Vroom Vroom Dallin Poulson 6/4/2016

Hey there friends and fam.

This week I started driving the Honduran roads. IN the Honduran way. Driving here is insane. 

No enforcement unless the police want money from you. People randomly stop, weave through cars at 100 mph, jump barriers, drop stuff, bikes and kids show up out of nowhere, and many other things! It's pretty fun though! Riding a motorcycle before the mission prepared me for this I think, you have to drive super aware all the time. 

Super common road pic.  I found these bullets and they sum it up perfectly...

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• A green light signals the start of the race.
• Driving in Honduras is a mix between a NASCAR race and bumper cars.
• Honk at everyone … in all situations… sometimes for no reason at all.
• It’s okay to make a two lane street into a 4 lane highway.
• Blind curves are ideal for passing.
• Double yellow lines, that mean “don’t pass” in most countries, are simply there for looks in Honduras.
• If you’re kind and decide to let one driver in, expect ten others to push their way in as well.
• Expect a giant yellow bus at anytime and any place, including going the wrong way on a one-way single lane road. Grrrr.
• A red light means, “Watch out, someone is coming through anyway.” 

I drove a ton. I drive for what we call the Ruta on Tuesdays. When we distribute all the supplies to all the missionaries each week. It takes about 4 or more hours to go across the mission.

 I had to do it again on Wednesday, because 3 missionaries from opposite sides of the mission had transfers but didn't know about them. 

So I was like their taxi service! haha We had several days this week where we worked from 7am to 10:30 pm because of transfers. 

The missionaries that were finishing their missions slept at our house on Tuesday night. It was a fun time mixed with laughing and crying. 

Due to transfers, we didn't even get to work in our areas so far. It's actually really sad. I didn't realize how much I would miss it! But my comp and I set goals to leave the office for at least 1 lesson every day. And take a half day on Fridays. It should be doable now that transfers are over. 

I am loving the food in this area. We work right next to the mall and we eat at the food court all the time. Finally back to normal food and not beans and rice!

hahah The members in my area are super super rich and feed us really good food most the time. We only have 3 meals a week from them but they are super good!

One family has a real Golden Retriever dog! So that's awesome! 

There is a guy from Canada in my ward that knows German, French, English, Spanish, and Kiché from Guatemala.

Cool stuff.

Welp that's all for this week. Pics!   Dallin
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