Hello Sweet Sweet American World,
I didn't do a lot of prepping for this email in the sense that I don't really remember all the juicy details of the week, so it might be another below average one. Forgive me as I would forgive you. I'll start on Tuesday. So like I said in my last email, we found out that Elder Zura had a change, meaning he was going somewhere else and I was going to get a new companion. Bittersweet. So all day Tuesday, we just spent it saying goodbye to members and recent converts that he has come to know from being in the area. Zura packed up his stuff and that was it. We had our differences, quite a few of them, but he is a cool kid and I had fun. But I was ready for a change haha. On to Wednesday. We rented a bus as a zone and went to San Pedro for the change meeting, which are always super fun. I don't know if I talked about them before, so I'll just do it again. All the missionaries who have changes just gather together, we hear from the AP's and President, and then he announces the changes. A couple things. 1. This mission is the highest baptizing mission in the world. I don't know if that's a rumor or if that's legit, but I heard it and it sounds cool, so I trust it haha. 2. The mission baptized like around 350 people in 6 weeks. That is nuts. and 3. The changes are hilarious because the new missionaries all have to come to the podium and introduce themselves and say where they are from. The gringos have to do it in Spanish and the Latinos in English. All the Mexican missionaries FREAK out if a new missionary comes from mexico. It is so funny. They all just scream and hold up Mexican flags.
So naturally, I join in, because I'm obviously mexican haha. But yeah, they are way fun. I got my new comp and he is the bees knees. His name is Elder Casto and he is from LA, but his parents are from El Salvador so he spoke Spanish before the mission. He is way cool. After the change meeting, we went back to our area and right away Castro told me that he wanted to go meet all them members and get right to work. Quite the change of pace for me haha. We went to the bishop's house and a bunch of different people and everyone loved him. We had to go in early this day though because Castro had some stomach issues, so that's pretty much the end. Thursday. We had a zone meeting with all the new companionships from our zone, and that was pretty sweet. Our zone is way cool now and everyone is so stoked to work. Again, a nice change of pace around here haha. For the rest of the day, we just went around finding new people and taught two of our families we are hoping to baptize this next month. One family, Familia Vasquez, is way cool, but it is going to be difficult with them. They have to be married first, but they aren't from Honduras, they "lost" their id's, and they don't have money, so that will be a challenge. They really want to though, so that's good! The other family we are teaching, Familia Sosa, is super cool, but the mom is way Evangelical and stubborn as anyone could possibly be about the bible. She has a ton of doubts about the book of mormon because “Its not in the bible”, as she says. She always says “If the Book of Mormon is true, why don’t other churches have it? Huh? What do you think about that?!” So I try to explain that if other churches had the Book of Mormon, they wouldn’t be other churches, they would be other wards of our church because they would believe the same thing, and then she just looks at me and goes back to saying the bible is the only scripture. All our lessons with them have been centered around the bible testifying of the BoM, and its been really cool for me. They go hand in hand and its so easy to prove that. Its just hard for people to accept when they have been so hardened to other stuff their entire life. But they are going to be baptized, mark my words. They have been taught by like 8 different companionships, but we have gotten the farthest with them. So that’s pretty cool. After all that jazz, I had my English class. A bunch of people showed up this time, which was awesome. They were all girls but 2, so Elder Castro kept messing with me saying I’m just running a class for guipers haha. But for real, my English class is like getting famous here. People show up that I have never seen before, and when I ask them how they heard about the class, they just say they heard it in the streets. So basically I’m famous for speaking and teaching English haha. Sometimes people will stop me in the street while we are out and ask for help on their English homework. Its funny haha. That’s pretty much it for Thursday. Friday, I don’t really remember much from Friday to be perfectly honest. I think it was good and spiritual and all of that stuff, so yeah! On to Saturday! General conference! We went to the stake center, where they had a gringo room. A gringo room is where all the gringo missionaries get to watch conference in English. Talk about awesome haha. It was seriously so fun. Right before it started, we all went to the store and bought a ton of snack food to get us through Saturday and Sunday. We just got to hang out and watch all day. Twas awesome. We had to sleep at the zone leaders house so that we could stay for the Priesthood session because busses stop running that late, so that was pretty fun. It was kind of annoying with Priesthood session though because the power went out, so they had a ridiculously loud generator running right outside the gringo room, so it was way hard to hear. Such is life in Honduras haha. Sunday was pretty much the same, just conference all day. It was pretty awesome. Other than that, nothing really happened. Everything is going super awesome right now. I’m happy to be in a companionship that actually wants to work. I guess I’ll just go on to random stuff now! 1. We played soccer at this enclosed soccer field for the past 2 pdays. It isn’t indoor, but its like one of those fields with the walls around it. It is way fun. All the Latinos are so good its not even funny. It doesn’t matter what kind of shape they are in or where they are from, if they are Latino, they are really good at soccer haha. 2. Remember how I said our landlord has a hitler mustache? I found out that his name is Santos Dias, which is Holy Days. Quite the juxtaposition haha. 3. I'm going to explain the pictures. The one with me and the three other missionaries is Elder Zura, my grandpa, and my brother. In the mission, the missionary who is your trainer is called your dad. Elder Zura is training again right now, so that gringo on the left is my brother, and the Hawaiian missionary was Elder Zura’s trainer, making him my grandpa. We wanted a picture of the generations haha. 4. The lizard/dinosaur is back. I think it lives in my yard. Its majesty is addicting. 5. The last pic is all the gringo bros in the gringo room. It was so fun haha. Anyways, I think that’s about it? I don’t know haha. Ok, Im just going to end it. Stay classy world!
So naturally, I join in, because I'm obviously mexican haha. But yeah, they are way fun. I got my new comp and he is the bees knees. His name is Elder Casto and he is from LA, but his parents are from El Salvador so he spoke Spanish before the mission. He is way cool. After the change meeting, we went back to our area and right away Castro told me that he wanted to go meet all them members and get right to work. Quite the change of pace for me haha. We went to the bishop's house and a bunch of different people and everyone loved him. We had to go in early this day though because Castro had some stomach issues, so that's pretty much the end. Thursday. We had a zone meeting with all the new companionships from our zone, and that was pretty sweet. Our zone is way cool now and everyone is so stoked to work. Again, a nice change of pace around here haha. For the rest of the day, we just went around finding new people and taught two of our families we are hoping to baptize this next month. One family, Familia Vasquez, is way cool, but it is going to be difficult with them. They have to be married first, but they aren't from Honduras, they "lost" their id's, and they don't have money, so that will be a challenge. They really want to though, so that's good! The other family we are teaching, Familia Sosa, is super cool, but the mom is way Evangelical and stubborn as anyone could possibly be about the bible. She has a ton of doubts about the book of mormon because “Its not in the bible”, as she says. She always says “If the Book of Mormon is true, why don’t other churches have it? Huh? What do you think about that?!” So I try to explain that if other churches had the Book of Mormon, they wouldn’t be other churches, they would be other wards of our church because they would believe the same thing, and then she just looks at me and goes back to saying the bible is the only scripture. All our lessons with them have been centered around the bible testifying of the BoM, and its been really cool for me. They go hand in hand and its so easy to prove that. Its just hard for people to accept when they have been so hardened to other stuff their entire life. But they are going to be baptized, mark my words. They have been taught by like 8 different companionships, but we have gotten the farthest with them. So that’s pretty cool. After all that jazz, I had my English class. A bunch of people showed up this time, which was awesome. They were all girls but 2, so Elder Castro kept messing with me saying I’m just running a class for guipers haha. But for real, my English class is like getting famous here. People show up that I have never seen before, and when I ask them how they heard about the class, they just say they heard it in the streets. So basically I’m famous for speaking and teaching English haha. Sometimes people will stop me in the street while we are out and ask for help on their English homework. Its funny haha. That’s pretty much it for Thursday. Friday, I don’t really remember much from Friday to be perfectly honest. I think it was good and spiritual and all of that stuff, so yeah! On to Saturday! General conference! We went to the stake center, where they had a gringo room. A gringo room is where all the gringo missionaries get to watch conference in English. Talk about awesome haha. It was seriously so fun. Right before it started, we all went to the store and bought a ton of snack food to get us through Saturday and Sunday. We just got to hang out and watch all day. Twas awesome. We had to sleep at the zone leaders house so that we could stay for the Priesthood session because busses stop running that late, so that was pretty fun. It was kind of annoying with Priesthood session though because the power went out, so they had a ridiculously loud generator running right outside the gringo room, so it was way hard to hear. Such is life in Honduras haha. Sunday was pretty much the same, just conference all day. It was pretty awesome. Other than that, nothing really happened. Everything is going super awesome right now. I’m happy to be in a companionship that actually wants to work. I guess I’ll just go on to random stuff now! 1. We played soccer at this enclosed soccer field for the past 2 pdays. It isn’t indoor, but its like one of those fields with the walls around it. It is way fun. All the Latinos are so good its not even funny. It doesn’t matter what kind of shape they are in or where they are from, if they are Latino, they are really good at soccer haha. 2. Remember how I said our landlord has a hitler mustache? I found out that his name is Santos Dias, which is Holy Days. Quite the juxtaposition haha. 3. I'm going to explain the pictures. The one with me and the three other missionaries is Elder Zura, my grandpa, and my brother. In the mission, the missionary who is your trainer is called your dad. Elder Zura is training again right now, so that gringo on the left is my brother, and the Hawaiian missionary was Elder Zura’s trainer, making him my grandpa. We wanted a picture of the generations haha. 4. The lizard/dinosaur is back. I think it lives in my yard. Its majesty is addicting. 5. The last pic is all the gringo bros in the gringo room. It was so fun haha. Anyways, I think that’s about it? I don’t know haha. Ok, Im just going to end it. Stay classy world!
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