mondongo 2

This week we went on exchanges and I worked with Hermana De Leon. She is from Guatemala and we are the same person. It was a blast! Their area is on top of a mountain, but absolutely gorgeous! The view was amazing and you could see the beach which is about 5 minutes away. Hermana De Leon said they just need to find new investigators so we did a lot of contacting. We found two families! One family of 8 and were really receptive! Hermana De Leon is an awesome missionary and I felt like I was learning more from her than she was from me! Im so excited for all the exchanges this transfer! 

We went over to eat at a members house who lives right on the beach and has the biggest mango tree ever! We ate lunch with 4 other missionaries and it was sopa de mondongo.... The cow intestine soup again. This time i couldnt get half of it down and had to switch bowls with Hermana Calpa who I was sitting next to me. She saved my life and finished it for me. Im praying that was the last time i have to eat cow intestines for the rest of my life. I tried being positive about it, but obviously need to work on that. 

We found two old men who speak English, they are hilarious. As we were teaching one of them whose name is Ulum, a teenager passed by and was staring at us. He passed by again and asked if we were Elders and teach about Joseph Smith. His name is Danny and he is a 14 year old who attended church in another ward for 2 years, but never got baptized because he moved here. It was a miracle we found him!

 We have a lot of investigators that are progressing and are awesome! Im learning so much and am grateful for being able to work in this area with such strong members. In my other areas it was so hard getting one investigator to accompany us with just one lesson per day and here we sometimes have 3 members in the same lesson. It makes the world of a difference to have supportive members in the ward. I also noticed here in honduras the youth go out with the missionaries a ton. I never even thought about leaving with the missionaries when I was a youth, but it is a great way to prepare for a mission.

Im starting to wish time would slow down now cause every week goes by so fast and its such a blur! I love being a missionary and love seeing the change the gospel can bring in the lives of Heavenly Fathers children. I love you all and pray for you!

Love,

Hermana Sherman

View from our apartment window

Eating mangos with the sisters in El Iman

Doing an exercise video bright and early

Visit with Hermana Morlasco. She is blind and takes care of her 4 year old grandson all by herself

Preparing for my last English class in Porvenir

Family of Eblin Lobo in Porvenir, they gave me a farewell party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last picture with Zona Pineda!!

Hermana Rosa Rodriguez whom I love dearly

I'm so happy and will be eternally grateful for my mission.

What a week! I have so many stories to tell you guys, but am going to save them for when I get home haha. Im starting to meet all of our investigators and all of the members in this ward and they are so awesome! Wow this ward is so strong and makes missionary work so much easier with the help of the ward members. We have an awesome ward missionary leader who works so hard with us. 

We were visiting a family who are members and met an uncle there. He had been inactive for 20 years. We pretty much forced him to listen to us, but we felt prompted that we needed to teach him. As we began to get to know him, 3 little kids started running around screaming and playing and the family was all over the place too. We barely could hear each other. We asked him why he left the church and as soon as he paused to answer, the power went out. He told us he read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it once, but didnt receive an answer so left the church. We told him the importance of praying every time after he read to know if it was true.  We promised him an answer if he read and prayed with faith and a true intent. We finished the lesson in the dark, pretty much yelling so he could hear us. He started to open up to us and committed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. I know the Lord had put him in our path and that the Lord is aware of him.

Theres a sister that was serving in another zone as I was and she was telling me that they were teaching a man who doesnt have any legs and that he wouldnt accept a baptimal commitment because he was scared to be baptized. She said that they had family home evening with President Klein and he asked him if he recently got baptized, confusing him with our old investigator Cristobal. President Klein told him that there was another investigator like him without any legs who was just recently baptized. This  gave him confidence and he recently accepted to be baptized with a specific date! Cristobal was an example to someone who he doesnt even know! 

Weve seen a lot of miracles this week. I now know how protected missionaries are and how crucial it is to follow the Holy Ghost. I am grateful for this time to learn how to recognize the promptings of the spirit and how to always act right away. 

We were able to do a lot of contacting last week and have a lot of service opportunities. This week we start exchanges. We get to travel all over the mission and learn from other sister missionaries. Im so excited!  Here we go!  I LOVE THIS WORK! Im so happy and will be eternally grateful for my mission. Everything has become so black and white now and hope I never go back to the grey area. I know with my whole heart that what Im teaching is true, it wouldnt be worth eating cow intestines if it wasnt.

Love,

Hermana Sherman

Cambios!!!

I have been called as a Sister Leader Trainer in Ceiba! My new companion is Hermana Munoz and she is adorable. We were in the CCM together and got to Honduras the same day. We are over 18 Hermanas and are in charge of doing exchanges with them. We also get to participate in conferences and trainings. Im excited to learn and grow with this calling and serve the sisters the best that I can!!

Ceiba is up north about 3 1/2 hours from my last area. Its also by the beach woohoo! Sorry I dont have very much time to write but I love you guys lots and lots!!! 

Love,

Hermana Sherman

I've learned there is no such thing as a bad area.

Helloooooo!

Just got the call that I have cambios :( Well see where the Lord wants me next! Im grateful for the past 6 months Ive had here in Porvenir. Ive had a lot of great experiences here and have learned so much. I really started getting comfortable, but am willing to go where the Lord wants me to go. 

Ive learned there is no such thing as a bad area. The Lord is always preparing people to hear the gospel. Ive also learned diligence and that hope is never lost. 

We passed an Hermana Estella raking her garbage outside her house and so it was a great service opportunity. We helped her clean up a little then shared a message with her. She said her daughter died and we asked her if she believes in life after death. She said we all go straight to the grave and stay there. It really kind of broke my heart to see her without any hope of seeing her daughter again. We were able to teach her how much Heavenly Father loves her and that he gave us a perfect plan that permits us to return in His presence. It was amazing to see her being open to an eternal perspective. You literally could see a difference in her eyes. 

Its mango season people! I bought a bag of mangos the size of footballs! I later regretted the spontaneous decision because the after effects were not pretty. One of the things I love about Honduras is that literally everyone has some kind of awesome fruit bearing tree. There are mango, avocado, lime, banana, coconut, papaya and so many more fruits ive never seen or heard before on every corner! 

Well next time you hear from me Ill be in a different area! Hope all is well!

Love,

Hermana Sherman

Raking for Hermana Estella

Tony (Santos grandson) made us BLTs! 

Cutest little girl ever!

Hermana Carolinas Baby! When I got here she was still pregnant.

Multi zone conference, eating with the Hermanas

Familia Sanchez

a frog....

Hermana Lopez who is going home Wednesday!!

Farewell with Hermana Lopez who finished her mission and Elder Flores who received his visa for Mexico!

 

Cambios next week, we shall see where the Lord wants me!

Hi!!!!

What a week! Dont remember much of it, but I feel good about it. Haha 

Mi hija is doing a whole lot better. Her energy is coming back and shes starting to eat normal again. Hopeful everything just goes uphill from here! 

On Saturday, we were on our way to an appointment and passed by an old lady with her machete hacking away in front of her house so we offered to help. We started chopping away when the Elders happened to pass by and offered to help us too. Soon a couple kids down the street came over and brought their machetes too and started helping. Then her next door neighbor came out and said, "what a group of Angels you have!" and started working. The sweet lady is named Marta and she told us she has been out working since 7am and it was 2:30 in the afternoon. She was praying saying that she didnt want to work anymore, then we arrived. The Elders told us they were studying at their house and normally dont leave until 3, but felt like they needed to go out and took a different street to their area, which happened to be the the same street we were working at. We told Marta Heavenly Father loves her and she said she recognized that and we have an appointment to visit her tomorrow!

We had another Pday but with 3 zones this time. We went to an Olympic stadium in San Pedro Sula, then to a place where they sell the craziest smoothies I have ever seen. Just when I thought it was impossible to put anything else on top of the smoothie, the guy added 5 more layers. Whipped cream, chocolate, sweet and condensed milk, strawberries, almonds, caramel, cereal, a candy shark, and all that over again 3 times. Our entire zone smashed inside a tiny van and the car was bottoming out almost the entire time. We had to get out a couple times to put the bumper back on.  

We have cambios (Transfers) next week so we shall see where the Lord wants me!

Love,

Hermana Sherman

Olympic stadium in San Pedro Sula

 

3 Zone P-day!

 

The biggest grasshopper I've ever seen!!!

 

Sooooo good to see you guys! So Good! Its pretty crazy cause I feel like it was a dream before my mission and forget how long ive been away sometimes. HAPPY LATE MOTHERS DAY TO ALL!! I am so blessed to have such amazing women in my life who are great examples to me.

This past week we kind of took it easy again and I learned how to make pretty good jello. Ive also had a lot of time to study and am learning so much! I could read the scriptures ALL DAY!

Last week was a little rough for Hermana Morales, poor thing. We ended up traveling to San Pedro Sula so she could see a better doctor. He told her that she definitely doesnt have gastritis like the other doctor said. He wanted to do a bunch of tests but she had to take the tests fasting so we had to return the next day. We were pretty slap happy and ended up waiting 9 hours to take all of her tests and wait for the results so we had a lot of time to explore the hospital. We actually found a lot of members and they were awesome. All in all, turns out she is anemic and has something wrong with her intestines so they gave her a lot of prescriptions and said we have to return in a week if she doesnt get better... thank you doctor. Hermana Morales never ceases to amaze me with her good attitude and dedication.

We had Pday with our zone today and it was hilarious. We were divided in teams and played a bunch of random games. We played sack potato and out of all the Sisters and Elders I was the only one to completely face plant. We also played volleyball for the first time here in Honduras and it was awesome! I realized that my arms have turned into noodles and am not as strong as I thought I was. We also played the most intense game of pictionary Ive ever played. HILARIOUS. Ive never seen a group of people so competitive. They crack me up. I havent laughed so hard in a long time.

This last week I was outside collecting my laundry when I hear,"Hermana Sherman, we have a small problem." There was a Tarantula the size of my hand in our sink. I couldnt take it out of the house living so I had to poison it first. Ive never seen a spider so big.

All in all im doing fantastic. Im happy I got to play volleyball. I hope you guys have a great week! I love you!

Que les vaya bien!

Hermana Sherman

Pday with the zone

 

Friendly neighborhood tarantula

My back sweat from the 2 minute walk home from church.

 

Relief Society Activity making flowers

 

Oi!

Why Hello there!

This week was pretty crazy. Hermana Morales got sick Tuesday night after lunch. As we were walking in the street she started blacking out, so I rushed her home where she immediately started vomiting. She couldnt keep food down at all so we went to the hospital Thursday and found out she has bad acid reflex. I went on splits with the other Hermanas Friday and Saturday to get ready for Cristovals baptism. All in all the Baptism went well and last minute the music director didnt show up, or the ward mission leader who was going to give a talk on the Holy Ghost, so when the time came during the baptism the Bishop called on me to help out with both. It all worked out ok and Cristoval was baptized and thats all that matters. He was glowing after and gave the sweetest testimony. He was confirmed on Sunday and Hermana Morales felt well enough to attend sacrament meeting so we got to see it! Ive gotten a lot of study time in this past week! Im also learning a ton!

We found out one of our sweet investigators, Hermana Reina passed away. She found out she had cancer Tuesday and passed away Friday. She was the one that walked to church and the elders had to give her a blessing because she was in so much pain. She was being prepared for baptism and is continually being be prepared now. She is now resting from her pains and afflictions and we now are able to teach her family what they are able to do for her. 

Alma 40:11-12

 11 Now, concerning the ^astate of the soul between ^bdeath and the resurrection—Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel, that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are ^ctaken ^dhome to that God who gave them life.

 12 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of ^ahappiness, which is called^bparadise, a state of rest, a state of ^cpeace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow.

Love,

Hermana Sherman

 

Cristovals Baptism!

Pday with the Hermanas in my zone

My beautiful area