Week 11 - Our here Dyin in da Club

Hey there people,

Well, I don't know about the whole week, but this weekend was the worst 4 days of my life I think. We have a lot of goals with investigators and have been working so hard this week to find people, and serve too, but this weekend my comp and I were sooooooo sick.

It started on Friday. For lunch, we went to a members house to eat, which is rare, but we did it. They served us this plate of rice and some sketchy "chicken". I say that because honestly, I am convinced that most of the meat here is NOT chicken, and its rare when we do get meat. I had a fishy feeling about this meat, but it is VERY rude to not eat all the food of your plate here because the people usually sacrifice to give us food, even when half of the time we don't want it. You DON'T refuse food, and you BETTER eat it. Usually I just say a quick prayer, tell Go that I am thankful for these people serving us, and just let "Jesus take the wheel" from there. 

Well immediately after, I told Frodsham that I felt like voy a crappiar en mi pantalones (you can probably guess what that means!) We had stuff to do, so I held it for 2 hours, went back and went to the bathroom, and we both felt so bad that we had to tale a 30 minute nap. I woke up with my entire body aching, and my head hurting, but we told ourselves that we had to go to our appointments with people, and if we finished we could come back home and rest because we felt sick.  

It turned out we ran into an inactive member that we are buddies with, so we stopped to talk for a second. He had a guy with him named Brian. He was way chill, and told me he knew Austin TX, which was awesome because I love that place with all my heart. I didn't know why, but I had a good feeling that I should talk to him.  We got to talking about how we were missionaries, and he got interested. He told asked us why we were here in Honduras, and we began to explain about how we have been blessed with happiness in this life through learning about Christ, and we want to serve the people and serve God and share this same happiness with the people here. He asked us if Jesus loved everyone, why didn't he visit the people of the Americas after the resurrection. WE were shocked. We told him that Christ did, and that he could learn about in in this book we had called the Book of Mormon. Very good experience that when God sees you working, he puts people in front of you to teach.

Well 4 hours later it was past 9 and we were still out. I thought I was going to die. I kept telling myself these things: 

"Jesus suffered all of my pains"

"The pioneers walked for miles feeling bad, and a lot of them died, I can do this"

Just stuff like that lol. WE ended the night having to give a blessing to a young sick kid, and I passed out at the end of it because I was so sick. That night continued to be the worst night of my life. Frodsham and I went back and forth to the bathroom throwing up every 10 minutes the whole night. Honestly, experiencing that with another person is a very bonding experience, we were both miserable together, so I guess there's a bright side!

Saturday we had a baptism, so we did that all afternoon which was awesome, but we were smiling through the pain and exhaustion. We went in early that night and After church on Sunday we basically spent the entire day just dying in our beds and taking a trip to the bathroom every 20 minutes, which makes no sense because we barely had anything but water in our stomachs lol. 

So yeah basically we out here dyin in da club rn, but we still have had some results haha. I ate real food for the first time today to test my stomach, so send prayers haha! Today is definitely better, I am so sorry for the graphic images I may have created, but honestly Today is better for sure! Love you all

Elder Butler