This week has honestly gone by pretty quickly. Every day starts off with waking up at 6:25, working out for 30 minutes, take a bucket shower (lol), get dressed for the day, study for 2 hours with the language and stuff, and then go walk around the mountains for about 10 hours straight teaching people about God haha. So that's pretty much my routine here haha, but its so much more than that too, its really humbling to talk and get to know the people here!
My First area is one of the most dangerous areas in my whole mission. Half the people we see in our little pueblo are gangsters, but honestly you would never tell. I have gotten better at recognizing them. Don't worry, for the most part we are pretty safe because we have name tags and as long as you smile and say hello, they don't mess with missionaries haha.
So the Dogs here, lol. There are a million of them in my little pueblo. Kinda sad because they all just walk around trying to scrap for food. Its funny, honestly some of the puppers here are kinda thug. Okay, so my town is a smaller town up in the mountains about an hour out from the city by bus. In this town, there are just random horses that walk around and eating grass in places. Sometimes, some of the gangster pupps bully the big horses. Quite the site haha.
Teaching has been going great. We don't go around contacting, which is just knocking on random doors, because honestly that is not as effective. The recipe for success that I ha ve learned is working with Members and going to the houses of less active members and almost always there are people we can teach in the homes.
This week I had my first Baptism. We didn't have the keys to do it at the Church, so we got permission to hike out to these waterfalls about an hour hike through the mountains. Very Surreal experience. I baptized a 12 year old kid named Jared. The Kids here are pretty awesome, we talk with them a lot haha.
My Spanish is progressing slowly but surely. It honestly depends who I am talking with. Younger people are easier to understand than old people because old people usually don't have a lot of teeth and mumble about every word haha, but I force myself to focus and I have gotten very very good and understanding. I would say I am about 80% at understanding. My teaching is getting better every day because we have about 8 or 9 lessons a day haha.
Honduras is honestly a jungle, you never know what is gonna be thrown at you! Sorry this email is kinda all over the place, I am going to try and organize it better next week haha.
The Lord has helped me a ton with eating some of the food at some poor members houses. I have had week old spaghetti pie that has sat out in the heat because almost no one has a refrigerator. I have eaten tiny fried perch that have 2 bites of meat on them. Almost all meals have beans and plantanas or rice haha, but some meals are great too! We dont have any stores or restaurants here in Ciudad Espana, so its either buy some chips and a drink from the Pulperia which is a little convenience store, or we eat at some of the members house
Anyways, thank you to everyone that has written me, I love hearing for you guys. I have about an hour to write every week, so I am so sorry if I don't respond every week, but I care about you all so I promise to get to you! Send me pictures, I lost my camera but my mom is sending a new one so pictures will come in a few weeks! Love you all, God Bless!
Elder Butler
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