Week 32 - Good Cop - Normal Cop

Hey everyone, happy late Superbowl. I am a little happy that the first Superbowl I have had to miss was kinda a sucky one HAH! Tom is the goat, I cant go for the pats anymore though because Danny Amendola dueced to the Dolphins, so now I'm Good I'm a Dolphins, Texans guy.

Well this semana was a pretty slow and boring one to be honest. Me and my new comp are getting along pretty well actually. I like having a comp where I speak in Spanish 24/7 better, plus I am learning certain phrases from Mexico now too. Always trying to expand the vocabulary.

At first I'll be honest, I thought my comp was a little strange, but what I have learned is that all of my weaknesses are his strengths and vice versa. We really complement each other. I am a lot more outgoing kind of person, I can get people to open up. I also contact in a more direct manera, and teach in a distinct way. My comp is a very patient man. Patience has probably been one of my largest weaknesses throughout my whole life. This is a fact that I've basically always have know and wanted to improve. In the MTC, I was in a trio where one of my comps was sent to me to test my patience. Wanted to poke his eyes out every time he talked to me. Don't get me wrong, I have patience with people when they are logical, but when they aren't logical, or are rude, I have to bite my tongue a lot of times. Here when people are hypocrites or illogical, lie or are rude, my blood pressure goes up a little bit, and I wont lie I think bad stuff. These thoughts do not come from Jesus, they come from the other dude. My comp has really shown me a great example of patience and how it brings more love for the people you teach. When we both teach, we have a good mix. The aspects that he faults in, I can pick up. All in all, we are in like a Good cop, Normal cop situation (No ones mean haha)

Some dope stuff that happened is that when we were walking there were a bunch of paratroopers jumping out of helicopters. They were just running drills, but it reminded me of Red Dawn haha. I just told my comp to run lol.

My comp was Assistant medico before coming to me, so he had to worry about the Health of over 160 missionaries, go take people to the hospital at 3 am sometimes, and was stressed out all the time, so he developed some rash on his scalp from all the stress he had before, so on Tuesday we took a nice ole trip to the Hospital. The Hospital was pretty dope. Apparently its the nicest and most expensive hospital in Honduras, and all the people that were inside weren't wearing used clothing so that says a lot. Was a culture shock for me being inside for sure.

My comp told me when he arrived in Ciudad Espana, that this is probably one of the poorest areas in My mission. My mission is the poorest of 5 missions of Honduras. Honduras is the second poorest country in central america, and there aren't missionaries in Nicaragua right now because of political stuff. I have come to a point where I am completely 100% humbled. I live around most people with nothing. Times I have joked about the poor quality food that I eat, mostly beans and Rice, but I am always grateful for the sacrifice that people give for me.

Love you all so much, Keep rockin out there. Shout out to my girl Gladys Knight, way to stick it to Kapernick. God Bless the USA. Send me emails if you love me :)


Elder Stevo Butler