We had kind of a funny experience on Sunday. Normally on Sundays, one of the counselors in the mission presidency takes our truck, but this Sunday
nobody needed the truck so we drove it to church. When we showed up to
the chapel, there were no chairs! There would be nowhere for anyone to
sit during sacrament meeting. What happened was that all of the chairs
in our church were in another chapel because we had a stake conference
the week before in the stake center. So we took the truck to the stake
center and filled it up with our chairs and took them back to our
chapel. If we didn't have the truck that day, we wouldn´t have been
able to bring all the chairs back. Miracle!
Another
truck story! We went to fill up the truck with gas and one of the
workers at the gas station (self service gas stations don´t exist in
Honduras) said, ´´oh you guys are from the church of Jesus Christ of
latter-time kings right?´´ los reyes de los últimos tiempos. He was
close, but that just isn´t quite the name of our church haha.
In
the office, just kind of for fun, we got some copies of the book of
Mormon in Portuguese. SO I got my own copy and I am going to start
studying Portuguese in my free time. I even started using Duolingo
haha. I have the website set up in Spanish
learning Portuguese so I can practice the both languages at the same
time. I just hope I don´t mess my brain up by doing that. haha.
I
started looking up things that we could do on p-days since we are in
the city and have a car, so I found the National Gallery of Art which
just happened to be like 2 or 3 miles from the office. I convinced
everyone to go, but when we get there the security guy tells us that
this exhibit was moved to Comayagua 16 months ago... :( Comayagua is
another city about two hours away, and it makes sense because it is more
of a tourist hub than Tegucigalpa. We decided to go to the Basilica de
Suyapa which is this huge, old, Catholic cathedral. I had always seen
it from a distance, but had never gone up close or even inside. It was
incredible! It had a ton of these huge stained glass windows and there
weren't any services going on so we weren´t disturbing anything. Elder
Bingham and I had to test out the acoustics in there so we sang a few
church hymns! haha. (hopefully a video coming soon). The echo was
really cool.
We did part two of the pepper
challenge this week. haha. I forgot to ask what kind of pepper it was,
it was a tiny little red pepper. I was surprised that it was not nearly
as spicy as the jalapeño. haha. These members kept telling us that it
would be way spicier. haha. I survived yet again.
Today
we went to the immigration offices to take out residencies of
missionaries. The immigration offices are like going to the DMV... You
have to wait and wait and wait. haha, but everything ended up going
pretty smoothly.
We are teaching this guy
named Fernando, and he is really cool. He basically is a member, but
hasn't gotten baptized. He goes to church all the time and participates
in all the activities. Some of his family on his mom´s side are members,
but his dad and his family are not. He is 17, so we are hoping there
won´t be any complications with permission. We also started teaching his
friend Dennison, and he has also come to church the last few weeks.
Love Elder Burnham
Here is a Video
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