First,
we had the most amazing Thanksgiving dinner that any missionary has
ever had in Honduras. Second, I finally had changes and left Yuscarán!!
Alright, well I´ll explain a little of my week: the last weekend of
november for the elections was when we stayed inside for 3 days
straight. Then we had pday a day later (tuesday) and wednesday we worked
for the last time in Yuscarán. Then, thursday, we went like 2 hours out
to this area way far out in our zone and had an amazing thanksgiving
with some members that live there. We went and had our district meeting
in the morning there, and after, we went and they had cleared away a
spot for us to go and play football there. I´m not referring to spanish
fútbol like soccer, we brought out the real american ball and threw it
around and played a little bit. They were really trying to adapt the
american culture for us that day. After we threw the ball around a bit
in the morning, we went into their house and we helped prepare the food a
little bit, but it was a ton for just us. They had 3 turkeys, a huge
thing of mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, jellos, salads, rolls, yams
and marshmallows, and every other thanksgiving food that we would need.
Plus all of the desserts, we had cookies, cakes, bars, and apple pie. It
was an amazing meal that our whole zone got for free. This family is
super rich, and they just offered to do this for us, just because they
wanted to share with others who would apreciate it. it was so cool!
Then, thursday night, we got the phone call. They told me that my
companion was leaving, and that the other elder from my branch was
leaving, I was starting to get worried that I was going to stay in
yuscaran because I had thought that my companion was going to be the
next branch president, but then they told him he was leaving. But at the
end they told me that I was also leaving. I came to one of the southern
parts of honduras called Porvenir, Choluteca. It´s about 3 hours in bus
south of tegus, unless you´re in a slow bus like ours, which took over
4.. The south is super hot, but it´s full of a lot nicer people. I´m in a
really nice ward now too, and a good area. Yesterday in church it was
weird because I just sat there in the back with my investigators and
realized that I didn´t have to do anything in the meeting but listen. I
didn´t conduct the meeting or the hymns, I didn´t bless or pass the
sacrament or anything. Everything just worked without me having to do
anything. Our ward is in the stake center down here in the south, which
the building is massive, it´s bigger than my home church or my home
stake center even. I´ll have to take a picture to send sometime.. We had
like 130 people in church yesterday, which felt like a lot to me. It
was nice to go to church with a lot of people again.
My new companions super cool too. I´m with the elder who was
my DL about a year ago. He and I get along well and he is a great
missionary. He´s from Riverton, Utah and has 20 months in the mission,
so he´s pretty close to finishing. I just got called to be a Zone Leader
this change, so he´s teaching me how to be a ZL. I didn´t think that I
would be a ZL because most of the time you have to be a DL for a little
bit before they call you to be ZL. But it´s interesting. I will have to
learn a lot, because there are many differences between here and
yuscaran. Choluteca feels like a completely different mission because
everything is changed and it has its own kind of atmosphere. Our zone is
really big now too, we have 21 missionaries in our zone and 8 of them
are sisters, which is a lot. But it´s been good to get to know everyone
here and learn how everything works here. I´ve been sick a lot this last
weekend too. I got some stomach sickness that has been annoying me.
Saturday we had to stay home because I really couldn´t go out. Sunday I
felt a little better and today I´ve been doing pretty good, but it has
not been fun being so sick.
I´m excited to be here and to start doing something new. I have a
great area, a great ward, and a great companion and plenty to do, so I
just need to start working like crazy. We´re going to always be busy now
here, we have to work in our area, organize all the zone stuff with our
big zone, we have a leader meeting in Tegus this week so we´ll have to
go all the way back up there, and I imagine that we´ll be going on quite
a few divisions with the people in our zone soon.
I hope that all of you everywhere are doing well and that my family
can all recover from their sicknesses. I know that it´s not fun at all,
but hopefully it´s just for a little bit.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ward
