It all started Monday morning, when our zone started our journey to hike
Mount Cosuco. In order to do it, we found a guy to drive about 10 miles up a
steep dirt road with 14 missionaries in the bed of a truck. That was a bit of a
nerve wracking experience. Then, to make matters worse, the car broke down when
we were almost to the top. The driver told us he would fix it while we
hiked/explored the rest of the mountain. It was a lot of walking to see a
waterfall (which I admit, was pretty cool) and a crappy park (which wasn't cool
at all). After that little extravaganza, we returned to where the car had broken
down... to find out that it still didn't work. To make a long story short, we
had to wait until 7:00 at night for them to fix the car. Then we took the
10-mile ride back down a steep mountain in a recently-repaired car... still with
14 missionaries in the bed of the truck. We said a lot of prayers before that
part of the journey, and we sang hymns for most of the ride as well. Kind of a
strangely cool, bonding experience for the zone. Anyway, we finally made it back
down safely. However, there were no longer buses to take us back to San Marcos,
which meant we had to spend the night at another companionship's house
(coincidentally Elder Hebert's house). I slept (or tried to sleep on the
concrete floor), and we went to our meeting this morning. I am currently wearing
Elder Hebert's missionary clothes with my tennis shoes because he didn't have
another pair of shoes. I feel ridiculous haha. But at least we're all ok, and
I'm finally back in my area.
K I only have 30 minutes today, so gotta make it quick
- We had another baptism! I performed the baptism of Jessica on Saturday,
and we had a pretty big turnout! Baptisms make me so happy haha :)
- There is a member family in my area with a pet squirrel. One day, we went
to visit them, and the squirrel had escaped it's cage. I'm sure you already know
this, but squirrels are extremely fast and difficult to catch. We all tried to
catch it for about 10 minutes, until I finally was able to grab it. He wasn't
too happy about that, and proceeded to bite me about 10 times before I could put
him in the cage. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I don't have rabies. I've only
foamed at the mouth once since then (Just Kidding mom!)
- Last week, I talked about baleadas, so I thought I would keep up the
theme of food. This week... bananas! Hondurans include bananas in pretty much
everything. In addition to plain bananas, they have banana soda. They have
platinos, which is like a bigger, less sweet version of a banana. They put
bananas in soup, which in my opinion, is a terrible idea. And they make
"tejadas," which can best be described as a banana chip. They slice up bananas,
and fry them like potato chips. It's actually quite good. Anyway, that's all for
this week. Eat a banana for me, and stay away from steep, dangerous Honduran
roads. Adios!
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