Missionaries Going Home

Today we 10 missionaries finished their missions.  For their last day in the mission, they get to tour downtown San Pedro Sula, go to the temple, go to a fancy dinner, then come to our home and to visit and share their favorite scripture.  We have only known these missionaries for 3 weeks, but it was already sad to send them home.  They were amazing missionaries.  We are loosing some great leaders today, 5 zone leaders, 1 Hermana leader, and our super talented mission secretary.  They will be so missed in the mission.

Elder Blatman from San Diego, CA

Hermana Martinez from Guatemala

Hermana Gramajo from Guatemala

Hermana Gramajo's 1st time back to the temple after she got home from her mission. 

Elder Wheeler from Seattle, WA

Elder Mangum from Richmond, TX

Elder Mangum's 1st time back to the temple after he got home from his mission.  He got to go with his sister who is leaving on her mission soon. 

Elder Dayton from Gilbert, AZ

Elder Dayton's 1st time at the temple after the mission

Elder Peery from Sandy, UT

Elder Maxia from Guatemala

Elder Larios from Guatemala

Elder Ovalle from Guatemala

All the missionaries were either from the US or Guatemala that were going home this transfer.  Here is a picture of all of the Guatemalan missionaries, plus our Guatemalan AP's

Dinner at Rosso's a fancy Italian Restaurant

Sharing their favorite scriptures

And of course the photos.  Missionaries love pictures!

Hermana Martinez's favorite scripture was Ether 2:5

Hermana Gramajo's favorite scripture was D&C 68:6

Elder Blatman's favorite scripture was Matthew 14:31

Elder Peery's favorite scripture was Mosiah 24:14-15

Elder Mangum's favorite scripture was Alma 26:12

Elder Wheeler's favorite scripture was Either 12:27

Elder Ovalle's favorite scripture was 2 Nephi 33:6

Elder Larios's favorite scripture was Alma 7:23-24

Elder Maxia's favorite scripture was 1 Nephi 3:15

Elder Dayton's favorite scripture was Jame 1:2-4

Our awesome AP's Elder Paredes and Elder Milla

Singing God Be With You Til We Meet Again

Elder Deming went home mid transfer so we didn't get to have a good bye evening with him.  Here is his picture of the 1st time that he went to the temple.

P-Day

We relaxed a little by the pool this morning while Kirt read emails from the missionaries and I studied Spanish.  We talked to the kids and enjoyed the sun too.  

Then we went and explored the central San Pedro Sula plaza.

We tried to go into the church in the central plaza, but it was closed. 

We walked around the street shops, went to the central market, and had lunch at a Chinese restaurant. 

 

Church in El Carmen

We went to church in El Carmen today with Sister Epifania and Sister Chay.  They had a baptism after church that we got to attend. 

 

I Want to Be a Missionary Now

Saturday we went to a “mini MTC” for the primary kids in the Palermo Stake! It was a lot of fun. The kids were so awesome! They all had “future missionary” tags, and the adults who taught wore their own missionary tags. They asked President Christensen to share a little message about how to be a missionary now and how to prepare to be a missionary with each of the groups.

After the stake primary activity we went to a baptism that our AP's, Elder Milla and Elder Paredes, had.