Sleepover! (Again?!)

Hi friends! 

I hope you are doing well! I sure had an interesting week! Sadly, I've procrastinated writing my weekly email, so I'll keep it short! 

1st: We had interviews with President McClellan! But with a twist! Unfortunately, President and Sister McClellan fell ill this week and couldn't make it out to Cofradía, so instead of going to Cofradia for the interviews, they asked us to come to his house in San Pedro Sula for the interviews! And, because the Santa Barbara district is located pretty far away from San Pedro Sula, they asked us to go to San Pedro a day early to spend the night in the office. So, after working as hard as we could on Tuesday, we left at night for SPS and made it at about 8 o'clock. We then grabbed dinner and spent the night in the office.  It was super fun seeing my secretary buds again after a month of people back in the mission field, and we spent some time catching up before going to bed and having interviews with President McClellan. I'm so grateful to have been able to see him and talk with him and hear his guidance for me as I finish up the mission.

2nd: Stake Conference! We had stake conference and got to see two zones of missionaries together with friends and members! Sadly, not many people from our branch were able to make it to the conference, but it was special anyways. President McClellan also couldn't make it because he had to go to the Villanueva stake conference at the same time, so his counselor - President Sing - took his place and gave a fire talk about being member missionaries!

3rd: Zone activity! Today we had a zone activity in Cofradia and we played Volleyball, board games, and a small Orbeez war. We also ate hamburgers!

4th: This is not the best news, but our 3 baptismal dates fell. But despite the setback we followed the guidance of the Holy Ghost to visit an active member family and talk with the non-member mother. As we talked with her we discovered that she was recovering from Dengue and wanted a priesthood blessing. She also shared with us some miracles that have passed in the past few days and weeks that have shown her the power of the Lord in her life, and she voiced that she wanted to be baptized like her children. We are now helping her to fulfill that wish. Please keep Albaluz Funez in your prayers so she may continue recovering from Dengue and progressing towards baptism.

That's about it for this week! Thanks for reading! Have a great week! Talk to you next time!

- Élder Grant



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