We basically only use coins for bus travel... since bus´s wont take anything else. Down here, coins are hard to come by. Luckily for my area, the bishop and his wife can exchange bills for coins, and this is what I got in return. A bunch of coins.
The other 2 pictures are the of the family Barua.
As far as the week goes... I always end up starting at the end and going backwards, since I use what I write in my journal for ideas.
So sunday... We had a really good investigator show up to church. She is a friend of Sis Campos (bishops wife) and was also a referral. We ran into her on saturday night, and she told us she really felt like going to church, and she showed up the next day! she really liked it, and actually participated a lot in gospel principles class, or whatever its called. We stopped by Marios house in the afternoon. Did I say that they finally got married?? But he doesn´t want to get baptized now, since he sees some people in the church as really bad examples. So we´ve been going to his house a lot recently trying to improve that.. Also, this morning at like 8, Marios (now) wife called us and said she had her baby. She was HUGE, so it wasn´t really a surprise. The baby weighed 4.7 kilos, whatever that is in pounds. Apparently that is a beast of a baby down here. Then we went to the Barua´s, and after we left, their dog followed us for over 15 blocks, and whenever we stopped to talk to people, it would sit down and wait for us. That´s probably because I am the only person that shows it any love. It actually served as a distraction from another dog that was barking at us. Oh, here is something I found kind of interesting. Within the past 2 days, the Campos´ cat has fallen asleep in my arms 4 times, and a puppy of another member fell asleep in my arms twice.
Saturday was pretty cold. In the morning it was something like 2 degrees C, and was really windy too. I had to put on my thermal undershirt, and I used my gloves. We gave another area in our zone a referral, it was the granddaugter of a member in our ward that had shown up to church a couple times. Well, that area called us back the next day, and said they had a baptismal date with her. We went to visit the member in our ward the next day, and the girl and her family was there, and apparently she doesn´t like the ward that she lives in, and so she wants to get baptized in our area, since she goes to church with her grandma anyways. So we´ll see how that works out, I dont know if we can do that or not... We went to the church to stop by the bathroom, and I ended up killing a mosquito with a cigarette lighter. I didn´t smash it, I killed it with fire. That was pretty fun.
On Friday, we started off the day by helping the Campos´ clean the church building. We weren´t there very long though, for like half an hour. One of the Campos girls had that skateboard thing (dont remember the name...) where it is like two halves, and each can rotate independently, and it only has one wheel on each side. I tried it, since I had used it before, and I just fell on my butt every time. It was pretty amusing none the less.
On Thursday, we had a really good day. In the morning before lunch, we had already gotten the goals for the day. In the afternoon, I helped make pizza. I got to smash my hands into the dough and everything. Fun! While I was doing that, one of the daughters was trying to tell me a lot of jokes in spanish, but I didn´t understand any of them. Jokes in spanish are hard to understand... haha.
On Wednesday, I decorated my missionary planner. Its a fairly common thing to do, at least in our mission. The normal planners are white and blue, and are boring to look at. So we cut out pictures from the missionary pamphlets and tape them onto the front. Mine looks very professional. I had to take a hanger and burn holes through the sides to get the binding back on. that was easily the most fun part. I was surprised I could get metal redhot from just the stove.
On Tuesday, we had our District Meeting and things. Our new district leader wasn´t there, since he had to be at the offices since he is training this transfer. So the zone leaders just talked to everybody for a really long time. Nothing special happened. That day marked the first time we have ever been on time to lunch on a Tuesday! Don´t know how we left so early from district meeting, but okay. We decided to confirm an appointment real quick, and he said we could come by. So we stopped by (5 minutes later) and his wife said he had just left. Good game...
Thats about it for the week. Don´t really know what else to put. I hope I get the package tomorrow. I want the pictures...
-Collin
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