Week 13: A Lot of Pizza!

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Another week down and it was the best week ever because of General Conference!! If you didn't get a chance to watch it, please please please watch it or listen to it. I promise it is for everyone because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone! General Conference is one of the fastest ways to receive revelation from God to guide your life.

Ok I had to start with that because for real conference is incredible. Before the mission, I approached the weekend saying "sweet I don't have to get dressed for church and my mom is gonna make a fire breakfast." Oh how naïve I was. As a missionary, conference is literally Christmas. We were lucky enough to get to watch all of it live (when wifi cooperated) and wow I will be looking forward to these special weekends for the rest of my life, but not for the same reasons. I have such a strong testimony now of prophets and their genuine love for God and his followers. Don't be like me and take conference for granted! It is truly a time when we can take a break from the world and listen to God give us perfect guidance through his prophet and apostles to navigate the craziness of the world.

Alright, missionary stuff. So we work really hard every day and don't see much success… but this week… MIRACLES! So last week we found the sweetest little family who was so welcoming and the 12 year old son, Brayan, said he wanted to come to church! We continue to teach them and they say how much they love our message and then they drop the bomb on us that they are moving in 5 days to San Pedro (5 hours away). Me and Elder Perry are destroyed. Well we keep teaching them and then moving day rolls around… and they didn't leave!!! Somehow they gathered up enough money to pay rent and are staying at least another month! Brayan came to church to watch general conference and he stayed at the church for SIX HOURS with us. Voluntarily. He made friends and really enjoyed it all. Please pray for Brayan! He is so prepared and such a sweet kid and has so much power to do good.

So last P day we traveled to a bigger city in our zone and we got Pizza Hut. My stomach has kinda been going through it here and oftentimes I don't have an appetite for the food in Copan. But let me tell you, seeing one of my favorite foods steaming and angelically glowing before my eyes was quite possibly the most exciting moment of my mission. Sadly, my eyes were larger than my stomach and although I felt quite sick for the rest of the night… so unbelievably worth it.

Other quick things that happened:

Couldn't understand a lick of Spanish this week but in our lessons I felt the Spirit stronger than any other lessons and was able to say all of the things I felt I should say. Foreign languages are hard, but all children of God can understand the language of the Spirit.
The Book of Mormon is true. Please read it. That's all.
Had some of the deepest sleeps of my life. Elder Perry and I often say "nos vemos en 5" as we get into our beds. This means "see you in 5" and dang this week it was more like nos vemos en 2.
Found my first Honduran home-gym in the backyard of one of Elder Perry's recent converts and he invited us to workout with him every day. Hoping the kid's uncle (an inactive member) let's us use it.
Really starting to love the mission and friends I am making here. It's truly such a special opportunity to be here in this mission.
Oh also, didn't get transfered. President basically told me that I'm gonna be in Copan until the January transfer so that's lit because I love it here (and we have hot showers unlike most of the mission) but also daunting because this area is hardddd but hey it's teaching me to work really hard.

That's about it for this week! What has been in the back of my mind this week is the question "How can I be more Christ-like?" I challenge you all to ask yourself this question and then just try to be a little bit more like Christ each day. I promise you will be happier:)

Love you all!! Nos vemos!

Élder Snyder