Week 20 - Soy Perro Hondureno

Hey everyone! This week had some cooler stories that I can share so buckle up. This week has been pretty good health wise, thank you for all the prayers sent out, they helped! I would like to inform everyone that I in fact, do not have a parasitic tapeworm inside of me, despite rumors you may have heard from someone (my mom ;) )  So that's all good and dandy!

I want to give a shout out to my cousins Nicole and Mark and the Strong Family for sending me a package of candy, I have enjoyed it greatly this week!

Okay well I'm just gonna write about some events of this week! On Wednesday we went to the Sisters area to help them move. They already lived in one of the biggest houses in the mission, 2 floors, as big as the house I grew up in. There were 2 more sisters who split the area, so 4 of them were living in the house. Apparently, they said they felt bad spirits in the house, heard noises, etc, and wanted one of the Elders to re bless and dedicate the house. After they still felt scared so they asked another elder to come do it again. Apparently they called the mission office, and asked if they could move houses. This kinda annoyed me when I heard about all of this, because first of all, they just had paranoia. They just didn't have faith in the blessing the first time, so obviously it didn't work! Jesus told his own disciples that they lacked faith when they couldn't heal someone. Well there is my little rant, but we helped them move into AN EVEN NICER HOUSE. Girls get the better stuff I guess.

Anyway, I did interchanges with my buddy Elder Murrillo this week again! He came with me to Honduras from the CCM, so it was fun being with him! 

We have been getting really creative with how we contact. Almost never do we knock doors, LIKE NEVER. I hate it, the people hate it, and its just super inefficient. Like I try to put myself in the shoes of other people that I'm trying to teach. If I was at home laying on the couch, watching TV, taking a nap, making food, etc. and some random person or "salesman", comes to my door to try to sell me something or talk to me, the only thing I'm going to be thinking about is "man I wanna get rid of this guy and go nap, get back to my show, yada yada yada". If that's how I would think, what makes these people any different?

I've been studying a lot in the New Testament about the apostles, and it teaches that when Peter taught the Jews, he became a jew, when he taught the Greeks, he became a Greek, when he taught the outlaws, he became an outlaw (while keeping the commandments of course). If I want to teach the people of Honduras, I need to become a Honduran DOG. For that reason, if a group of people are kicking and juggling a soccer ball in a circle on the field, I casually join in and start chatting with them, gain there trust and show them I'm a normal dude, and then they are way more open to listening to us. 


In the street with the little kids, I just sit down on the ground with them, tell jokes, tell them I'm from Germany and pretend to speak in German, stuff like that so they like me, then we teach them. Occasionally my comp and I play basketball in order to teach people. Another thing that I do all the time is I walk up to random people pretending like Im looking for someone but don't know where they live. I ask they if they know a *random name* that lives around here? And the answer is always no, and I say " Shoot, we talked to them the other day about Jesus, and they told us they lived around here but I'm horrible at remembering. Oh well, what is your name? have you talked with missionaries before?" and I just go from there, but we always contact in the street and have had a ton of success these past 4 weeks. Don't work hard, work smart.

Right now we are teaching a Family of 15 people, the head of the household being a blind man. His name is Ancelmo, and after 3 visits I finally go down the names of everyone in the family. Its so cool teaching someone who is blind, because everything is their life is based of of FAITH, Believing in things he cant see. Has really been a blessing in my life teaching this family, and seeing their testimonies grow!

I love this work, this week I don't have pictures, but ill send some next week! I love you all, feel free to write me always!


Elder Butler