Hey there everyone?
Welp this will be my second week in a row writing without very much time! I'm really sorry about that!
This week, we had a lady that we were not teaching come to church because her son was in some legal trouble and thought that she could have him do service for the church. Her name is Patricia and she invited us to come teach her on Monday. We went and we also met her brother, Luis, who injured his foot while cliff diving a couple months ago (he lives in Roatan, a really really cool island off of Honduras) and is still recovering. They told us about the many, many, many problems in their lives and really wanted to know why we have so many problems in this life. That is a hard question to answer! We decided to teach them about the plan of salvation and the purpose of our time here on earth. We explained that we live in a fallen world and because of that, nothing can be perfect. We have spent three lessons with them this week just talking about trials and how they can make us grow.
I like the analogy of purifying gold. As most of us know, to purify gold, we need a lot of heat. That way all of the impurities will burn away. I asked if they knew how gold was purified and Luis went on for about 10 minutes about how gold is purified and the different karats and a bunch of other stuff! He works in jewelry manufacturing! haha perfect example for him. But I guess why I am sharing this is because that question is kinda hard! I think each one of us have to go through our own process of looking for the answer. It might be through experience, or study, or prayer, or probably a combination of the three. But what I do know, is that even though we suffer at times, it won't last! We will come out of it more pure, we just have to trust that we are in the Master's hands and He is going to make us something we could have never even imagined. Something magnificent! 
I have been reading the book ''Our Heritage''. It talks about the start of the church and all of the trials and hardships and obstacles that the early latter day saints had to go through. I didn't know about most of it and it's really eye opening. The more I read, the more I am impressed that these people knew that what they were doing was right. It is truly incredible what they did and were able to overcome. It is helping me get a better perspective on the ''purification'' process that sometimes we will have to go through.
This week, we got a lot done in our area! It feels real good. President set the goal to have us leave the office at 3 every day. Which is waaaay earlier than before and we thought it wasn't really possible. But we have been doing it (pretty well) and leaving some stuff for another day but I can definitely see it helping us in our area. Things have been picking up! Its kinda sad that I will be leaving it soon!
Welp, other than that, we got permission to go to Copan Ruinas today for PDay. We also had to take 6 beds out there (to other missionaries) so we killed two birds with one stone. It was Super fun and a lot cheaper this time because I am now a legal Honduras citizen :D
We went into th tunnels and also a giant museum because it was cheaper. It was really cool. One of the guides gave a tour to Spencer W. Kimball and said he was a really good man. Also has a Book of Mormon signed by him! We took a pictue with him!
Welp have a fantastic week everyone! Love ya!
Pics!!
-Dpouls
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