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Hey well this week has been a wild one (I'm pretty sure I say this every week, but this one tops it all haha)
First off, this week, my old companion Elder Nolasco (La República Dominicana) finished his mission. He was an awesome companion, and I think we both passed some of the most meme changes of my entire mission, seeing some of the weirdest and funniest things in my whole mission. BUT good news, my new comp, Elder Sanchez, is from Colombia! The DR and Colombia are two of my favorite Latino American countries and the people are way cool. We already get along great, so that's awesome.
We started off the week with a few reunions, and have had some meetings with president as well, and things have been crazy with this whole Corona Virus thing. The good thing is, we are prepared. One thing that we believe in the church of Jesus Christ is constant revelation from the Lord to help guide us in difficult times. We also believe that the Lord has restored the Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ on this Earth, and has called upon Prophets and Apostles to guide us in the difficult World. Just like Moses guided the House of Israel in the wilderness, we have Prophets today to help us. Things like having months of food supplies for cases of emergency has been taught and preached in the church through revelation given to the prophet Gordon B. Hinckley in the late 90's. Thanks to this loving revelation from the Lord, Many Latter-Day Saints are PREPARED. Amos 3:7 "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets "
Out here in Honduras, we have also been prepared with food to last us over 2 weeks (lots of freaking beans) for the case in which we go into quarantine for 14 days. Its nothing for sure, but the precautionary steps have been taken.
This week, despite all the uproar, we got to work on Friday and Saturday. We had a very awesome experience with a guy named Israel. We were walking the the street, and one thing I have been trying to work on to get better is to TALK WITH EVERYONE. The message that we share is one of a kind, and is so important that we have to try and share it with everyone we see. Sometimes that can be harder than it sounds, but its amazing to see the rejections, and the miracles. With Israel, he was one of them. He was walking in the street with a bible in his hand, and was obviously part of another church. He made eye contact with us, and my first impression was to just wave and keep walking, but I decided to go against my instinct and approach him. He began to dispute and have questions, but we deflected all of his attacks and tricks, and just decided to express our love and respect for him and his beliefs. He had a few questions about what we believed, and it was awesome. We didn't shut down any of his doubts, but we simply invited him to pray about it and trust in the Lord. He said he would and we set an appointment to talk more with him. As he was about to leave, I felt to impression to gift him the Book of Mormon that was in my hand. When I gave it to him, he looked in shock. Then he just responded to my surprise, "I know you may not believe me, but you have no idea how long I have been praying to God to be able to get one of these books. All I want to know is that if it's true or not. " I shared my testimony to him that it is, and helps us come closer to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I know this work is true and is the most important work upon the face of the world. I sometimes stop and think to myself about how grateful I am to be a part of it. These next few weeks, its possible that I wont have access to write in the instance that we get locked into our house for a few weeks. It will be kinda boring, but don't worry about me because Honduras is better than the states right now! Only 6 cases here in the entire country, so I'll be good! Everyone take care I love you all!
Elder Butler
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