ME VOY

Well I have been in this area now for four and a half months which means that I am going to have changes. Which means I'm going to another area. New area new comp new people. It's super sad because I have learned to love this area so dang much. I really don't want to leave. Sister Victoria is one of the most powerful people that live on this whole planet. I would do anything to see her go through the Temple. She is such a good Member of this church. I know that Our Heavenly Father is so happy of her too. What makes it so cool is that I knocked on her door while contacting! I think she will always be my Golden Investigator. I'm also going to miss the Zone. I love all the Elders here so much. Elder Madison, Lyon, Vasquez, Cockrin and others really have become some of my best friends. I actually went on splits with Madsen this week (he is the Zone Leader) and we just had the best time ever. When ever we're with each other I just laugh so hard. He lives in SO JO so I'll see him after the Mish. Well Miguel and Suypa are progressing so fast. We already helped Suypa get a divorce from her old husband and now she's doing her papers to get married to Miguel. WOW.. That means that they will be divorced and married within 5 weeks. That's never happened in this country before hahaha! Their whole family is going to be baptized! They have been converted to the Lords Church. How great is that. The only problem is Miguel has a little Problem with smoking but we are working on it so don't worry!! Well I have to go cause I have to pack to go to my next Area! I love y'all!!!

Love Elder Hess

I don't know if I ever sent these.. But yes. I kissed it.

Honduras

ANOTHA WEEK

Hola! This Email I just want to talk about the area that I'm in. Everyone here is so loving. All the members are finally coming around. They have had a grudge on the missionaries for about 2 years now but they are starting to get trust in them again. We have a dinner appointment every day now which is the best thing ever. The walking is insane.. I walk about 200 hundred thousand miles a day.. The size of this ward is at least the size of our Stake back at home. Actually maybe three of our Stakes. It's massive. It's so hot haha! But I think that everyone knows that. The biggest problem about this area is that on about every corner there is a little church. The names of the Churches are so funny. Like for example "The Little Friends of Christ church" "We Have Missionaries Church" that's my favorite or just "The Church of the Bible of God" HAHA The problem is the people down here just go to the closest church. Which makes it really hard because after a lesson that we have the local Priest will storm over and start saying a bunch of stuff about Jose Smith or things we do in Temple. The missionaries call all of this the Doctrine of the Devil. Cause it really is. This is the only Church in the whole world who the world just attacks. The world doesn't attack the Catholics or the Baptists or any other church. It's just ours. Why is that? It's because this is the one and only Church. The devil is pleased when people are members of other churches because he knows he is keeping them from making sacred ordinances with the Holy Priesthood. Like Baptism. Which are 100% necessary to live with our Heavenly Father again. Only one church on this Planet has the Priesthood to baptize. The Power of God. When Jesus Christ lived he established his Church. The Church of Jesus Christ. He didn't make 1 or 2 or 3 he made his church. The Priesthood keys were restored to the Great Prophet Joseph Smith after the Great Apostasy which the Bible makes very clear to us. Those keys that Joseph Smith had received have been past down in an unbroken line to the Prophet Thomas S. Monson. This is the Church of God. This is Christ's Church. This is the Truth. In all conditions we have the Holy Ghost to guide us. We are so blessed to know this truth. I challenge all of you to Bring your Non Member friends to come to this light that we have. It's 100% necessary for them to live forever and ever in Peace and in the presence of God. I love all of you Guys so much! Have a good week!!

This Guy Is 100% crazy. All he does is scream "look at all the Air Planes at night (All the Stars)!" When ever we see him we tell him to walk with us cause he's so funny!

Some drunk People that call me UTAH. They always hang out in front of Victoria's house!!

WORLD CHAMPIONS #DYNASTY

First shout out to the FOUR TIME Super Bowl World Champion Patriots!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I didn't get to see the game (Obvio) but I heard a little bit of it. I'll tell you guys what happened. We were walking home from dinner to go home and a missionary called me and said "Hey I want you to hear the game winning touchdown by the Seahawks with 30 seconds left." (He knew I was a huge Pats fan) SO he put the phone on speaker and I was just listening. I was so mad cause I thought we were going to lose. Then all I hear (In English) Wilson Drops back INTERCEPTED INTERCEPTED! I dropped the phone and started screaming at the top of my lungs running down the Street. My Comp was just sprinting after me haha! He was just saying Patriots Patriots in a funny Latino accent haha! I was so happy! I honestly couldn't sleep. The Patriots would win the Super Bowl while I'm serving a mission. I'm still so happy. Oh and I called the score SO that's cool. Ok I'll stop talking about this cause it's not important haha.

 

SO this week was OK. Nobody could go to church because the whole world is sick. This crazy illness is going around and just about half the people in this whole country have it. It's like Dengue but 100x worse. It just makes you feel like you are being burnt and it makes your bones feel like they are just being smashed. Yeah.. OW. So I hope I don't get it. I use a lot of OFF so I think I'll be fine. We are working really hard with this family of four who wants to be baptized but they aren't married. The Lady wants to get married but she is married to another guy who is in the states. SO she has to get a divorce first to get married to her current boyfriend. We fasted for them and I know that in the Lord's time that they will be baptized and sealed in the Temple. That's why I'm here. I know all is possible if we have faith in the Lord. Also this week we went contacting behind that huge mountain that you guys always see in the pictures. We found a lot of new people. They are so poor. They all live in mud houses with no water or electricity. It's so sad. But I know that the Gospel is going to brighten their lives so that makes me so happy. But they couldn't go to church this Sunday because just about all of them were sick with the Dengue type illness so that's sad... But all in all a good week! I love all of you guys so much!!

Love Elder Hess 

PS I saw.. A pillar of light...

"I saw.. A pillar of light..."

FOUR MORE ADDED TO THE LIST IN HEAVEN

WOW this week was honestly so hard. We had to work so hard with our baptism. We went to the house on Tuesday to have a lesson and the first thing they told us is that they didn't want to be baptized. I was so scared and confused. We asked them for like an hour what changed their mind but they wouldn't tell us. Finally they did. The Priest at their old church started to pay them not to go to our church. Yeah I know. So we had to talk to them about how we all need to put God first no matter what, they then said yes. And when we came back the next day they told us no again because the Priest doubled the offer. So we had to go back and do the same lesson. At the end of the lesson they agreed that nothing matters in this world.. The only thing that really matters is trying to return and live with our God again. So we had the baptism! I was so happy! I went first and baptized Jamie and Estaphani. It was amazing! I love sitting in the font watching the rest of the family be baptized after baptizing other people. It was so special. We only had to baptize all of them one time so that's good too haha! That was for sure the highlight of the week. Oh yeah! After the baptism was done all of the family shared their testimonies. The highlight was when the little boy Alan said, I'm really happy because I feel clean. It was special hearing that from one of our investigators. After the baptisms the Bishop gave a talk and he was talking about the Priesthood. He talked about how this is the only Church on this earth that has a list of members on this earth AND in the Heavens. It sounds really cool when you say it in Spanish but not so much in English. It was another awesome week in the Mission. Oh yeah and we dug a 16 yes 16 foot hole for a service project. It was the hardest thing ever and I am so dang tired. My hands were honestly bleeding from digging so much dirt haha! But it was a really good experience! Well I love you all! Keep on Keepin on!!

Love Elder Hess

Baptisms of Jamie, Estaphani and Family

Elder Hess and Elder Vasquez

BEST SUNDAY...

Ok so I want to start off this Email by saying Congrats to My Sister Tiff for getting Married!! Wow that is so awesome! On the day of your wedding Tiff I ate two doughnuts to Celebrate! WOOO! Welcome to the Fam Andrew!! It's Super Crazy but you will love it! Ok so I'll tell you guys why I had such an awesome weekend! Victoria and her family received the Holy Ghost. It was special. After she received it she stood up smiled at the whole ward and then looked at me and mouthed ¨Gracias.¨ That was awesome. And not only that, we had a TON of investigators show up to Church! Because we left the house at 6 to get all of them. We walked in the church about 3 minutes late but we walked in with a train of investigators hahaha! The train was a total of 15 people. I was so happy! The bishop stopped what he was talking about and just said ¨We welcome all of the people that are attending church for the first time and we hope you feel at home¨ I was so happy! But the best part was that after Church all of them said that they wanted to come back! This Church is true. I know it with all my heart. If we do our part the Lord will do his. He is bound when we do what we are suppose to. So this week we have four more baptisms. Familia Lopez.. We found them by talking to a drunk guy haha.. While we were walking the drunk man home we found this family! It was like a month ago! I'll tell you guys the whole story about them next week after they are baptized! It's nuts.. I'll just say that they are just like Victoria. A rock that can not be moved! I love you all! I'm sure loving this Mission life. There is a quote down here that I love. If we want to return and live with Jesus Christ again, we need to live this life how Christ did. It's so true, if we follow Him we will all see Him again! I love you all have the best week ever!!

Love Elder Hess

ECUADOR

So this was easily the best week in the Mission. For many reasons! First I got my new companion! He's been in the country for a total of 6 days now! His name is Elder Vasquez and he's from Ecuador! He's the youngest missionary in the mission too. He turned 18 the day he got set apart so he's just like a little kid still! He looks 4 years old. And oh man does he talk weird.. He says so many words that nobody here understands haha! It's super fun training him. When you get a brand new missionary you become a Dad in the mission! So now I have a son! It's kind of funny! The missionaries were calling him Hijo de Hess but I told them to stop haha! I love trainin, it's so fun! The second thing that made this week awesome was we finally baptized Victoria, Victoria and Jasslin! By far the best Baptism I have ever had. I feel so close to this family it is crazy. When the little girls see me they come running and just jump all over me. There are 5 total! We had the baptism on Saturday and it was the best experience in my mission. I also let my comp baptize Victoria the Grandma. Just to get him pumped for his mission! He had his first baptism in 3 days. So he's way excited haha! So I went first in the baptism. I baptized Victoria and Jasslin first. After I baptized them it was Victoria's turn. The two little girls and I waited in the corner of the baptismal font while we watched Victoria be baptized. I was smiling so big and even cried a little. That moment was so special for me. She was so ready. And after the baptism she said something amazing in her Testimony. She said "I don't know why but there were so many people telling me so many bad things about the church. It was hard for me. I didn't know who to listen to, the missionaries or my neighbors. Elder Hess told me to Pray to God and ask him if these things were true. Because only him knows all things. I prayed and got my response. So now I don't care what my neighbors say." Then she said the best thing ever "Today when I was coming to the baptism one of my neighbors came out of her house and said where are you going (because she had her Book of Mormon in her hand) she told me I told you that the Mormons are bad people and tricking you!!" She responded, "I'm not just going to the church.. I'm going to the church to be baptized!" When she said that the spirit was so strong! The members all looked so happy! We had 58 people come to the baptism because we invited the whole ward the day before!! She is 100% converted. I love her so much and I am so proud of her. This church is true. This work is true. I have never been so happy to serve our King. I love you guys:)

Baptism of Victoria, Victoria and Jasslin

TRANSFERS

First off HAPPY BDAY TO MY BROTHA RYAN!!! I look up to you more than you will ever know Ry. I love you so much! Someone make sure to take him to Buffalo Wild Wings and celebrate!!! So guys I'm going to have to keep this email short because there are a lot of things that I have to do today. We have transfers, Elder Lopez is leaving and I am getting my First Hijo. I'm going to be training for the first time. Oh man am I nervous. So Lopez has to pack and get ready to go to his new area! New Years was great, lots of bombs and drunk people yelling things about Jose Smith haha so funny! We have a Baptism this Saturday! Victoria and 2 of her grandkids! I am so excited! This Sunday she actually showed up to church 45 minutes early because she wanted to get a good seat haha! I think she was the first one in the building haha! Awesome! I love you all so much! I'll see you next week!

Elder Hess