The Newbies Have Arrived AND I'm Coming Home!

This week was a crazy one. I was very very busy.

On Monday night I had to go to Presidents house at 8 to go over the changes that the mission was going to have. President actually asked us our opinions on a few changes. It was always his decision at the end of the day though. I now understand how we can assist him because we are a lot closer to the missionaries and we have a lot of information. We didnt finish the changes until about 11. We live close to president though so he went and dropped us off.

Tuesday morning we got in the Truck to go to the airport. We had a group of 12 sisters coming in at 930. 10 of them are from the usa. That is a record size of a group of sisters. They took awhile though because the airline from el salvador lost some bags. We helped them with that later though. We drove them back to presidents house and went straight back to the airport. It is kind of far from presidents house because it is part of the other mission.  We picked up the 8 elders that came in from provo. They were also all from the usa. So it was a large group of gringos. We took them home and they had a meeting all afternoon. We called the ZLs and gave the whole mission thier changes at 6. That was nice because the aps used to do it very late at night and there was no time to pack. I wanted to get it done as soon as possible. After that we had a welcome dinner with all of the new missionaries at presidents house. It is clear that these new missionaries are a blessing for our mission. They look a lot better than we were when we came haha. 

Wednesday morning was the big change meeting. We took all of the new missionaries to the stake center to start the meeting. I led the meeting and was able to share my testimony with them about how el libro de mormon helped me learn spanish. My companion shared his testimony too. I then had to translate Hermana Hernadez and Presidents talks for the new missionaries. That was funny. I forgot a word or 2 in english. We got them all thier new companions and sent them off to their new areas. In the afternoon we took the missionaries that will be going home before september to the temple. That includes Elder Tarver, Meyer, Jones, and Stone. Some of my best friend on the mission. So I drove them to the temple and we did a session in the afternoon. That really helped me relax with all of the stress that I had from the craziness of the week. We had a dinner that night with their group as well at presidents house. I took Elder Tarver to the airport the next day. He is now with his family.

Speaking of going home. I should be home around the 23rd of December. That is the release date that President Hernandez gave me when I talked to him about school and everything. I know that mom was dying to hear that while reading this email. So I will be home within the next 5 months. The time is getting shorter... I will take advantage of it I promise. Thanks for everything family. I love you all so much.

Love Elder Comstock

Back To The South

July 20,2013

I spent most of last week in southern Honduras. It was such a good trip. I was able to work with 3 different zones and see how they were doing. The south is supposted to be the part of the mission that baptizes the most. They are doing a good job. It is known for the heat.

The first day was spent in a zone called San Lorenzo. That is the hottest zone in the mission. It was a hot day. We drove down with president to the south and he dropped me off with the zls (Elder Vorwaller and Torres) in SL. Elder Vorwaller is actually from Parker Colorado. He said that he didnt know Grandma and Grandpa though. Maybe they know his parents. We got to ride bikes all day. That was new and different for me. They are like the only zone that has bikes. Lucky them. We saw a circus there and took pictures of some of the animals on the side of the road. We helped the sisters move houses. We taught a good lesson. It was a sucessful day.

The second day I went to la zona Monte Carlo with my old friend Elder Dockendorf. He is the Zone leader in that zone That was a fun day. We went out to the brand new area that he is opening. He is breaking records of mission stats with investigators in church and lessons taught. It is a place that has litteraly never had much religion. It is very remote, but he is seeing sucess there. We enjoyed our divisions.

The third day was in la Zona Iztoca with my roomate from the mtc, Elder Evans. He is the zone leader there. We got hit by a crazy rain storm. It was raining sideways. It is a good thing that I had to go to the bathroom and we went to the house 5 min befor it started raining. We got lucky. We had district meeting that day with brownies that are delicious. 

Yesterday I got back to Teguc and to my pleasant supprise our truck was ready. Our finacial secretery Elder Peterson came to pick us up and took us to the toyota shop to pick up Presidents car that was getting worked on too. I drove Presidents car back to his house. The toyota shop is in the comayaguela mission, so I didnt really know the way back. We drove around for a few minutes and found our way. It was funny.  It was a great week though. And we have 3 baptisms planned for tonight so it should end well. They are 3 girls that we have been teaching. Wish me luck! I love you all so much!

Love Elder Comstock

DRIVING!!!

July 13, 2013

Well it sounds like you all had quite the week. Park city, new cars, living the good life. I have to be honest and say that my week was not anything like that. But the new car thing is getting close. We should be getting our truck back soon. Someone wrecked it a few months back but It is about fixed up. We will see if we are lucky enough to have it on Monday. We shouldve had it a month ago but they are just taking a really long time. I did get to drive Presidents car 2 weeks ago. It was exactly 18 months since I had driven. It went well though.

This week was filled with divisions. Like always I suppose. That is fine though. It is our job. It is funny because some people in our ward dont even think that elder quevedo and I are companions because we are together such a little amount of time. Monday and Friday we were togethrer in the 30. Tuesday wednesday thursday we were alover teguc. But one of us was always in our area. That was necesary because we are preparing a few people for baptism in the next couple of weeks. That is the fun part about being ap. We work out of our area and with the whole mission, but we are also expected to baptize in our area as well. It isnt easy, but the Lord has blessed us so much in our little time in the area to always have new investigators and people in church. I think we will have a good month this month as a companionship. 

The not fun part is all of the problems. We sent 3 missionaries home this week. I dont know all of the details of why, because its none of my buisness, but I am pretty sure that it was all for things that they did before the mission. The guilt just got to them I suppose. That is why repentance is so necesary, that is also why it is such a miracle. That we can be guilt free out here in the mission and in life if we will just be humble enough to repent. So I suppose it was a good thing that they talked to president and are on the path to repentance.

I have a fun week planned ahead of me. We are going back to the SOUTH! I havent been down there since last august. I wont be going out to Monjaras this month, maybe the next one. But I  am still excited to go back down there. It is so much hotter. I will be sweating a lot more than normal. Im sure it will bring back great memories of Guapinol. I love you family. Keep enjoying your summer!

Love Elder Comstock