New Area 3/6/17

Hey Everybody,

So I was transferred this week to Tela! Its pretty much a beach town and super relaxed here.The weather is awesome, even when the sun is hot we have a nice sea breeze blowing. So much better here than in San Pedro Sula. My new companion is Elder Baede. He lives here in Honduras, and his house is only about an hour area from here haha. He has dual residency though and was born in the US. He's a super nice guy and it's great to be working with him.This week I said goodbye to the people of my old area, and then pretty much have been sick since. I have some kind of flu or something and the enfermera tells me to do something different each time I call so it's been pretty fun . The pharmacias here  will sell you anything, it's funny since all the medicine says sold only under a prescription but you just walk in and say hey I need this many of this and they say ok here you go buddy. haha. So a funny story this week is we were with an investigator and I was getting to know them so I start by asking their names. An older guy left the room so I asked what I thought was his daughter, hey what's your dad's name? She looks at me and says, that's not my dad, that's my husband. hahahahah she is 19 and he is older than 50. so that was pretty weird, but I just thought I didn't understand what she was trying to say until I asked my companion after. Even crazier is they have a child,  I don't know what's up with some of the people here haha. ANother thing is one of the leaders of a gang here told us that if anyone robs us or anything, to let him know and he will kill them. haha ok, like you don't need to kill anyone but it's kinda reassuring to know that we are safe in this area and that they got our back haha. Anyways I hope you guys are all doing better than me haha, hopefully this week I can recover completely.

Love 

Elder Gardner

some pictures at the beach! we can hear the ocean from our house, so yeah if there's a tsunami or something ...dont know haha

Hey Mom

This area is super cool. The weather here is beautiful, way better than my old area. My new comp is super nice and helped me a lot this week while I was sick. I had a huge boil right over my eye, it was super painful and it was pretty hard to even sleep so I didn't get a lot done this past week. I took care of it and now it's a lot better haha sounds crazy with the fam as always, sending prayers your way.love you mom !

Hi Dad, things are pretty good here. I've been pretty sick but otherwise my new comp is super nice and said he's been praying for a comp like me after being with several of the worst in the mission. The weather here has been great this week, super nice sea breeze and some rain and clouds. It's an awesome area haha. Even though we can't really do a lot at the beach it's cool to have it here. love you dad,  sounds like a lot of work with the driveway, good luck. the hoa is pretty dumb times haha/ love you dad