.: January 2014

Well.... its been over a month since I have posted last. Bear with me because there are a ton of pictures and lots to update you on. Elder Lamb is doing so well. As you will be able to see in the pictures that I will post! He has been transfered La Cieba to open a new area, train a new missionary, Elder Mansilla, and has the added challenge of leading his district. He says that this area has lots of huge hills and amazing views. We are so grateful that he has many opportunities to progress. Enjoy..................

Tranfer day! Yes...Zach got transfered after being in the same area for close to 6 months! WOW!! Its like he is leaving family all over again. He has met the greatest people in the world and I have to give a huge shout out to Nohemi for taking such great care of my son while living in her home. She is an amazing example of service and giving all that you have to the building up of the church. She will forever hold a special place in my heart. Thank you Nohemi!!!

This pic is of Elder Lamb and on his left is the Elder who trained him. He is grateful to him as well for teaching him when he was such a "greeny".

This is Elder Lamb and Elder Esplin. This Elder and Zach met at the temple about 1 week before they met yet again at the MTC where they were in the same district! They were excited to see eachother at transfers.

These are Elder Lamb's new digs! Not too bad! He is very lucky to have had 2 great houses two areas in a row!!!

Elder Lamb and the rest of the Elders in his area. This cute family gave him a going away dinner, party and everything!

Dinner with this great family.

They even made Elder Lamb his very own pinata. Its quite good....someone has some talent in that family!!!

Elder Lamb, "Elder Pinata", and Elder Winkel at the party.

They even made him a cake!

Such a great group of Elders that will be friends forever because of the mission!!!

Zach is pretty proud of his shoes from "Holmes Clothing". Best purchase ever!!!!He takes such great care of them. 6 months of use!!!!

So, a few weeks ago, Nohemi took the 4 Elders and her son, Jose, to the Honduras Botanical Gardens. The next few photos are of their adventures on top of a mountain.

This is Jose, Nohemi's son! And Nohemi! He lives in Pennsylvania and is visiting his mom in Honduras. Zach says they are going to be best friends!

Elder Winkel, Elder Lamb, and Elder Criddle holding a star fruit. That fruit is yummy!!! @the Botanical Gardens.

Elder Lamb and Elder Winkel at the top of the mountain that they climbed.

This is such some pics that he took while at the gardens. The purple bush I call it and the tree is actually a cousin to the "Papyrus" trees that the Egyptians wrote their scrolls on.

This is a piece of bark from the tree. Pretty cool that ancient egyptians actually wrote on bark similar to this!

This is "Gramma" Nohemi. She is the sweetheart who took care of my Elder!!! I will meet her someday to thank her in person!!

This pic is a great one of the Elders with Jose, Nohemi's son.

Here is Zach holding a baby chic! He said that when they walked up the mountain, they only found 2 families living in this remote area. Not another soul in site! These kids walk to and from school everyday and it takes 1 hour to walk there and 2 hours to get home. They are amazing and they love it so much!!! It makes me realize how blessed we are to live to close to everything and that we cant take anything for granted.

This is an amazing picture. All of these ants were scurrying about trying to get their work done gathering food before the big rainstorm.

I thought this was very interesting. This is a coffee press machine. This is how they process all the coffee beans. Interesting!!!

Ok.... I thought this was hilarious!! Yes! that is the start of a Honduras crocheted blanket. At night just before bed Zach has time to do a little crocheting. lol There is nothing wrong with developing your talents right??? Well, the funny thing is that Elder Winkel and the other Elders saw what he was doing so they wanted to learn. Its a great stress release for Zach so they thought they might try it too.

There they are learning to crochet. lol:)

Well.....after trying.....Elder Winkel didnt think that it was such a good stress reliever!.......Not so much fun! lol

He said that he finally found his favorite trees in the world!!!

Well, it was Nohemi's birthday at the beginning of January and the Elders decided to get her a cake and take it to her at 6:00 AM!!!! Kind of early!!!