Today was good, hopped on our bus to head to District
Meeting, we had a surprise visit from Pres and Hna Dester! Yay! I flipped back
into nurse companion mode to help Hna Dester translate a message to Hna Robles
over into Spanish, so that was kinda fun again to be back in the health loop
and help Hna Dester out. I also conducted the District Meeting (got notified on
the bus ride over that I was to pick who would do what and all that, yay for
delegation!) and Hna Dester complimented me and said that she could never just
get up and rattle off all that in Spanish. She's so sweet and truly sincere, I
just love her. And she makes some seriously awesome cookie bar thingies when we
have interviews with Pres, I've gotta ask her for the recipe. Good stuff, those
cookie bars, remind me so much of home.
And all our plans fell through, so we did some contacting, almost getting lost a few times as we explored some more parts of
our area, although I think we won't return to some of them for some time, there's
a few interesting people living there. Anyways, every single person we
contacted had already (supposedly, we're not quite sure...people tend to lie a
lot) talked to missionaries, they're actually almost never home, it's a miracle
that we found them that day, and that they aren't willing / able / have enough
money to go to church with us on Sunday. Really nice people, but completely
disinterested and noncommittal.That's pretty much what we meet up with when
we contact, anywhere you go in Honduras .
Pretty awesome. Or they start answering everything with, "Well, we all
worship the same God, right? We are the
Church, not the four walls of a building. What's in our heart matters. It's the
same God, just lots of different flocks."
As if that's the go-to answer for all the questions of the universe. I'm not sure how much looking around in the
rough it takes to find that happy diamond, but I would imagine that it is a
lot. But when you do find a diamond, it is something to be truly treasured and
taken care of, as in my experience diamonds are sort of a rare commodity here,
literally and figuratively.
So all that made for an interesting day. It also
rained really hard in the afternoon, but the power stayed
on, though, so that was truly fantastic. And we listened to "Living on a
Prayer" by Journey on the bus ride back to Santa Cruz , so that attained the level of
epic for the day.
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