Saturday, April 25, 2015 -- Week #10 - Day #68 - San Pedro Sula

9:30 pm

Made another day! Whoohoo! The Sisters took off this morning and things went back to a degree of more normal-ness.

Halsey got Chikunguyna last night! He couldn't be baptized today, kinda disappointing, but hopefully by next Saturday he'll have recovered from the worst of it and should still be good to go.

We did a ton of street contacting today and walked around all over the place, so my legs and feet are pretty tired, and I have the hiccups right now. Hiccups tickle my tummy!

I would like to take a moment to inform the public that I think one of my absolute favorite things from Honduras are "topo gigios," dang they are amazing. It's just some milk and sugar mixed together and flavored with shredded coconut or chocolate powder or pineapple etc and poured in little portions in a bag and tied off and then frozen, but man, they are just the best things in the world when you're walking around here. When they're frozen, you bite off the corner of the bag and suck out the frozen milk stuff... so yummy! Usually the portions are about 1-2 cups or so, and cost about 5-6 lps. Good stuff right there.

Partially eaten topo gigio, vanilla flavor

Also, they call slugbugs here "cucarachitas" or little cockroaches, thankfully Hna Robles doesn't punch my arm when we pass one (I've seen 2 since I've been here), and they've both been white, and the older version, not the all-roundy ones we usually see in the States.

The taxis here are white as well, and have their black numbers on the side of the car. We get to know all the drivers pretty well, as we use them so much for hospitaling, they're all really good people, I have yet to see a female driver, mostly just the guys seem to drive here.

Walking around today, I heard "Knocking on Heaven's Door" playing from somewhere, so that was nice to finally recognize and understand something since my time here. They also play quite a few songs in English, usually they aren't the best ones to listen to, though, while on a mission or in normal life, so that's interesting. Usually in restaurants they'll alternate and play a latino song, and then English (pretty much just North American artists) and then latino, back and forth.

And, random fact, the District 1 videos were made in San Antonio, Texas! I saw Pres. Beckstead (he was just Brother Beckstead at the time) and the San Antonio Temple, so that was pretty neat. It was fun to see brick houses and grass and bushes and chapels like I have been used to again.

Also, I heard from Hno Lopez today (we're trying to coordinate a musical number for Halsey's baptism with his guitar-playing skills) that India had a level 7 earthquake? Haven't heard much about world events lately, so that was interesting news. I hope the people there are ok. Hna Robles was in an earthquake in Peru in 2011, and the bus she was on was shaking and there was awful traffic, but obviously she's ok, and they've recovered. Earthquakes are rough business.

And some good scriptures, used them a lot in teaching today:

(faith) Alma 32: 21-22, 26-28, 38, 41

(keeping the Sabbath Day holy) Mark 2:27

(God is preparing people to learn about the Gospel) Alma 13:24, Alma 14:16-17

(God will always help us) 1 Nephi 14:12,14