Baptism, Prophets and Donuts

Monday: We broke our fast? That's new, right? We broke our fast at lunch. Spent the afternoon at the church, etc. Not much happens on Mondays. (the Hondurans fast from mid-day on Sunday until Monday).

Tuesday: Well that was unexpected

We had our District Council in the Siguatepeque building today. Super long walk to their building. It's for a ward so it's not small. We decided to knock on doors in the Buena Vista Neighborhood (Regional part of the city). Buena Vista is at the other end of the city so we took a bus to get there. Bussing around within a city is cheap, finding the bus is the hard part.

After a while of no success, we came across this house. We went inside and taught about agency, and then a little about the Doctrine of Christ, and then about the Book of Mormon. The lady inside was really interested so we testified of the truth that the Book of Mormon and The Holy Bible were both the word of God. The Spirit was really strong in there. Afterwards, she told us that the missionaries had visited 2 years ago and she wasn't interested in this book about Joseph Smith. When we testified they are both about Jesus Christ, she felt the desire to read her copy that she has been ignoring. We think we might have some progress with her.

Wednesday: Prophets and Donuts

Nuñez felt inspired to plan out a lesson about the Church of Christ. The church has prophets, the melchesidek (that's probably spelt wrong, Spanish spelling is easier) priesthood, revelation, and apostles. We planned it for one of our investigators but apparently we're going to use it alot (Had weekly planning yesterday and it was funny how many times it came up). It's a very important lesson here because there are so many churches here. (9 Christian denominations I've heard of or seen)

We went around door knocking and we ended up teaching the lesson to someone. We felt prompted to talk about Russell M. Nelson which doesn't happen a lot.

Afterwards we went and got Donuts at Dunkin Donuts (It was on the way back to our apartment). The Boston

Cremes here taste about the same. Later that night we confirmed the baptism time and the interview for Jonathan (one of our zone leaders had to do it because Nuñez is the district leader).

Thursday: A day in Siguatepeque

We spent the whole day in the Siguatepeque area on exhanges. Not much happened there. Had to explain to a member that I couldn't drink milk.

Friday: Valentines day activity?

We ended up teaching about the Book of Mormon to one of our investigators. She really likes the Bible so explaining it to her was a little difficult. People are surprised too often that the book teaches of Jesus Christ. Joseph Smith translated it, the book itself is Christ's teachings. We taught some lessons in La Mata again. We found another person to teach (happens pretty easily in La Mata, why can't the people in El Carmen be this easy?).  One of our investigators is interested in coming to church. (We'll take interested).

We went back to the church because there was a branch Valentine's day activity. It was a little weird being some of the only singles there because is was a couples activity but dinner was great.

We had to do interviews with President Baquedano the next day but also had a baptism the same day so we got the president to do interviews in El Carmen.

Saturday: Baptism, Interviews and Roosters?

The baptism went well. Nuñez baptized because Jonathan wanted him to. President

Baquedano's family also attended and helped out with the music. (Half of the people there were from the mission, President Baquedano, his family, and 3 groups of elders for interviews). After the baptism, we did interviews. I could actually understand him this time and he liked that. My Spanish has improved a lot in 5 weeks.

Later that day we visited this member family because both of our appointments canceled. In their backyard they have a ton of roosters. They also had a turkey and a hen-rooster couple separated from the rest of the animals. It
was pretty interesting.

Sunday: "the field is white already to harvest"

We had someone attend sacrament meeting. (We didn't invite him or even get to teach him a lesson, it was interesting.) We confirmed Jonathan in sacrament meeting. Sacrament meeting had alot of stuff about the word of wisdom and priesthood was about the restoration so apparently he is going to get taught lessons even if we can't teach him.

We found three new people who live really close by so yay! (One of them is a 1 min walk from the apartment.

Later that night we visited the Elders Quorum President. The mission president asked us to ask the members about inactive or part member families and he provided us with alot of info. We are going to visit him again next week.

Banana Republic

Interesting fact about Honduras: 60% of the farmland here is for bananas. Banana flavor soda, chips made from green  bananas,  banana vendors everywhere, etc. You rarely go a day without eating a banana based product. It's a little weird but that's Honduras. Bananas vs Plantains: Plantains are bananas that are dark green and haven't completely ripened yet. They taste great but are literally green bananas. They only use the word banana to refer to the flavor of the yellow ones.

Winter Olympics: I doubt that they send people considering it doesn't snow and the lakes never freeze.

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Typical Lunch