I have clocked in a lot of hours on buses this week. To start off my
companion, Elder Hansgen, had to renew his residency here in Honduras. So
basically that means we travel 5 hours to San Pedro Sula, wait in line for
another 2-3 hours and spend only 2 minutes for the actual renewal process and
travel back to La Ceiba for another 5 hours. But one cool thing I got out of
it...I went to San Pedro Sula for the first time. We also visited the mission
office there. So when we took a taxi the guy tried to charge us L170 each, when the usual rate is around L80.
Luckily we were able to knock some sense into him and he realized we are not
just some average gringos. But that happens to me a lot here especially now my
companion and I are both gringos.
While we were there we actually met missionaries from
"the other side" or otherwise called the San Pedro Sula Oeste mission.
I got to admit, they are a little weird. I am glad I am in the mission that I
am in.
For Preparation day on Monday we went to Trujillo. Some
people actually say that Trujillo has better beaches than Roatan. But the place
is gorgeous, definitely one of Honduras's highlights. We played soccer on the
beach and had a blast. My companion unfortunately got sun burned and looks like
a tomato. The sky was nice and clear and water super azul, agua azul (which is
also a water company here aguazul). What was really cool is that we visited a
fort. The oldest fort in the continental America. It was pretty small but a
member that Elder Hansgen knew from before in the area got a killer deal on
tickets to go in.
Overall, this week has been good. I didn't really like
traveling to San Pedro too much because it sucked up a lot of all of our day.
Oh and by the way, Lily (our investigator) went to the
hospital last week because she had appendicitis. Luckily enough they operated
on her quickly enough and that everything is ok. We had to move her
baptismal date to next week. She still has a string testimony and really wants
to be baptized and was sad that she couldn't do it last week. We gave her a
priesthood blessing and she is already walking around and doing her normal
stuff. Her one month bed rest recovery
from what the doctor recommended went to two weeks. That was a great
blessing for her.
Cuidense, vaya bien
-Elder Keller
No comments:
Post a Comment