This week was full of laziness actually haha, I feel like we had barely any success. We went tracting like a ton on Wednesday and Thursday with 0 success. People just weren't into el espiritu de navidad haha, cuz we had like 20 contacts the whole week. SOO, but anyway, we had a baptism last Saturday, the day before Christmas which was awesome, my first baptism. 9 year old girl named Sarah Medina, and her uncle had just gotten back from his mission in Nicaragua, so he got to baptize her and it was really nice, glad I got to be a part of that. I thought the elders before us had taught her a little, but turns out we taught her all the lessons ourselves, so we did all the work, woo!
Hmm...Well I`m getting more use to the culture of people here, the language is still crazy hard to understand right now, but when I give myself time, I can say alot of stuff, I just dont know what they're saying back to me, baha. Reading in Spanish is really fun, I feel like I can do it really well now, I was reading the Liahona with all the general conference talks in it in Spanish, and it was pretty easy. I dont even translate what it says in my head to English much anymore, so thats cool. It also really helps to shift my mind back into Spanish more so I can start speaking again. I need to read more outloud in Spanish too to get my vocal cords used to making such weird noises all the time but it defintiely helps.
What else...I've been trying to take more pictures around here but I don't do it a lot because I kinda like my hands and I dont want to be waving my camera around like a tourist and have someone come by with a machete and chop my hands off for my camera haha.
Oh, I'll talk about Christmas, they celebrate it here, but in very strange ways, unlike the US. I got almost no sleep the Christmas eve night because for the past like 4 days people have been launching off fireworks and screaming in the streets and drinking and playing ridiculously loud music all day everyday haha. That night there was even more of it, there were kids right next to our house that had what seemed like thousands of firecrackers that just kept fireing off haha.
This week will hopefully be more successful as far as teacing lessons and finding new people to talk to, but I dont know, cuz next Sunday is the año nuevo, so it will be just as much partying, but were gonna try to find more people. But we definitely put in the tracting effort, Jarquin and I, trying to find people to teach, but this is a new area and people are not very interested in listening, or if they do talk they just mumble, mhhm, between their 3 remaining teeth hahaha.
But I'm definitely learning to love these people and how they manage to be happy with so little. It really is a testament of counting your blessings. I feel like I lived a life of luxury back in Ramona with my carpet, I havent seen a single house here that had carpet. The food here is pretty good, just too much rice, for every single meal. I'll probably come back from my mission and not eat rice ever again.
So my weekly schedule is Monday's I have pday like today, then tomorrow on Tuesdays I go into Panama city again and we have zone meetings, so we get any dear elders that you guys wrote that week I believe, I'll find out tomorrow. I've been told that normal letters take about 3 weeks to get here, so I'll find out soon if I get any letters.
Jarquin and I are getting along, it's tough saying everything you want to say in Spanish, but I'm getting better at it. It's funny, cuz we'll teach a lesson and he`ll talk a bunch, and then stop when he's finished his thought, and look at me and obviously expects me to saying something or share a scripture, so I have to do something, so that's my part in the lesson, and it usually works ok, I just really have to work on paying more attention to what they are saying, cuz they talk pretty fast.
Don't really know what we're doing for the rest of the pday today, thought we were gonna go hike but probably not. We might go to a parade thing called like desafile or something, like a Christmas festival which could be cool. Last week was cool, we went to the stake center and played futbol outside in the rain, and I was the goalie (portero), and it was nice getting back into the goal, I miss soccer.
Dont really know what else to say, I need to make some notes of things I wanna say in my letters home, cuz I write and go blank. Hope you all had a great Christmas, remember what its really about. Reading the nacimiento del Salvador in Spanish is really cool.
Love you all, have a great week, talk to you in 2012 haha :)
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