Well, I may or may not have gotten drunk this week. But to begin this story, let’s go back to
last Monday, after I finished writing you guys. Well we went to go do our
shopping for the week, and everyone thought we were going to get money in our
accounts, but we didn’t. So everyone was super stressed with their money for
the week. I was pretty well set with 10 dollars, which is way more than enough
for the week, while other elders had 15 cents.
Well to make things even better
we went to see if we had money left over in the bank account, and I had 10 more
dollars. So with this feeling of being the richest elder in the mission we went
to the store. We bought some cookies and other treats.
Then while walking in
the cereal and boxed milk isle I spotted something that slightly resembled eggnog.
I stopped and looked again. Rompopo. My comp saw what I was looking at and got excited
too. He tried to explain what it was, how the members in Honduras always drink
this stuff during Christmas time and that sometimes non members liked to
ferment it into alcohol. I knew that a lot of people liked to turn eggnog into
alcohol so now I knew it had to be eggnog, then I flipped the box over and it
had in English the word Eggnog. That was the only thing I needed to see and I
was convinced we needed to buy it. My comp was like yeah alright.
Well we went home played soccer at the church with the other
elders and some members, then went home showered, slept a little, then it was time
to leave the house. Well I wanted to drink my eggnog before we left, so I get a
cup out and pour me a glass, and I down it in one second. It wasn’t that good.
But it sort of resembled eggnog so I drank another half cup. This cup was
pretty big. Then my comp comes in and tried a tiny sip. He was like, ah elder,
this has alcohol in it. And we look at the box, and in a red box that is pretty
hard to miss it says. CONTAINS ALCOHOL.
At this point I’m thinking oh crap. We
had a family home evening planned with the family of S...... our convert and the
family of the bishop, so we went to their house first. That’s when I started
feeling super weird. It started with me sweating a lot. We were in the living
room of the bishop asking them about the lesson we were going to teach because
when we had discussed it prior they said they were going to plan a lesson and
they were going to talk with the family
to make sure it was alright if we came.
Well they didn’t do either. So we had
to go to S..... house to ask if we could have the family home evening. At
this point I felt super weird. Like everything was moving around me but I was
still super conscious. Then we returned to bishops house to tell them the
lesson was still on. At this point I am sweating profusely and I am starting to
feel like crap.
We go back to our house because I knew a Mormon message that is
really good for what we were going to talk about. Because I knew there was no
way I was going to be able to teach a family home evening by myself in the state
I was in. Well I was searching for 20 minutes for the video and when I finally
found it wouldn’t play. So I was like crap. I have to prepare to teach a lesson
on the atonement of Jesus Christ in 20 minutes and then teach it by myself
drunk. At this point I feel extremely sick and light headed and just super out
of it, but we went and picked up the family of the bishop and went to Sandra’s
house.
Well, I gave the whole lesson and it was one of the best lessons I
have ever give, (my comp couldn’t help teach because first he still doesn’t
really talk in the lessons, and 2nd he didn’t know what the atonement was) My comp
after the lesson was like, holy cow, the spirit was super strong in the lesson haha.
After that we went home and slept. The next day I woke up with the worst
headache I have ever had. And we had interviews that day haha. I told president
about it and he just said, what did you learn elder_ That I shouldn’t be
stupid. He just laughed and said, yeah I think that’s right. It was indeed an
interesting experience.
This week had its highs and lows like always. We have one
investigator who is really starting to progress towards baptism and we went to
the Christmas devotional with us last night, he did start to fall asleep though.
At first I was kind of disappointed, but then I thought about the story of Ammon
and they all collapsed when they felt the spirit of conversion so I figured
that must have been happening with him. But He is really a great guy and he
wants to have some changes in his life.
We have two sets of investigators who
want to get baptized but can’t because they need divorces so they can get
married to the person they are living with. And it’s a super complicated long
process and its super frustrating. Another problem we have is everyone works on
Sundays. You’d think in a country where literally everyone is a devout member
of their faith, they would have everything closed on the Sabbath day.
But yeah
this week I think we are going to leave a couple of our investigators so we can
find a lot more to teach and that can progress. I was talking to president
about how we have a problem with them coming to church and he said kind of the
same thing as you, he said no I think the problem you have is that they aren’t
reading the book of Mormon. He said I am kind of convinced that if they are reading
every night and praying then they will come to church.
Things are slightly improving with my companion. He is
feeling more comfortable in the lessons and talking more.. kind of. We have
been doing a lot of service this week because of the new church video Ilumina
el mundo and that’s been fun.
Although these past few days have been awful with
the heat so that makes it a little tough. I don’t know if you guys have seen
the Christmas video yet but it’s really good. It makes me miss snow a lot
though. I hate the hot weather.
With my comp and singing I ended up
recording him sing on my camera and showed him. He was shocked haha.
This week is going to be a good week though, right now I
think it’s about to rain so that’s going to be good getting away from the sun. These
past few days have been the hottest so far in the mission.
Love Elder Blanchard
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