Chandler's Mission

. Elder Martinez and I stop in the road for a spontaneous study session    A road with a beautiful view that would make for a gnarly sledding hill   A regular neighborhood road The end of this road, which leads into nothing, the abyss of the Central American forest jungle that is constantly just out of reach Another week of working hard and serving the Lord. I know last week I promised an awesome letter, but we didn't end up meeting any general authorities so... Sorry. I'll make this letter as cool as I can. Last Monday Elder Martinez and I got really bad haircuts. It was hideous. Luckily, we had some haircutting stuff back in our house so Elder Martinez fixed mine (because it was absolutely atrocious). I don't have pictures and, even if I did, I wouldn't send them. I learned that in Honduras, anyone with a rusty pair of sisters can put up a sign that says "barber"  But this week we had a lot of good times! Elder Mar...

My first district. Our Chapel Welcome to Espernanza (my first city) Baptisms don't grow on trees Today marks the end of my first transfer in the field, my second transfer on the mission. Woohoo! Time seems to have sped up now that I'm out of the MTC, and I'm really enjoying the mission. Not much happened this week, just a lot of contacting, teaching lessons, making baptismal invitations, etc. It looks like we will be ending the month of September without any baptisms again, however, October looks promising. We already have 3 dates set up and plan on having more. Pray for us. The branch is doing alright. Though it seems like as soon as Elder Martinez and I activate one family, another one goes inactive. It's been great though because there are a couple really strong families out here that help us out a lot. Anyway I've been informed by a few people that I need to take more pictures so... I'll work on that. Also, I...

The inside of his apartment.  This is the living room. Here is the laundry room.  Where laundry is done. Here is a our bedroom.  That's all there is Connor! Hello everyone, we're officially one month into the field! Transfers are nigh upon us, however I'm still being trained so there isn't any chance of Elder Martinez and I going anywhere. Soooo we've been working hard, contacting a lot, teaching lessons, inviting people to come to church, trying to reactivate families and all that jazz, with minimal results. It's real unfortunate, however I know that Elder Martinez and I are really giving it all that we can and that if we stay diligent, we will be blessed one way or another. And besides, we do have a few investigators that have baptismal dates coming up, we're hoping to have our first on September 29th with a dear investigator named Paola (and maybe her sister a couple weeks later!) so... pray for us. This week we had a unique exper...

This is a picture of my district Connor wanted to see pictures of my apartment.  Well here they are!! Another very wet week! It rained every. single. day. without fail. I'm super grateful for waterproof shoes and a good rain jacket, just wish my backpack was a little more waterproof, but whatever :) We've been working hard and diligently to help out this little branch. On Tuesday during companionship study, we had the front door open to let some air in. Then all of the sudden, in the middle of our study, our mission president walks in with a few assistants! It's crazy because the mission office is straight up 4 hours away! But he had been travelling to several areas just to check up on the missionaries and to see if he could help them in any way. So that was pretty gnarly. Then on Friday we had a multizone conference in Tegucigalpa so Elder Martinez and I woke up at 3am to get on a bus and drive the 4 hours to get to the meeting on time. The...