Another week in the books and it was just so great.
Started the week off well with MLC and it was sooo good, so productive. I love how the Church uses counsels to keep progressing and improving and I love getting to learn so much from my friends out here.
Because we finally finished interviews of the whole mission, we finally got to do some exchanges! I got to go with Elder Evanson to his area and then my area with Elder Rosales, two absolute dawgs from my MTC group. The last time Elder Evanson and I were companions was almost exactly one year ago in Copán as we watched our trainers hop on a bus to their next areas. It was so awesome to see how we have grown in a year and how powerful of a missionary he is. We also had such an awesome lesson with some members with the intent to try to receive a reference from them. We helped them remember their favorite experiences from their missions and the spirit was so strong and they gave so many references and promised to go help the missionaries teach the next day. The members are so key and so willing to help if they taste the joy of sharing the Gospel.
With Elder Rosales it was awesome and he helped me see how powerful it is to just think positive and only focus on the future miracles the Lord will give us the privilege to see. We have not had many people progressing in our area these days so we just focused all day on finding and we saw miracles. We found a single mother of 6 and a few teenagers who all showed real interest and said they wanted to come to church tomorrow! The Lord loves effort, especially optimistic or faithful effort.
Other stuff:
- Just hiked the only hike in San Pedro Sula (apart from my area) up to a massive "COCA-COLA" sign. It is literally the size of the Hollywood sign but says "Coca-cola". And now you all know who really controls this country. There were colorful spiders the size of my hand every 5 feet but I didn't see any monkeys other than the secretaries :(
- Someone broke into the office car the other day but only stole the spare tire? He will be missed 😔✊
- The AC went out in our whole house so we threw all of our 7 mattresses into the front room and opened up all the windows and it might have been the best I have ever slept on my mission.
- BYU plays Utah tonight and we are a divided office. It will be an interesting week next week.
Yesterday, I had interviews with President McClellan and he taught me about the connection between faith and willpower. I love the idea of faith and consecration and one thing that has always been a concern of mine is remaining so faithful and diligent in my faith after my mission. I learned that it all comes down to really how much I believe in my covenants and how much and believe that it's worth every sacrifice. I am excited for the future of this mission and to continue trying to be a little more positive and a little more like Christ.
As always, with much love... and Go Cougs🤙,
Élder Snyder
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