BUENAS! First Week in Honduras Dallin 11/2/2015

Buenas! 

My first week in Honduras has been successful for sure. I honestly can´t believe its only been a week though, feels like a month. I feel like I just barely started to learn Spanish, I have zero confidence in my language abilities but people tell me I´m doing well. I went to church with our branch yesterday and bore my testimony. I may suck at Spanish most of the time, but when I´m speaking from my heart and with the spirit I barely ever mess up. Its pretty awesome. Our branch is in rough shape. Everyone knows it kind of stinks and none of the leaders want to try to fix it. We asked a member what he thinks we should do to get people excited to get the branch moving and he said ´´honestly, re-baptize everyone!´´ ha-ha. The branch president and his assistant showed up to ward council without ties and their shirts undone and we didn't even talk about the members in the ward. The missionaries aren´t going to give up though. We plan on ´machete-ing ´(chewing them out with love) people in the branch. Its all about attitude.

We got gym memberships today so that´s gnarly. The gym owner opens up the gym for us to use because we are some of the very few that actually use it. They blast crazy techno Spanish music, I dig it. 

We´re lucky to have a gym nearby because the members seriously feed us too much. Portion sizes in Honduras are ridiculous! It´s pretty rude not to finish your plate and its pretty hard to do sometimes. All of the food is great though!

There is an AWESOME restaurant here that has AC and a pool table. 

They have the best chicken fingers ever and the dipping sauce is amazing. 

My first week in Honduras has been successful for sure. I honestly can´t believe its only been a week though, feels like a month. I feel like I just barely started to learn Spanish, I have zero confidence in my language abilities but people tell me I´m doing well. I went to church with our branch yesterday and bore my testimony. I may suck at Spanish most of the time, but when I´m speaking from my heart and with the spirit I barely ever mess up. Its pretty awesome.

The city I am serving in is called La Entrada. The weather isn't as bad as San Pedro Sula, it actually cools down at night so that's nice. It gets dark at 6 every day and that throws me off big time. 

My companions and I saw a mototaxi for sale today and are seriously considering buying it ha-ha I wish. 

I live with my companion and another two missionaries. The other two are zone leaders and are super awesome. One is from Utah and he´s Samoan. The other one is from Ecuador but speaks pretty good English. He has the nickname FEZ because he is just like the character from That 70´s show.

God bless America and it´s reliable plumbing, electricity, washers, pavement, nice grass, building codes, and generally functioning government! ha-ha-ha You really learn to appreciate what you had once you get down here.

I love you mom! keep me updated with what is going on at home!  I want to hear it all. Thanks for being the best mom ever!