9/16/13
Hello!
Well... nothing too new
this week. Mucho and mucho lluvia (rain) and this isn’t your normal rain.
This is liquid snow. It pierces your jacket and stabs into your
bones. Everyday when I get home I feel like I have been skiing, just
without the snow, and the skis and all of the excitement of skiing. There is
still the excitement of spreading the word of course, which we weren’t able to
do much because of all of the rain. It has been dumping buckets here so there were
2 huge pools of water and the only way through it was a tiny strip of dry
cement. I don’t want to walk in it cause I hate having wet shoes but I
don’t want to get my bike muddy so the obvious answer is to pick up the bike
and walk, very carefully, on the dry cement. So that’s what I did.
I forgot to take into account however the wind and how off balance I was
picking up the bike so when I was half way through the cement, the wind picked
up and I started to go into the water. So
I made a leap of faith, trying to jump over the water not realizing how far
away I was and that I was holding a bike and jumped 2 feet into the muddy
water, sinking like a brick. So great. There is nothing better than some
wet socks and shoes.
My companion and I gave
a couple more blessings this week. One was to a family that I love--the
ones that invited us to their daughters birthday party. Their son had a fever
so my comp made me bless them. I didn’t
know what to say and I got nervous but it kinda went well... I said it in
English but its cool with me. It was only my 3rd one ever, ya know?
The next time we went the son was great.
We weren’t able to teach
that much this week cause of all of the rain but we did do something called a
tremor blanca? I think it means white storm and it’s where all of the
missionaries in one zone go to one area and all of us go to all the
investigators and talk to them and see what is going on. So we had like 10
missionaries (some didn’t show) going around in a 2 missionary district.
This is where I fell asleep on the bus. Also dealing with sleep
this week we had a huge bus ride that was like an hour long and I gave up my
seat and so I stood the whole time but I was super tired and slowly I started
to drift off. My eyes were getting heavy and then my arms, and then my
whole head but somehow I perfectly propped it inbetween my arms and fell asleep
for like 5 minutes standing, impressive right? It was pretty sweet on
splits and I got to see how other missionaries teach. I would tell you more
about the people but I don’t know that much about them cause I’m still working
on the language haha so sorry about that.
My companion was snoring
way bad and even I couldn’t fall asleep so I started to clap and snap to wake
him up and then when he woke up I was softly snoring to make it seem like I was
asleep. The next morning we were making breakfast and he was telling me
that I was talking in my sleep again and I was even clapping and snapping.
I went to a member’s
house. He is way awesome and has earrings and his mom made some of the best
meat I have ever had in my entire life for us a couple weeks ago. But anyways
in his yard his dogs were fighting over something and when I went to go see
what it was I found out that it was a whole cow leg. Haha just a huge bone just
hanging out in their yard.
I saw a dog straight up
climb a 5 foot chain link fence. I have never seen anything like it.
I wish that I could have gotten a video of it cause I am still in
awe... When we were teaching a
lesson my comp told me, "that dog is a bad dog" when I asked why he
just made the chomping gesture and then said "otro perro” so I thought.
Oh man he bit another dog, that’s not nice. When we got out of the
lesson he told me that it wasn’t only bite, that dog killed another dog and
then ate it. Haha I’m pretty freaked out when I see it now. I have
also learned some of the dogs that wander the street cause they are the
aggressive ones that always chase you and how we have to sneak past them.
Some more things about
Argentina. They don’t really like throwing their trash in all of the bins
they have here. So they just dump in front of their houses and when it
gets to big, they burn it and just let it burn until it is all gone. They
don’t have speed bumps on their dirt roads so the people will just go and dig
their own trenches. Haha its kinda freaky sometimes cause it is like a
foot and a half deep and a foot wide so you gotta try and dodge it or get over
it somehow.
Anyways, we gotta use
all the time we have to do sweet things in life. I love you all and I’m
praying for you everyday.
Love
Andy
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