Hey Family!
This past week was really
good and our New Year’s went well as well. Well New Years was really fun and New Years
eve I got to milk a cow for the first time!
Haha! A family in Potrero Grande
had a few cows, and jokingly I asked one of the kids "when can I milk your
cow"? Then he laughed and said that
he would go get the cow ready. So we went outside and he tied its back
legs up and stuff and tied it to a tree. The whole time I was attempting
to milk this cow, Elder Farr is in the background holding my camera laughing so
hard because I guess I was just yanking on the things like there was no
tomorrow. I wasn't very successful at it, but I guess it takes practice?
Here in Guatemala everyone
eats tamales and ponche, which is a sugary drink of fruit pieces. New
Year’s eve we ate with Hermana Jacky our comedor, and we hung out with the
family of Hermana Berly for a while. Hermana Berly runs a school here in
Guatemala called Cumorah, and they are a really cool family. Then Elder
Farr and I went to sleep for about 45 minutes then woke up at midnight as the
bombing started. We walked outside and it wasn't as bad as Christmas, but
it still was going kind of crazy. Then we looked up the street and this
guy has a huge box for aerial fireworks that shoot up in the sky and blow up
kind of like the professional ones, but a little smaller. And as we watched this thing, the box falls
over tipped toward down the street where we were so we were like "Oh
Shoot!" and took cover behind a cement wall. He only had one more
shot left so we were all good. Then we
went back to sleep.
The weather here is
warming up and it is hot during the days here, so I haven't used the jacket
yet.
Well, our investigators
are progressing and some hopefully will be ready for baptism this month, and
everyday we find some new people to teach. Our goal for this month is 4
baptisms, and we are working our hardest here to get them to that point.
Haha so you guys don't
like tamales? Everyone here eats tamales
during Christmas and New Years so we had a few... but I am pretty sure the ones
here are much better than Costco tamales! It is funny because after one of the lessons
we were so stuffed, but they offered us a tamale and I finished that thing off
like nobody's business, but I looked over at Elder Farr and I can tell he is
stuffed. So he starts feeding it to the
cats and I am trying not to laugh because the Hermano was nearby!
Speaking of drunk people,
it seems like everyone here finds their own corner here and gets drunk out of
their minds for holidays. We have a set of drunk people that are our
friends here and it seems like they speak better English when they are drunk
than sober. But yeah, we talk to drunk people DAILY! Haha some people drink rubbing alcohol here
rather than normal alcohol because it is cheaper, which means their brains get
fried 3x as fast.
We went bowling today and
ate at Taco Bell. Actually Taco Bell is
really good here it is much better than in the states.
But other than that my
week was good, just working hard, and trying to leave no regrets. Well, I
Love you guys and Have a good week!
p.s there was a rabbit in
our house...
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