Capitulo 80 - On Saturday we got hit by a hurricane or something

 It rained literally the entire week. I don't think I've ever seen so much rain in my life haha. The rain was pretty normal until Saturday. On Saturday we got hit by a hurricane or something like that (note to mom: I'm fine, I doubt it was a hurricane) the point is the we were teaching a lesson to a family of recent converts and the rain just started pouring and pouring down. Before we realized it, we looked outside and the dirt road turned into a river of rushing water. the family told us to wait for the rain to calm down. we waited for 30 minutes until we realized that we had a appointment right then. We decided to leave. The moment I step in the water got passed my ankles. We started walking across the street and it got up to our waists. It was awesome! At least that's what I thought in the moment.

  As we were walking, people were trying to get around, and they couldn't. People would try crossing the dirt roads like we did and they got sucked down the road because the water was really fast. We had to help a few people out of the water. We realized that the appointment we had wasn't home, and so we started moving towards our back up plan. The rain didn't stop, and we were soaking wet. The water got higher and higher and started going into houses, and people were going crazy taking things out of their houses before the water destroyed everything, so we started helping people. Some people's walls fell down and for a lot of unfortunate people, their houses were taken away. I'm pretty sure that just happened in our area, because I asked other people how they were and they said the rain wasn't bad for them.

  The next day we had Stake conference. Only one family from our area went to the stake conference because everyone else stayed back reparing their houses and helping other people. President Chase, the President Duarte(temple president), and Elder Perez of the 70 came to the Conference. It was a good conference, and most of the day after the conference, we spent helping people with their houses. We'll see how things go this week.

Capitulo 79 - 1994 Yamaha special edition 175 2-stroke

Well the changes passed by, and i'll be able to finish the training of Elder Lara. I was worried that I might be sent away this change, because I wouldn't have been able to finish the training of Elder Lara, but all is good in the hood. 

  This week, specifically on Thursday, I did divisions with Elder Bills (who is in my zone) he is also from my group, like, we came to Honduas together, we were in the MTC together and everything, Because we hit 18 months exactly on Thurday! I went over to his area, and his companion came over to mine, and that night we each burned a pair of pants. It was awesome!!

  This week we have also been working a lot with Yomari and her family. They're really closed people, but we finally got the sister of Yomari to go to church! it was awesome, and hopefully we'll see more progress in the family. Funny story, so Yomari was a reference that we got from a member, sort of haha. She showed up to church one day with her friend and dissapeared, nobody knew were she lived. that same weeks, we found Yomari riding around on borrowed dirt bike. The dirt bike is awesome! it's a 1994 Yamaha special edition 175 2-stroke. we started talking to her and that's when she told us where she lives. She got baptized a few weeks later. This week, we were talking to Yomari, and the owner of the dirt bike came by, and we started talking about dirt bikes, and out of nowhere he says "hey, when are you going to invite me to your church, I'd like to get to know how it is" That was awesome! so we'll be talking to him this week.

  In other news, they shut down both missions in Nicaragua, and sent a lot of the missionaries over here to our mission. We're not sure how long they'll be here for, we just know that we got a whole bunch more missionaries in the mission, and now I don't know the whole mission haha.

Capítulo 78 - VERY far away and on a mountain

 This week we have been walking A LOT, but hey, who doesn't love walking? Oh wait... I don't like walking... well at least I'm not the biggest fan of it, but I still do it haha. The good part is that all of our walking hasn't been in vain. We were able to get permission and help Yomari enroll in seminary and she is willing to do ALL the make up work for the entire year! I really don't see that as fair, because she was baptized 2 weeks ago, but the teacher said that she had to do all the make up work for the whole year. But hey, she accepted it and we're helping her understand everything, it's great!

 One time when we were walking to Yomari's house (she lives VERY far away and on a mountain) we were climbing the hill and we noticed that there was a group of girls trying to get our attention. One girl tried to pretend to fall and actually ended up smacking the ground face first and almost fell off of a cliff. She was fine, just a few cuts, and stood right up. The funniest part is that my companion just started dying of laughter and all of the friends of the girl too because we all knew that she was just trying to get our attention haha.

  Chnages are this week, and they called us on Saturday telling us the changes. The both of us are staying here, but the two Hermanas that are in the other half of the ward are both leaving, and Elder Strickland will be opening the area training a new missionary! Elder Strickland is awesome, and he's also from California, so it will be even better haha

Capítulo 77 - The good part is that God won

 Well the good part about this week is that I have pictures finally of the baptisms these last few weeks. the sad part is that I don't have pictures of the baptism that we had this Saturday with the Hermana Suyapa. The good part is that she got baptized, but it wasn't an unstressful baptism. We had a lot of problems, and because of those problems only the Hermana Suyapa got baptized and the Hermana Yojana didn't. It's a very long story, but basically, we were fighting against the entire neighboring mission, and we just had so many problems, it was insane. But the good part is that God won and we got to have the baptsim of Hermana Suyapa.

  This week, we've been making a lot of Panameña food in the house, and it's actually pretty easy to make, and turns out really well. Before the mission, I would have never made so many things with bananas, But everything turns out super good, and I'm considering starting a restaurant of Central American food. We'll see how that goes haha.

  Well... changes are coming up this next week. I'm pretty sure that I'll be staying with my companion in the same area, but we'll see next week.

  

Capítulo 76 - We decided that the 3 nephites were visiting her

 This week was really good! On friday right after the district meeting we had divisions with the AP's and all four of us were here in our area. It was really awesome because it gave us the chance to get a lot of work done while learning at the same time haha. 

  When we were there, we finally found a lady who lives in the middle of nowhere is our area. She's been going to church for over a year and I thought she was a member. But last week what we were talking to her in the mother's day activity, she told us the missionaries were visiting her 2 or 3 times a week and that she had a baptismal date for the 26th. We were really confused because we are the only missionaries in the area and we havent ever visited her. we called missionaries around our area, and they all said that they don't know her.  We decided that the 3 nephites were visiting her, and we finally found her in her house and we figured out that the missionaries for the OTHER MISSION have been visiting her. So yeah... long story short, we robbed baptisms from the other mission haha.

 This week we also had the baptism of Yomari! I don't know if I've talked about Yomari, but she is an awesome 16 year old girl, who really wanted to learn about the gospel. The baptism was awesome! but we had so many problems leading up to it. The baptism was supposed to start at 5, and so we got everything ready in the chapel for the baptism and we left at 4 o'clock to get Yomari. We got to her house at 4:20 and we were ready to go, until she told us that her mom hadn't gotten back from work. So we waited for her, thinking that she was close. She didn't get back till almost 5. We were ready to go, until we saw the mom just BLOW UP, like she went CRAZY MOM on her kids for about 20 minutes. She calmed down and we started talking to her. Then we finally got to the baptism to realize that the clothes that were brought were too big for her. Long story short, we started the baptism at about 6:30, and there weren't any problems after that haha.