Hello people of the United States. Yesterday while I was writing the power shut off, consequently turning off the WiFi where I was at and erasing all I had written, sooooooo I have received time today to briefly send a letter.
This week was a pretty cool one, kinda like a vacation for a week and a half in another area, got to know some really great people, and learn how to work with a different companion. The kid is new, so I got to turn up my motivation to be a good example of how to work hard, and I think it really helped me a lot. Not gonna lie, kinda strange kid, but I dig it. I didn't want to come here in the beginning, but HEY, God knew it would help me! There are NO COINCIDENCES.
I just realized that I never really talk about the food I eat here, and I feel like you basically know a culture by its food. Not going to lie, there are a lot of beans, rice, and tortillas involved in the food here. For my first 8 months that's about all I ate lol. Well to drink, there is a ton of coke, and natural juices, coconut water, and all the normal sodas, not including Dr. Pepper. Although I drink a lot more coke here, I think it tastes better in the US, and the carbonation here lasts like 10 minutes after opening. The natural juices are sooo good, and VERY sugary. These people are crazy, I watch them pour like a pound of sugar in a 2 liter vase, and I immediately develop diabetes just by watching. The popular ones are Raspberry, Strawberry, Watermelon, Pineapple, and one called Tamarindo, but that last one taste like poop. There are many more, because here they make juices for just about any fruit, and here there are a million different kinds that we don't have in the USA. Well for food, the most famous thing of Honduras are the Baleadas, which are kinda like breakfast tacos, but completely different at the same time. Its a tortilla with beans, eggs, dry cheese, and cream butter. Sometimes you can put meat or avocado as well. The part that truly makes or breaks it, is if the person makes good flour tortillas or not. The people here are also obsessed with fried chicken, and I have no clue why. On about every corner there is a fried chicken shack with a glass box filled with chicken that you know has been sitting there for about a week and a half, that is heated by a light bulb. If that doesn't say Honduras, I don't know what does. Soups are pretty common here too, although not my favorite. Bean soup is usually alright, but most soups they have here are just water, soaked with bones of meat, without actually having any meat. How Stupid is that??! Basically if you eat meat here, you just gotta be ready at any moment to bite into a big piece of bone, which is not something we are used to in the states, unless eating wings or t bone steak lol. Also sometimes I'm convinced that the chicken here is actually dog, yay GO HONDURAS! (don't show Reggie this part please). The last thing about the food is the fish. I've eaten big fish, and small little perch with absolutely no meat. All fish is cooked with the heads on, which doesn't bother me, but a lot of people eat the fish eyes and that when I stop haha, but I have learned to eat fish with only my hands, and basically most food with only using a tortilla to grab my food because that's the culture here, forks do not exist. Welp, that's enough about food, I hope you enjoyed.
Today, in exactly one year I will be in my house watching Avengers Endgame with my puppers, cant wait.
On Sunday I got to go visit old members that lived really far away in the mountains. We took a bus wayy up high to the top of a big mountain in the forest, and then descended from there on trails FULL of Mango trees. It was one of the most beautiful hikes of my mission, and got to meet really cool people and eat like 10 different kinds of mangoes, all with a different taste. We don't have mangoes in the states that grow naturally, at least I don't think, but we do have mango flavored dum dum lollipops, so Im gonna enjoy the real thing while I here. I'll post some pics of the 5 hour walk in the jungle.
Sorry I don't have much spiritual to say right now, but just want every one of y'all to know that God loves you, and I do too. Miss just about everyone, sorry if I'm not always the best at responding to every single person, but I want the people and family to know that I truly do appreciate the letters and encouraging messages y'all send me! If you ever feel like updating me on life, or have questions, feel free! I love you all!
Elder Butler
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