That´s interesting that it has been raining a lot over there. This past week it has rained quite a bit. Tuesday and Wednesday I think it was, we had a pretty good rain shower, which left the unpaved roads all muddy. That was fun. We had to go to a house that was in a little more countryish area, and it was dark and muddy. I had fun doing that. It´s been pretty cloudy and things, and dark, even a little chilly this whole week. And then last night, as we were walking, a lightning storm started. Lightning every 2 or 3 seconds, and one of the times the entire sky was lit up with huge streaks of lightning for a good 6-7 seconds nonstop. It looked really neat. So we decided to go to the bishops house real quick, and as soon as we walked in the door (literally...) rain came pouring down, and it was a violent rain for about 30 minutes or so.
Routine - Basically we wake up at 6:25 every day, exercise, shower, do study, and then leave about 10:35 or 10:45. We hardly ever come back to our apartment for lunch (I think we did it once. Our lunch appointment was cancelled, and our appointment we made the night before decided to not be there when we stopped by). The members here love us. There are a few families that just cycle feeding us, we have the same lunch appointments every week, and we have dinner 2-3 times a week or so. But often when we go to appointments the members feed us something even if we don´t have an appointment, so that helps when we´re a little hungry. Here, dinner isn´t a "real" thing, if we have it, we have it. if not, we don´t. One of the missionaries who was in our area a while ago said he gained 20 pounds in this area. Other than that stuff, the schedule is mostly the same. Nothing odd. Except today, there was a conference for the new missionaries, that we were just told about last night. We had to travel all the way to the offices for it. takes about 30 or 45 minutes by bus and train, and a bit of walking. So most of today I didn´t really have a Pday. We barely got back an hour ago, and then came straight here.
I don´t know why the bishop has been bishop for 10 years. It seems like there would be other qualified people, but I have no idea. The members are really nice and dedicated. There are a few families that actually go out by themselves and do their own little missionary work type of things. Yesterday, I went on splits with a member in the ward for 2 hours, and he was an RM. his entire family is very missionary oriented.
Ok so what else has happened this week...
While I was on splits with the member, he had an interesting way of getting contacts that my companion had never used before. He would walk up to someone and ask if they knew where a certain street was, even if we knew exactly where it was, and then say something like, "ok thanks. oh, and have you ever talked with us before?..." I thought it was pretty funny. and then the other thing he did was walk up to someone and ask for a completely random name that he had just made up, just to talk to them. one of them said they actually knew where they lived... so we had to go ask for them. that was pretty funny.
We talked to this really weird guy.. who was really interested in invisibility and things, and says he has seen UFO´s or has been abducted by them or something. He was really weird, apparently he was an old investigator. When he opened up the door, the first thing I saw was his nails. They were painted bright yellow and red. Yeah, he´s a psycho. Then he gave us some coloring book pictures of like... zombie children. Weird. We´re not going back there for a while...
We talked to a lady who owns a little Kiosk in the front of her house. Here, Kisoks are part of peoples houses, and they just live in the back. Anyways, after we were done talking to her, and gave her a BoM and such, she gave us a bunch of free candy, and gave us a few Bon o Bon´s. Are these in the U.S.? They were really good, how come I have never had one before haha.
We were on the bus going to the far area of our area, and these kids on the bus started talking to us. Somehow they found out I knew english, and wanted me to speak some. I said something to the effect of "even if i spoke english you wouldn´t be able to understand a single thing i said", and they all flipped out that i actually knew english. it was quite entertaining. when I said that, my companion just busted out laughing.
We tried to get on the first train in the station today when we went to the offices, and people literally sandwich in the train. I didn´t think so many people could fit in there, they just keep pushing everyone in until no more fit. Anyways, there were so many people, we didn´t fit. So we waited for the second train. I was just way surprised how much they push and shove to get in. It was WAY packed.
I found out one of the members in our ward wants to become some sort of a doctor something or other, something I didn´t understand in spanish. Anywho, she has a real human skeleton named Jorgito. That was a little bit strange.
Remember that priest I talked to... like in the first week or something? We saw him again... and he called my companion a liar for not showing up to his house. It was pretty funny.
One of the sisters in the ward bought us a ton of facturas (know what these are? basically french pastry things full of goodness, sugar, jelly, etc.) randomly. It was really good. This same sister, we eat at her house every Tuesday lunch and every Sunday breakfast. She really likes us.
Anything else... I can´t really thing of anything else. We don´t have any gold investigators or anything, and apparently my companion hasn´t had any baptisms in this area since he´s been here, which is 2 more transfers, or 3 months. But I won´t let that stop me.
Until next week I suppose...?
Collin.
oh i forgot to describe the pictures.
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