Chandler's Mission

"Preaching in the rain, I'm preaching in the rain! What a glorious feeling, I'm working again!"  -Me as Elder Martinez and I navigate our way through the flooded streets of La Esperanza. It rains a lot here. I mean, it really only rained like 4 times this week but every time it rained, it came down  hard . But it's not too bad, we just get used to walking in muddy shoes. Anyway this week has been awesome! Today marks 2 months in the mission! We've taught lots of lessons and continued our work of helping our little branch grow strong! Elder Martinez and I made cookies the other day to give to investigators and members we've been focusing on and it's amazing to see how far a little service can go! We found our investigators to be more open and receptive and the members more excited to greet us at church. So yea, service is important. This week has really just been a lot of the same stuff, and at times it seems like we've ru...

Another week has come and gone! Elder Martinez and I have been busy, busy, busy! The branch out here has been struggling a bit with inactivity and inattendance. So a lot of our work has been visiting members, working to reactivate members, and, because we're opening this area, knocking doors to find new investigators. We've taught lots of lessons and at this point have about 5 or 6 promising investigators, and a couple families we're hopeful will want to be baptized. We had one really spiritual lesson this last week with a couple named Lenin and Yolanda Alemania-Nolasco. When we first contacted them, we told them we had a message about Jesus Christ and they got really excited and let us in to teach a lesson. They were very nice, and both know quite a bit about the Bible. They loved to talk about and discuss our Savior, but made it clear they didn't want to discuss anything about the Restoration or Joseph Smith, they only wanted to...

What an awesome yet long week it has been! I have so much to write about! Final days at CCM Guatemala: The last week at the Guatemala MTC seems like a distant dream even though I was there just a week ago. I loved my time there, but I am so glad to be out in the field doing some real work! From Guatemala to Honduras: All the missionaries going to Honduras woke up at like  2am   Tuesday  morning to go to the airport to fly to Honduras. Missionaries serving in the San Pedro Sula missions had their flight at like  6:30  so it made sense to get to the airport by  3:00 , but the rest of us didn't have our flight until  10:00 ... so we sat in the airport for 7 hours but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. When our time came to leave, we walked out on the tarmac to the little airplane that would take us all to Honduras. It was so cool! Flying over Central America is so awesome because the landscape is so green and beautiful! The landing was a littl...

This week we hit our 1 month mark in the mission! Looking back the time here in the CCM has flown by, and I can´t wait to get out into the field! I´ll be leaving the CCM early  next Tuesday morning, and I have no idea when I´ll be writing home next so.... gnarly It´s been a really fun week and we´ve been working hard, playing hard, and estabamos haciendo muchas bromas as a district. We've got a list of ongoing jokes that we´re planning on compiling later today. Here´s a fun story: What do you get when you lock up 150 spiritually-sensitive, yet still immature 18-20 year old elders and hermanas for 6 weeks? Rumors of the CCM being haunted at night. That's right, one night here an hermana claimed that in the middle of the night, their door was opened and they saw a figure standing in the doorway. Then some other missionaries started discussing the possibility of the CCM being haunted, and of course other ghost stories started to arise and be shared amongst the missio...