hey everyone hows it going? this week was kinda crazy to be honest. and we did so much without really doing anything at all. hard to explain. but it happens sometimes in the mission. but anyway tuesday night i went to the baptism that elder leavitt had. cuz i had met her (Rocío) the week before and she asked me to come to her baptism. so i figured why not. but i went with one of the guys in our ward cuz we did divisions cuz elder sosa didnt want to go. but it was very good. except for the part where mauricio (the guy from my ward) and i had to be the witnesses. and she pulled her foot up out of the water. but...it was after she had completely gone under. so we had to make the decision about whether or not she had to do it again. and i honestly felt that she was ok and so did mauricio. so we approved it. but still it was a very nerve recking situation to do be honest.
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| AJ and E. Sosa...now that's a missionary pose! |
then wednesday i didnt feel very good and neither did elder sosa. so it was a slow day. but what makes it even more miserable right now is that its getting hot and its humid and so walking in the street at 4 in the afternoon is tough to say the least. it really wouldnt be that bad if we werent in ties and pants. cuz i know that if i had shorts and a t shirt i would be completely fine. but i guess its just one of the challenges of the mission. then thursday we were supposed to practice our thing we were doing for the talent show with the elders quorem president. and we planned to meet in the church at 8. but he never showed up and we basically wasted 2 hours just waiting for him there. thats one thing that absolutely drives me crazy about the latin culture is the inability to say a time and day and commit to it. because no one ever shows up on time here or starts anything on time. and it also kinda ruined our plans twice during the week cuz we planned to do divisions and get to more people than normal. but a lot of times they show up half an hour late or just dont even show up and so we do less than we would have normally. but its just something we have to put up with.
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| Ward party...partyers :) |
friday was pretty cool though. cuz that was the night that we had the talent show. and i was so nervous to sing cuz ive never sang in front of people alone before. but it turned out to be alright. we only ended up singing one song together with elder sosa cuz we had other stuff with him singing and others playing guitar and then him playing harmonica. and i had to worry about the other thing we were doing so i didnt have enough time to practice more songs. but the other thing that we did was better anyway. we performed one of those skits where one person is the head and legs and then someone else is behind as the arms and we did dances and stuff. and it was really funny. unfortuantely the videos are to big to send in email so im gonna try and have a friend here put them up tomorrow on my facebook and then you should all be able to see them. (thats also how i put up those other pictures before if you were wondering. dont worry im not just getting on myself lol) but everyone loved it and laughed a lot. and then all told us how good it was.
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| painting houses for service |
then saturday morning we went and did service as a stake by painting the houses of the people in one the little passages in our ward. so there were about 80 people there in this little passage painting and it made it kinda packed. but it was a lot of fun and the people there loved it and it honestly made the passage look so much better. but the better part is that because of that, we had 3 kids from there come to church yesterday. they were like 13 years old. so that was pretty cool. but i really did nothing except have fun and mess around with the youth in our ward. cuz there really wasnt a lot for us to do when we got there.
so yea thats pretty much it for this week.
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