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OK so I don't have too much time.. but I have a new Comp! His name is Elder Canel and he is from Guatemala! He now has 5 days in the mission so he's just a greenie! But he is really awesome and we seem to be getting along great! Training is always fun! New missionaries always have a really great energy! He is always so excited to leave the door in the morning I love it! This week we ran all over the place! He isn't really used to walking but he will get a hang of it soon haha! We have to stop for water a lot because he says he's dying haha! He makes me laugh a lot. He's a convert of about 4 years ago and has 100%  turned his life around. He's 19 and loves soccer just like every other companion I have had haha! He really wants to learn English! So I am helping him with that during language study! SO this week we had a very cool experience. We had a lesson on the Word of Wisdom with an investigator. We taught the lesson and she said "Well Elders I'll be honest, I was never in life planning on giving up coffee.. but, the spirit has just touched my heart and I promise I'll never drink coffee again." She also said she wanted to get baptized:):) It was my comps first lesson in the mission too. He was so pumped haha! Well I love you all!! Give the missionaries names of people to teach in your wards!! Love you all!!

Love Elder HEss

Piggy

Average Honduran Street (actually a little nicer than others..)

Our little Church:)

As you can all see I've lost 200 pounds... These two girls have a baptism date for this upcoming Sunday:)

That guy is one of my favorite members (always gives me Pepsi)

I'm really not that tall of a person... lol

My new comp Elder Canel and Hermana Olga!!! I love her to Death!!

Funniest little girl. Her dad in the back is the Man too. MEMBERS:)

MORE CHANGES

Hey ya'll. How ya'll durn? Ok well I have about two seconds to write because Elder O has CHANGES... Ya.. I am pretty sad. I don't know who is coming but I will be sure to let you guys know everything next email:) But yeah I am going to miss Ola. We have become really close and I feel like we had a lot of success over these past 6 weeks. We have plans of hanging out after the mission so that's good to know! So this week went so good. I had a great Elders Quorum class. The best one that I have had. People even told me after how strong they felt the spirit. So that made me so happy. Also we just got moved up to the institute teachers. So now we're the counters, secretary, Elders Quorum President, Primary Teachers, Sunday School Teachers and any other calling you can think of ha! But it's great! I love you guys!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Well this week was great! I got to skype home for Mother's Day! It was fun to see everyone! Well today I don't have too much time.. but, I'll update you guys on the Baptism. Hermana Olga was baptized everyone!! WOOO!! And we did it in a River! It was so awesome! She was crying the whole time because she understood the step she was about to take in this whole process! And the coolest part was that the WHOLE Branch showed up! How cool is that! That might not be a huge amount of members here but the ones that we have are so active and love to help. All of the members in the branch have a goal to build an actual church. They need 95 active members for Salt Lake to come down and finally break soil to build it. It might not happen right now, but we are on our way for it to be done!:) Ok so on a funny- awkward note this Sunday I had to give a class on raising kids-_- Yeah. SO just so everyone knows I don't have kids and have never even babysat anyone OK. The people here in Honduras like to hit their kids when they do something that they don't like... So I read a little talk that said "hitting your kids is an abomination in the eyes of God" well when I read that everyone got so mad and said "HOW DO YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE KIDS! YOU HAVE TO HIT THEM TO RESPECT YOU!" Well I didn't know what to say so I just got destroyed for about 10 minutes until the Stake President showed up and took over and said I was right. It was awful. But I'm just happy that's over haha! Well I love you guys!!

Love Elder Hess

Baptism of Olga

The whole branch attended the baptism:)

1 YEAR

Happy Birthday to my baby sis Tiana! I love you and just because your old now doesn't mean that you can't have a boyfriend haha! Well... Well Peeps, I have a year in the good ol mish. It all went by so fast. I have learned so much. In this Email I would like to share my testimony about everything that I have learned over these past 2 years. 

I want everyone to know that I know that Christ lives and that He is our Savior. And that he died for all of us. And that he suffered the pain of every sin, temptation, and trial in our lives. Because of him we will all live again. And if we live like him we will not only live again, but we will live with him. That is my ultimate goal in this short life that we have. I know that this is his Church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is Christ's church. He is the head of it and guides it. I have also learned that Miracles are real. They are happening all around us. Literally, I have seen so many miracles in the lives of my investigators. I have also learned the importance of latter day prophets. They guide us in all. They are a huge blessing from God. Just like Amos 3:7 says. Also that Jose Smith was a prophet of God. And he really did see God the Father and his son Jesus Christ and through him God and his Son restored the church of Jesus Christ on the earth again. This Church will never fall. I love this church so much, I love our Savior and I know that God is listening to our Prayers and if we listen he will always answer them as well. We can only reach full happiness through this church and through the atonement of Jesus Christ. I feel so blessed to be raised in this wonderful church. Just like Nephi, I was raised of Goodly parents ha. I love you all and remember why we are here on this earth!

Love Elder HESS

I'M RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS FOR TITLES

Hey everyone! Well first I just want to say Congrats to Chase Lima for getting his mission call to Chili! You are going to be the best missionary man! So this week was pretty good. Except that I got a little sick. Elder Ola and I had to be in the house for 2 days because we were both throwing up all day. So that was kind of sad. But onto some really good news we have a baptism this week! Maybe two! So I am so excited for that! It's going to be my comps first one!!! So he is really excited! I think he is going to perform the baptism as well! So this Sunday was super crazy. Right as we were about to start the sacrament meeting the Branch President told me that I had to give a talk (15 minutes). So I had to come up with a talk in like 2 minutes. And then after that he told me that I am the Elders Quorum President so I had to give that lesson too. Out of the manual with 0 time to prepare. But the rest of the day was pretty fun! We got to kill a chicken and eat it that same day! I'll try to send some pictures of it hahaha! Also we have another investigator who was touched by the spirit and wants to get baptized as soon as possible! She just has to get married first to do it.. She said she decided the church was true while we were singing the hymn "Yo se que vive mi señor." She started crying and said "I now know that this church is true." How cool is that! I was so dang happy! Also my comp got proposed to and that was the funniest thing that I have ever seen! He didn't know what to say and just to make him feel awkward I said, "Well Elder, are you going to marry her?" And he just looks at me and says in English ¨I promise IM going to kill you" I was laughing so hard! We ended up telling her no and just left the lesson! Well I love all of you so much! Gotta run!

Love Elder Hess

CHIKIS

Hola Guapos! Estoy infermo.... creo que tengo algo se llama Guapisimo! hahah If you understand that it's just a joke. Well I'm living the Copan Dream guys!! It's so cool down here! I love it! I'm starting to get really close to all the members! Which is not that hard cause there are only 35. So something crazy is that I'm the first Counselor in the Branch. I do all the tithing slips, fast offerings, clean the church, sign temple recommends (Yeah..), and have to visit all the members if the bishop says so. The people from the stake came up and gave me a HUGE run down on all the things I have to do. Also, Elder Ola and I were in a lesson and our phone rang and it was a 801 number. I was like ¨Oh my gosh Thomas S. Monson is calling¨ anyways I answered the phone and the church was calling me because I did a transaction that was off by less than a penny. They wanted to make sure that I wasn't stealing anything and that we need to find the money. So I just pulled a little coin out of my pocket that was worth about a penny and made another transaction to make Salt Lake Happy... Yeah, this church does not mess around. It is honestly perfect. I LOVE IT!! Well I'm loving the work down here guys! Oh yeah something that happened that was so funny is that I saw this drunk guy passed out in the street and then all of a sudden two kids ran up to him and started peeing on him hahahhahahaha! I laughed so hard. SO that happened. Well I love you all!! I'll update you on our investigators next week!!

COPAN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN!!!!!! How old are you Turning?? Nine?? HAHA Ryan and I thought you were eight years old for about half of your life haha! Love you Meg!! Alright so I'm going to start off this Email by saying this place is so dang pretty... Like I feel like I am serving in some little town in Spain. It is so pretty! I have 0 pictures though because my comp also does not have a camera so that's just great. But maybe you guys can just search it on Google. It love it here. There are also 90837 Americans down here on Vacation. So that's super weird haha. I even heard one of them say "Oh my gosh they're down here too" hahaha I thought that was awesome! So where I am serving is everyone's dream area in this mission because it is just such a cool little town. The church is a little house that we go to and there are about 25 members who come on Sundays. The only bad thing is that the work is kind of dead. But were going to see if we can turn that around! Also my comp is awesome! He is from the States so that is super cool! He is from Idaho and loves Sports! SO we have a lot to talk about in the Streets hahaha! Also saying goodbye in my last area was really hard. I was there for six months. It was starting to feel like my home while I was there. But I know that this place here is going to start feeling the same. Also I loved Conference!!! As a missionary you're just glued to the TV like your watching the Super Bowl, or any Jazz game! I loved all of it! Oh yeah and here it's up in the mountains so the weather is so nice!! Like I'm not even Hot!!! WOOOOO! And the best thing ever is that we have Hot water... Yes, I about cried when I first touched the hot water with my hand hahaha! Que Rico. Well I have to go now but I love all of you!!

Love Elder Hess