Tony's mission to Honduras

Dearest Goonies and Family, Well, I just got done writing a huge letter and I lost it and I am not very happy. Here are the highlights: This last Tuesday we had a sweet Zone Leader Conference with Elder Farabela, who is in the First Quorum of the Seventy and will be talking in this General Conference that is coming. The conference was amazing. I am happy because this Thursday I will be completing 21 years old and I still feel like a 14 year old boy. My cook is going to throw me a birthday party, but not this week because she is going to the temple in Guatemala.  My new Companion and I are fasting every week to keep seeing miracles in this little area. The Lord really has blessed me and it has been a blessing to see my converts in this area use their priesthood by blessing and passing the sacrament, and going on divisions with us during the week. This Saturday my convert Brother Melvin Caseres will be baptizing his 8 year old son David. I am way excited. This Tuesday will be ...

Dear Family, How is everyone doing? Thank you all for the letters and for the prayers. I am doing great here still in La Aurora. This last week was really great with my new companion E. Flores from El Salvador. He is my first companion that is taller then me. I was his Zone Leader in Colon, he was one of the two district leaders when we baptized 55 people in the month of December. After December he went to a Zone called Merendon and was there for January all the way up to September 12th. And now we are companions. We get along really great and he is a good missionary. This last week we received two new missionaries in our zone. On Saturday we had a really special zone conference. For the conference we all dressed up in our white baptismal clothes. It was a special conference that us leaders in the zone prepared for everyone. We didn’t even tell any of the Elders that it was going to be a special zone conference. We just told all the Elders to meet in our church building at 9:00 on Sa...

Dear Fam, Well, I am really pumped up right now. We are going to have so much success this change here in my favorite area, La Aurora. Yes, that is right, I do not have a transfer, and I am the happiest person on the planet. My companion will be going this Wednesday to another area, and I will be receiving a new companion. It has been a wonderful four and a half months with him here. We have learned so much from each other, but we both really wanted a change. Change in the mission is always good. I am so ready for this last change. We are going to tear it up. This Sunday we had an absolutely awesome activity. We had a ¨Missionary for One Day¨ activity. We had 24 members of the church be a missionary for one day. We gave them their mission calls last week in church (assigned by the stake presidency) to serve as a missionary for one day. They all got up yesterday at 6 o’clock and got ready, then went by investigators’ homes to pick them up for church. Church starts at 8:00, then after ...

Dearest Fam, Sorry for the guilt trip that I threw on everyone last week with the letters thing. That wasn’t my intention. But it did work! I did receive more letters this week then in a while. Thanks to all. Well here I am still here in San Pedro contacting all the houses in this little area with 4 roads and one gay colony. It is actually really fun, because the second time we contact the same house, we still remember what happened the first time and the same exact thing happens all over again. We still got the faith though that we are going to find more people to baptize in this area. My companion always jokes with me sometimes and tells me we should just go around asking people for their information, so we can baptize them as soon as they die. Lately we have been having some struggles with finding people. Right now we are pretty much looking for little alley ways or for houses that are kind of hidden. And besides that we are re-contacting the houses all over again. My companion an...