Elder Chaz Jarman

  Monday Spent the morning at the mission office. Bussed back and did my email and phone call. Played some basketball at the church. I'm not great at making 3pt shots but up close I'm decent. Tuesday - Got another baptism date We had district council and lunch with the district. There was a small restaurant? bar? behind a sweet shop. We had pollo chuco again. (Chicken covered  with sauces)  We taught this investigator, Esperanza who couldn't read but has been taught the lessons and wants to know if the church is true. She's currently having issues because her family and her family's pastor have been pressuring her not to go to church.  After the lesson we did her dishes using one of the outdoor "sinks". It was a large basin filled with water and had a ledge where you could wash your dishes. You get clean water from the basin, wash the dish, and you deposit the dirty water on the ledge because it had a drain.  Later that day we visited an inactive family wh...

I put a caption next to each day because this week was a bit interesting. P-Day We cleaned the apartment. Nuñez got a haircut and we used the complex's washer and dryer to do laundry. We had pollo chuco with the other companionship in our district. We all traveled to Comayagua together. I did the video call there and we played some basketball. The Hondureños were not the best at it. At one point it was 7 Hondureños vs 3 Carachos (The term used for gringos on Honduras) The Hondureños didn't do well. Next we headed off to the biggest mission house in the Zone. We had dinner (Honduras style dinner) and went to bed. The entire house was covered mattresses because that house really didn't have the capacity for 8 Elders. Hospital We had district council that day. All 4 of us sitting in the church building's family history center. Elder Nuñez had really bad back pain to the point he couldn't walk for like 10 minutes. After the meeting we headed off to the Hospital which wa...

Kind of a treat. Sometimes random pictures of Elder Jarman appear on the mission Facebook page. 

 Lots of fun things to share this week. We got an "interesting" email from Elder Jarman, and then got a chance to talk with him over zoom last evening. First the quirky. Those that have known Chaz for awhile know that he has a tendency to lose things. When he would come back from scout camp, there were always missing things. His leaders said they would find his clothes along the path back from the showers at camp. So, true to form, Chaz somehow lost his wallet between the Miami airport and Honduras. Lost his debit card, temple recommend, ID (not passport), cash he was carrying, and even his mission debit card. In typical Chaz fashion he takes it all in stride and just adapts. He had other dollars in his luggage and will be able to manage fine until we can replace some things. His weekly email reads like a weather report, so I thought it might be fun to just share some of his highlights: It was a three hour drive to the mission office in a crammed vehicle (The mission taxis ar...

New Companion (trainer): Elder Nuñez

 We got Elder Jarman to Sky Harbor on Monday evening, and he got off without any problems. In Miami he met up with two other missionaries, including Elder Dresser (from Sacramento) who was in his mission district. They had about a four hour layover, and then travelled together to Honduras. The mission has a nice little Facebook page where they regularly post pictures, so we watched it all day. Last night I was refreshing it again when this appeared. It was pretty exciting, and comforting to know that he had obviously arrived safely. Then last night about 8pm, I got a call and caller ID said Honduras. It was Chaz and we got a chance to talk on the phone for about 10 minutes. Each of their companionships has a phone. He didn't have lots of details, but mentioned that they went and got Wendy's for dinner and then had Little Ceasar's later because some of the missionaries were still hungry. American chain restaurants are a thing apparently. He couldn't tell us much about h...

 Chaz's flight departed out of Arizona at 11:55 on Jan 10th. We thought another missionary was going to travel with him, so we waited around a bit before he left. Off on his adventure.