Transfers: Nothing changed for me. The other Gringo in the district is leaving though. Looks like my district will be me and 3 Hondureños.
Is there anyone that is progressing? This week has been a weird one. Every single person we taught a lesson this week, except for 1 person, was a new person, or a family member of an investigator. We did finally get one of our investigators to go to the church. We have taught her nearly every lesson and we finally got her dad to drive her here (she lives in La Mata). Her dad is the friend of the pensionista's family so they have helped a lot.
Monday: Movies and Honduran Tacos
It was a normal P-day until after the video call. We got Honduran Tacos at the restaurant on our Block. It was very different. Deep fried tortilla filled with meat with sauces on top is strange.
We went back to the apartment and Elder Nuñez had Dune and the New Spiderman movie in Spanish. I watched both and uhh, still don't know the plots of either of them. Those movies are a bit plot intense to watch in a foreign language. Anything that was in the trailers I understood sooooo yeah, didn't get much.
Tuesday: New record for distance and altitude.
We had someone express interest in the church so we headed to their house. After a bus ride and a 20min walk up hill (Not very flat up hill) we arrived at the top of a pretty tall mountain. We headed off to the appointment and we found that most of the famly had interest and we taught around 4 people.
After that we had an appointment cancel after we walked to their house, found another new person and that was it for the day.
Wednesday: Teaching families, not just people.
We headed off to the Mata to teach our investigators there. We go there once a week and we have 4 different families to teach. We were able to teach the one person that we had taught in the past and after that things got weird.
We stopped by one of our investigators houses and taught their father. At another house we taught the entire family except one of our investigators.
It was strange but having more members of a family interested is great. We want families to come unto Christ so teaching everyone is great.
Thursday: WE'RE NOT MORMONS!!!!
This day was uhhh interesting. Some appointments fell through in an area pretty far so we went to the local pulpería there. (Pulperías are small shops where you can buy snacks and hygiene supplies) The lady at the counter noticed our name badges and started talking to us about religion. We had to explain for the millionth time that we are Christians and we talked about the Church. She insisted on the fact that the Catholic church has a prophet, the pope. She also insisted that Peter was a pope and well things kinda fell there. She did give us free water.
We knocked on a couple of doors and we were able to teach a lesson and at the end this random dude walked in and talked to us about Joseph Smith rather aggressively. We talked about our belief that God and Jesus were separate beings and the people we taught the lesson to had no problems with it but the nutcase didn't. Afterwards Elder Nuñez said that we should focus more on inactive members and part member families because restored Doctrine is a lot easier to explain to them.
We then had branch council (Half the people weren't there but we take what we can get) We explained to them the plan the Area Presidency created. A big part of the plan is members helping the missionaries find part member families and inactive families. They thought it was a great idea and wanted to make opportunities for members to invite people to activities so we don't only invite people to Church. They also gave us some info on inactive people and people that are friends with members (Non members who plan soccer at the soccer activities)
Later that night we visited a part member family (the one who really likes to feed us but only like 2 of them actually want to go to church). They feed us Mexican style Tacos and I really enjoyed it. Mexican food is not common here and I enjoy it whenever we have it.
Friday: At least the members are receptive
Ah yes, the first 0 lesson day this week. All of our appointments fell through so we visited the former branch president and explained to him the mission objective. He gave us the location of a family we can visit.
Elder Nuñez is the district leader so we had to go to the Siguatepeque area and help with Baptismal interviews for them. All went well and they planned the baptism
Saturday: Helping out at the baptism
We spent the day helping the Elders in Sigua with their baptism. It was Elder Paulson's first baptism which was great. Both me and Elder Nuñez have taught the people who were baptized in the past on Exhanges so we were excited as well. I gave the talk on Baptism (fun) and Nuñez was a witness. That was just about it for the day. Lotta cleanup afterwards.
We went out to dinner with an investigator we hadn't seen since my first day in El Carmen. She really liked how much my Spanish has improved. We talked about how much success we've had and her husband (who served a mission along time ago) explained to her some things. Overall it went well.
Sunday: A lot of Success?
Three nonmembers attended church today, the one investigator we've been trying to get to go for the past month and two people from part member families that we haven't seen in a while. I guess the members are helping out a lot.
We had lunch with the EQP and his wife and then we visited some people. We found a part member family that is interested in having us teach lessons. We visited the friend of the President's wife and apparently she had a baptism date along time ago. We taught her how to pray and it was very special. Her grandkids were there and they were kinda interested as well. They like reading the Bible and we always appreciate that.
Ps: we have a baptism in the Sigua area today. Today isn't going to be boring.
No explanation for this photo :-)
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