Christensen Honduras Mission: 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.