Week 30

HELLLOOO

For once in my gosh darn life nothing changed with transfers! Yesterday was one of those days where you just have really solid good lessons and feel like you’re on top of the world and fulfilling your purpose as a missionary and I said ´oh no I don’t want to have cambios because Hna Ruiz and I work really well together´ and then the Lord heard my prayer and here we are, having a normal P day, tranquilito. 

Chillin' on Soila's lovely porch

Other than that I only have SILLY things to share from this week.

The first thing is that Nemesio has these DUMB dogs that I also love and one day they just followed us around to all our appointments and waited for us outside while we were teaching. We got to the end of the night and went back to our house and one of them, Canela, was still with us and obvs we didn’t let her in the house but she went around to the other side of the house and cried outside my window all night.

The next thing needs explaining (It makes me laugh every time I think about it but maybe its not even funny, idk) Entonces ok si yes. One time we were at a bus stop and we talked to this guy from Pakistan named Prince who came here in January when the Pope came to visit and stayed here because it's not easy to be Christian in Pakistan. 

But the trick is, he barely speaks Spanish. He DOES speak pretty good English though and that’s why we started talking in the first place. Anyways he told us that he wanted to come to our church and we gave him our phone number and yeah, that was that. Come Wednesday, he called us to ask the address of the church and we happened to be at the chapel and one of the members who’s like, 60, offered to use his smart phone to send his location to him. Then on Sunday we get to church and the same member was there and was like ´Hey Hermanas I texted Prince in English and told him that I’d wait outside and show him where to go´ and we were like ´woo yeah awesome thanks´ and then church started and halfway through we look back and the member was sitting with this other investigator that came in late and we were like ´woop Prince didn’t come but hey good thing this member was so on top of it and sat by this investigator that we didn’t realize had arrived´. Anyways then after the meeting we find out that the member thought this other investigator WAS Prince so he´d been calling him Prince and trying to explain things in English and I don’t know why but something about the whole thing just makes me LAUGH.

The last thing is that one day we finished teaching this young couple and we said ´Is there anything we can do for you?´ and then they got all quiet and smiled and the husband said ´Vamos a ser papás´ but SILLY Hermana Tolman heard ´Vamos a hacer papas´ and I was like ´oh that’s random but HERE WE ARE, we´re gonna help you make some potatoes!!´ But NO, they said that they were gonna be parents and they wanted us to pray that everything would go well with the pregnancy.

Anyways that’s a wrap. We finally found a junglish part of Loma 9, 12 weeks later. 

Also Hermana Ruiz's birthday was on Saturday and sometimes as a mother you worry about if your child is having good (!obedient) fun but then she wrote me a note and left it in my dictionary and it really was just. Mothers day in September. I love that sister. 

Ok bye.

Canela wants to be a missionary too!

Canela crying outside my window

Another one of Nemesio's dogs, Sultán, patiently waiting for us outside a lesson

A tiny newborn kitten we found abandoned under a bush

José Santamaría, a guy we´ve been teaching. I could tell you lots of crazy stories about this guy

This particular day every single one of our lessons fell through and it we got soaked from the pouring rain so we went over to a members house and offered to help her clean and move furniture. She let me borrow some of her dry pants and shoes while we worked.

Recent convert Matteo and his many nieces and nephews