Langue

We had changes last week and they sent me down to the south. So now I'm down here in a pueblo called Langue. It's in San Lorenzo. We're about an hour and a half bus ride from San Lorenzo, 3 and a half hours from Teguc. It's a pretty cool place though. I already love the south more than the city. It is so hot though. I don't know what we would do if we didn't have AC in the house. I'm here with Elder Fernandez. He was the assistant to the president when I first came here to Honduras. He's a stud. He works very hard and I have so much to learn from him. Our area is pretty big too. We live in Centro, but to get to the 3 other parts of our area, we walk an hour to each of them.

We have Zone Conference tomorrow at 9 am. That means that we have to take a bus at 6 am for 3 hours until we make it to Choluteca. It's going to be pretty rough, but it'll be nice to be with the other missionaries down here in the south. The work down here is a little different. On Sunday we had a total of 33 people in church. I gave a talk and then helped teach Sunday school.

The elders about 5 years ago had much success and baptized so many people, the problem is, not a single one stayed in the church. We work a lot with menos activos and the few active members. But we do have a healthy pool of investigators. We challenged a girl name sara to baptism yesterday and she accepted! She actually started to tear up when we asked her to share her feeling on having the opportunity to cleanse herself from sin. She has a strong testimony of the things we've taught her already. She accompanied us to church on Sunday and stayed for all 3 hours. It was super amazing to see her there and see the members welcome her with open arms.

I didn't get to write yesterday because right when I got on, the internet in the pueblo went out. We had to take time to write today. But that's about all that I have so far! It's always nice to be in a new area. It's kind of a fresh start. The people here don't call me Workmancito which I would say it's a good thing. They just call me John Carter de Langue. haha anyway. Thank you all for the love and letters! Until next week.

Love, Elder Carter

PS. Thank you all for the love and prayers you've given to my mom. She's doing great now. She said that she could physically feel the prayers help her through the operation. Now if as many people as possible can go to my house and give her a big hug for me. Oh and milk chocolate See's candy. That's her favorite.