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Cold Snap

HEY!!!!!!!
Its been a good week here in Honduras. And that is not just because it has been......a little cold??? Yep, the past 2 days it has been 50s, 60s and rainy and windy. It has been AWESOME! I never thought I would see 50 or 60 here as a temperature ever! We worked really hard this week trying to find more and more people to teach. On Sunday, we found this super cool lady who is SUPER interested, we are really excited to be able to teach her. We also started teaching english classes this past week, and it has been really helpful for my Spanish. I dont know why, but explaining in Spanish why we talk the way we do in English has really helped me learn some more things about Spanish. It is also really cool, because there were a bunch of kids in the class trying to learn, and they were learning so quickly it was awesome. One day last week, everything we had scheduled had fallen through, so we were trying to figure out what we could do to be able to teach someone. Then the impression to try to visit one of our old investigators came into my head. We went to try to visist them, but they weren't in their house. But we did find one of their friends who lives next door, and has had a hard time in life lately, and wanted to listen to us. It was so cool. I was thinking that sometimes we follow what our Heavenly Father wants us to do, without knowing what will happen with it. But when we follow what he wants us to do, everything will turn out amazing, and we will find blessings that we never expected.
Food
So, here the way most people eat oranges is different. What they do is use a knife to "peel" it, but they really only take off the part that is colored, they leave the stuff under the peel intact. Then they cut it in half, and put a little bit of salt on it and close it back up. Then they eat it, and it is super good. With the salt,  it makes it seem sweeter.
Elder Jensen
 
 
 

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  1. KatJanuary 18, 2017 at 3:54 PM

    I don't think I'm going to eat an orange that way, but I will try his suggestion to listen to the spirit and trust Him.

    Maybe Sam would like some flavored kale chips?

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