8 - 05/20/13

Altos y Bajos (Highs and lows) 

This week was pretty good.  I had an amazing time in the temple, which I´ll talk about more later on in the letter.  We also had a miracle happen at church.  We passed by to bring our investigators, and they told us they wouldn´t come.  My comp told them to come, and we left.  As we were walking away, he told me that they´d be at church.  I said, "Wow, you´ve got a lot of faith."  All 3 of them came.  He said "told you so".  He also told me that they´re going to be baptized this weekend.  I´m a believer.

On Tuesday we had a temple trip. We woke up at 3 am to get ready to go. It was hard, but we knew that it´d be worth it. I was so stoked to get to go to the temple, and I was praying that I would have an amazing experience there. 

The Lord answered that prayer in a way that I didn´t see coming. 

So it was about 7:45 in the morning.  We´d been in the bus for about 3 hours or so.  We were going to pick up the last 8 Elders that live in Talanga (including my kid Elder Aguilar).  We´re about 5 minutes out of Talanga, and I recognized the road and I knew where we were.  I was sitting in the front seat next to Elder Yela, a really good friend of mine.  We were talking, having a good time when my eyes were directed to a someone on the side of the road.  My foot instinctively lifted up to push on the brakes, even though I wasn´t even driving.  Later I received the confirmation that that was the Holy Ghost protecting me.  

Anyways, I stopped listening and started watching the man.  He got on his motorcycle and I´m guessing he forgot to look back.  He just turned it on and literally jumped right in front of the bus, and the bus was going about 60.  We had about a second to react.  I started to shout Whoa!  The bus driver reacted really fast. He swerved to the left lane and honked the horn.  Sadly, the motorcycle driver saw the bus, and tried to beat it to the other side of the road.  He didn´t make it in time.  We hit him dead on, and the bike passed under the left side tires, front and back.  There was no doubt as to whether or not he was dead.  We all knew it was over.  The bus driver pulled the bus over, said a prayer, and turned himself over to the cops.  We got out, saw the bus, and a few of us went over to see the body.  I was one of them, with the ZL´s, and it was pretty graphic. It's an image that I probably won´t ever forget.  We all got back in the bus, and waited for the police to show up.  The ambulance got there in about 3 minutes, and it took the police 2 hours.  Honduras is so messed up.  Anyways, Elder Yela and I were asked to give our testimonies as to what happened.  We called Pres to make sure it was okay, and he gave us the the thumbs up.  We told them how it went down, and the guy writing our testimony changed our words to make it sound worse than it was.  A lawyer showed up, and she fixed it for us, because we wouldn´t sign it until it was fixed.  We used our money to hire another bus from some members, and we left to go to the temple.  

We got there about 12, did a session, and to be honest, I didn´t feel any hunger or the time pass by. When I was in the session, I felt the spirit, and I forgot about the experience for the majority of the session, but it kept coming back in my mind.  I got into the Celestial Room, and I prayed really hard for help.  I needed peace for my soul.  I needed comfort.  I got it immediately.  It was incredible.  I kept praying, thanking God for all that He has given me.  It was a very sacred moment for me. 

I got the strong impression to trust in God.  He has a plan.  The accident was part of the plan, and he put it in there to help me come closer to Him.  It helped me to have an amazing time in the temple.  It helped me to realize that death isn´t the end, and that I should always be ready for when it happens to me.  It taught me that the Holy Ghost was protecting me, and prompted me of the accident before it happened.  These are a few of the impressions that came, and there are many more, but those are the big ones. 

Well, Thanks for everything guys. I love you all, and I hope you have a great week. I´m going to have an excellent week this week. We have a seventy passing through, so that´ll be fun. Wish me luck! 

Elder Hansen