Tela: Round Two

November 2, 2015

Hey Guys,

Well, I have survived another great week here in Honduras. Yes. Yes. October has come to a close. I promise that I am not baggy (trunky), but that was my last Halloween here, and there is an exciting ring to it. Halloween here is known as the "the day of the witches," and there is a rumor that this is an important part of our doctrine. People all think we are witches and that we celebrate Halloween as part of some weird religious rite of passage or something. I spent the whole week answering a whole bunch of funny questions. Haha.

This week has been really fun. We did companionship exchanges with the Zone Leaders, and I got to go hang out with a missionary I have known for quite a while. One of our ZLs completed a year during the divisions. ZL in less than a year...wow. Haha. I have almost 16 months and I can barely handle the responsibilities of a DL. I learned a lot during the divisions, and I got even more animated to work hard.

We placed six baptismal dates this week, all for after transfers. It is kinda weird to think that all these people will be getting baptized after I take off. I had the opportunity to go back to my old area this week, and I was just so happy to see all the miracles that have taken place. FIVE people I was teaching have been baptized since I have left, one just last Saturday. Plus, the family that I helped baptize has brought another FOUR people I didn't know to the Gospel. It was an amazing experience to see the fruits of six months in La Ceiba. I hope that I can have a similar experience when I come back to Progreso. The good news is that I can help make our area a jackpot in these last two weeks before transfers. Whoever gets to come here will be seriously lucky. I love it.

Lastly, we went to Tela again. It was fun. It was one of those things where the ZLs didn't tell us until 10:30pm last night, but it turned out all right. There was an old, sketchy pier (that we found a Canadian on), a small octopus, and a mouth full of sand. It has been a fun day.

I hope that you all have a great week. Only 54 days till Christmas.

Elder Aldrich