So far all i have needed for the mean dogs was a bottle of
water and they all have stopped bothering me and don’t cross my path when they
see me coming even the ones who live on the roofs don’t bother me! I am sending
letters and i am going to be sending letters every week because There is so
much to do during the two hours we have in internet and i am going to print off
more emails and send more letters! So all of you who have been sending me
emails and didn’t get a response this week expect a note in the write you email
somewhere in the blog (Because it’s cheaper just to send them all to one
place). Besides that this week in the past was hard! My companion broke the
water heater.... not really broke it more just unfixed it.... and having to
take cold showers is just one more thing that tries to add weight to my day but
i am doing great for now! A lot of our investigators who are progressing and
want to get baptized don’t keep their commitments or go to church and the
investigators who go to church and keep their commitments don’t want to be
baptized. It’s also difficult because I cannot speak the language perfectly and
when someone is telling me about a personal experience and i am trying to
listen while they are crying i can’t understand what they are saying and i have
no idea how to comfort or help them... One thing that has been a major Blessing
is my pensionista Mama Luz. She feeds my companion and I along with our zone
leaders, she is determined to make me round like a plump before i head out to a
new area! I have been gaining weight and where most missionaries struggle and
are sick for the first six months I have had little to no side effects! It has
been a blessing from my heavenly father because never in my life before have I
been able to gain weight but here i am gaining little by little every day!
thought it looked like Diesel :D But there is a dog that looks a ton like daisy who stays on the fourth platform but he isn’t very nice but he won’t let you leave until you have scratched him on the head
Something fun that we got to do last week after i emailed
you was eat Guinea pig Specifically this one It was pretty good just a lot of
work to get all the meat out of him
This week i also got the opportunity to teach Regina! She is
our investigator and she can speak English very well! The lesson was excellent
and she is getting more and more prepared for baptism but is hesitant because
she was offended by a recent convert who was feeling a little self-righteous.
After the Lesson we walked with her to her house because she lives close to our
Pensionista. We talked about music and a little bit more in English. She is an
English teacher for a local school. We were about to leave when my companion
noticed a baby humming bird right above her door was sitting a little bird! It
was a baby Hummingbird that continually stays in front of her house and I
thought it was pretty cool!
Everyone tells me that my Spanish is leaps and bounds ahead
of where it should be and all the members are amazed at how i speak to them
because the gringo before me didn’t talk at all the first six weeks.
One thing that I find very peculiar and amusing here is that
people drink everything out of plastic bags! You will rarely find a water
bottle on a person in public! Everyone will have a little bag of juice or tea
or whatever they want because that’s how it works here in Moquegua! Also some
of the elders don’t have Pensionistas and they are constantly taking food with
them everywhere and every tuesday and thursday i see one elder specifically
carrying a bag of chocolate milk. I decided to buy one the other day because it
is very cheap and they say it is really good! I drank the whole bag in one
night! (AND I DIDNT HAVE STOMACH PROBS for mom :D) I will definitely be buying
more bags of chocolate milk in the future!
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