Hola Familia y amigos!
This last week we had the opportunity to give alot of service!
On Tuesday we had a service project for La Familia Daza. They needed us to rip down a wall of tires filled with dirt and replace the tires and fill them back up with dirt! I'm grateful that I worked construction before the mission thank you GREG for making me shovel all of that dirt that one day. I knew what I was in for, 3 hours of straight shoveling and listening to gospel music was great! We ended up not finishing so we had to come back the next day.
Wednesday! We went back to La Familia Dazas house to finish stacking and packing and it took us another 3 hours since we didnt have the help of the missionaries in our district this time. Nevertheless I could feel the Lord strengthening me to do the job so I went for it with Elder Quinonez and we got it done! After stacking and packing the wheels, Hermana Daza wanted us to do one last thing before we left, which was to burn all of her trash at the side of here house. This was pretty interesting for me since I didn't know where we would start the fire, but Hermana Daza had brought out a lighter and told us to just go for it and light it up! haha! So we gathered what trash we could to start the fire and when we got it going it got HUGE! It was crazy! I thought we were going to burn her house down, but she didn't seem worried. She actually brought us out cream filled bread with some soda to watch the fire! Her name is Jasmine and she's one of the coolest ladies Ive met out here haha.
Thursday was another service project at a families house not in our area so I don't know their names, but we were back to whacking dirt. We were tearing apart the side of a mountain for a family that is planning on building a house in this area. After about 4 hours of this my hands got destroyed! I should have brought gloves...
Friday!! can you guess? Thats right SERVICE, I love giving service its super fun! This time Las Hermana's needed our help with a family that needed their backyard cleared. They gave us machetes and we started going to work chopping down trees and weeds. During out rampage of swinging like mad men (its so fun to use machetes) we found a coconut tree and we climbed up and each got one. The coconuts are green here? I don't know if thats normal but they taste so good! My favorite part is the white meat inside. It reminds me of Almond Joys.
Saturday we had two Entrevistas (interviews) for Luis Sourdis, and Camilo Daza who are both going to be baptized this week!
Sunday me and my comp fasted and spent a lot of time with families in the ward. I was able to share a lot of scriptures that I learned throughout the week. One story that I really love is when Amulek is preaching about the after life and how our bodies will be reunited with our spirits again! (Alma 11:42-45) I had the opportunity to bear my testimony multiple times throughout the day sharing this wonderful message.
Missionary life is the greatest blessing ever!
Love you all!
Elder Horton
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