Monday September 11th, 2017

Hey guys! Oh Sam... one hunt with a cast, and another with a boot.  (Samuel had surgery this morning on a dislocated, fractured growth plate on his baby toe.)  What's next year??? Haha!

This week was really good. The mission goal for New Investigators every week is 12, and we usually get close to that, but this week we had 18! It was awesome!

We have an investigator named Efrén, who flat out told us that he wants to get baptized. The only problem is that he may be having shoulder surgery due to a motorcycle accident he had, but he has a baptismal date on the 23rd of September. He's progressing a ton!  He's good friend with Hermano Fidel, who is our Ward Mission Leader, who also gives us a ton of rides to visit people. Whenever we go anywhere, Efrén goes with us. So he's receiving like three times the amount of lessons a week as other investigators.

In a little town called Realito de Sataya, there are some members who will be leaving to serve a mission in January, but have to decided to start serving right now. They've been going around sharing the gospel and bringing us references. It's amazing! The work goes so much smoother when the members do their part.

We received a reference from a 14 year old girl in the ward this week as well. His name is Sergio. Sergio even goes to seminary with the member, Maricel, at 6 in the morning. When we went to visit him, his sisters wanted to listen to us as well. From one reference, we found 3 people who wanted to hear the message of the restored gospel.

This week Abél told us that he's trying to save some money to but a white shirt and tie for church, so on one of our visits, I gave him one of my white shirts, and a purple tie I had. I'll have to take a picture with him.

Yesterday, my companion and I got pulled in to young mens to have a question and answer class with us about the mission. One on the young men asked us, "What's one thing that you wish you would've done before the mission?". At the same time we both said, "Share the gospel with my friends." This is the Lord's gospel, and many people are looking for it. Jesus Christ is coming. Look at all the earthquakes and flooding that's going on; it's close.   (Large earthquake hit Southern Mexico on Friday morning...8.1 magnitude.  Many category 4 and 5 hurricanes are hitting in the Caribbean, Southern United States and Eastern Mexico) Share the gospel with as many as people as possible. Here are some scriptures that I like: D&C 18:10-17, 21 and D&C 100: 5-8

My companion says that things are way worse in Honduras as far as danger goes. He says that compared to his country, he feels completely secure here. He has family that live in the U.S., and he visited them for 3 months, so he knows quite a bit about what's over there. His family lives in Georgia.

My package has been found, and will be given to me on Thursday. :)  (A package that we ordered from missionarypackagemx.com was delivered on August 9th but, was misplaced.)

Have a great week!

-Elder Radmall

Questions:

Dad: Not really. I´ll ask for one this week.  (Has your comp shared anything cool or scary about his native country?)

Mom: It´s ok...  (Do you have good milk/chocolate milk there?)

Holly: nope :)  (Have you wrecked on your bike yet?)

Sam: I can ride without hands while standing up on the pedals.  (Can you and have you done any tricks on your bike?)

Dylan: no, it was almost as awesome as your huge paper airplane!  (Was your plane ride scary?)

Email sent by Forest's mission president to the families of his missionaries after the earthquake:

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

We wish to inform you so that you can be calm that our mission was not affected with the recent earthquake in our country. This earthquake was in the southern part of our country and our mission is located in the northern part; therefore, we didn´t even feel it. All of our missionaries are doing well and doing their duties on normal schedule. We would like to hear about the families of our missionaries that do live in the southern part of our country. Our thoughts & prayers are with you. May the Lord take care of you and protect your families.

With love,

President & Sister Gabaldón