Week 59- Facing Our Egypts

San Pedro Sula Zone Conference with Elder Cordón

Hola!  How is everyone doing?

This week was an action packed week. First, on Wednesday, we had our mission conference, and Elder Cordón of the Seventy. He did a great job teaching and I really enjoyed the conference. He talked about our calling as missionaries, and that we are called not by men, but of God. Because of our call, he said we should be fearless in preaching the Gospel. He used the analogy of Moses, when he was called by God, and was shown all things in the heavens and earth. Afterwards, Satan appeared to him and told him to worship him. Moses basically said, ¨How could I just see all of those spectacular things and bow down and worship you?¨ Satan then began to call in terrible storms.  Moses then sent him out in the name of Christ.

After seeing all those things, Moses was called to lead the people out of Egypt.  He was prepared and he understood and realized that man is nothing.  Elder Cordon told us that we shouldn´t fear our supposed ¨Egypts¨ in the mission, because man is truly nothing.  I hope I explained his teachings.  He did a great job teaching us.

Elder Cordón of the Seventy 

Lunch Line

This Saturday, Norma was baptized.  She is one of our awesome investigators.  The ward did a great job of supporting Norma and even did a musical number.  Our ward is one of the oldest wards in Honduras and they have great gospel roots.  Norma has had it rough.  Her family is split between two religions, and for the longest time she wanted nothing to do with either church.  For some reason, she opened up toward us and we were excited to teach her.  The teachings went very well.  There were difficulties, but in the end, it went great. When she bore her testimony in the baptismal service and got emotional, I got a little emotional myself.  It was awesome.  We are very excited for her.


 
Norma’s Baptism 

 Great Support From Friends & Family
Happy Day!


Today for pday, we were invited to a family event by our investigator, Kevin.  We made pizzas at Pizza Hut.  Kevin works at Pizza Hut.  We had a pizza and spent time visiting.  Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let us take pictures in the kitchen, so no pizza making pictures.


Pizza Hut with Our Investigator

We also went to the Copan Hotel here in San Pedro. It feels like a hotel in the states. They had an event there so we went to see what was going on.  Next Monday, we are going there for the breakfast buffet, it looks amazing.



Chilliń with Elder Dority

Right now, my health is doing fine.  I am following a diet to see if it will help.  My health has been up and down and can change quickly but right now I am doing great. 


Overall, it was a awesome week!  Have a great day!


Elder Cox

Week 57 & 58 - POTATOES OR RICE?


Hello Everyone!

 I guess it’s been a little while, I’ve been super busy!  I am currently here in the city of San Pedro.  Our area includes the downtown part of the city.  I’ll admit, I didn’t want to be in the city, but honestly it has been awesome!  The work has been going really well and we have some baptisms coming up, the first of which will be this coming Saturday!  My companion is Elder Dority, he’s from South Jordan, Utah.  It has been awesome, he actually got to the mission at the same time I did. We were even in the same district in the MTC (Missionary Training Center)!  We both like working and get along super well.  We both thought we would never be comps in a million years, but here we are! I am doing better health wise.  I was sick for a good while, but things have been slowly getting better.  To figure out what the problem might be, I am trying first a Gluten-Free diet.  It is good because I am working on my chef skills.  It is hard because ALL the food here has gluten!

But overall, I am really satisfied with where I am at in the mission.  On the 26th, I only have 10 months left. Crazy!


This is truly the Lord’s work; there is no work more important on this Earth than saving God’s children.  I’m grateful to be a tiny piece of that work!  

Have a great week everyone!


The missionary sign for baptism, made using Elder Dority's Reeses Pieces.


District Meeting



Victory!  Last week we played capture the flag with another district using water balloons.  We had a great time and built district unity. 

 San Pedro Sula District