I completed 6 months yesterday! Woo! 1/3 of the way done! Isn't that crazy?! I honestly can't believe it. Time has gone by so freaking fast. But I dig it. I've done a lot in my first 6 months. I'm still in my first area and I will be until I hit 7 1/2 months. Crazy stuff. But I've enjoyed every moment of it. I like to think so anyway.
Anyway this week was freaking busy. I feel like it's been like a month. We made Baleadas as a zone (type of comida tipica de Honduras), I had divisions and we the gringas ate gringas, it rained, and the streets turned into rivers, we hung out with Katy & her novio and taught her younger siblings. We had a multi-zona and I took pics with crazy elders, one of my favorite sisters, and the pres and his fam., His parents, his older sister, and her husband came to visit. His parents are SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOO old! But it was really cool that they could share their testimonies with us and tell me how where they're from there's a lot of Judd's. I'm like that's nice and super random. But the coolest thing out of the week was the baptism we had!
My dad always gives me cincho about how I just say we baptized someone but never talk about who they are as people. So here I go. Jorge age 10 and Cristy age 12. We first met their mom contacting back in February or something when I didn't know any Spanish and I was with my first comp Hna Campos. The lessons we had with her were cool but she never really progressed much. She would maybe read a pamhlet and talk about it. But idk I never felt really impressed by our visits with her. We've been visiting her relatively consistantly since then and one day she talked about her kids. How they always were fighting, being rebellious, etc. So we asked if we could take them to church the next Sunday. She said yes! And from there we began to take them to church every sunday. Cristy, Jorge, and their younger sister Valentina who's five. And from there we began to teach the lessons and they just had an amazing desire to learn. And here we are now with both of them as members of the church. Continuing to learn everyday.
This baptism was by far my favorite. Did I say that about the last one? Maybe. But the thing is that I loved these kids more. That sounds bad. But you know why I loved these kids more? Because they loved me back. I love Alex and probably always will but I felt like he didn't care for me much and hardly listened to anything I had to say. Now Jorge and Cristy. They were interested. They had normal conversations with me outside of lessons. They wanted to sit next to me in church. And it's just lovely. When someone loves you, you love that person more. I think you get it. If not I'm sorry and you can just think I'm a horrible person. They have such a strong desire to be a better family. They know that they can be a family for all eternity and they're now being examples for their mother and their step dad who will hopefully join them so they can be sealed together. That's what I learned from these two youngins. That sometimes we take for granted that we can be together forever. That we have that blessing. But that it's such an amazing blessing we should share it with others. So they can have the same joy. It was also a really happy experience because it was my friend Jordy's first baptism and it was so cool to see how happy he was and how happy the kids were. And really there was just a crap load of happiness in that baptism. I dug it.
You know what I find interesting? Is the desire the young people have to be near God. It's stronger than any youth I've ever seen in the states. And my question is why? Why is that? And honestly I think it's because it's the examples of their parents. Sure you've got narcos, and gangs, and all kinds of horrible people. But you've also got the most faith filled, God centered people I've ever met. And I think it's because of their parents that these patojos have such a strong desire to be near to God. It's incredible.
Well my people. That was my life this week. I love you! Till next time!
Hermana Judd
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