Hallway Swimming

March 9, 2015

Hey everyone!

I hope you all have had a great week. My week has been really fun, spiritual, and fairly eventful. First of all, I got to baptize someone this week! It was the Sister's investigators, but they asked me to do the ordinance, so that was pretty cool.

Saturday morning, the ward mission leader decided to come to the building early to start to fill the baptismal font for the baptisms that day. He started to fill it at around ten in the morning, then forgot about it. We started a meeting with him at 11, and at 11:15, a guy comes in and says, "Elders, are you filling something?" We walked into the hall to see, and there was an inch (at least) of water in the hallway. We spent almost 3 and a half hours cleaning up that mess. Our mission leader took off about fifteen minutes into the project, so it took even longer.

We experienced some crazy rain Saturday night. Like, I thought the wind was gonna rip that thin tin roof right off our house. It was pounding so hard that even wrapping my blanket and my pillow around my head couldn't muffle it enough to sleep. To make it worse, the wind was blowing the rain up into our windows, so we got soaked without even leaving the house. After about twenty minutes of intense rain, the transformer box on the light post right outside our door exploded, sending sparks and smoke all over the place, followed by a lack of power for a large part of our neighborhood. It makes for a great story haha.

Elder Duncan, the Central America Area President came to talk to us this week. It was really cool. We all got to meet him and shake his hand and everything. He talked about a lot of really cool things, but really focused on our goals. If we don't have a specific goal, we will never get any better. He had us right down the things that the "Perfect Missionary" would do, and then told us to make that our goal. There is nothing that says we can't do it, we simple choose not to. I feel like the same principle can be applied in the normal lives of all you non-missionary folk. If you really want to progress and become better everyday, you have to put down some goals, and then, you can't let anything, especially Satan, get in your way. Just thought it was a cool thought.

So I would like to give you all some homework, and this goes for every single person that reads this email. What blessings have you received for following the commandments of the Lord? It can be as simple as daily scripture study, or more intense like the Word of Wisdom, it's really up to you. The more specific the better. I'd really like to hear from you and what you have to say. Thanks.

I seriously love it here in La Ceiba. These last few weeks have just flown by. We have several baptism dates ourselves, so it won't be long until we start seeing some pictures of me in white again. Haha. I love you all and I hope you have a great week!

Elder Aldrich

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