Strike, Strike, Strike

It's been hard this week. All the buses and rapiditos have been on strike because the gas is so high and they want more money. So I have been walking a lot.

This is the Familia Cascro. They have been inactive for years and we found them contacting like 4 weeks ago. They are active now and we baptized there 14 year old daughter Jessica.


This is some lizard I caught. i don't know what kind it is.


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Catracho

I say Catracho because this week I felt like a real Honduran. The people from Honduras call themselves Catratros. The lady who washes my clothes couldn't wash our clothes this week because there was no water. So I was wearing the same clothes for 3 1/2 days. And I didn't get to shower for 2 1/2 days. I smelled so bad and was so dirty. It was a very hot week. I never get a break from the heat. At night I come home and I will right in my journal as I'm writing sweat drips onto my journal and smears the letters. I sweat this bad even when I have a big fan on me like all night. At night I hear gun shots. Like once a week I wake up to gun shot in the middle of the night. I thought this would be cool but it's not. It is scary and when I wake up I realize how hot I am.

This is in my area. On P-day the whole zone got together and we walked up to Coca-a-Cola Mountain. There is this huge mountain and on it is this giant Coca-a-Cola sign that you can see from anywhere is San Pedro Sula.

This is Elder Veamatahau and I standing on the C looking out over all of San Pedro Sula


This is my zone at the top of Coca-a-Cola Mountain.


This is my tan line. I have never had tan lines in my life. It's the same on my arms


This is us doing some service. We are digging a hole for someone's bathroom, because right now they just go outside anywhere they can find. Behind me is Elder Veamatahau. He is from Tonga and he wants me to give him Jari's address. He wants to marry her. So ask Jari if I can give him her address. He wants to write her.


These are all the orphan kids we play futbol with. They are really good and play bare foot. We play them once a month. The first time they won. Then the second time we won.

Photos

This is Yaffet, Cristian, and Yescenia. The big guy is a member. He helps us out all the time. He baptized Yescenia and I baptized the others. Cristian is 17 and already is talking about serving a mission.


These little people are always carrying so much wood up the mountain and I can never understand how they do it. I feel bad for them so I end up carrying the wood while Elder Castillo talks to them.



They always carry it on the heads too. I am always trying to be part of there culture so I wanted to try it on my head.

This is a little orphan kid that wanted me to throw him in the air. Look closely at his face, he is so happy.

It doesn't matter how poor you are most everyone has a bird just like this. And check out the part in my hair.

There are piles of trash like this all over the place. They just randomly bring it together. Then burn it in the road or where ever it is. There are always pigs, cows, dogs, chickens and little kids picking through it. At first I was like there is no way that kid is looking for food he would die if he ate any of that. The kids are looking for any pieces of metal or plastic they can scrap for money.

Honduras Week Of Rain

This is in the rain forest in my area. We are teaching a family who live like 20 feet from this river and about 30 feet behind the person taking this photo. [repeat]


This is the city San Pedro Sula. I'm in the city like 2 or 3 times a week and there are a lot of things I want to take pictures of but can't because it is dangerous to take your camera out. People will follow you until they have a chance to kill or rob you if they know you have a camera.


We play fútbol every p-day. Last p-day it rained the whole time we played. These are some of the young men from my ward. It was a lot of fun.

Fotos

This is Jorge y Jazzcel


This is Fanny and this is her front yard. The other Elder is Elder Rubio Nicsdfass.


This is part of my area and people live out here along this river.


This one is for Amy. I don't know why but he reminds me of Brady if Brady was born in Honduras.


This is one of my investigators. He is so crazy and normally doesn't have a shirt on. He reminds me of a mix of a Spanish Tarzan and Rambo.