[from August 12, 2017]
Everything is going great here. I´m just hanging out in the office right now. Changes are coming up so that´s a big deal for us here. I have to do that crazy transfer thing dad talked to me about doing (with all the buses and taxis and stuff).
I love being a missionary in Honduras! I think it´s cool how little money things cost in Honduras. You can buy your rice and beans and tortilla for really cheap. An egg costs 5 cents. A 3 liter bottle of coke costs 2 dollars. I just got my Honduran residency this week so I´m officially Honduran haha.
The baptism last week went super well. It was another family that we helped get married. Their names are Herman and Yeimy. We´d been teaching them for a while. Herman had actually lived in the the United States (in Utah actually) and knew lots of mormons and was really open to us. Yeimy had a lot of doubts, but she overcame them in a really cool way. She didn´t think she needed to be baptised twice, but she heard the testimony of a evangelical preacher- turned mormon, and she felt the spirit really strong and wanted to be baptized.
I lost my camera charger (another missionary got a little mixed up and took mine and I have his) so I couldn´t take any pics on my camera. The good thing was, the sister missionaries had theirs, but they still haven´t given us the pictures.
Changes last for 6 weeks. The next one is in on the 16th of August. It´s looking more and more like I might last another extra change here in the office, but who knows. I though I would probably be leaving in November, but it´ll probably be December. Yeah But if I last 4 changes it´ll be 6 months. 5 changes is 7 1/2 months. so I might be in here for about 8 months. Yikes! But I like it here, there are just some things that I do miss about being outside the office. I´m sure I´ll miss it here when I leave.
I´m getting used to big city living. I really like being here in a bigger city. It´s really hard here to look stuff up because there are no addresses. You just kinda gotta know where things are.
When I´m in the area, we don´t use the truck. I think that might make people see us differently. If we show up in a huge new truck to their house made out of tin sheets, I don´t know. Just mala honda [bad vibes].
Now that I have a year I do kinda feel like I´m an older missionary. I also get to see the brand new missionaries coming in to the mission. It´s kinda cool to talk to them. It makes me remember when I first got here.
I had a hard time with the fasting in my first few months in the mission. The only thing was, I would get so thirsty in the hot street! But I got used to it, and now I´m ok. Don´t worry, I am safe in Honduras. God protects us in the same way he protected those missionaries all those years ago.
I´m enjoying these slip on shoes. I think I might keep this style for the rest of my mission. I might just buy some other ones when these wear out. I have those boots too, but they just aren´t necessary, cause my area´s pretty flat.
I think I´m not gonna take too much stuff to college. Being a missionary has taught me to not accumulate stuff because I have to go in a couple months. I think that would be a good idea to get an internship. I just have to figure out what I want to be first!
Love you guys,
-Elder Stoddard
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