Well everything is all good here in Danli. Be grateful. Eat pizza. Dance like a fisher.
Hermana Oram
my turkey nacatamales are the tamales here and they are super good but only are a Christmas thing.
Hola, My name is Sydney Oram. I am have been called to serve in the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission.
Well, Thanksgiving doesn’t exist in Honduras neither does turkey....So that was sad but I took it upon myself to teach the members a thing or two about gratitude and made a little classic hand turkey. They loved it. But we had a district meeting on Thursday so we decided to go as a zone to Pizza Hut and it was almost a Thanksgiving dinner. Almost. Pizza is a close second to pie. But yeah it was a chill week here in Honduras. We made a goal to talk to everyone that walks past us and we pretty much met our goal now there is no one left the work is done hahah, just kidding , there are a lot of Hondurans that still need saving. But we had a miracle happen this our little Maria de Los Angeles that got baptized a month ago took one of our investigators to church with her on Sunday along with her daughters so pretty soon we will be preparing their baptism. The members are helping us so much now and I am so so so grateful for the members and their help in the missionary work in this ward. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have here. We have been working so hard and really it is starting to pay off. Also many of my old investigators in other areas have been getting baptized...I think sometimes that I am just a sower but sowers are cool too I mean the harvesters get all the glory but if you don’t plant a crop it will never grow. Actually I really don’t know anything about plants but there is a rumor around here that there is a tree that can grow 3 feet in a week. Not quite sure that it is true. Oh and fun fact someone told me the other day that Oram in Japanese means dance of the fisher. Apparently we are from Japan now.
Well everything is all good here in Danli. Be grateful. Eat pizza. Dance like a fisher. Hermana Oram my turkey nacatamales are the tamales here and they are super good but only are a Christmas thing.
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Alright well after some exciting days lost in Tegucigalpa for a few days in the richest part full of mansions and Mercedes and 5 star restaurants I made it back to Danli and quickly fell back into my little missionary routine with my new companion Hermana Rodriguez from Progesso, Honduras. She is super super sweet and has 3 months in the mission and we are just seeing miracles and miracles and we have only been back 3 days. We have an investigator that is from Jordan and only speaks Arabic and English so it is a little interesting teaching a lesson solo but really my English is so bad that I can hardly teach good but the spirit is really strong in our lessons and he has been brought to tears a few times so I know he understands just a little bit... or at least he can feel the spirit. Well the peeps in Danli are a lot more receptive when you have a Honduran companion that is for sure and the taxis don’t charge as much either when you have a native haggling their fares down. But Saturday the elders had a baptism and we went and saved the baptism ...again thanks to Hermana Oram who is always prepared! Lets just say the elders thought that a 14 year old girl would fit in an a jumper adult size XXL. But all was good she got baptized and it was a beautiful baptism. But Sunday was perfect we had two little surprises when some members brought some super prepared investigators to church and they are super ready to get baptized. Then Maria de Los Angeles who got baptized last week got sustained as the second counselor in the relief society and then Diego passed the sacrament my other little convert!! These are the moments that make everything worth it!!! Also we had a lesson last night of the first vision and the spirit was so strong like way stronger than I have felt in a first lesson in a long time. Sometimes I just get in a routine and for get how really truly amazing this gospel is we just teach and teach and teach and forget about why we are doing it. But when I have a good lesson when the spirit is really there I know that this is all true and that I am not wasting a single second here. It is hard but it is so worth it.
Hermana Oram Well it is all good in the hood aka Danli. We are doing good and finally my *house arrest sentence* was released and I can leave the house without pain or problems. It has been a super fast recovery and I feel great I even played a little soccer today (but don’t worry I am still ¨taking it easy¨ ...whatever that means. But really it feels so good to be working again. It is a depressing thing to be stuck in the house all stitched up and sore but now we are working and finding investigators and getting a couple ready for baptism this month and the next. Well this week I have some great phrases of the week.
Hermana Oram: ¨there are tons of diseases spread by mosquito bites like chikungunya, west nile and malaria and they all start out in Africa¨ Hermana Blanchard: ¨yeah that is true....wait but West Nile virus didn’t start in A............... wait ya it did¨ Hermana Oram:................................... and then last night when a ten year old was telling us how he is going to leave his girlfriend ¨half-way abandoned¨ when he goes on a mission and pray she doesn’t write him a dear john.... or a querido juan But the best conversation of the week had to have been in the surgeons office on divisions with Hermana Beitler as the doctor explained to us how appendicitis happens and that I shouldn’t believe the people of Honduras that say it is caused by eating finger nails and watermelon seeds... although I am a culprit of both those things I is caused by random things that just happens to lucky people like me. But we slyly turned the conversation about colons and stomach walls to the temple and how she and her husband could be sealed there as a family for the eternities. There are missionary opportunities everywhere you just have to find them. I mean it is sometimes easier with a black badge on your chest but really that is just a piece of plastic that gets really dirty really fast (fun fact: toothpaste whitens the name engraved part real quick) but really it is just a piece of plastic and is not even necessary to share a testimony or invite someone to church. You just have to invite them... they might not go like this last week we invited over a hundred people to church and only one of them actually showed up. THAT IS A LOT OF REJECTION. But it is always worth it for that one person. Thank you so much for the prayers and warm wishes. Stay cool and stay out of hospitals. This week definitely has been the craziest of my whole mission. But there is probably no other way Hermana Oram would celebrate 1 year in the mission. It all started Tuesday night when I thought it would be fun to have 2 dinner appointments and well I really don’t like to tell people no when they offer me food so we ate a ton on Tuesday night. Then Wednesday morning I woke up with a bunch of stomach pain and I thought that it was just from the excess amount of food and I felt guilty about the overload the night before so I started the repentance process of overeating and did about 300 sit ups and then the pain got a lot worse so we called the nurse of the mission and she said to do lay on my back and rest for an hour and then see where the pain went well at about 12noon the pain was super sharp on my lower right side and I was dying with pain and so my companion Hermana Blanchard called the elders to come give me a blessing they at first thought that it was just a stomach ache that didn’t need a blessing but after some insisting they came and gave me a blessing about the tome that the nurse said I had to go to Tegucigalpa really fast because well in Danli there is nowhere even qualified to take out appendices. So we got a ride with a member to Zamorano where Elder Oldroyd took us to the Hospital In Tegus it was a really nice hospital and they took me to emergency and run blood tests and ultrasounds and all that and then a CT scan and everything came back normal except my white blood cells were really high and I was in a lot of pain and every pain killer they put in me didn’t help at all so then at about 7 they told me that they were going to keep me over night and if I still had pain in the morning they were going to see what they were going to do. Well at about 9 or 10 I was up in my room with my comp and I was literally dying or thought I was with pain and I called the nurse and they called the doctor who came in and said they were going to prep me for surgery and not wait until the morning well they took me into surgery and everything went good and about midnight I was out and like 1 in the morning back in my room with three holes in my stomach but they are tiny. The doctor said my appendix was attached to my abdominal wall and it was swollen so it was appendicitis. The next morning we left the hospital and went to the mission home and then Friday morning we came back to Danli and have been resting here but we also went to the baptism of Maria de Los Angeles that was a whole other story my awesome companion totally kept planning the whole baptism from the hospital room and we ended up having a super pretty baptismal service. I still am in a little pain but we went to church yesterday and worked a little it was super nice to get out of the house because recovering from an appendectomy isn’t that fun with mission rules and just studying and sleeping hahah but it should be a quick recovery and I should be as good as new soon. Thank you so much for all the prayers. I am glad to leave a little part of me here in Honduras! I can’t believe how fast time has gone by but I am so grateful for this last year and the crazy things I have learned and all that I will learn in the next 6 months!!!!!!
DONT EAT 2 DINNERS! It always ends up bad. Hermana Oram |
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Hermana OramI am from Queen Creek Arizona. I am a student at BYU Provo, and I am currently serving in the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission from October 2014 to April 2016. Categories |