Sunday Oct 1, 2023
This has been a great General Conference weekend. The Elders and the Hermana's were here with us both on Saturday as well as on Sunday. Colleen fixed lunch and dinner for everyone yesterday and then today we all had lunch together.
Hermana Chappell, Hermana Tzep, Hermana Gomez, both from Guatemala, Elder Valenzuela, from Argentina, Elder Borders, from Tooele, and Elder Chappell. It is a lot of work for Hermana Chappell, but it is always great to be together with the missionaries. Elder Valenzuela drives Hermana Chappell crazy, but it isn't forever. There is such a difference between 18 year old boys and 20 and 21 year old young women. The conference this weekend was so good. They always are but being here in this setting it seems to take on a more important focus. We had the computer plugged in to the tv, playing in spanish and the other laptop was on the kitchen table in english for Elder Borders, and Hermana Chappell had her phone playing the conference with her ear plugs in listening in english. I understood the majority of what was said, there are still words that I don't know but with the context it usually makes sense what the message is.
We had a crazy day on Friday. We planned on going to San Pedro to get some grocery items for the weekend and just to stock up on supplies. On our way towards San Pedro Hermana Ostler called Hermana Chappell and they were talking about a missionary who has been sick for some time. He is back at home now but they had some prescription for a medication that they couldn't find at the pharmacies near them, so Hermana Chappell said that we would look around and see if we could find the medication and take it too them. So we stopped in Progreso and the first Pharmacy we went to they had the medication which we bought. So then we contacted the missionaries who are in an area in San Pedro Sula, they gave us their location, and we put it in the phone google maps and told them we were on our way to their house.
He is doing much better, he has asthma and had two infected ears, so he was pretty miserable but with a couple days in the hospital with breathing treatments and antibiotics he is doing much better. So they sent us their location and we went where google maps took us, we got to the top of this street and the directions said turn right. There was a big wall and no road on our right so we called them and explained our situation and sent them our location. Here is the picture of the street where we were driving, we don't always take pictures as we are driving around but this was a different street than anything we have been on here so we stopped and took a picture.
The Elder got our location on his phone and when he realized where we were he said; "Turn around, roll your windows down and get to the bottom of that road, right now." So I asked him about why he asked us to roll the windows, down. All the cars here including ours have tinted windows, so you can't see anyone in the car. He said that with the windows down they will see who you are. So we turned around and went back to the bottom of the hill, and turned left, where there was a big gate across the road with guards all over, they opened up the gate, with our windows down, so they could see who we were. Then we went up the next street, parallel to where we just were. Here is the other street.
When we got to where the Elders were, we asked him about what was going on, and he said that the big wall between the two roads and the gate at the bottom of the hill was to keep the two local gangs apart, so that they would stop killing each other. 😱 I asked if they were ok being in that area and they said oh yes, we are fine. I don't know if their mom's know exactly how conditions are in some of the areas here. They are both gringos, too. Which surprises me a little as well, they usually put Latinos in the more dangerous areas because the gringos are much more of a target than the Latinos. I am glad we are in Tela. They say that the current President / government in El Salvador has been tough on crime and have driven many of the gangs out of that country so some of them have moved over in to Honduras. Tela is I feel like a much more rural, tourist area where there are a lot of traffic through the main road but it really is a safer place than San Pedro would be. In my opinion.
Hermana Chappell loves her missionaries!!!!!
We also had the Zone leaders here this week where they worked with the missionaries and when they come here they spend the night at our house. The rest of the zone is in Progreso which is just over an hour away, and here we are way out away from the rest of the zone, so they like to come out here.
There is nothing like spending time with these young Elders and Hermana's. Life is good.
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