1. We have sent ties with each package, in addition to the ones you sent and any you may have gotten from other people or bought there. If you could only keep three of your ties for the remainder of your mission, which ones would you pick?
The one from my companion in the CCM, a purple, grey, and black one that the family sent me, and the Honduras flag one.
2. What three words would you use to best describe Elder Valladares?
Hilarious. Small. LOL. And Hard-working.
3. What medicine, if any, does the mission provide for you to take every day? Do you take it?
Nothing that we should take every day, but stuff that we can take when we need it. Just normal medicine.
4. How far are you from the Tegucigalpa Temple? Will you get to attend while on your mission?
Aha! Good timing! This week we are going! It is about 2 and a half hours away.... I think.
5. What is something you are looking forward to?
Ummmm.... The temple!
Monday, January 11, 2016
WEEK 27 Update - 6 Months
Well, this week I completed 6 months in the mission. It feels like a long time but at the same time I feel super duper new in the mission.
I don't have a weekly day by day update but this week was really good.
We are focusing a lot on finding new people. But at the same time we are teaching the people we already have. We are working so hard and we get home dead tired every night. We ended up dropping a few investigators this week, which was super duper hard for both of us. One of them especially, but we are finding new ones and the ones we still have are fantastic.
This week we get to go to the temple, which I am super excited about, because I still haven't been.
Have a great week everyone!
Elder Baller
I don't have a weekly day by day update but this week was really good.
We are focusing a lot on finding new people. But at the same time we are teaching the people we already have. We are working so hard and we get home dead tired every night. We ended up dropping a few investigators this week, which was super duper hard for both of us. One of them especially, but we are finding new ones and the ones we still have are fantastic.
This week we get to go to the temple, which I am super excited about, because I still haven't been.
Have a great week everyone!
Elder Baller
Monday, January 4, 2016
WEEK 26 - Photos
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| Poor Elder Valladares hasn't been feeling well. |
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| Aidan's suit pants were both accidentally bleached while their laundry was being done. Missionary Mall requested these pictures and will likely cover them under their two year warranty. Awesome! |
WEEK 26 - Q&A
1. When was the last time you laughed with Elder Valladares and why?
We have a bunch of inside jokes and we are always just saying them at random times. One of the best ones is that all the people here just say "la palabra" which means the word. We will ask them what they understood and they just say, "Well, the word." Which makes no sense, so we always say that and laugh.
2. Six months in - how are your clothes and shoes holding up? How about your feet?
My clothes are doing good. Everything in that aspect is good. My feet are tough and tough.
3. What has been your favorite meal fed to you by members in the mission so far?
Some of the members here know how to cook chicken with spices, who knows what, but it is so so so so so good.
4. What is your favorite smell in Danli? Least favorite?
This is quite honestly the weirdest question I've ever been asked. The best smell is the fried chicken places. Wowza. The worst I would say is occasionally there is just a really nasty undescribable smell.
5. What should we do to be better missionaries at home while you are gone?
For this New Year I want to challenge everyone to bring one person into the church. You have 12 months. And just one person. I know that everyone has at least one friend that isn't a member. Just try. The worst that can happen is they say no...
We have a bunch of inside jokes and we are always just saying them at random times. One of the best ones is that all the people here just say "la palabra" which means the word. We will ask them what they understood and they just say, "Well, the word." Which makes no sense, so we always say that and laugh.
2. Six months in - how are your clothes and shoes holding up? How about your feet?
My clothes are doing good. Everything in that aspect is good. My feet are tough and tough.
3. What has been your favorite meal fed to you by members in the mission so far?
Some of the members here know how to cook chicken with spices, who knows what, but it is so so so so so good.
4. What is your favorite smell in Danli? Least favorite?
This is quite honestly the weirdest question I've ever been asked. The best smell is the fried chicken places. Wowza. The worst I would say is occasionally there is just a really nasty undescribable smell.
5. What should we do to be better missionaries at home while you are gone?
For this New Year I want to challenge everyone to bring one person into the church. You have 12 months. And just one person. I know that everyone has at least one friend that isn't a member. Just try. The worst that can happen is they say no...
WEEK 26 Update
Friday
Friday was really really good. We moved... We just moved down the street but our old house had a lot of noise and we had trouble focusing. The new house is really awesome but it is a mess right now. We also did a baptism interview for the Hermanas.
Saturday
We cleaned the font, we worked a little bit but not a whole lot. Then the Hermanas had a baptism, so we went to that. It was great and I actually ended up giving a talk. At night we were organizing the house a little bit and we got a call from the Zone Leaders at about 9 asking us if we could run over to the Hermanas house to give Hermana Rodriguez a blessing (we share a ward with her and her companion Hermana Renteria). We ran over super quick, they live kinda far away but we ran over. It turns out she had felt something bad and she wanted a priesthood blessing. She is one of my good friends in the mission cause we have been in the same zone the whole mission and we were in the CCM together but I thought she would ask for the blessing from my companion... But she asked me to do it. It was hard to struggle through the Spanish because giving a blessing is very different, you have to talk in a different way that I still don't know very well. But it showed me that it doesn't matter, the priesthood is real.
Sunday
Sunday was alright. One of our converts, Hermano Salgado, got to bless the sacrament for the first time. Which was amazing to see. We are both a little bit sick and my companion has a really bad fever so we ended up resting for part of the day.
Hope you all have a happy new year!
Elder Baller
