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Today we had la Conferencia Multi-Zona! Yay! So that was
pretty neat, went from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the Benque, and ate lunch there. Had some opening
messages from Hna Dester about health stuff, and Pres Dester about the Holy
Ghost, and then some workshops with the zone leaders about different things we
can do to be better missionaries, then lunch, and then a message from the AP's
[Assistants to the President], and then Pres Dester shared a video of a talk
from Pres Uchtdorf and shared his closing thoughts. I enjoyed the experience a
lot.
And then we went and taught a whole bunch of lessons! Yay!
So that was awesome, I got asked the truly important question of whether God
sleeps or not from one of our dear investigators, so I told him that we have to
eat and sleep because our bodies are mortal and have physical needs. But since
God had a glorified and perfected body, He doesn't have to be subject to the
frailties of mortality. And so no, God doesn't need to sleep. He thought that
was a sufficient answer and made sense. There's always some interesting thing that
happens every day, I'm not kidding.
Also, the equivalent to "head in the clouds" or
"my mind was wandering" etc, is "su mente esta en la luna!"
or "your mind is on the moon". I love Spanish!
And also, there's always some fruit or household object or
poor little animal that is absolutely smashed flat in the streets from the cars that speed around all over the place. Lots of rats, pigeons, mangos,
nani fruit (nasty stuff...it's good for you, but it is not delicious in any
sense of the word), shoe soles, plastic forks, bottle caps, random papers,
plastic bags of all sorts out the whazoo....haven't seen any frogs here but we
have quite a few little gecko lizards that run around and sometimes get pegged
too. Poor little guys.
Also, random fact about Honduras, the people here usually don't sing above a "B" in the treble clef, and the concept of harmony or parts doesn't really exist, so when we sing hymns in our lessons or in church meetings, we tend to transpose keys during multiple passages of the melody to avoid anything higher than a "B." So I've learned to be a little quieter in the true melody when a "B" is coming up, so I can figure out and pick up whatever key Hna Robles happens to be singing in next. Add that to the fact that I'm trying to decently memorize the words in Spanish, and it makes for quite the exciting adventure every time we sing.
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| Our oil that we use for cooking... a lot of stuff is in bags. |
Also, random fact about Honduras, the people here usually don't sing above a "B" in the treble clef, and the concept of harmony or parts doesn't really exist, so when we sing hymns in our lessons or in church meetings, we tend to transpose keys during multiple passages of the melody to avoid anything higher than a "B." So I've learned to be a little quieter in the true melody when a "B" is coming up, so I can figure out and pick up whatever key Hna Robles happens to be singing in next. Add that to the fact that I'm trying to decently memorize the words in Spanish, and it makes for quite the exciting adventure every time we sing.
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