Hello once again to all of my family and friends out there in the world. Once again it is a great pleasure to write you this week, and I have a lot to talk about.
Well, like I had explained the last week about the service project we were doing the last Monday, this week has been nothing but pure service and manual labor. On Wednesday, all the Elders in the district and I went over to the house of the Hno. Santiago to help him build it. We placed the entire roof of his house! It took about 3 hours and a lot of work, but it was worth it. We have also been teaching them a few of the lessons this week in their temporary home. They live in these tiny little apartments in a very humble environment with a bunch of other people as well. That service project ended up being a great benefit for us, because from those little apartments alone we brought 6 investigators to church this Sunday! It was a miracle.
On Friday, we went to the house of a less-active member from the other Elders to help them fix their wood fence that they have because it was tipping over. That was also a lot of work, but it was also very fun. I wish I would have brought my camera because I had mud ALL over me from the down and dirty work we were doing! We have also been doing a lot of mini services as well involving water. I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but in Honduras, and especially Juticalpa, there is a large water shortage problem, and very difficult to obtain. We have been helping the families in our area that don't have water stock up on river water and hauling it to their houses where there is water. We don't have much water either. This week we didn't receive water the whole week until Friday (running water doesn't exist here unless you have an expensive sisterna, so yeah). And when we returned to the house from the muddy service project on Friday, we opened the front door to a miracle...WATER!!!! The water was coming, and I took my first shower from the shower head in my almost 4 months in Juticalpa. It was a small treat to my day let me tell you!
So like I was telling you guys, we had great blessings with investigators arriving at church this week. Completely opposite of the other week right? We had in total 8 investigators, 4 recent converts, and 2 less-actives that ended up coming. It was very difficult catering to all of their needs and quite a stressful experience, but I'm still grateful for it! Haha and I'm looking forward to this upcoming week to put a whole bunch of baptismal dates! Hopefully I can put them all on what would be my ¨last weekend¨ in Juticalpa, according to my assumptions. So I'm really looking forward to that one.
Well, that's about all my leather worn hands can type for this week haha! I hope you are all doing well and I look forward to talking to you next week...as a 20 year old...yikes...never thought that would happen! I still can't believe that one!
Vaya Pues!
Elder Tinkham
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