HERMANA ORAM
This week I fell again. I was just walking normal and all of a sudden I fell and there was two rocks lodged in my leg and so I pulled them out and then there was a bunch of blood but we kept walking until my shirt was all covered in blood then we washed my leg with a bottle of water and kept working until the night. Everyone freaks out when they see how nasty it is wit puss and green stuff but I am cleaning it a ton and scrubbing it with hydrogen peroxide and all that so it is fine. Also this week we went to a members house for lunch and she gave us both a big piece of meat with tons of onions on top. well we started eating it and it tasted like turkey heart and so when my companion asked me what it was I said. um I think it is heart. she almost threw up and she gave me her piece of meat so then I ate two huge pieces of boiled mystery meat. it actually didn’t taste too bad but like every meal we have to say ¨oh thank you sister it was so good I love your food!¨ well a few days later we asked her what was the mystery meat and she said COW LIVER. So now I have eaten boiled not completely cooked cow liver. Not super weird but a little bit and well every since the tiny bit my companion ate she has been super sick but ay vamos. This week was super good we finally got into a groove again without meetings or conferences and we found a lot of people that want to listen to us. Nothing really exciting happened. we made a lime pie to celebrate 10 months!!!!!!! actually I forgot I was cumpliendo meses until after we ate the whole pie for breakfast. But we are doing super good here in big beautiful CERRO GRANDE!!!
HERMANA ORAM
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Well this week was pretty awesome it started off helping all the freshly arrived missionaries learn to contact and tract in the streets. So our zone we went to Teguc to do divisions with the newbies and we helped them learn how to do talk and all that and I was with an Hermana which I thought was Latina but she is from the states and didn’t know a ton of Spanish and I had some flashbacks to my first days here in Honduras and what a train wreck I was but now at least I can more or less talk to people!!! Well then Wednesday was changes AND WE DIDNT HAVE CHANGES AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY IN MY LIFE!!!! I love Hermana Aguilar and never want changes!!! But they took the Hermanas out of Zamorano (my old area) and now there are elders there! So that was crazy! But then Friday was Hermana Aguilars birthday and i totally threw a surprise party without her knowing which was super hard because we are together 24-7! But I woke up at 5 in the morning and blew up balloons and made huge cards and made pancakes and then woke her up by singing church songs by David Archuleta and jumping on her bed. And then I organized con the ZLs to buy a cake for the district meeting Friday and everything went perfect. The SATURDAY WE HAD THE GIANT CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT NELSON!!!! We went to a chapel in Comayagua with the mission there and all of the mission Tegucigalpa and one of my friends from my ward at BYU is serving in Comayagua was there and I talked with her and I saw all of my companions which was fun. We were the first row of hard chairs and directly in the middle so i had a perfect view of Pres Nelson and we all got the opportunity to greet him and shake his hand. I can’t explain how strong the spirit was there. He talked about marriage a little bit and told us to always have our mission president and his wife as our examples of a perfect marriage, he also told us to make sure our future spouses are full tithe payers and that tithing is the best way to measure integrity. He also talked about family history and the importance in missionary work he shared some stories that were just amazing and also talked about how we need to teach English to our Spanish companions! something I am not so good at haha but I am going to try to be better!, but he ended by promising a blessing to all of us and the spirit was so strong no one made a noise and no one moved. He is truly an apostle of God. I will never forget the things we learned and the spirit in that chapel. I am so grateful everyday for my opportunity here in Honduras! Hermana Oram So this week we learned how important it is to follow the promptings of the spirit. We were walking home late Tuesday and when I say late at like 8 and we started walking and our area is straight forest without lights just dirt trails and after 7 there is no one in the streets because it is dark. But we have no choice but to walk home about 45 minutes from the closest members. So after dinner we started walking. I had a feeling that we shouldn't walk home but we had no other option so we kept walking. I thought that it was just fear but really I don't get scared walking at night here now that I have done it so often. But then stronger I had this feeling we shouldn't walk in the dark and this time it was different than fear, it was a feeling that we really shouldn't be walking. So we called a few members to see if they could help us but they couldn't help us so we kept walking. AGAIN I felt we shouldn't walk in the dark and it was stronger this time. Well about that time a man passed us really slow and stopped in front of us and then walked a little more ahead of us and then hid behind a tree waiting for us to pass well I didn't really pay attention to him but I knew that it was just getting later and later and darker and that we needed to get home so we started walking again when we walked and got a little closer we saw the same man there behind the tree in the middle of the forest in the dark. I grabbed Hermana Aguilars hand and pulled her and we started running the opposite direction and Heavenly Father truly answers our prayers because after running about 5 minutes passed a mototaxi and there are never mototaxis he wasnt even working he was just riding around in his mototaxi late at night but he passed and took us close to our house. Heavenly Father truly answers prayers and through the Holy Ghost he leads and guides us and keeps us from danger. I know that Heavenly Father protects His missionaries. We have been working really hard here in Cerro but our investigators are disappearing but I know that we are helping here. I am way stronger than I thought I was. This week I have felt a million times better health wise and I am so excited for Saturday when President Nelson is going to come and speak to us. It will really be such an amazing experience to hear and Apostleof the Lord speaking directly to us. I am so happy here despite all the really crappy things that happen I am still happy. Really I dont know why. Be careful dont walk at night.
Stranger danger. Hermana Oram Okay so we got permission to write quickly today because the power was out yesterday and we couldn’t write. This week was good. Well after 9 months in Honduras finally I got sick. I knew it was bound to come sooner or later but I was throwing up for about three days from something I ate or some bacteria or the water here. It isn’t quite the cleanest and I have kinda gotten lazy about the whole hand sanitizer thing so I get what I get and I cant complain but I got a blessing from out branch mission leader and I started feeling better after that he gave me a blessing in English which as pretty cool since I miss English. But ya, I am all better now and we are back to working. Well we still worked because I can’t stand staying in the house just I walked as slow as a turtle so we didn’t have a ton of success but now we are both super healthy and ready to take on another semana here in Cerro. Well this week we walked through a protest against immigrants and foreigners so that was interesting two blonde and an obviously Mexican missionaries walking through a bunch of people with signs saying no immigrants was kind of weird but they were nice to us we just got strange looks. Well we have been hitting hard on the word of wisdom here in Cerro Grande and really there are so many blessings through living this commandment that really is from our Heavenly Father. But really we are starting to see lives change as our investigators really apply the Atonement and overcome there addictions. I am so grateful for the word of wisdom and really it blesses us so much. Well thanks to whatever sickness flu virus I had I lost a few pounds that I gained from the food here that is so good! Everyone always asks me what food I miss from the states and I really cant think of anything well besides lemon pie, dirty dr. pepper and in n out burgers, and steak. But really Honduran food is so good it is super boring and really just beans and rice and eggs but it tastes good. I am so happy here even though it is like a roller coaster and super, super difficult and we walk in the forest and the drunk guy are super mean and sometimes I forget everything I know in Spanish and just stare at people blankly in the middle of lessons or even better when I start speaking English at people and they don’t understand me but I love it. peace hermana oram Well this week was great. And when I say great I mean super hard and rough and like all the other weeks here in Honduras. I really shouldn’t ever think an easy week is going to come, and really I think an easy week would be super boring and pointless. So this week was hard. Our investigators are... there. Just there. But the good thing is we have people to teach and we have people to help and fast and pray for. The mission isn’t about numbers. That is what I thought for a while that we are just here to baptize as many people as we can and, ya. But no it is about people. These are real people we are teaching. But the beginning of this week I was feeling all good all proud of myself thinking I am doing everything right I am the best ever.... and then Wednesday came and I was feeling all happy and again thinking I am the greatest and well I was there walking on flat ground and out of nowhere I fell to the ground. I think I slipped or something but I slipped on some dirt and glass and it cut up my leg not too bad but it looked super gross. But it humbled me quite a bit. Just from the silly little scratch I was weakened. Like seriously I am nothing. But then the next day we had zone conference and President just let us know what we need to do and I realized I AM NOT THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. I mean seriously I tripped and fell on flat ground and I cannot even talk right in Spanish. But luckily it doesn’t matter the Lord calls the weak and simple and really I have changed, he has changed me. I am happier than I have ever been in my life and I am working harder and doing things that I never imagined I could do. I am nothing without our Heavenly Father. I literally couldn’t possibly even help even a little bit in this work if it wasn’t for Him and the power of the Atonement of His Son as well. Well we are working hard and doing weird things that literally don’t make sense like walking across sewage water rivers to visit a family that lives in the mountains super far away but when we got there was the spirit so strong that that was exactly the place we needed to go. The key in everything that we do as children of God is following the promptings of the spirit. oh and well now I am halfway through this amazing experience. #9months #mitad
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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 |