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5 Months Into this!

 On the 29th, I hit 5 months being on my mission (around 3.5 - 4 in Honduras)

Monday: Relaxing

This day was just a lot of sitting around and relaxing which was nice. It's good to take a break every once in a while.



Tuesday: "Nos cayó la ley!!!" - Just put it into google translate

While we were preparing to go to an appointment, the travel APs came and visited us. They were "searching" for something which only makes it more weird. They searched the apartment and our phone during our appointment. It was really weird and I am not sure why they went  out this far (3hrs from their apartment) to do that.

The appointment we went to was the birthday party of Karina whose mom we are trying to marry. She had friends over and we met them too which was fine. My head was hurting all day so I didn't eat much. Turns out that was an omen for the next day...

Before we go there, Karina did give us permission to baptize her son, but he's not interested (DANG IT).


Wednesday: SICK

I got really sick that day. There is a stomach bug that comes around this time of year and I got it. The mission nurses (sister missionaries with pharmaceutical knowledge) bought me all sorts of nasty medication to go with it which was disgusting. Worst thing I have ever tasted was this medication you had to drink like an otter pop, yuk.


Thursday: Contacting Nearby

Feeling better, we went out and went knocking on doors. We found a lot of people which was great. We heard that the bishop's son got in an accident at school so we went and visited his family. We gave a blessing to the Bishop and his wife and that was that day.


Friday: 3rd  Covid Vaccine

We went and got our 3rd covid vaccines. After a while of waiting (and the nurses struggling to read my passport with tiny writing) we got it. They just jab it into you with very little prep so yeah, sanitary. We did not feel well for several hours after that, so great. 

At night we went and visited an inactive sister in the ward. She's discouraged because her family is not interested in coming back to church. She gave us directions to where one of the members who has an unbaptized 9 year old lives but they were not great. Thanks for trying I guess.


Saturday: Youth Activity and Carnival

We got invited to the ward youth activity. We taught a lesson on the Word of Wisdom and played a spot I haven't played in a while, volleyball. Most of the people there hadn't played it before which made it interesting. We played to 45 pts (didn't take too long). It was nice to play it again, no matter how bad I am.



Sunday: Las Colinas

We attended sacrament meeting and I had to help pass the sacrament. I hadn't done it in years so it was strange but the ward never has that many people attend so it was easy. Afterwards, we had Sunday School which was mainly just sisters in the ward. There were around 4 brothers in that room and around 15 sisters soooooo yeah. The sister we talked with on Friday came, which was great.


After church and washing some clothes, we headed out to go visit Jonny and his family. We found out he wants to read the Book of Mormon (great) but fell asleep before he could (not great). We are going to visit him again on Tuesday so let's see how that goes.


We then went and visited and talked with an inactive family. Apparently the parents want to get baptized but there are barriers (need to be legally married and there are several issues with that) so we are going to try to work with them. There is also an 8 yr old in the family so we can still work with her, yay.


We went and visited someone we met going house to house and got to know her pretty well too. Lot more stuff this day which was really great.


---Maryuri---

We weren't able to get time with her and she's not entirely too interested in getting baptized so I guess we will teach her more and try again later this month.




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