Multizone Conference in La Paz

Monday when we got back from Roatan, we went right to the office. Kirt stayed at the office and worked, and I went to the soccer field and visited with missionaries.  Then I went and got Kirt and we had lunch at Tokens with the missionaries. We sat with Elders Baer, Santana, Conde, and Pizarro. Then we went back to the church. Kirt started with interviews. I tried to play a game with missionaries, but then I got interuppted by triage.  After I got Elder Gonzalez and his sprained ankle settled, I went in the Family History room and painted with the hermanas. We cleaned the church and set up for zone conference while Pres finished the interviews. We finally made it home about 9pm that night. We got up and went back to the church for zone conference. We had a great zone conference. We had to do more flu shots.  We did interviews Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after zone conference. 

Zona Palermo got matching Barbie shirts

I didn't make it for the picture with the hermanas and their paintings, so they added me in with AI

Service missionaries

Zona El Carmen

Zona Satelite

Zona Planeta

Zona La Paz

Zona Progreso

Zona Palermo

Zona Santa Rita

Hermanas Castellanos and Carvajal

Elders Johnson and Dodds, everyone asks them if they are twins

Hermana Cristales and Elder Nova. Hermana Cristales is the sister that provides us with all our shots. She is from Guatemala and she is in the same ward as Elder Nova.

Roatan

We went to Roatan this weekend to form a 3rd branch there. It is called the Sandy Bay branch. Kirt's councilors and their wives went with us too. The Medina's brought their daughter too. We flew over Friday afternoon. We checked into our hotel. We stayed at Herbert's hotel (a member of the Roatan branch) and used his cars. He picked us up from the airport. Then we went to the church. There was an activity about marriage for all the adults on the island. The Zavala's planned it. They failed to tell me that I needed to share something about marriage so I just did it in English and Kirt translated for me. After the meeting, they had Karaoke. They sang for hours. They kept trying to pressure Kirt and I to do it.  I don't think they understand that in the US you have to be super drunk to do Karaoke. We finally left about 10:30pm and they were still going strong. Saturday we got up and went to the beach at the Banana Rama Hotel. We just stood in the water and visited. Then we had lunch. The owner of the Banana Rama came and visited with us. His name is Luis St Louis. He is a member of the church.  He lives in southern Idaho. After the beach, we went back to the hotel. Kirt went to the church and did a bunch of interviews, called a new branch president and Elders Quorum president, and did a missionary setting apart.  Then he went to the missionary open house of the Cruz's daughter who is leaving on her mission tomorrow. I stayed at the hotel the whole time and worked on medical stuff for 5 hours. Sunday we went to church.  The Sandy Bay branch was created. After church we went to a baptism. Then we went and visited with Sloan and Amy Jorgensen, the mission dentists who have a house on Roatan. After that, we had an FHE in Punta Gorda, a new area in Roatan that we are trying to start a group in. Elder Paul and Elder Calderon are the missionaries in this area. We took them back to their area after. Monday, we got up and flew back to San Pedro. 

Dinner and Karaoke at the adult party

4 of the Elders came and helped to serve the dinner

Elders Poulsen, Baczuk, Grissom, and Barton

The Zavalas

The Medinas

The new Eldon's location on the island

The branch presidency of the Roatan branch. The branch president stayed in the branch, but he had to get a whole new presidency

The branch president and Elders Quorum president of the new Sandy Bay Branch

Elders Grissom and Barton

Roatan Chapel

FHE in Punta Gorda

 

Multizone Conference in La Ceiba

We left Sunday after church and drove to La Ceiba. We stopped in San Juan Pueblo and La Masica to do some interviews along the way. We dropped the AP's off at the hotel and then went to our airbnb. We couldn't get into our airbnb because the only instructions were the key is in a lock box that is beside the garage door.  It didn't say which side or that it was behind a small fence under some fake greenery.  But we finally got in.  Monday I went to One Gym and visited with the missionaries and then picked up Pres and we went to Indpendencia and did interviews.  I visited with missionaries and ran my triage clinic. (Missionaries always have health problems and I get to help them with all their problems.) Elder Fields has been having lots of problems with dizziness, feeling like he is going to faint, and headaches. I was wondering if he had low blood pressure so I took his blood presses and it was super low so I went with him to the Hospital La Fe (which is really more like an urgent care) and the did and EKG. His BP was fine by the time we got there and the EKG was normal.  Who knows?? We went back to the church and got all the missionaries on their way and cleaned up the church and set up for the zone conference. We didn't head to our airbnb until about 9pm. When we got there, the door to the bedroom was locked (Pres had locked it) and we didn't have a key to open it. The bathroom was in the bedroom of course and I had to pee so bad.  I broke down and peed in the cleaning bucket that was in the kitchen.  Fun times. Tuesday we had zone conference. After zone conference we did flu shots. It's crazy how many missionaries are afraid of needles. Then we had more interviews.  We went to dinner with the AP's. Then Kirt went to a meeting with the Stake President.  Wednesday we did more interviews. Thursday, more interviews. We had lunch with the AP's and the ZL's from Miramar and then we drove back to San Pedro.  

Interviews in San Juan Pueblo
Pres, Elders Abelar, Baker, Centeno, Willams, Da Cunha, Morillo, Me

Elder Williams and Elder Da Cunha were having a lot of fun with the electric piano in the chapel in La Masica

Elder Williams and Elder Da Cunha were really excited to watch TV in the hotel. Just kidding

We had our MLC monthy zoom call right after we arrived in La Ceiba

The Elders from Roatan arriving at One Gym with the Burger King hats

Playing games at the Independencia chapel

Elders Benitez, Centeno, and Oviedo

Elder Leal, Hermanas Navarro, Epifania, Espinoza, and Adams

Hermanas Fuentes and Espinoza

Elders Clayburn and Drew

Elders Carmona and Williams

Elder Call

Giving Elders a ride to the hotel

Elders Da Cunha and Paul

Elder Carmona and Alonso being recognized for passing their EI test

Giving my talk

Zona Miramar

Zona La Ceiba

Zona Roatan

Zona Olanchito

Zona Tocoa

Elder Nailati hit 18 months on a mission so he had to get a picture in a dress. (18 months is the length of a sister missionary so the Elders dress like a sister missionary when they finish 18 months in the mission.)

Meeting with the Stake Presidency in the La Ceiba Stake

I may have taken a short nap during interviews on Wednesday

Kirt and I walked along the ocean on Wednesday night.