Capítulo 50 - It looked like the piñata was flying

 Well of the baptisms we had planned, we had 4 of them follow through. the baptism was awesome and we even bought some donuts for everyone that came to the baptism. The following day, Sunday, We had the confirmations too. This Sunday was AMAZING we had the 4 confirmations and a sacrament attendance of over 150 people!! Members kept coming up to Elder Alvarado and I saying "we have a great team here, you two are some of the best missionaries that this ward has seen." It honestly took us by shock, but we were very happy with how everything turned out. This ward is getting back to where it needs to be.

  This week, Elder Cuevas hit his one year mark in the mission. So a member from his ward made him a little piñata that looked like a missionary. We took that piñata home, filled it with whatever candy/packaged foods we could find. We tied it up in a way that it could move around in all sorts of directions, and it looked like the piñata was flying. It was super fun. After we all took turns, we lit it on fire, and then it looked like a flying ball of fire. It was super cool and super funny. the pictures turned out really cool too.

  We've been working as much as we can with the members here trying to get them motivated to fulfill their callings and also help us out in the missionary work. We've been starting a really good system, and everyone seems to be very excited about the work, and the other baptism we have today really shows the ward that we mean business. They weren't very excited to have 2 "office Elders" in the ward, but they've repented of their prior thoughts towards us, and we really do make a good team here.

Capitulo 49 - We have 6 baptisms today

This was a very long week. We had a lot of stuff to do, and not a lot of time to do it. We had changes in the mission (I think they're called transfers in the states?) Anyways, our missiona president had a huge mission president seminar in panama, and had to leave Tuesday, so we had changes on monday. The difficult part is that we had to recieve the new misisonaries, have the meeting for them, change all the missionaries around, and send the missionaries going home to their airplanes. Normally a 3 day job, but we did it in a matter of hours. It was a very stressful day haha.

   We've had to do a lot of driving, and has the "executive secretary" I have to be the driver because im "in charge" of the cars. So here in honduras, there are people everywhere. One of my first times driving I was sitting at a stop light, and everyone started yelling and I had no idea what was happening, and out of nowhere the dirties water gets splattered over the entire windsheild as some random guy started washing my window. I almost died of a heart attack. I had no idea what to do, and then they started laughing and put on the windsheild wipers to tell the guy no... and that happens every light that we ever stop at. There's just a mob of people waiting for you so they can make you windows dirtier than they started so that you pay them to clean it.

  This p-day...isn't really p-day haha. It's our p-day, but we've been busy this whole time because we have 6 baptisms today. Let's hope they all go through and get baptized. The work is going great!

Capítulo 48 - We won't let this legend of a ward die

Wow, it's been about 6 weeks, and it's already time to have changes. This week has been super crazy busy with the planning of the new people coming in, and the old people going home. Let's just say that it took a lot of very sleepless nights to figure it out, but we've been doing a lot better. one day, I had some extra time and so I mapped out how everything was going to go for the people going home, their divisions, their temple trip, their family night with president, their final interviews, and just everything. We are all getting super stressed, but the drawing helps haha.

Also, on Halloween we had bought some watermelons, and we carved them as if they were pumpkins, just because it's almost impossible to find a pumkin here. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be, and worked super well haha.

Even though we were super busy with the office, Elder Alvarado and I still squeezed some time in to get out to our area and teach some poeple. When we were out there, we found the awesomest family ever! That day we had been thinking of a few things we can do to be little bit more efficient in the work with the little time we have, and so we created a little 10 question survey to use, and we tested it out with them, and it went perfectly! We came to visit them a second time, and answered just about all of their doubts about the church. after the third visit, they're all ready for baptism, except the dad. They've all excepted baptism, but the dad is still a little doubtful. We'll see what happens when they come to church this sunday.

Speaking about church. This last week was so very dead. None of us had to speak but it was just super sad to see this ward only have an attendance of 45 people. Especially because this ward is the largest ward in all of honduras and the first efforts of the church in all of honduras. The church in honduras started here, and it's just sad to see what it's become. Anyways, we're really getting to work on that, and we won't let this legend of a ward die.

Halloween 

the watermelon we carved 

Office life