Monday, February 29, 2016

Jonah's Semana 65 - Coffee and Cows


Monday, February 1, 2016 


Hey there! Everything is good here. How’s it over there? This week has been a pretty fun one!

This week in church we had three male investigators come and that is awesome!! They all have a baptism date and that means potential priesthood! Up in San Marcos that is something we seriously need desperately! For the moment my companion, the group president, and I are the only priesthood holders that are active. And unfortunately, none of the other men really want to come back to church so that is hard but now we have three potential priesthood holders!  I'm stoked about it!

Also today is the day of changes! I am going to be continuing in San Marcos and I'm gonna be training! This will be my third son here in the mission and I'm super excited to see how that all works out for me! Training can be very stressful sometimes, especially when your new companion is not one who wants to work or came onto the mission for the wrong reasons! I am hoping and praying that whoever I am going to be teaching is going to be willing to listen to me and my counsels! But, I guess tomorrow once I get to the capital then I'll know who he is!! Exciting right?!

Well, this week was a pretty good one I guess. There wasn't anything super duper exciting that happened but we did have a pretty fun opportunity to go and see the cow herds of one of our new investigators! His name is Jose and he is sooo funny! I think the best way to describe him would be by saying he acts just like Mr Fredrickson from the movie UP and I just love the guy! But yea so on Saturday morning we went up with him to go see his cows and all of his land,which by the way is 90 acres, also he showed us his coffee plants!! Haha.  He taught us about why coffee grows so well in Honduras and about how he and many others here ship their coffee to the states to big companies like Starbucks that buy their coffee from here! He also showed us how to pick and strip coffee! Haha, I never once thought in my life that as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I would learn so much about coffee! Haha. I guess it was just one of those many unexpected lessons i learned here in the field. Truly though it was a lot of fun to go up there and learn all about him and tend to his cows and he worked the land with him. As we were leaving it was funny because he sat us down and told us that this was the promised land and so we affirmed everything he was saying with scripture and it was awesome to see him come to the realization that he has always known a simple truth he just wasn't ever sure of it! That moment we were with him he had more light enter into him and now he knows.

I really do love being here as a missionary and always helping others to come to know these simple things. I love the church so much and I know God loves each and every one of us! Also I know that Jose, our investigator, knows now that God blesses us because He wants each and every one of us to be happy! I love you all!

Elder McKee



PS Jose is the older man in the white shirt



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