Neapolitan Tan?

Martes 8 de marzo

An jiesietibunu itarala eien

That means I love you a lot and I hope you feel the same in Garifuna.

The black people here have their own communities and language, I’ve never visited but I want to learn more and also learn how to make the coconut bread they bake because it is amaaaazing.

Miercoles 9 de marzo:

We had a zone conference today, I realized that I need to be more loving and respectful with people of other religions.

I need to be more patient and supportive as well.

Jueves 10 de marzo:

"But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the faithful and to the evil."

Luke 6:35

This guy stopped to talk to us on the street and to show us where he used to have worms in his mosquito bites but that the worms are dead now. He knows this because they have stopped moving around and the bites have stopped bleeding so much.

We asked Manuel how he was doing with his scripture reading, he told us he hasn’t read for two weeks because bowing his head to read the scriptures in his lap hurts his neck #speechless #alrightythen

Viernes 11 de Marzo

Gym. Tan. Laundry. No but for reals we went to the gym and then spent the next 3 hours outside painting the fences in Pelican resort. I got a little sun burnt while we were painting so now there's some neapolitan action going on on my leg.

All tourist attractions are getting ready for "semana santa" and even though the word santa means holy, this time of year is hot as hell and it's when people have the most parties and craziness.

When we got done painting, the señora gave us sopa marinera which is a soup with a coconut milk base and has shrimp, fish (bones and fins and erthang) guineo, platano maduro, ayote, caracol, and other veggies.

Sabado 12 de marzo

Hasta San Pedro Sula so that my daughter could get her second round of the rabies vaccine. We had plans to go to the city mall since it's right next door to the mission office but President wanted to take us to his favorite bakery, who can say no to that??

So after ordering everything that looked tasty, we ended up with a table full of goodies and from there we cut everything up so that we could all try a little bit of everything. It was an absolute treat!

On the bus ride home I made friends with some backpackers from England, New York, and Brazil, respectively. They were so cool! And the Brasilian forgave me for when I joked that Portugues is like lazy spanish- I had no idea he was Brazilian because he is basically white with light brown hair. oops! I felt so bad. But they said that I should definitely look into it when I get done with my mission. 

We only got 3 lessons today, visiting with hna Soto was especially interesting, idk how but we ended up talking about marriage and she told us about one of her coworkers that spent 22 years in a verbally and physically abusive relationship. He spent a lot of his time at home getting drunk and whenever he would vomit he would point to it and say "do you see that? That's like you, you're nothing but vomit" and other times "you see the broom? This broom is more attractive than you are" Over the years she found herself hating that broom.

And the thing is that Hna Soto, during all that time envied their relationship because he would come and drop her off at work every day with a kiss or a squeeze of the hand and he would send her flowers all the time.

Hna Soto went on to say that perhaps some people marry the person that they think they want instead of the person that God wants for them.

It was an interesting conversation.

Domingo 13 de Marzo

We met the "wife" of Jesus de Nazareth, she doesn’t want to get married but she wants to get baptized. But she doesn’t want to separate from Jesus either because she wants her kids to have their dad. Quite a pickle.

"creo que todavia queda por hacer una lucha eficaz" Mosiah 7:18