hey hey hey,
how are you? so what has happened in the u.s. this week? anything super exciting? okay where to start....
may 1st is workers day in bolivia. so naturally, the bolivian
people take three days off of work. awesome. i dont know how much i
will be able to get done in the next 2 days, but whatever. everything
closes down. haha o well. happy workers day everyone!
i found out that everyone gains weight in cochabamba... crap. i
refuse to accept that! i wont. ughhhh. so ya, it has been really
crazy in the last couple of days. we have literally been running to our
appointments. but it has been really fun. we have an investigator
that had a sick baby. we had the elders come to give him a blessing,
but we waited for an hour and a half for her to come home. but! it went
really well. i hope that she felt the spirit and her son gets better.
a lot of people seem to be sick right now. because it is getting a
little cooler. so it was winter when i left utah, and now winter is
just beginning in bolivia... o man!! but luckily, winter is not bad at
all in cochabamba. i really cant wait to know what the definition of
reaaaally cold is here. because so far.. i think that it has
been great.
i have discovered that shining my shoes is very relaxing.... just
saying. you should try it if you are stressed. and my shoes looked
awesome afterwards. much much better than hand washing my laundry...
blegghhhh. ugh. i have to do that today. i am not looking forward to
it. but o well... i have to do it right?
the stake had a talent show this week. it was supposed to begin at
six.... but it didnt start until like eight thirty. haha. we had two
investigators come to it. so it was really good. and there was an
awesome fireside on sunday. the first three missionaries to come to
bolivia and preach came and told stories and showed pictures. one of
those missionaries, just so happens to be my mission president. and the
other two are serving in the temple in cochabamba. it was really
interesting.
the family that we are teaching came to church yesterday! it was
awesome. so we woke up and realized that our water wasnt going to be
turned on in time for us to get ready, pick up our investigator, and go
to church. so we just skipped the whole showering thing and went to
pick up daniela. she was the only one that was going to come... because
the rest of the family said that they needed wash their clothes.. but
guess what? their water was off too... so all of them came to church.
yes!!! in your face satan.
we had lunch with a family yesterday. so i got a good piece of
chicken breast in my soup, but the father got the chicken foot in his
soup.... phew... i missed the chicken foot by one bowl. yesss. o ya
and they have these really gross potato things here called chuño. it is
like dehydrated freezer burned black potatoes. ew. i think i am going
to avoid those from now on. but no worries. i am definitely over my
dislike of tomatoes. i have to eat them all of the time here. but now i
am used to them. it is amazing what you will eat when you are hungry.
haha.
we did some service on saturday for daniela. we helped her clean
her room. she is going to be baptized on may 26. i am so hackin
excited she is so faithful and strong. the rest of her family is taking
the lessons too. she just showed up to church one sunday and said that
she wanted to learn more. now we are teaching her and her family.
yesss. blessings!!
the hunt.... my companion walked into the apartment and then all of
a sudden she started to yell and grabbed the broom. she then proceeds
to try and tell me something, but i dont understand any of it. and then
she tips over a bookcase and spills the books everywhere. i am just
standing there wondering what the hackin is happening right now. she
has me move the bookcase and then tells me to run... haha okay.... well
needless to say, there was a little scorpion under the bookcase. and she
starts smashing it with the broom. my companion is very persistent...
haha. i think that the scorpions in her country are really poisonous.
so she was afraid of them. the neighbor said that they arent super
dangerous. ahaha i bet that we were quite a sight to see. at that
moment in time. her smashing the scorpion. me looking totally confused
and a million pamphlets and books all over the floor. hahaha. maybe
you had to be there.
well i have got to go. thank you for the email. i love hearing from ya. good luck this week.
hermana milne
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