Hell's Kitchen Honduras
Today has been a long Pday. Honestly it hasn´t felt much like a Pday.
This week we planned to do a fundraiser with Karla and Kevin selling
baleadas so we can raise funds so they can get married. So we planned
on selling a ton of baleadas to missionaries. The best day to sell
things to the missionaries is on Monday because they are all together
playing soccer at the churches. After getting all the orders from the
missionaries we had 67 baleadas to make. The thing is that Karla
wouldn´t have been able to do all the baleadas alone so we invited a
member and we went to help her this morning to make the 67 baleadas. I
now have a perfect understanding of the work that goes into making
baleadas. We said that we were going to have the baleadas ready at
8:30 in the morning but we actually got to the church around 11:30. It
was way stressfull trying to make all those baleadas in a tiny kitchen
which felt like a suana and in a little time frame. But we made it.
And made a little bit of money for Karla and Kevin.
I have been hearing (and watching) quite a bit of the World Cup here
in Honduras. Just about in every house that we go into there is a game
going on. Most of the games are in the morning and around lunch time.
So whenever we are eating lunch at a members house the TV is on with a
soccer game. My companion has basically gone crazy. He loves soccer
and wants to talk about the world cup all the time. We got some free
alblums where we can go filling in the games that have been played.
Unfortunately Honduras and the US didnt make into the World Cup so I
dont really have anyone to root for haha.
This week we also had a zone conference. I really enjoy the zone
conferences. We get to eat good food, talk with other missionaries,
and I usually leave motivated to work hard. It is kind of funny how at
the beggining of my mission I would go to zone conferences and
wouldn´t know anyone and I would be a little nervous to talk to all
the "older" missionaries especially with my spanglish. But now I have
had some kind of experience with most of the missionaries in the
mission and I really enjoy talking to them and also meeting new
missionaries that I dont know. We really do learn a lot in the zone
conferences and we find better ways to help the investigators
progress.
Oh last thing! Yesterday we went and visited with the Elder´s quorom
president, Marvin. I really enjoyed it. He is a returned missionary
that served in Guatemala. I have gone on visits with some members and
especially returned missionaries and sometimes we hear a lot "Elders
you guys should be doing this", or "in my mission....." Sometimes it
is really helpful and many times it has pushed me to be better but it
can also be a little frustrating. But with Marvin I had a good time
because he really showed us a good example and helped us learn a few
important things but I knew he did it to help us not to show us that
he was better. We went to Hermano Santiago´s house and Santiago took
us out to his corn farm and we gave a short message in the hills with
the wind blowing on us. It was a good time.
Hope everyone has a great 4th of July! I will be singing the national
anthem here in San Pedro. Enjoy the BBQs! I´ll be here eating my
baleadas enjoying life here in Honduras!
Love you guys!
Elder Gessell
This week we planned to do a fundraiser with Karla and Kevin selling
baleadas so we can raise funds so they can get married. So we planned
on selling a ton of baleadas to missionaries. The best day to sell
things to the missionaries is on Monday because they are all together
playing soccer at the churches. After getting all the orders from the
missionaries we had 67 baleadas to make. The thing is that Karla
wouldn´t have been able to do all the baleadas alone so we invited a
member and we went to help her this morning to make the 67 baleadas. I
now have a perfect understanding of the work that goes into making
baleadas. We said that we were going to have the baleadas ready at
8:30 in the morning but we actually got to the church around 11:30. It
was way stressfull trying to make all those baleadas in a tiny kitchen
which felt like a suana and in a little time frame. But we made it.
And made a little bit of money for Karla and Kevin.
I have been hearing (and watching) quite a bit of the World Cup here
in Honduras. Just about in every house that we go into there is a game
going on. Most of the games are in the morning and around lunch time.
So whenever we are eating lunch at a members house the TV is on with a
soccer game. My companion has basically gone crazy. He loves soccer
and wants to talk about the world cup all the time. We got some free
alblums where we can go filling in the games that have been played.
Unfortunately Honduras and the US didnt make into the World Cup so I
dont really have anyone to root for haha.
This week we also had a zone conference. I really enjoy the zone
conferences. We get to eat good food, talk with other missionaries,
and I usually leave motivated to work hard. It is kind of funny how at
the beggining of my mission I would go to zone conferences and
wouldn´t know anyone and I would be a little nervous to talk to all
the "older" missionaries especially with my spanglish. But now I have
had some kind of experience with most of the missionaries in the
mission and I really enjoy talking to them and also meeting new
missionaries that I dont know. We really do learn a lot in the zone
conferences and we find better ways to help the investigators
progress.
Oh last thing! Yesterday we went and visited with the Elder´s quorom
president, Marvin. I really enjoyed it. He is a returned missionary
that served in Guatemala. I have gone on visits with some members and
especially returned missionaries and sometimes we hear a lot "Elders
you guys should be doing this", or "in my mission....." Sometimes it
is really helpful and many times it has pushed me to be better but it
can also be a little frustrating. But with Marvin I had a good time
because he really showed us a good example and helped us learn a few
important things but I knew he did it to help us not to show us that
he was better. We went to Hermano Santiago´s house and Santiago took
us out to his corn farm and we gave a short message in the hills with
the wind blowing on us. It was a good time.
Hope everyone has a great 4th of July! I will be singing the national
anthem here in San Pedro. Enjoy the BBQs! I´ll be here eating my
baleadas enjoying life here in Honduras!
Love you guys!
Elder Gessell
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