Week 16 - Rain, Beans, Sopa de Mondongo

    Yo whats good everyone, its Elder Steven Butler here coming to you live from Honduras, where the beans are just alright, trash is burned in the streets, and dogs are multiplying on every street corner! ;)

       So basically its been raining every evening here this week, and to make it better, I lost my umbrella on a bus too. I have a rain jacket though so that helps. To keep out backpacks and scriptures from getting soaked, we just put our backpacks on our chests, and zip up our backpacks over them. Its a pretty clever idea if I must say myself, but we look like pregnant goons walking around in the streets, and my area is filled with gangsters so people probably think "What are those freaking Gringo locos doing?".  Might bring down the Rep, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

      This week we got to go to the Temple as a Zone (Peep the photos)! Such an awesome experience. The Honduras Temple is one of the most beautiful things I have seen, its on top of a hill overlooking the city. Such an amazing experience, you can feel the spirit very strongly all around the temple grounds. Such an awesome experience!

      This week was pretty just okay. Almost every appointment for like 3 days straight fell through. People here in Honduras tell you things and make commitments with you, but half the time never keep them. Its just the culture here, its not because they are bad people, but this really frustrates me sometimes when people say they are gonna do something and then don't do it. Its always been a pet peeve of mine my whole life. Even when My friends would bail, always frustrated me. Just a test of patience I guess, I'm trying to love the people more, even if they curse at us in English or ask us if we want coffee in the streets. Usually works better if you joke back at them haha. I'm liking this place though, and love the language.

       Had another Baptism this week with a Kid named Ever, so that's some sweet news! We had to VROOM VROOM down to another church building in a different area with a baptismal font because here in Babylon, nothing works. Our Baptism font has a ton of leaks in it, so when we try to fill it up it gets to about 1.5 feet of water, and then starts to lose water faster than it enters. We were determined, so we got permission from the parents, And hoped on a bus to Zambrano where the Sister Missionaries live. When we got there, it started pouring. We ran like a mile in the pouring rain and showed up to the church dripping head to toe, so thats why we look wet in the picture before the baptism.

Okay so last night I had my most interesting meal yet. Its a native Honduran soup called "Sopa de Mondongo". Mondongo is the Stomach lining of a cow. Tested just how you would imagine the slimey inner lining of a cow stomach  would taste, with the texture of chewing gum. Haha Frodsham has always wanted to try it, so he had been asking every member and person if they knew how to make it, until one member told us they would buy it for us. Pretty nice of them because its a delicacy here I guess. Pretty funny experience.

Don't have much else this week, but here are pics! Love you all, write and send pics if you love me too!