For probably the third week in a row, we will be waiting for partidas to
marry and baptize the family we have been teaching for a couple months. They're
super legit, and they've accepted everything. It just depends on getting the
paperwork... again. I think my zone leader is gonna pull a fast one and help us
out though- that's the hope anyway. Other than that, we're hoping to baptize a
few other people, but still have to fix some things first.
There were changes this past Wednesday! I stayed in the same area with the
same companion, so it didn't really affect me too much. For some reason, it just
seemed like that was what was going to happen. I don't think I even mentioned it
last week actually. But some good news is my old Utila comp Elder Russo came to
my zone! I was stoked when I heard, and it was good to see him again!
For some reason, it seemed like we got double dinners quite a few times
this past week. One night in particular was pretty memorable. We had a visit
with this one family, who asked us if we wanted some baleadas to eat. As a
missionary, I feel like we pretty much have to say yes when people ask us that.
So we grudgingly agreed, knowing that we had a dinner appointment scheduled
right after that. They gave us three baleadas each, which is a pretty solid
meal. They tried to give us more, but we convinced them that we were full, and
went on our way. At our dinner appointment, guess what they had? Baleadas! They
gave us four each, bringing our nightly total up to seven. I thought I wasn't
gonna be able to do it while I was eating that seventh one, but somehow I found
some extra room. Luckily, baleadas are pretty good too cuz it feels like I'm
averaging about three a day the last few weeks. It's all anyone makes for
us.
We also had one of my most interesting lessons this past week. We're
teaching a single mother and her two daughters, and for this lesson, we taught
in the house of the Fuentes family, a strong member family in the ward. The
Fuentes dad is really stoked about missionary work (probably cuz he has two sons
on missions) and helps us a lot. But lessons with him can get a little out of
control. Let's just say he's a talker, and when he gets going, he's hard to
stop. Anyway, I was battling him pretty much the entire lesson, trying to teach
what we had planned, but not having much success. The craziest part? He
mentioned ministering of angels and had us look up "Lamanites" in the index of
the scriptures! We were teaching about Joseph Smith by the way. It would have
been funny if it wouldn't have derailed our lesson so much. Anyway, please don't
be like Brother Fuentes if you teach with the missionaries. It stresses me out
teaching with people like that. With everything else he's a huge help though. He
invited the family over for lunch, gave them a ride to conference, and is always
there to answer their questions. So I gotta take the good with the bad, I
suppose.
Also, Elder Sweat and I have started realizing that some Honduran children
have never seen gringos before. Why? Because they stare at us openmouthed for
long periods of time. Elder Sweat has started waving at them or staring back to
make them stop, but we always get a kick out of these ninos staring at us with
no shame haha
Well, that's all for this week, but I hope you guys have a great week!
Start applying what was taught in Conference!
Love,
Elder Birt
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