This is Elder Lamb's District! It's small but really fun! They do so many fun things on their p-day! In these next few pictures they are climbing the falls. There are so many beautiful places in this country of Honduras!
Gorgeous!!!!
How majestic!! Look at all the vines hanging from the trees!
Elder Lamb said they call this area the Sacred Grove for the Nephites!
This is actually called "The Waters of Mormon"
He said that he must have grown another inch because he is having "growing pains". Yay! He may be another 2 inches taller when he comes home!
Having a great time on the hike!
I think the "two thumbs up" means he likes his mission!
Again...... "two thumbs up"! lol
This was at the top of the falls! Its no "Foz do Iguacu" but it will do!:) Such a handsome boy!!!
There are walls like this in Honduras all over the place.
Funny pic in front of the wall. The funny stuff missionaries do on their mission.....???
Deep in thought.... This ones for you Jake!
Pretty cool shirt he bought for $4.oo
He said he needed to send a "posing Pic" of him studying! Such a hard worker!! Great Missionary!!
This is Pizza and cinnamon sticks that he bought for next to nothing! He says that the food is so cheap! thats great because he needs to gain about 30 pounds!
This is his favorite place to study at ... in his hammock! So peaceful!
This is what Zach eats every morning for breakfast! Before his mission he hated cereal! (go figure- and he's Tom's son?) so now he loves it and just to add some more flavor he adds cookies to it! YUMMY!
Another things he just loves to eat and he eats it everyday is Baleadas!! This is a pic of the sisters at the ward activity making Baleadas for everyone watching the Honduran Soccer game on TV.
Cheering on Honduras!!
So when Honduras plays in a soccer match... the whole city where he is serving just shuts down! everyone is watching the game and no one would even give the elders the time of day! So... they decided to join the ward members and have some food and develop some relationships while they ate! The members are awesome there!
He and his companion just had to buy matching shirts! lol
Its all about the flag! They love Honduras!
This is Zach's zone at zone conference! So Happy!!!
If anyone is a little leery of creepy crawly things.. do not look too close at this pic! lol
So here it is!!! They found this behind there couch one night! If any of you know Zach he HATES spiders and snakes! He took his camera and was taking video of his companion trying to put it in a jar! He said that it was the funniest thing he had ever seen! I tried to have him send me the footage to put on the blog but it wouldnt work. This is not a mama either. Its still growing!!!!
This is how big it was!!! This creeps me out so much!! And he is not even living in the jungle yet!!! His apartment is one of the nicest ones in the area! He has lots to look forward to!!!So they kept it in the jar for a bit and then let it go outside. I said to him "are you nuts?"... its just going to come back in the house!!!CRAZY!!!!!
This is his Zone in El Progresso!
This was such a great pic of Zach that his mission mom took. When she was in their area she noticed the missionaries on the bus and took the photo! It was so fun to see it on Facebook!! She is such a great mission mom for all of us moms with missionaries!!!
This last post is from his email yesterday! I thought I would share a little experience that he had a few days ago. He is absolutely strengthening my testimony by sharing these experiences. He is loving his mission and is loving the people of Honduras! His testimony grows stronger every day and his faith in our Savior does as well. We are so grateful to have him doing the Lord's work and he is having so much fun while doing it. We love and miss him so much but the work that he is doing is much more important than having him home!:)
Mom,
Wow, this week was so
great for me! I am so glad that the family is doing well and i loved the
pictures that you sent me. I hope that you already got mine. Conference
is this weekend!!! I am so excited to see the prophet speak while i am here on
a mission! The members here are great about helping the missionaries too.
This week i had a really great experience that strengthened my faith about the
priesthood. Here's the story.
On Thursday we had exchanges between the missionaries in our district.
The new Elder in our district Elder Miranda came with me and i showed him
around my area. Thursday was the day that we go to the mountains to teach our
investigators and less actives. We arrived to teach the Vasquez family
(less active). There is a couple that lives with them who are non members
so we are teaching them as well. We arrived to the sound of a screaming
baby and a stressed out mother. The baby was super ill with a cough and
cold and tons of mucous in the throat. We sat down and started to talk
about the baby a little bit. I asked if she had medicine and she replied,
no. My companion said that he had some medicine at his house 35 minutes
away and that her husband could come by and borrows the medicine later at night
when the missionary returned to the house. I saw that the baby needed
medicine right at that moment so i suggested that we just go get the medicine
right away. We left them with a prayer and rushed down the mountain to
get medicine. About 5 minutes into our walk, i realized that we could
probably just buy medicine at the pulperia or the little storage store place.
That's what we did. We climbed the mountain and returned about 15 minutes
later. We gave the mom the medicine and then proceeded to ask if we could
also give the baby a blessing. I anointed the oil and my companion
confirmed it and gave the blessing. It was a great blessing, but
something that i didn't realize until after we left was that right after the
blessing, the baby didnt make another sound. She was sleeping until we
left. I talked to her mom at church on Sunday and the mom said that her baby slept through the
night and into the next day. She said that she hasn't slept like that in
about 5 days. On Sunday,
her baby was all better and eating completely normal. This to me was a miracle
and a tender mercy from the lord. I know that it was through the faith of
the missionaries that this was able to happen, but more than that it was the
willingness that the family had to reactivate themselves to the church that
made this tender mercy possible. The Lord is able to work through us
easier if we do all that we can do first to help the needy and the sick. I'm
glad that i had this experience and look forward to more if it is the will of
the lord. I know that my savior Jesus Christ lives and in reality, we
have a father in heaven that loves us more than we know. He loves all his
children not just the ones that are obedient. This is one thing that i
learned this week that i will cherish for the rest of my life.
I love you Mom! Write
me back if you can!
Love,
Elder Lamb
