Colleen got to hold a sloth this week!!! You don't see that every day. Not only that but she held a monkey, or perhaps more accurately, a monkey crawled around on her shoulders for a minute or two until the guy moved away with his bag of peanuts, then the monkey jumped to the next closest shoulder.
And not only that but she had a Toucan on her arm.
What a fun week we have had. Three wonderful women who worked with Colleen at UVOC came to spend a week here with us. They arrived on Thursday and then they will go back home to Utah this next week on Thursday.
They came with bags full of wonderful treats for us from Utah, it was like Christmas with all the fun stuff that they brought, that was sent from them but also from other friends from UVOC and also a few things that Colleen had ordered from Amazon and had delivered there to have them bring to us.
It has been fun to spend the last few days together with these great friends. We picked them up on Thursday at the airport by San Pedro Sula, then drove up to the temple that they are getting close to finishing in San Pedro Sula, then drove here to Tela. We then got up the next morning, on Friday and drove out to La Ceiba and got on a plane and went out to Roatán. Which is where we went to a petting zoo of sorts, which is where we saw these and other animals. It was a fun day at the zoo, then the best part out there is always just relaxing on the beach. It is really a nice little vacation to go out there to Roatán and get away. Even though there really is no getting away for Hermana Chappell, she still gets calls and texts no matter where we are, that is just part of the job. We went to church out there today, it is just a branch but there were a lot of people there to church today. Including a quite a few gringo visitors, some of them actually visiting because they are out there on vacation and others who have a vacation home or rental there. They even have an English speaking gringo Sunday School class which is where we went, there were 18 of us in the class. It was nice to be in an english speaking class, and it was nice also because we were mostly all senior citizens, with similar life experiences. That does seem weird to say that we are senior citizens, but here in Honduras they have a discount for people who are in their third trimester of life, that is what they call that here. Which we qualify for, so we do show our ID and take advantage of the discounts when we can. There are 4 Elders and 2 Hermanas there so that was fun to see them there as well.
It was a fun getaway for us this past weekend. This afternoon we flew back to La Ceiba then drove back to Tela. We got back here around 5 this evening, so we are just doing laundry and relaxing. They are all having a great time talking about nurse stuff. It has been good for Colleen to have this English friend time. It makes for good mental therapy. We will be going back out to La Ceiba this week on Tuesday because that is when we have a Zone Conference, we will all go out together, they want so see what we do, so that is a big part of what we do. Travel, conferences, phone calls, texts, reports, charting, study, Pdays, district council, lunch with the missionaries, visits with them at times.
Like this past week we went to a lesson with the Elders to a young lady who lives about 20 minutes out of town. She had found some church information online and was very interested and sent in a self-referral, I guess maybe is what it would be called, but it is basically, could you please contact me, because I am very interested in learning more. She was baptized this past Saturday and seems to be very excited about the whole experience. Her sister and mother came to her baptism which was wonderful, they are neither one members, and of course a little curious as to what she is getting herself into. It really was on of those things that missionaries only dream of, when someone says, "Please come teach me and baptize me." She is a young women 26 years of age, who is currently living with her mom and sister at her moms house, but she has a new job in Tegucigalpa that she is starting soon so she will be moving there and plans to find the church and the missionaries there. Hopefully she will continue in the path, I think she will, she seems very interested.
This is her at her baptism and the other pictures are when we went out there with the Elders to meet with her in her home. It was in a very rural area, they all had cows, and pigs, along with the regulars like everyone else with the chickens and dogs. There was even one yard that had turkeys in it, that was a surprise, we haven't seen turkeys here before. It was a fun experience, not only to go out there and get to know the area a bit more but also to be in a lesson with the Elders, that is always fun.
To end this week I just have to put a sunset picture from Roatán, they are always so beautiful.
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