Election Lockdown

 Honduras had the presidential elections this Sunday November 30th.  In the past there have been lots of problems surrounding the elections-protests, riots, looting, etc. so the church instructed us to have the missionaries stay home starting 6pm on Saturday evening through Tuesday morning. They could go to church on Sunday, but they were supposed to go right home afterwards. It was a kind of nice break because Kirt and I had to stay home too.  Saturday I spend the day making tons of sugar cookies.  Sunday I made brownies.  Sunday evening we did a training on Facebook references and then played a Kahoot game with each zone.  The winner of each zone got to move on to the final round later that night.  I joined 4 of the different trainings and preliminary Kahoot games.  I had already played the game so I knew all the answers so amazingly I won every time.  I fessed up that I had cheated and they all thought it was funny.  Monday I spend the whole day figuring out how to make the Hawaiian Haystack gravy from scratch because I couldn't find any cream of chicken soup in Honduras.  It was so messy and a lot of work.  They better like it. I am serving it at the MLC luncheon on Wednesday. 

The Elders from Progreso, Halls and Stilson, won 1st place

The Elders from Sonaguera 2, McCune and Barclay, won 2md place

The Hermanas from La Mesa, Cordon and Ortega (mesa means table in Spanish), won 3rd place

Kirt in his Zoomwear

Elder Milla's Family Gets Sealed

Elder Milla's family was able to be sealed right after he returned home from his mission. I sent his mom a nice message that he had shared to the mission about mothers and how we should all be grateful for our mothers and she shared the following with me: 

I have some news to share. We will be sealed as a family a week after Elder Milla comes home.  It's the covenant we've been waiting for the most, and it's finally here, ready for my family.  It's a miracle from Elder Milla's mission. 

We are so excited for him and his family!

 

Thanksgiving in Honduras

For our first big holiday in Honduras we went to lunch with the Hiatt's at Angeli Gardens and went for a short scenic hike after lunch that had a great view of San Pedro.  We bought a lemon pie after the hike and ate it at our house.  It was so nice to do something a little normal. We are so grateful to have friends in Honduras!

 

Thank You Lunch with the Office Elders

After our crazy transfer week, we took the office Elders to lunch to say thank you for all their hard work!

Kirt, Me, Elder LaFrance, Ortiz, Rhoades, Paredes, Piñate (a service missionary that happened to be going on exchanges with the AP's today), Rivas, Obando, and Que (in the front)

 

Current Roster for November 19, 2025 Transfer

 

New Missionaries

Kirt picked up these 3 Elders from the Peru MTC at the Telguciglpa airport

Elders Diaz, Pachenco, and Lopez

Elders Rhoades, Calixto, Camacho, and Obando (in the back)

Hermana Adams, Me, President, Elders Jimenez, Baer, Smith, Reese, Rivas, and Paredes. These missionaries arrived on Friday November 21st from the Mexico City MTC.

Elder Rivas and Elder Paredes and I had to ferry the luggage.  Kirt and I took the 5 missionaries back to the office while Elder Paredes and Elder Rivas waited with the luggage. Then I went back to the airport and got the 2 Elders and all the luggage.  We barely fit it all in and Elder Rivas had to sit on Elder Paredes's lap on the way back to the office. 

Hermanas Morla, Rios (in the front)

Me, Hermanas Adams, Popoca, and Castillo (in the back)

Meeting their companions-First handshake and hug

Elder Fernandez and Elder Diaz-Seis de Mayo

Elders Avila and Elder Morales-Berlin 1

Elder Coleman and Elder Lopez-William Hall

Elder Grammer and Elder Camacho-Palmeras

Hermana Morla and Hermana Adams-Bendeck

Elder Brown and Elder Smith-Negrito

Elder Oviedo and Elder Pacheco-Montecristo 2

Elder Ross and Elder Calixto-La Masica

Elder De la Cruz and Elder Reese-Tocoa 2

Elder Najarro and Elder Jimenez-Coyoles 2

Elder Call and Elder Baer-Sonaguera 1

Elder Jimenez and Elder Najarro

Elder De la Cruz and Elder Reese

Elder Morales and Elder Avila

Elder Baer and Elder Call

Hermana Morla and Hermana Adams

Elder Calixto and Elder Ross

Elder Lopez and Elder Coleman

Elder Camacho and Elder Grammer

Elder Diaz and Elder Fernandez

Elder Brown and Elder Smith

Elder Oviedo and Elder Pacheco

Elder Lopez from Guatemala

Hermana Adams from Syracuse Utah

Elder Calixto from Mexico

Elder Pacheco from Peru

Elder Smith from Arizona

Elder Reese from Farmington Utah

Elder Baer from Houston Texas

Elder Camacho from Columbia

Elder Morales from Panama (he came mid transfer last transfer, but he didn't get to do the new missionary training so he came today)

Elder Diaz from Guatemala

Elder Jimenez from Mexico