Week 87: 4 grandsons baptized

Junior, Selvin, Kenny, and Kelvin.  I baptized Kenny and Kelvin and Elder Owen baptized the other two. They all live with their grandpa (Vicente Sierra), now there'll be a lot more Young Men in this ward.

This week was the culmination of a lot of the work we've been doing here in Tizatillo. This week we had the baptisms of Selvin, Junior, Kelvin and Kenny. We've been working with them since I got here in the area. They are the grandsons of a member who has been a returning member for a really long time, he wanted to come back and at the same time get his grandsons baptized. So Elder Owen and I got to work teaching and preparing them to be baptized and confirmed members of the Church. Selvin and Junior now have the Aaronic priesthood. SO since we have had 6 baptisms in August now we have to start looking for September and October. We have people getting ready, it’s just putting on the last touches, making sure they are decided and ready. Other than that the zone did okay this month, we are figuring out how to work together and what the strengths and weaknesses are here in the zone of Loarque. 

On another note I started reading the book Jesus the Christ again and it came to my mind how important it is to know the Savior and redeemer of the world. About him, of him and of his love for each and every one of us as his children. I'm going to be focusing on reading Jesus the Christ a little more as I've finished the Book of Mormon again for this year. I hope that I can get this out of my reading of Jesus the Christ and that I can grow to love my Savior more than I already do. I love you guys and hope you all have a fantastic week! 

Love, Elder Roberts

shorty's filling the font!lol (the way the glass makes your legs look)

I rolled my ankle this week and my knee hit the ground really hard. 

don't make fun... it hurt really bad!

Week 86: Doing the Most Just Thing in Tizatillo

This week was really good and the beginning of a change out here in Tizatillo. We had 2 baptisms this week. The first one was Junior Hernandez and the other baptism was Jeferson Aquino. They both are children of less active members that the parents wanted to get baptized. The boys are both 9 years old. 

This next Friday we should have another 4 baptisms out here in Tizatillo. The young men who are going to be getting baptized are super excited. Their grandpa brought them to church their first time and they haven’t missed a day of church ever since. So good things are happening out here in Tizatillo! We have a lot of new people coming to church, so we have more baptism possibilities for the upcoming months.

Elder Owen and I get along really well. We are enjoying the last couple weeks that Elder Owen has left on his mission. He's working really hard and is really grateful for what the Lord has put in his path while he's been out.

That’s it for our week. We are just preparing people who want to be baptized so it will be a pretty full schedule.  I hope we stay busy and do the Lord's work how he wants it done.

Love, Elder Roberts

The Hernandez family
left to right: Carolina (12), Paola (28), Fernanda (16), abuela Maria, Kelly (15), and then Michael (6) and Junior is 9.

Elder Owen with Family Aquino
Leticia is the mother, the father is Elvin. Elvin is baptizing his son Jeferson.  The little girl is Abril, and the guy at the end is Uncle Juan Carlos.

Elder Owen gave the newly baptized boys CTR rings. The kids love it!
left is Junior, right is Jeferson, and the one in the middle is Micheal, Junior's little brother.
HLJ: Haz Lo Justo (Do the Most Just Thing)

Making BALEADAS with the Garcia Family

Baleada's are SO GOOD! My favorite.

Baleadas are one of Honuras' most characteristic and famous foods.  A baleada is a wheat flour tortilla, generally quite thick, filled with mashed fried beans and folded in half.  This simple flour tortilla can also be filled with a wide variety of other ingredients.  The final result is a tortilla filled with food, and often sold on the street that is easily held in the hand and eaten on the go. 

I have video of us making them. It is just that the computers in this ciber aren't fast enough to load them.  We may have to wait until I get home.

Ready to learn!

This is Elder Owen with Karín (not Karen, it's a sharp i sound)
Karín is funny and really crazy.  He doesn't do a good job controlling his voice level, so he ends up shouting when he gets excited.

The beans! They come from the farms out here.  They buy them in bags and use them to cook. For Baleada's they just throw them in a blender. Pure bean baby!

You can find more info about BALEADA's on the internet. Hondurans make them all different kinds of ways.  

http://greathonduranfood.com/honduran-food/honduran-baleada/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleada

http://holahonduras.net/food/baleadas/

The Origin of the Baleada

There are many stories and urban legends that explain the origin of the name of this dish. One story comes from La Ceiba. In 1964 when Teresa, 20 years old woman was abandoned by her husband and decided to take a loan to start up her business of selling tortillas to keep their five children. The business was located near the railway line where the train went to employees of Standard Fruit Company, which quickly became customers. The dish soon became the favorite of the company workers, passersby and people working nearby but it had no name. Once a customer who was eating made a funny comment “beans are bullets, cheese is gunpowder and the tortilla is the gun” and since then everyone called them ballads.

Another of these tells the story of a woman from San Pedro Sula who sold wrapped tortillas. She was well known for her delicious cuisine. One fine day she was fired upon with several bullets (balas in Spanish). Some say she died of her injuries, other say that it was not serious because she recovered soon and returned to selling tortillas. Since then the workers began to say “I’m going to the baleada” (“the shot woman”).

Others say the name originated because when people were biting tortillas the bite pressure made the whole beans “fire” by the sides of the tortilla, many said that they seemed to be bullets. And this fact all began to call the new dish “Baleada”.