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Monday: Hitchhiking with Members

After we did our laundry we headed out to the bus stop to wait for a bus to Tegus. While we were waiting, a member pulled up and asked where we were going. We said Tegus and they were going there as well. So we rode with members all the way to Tegus. They dropped us off at the temple and we took pictures. After pictures we started walking to the place where we would be sleeping that night and a random person pulled up and offered us a ride. (Random members saying Hi in Tegus happens a lot). We got a ride to a place close to the house and just walked there. We got there early so we got our pick of beds and just hanged out for the rest of the night.




Tuesday: Apostle Visit
We got up early the next day to head to a chapel in the Tegucigalpa mission. As we were driving in that mission I noticed that the Tegucigalpa part of town is way nicer than Comayagüela. We socialized with the rest of the mission and then we went inside. After a while of waiting we started. We had 8 speakers so this might take a while.

Here's who spoke:
  • Sister Jutra? (Not sure on the last name) - Wife of an area seventy
  • Elder Jutra - area seventy 
  • Sister Stevenson
  • Elder Stevenson
  • Both mission presidents and their wives.

Most of the time was devoted to Elder Stevenson's lesson. He had a translator help him so it took a while. One of the major themes was that people who make commitments progress so we should focus our lessons on commitments. Commitment and Invitation centered, Lesson Supported. It was cool to know that his visit here wasn't an assignment. He had free time in between assignments so he chose to speak to the missionaries.

After the meeting, we headed back to our areas. We decided to take a bigger bus back (same fee but the bus stop is farther way in Siguatepeque). The seats were amazing and the New Spiderman movie was playing too.
That was it for the day. Trips to and from Tegus take up a lot of time.




Wednesday: "Dame tortillas" (Give me tortillas)
We headed out to visit one of our investigators only to find him in his home very hang over or drunk. He kept on muttering "Dame tortillas" so uhhhh, no lesson with him. After that weird experience,  we visited someone else and they were very interested. They are a neighborhood of two other families of investigators so there is a lot of people who live really close together. 

That night we made Tortillas con Quesillo (Fried tortillas with cheese in the middle). It's pretty cheap and easy to make and tastes good.

Thursday: Intercambios in Comayagua 
We had tortillas con quesillo for breakfast and the power went out while I was making one for Elder Nuñez so his wasn't really cooked all the way. (He insisted on eating the bad one.) I went to Comayagua to have Intercambios with the Gringo Zone Leader. It was weird being with a gringo for an extended period of time and we uhhh talked Spanish a lot because it's just easier than English.

We were able to do street contacting (there is no one in the streets here) and were able to find people via areabook (impossible here). It was pretty hot there (it's summer here right now) but I was pretty comfortable in the heat. We stumbled upon a river which not even he knew was there.

Friday: Los Vecinos (The neighbors)
We visited the people who all live really close together. They live in La Mata so it was still a lot of walking to get there. There is a family of 4 who we taught and they all wanted to go to church. These people all look optimistic so yay!

Saturday: Interviews in Comayagua 
We were unsuccessful in planning a baptism on interview day this time so we had to go to Comayagua to have the interviews.

My interview was really short, but Pres Baquedano talked a lot about me with my companion. After those, not much happened. We had a ton of fake referrals on our areabook and we were pretty bored for the rest of the day (got back from the interviews at 3 so we couldn't head to La Mata).

Sunday: They came!
The family of 4 all came to church the next day. They had a great time. It was Father's Day on Saturday (they celebrate on March 19, instead of in June) so the primary did a presentation after Sunday school. Church actually started and ended at reasonable time which was really weird. Some people from the Ward attended (the other area) so we didn't know a lot of people there. We visited an inactive family and had a great lesson with them. 




Picking and Choosing
People here in Sigua attend whatever congregation they are most comfortable with. The church buildings are super far apart from each other so they are going out of their way to do it too. Their reasons are personal issues with people in their assigned congregation so yeah, the members here are interesting people.








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