Hey guys!
I want to tell you guys about a ton of excited things this week, but nothing too crazy has happened, so this email is gonna be a little shorter and I am just gonna send a few emails with more pictures because i got a ton of good ones that I want to share!
Tomorrow my comp and I are BOTH LEAVING OUR AREA! really crazy, we were so surprised. What normally happens is every 6 weeks one companion in an area leaves to a different area, and one person that knows the people in the area stays to teach the new companion the people and run the area. Well, we are both leaving so I don't know whats gonna happen now, they call it Whitewashing an area. Usually because there are people who planch or there is no area, but we work hard and are having success, so revelation I guess. My area isn't easy, so I am not devastated to leave, but I am really sad that I am leaving some of the people that I have grown to love here. I knew it was gonna happen, just in like 6-12 more weeks is all! Oh well! Also we found a dead body on the road today in our tiny town, with people just starring at it. Looked like a motorcycle crash, and wasn't wearing a helmet. The thing is, the roads are so bad in the town that you cant go faster than 8 miles per hour, and there are absolutely no cars so we aren't really sure what happened. Really sad though.
I want to tell you guys about a ton of excited things this week, but nothing too crazy has happened, so this email is gonna be a little shorter and I am just gonna send a few emails with more pictures because i got a ton of good ones that I want to share!
Tomorrow my comp and I are BOTH LEAVING OUR AREA! really crazy, we were so surprised. What normally happens is every 6 weeks one companion in an area leaves to a different area, and one person that knows the people in the area stays to teach the new companion the people and run the area. Well, we are both leaving so I don't know whats gonna happen now, they call it Whitewashing an area. Usually because there are people who planch or there is no area, but we work hard and are having success, so revelation I guess. My area isn't easy, so I am not devastated to leave, but I am really sad that I am leaving some of the people that I have grown to love here. I knew it was gonna happen, just in like 6-12 more weeks is all! Oh well! Also we found a dead body on the road today in our tiny town, with people just starring at it. Looked like a motorcycle crash, and wasn't wearing a helmet. The thing is, the roads are so bad in the town that you cant go faster than 8 miles per hour, and there are absolutely no cars so we aren't really sure what happened. Really sad though.
Being in Honduras is such a weird and crazy unique experience. Sometimes I need to stop and remind myself that I'm in one of the most impoverished place in the world! And not only that, but I get to serve the people, feel their love, and share the Light of Christ with the world. Never is easy, always tired, but I have more happiness inside myself than I would have if I were doing anything else!
Felt like I should share my testimony on something this week just about life in general. A lot of times, this life is HARD. You pass through hard things, fail an exam that you studied all week for, lose loved ones, don't get success in something you have worked so long for. Even if you are the most positive person in the world, its hard not to get down on yourself. We just keep waiting and waiting for things to get easier, for the tides to turn. The thing is, this life will never be easy. It is a constant battle, a continuous struggle to find our ideal "happiness" that we imagine in our head. I have thought a lot about this, what happiness really is. I don't know everything, in fact I have excepted the fact that I know very little, but one thing I have realized is I have never found happiness after doing something that was "easy". I never was super happy after beating a team in football 50-0. Never felt accomplished after walking a mile, but going to Philmont and backpacking through the mountains for over 100 miles was what gave me the sense of accomplishment. We pass through trials and tribulations, because without them, we cant find the happiness we have been searching for. This is the plan God made for us. Sometimes we just have to learn to rely on him, trust in his plan for us, and JUST KEEP SWIMMING.
That's my little motivational thought that has helped me a bunch by being here! I know God has a plan for us and I know he loves each and every one of us. Christ suffered every Pain, trial, sin that we could possibly ever experience in this life because he loves us. If we ever are hurting and feel alone, we need to turn to the one and only person who could fully understand us, and that is Jesus!
Love you guys, here are some pics!
Elder Butler
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