Merrill & Colleen's Honduran Adventure

 Sunday May 26, 2024 We have had a rather difficult week, because of several things, but seeing how some of these wonderful young Elders and Sisters treat each other has been both heart warming and also rather sad at times.  We start with this picture taken of Elder Rosario who spent probably 30 minutes just visiting with Hermana Chajchalac, who you can just barely see as she is lying in the corner of the couch and who has been so sick this past week and a half.  He is so kind and considerate of others,  he is such a great young man.  On the other hand the two hermana's have been together for an entire transfer and the longer they were together the less they spoke to each other, it was like they were enemies with each other.  We were glad when transfers finally arrived this past week on Thursday and Hermana Puac left the area and a new Hermana, Chinchilla is now with Hermana Chajchalac, and they are so much more happy with each other.  I am glad when t...

 Sunday May 19, 2024 These past two weeks have been a bit crazy in the sense that there has been so much smoke and haze in the air.  There for a few days San Pedro Sula had the worst air quality in the world.  We hear all kinds of reasons why the air is so bad, but I feel like the reason most reliable is an article I read that said that there is a large high pressure system over Central America right now combined with recent thunderstorms that have ignited large wildfires throughout several Central American countries, so the smoke from the fires has just stayed trapped in the high pressure with nowhere to escape.  So the bad smokey air just kept getting worse for days.  Thankfully it has finally started to clear out.  We had to travel to La Ceiba this week and also to La Lima, they are in opposite directions from here in Tela, so we were able to see that it has been about the same throughout this northern part of Honduras.  Hermana Ostler sent a pictur...