Well, still nothing super exciting has happened this week.
Today we went to an art museum with another couple of elders and we took
some pictures there. It wasn´t huge, but it had a little tour and
stuff. That´s about as new and exciting as it gets. Here´s a little bit
of what I told dad today in his email:
No the new mission hasn´t been created yet, I haven´t heard
much more about it recently. I have no idea how it will be decided in
the end. I found on the church website a list of the new missions that
will be added soon, and the Honduras San Pedro Sula West mission will
open up here I guess. I didn´t know that until today. So, it might not
affect me as much as I thought, since the san pedro mission is up at the
top of honduras. We´ll have to wait and see.
We went one more time to the temple with one of our investigators.
We went in his car because he didn't want to take the bus, and had to
give a ride to one of his friends on the way... I don´t really know if
he liked it or not, he didn´t act super impressed and didn´t comment on
it when we asked him about it. We haven´t been able to talk to him
since, so we´ll see.
The dedication is the 17th of March. We are excited about that.
We´ll probably watch it in our stake center, we already have the little
card to get in to see it. And I think that the monday afterwards, we are
going to have a special missionary meeting with Pres. Uchtdorf and
Elder Holland, so that will be cool.
We have investigators right now, but not many are progressing, so
we´re going to focus on finding new people to teach. We are supposed to
be getting some references to contact from the people who have filled
out a little survey after going through the temple that have said that
they wanted to be visited, so we´ll see if we get a lot of references
there.
Things with my companion are good. We´re still working hard, but
it´s kind of tough being senior companion. It´s hard to plan what to do
all day every day, and to keep both of us motivated to work hard and not
take unneccesary breaks.
But things are good right now. We´re trying to learn how to cook
new things now. So we bought a whole bunch of new foods last week to try
to cook. I bought some new spices, and a bunch of vegetables. Veggies
here are actually super cheap, I didn´t think they would be. For
example: I bought an avocado for 11 lempira, a cucumber for 4, an onion
for 5, a whole carrot for 3, a banana for 2, (20 lempiras is $1) so
things are pretty cheap to buy. I made a salad last night, and it was
pretty good, except the lettuce here is a little weird. I just bought a
whole head of lettuce and pealed off the leaves, but I think I´ll have
to see if they have prepackaged good lettuce to use. I also am going to
try to go to a different store to find some ranch dressing, cuz plain
salad is kind of bland. And I finally learned how to make rice right,
with flavoring and stuff, because before i just made white rice and
water, and cooked it. But now I learned to make good rice. This week I
think that we´re going to try to make baleadas, a Honduras specialty, as
well as fry platanos, which are shaped like bananas, but taste more
like potatoes, but sweeter.
Things have been good here. I hope everyone´s healthy and happy there!
Love,
Elder Ward
