Week 79 - Snitches get Stitches

Hey Fam, Merry Festimas for the rest of us!!!!(only true ones will understand) This week was my last Christmas in Honduras probably for the rest of my life, and we lived it up. We Had some pretty funny experiences not gonna lie this week, and here are a few of them.

The other night we were walking down the street, and a drunk dude came up to us and started talking gibberish. Its funny, there are different types of Drunk people in Honduras, some of them are really fun to talk to, some actually come to us for help wanting to change there life around, but some people are in a whole other dimension. You know that saying, "Crackheads are invincible"? Its real. This guy was walking towards us, and I swerved him and wished him a good night, but my comp wasn't so lucky. He got caught hold of the drunk guy, and started talking to to us but we didn't understand a thing. We see this huge bus come towards us and I barely grabbed him in time and pulled him out of the way of the bus. He lived to see another day, but we were laughing so hard about how crazy this dude was.

This week my compañion and I learned some things: First things first, we figured out where Jesus is. We knocked on a door looking for a guy we have been teaching, and his 80 year old mother lives with him. My comp had advised me that she does not like the missionaries whatsoever because she is super baptist or whatever. WELP, asked her if anyone else was there in the house with her or if she was home alone, and she responded "No, Its just me and Jesus here, goodbye." and gently closed the cracked open door. So good news, he came down for a quick visit.

Another thing we learned is that, if you a snitch, you get killed. We were teaching and getting to know am Elderly married couple that sell oranges on the side of the street. When we started to talk about the plan of salvation, they began to tell us about how they have lived so long. Although they have witnessed many armed robberies and a few people get shot at their little stand, they have never snitch on anyone. There reasoning: "If we tell the cops that it was our neighbor who did the robbery, he probably wont buy oranges from us and we lose a customer. We are trying to make a living here!" LOL gotta love it. Another older guy told is its good not to die because these days dying is like a luxury that costs way too much. Its better not to die so you can save a few bucks. LOLOL

I just want to share my testimony to all of you guys about how Christ has changed my life, not just my mission. I think all the mission has helped me do is realized in all the moments in my life, good, bad, happy, sad, God had always blessed me and put the people in my life to help me grow, and help me when I was down. He has guided my decisions, and blessed me in so many ways. I have not been perfect in any form, and im still learning. But I know that God lives, he loves me, and through Christ we can find happiness through any deepness of pain in our lives. He lives.

Love y'all,
Elder Butler