Marcielagos, Guineos, y Bautismos

Hey friends and family!

Lots of work this week!

This week we have been looking for lots of new investigators. In the last zone conference President gave us a standard of 15-20 new investigators every week. It sounds like a lot. And it is. But it isn't impossible. A new investigator just means that you have taught them one lesson and set a second appointment. So we spent a lot of time contacting houses this week. We ended up with 18 new investigators. I'm not sure if it is a blessing or a curse that almost everyone is willing to listen to the missionaries just because they feel obligated. So while we are contacting we will be passively giving a lesson to a little catholic lady who really doesnt want to listen. So we get into about every other house that we contact. Also here we don't knock on doors. Since everyone has a gate outside their house and a dog protecting the gate we yell "¡Buenas!" which is how most people greet each other here.

The other thing that was big this week was that we are preparing for the baptism for Yahir Corea this Saturday. Elder Reyes is going to baptize and I am going to do the confirmation. Yahir and his mom are both really excited for his baptism. We have a little more work to do this week like his interview and other small things like that. 

This week we did a service project for our ward mission leader, Brother Santitos. He needed us to mix cement and put it on the top of his house so he could build a second story. That is the thing about Honduras houses. Everyone just builds their own houses where ever they want. But anyways we were mixing the cement and then wheelbarrowing(?) it over onto the house. Looking back it probably wasn't the safest thing because we were walking wheelbarrows over 2 thin wooden planks onto the roof haha. But it was actually kinda fun and I learned how to mix cement. So I'm probably going to build my house when I get back. 

Also this week we found a bat in our house. Or a marcielago in spanish. We woke up one morning and it was just sleeping in our sink. So we caught it with a towel and stuck it in our fan. But we didnt turn the fan on dont worry haha. It was just the closest thing we had to a cage hah. We took some pictures of it and then let it go. I learned that bats are actually super ugly haha.

I noticed something about some of the food here in Honduras I remember in my senor year of high school in my economics class I was assigned a country to research and to do economic stuff with it haha. Well my country was Sierra Leone in Africa. Part of the project was to make a typical meal from the country. What I made was a boiled plantane fried in coconut oil. I remember eating it and thinking that it had no flavor and wondering how they ate that everyday haha. Turns out in Honduras they eat the same thing everyday hahaha. They are called guineos and it is basically a boiled green banana. I eat it everyday like it is nothing now haha. 

Anyways, that is mostly everything for this week. I want to wish Cami a super Happy 6th Birthday this week! I love you big girl!!

Thanks for the emails and prayers!

Love

Elder Gessell