Feliz Holy Week! Here in Honduras, Holy Week is everyone's favorite week because the whole country takes off work and barely celebrates Jesus! We decided to make people celebrate correctly by inviting literally everyone we talked with to come to church and change their lives through Jesus Christ.
We had a multizone conference on Tuesday and it was awesome. I learned so much about repentance and how to help others want to repent of their mistakes. It was also so fun to see some good friends. One of Elder Evanson's converts in San Pedro then took us out to get Gelato before our bus left and it was sooooo rico.
Wednesday, Juliet and her husband invited us over to their house for lunch and it was so awesome and they are just so prepared to hear and understand the restored gospel. We also planned and carried out the most successful youth activity of my mission and a bunch of kids showed up and loved it. It's so fun working with the youth.
Thursday, the APs came all the way out to Mochito to do exchanges with us (super random but super lit) and it was so fun. My first kid, Elder Abarca, is AP right now and he went teaching with us and it was so awesome to see how great of a missionary he has become. He helped us put down 5 more baptismal dates and we are hoping to see some fruits very soon!
We met this one little 8 year-old girl who's older sisters are members and she is the funniest kid ever. We walk into her house and she says, “I want to get baptized. I just don't know what day, because I can't tomorrow.” So she's on date for May 11th and she's awesome. As we taught her the Word of Wisdom, she reassured us many times that cocaine is against the Word of Wisdom and that she does not take cocaine. Keep up the good work Maria 🙏
We had so many special lessons this week testifying of the love of Jesus Christ. There is such a need for the knowledge of the Atonement in all corners of the world. I was asked to speak in church on Sunday about the Atonement of Christ and it was a special experience preparing for that. I love the scriptures and how we can always find more every time we read. One scripture that I pondered for a long time this week was Doctrine and Covenants 19:16 “For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;” The love, the gratitude, the motivation, the humility, the peace I feel as I read this over and over again really causes me to “stand all amazed”.
With so much love,
Élder Snyder
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