I want the scripture 2 Nephi 16:8 !! its super tight!! or Isaiah 6:8! It's the same scripture, just one is in the Bible the other is in the Book of Mormon! It says "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me."
And hey mom, sorry I didn't write you about my week last week, it was just a super weird day for us and I almost didn't have time to write. But hey this past week was awesome!!
We taught a ton of lessons even though it was a super weird and super scattered week with my comp leaving to Tegucigalpa for an emergency meeting with all of the leaders. He was gone for two days and so for those two days I was left here in Paraiso with a different elder from the opposite side of the city. We worked in his area for those two days and it was pretty cool having the opportunity to explore the other half of the city! A ton of members live over there and it's always funny when we pass by members because they all know my name and call me Elder Mickey Mouse! We were just walking from one lesson to another and everytime we were outside we would just hear my name get shouted from every which direction! haha I love this place!
One of the things I learned today that absolutely blew my mind is that 9 of the young men and women in my ward were patients at the clinic and all of them remember me as the kid who was shoving a piece of metal into their mouths! haha I never really understood why so many of them talked to me all the time; I thought it was just because I'm a silly looking gringo with an even sillier name!! haha I just found out this week that all of the families in our ward know me because that first Sunday here all of the young men were talking about how I was a kid from the brigada! haha So yeah I guess you can say we all have some sort of a special bond! But yeah that seriously blew my mind when they finally told me that this last Tuesday!! haha Well yeah! But that's not all! I have a rep here in the mission because of the dental mission!! haha I have a rep in the whole mission as a total flirt and also as the romeo of the mission because of that poem I wrote on the board when I asked Brette to prom!! haha A ton of people here know I'm back and I don't even know how! haha
I was at a conference the other day and a ton of Elders and Sisters were coming up to me and asking me why people in their ward know me and I just kept repeating my story that I have been here before the mission and I was here for a dental mission. Not all of the Elders believe me because they don't think it's possible for me to get my mission call to return for my fulltime mission after being here already! haha They all think I came here after I got my mission call so I could experience it before I actually entered the mission. haha I always just tell them that they have little faith and that God knows what He wants which is for me to return and continue my service here in Central America!
But okay that's enough about that! Just know there is somehow a word spreading that I am here once again and a lot of people are telling the missionaries in their wards that they want talk to me. haha It's bad but at the same time it's kinda cool because I know that no matter where I go I'll have friends!
Okay but yeah in other news I had my first baptism on Saturday!!! I baptized a man named Tranquilino Soreano! He is super cool and he is super old! I think I have written about him once before about how he can't walk up and down stairs so every time he is at the church I pick him up and carry him up the stairs! Well yeah I just baptized him!! It was so cool! I can't even express it to you!! I was so excited for him and so nervous I would forget the baptismal prayer in Spanish that I couldn't stop my hand from shaking!! It was going absolutely crazy!! haha I somehow managed to remember the whole prayer and began to dunk him into the water! All was well except for his knees are bad so his left foot shot up out of the water at the last second! I then raised my shaky hand back to the square and recited the prayer once again. This time as I dunked him into the water I stepped on his left foot and stopped it from shooting forward, but hey guess what, this time his right foot decided it wanted to be dry!! haha For a third time I recited the prayer and then basically back tripped him and pushed his feet and his body into the water. It was so cool and at the same time it was so spiritual! I helped him raise from the water and he just chuckled and said "Is that all? I'm cold". I couldn't help but smile and then just said congratulations and yes that's all. It was an awesome day and it was an awesome baptism!
I honestly am so glad I have the opportunity to be here serving the Lord. It's a beautiful thing seeing the light of Christ enter into the life of another person. I am a blessed man to be here in Honduras and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!! This is where I belong. Once again serving the people of this beautiful land of Honduras! I will always feel a special attachment to this country and to this people. This country has changed my life!!!
Love you all,
Elder Jonah McKee
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