Giving Rabies Vaccines on the Street

We have been getting a bunch of missionaries from the Brazil MTC.  They don't have the rabies vaccine in Brazil, so the vaccine has to be given when they get here.  It's a 2 dose series.  You give one dose and then are supposed to give another dose in a week. It's such a pain.  I don't know how other missions do this. Our mission is so spread out.  We try to keep them close so I can track them down and give them the 2nd dose a week later.  I'm so glad for my nursing skills because I have used them so much on the mission.  Here I am on the streets of Las Lomas giving a dose of the rabies vaccine to Elder Leonor while his comp Elder Rednour watches.  Just another day in the life of mission leaders.  

 

Releasing a Missionary

The 2 branches in Roatan are directly under the mission. They do not have a District President so Kirt is like the stake president for the 2 branches.  This means he has to do things for the 2 branches like temple recommend interviews, missionary interviews, and missionary releases.  Hermana Ocampo returned home for the Nicaragua South mission today.  We picked her up from the San Pedro Sula airport at 9am and brought her to the office to release her by Zoom with her parents.  She hung out with some family friends for the day and then flew home to her family on Roatan at 4pm (that was the earliest connection.)

 

Multizone 7 Zone Conference

Zona Progreso

Zona Satelite

Zona La Paz

Zona El Carmen

Zona Planeta

Zona Satelite

Zona Palermo

Missionaries getting their cookies for talking the English Connect EI Test

These 4 Elders had these suits made to match by Hilton Boss

Elder Ortiz, Elder Gornichec, Elder Douglass, Elder Oxborrow

 

P-Day for the Multizone 7

This is a typical day. We have so much to take to the car that we have to take the wagon to take it all downstairs. (The wonderful Hiatt's bought us a wagon.) 

All 110 missionaries from the 7 city zones gather to together on p-day before the multizone conference.  They played soccer today and then went back to the church at the office and played basketball, card games, visited, and called their families.  I even played a few games of basketball with them. 

At the soccer field

Elder Ortiz, me, Elder Salina

 

Interviews

We did interviews all week.  We did Planeta on Sunday April 12th, Santa Rita Monday, Progreso Tuesday after zone conference, El Carmen Wednesday, Satelite Thursday, Palermo Friday, took Saturday off, La Paz Sunday April 19.  President loves talking to the missionaries, but the interviews are just A LOT. He is so tired by the time they are finished.  Talked to 180+ missionaries takes 10 days doing an average of 18 interviews a day.  So we do it over a period of 2 weeks.  Then 4 weeks later, get to do it all over again because he has to talk to every missionaries, every transfer.  Probably one of the hardest parts of the mission. 

The bishop's office in the Satelite Chapel where President does interviews for El Carmen and Satelite

It was Elder Camacho's birthday

Elder Gornichec and Elder Carmona

Elder Ortiz and Elder Faiese

Palermo chapel doing interviews with Zona Palermo

Church in El Carmen

We went to church in the El Carmen ward.

President, me, Hermanas Garcia, Perlaza, Adams

 

The Rest of the La Ceiba Trip

Wednesday we did more interviews at the Independencia chapel. We attended the Acasias district council. We went to lunch at Denny's afterwards with the AP's and then we all split up. Elder Ortiz did divisions with Elder Alvarez and Elder Jimenez.  I went with Hermana Castillo and Hermana Gomez. Pres went with Elder Zaldivar and Elder Najarro. Beattie went with Elder Baer and Elder Peck.  Elder Ortiz stayed in La Ceiba.  He worked with Alvarez and Jimenez again on Thursday.  Then Friday, he went to Jutiapa and worked with Elder Berg and Elder Jurca. Then he took a bus home alone on Saturday.  Elder Beattie came home with us on Thursday. He did divisions with the ZL"s in Santa Rita, Elder Rogers and Elder Avila, on Friday.  

Elders Jimenz, Alvarez, Ortiz, and Beattie

Pres with Elders Jimenez, Ortiz, Alvarez

Hermana Castillo, Hermana Gomez, Me, 2 members that we shared a message with. They were baptized last March and they are planning to be sealed in May and invited me to come to the sealing. 

Hermana Castillo, Hermana Gomez, Litzy (a friend they are teaching), me

We stopped in La Masica to do 6 interviews on the way home from La Ceiba on Thursday.

Elder Murphy

Lunch in Tela at Mr Taco on the way home from La Ceiba

Elders Ortiz, Jurca, and Berg

Elders Beattie, Rogers, and Avila