24: Me Voy de Yusguare

This week we were all over the place in Yusguare. With changes coming we werent sure who would go, who would stay, if we would both go (they are closing 5 areas this change because fewer missionaries are coming this time) so we have been just trying to work with the investigators we have to get them to progress. 

We met with a woman this week named Daisy, and every aspect of her life defines the word humble. They live in a cement house, which is falling apart, They dont have electricity, or even impure running water. The other day after one of our lessons we ran into her in the street and she said right after the lesson, she found 18 extra lempiras in her house, the exact amount to buy a bundle of drinking water. This week, her and her 3 children came to sacrament meeting. Sounds simple, but they live about an hour and a half away by foot, so they have to come by mototaxi. 60 lempiras for her family round trip, AND she didnt go to work that day just to go to church. I was thinking about her and her situation all day yesterday; I almost feel guilty asking her to come to church when she barely has the means to feed her family. But the Lords commandments require sacrifice. And when we sacrifice something for the Lord, we are becoming more like Him, He who sacrificed everything. And we are blessed! 

We are still trying to get permission to baptize the twins Jefferson and Josue, maybe this week! Also the little girl Rosa, who was also going to be baptized this weekend, didnt end up needing missionary lessons, so her baptism will take place in the next following weeks.

And today, I thought Id share the story of my Yusguare miracle, Hermana Blanca. Hermana Ordoñez and her other companion were doing visits one day with the relief society president and passed by the house of Blanca, when the RS president said a less active member lived there. One day Hermana Ordoñez told me about that as we passed by Blancas house, so we visited her and shared a scripture. She was so unmotivated to go to church, she had problems with the bishop in the past, and didnt feel any desire to return. So we kept meeting with her. Every week there was a new problem, her children left, she had to work, someone in her family got sick; we were losing hope that she would ever come back to church. But my second Sunday of this change, she came! And I was the happiest I think Ive ever been in my life. SHe has come to church every week since, we continue to visit her, and she has come to every movie night with us in the church. And just yesterday, when they changed the bishopbric, we asked her what she thought. She only had good things to say about the old Bishop. I was shocked. This gospel truly changes hearts. And now she is helping re-activate her children as well!

Speaking of which, they changed the bishopbric here in Yusguare yesterday...after NINE YEARS serving as bishop. Bishop Garcia was great, but change is just what this ward needed to help this area grow.

And...four months later and I am leaving Yusguare :(

...to be a mission nurse in Tegucigalpa! My area is called Girasoles, and my new companion will be Hermana Wengert. And the area Yusguare is staying open! So happy, I cant wait to hear all the success Hermana Cabañas and her new companion will have.

1. Noche de Cine this week: the twins, a friend of a member named Antony, Blanca, and her grandaughters

2. Los chanchos!

3. Rugy and Ana Gabriel, one of our favorite member families. And they make the best food.

4. Daisy and two of her daughters

5. Andrea and her neice

6. Okay I dont know if I talked about this before, but in the CCM my district always sang this song that goes "Dulce canta el burro al ir a comer / Si no lo cuidamos el rebuznara / Caji cajo caja / Caji cajo caja / Caji cajo CAJA-ah / Caji cajo caja" (to the tune of itsy bitsy spider).

7. Delma and Ariana :)

9. Hermana Fifita, me, and Hermana Moreno (who leaves this week for her house in El Salvador! I will miss her so much)

10-11: ZONA CHOLUTECA (minus a few)