Dear beloved ones,
So.. let me describe Christmas in Honduras with four major things:
First like the "Holy week" everyone is super jolly, setting up gigantic
towns of Bethlehem and nativity scenes in their little jail cell, (because they
don't have yards I call them cells) like the full out bonkers, I saw one with an
artificial river and water fall, like nuts.
Second on the 24th they have fire works at midnight and all the kids open
their presents. I'm pretty sure santa doesn't visit here because if he did Rudolph would be a goner. Kinda like "Death by fireworks" here. The members tell
us that they have like mini wars with roman candles and have like bases where
they bomb the other team.. yeah nuts, idk how many people are in the
hospital.
Third, all of last week and this week they eat tamales and camatales and
torejas and stuff that is considered like special Christmas treats.. and aren't
bad.. but with tamales it's like a prank to put something gross in the middle
sooo ,beware if your friends with a Honduran.
Fourth, all of this is accomplished with the accompimiant of drinking a ton
of alcohol and rompompo... thats just eggnog. Which is just as good here as it
is in the states..
Speaking of rompompo, we were at some members house and they gave us this and
said, drink it drink it, and of course we did. Later they were looking at the
bottle and saying that their grandma had made it. The next thought they had was,
wait a minute, our grandma isn't a member.. usually eggnog is made with alcohol..
hahaha, so we were all like freaking out and the members were freaking out and
saying what did we do to the missionaries!? and later we asked the grandma and
she made it without alcohol in respect to her childrens beliefs and turns out
wants to learn more about the church. haha God does work in mysterious
ways.
Anyways, yeah, of course that was the highlight of this week. My companion and
I are slaying numbers wise we just gotta get this family to pray about their
fecha and we'll be baptizing this family of 7 people. But they gotta do their
part. God will always do his part. Always.
As a missionary I've learned that I NEED to trust God more. He hasn't let
me down yet. I'm not saying everything is super smooth all the time but like
with the story of eggnog, shoot I worried so much I was gonna like call the
president and like.. shoot, I don't even know what I was going to do but I was
scared, when really God knows my intentions, why am I so worried haha. Faith and
hope. They're the best and really they come in a package.
I love this gospel, it's awesome. This New Year is gonna be sweet and I'm in
the best place in the world for it.
Love you guys take care.
Love Elder
Johnson
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