What was
the most spiritual time of the week? I think was the lesson with Hno. O. B., we got to business on this lesson, lets put it that way, and we had
the spirit so strong. When we were singing the opening hymn their dog busted
through the door on a rage to eat us, wow it was scary, but Hno O, grabbed
his dog and we got as far away in the room as possible, then he took it out
back. We recovered from a total loss of the spirit in the beginning of this
lesson. We ended up setting the baptism
date for Hno O. for the 13th of December and he said yes, so we will see what
happens.
How are
the other investigators coming along? We have a few family that are progressing
fairly fast but I don’t know because none of the family’s have come to church
yet, but when they do I will know that they are progressing.
We didn’t
do that much for p day today, we studied which is the new enforced rule of the
mission, but that’s ok. We went and played Ping-Pong and then ate at Filly’s
pizza. I ordered a burger along with some others,
there is a reason it is called Filly’s Pizza, it was amazing pizza but the
burgers were not. The arcade were we
played Ping-Pong is a few blocks away from the church.
Do you
have any idea in your package? Yes I received my package last week I can’t remember
the day. Tell Dean and Joan thanks for the letter and I suppose the cookies
too. I haven’t eaten them yet but I have them in the fridge. I received
everything I am pretty sure: candy, letters, mosquito net, I don’t remember what
else. The reason it was re-taped is because they flip the tag from ups under
the other flap so they don’t get mixed up in the shipping.
How did the
cooking with the less active sister go, can you now make baleadas? I can
somewhat make baleadas, it is difficult because it is all in the hand motions.
Hna E. S. helped us make them and we are going back today to practice
again. This
is a picture of making baleadas with Hna S. They didn’t turn out the
best looking, but they tasted good.
These are baleadas.
We
ate here one day
This is the O. familly and they gave us baleadas.
Did your companion get his hair cut, and did he get his replacement
glasses? Yes he got his new glasses on Friday.
I had to loan him money but his mom has money in the mail to pay for them, they
were 1800 limps with everything, Exam, Frames, lenses with fotochromatic, the
thing that goes dark in the sun.
The hermanas are raising money to help a family get married. The way they are doing this is buy selling
doughnuts, they make them and we sell them.
Yes the sister missionaries make the doughnuts, Hna. G. and Hna. D. We have
sold over 150 doughnuts in the streets. My comp carries the doughnuts and I
deal with all the money and the change. How many donuts do you have to sale to
finish the goal? I don’t know, but at a
whopping 5 lempiras each, it is next to nothing.
Kurt Anderson’s brother is at your mission home, too bad you
couldn’t be there to interpret for them.
I don’t think that I could have interpreted from English to Spanish but very
easy from Spanish to English. It is difficult with all the medical terminology
they use and all the names of the medications.
We were at Hna S.
Don’t send that much candy or anything, I can buy pretty much
anything here that I need. It’s true though, I can buy pretty much anything
here, I haven’t thought of anything I can’t find. But letters and other
stuff is fine, I just don’t want you to spend too much money, I could save that
money and pay for a way nice house down here, I am not kidding a really nice
house is around 100000 Lempiras to build, really not much at all.
I am going to buy a pan today that I can make doughnuts, tortillas
and all sorts of other stuff in it is just to mix it in. We have banana
milkshakes once or twice a week, I would make one every day if I had a blender.
Blenders are about 30 bucks so I am
looking. This week I made French toast with a semitona the next best
thing I have eaten, wow. Also this was
the week of free things. First we got free beans in a pulperia, next we got
free pins in a book place where I bought my binder, and then we got free bread
in another pulperia. I’m sure I
spend enough in these pulperias. When family’s leave with us we have been
trying to give them coke and chips when we are done. We buy a 1.25 liter coke in the glass bottle
and pour it in to cups that the pulperias will give you and share, this costs
16 limps and then we buy them bags of chips which vary from 2 to 6
lempiras.
I have started a collection of things that you can find in the bags
of chips, they call them tasos they are little round plastic disks with
pictures on them. There is a game that
they play with them that I like, so I am trying to collect a full set. There
are 80 different tasos but is doesn’t matter if you have a set, it just matters
that you have tasos. To play the game you hit the taso off a wall and then
another person does it and the person who gets within a hands width with
fingers extended gets the taso. I’ve
played once and I won the game.
I think I lived pretty good this 2 weeks with the Lempiras, now
all that I have to do is hope that my companion pays me back, which he will. I
loaned him money last week and he payed me back. My companion and one of the ward
members thinks that by Christmas, I will be almost fluent in Spanish, lets see
but I think it will be possible.
Thanks for making it possible for me to be out here. In the next
package, send a letter for my companion or have several people send him a
letter through dear elder because he doesn’t receive anything
My time is up, have a good week and be safe, enjoy the snow and all
that.
Love Brian.
