Tuesday: Waiting in Tegucigalpa
We did transfers Tuesday morning (got announced Monday and we do them on Tuesday). We dropped Nuñez off with one of the secretaries and headed to the church building. We arrived with the secretaries (2 hrs late) and went to see if the previous elders have arrived. True to their nature: nope. We had to wait for them to arrive. They arrived 1.5 hours later. The APs were calling them and everything but at least they arrived before 11, kinda.
We headed off to Sigua in a mission taxi because they have to send the taxi to Comayagua anyway to pickup the new gringos. So we packed our district's stuff and headed off. When we arrived, I had to pack up all my stuff quickly because well, I was changing areas. We headed to our house (we have a house) and unpacked. That was it for the day, speed packing and waiting.
The Rest of the Week
To prevent boredom of me repeating myself, the rest of the week kinda was the same. Each day we contacted old investigators, not much of them, visited with Ward Council members (the ones who wanted visits) and were exploring around.
Old Investigators
We are basically starting over with investigators because the previous elders didn’t have very many. We were able to find out that the family of their most recent baptism is interested, but they want to wait for the father to return from Greece (didn't expect that country to appear in these emails). We're still going to visit them and its possible we'll get a baptism in May.
Other than that, we don't got much in terms of older investigators. The previous elders were not too interested in finding people.
Ward Council Members
We visited the Bishop (who has a stomach illness but he can help over whatsapp), the Bishopric, the YWs President (who I had visited before), the Relief Society President, the Primary President, and the Ward Mission Leader. Turns out most of the active members are the Ward Council members. It was weird to find out how the Primary President, the Second Councilor in the Bishopric, and the Ward Mission Leader are all related.
When we visited the YWs President, she made everyone in the house play any instruments that they know how to play. I played violin. Xicará played guitar. The YW President played the recorder, and one of the family members played the piano and trumpet.
I am going to be playing violin in Sacrament meeting on Easter because they wanted me too.
Exploring: aka Lets go get lost!
We spent a couple hours each day just exploring around. We went and found some interested people wherever they lived in our area. Whenever Xicará said "Vamos a perdernos", we went out and walked around. We got to know some parts pretty well and went contacting when we came across people.
Sunday
The ward has over 700 members, but Sacrament meeting was very empty. We did it as normal (first time in a long time for me) which was strange because they had a zoom meeting going on as well. The Bishop made us give our testimonies (first time in Spanish and in public).
Elder's quorum had very little people and it was in a small classroom.
Xicará
Xicará is a fun and interesting guy. He's obsessed with Tennis Shoes and cake (he asked where was a good bakery way too many times). His grandparents are bakers and cake makers so I guess it makes sense. He's a Guatemalteco (spanish for Guatemalan) and he likes Magic the Gathering (neither of us brought cards but Star Realms is similar?).
He was in the mission office right out of his training so he's not the most experienced with mission work, and the way he teaches is awkward. He can work on that. By Sunday he stopped being creepy with the pamphlets we have. (Here's a pamphlet, adios!). Overall a fun, but rusty missionary who has a thing for cake and way too many tennis shoes.
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