9:20 pm
Alright, that was a rough day of traveling, and I've been
having trouble staying awake, but I am safely in the beautiful home of Pres y
Hna Dester in San Pedro Sula, and I'm showered and fed and ready for bed,
finally!
Hna Kleinman and I got up on time and got dressed and
packed last minute things away, and got ourselves and suitcases and backpacks
downstairs and outside, and got our stuff loaded on the bus and hopped on the
bus, and got driven over to the airport, and got our stuff weighed and checked
to our destinations, and waited, and went through security and waited, and
waited and waited, and finally got on our plane from Guatemala.
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| Looking good at 2:00 am with Hna Kleinman |
Then Guatemala to
San Salvador, El Salvador, where we waited some more, and then she and Elderes
Ang y High and other latinos got on their plane to Tegucigalpa, Honduras (I
think they're taking a bus over to their mission in Comayaguela) and I got on
the plane for San Pedro Sula with Hnas Gutierrez, Garcia, y Escobar and Elderes
Escalante y Chube, and we all parted ways.
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| Flying From Guatemala to Honduras |
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| Flying From Guatemala to Honduras |
So I'm the only new norte in my
arrival group because Hna Brady had to go home, but Hna Gutierrez and I are
buddies and she's helping me with my Spanish, and I with her English, so it all worked out quite well.
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| President and Sister Dester -- Honduras Airport |
So we finally got to SPS, and we were greeted by Pres y
Hna Dester, and the AP's and the office secretaries, and hopped on a bus to go the Benque, aka Stake Center.
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| Looking around the Benque (Stake Center) |
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| Me at the Benque (Stake Center) |
Anyway, we dropped our stuff off and went through the rules
and expectations and all that fun stuff and introduced ourselves and got to
know one another better, and then we finally went over to the Dester's
residence for a delicious dinner, and got ready for bed, which I'm almost ready
for.
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| View at President Dester's house |
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More beautiful view at
President Dester's house |
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| Hna Mower, Gutierrez, Garcia, Escobar at President Dester's house |
Honduras,
and specifically, SPS, is hot and humid and so darn green, it's beautiful. I
love it! I think I'll be quite happy here. Literally every
person I ever talked to said in reaction to the fact that I was going to Sula, "Ay! Hace MUCHO calor!!!" which means that "it's very hot here." And I believe it, Guatemala was
much cooler than here, but I'll be alright. Half the battle is the mentality,
so we're just working on positive affirmations right now.
But I simply love the Desters, they are incredible people.
I am so blessed to have had so many amazing people in my life! Thank you, all
my awesome people! Pres. Dester is a remarkable man and very genuine, and has good things to say, and I look forward to working with him during my
mission. They have about a year and a few months left, so I'll have a new mission president the last month or two of my mission, but that's alright, I'll be happy to meet
them, too. And Hna Dester is just so wonderful, she reminds me so much of Hna
Kleinman in her gentleness and earnestness, I like her a lot. And she cooks
very well, so I definitely appreciate that, and she's so sweet and doesn't know
much Spanish, so she jokes about that too.
But yeah, today was kinda crazy, and I'm really quite exhausted, so I'm gonna head to sleep now, and figure out this next day and get to work, I'm sure I'll have some interesting things to say tomorrow. Buenas noches!
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| President and Sister Dester |
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