Hey everyone! Happy days happy days. As a lot of you may know, before as a missionary I was only able to have a video call with my family twice a year, on Christmas and Mothers Day, but all of the other days I was only able to talk to my family from email. Also about 4 weeks ago we got banned from using chat on gmail, so I was literally restricted to only emails. WELL GUESS WHAT?! Good News, The First Presidency of the church came out with a statement saying "We Love our missionaries, and our missionaries love their families.." and welp, now we are allowed to talk with our families for more time, use chat on google with anyone, and video call WEEKLY, and also on all major holidays and Birthdays of your parents. Oh I love President Nelson. Guys, when I first went to BYU, they started allowing Coca-Cola Products on campus with caffeine, and in the mission they changed the rules to video call all the time! The church has to be true, no other explanation but revelation ;)
This week was another normal week, the baptisms we had planned fell through, so a little sadness there. I'm coming onto my last 2 weeks in my area, which is like the last mile of a marathon. I'm really trying to stay motivated and work hard, and so far I'm being successful with that. Just pray for me to persevere to the end haha.
We had to go to the hospital today because my comp had a return appointment for this rash thing he had on his head, so I got a pretty late start on everything today so my thought are jumbled. I took a picture of Pikachu, which is not a Pokemon unfortunately. Its like the Honduras Great-Value Brand big bag of cereal version of the big Jesus the Christ statue in Honduras, so that was pretty cool! Unfortunately they don't let the people from my mission have permission to go up to it in person anymore because its technically in a different missions borders, but it was cool to see from a distance!
Got to eat Wendy's today while I was in the city, this place may have been the largest Wendy's to exist in the world. It had 3 stories and a playground connected to all three. The Wendy's and the McDonald's here in Honduras are only for the rich people, and they don't have dollar menu stuff. I was talking to a missionary from here that had a friend go to the states and told him he was eating McDonald's everyday so he figured he was rich, when afterwards he found out that pretty much the only ones who hit up McDonald's in the states are homeless people, semi-truck drivers, Moms with five little kids, and poor college students (I fit into this category, every Sunday night at 12 o clock) Wendy's was nice but if anyone can ship down a Whataburger or Chick-fil-A, would be much appreciated.
Well everyone, today I just wanna say how thankful I am for my friends and family. You guys are awesome. I am so thankful that I had two amazing pairs of grandparents, who spent their lives working hard for their kids, and teaching the ones who I would end up calling my parents. I have two great examples in my life of how to sacrifice for their family, and I know they learned it from their parents. I am beyond grateful that I had a dad that was always willing after a long tiring day of work to go play catch, a mom who drove me to every single gosh darn practice for the 50 sports I played. You guys rock. My siblings rock too, Thanks for allowing me to be the favorite sibling in the family, and always making me laugh. I also forgive you all for the Winds incident and the Boogie Giner ;) But for real, Families are the center piece for the plan of happiness God has for us. I love my Family!!! Love you all
Elder Butler
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