Week 61 - Found A Horse On An Old Town Road

Found a horse on an old town road..

Hey people, new week new area! I'm finally in the city, POR FIN!!! I did not have a ton of time to write this week, but I've had a lot of fun adventures! Me and my comp get along great, his name is Elder Tolbert, another Gringo from Delta Ut! We wake up and go play basketball every morning, so its pretty hype!

View from my new house

Living room, we got sofas so I'm hyped

My new area is an area with a ton of stairs, so those of you who have seen the movie Kung Fu Panda, that is basically me everyday because we live at the top 1000000 stairs. Also by chance, all of the members just happen to live at the top of the stairs. I look at is as God makes us work to find people, so its always the last house at the top of the hill. I love my area, and a lot of new adventures await. Here are a few pictures from this last week, I'll promise to write a better next week and respond to who wrote me! Love you guys,

Me after arriving to my house every night at the end of the stairs to the top of mount everest where we live :)

Real pic of the stairs we climb all day long (Leg day all everyday )

Elder Butler

Week 60 - Goodbye Siguatepeque-leque-leque-leque

This week went by way fast, time is flyin.

I don't know if anybody reading this has heard, but Honduras made the national news apparently haha, for the death of 4 people at a professional soccer game between the two biggest teams who are rivals and share the same city. Normally, you would think "wow, rival teams in the same city playing each other, this will be such a good game to see". Well turns out being in Honduras this is the most DANGEROUS mixtures: Motagua VS. Olimpia. (Im Motagua, although we are not permitted to attend any games, so no one worry). What happened is the players of Motagua arrived on a bus to the stadium, and the fans of Olimpia started to stone the bus and try and attack the players. This caused a massive riot, and the rest is history. Crazy sad story, but im all good!

This week I don't have much of stories to tell you guys. My last week in Siguatepeque and will be going to my new area tomorrow so that should be exciting! I got to take a ton of pics with some of my convert families and some of the member families that I have grown close with and love, including some of the youth as well. One of my convert families, which consists of a single mother and two of her kids, and 3 little toddlers, are the people in the photos. I love them to death, BUT  THEY ARE THE MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY IN THE WORLD when it comes to taking pictures. The older two kids didn't wanna show there face in the pictures, and wouldn't come to take the pictures and just hid, the younger kid was running around with my camera, im carrying a three year old in my arms, chasing the 6 year old, and then trying to convince the 12 year old and the 15 year old to come and take the dang picture. During the time I muttered out " por favor, yo nunca voy a tener hijos, ya no puedo aguantar!!" which you can translate if you're interested lol. We got the pics, it wasn't pretty, but I´m taking it as a win.

I had a close friend who is also a missionary send me an email and ask me what is one of the biggest lessons I've learned on the mission, and I responded to her in Spanish, so ill like to share it with y'all in Spanish too:

Una de las lecciones que había aprendido en mi tiempo de ser misionero estes ultimos 14 meses es como tenemos que confiar en la voluntad de Dios. Realmente, muchas veces hacemos planes en la vida (o la misión) y tenemos un idea en como debe pasar, y a veces no lo pasa. Decimos que tengamos "Fe", y lo predicamos pero la verdad nos falta un poquito cuando las cosas no se vayan en la vista de nuestras expectaciones. Yo he visto milagros, literalmente he visto cosas que no te puedo explicar. basicamente la leccion que he aprendido es que no hay coincidencias, y toda pasa por un proposito, por que si es la voluntad de Dios, todo es posible. Tenemos que olvidar nuestros planes y punto de vista por algo mayor, y dejar las malletas de nuestras vida atras.


Les quiero muchos locos!!
hasta luego
Elder Butler

Week 59- We Gettin` A Raise People $

Templo de Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Hey there fellas, another week here in Siguatepeque, this upcoming will be my last! It is confirmed, next Tuesday, 20th of August I will be moving to my 3rd area in the mission. Almost 14 months and only in 2 areas.. Its nuts. BUT I'm excited to leave, but sad to leave the people. I've grown to love a lot of the members here and have had many converos as well so it will be kinda sad to say goodbyes.

If y'all want to know the honest truth, just really not excited to have to pack things up. Its like the ultimate puzzle, trying to fit 2 years worth of things in 3 suitcases. I wish I could say that I have lost things that I came with, but the truth is I've gained many more things. Clothes, cool books I have found, and a ton of gifts that I've gotten for people in the last six months, so please pray for me in the aspect of just getting everything packed and that it will all fit please. Re-post this with the hashtag #pray4elderbutler2019 to spread the word around.

Well this week we had a leaders meeting in Tegucigalpa, AND it was in the church building literally right net to the temple, almost connected. Very cool experience, and we were told that very soon we will be getting MORE MONEY added to our allowance. How much? 8 DOLLARS!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$ Doesn't sound like a lot, but its like 250 lempiras and we are more than excited.

This week has been really great, but not a ton of stories. I had to go to Tegucigalpa twice to go with a newer elder to Immigration, long story short I had to give my seat up to an old lady that no one would give their seat too and ended up standing up for a 2 hour bus ride. I knew it was the right thing to do, but got sick during it so wasn't that fun of an experience.

Although that story sounds like I am complaining, I always like to remember how much Christ suffered for me. How many times have I messed up, and how many times has he forgiven me. We all know that we are saved by grace, and thankfully so because we are nothing without it. "Jesus doesn't make up the difference, Jesus makes all the difference". We need to know how was can be "changed by grace", and look in our own lives of how we can change to help others. I am personally in a constant process of trying to change and be a better person, and its not hard but it is worth it. My testimony and Faith in our Savior Jesus Christ is stronger than it could ever be. Never loved to share my testimony with friends or anyone really, but I wanna make myself clear that I believe in Christ and his Atonement, and that through him and only by him we can be forgiven, and become who he wants us to be, which is just like him :)

Shout out to my Boy Nick Rincon for getting married man, and for always being one of the greatest friends and even better role model to me, I love you man, and sen lots of happiness and love to y'all!

That's all until next week. I know college is comin up for a lot of you, But i would love an update on life! Feel free to send me an email if you read this letter! love y'all

Elder Butler

Week 58 - Si Nunca Lo Intentas, Nunca Lo Sabras

This week was a pretty good one, like always ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  I have had some pretty funny moments, and some pretty cool things happen personally too!

Well this Sunday, with it being the first Sunday of the month, we decided to do a 24 hour fast, which is not eating or drinking during the span of the fast. Its a way we can sacrifice something we need so god can bless us with something we need more. WELL, something I never really did before was fast with a true reason in mind. As a missionary we learn daily about how insufficient and unable in this work on our own. I'm a 21 year old kid with another 20 year old, walking the streets of Honduras speaking another language, with absolutely no background of teaching and about 4 years of early mourning bible study, which for the most part honestly involved a lot of snoozing off. If this wasn't



the Lords work, we would be on our own, and on our own we cant convince people that what we teach is the truth. Luckily, we aren't on our own, and we don't convince anyone absolutely anything. We have the Lord on our side, the truth of the Book of Mormon, and the Spirit to testify of its truthfulness.

We fast so that God can help us even more in his work, and I've already seen immediate responses to our prayers. We had one investigator decide not to come to church with us even though we went to go get him, and honestly we were fasting that he would come, but he chose to use his agency otherwise. Walking away I felt discouraged. Seconds later, I look up to a honking car of an investigator we had who said he had to decide between losing his little shop by not working and coming to church, but he decided to come, and bring a truck full of other investigators who we didn't think would come because we couldn't go get them! My heart was full of gratefulness. Too add to my testimony, Jose, the man who gave up working to come to church, didn't lose his shop and has decided to stop working on Sunday because he knows god will bless him more.

I just wanna share my short testimony about the countless blessings I have received in my life, prayers answered, and even a few people who have been put in my life to bless me more and more. God answers our prayers, and the work that I am doing is his work. I know the church of Jesus Christ of Latter days saints is Gods kingdom on this Earth. Love you all, the power went out and I ran outta time to put more, so hope y'all enjoy the pics!

Elder Butler