Juticalpa street via Moto Taxi

Elder Huscrgoft's gopro captures two smiling Elder's riding in a Moto Taxi

and an unflinching dog in the street...

Week 57: su melón and...

so this week went by really fast! Elder Huscroft and I don’t have trouble being invited in to houses, but the people lately have not been wanting to continue with our lessons so we visit them less frequently. 

This week we had a lot of baptismal interviews to do. We don’t really mind them, but it takes some serious time away from our area. So we tried to make all of our time count in Juticalpa. 

So I have a new nickname. Elder Huscroft calls me Melón. It is because some kid thought I had the same skin color as a melon. So now Huscroft has just been calling me su melón. haha

We have had a lot of fun while we are out. We make the hard times good, and the good times great! I love this about our companionship. This week was particularly hard for us because our baptismal date Wilson decided he doesn’t want to get baptized now. He has been scheduled to work on the weekends now, so he doesn’t want to get baptized. It is super sad and so Huscroft and I are going to focus on some other people that we have so that hopefully February will be a really good month.

A pretty big power outage happened this week. It was a real bummer because we didn’t have power for two and a half days. A group of protestors decided to destroy an energy tower. So the power went down at 1:00 pm on Wednesday and the rule is-- if there is no power at 6 then you go home. Most of the people that we meet with are only available at night.  We had very little time to work, I felt like the work we could have done was cut in half. It is hard to work if we don’t have electricity.  So it wasn’t super good with putting new fechas on our calendar like we were planning on. 

So now Juan Orlando is officially president of Honduras. Honduras has gone crazy in the capital.  The protests have been affecting everywhere really.  Power outages and the way food is being moved around.  We are fine, but I hear that in Tegucigalpa it is craazy! 

My hope for this change with my new companion is that we will have some more investigators who will progress. Finding people to teach and who will or want to continue learning has been our biggest challenge.  I just hope and pray that next week will go better and that we can get in touch with some people that the Lord is preparing.  

The weeks are passing by really fast, it’s kind of freaking me out, but I know I’m making it last.  I love everyday that I am out here. I love you guys and hope all is well-

Keep Truckin’

Nickname for Elder Huscroft?  He is wearing the sunglasses of one of the kids that was at the home of Dora.
Dora needs to be married to be able to be baptized.  We are kind of waiting to talk and teach her husband before she can really progress. 

We are in Guaimaca doing the baptismal interviews of Karen and Alejandra.  They are soon to be baptized! They are the investigators of Elder Castillo and Tun.

a sleeping Elder Huscroft and I on our way back from Guaimaca.

maybe I'll start a scrapbook of sleeping elder photos!

The Honduran countryside...

This is the bus stop in Campamento, one of my old areas. 

a place I have spent a lot of time waiting "forever" for buses

 2 1/2 days with out power.  The people here aren't really affected by it because the power is sketchy anyway.

Week 56: boogie board magic

The Gringo's of Juticalpa. Latimer, Walton, Huscroft, and Roberts just getting back from the multi-zone meeting in Torocagua. 

So this week has been kind of sucky, but pretty good, you know spiritually and stuff. We had a good multi zone meeting that I had to conduct (dirigir in Spanish) which was really weird and nerve wracking. President presided and we focused on companionship study and other things. Our meeting was in Torocagua so we spent a while in a bus. 

Elder Huscroft and I have had to focus on finding other investigators.  A lot of people that Elder Banda and I were teaching have lost interest in our message. This week has been a bit discouraging and uneventful. We went to appointment after appointment and almost all of them fell through! Because of that Elder Huscroft and I have had a lot of time to talk. We have been discussing our zone and what we can do for it. Our ideas are flowing.  I think that is why the Lord has put us together. So far they are working--we are expected to have as a zone about 8 baptisms this month. If it all comes together it would be so great after last month that was so unsuccessful.  I’m very glad the Lord has helped us missionaries find people who are ready for the gospel. 

One of the cool experiences of this week was that we came upon a guy who is a mute. He talks with his hands. Elder Huscroft had this little draw board in his bag (like the ones we played with as kids), so luckily we used that as our way of communication. His name is Freddy and he is pretty cool. He can hear and read, but he can’t talk. We just basically have him write on the board to us and then we respond back on the board. It was a funny experience to be communicating that way at church. Everyone was looking at us weird, like what are the Elders doing with this guy?  Why aren’t they talking? I would have been curious too. It was a cool experience for me and Huscroft. 

We had a lot of fun this week we are definitely close as a companionship. We get along. I just hope next week is a little better. love you guys!

keep truckin’ 

--like the draw board in Elder Huscrofts bag.  A Magic Sketch by Boogie Board!

We are writing from the internet cafe, Sicos to be exact. It is not too far from our house and we don't have keys to the church. but hey- we got to write!

We are just chilling.  There are protests going on, so we can't really do anything super cool today. We have to stay close to our house. The country's President Inauguration is on January 27th. It probably won't settle down until after that.

We came upon this cow while out contacting on Thursday, the day before our multi-zone meeting.

This Honduran cow doesn't want any of our gringo weeds...

It has been rainy. I had to buy this rain jacket for 40 limps. 

It fits me better than the one I brought with me, which is huge on me now!