen the good word of God and in english at that. Also to spend some good time with other missionaires and hear about their testimonies and conversion stories. It truely was an amazing weekend. 

We have a baptism this weekend of Camilo Mejia, the guy who I mentioned a couple weeks back. Well he has never stopped being just a miracle. When we visited with him last night we was on page 215 in the book of mormon and we gave him that book like 2 and a half weeks ago. Its truely been a miracle to watch him go from a drunk, to finding us, to giving him a book of mormon, reading one chapted with him, placing a baptismal date, to now only a couple days away from his baptism. So you can all look forward to those pics coming this next week!!

Thats pretty much it but I want you all to know I love you all so much and am grateful for your support and prayers!

 

Love Elder Gardner

Les quero mucho!!

Ups and Downs

Hey Everyone!

 

Well this week was definately a week of ups and downs! All of Honduras celebrated their days of Independance this week so in Sabanagrande it was a bit hard to contact or even find people in their homes during those two days in the mornings especially. Theres a big park in the middle of Sabanagrande in front of the big catholic church and so all the schools here planned different dances from each grade, but yeah its interesting to see how different countries and collonies celebrate the Holidays!

Also this week... the rain still hasnt let up and all the roads in aposonigua are just horrible. Just a bunch of mud holes is all. Reguadless in order to get up to Laura weve gotta go through it. Now I have combat boots, and unfortunately Elder Broderick doesnt so we headed up there earlier last week and trying to stay on the side or on top of the rocks is nearly imposible and yeah lets just say the mud got the best of us! We will be lucky if our shoes last 6 more months in these conditions because i havent been able to remember my boots everytime and we definately have walked home completely soaking wet and mud up over our ankles as you can see in the photos.. but reguardless we know every time our future wives are gettting more and more beautiful every day! Thats for sure!

So that 8 year old girl, Suany... I dont know if I said last week but she came up to me in church, tapped me on the arm, and asked me if I would baptize her.. a moment ill never forget. Well her baptism is this saturday so im definately looking forward to that. its not gonna be a baptism for the mission, but for the Branch... and for the journal and life long memories thats for sure! Weve got alot to teach her this week but Iv never seen her family more happy then they have been with us over there teaching them all! I just love the mission so much!

For the best story of the week... so about 3 weeks ago there was a man on the street that came up to us and asked us for something to read about our church. So to start off we of course gave him just a pamphlet and then his directions but in Honduras there is no such thing, the next day and following week or two we couldnt find this guy who for the first time in our missions had someone come to US and ask for something but theres nothing more that we can do if we cant find his house. So this last week on our way to go teach Suany one night we ran into him, and he asked for something else to read becasue he had read it and had been looking for us! Well we were late to our appt but gave him a plan of salvation paphlet and then had him show us where his house was so we could stop by! So the next day we passed by his house with the intentions to give him some real reading, the Book of Mormon and he was there!!! Nearly a miracle if you know anyhting about our area... well we taught an amazing lesson and left the 3rd Nephi 11 wiht him and set a return appt. We left and realized that the Lord had to send him at us 2 times for us to get a clue! So friday we went by his house again and he was litteraly sitting there reading the Book of Mormon and had already ready that chapter, and started in the beginning of the Book of Mormon and was on page like 15 but it truely just was so amazing. We aked him if he had any questions about what he had read, and to our amazement told us everything about the chapter, and said, well it talked alot about baptism and just was really clear... where is this place that I need to be baptized?... me and Broderick just looked at each other and smiled in amazement, pointed out where our little chapel is and then put the date of the 9th of October to be baptized and he accepted right of the bat! The Lord truely is working with us, and inserting his hand, and slowly sending people right to us! This was truely amazing for us, and especially for my testimony, because I was the one who got to actually say the works "se bautisara", basically will you be baptized! 

This week was just so amzing and were looking at 2 maybe 3 baptisms already this month! We are so stoked about that!

Thats about all I got to say this week and were out of time but I want you all to know how thankful I am for all the support, and I know the lord hears and answers our prayers! He lives! 

 

I love you all!

 

Love Elder Gardner

 

Miracles and Disasters

Hey Fam and Friends!

 

Well yeah lots of things are changing in the mission right now and I didnt have changes so me and Broderick are here again, and Ill be going on almost having 5 months in this same area but its alright becasue the truth is, its getting so much better and we are doing our best to get to know just everyone we can so that we can find more oportunities to teach!

Speaking of that... we found ourselves a miracle family of 5 this week! On Friday night we were out walking around and remembered one sister that we had talked to the week before but she didnt know when to tell us to come back becasue her kids are always gone and her husband is always working, nevertheless, we passed by her house to find her husband sitting there watching TV so we started talking with him and somehow hit it off with him real quick and then the sister that we had talked to a week before came out to greet us too, and before we knew it he shut the TV off and they both sat down to listen and I saw at least 2 of her 3 kids in one of the back rooms so before we asked to say a prayer and sing a song I invited them into the room for just a little message that we had for them. Its hard for me to describe what happed after that but we got one of her sons involved in the lessons and he read some scriptures for us and then before leaving when we left the chalenge with them to read and pray to know these things are true... I found myself looking into the eyes of a family of 5 just so intently listening. Directly after that I felt prompted before the closing prayer to teach them the manera a prayer and then kinda jokingly asked if one of them would want to try it becasue no one ever wants to do that on the first visit but to our surprise her 10 year old son raised his hand and litteraly couldnt have said a more perfect prayer! We are seeing miracles here in the work and ah we were just on cloud 9 walking home that night! 

For bad news though, and just a background on the weather here in SabanaGrande... it has rained every single day for over 5 weeks now and lately the mud and earth has really been getting loose. Well the night after this amazing night and lesson with this beautiful family it rained and rained and reained almost all day and night and when we were returning from appontments in aposonigua completely soaking wet, and walking in mudd and water filled roads up to above our ankles...we make it back to our house to find out that our neighbors house flooded and there were about10 helpers and neighbors helping her just sweep and mop out all of the mud that had came into her house during this ridiculous storm. Worst part is that they didnt get the worst of it. This family Enamorado that we taught the other night, the level of this river behing their house raised over 8 feet and rushed in and through their tiny little house, filling it with over 4 feet of water and ruining evberthing that they had... clothes, money, and their own dining table was taken with the river. To make a long story short we tried all we could to help them but they lost everything and I just wish on everything that the church was strong enough here to help them out but we couldnt do anything to help them...ugh its just so sad! 

We are doing all we can to get back to teaching them again but for now they have no house so Ill have to let you know what happens this next week! 

Best news of all is that we had 32 in church yesterday, thats the most weve had in the church in over 3 months so we were just stoked about that! We are finally seeing the fruits of our labors! The work is just so great. I know the church is true and I cant even tell you how stoked I am for General Conference coming up! 

Im out of time now though so Until next week! I love you all and appreciate the support! 

 

Love Elder Gardner 

 

 

Livin' and Loven' life

Hey Fam and Friends!

 

Ah such an amazing week! It was hard to make a list of things to say but I have pictures and thats all you all really care about anyways right?? haha Um we learned how to make baleadas from our Relief Society President this week because she promised she would show us how before changes, which are next week. Mainly because we dont know who is going, and who is stayin and me and Elder Broderick have been learning all kinds of cheap easy things to make for lunch so we mine as wall add to the recipie box mom sent and make my future companions, family, and family when I get home proud and learn how to make some legit Honduran food! Oh its sooo good too! Simple... but good!

So anyways just an update with us here in SabanaGrande... we are alive. But something interesting, we found out that our only investigator... this Golden Hna Laura Avila. Well her sister turns out was baptised into our church when she was 14, had her first kid when she was 15, and is now living just up the hill aways from her house so with the help of Hna Laura we got her to church again for the first time since her baptism and shes almost 21 and braught her little son with her to church. I had planned to teach the lesson for the second hour but when they showed up our branch president decided to take over and ended up teaching for like two hours and he is famous for his shaving teachings... if you dont know what that means its just like really chastising teaching where he just shaves the people of all their wrong doings and brings them to repentance! So I was just dying and felt so bad for Laura and her sister there but i just prayed and prayed that they wouldnt take it the wrong way, but that was last sunday and everything is still good with them so it wasnt to bad! Um yesterday at church we had 18 total, including us as missionaries and the branch president. 8 when sacrament was gven! It never fails that its just so disapointing. Especially when me and Elder Broderick wake up at 6 to shower and leave by 7 to hike up to Aposonigua to pick up 3 youth boys, 2 of them being the two baptisms that we had last week, because without us they wouldnt come. Its a tough life out here, but ugh i just love it so much! The mission is so great, I litteraly and understanding everything and speaking with a tounge that I never though i would be able to! Spanish is so much fun and i love speaking it!

Our goal right now and lately because contacting just hasnt been working for us so we have been doing all we can to find the other 200 inactive memebers that we supposedly have here and just trying to figure out what we can do for them. They day we set out to do that we ran into 2 on accident just at a Pulpuria buying water and turns to find out she was baptised like 30 years ago before the chapel that we have now was even there, she was baptized in a river. But believe it or not, the church up and just left the area. We dont know, or probably will ever know what happened but there was over 60 members at that time meeting in a little house and having the 3 hours of church and everything. I just wanted to cry when I heard her say that because she said she just wept when she had no where to go, lost her book of mormon and all this kind of stuff. She started going to a baptist church and has been there since but she says she has pictures of the day of her baptism and of the missionaries back then so we set an appointment with her to see them and see if we can rebuild her testimony! Its just so sad what this area has been though, and no wonder the people and members are so hard here, the church up and left them for 7 or 8 years is what we heard. Ugh its tough and I feel so bad and have a hard time blaming them but ugh please pray for us and for the people here because they are so stuck on the traditions of their fathers, and their fathers fathers that they dont want to change nor listen to us!

I have such a strong testimony of this church and of all the teachings but theres not a day that goes by that I dont wish on everything that I could just show these people here, espially the members... what the church is really like in the states, and in Utah for example because they just dont know and understand, and for that are not able to appreciate the things that I know we sometimes take so much for granted! I feel that I am experiencing my own conversion right now in the trial of my faith here, but nevertheless... I know its true becasue I have, and had before my mission, a testimony of this gospel, and of the Living Christ. He lives and he loves us... just look around at the blessings that we have, and soak that moment in! Live in the moment... for a moment and share the good word of our amazingly true church with someone every day! One of the stakes here had a stake conference entitled CADA MIEMBRO UN MISSIONERO, EVERY MEMBER A MISSIONARY. This church is true and the book is blue! Thats my testimony and I sure do love you all so much and am so greatful for the support of each and every one of you!

Thank you so much! Keep prayin!

Dont forget how much I love you all!

 

Love your servant of the Lord,

Elder Gardner

 

A day with the President

Hola Familia y Amigos!

 

Well today I only have time to write one email because we just barely got back to our area, have dinner in just a bit and have other things that me and Elder Broderick need to do tonight. These P Days just go by way too fast. Today though I had Hijos de Heleman though, and thats where all the missionaries that came at the same time get together sometime usually in your second change and we all went up with President and his wife to see the Giant Statue of Jesus Christ and this big park thats up there just to go take pictures and what now so that was fun and I did get some good pictures. Afterwards we all went and had lunch on President of course and we all got Porpusas, just these really good tortilla and chicken, and cheese lookin things and wow that was just delicious! I got to see the other Greengos that I came with, Elder Carter and Belnap again, and they have been in the south where its just hotter then hot all the time and both of them have lost so much weight... wow! Iv pretty much stayed the same, if not just lost muscle weight but oh well! It was fun to see all them again!

So this last week we were supposed to have divisiones with our Zone leaders and have one come out to the area with me and the other go work another area with Elder Broderick... well the morning that we went to Teguc to go pick them up to head back out to SabanaGrande the Teachers had just started a giant March... just thousands of teachers and they were of course blocking all of the Roads and doing all kind of stupid things to cause attention and so we were stuck in Teguc for a day but it was good to go and work in the area of the Zone Leaders again with Elder Urbina, from Honduras, a 26 year old Convert... hes a really hard worker and I just loved working with him, its just really tough though because they have so much success there in the city, and the members are just soooo helpful for them, they NEVER contact, they just go to a Members house and get like 10 new families to teach... it was so incredible for me to see that! The members here in our area unfortunately know the attitude and have the attitude of everyone else here in SabanaGrande and truethfully they dont want to affend their friends, or something to that affect and so they never help us... it also doesnt help that we only have 18 or 19 total at church every sunday and hardly anyone in the church to recieve the Santa Cena, Sacrament! 

Anyways the mission is so great! I know the lord has put me here in this area as a trial of my faith thats for sure. But Im hangin in there and I KNOW that we are doing what we need to do, its just the people here dont want to hear it, or already have their own judgements about the church and will refuse to listen. Reguadless... we were called her to TEACH and thats exactly what we are doing, or trying all we can to do! 

So an update on Laura too... she is reading the Liahona, or the Ensign and I gave her the General Conference Ensign and she just loves it... cuz obviously this last one really focussed on the mothers and parents and she is just so amazed because she is starting to see the big picture of our chuch! Its been such a blessing to see her grow.. but we are still just stuck in the mud with her becasue we never get to talk to her husband and she hasnt had any success talking with him about marriage! But we still make the hike every other day and she is starting to make us and give us food now so its even better! I just have gained such a love for her and her spirit, It just makes me so sad that we cant move forward, cuz she really is MORE then ready! 

Thats about it... and I gotta run now but ugh I love the mission so much, trust me when I say that and know that I love you all so much and pray for you every single day! Truthfully! The lord truely is teaching me a hard but very humbling lesson right now but im so greatful that I have this chance to be here! Ah I love this church! 

Until next week! Cuidense todos!

les quierro!

 

Love Elder Gardner

 

PS sorry no photos, I have so many I want to send but dont have time!  

New recipes

¿Que onda?

Another week in the book and Ill be Celebrating 4 months this week, Its just so crazy. My comp celebrated 8 months in the mission today so we went and got a bunch of Baleadas this morning with another Elder in our Zone that has the same amount of time. I still havent heard a word or anything about how the other two Elders that I came with are doing? Ive been wanting to but they are both in the south and im sure just sweating like none other!

Mom you sure would be proud of your son this week though. We talked to our President of the Branch here, another Senior Missionary Couple, from El Salvador because he was a Chef at Hotels and all kinds of places before his mission and Baptism into the church and so we talked him into teaching us simple, cheap, but DELICIOUS meals to make so this week he has taught us how to make Arroz con Pollo and Spaghetti with this special sauce... ah they just were the best! They are simple and we could of course figure out how to make these things but he truely just has the touch. Iv been using that recipie box that you gave me mom and just writing down all these things and just adding them up. One of these days since I have the recipie to the Double Chocolate Chip cookies and Ill just have to find all of the ingredients here in the city one PDay but we let our Neighbor and Cocinera know that we will need to use her stove to cook them and then we would just watch a movie of the church with them and they were all for that so were stoked about that! The truth is Honduras doesnt know what real cookies are here, compared to those cookies anyways. Im so excited to do that cuz I just crave every day some good old american cookies sometimes haha!

Not much more happened this week just a lot of just contacting and no success yet! Its getting frustrating and old but im determined that as long as we just keep doing what we need to do, the Lord will bless us! Its hard at times especially when the Branch President here himself tells us that there is no hope and that the people in our area just dont want anything. But I got thinking one day while we were contacting... Is it the people that need the church... or the church that needs the people more?? Sometimes as missionaries we get caught up in thinking why dont the people just listen to us? or just discouraging things like that but we all know that the church is always going to go on without the members, but as long as keep the mindset that we were called to teach, and if the poeple dont want to listen then there isnt anything more that we can do! Im not sure why this is so hard today to come up with things to say, and I hope this Email doesnt sound depressing because Im not at all, and we have plenty of ANIMO in our companionship but I dont have anything new to say really today other then my Testimony is becoming more and more solid every day! I know with ALL MY HEART that this church is true and as many Jehovas Witnesses or Church Pastors that try to shoot us down the Bible it just comes down to our testimony and at times thats all we can leave with people here because its the only thing that they cant find something contrary to it! The work here is really tough but I know that the Lord put me there for a reason, and every day is a strugle to keep my thoughts positive but I can find happiness in my testimony, its the secret, it really is! I know that!

But thats about it Family and Friends! I love you all so much and know that the Lord is blessing my through your prayers and I pray that the lord will bless you every single day!

Do your best, and leave the lord the rest!

 

Love Elder Gardner

New Companion

Hey Fam and Friends!

 

Well the news long awaited.... my new companion is Elder Broderick from Arizona. His house is actually like 15 minutes from Waweep and so he was able to understand what I was going through having family in Lake Powell without you! But ah this week has just been so loaded with things that happened and yeah. To start though, me and Contreras last day here in sabanna grande decided to go hike up to this big rock, which is pretty much the highest point in the valley of SabanaGrande and Im sending some amazing fotos from that. Its really just was so nice to get away for a minute and just sit up there and think, as you can see the wind was blowing really hard but ah it was so beautiful!

So wednesday we had Cambios and I picked up Elder Broderick and introduced him to our area here in good old SabanaGrande, hes got 4 months more then me but he clicked real fast and its been a fun past week or so together. We have been learning so much and just contacting like crazy, which is something that me and Elder Contreras hardly ever did so that has been something new for the both of us because he has been in the south for the past 4 months where its hotter then hot and his past couple companions have just been really planchero... like disobedient i guess is the best word in english. In other words we are both Craving just contacting and since we literally have no investigators now we are starting from scratch and man do I have some amazing contacting experiences to tell you... but not the time really. Basically saturday it was hotter then hot here and in the morning after our studies we werent feeling contacting but we knew what we needed to do so we left and just walked about 20 minutes up this cobble stone path and just started knockin doors, the very first door that we knocked was just this old little house with a big red door, and no doornob or a way to open it from the outside, yeah like the picture of christ knocking haha and this little old man opened the door after we stood there for every calling for someone and knocking. This mans name is Jose Benita... we didnt even ask.. he just invited us right in and sat us down after we basically just told him that we had a message for him about Jesus Christ and ended up teaching the entire first lesson with him and he just sat and listened with such intent. I dont know how amazing this is but just the way everything had been going that day and the circumstances we were in just dripping sweat in this little home with this little old man It was just such a tender mercy of the lord to me and I wish you all could have been there just kinda watching over because I know the spirit was there putting the words into my mouth as I taught my first really... lesson by myself with another Greengo. I dont know how better to describe this whole moment but I think back now and this was also the first time I had taught an actual man to be honest. WIth my little bit of contacting experience my first change and only teaching members or Laura and the two teenagers... this was the first time. So many more amazing things happened after that lesson that I couldnt have had a better saturday. He didnt end up showing up to church, but just from that hour and half of contacting that saturday morning we found 4 families and have appointments with all of them tomorrow. Just miracles are pouring out upon us. I know that to be true! I know its not impossible to find, baptize, and retain perople here in Sabanagrande, like so many other missionaries and even the mission pres himself thinks... something is about to change in this area... yes with two Greengos. The first time ever by the way... with just two Greengos!

Ok just real quick, but most importantly... I had a really stong feeling come over me to go visit with that Hermana Laura Avila that we hadnt visited with in over 3 weeks now... well we visitied with us our second day and she had so many questions about our church, we answered all of them, and just this weekend... she bore testimony to us that she knows everything is true and that she knows she needs to be baptized! She told us straight up that she wanted to baptized. There is so much more I wish I could say about the past couple lessons with her and how she got to this point. The problem that we are dealing with is getting them married but the good thing is that she knows!!!! We didint even have to accuse her, she came out and told us what she needs to do to be baptized in our church and be married too so that she is not living in sin! Her story to me is worth more then anything in my heart and I wish I could share it better but she is just our little miracle and Golden Investigator!

Anyways... I know this church is true and that miracles are performed throught the hand of the lord, even here in these poor little vilages of Sabanagrande Honduras.... Its so amazing to see!

Until Next week though... wish us luck in finding more people to teach and to be the miracle missionaires to change this area and the expectations. After all we had a total of 8 people in the church during the sacrament this sunday, and a total of 22 at most but its just ridiculous and I want so bad to just one day... fill every chair in our little chapel. There are 68 total chairs in our chapel... and one day my companion and I will fill everyone of them. DOnt know how, when, or where these people are but we can do it! I know that!

 

I love you all!

Love Elder Gardner

 

cleaning the font

baptismal font

Jose Amador's baptism

Hugo's Baptism

Hugo's Baptism