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This week was pretty normal, except for the fact that it rained hard core all week, and today was the first day since Tuesday without rain. But the way good news is that as a zone we played soccer day in canch aport again. It was awesome. This week we focused on setting baptismal dates. We had 4 for the 24th, but 3 fell and are now for the 31st. But the best news of all is that Cesar is getting baptized this Saturday. I’m pretty sure I’ve already told you guys all about him, but as a review--he is from Panama and now is engaged. But they aren’t getting married ‘til March... but they agreed (she agreed he already wanted to) live the law of chastity, so he’s getting baptized this Saturday and she’s getting baptized in two weeks, and he’s gonna baptize her. Pretty weird but way cool too. (He played soccer with us today, then took everybody in the zone out to eat...) so that’s pretty much it. Nothing to report.

Love you guys.

1/12 E-mail

This week was nutz!!!! Tuesday we had a zone meeting and afterwards we started divisions. I went to an area called Galeras which is in a different county 3 hours away from my area. And I got sick for the first time in the mission. That night I couldn’t sleep ‘cause my stomach hurt so bad. And the next morning I had to go back to my area. It was a rough trip. I met my district leader in La Entrada to switch back or so I thought... we then went back to Santa Rosa, but didn’t stop there. We went to a little town called San Pedro de Copan and taught every single lesson so this non-baptized kid of members could get baptized. We got there at 3 and found out that there were no more busses so we had to stay the night in the members’ house. The AP´s freaked at my district leader (Elder Ramos from Panama), but there was nothing we could do. I got back to my area Thursday at 3. And the next day were interviews with President.

Then we got back to my area at 5 (interviews are in La Entrada an hour away from my area). Saturday was my only normal day of this last week. And I am fed up with divisions and traveling. Everything is good now. Changes are in 2 weeks and I’m pretty sure I’m staying here.

Santa Rosa is hilly and green and is one of the few places in Honduras where there are pine trees.

Love ya!

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It’s been a great year for me too! I baptized my first family! A couple and their brother. Nothing too huge to report. But I do have another funny dog story: we were knocking doors and I called out ¨Buenas tardes!¨ and a dog came running out of the house and up to the fence. It barked once and proceeded to lift his leg and try to pee on me. Luckily I was watching it and dodged the pee. My shoes are still pee free.

Other than that the whole new year’s thing was about the same as it was for Christmas. No one outside and no appointments. But we still baptized. This month is the month of repentance because we only baptized 132 in December, and that is our lowest number for years and years. hahah.
After the baptism we went to their house and made baleadas (the traditional food of Honduras), and I bought a huge cake! It was only 7 dollars... so everything is way chill here.