Week 35. The Dreaded Weekly Email

Things I love:
  1. We were chatting with a lady in front of her door when all of a sudden the wind blew by and slammed her door shut. She didn't have a key so we were all locked out of her house and her child was locked in. I told her I could climb over… Ugh climbing over a super high door in a skirt was an adventure. Some taxi was passing by as I was on top of the wall and he just drove by REAL slow and stared. Mmmmhmmm. I’m fitting it realllllly well here J
  2. The little boy we eat lunch with everyday showed us his food and I said, “lucky duck!”. He asked me what that was and I just started laughing… And for some reason he now thinks that forks are called “LUCKY DUCK!”  I don’t know why it made me laugh so hard but  even now, a week later, he thinks that’s what you call forks.  
  3. This week we were teaching one of our investigators. We were talking about why we don’t believe in drinking alcohol, coffee, tea. We also talked about why we don’t believe in sex before marriage. She was SO GRATEFUL and SO HAPPY to be learning about what we believe to be laws from God. I NEVER imagined that someone would be so happy and feel so blessed for the things I took for granted growing up. Not only that…. But this same lady had plans to go visit her BF over the weekend (he lives 10 hours away). We told her that because her baptism date was the next weekend she needed to attend church, but if she wanted we could change her baptism date. SHE CANCELLED HER PLANS and came to church with us Sunday. I have always heard about people who were “Just ready” to hear about the church, she’s one of those.

Things I’m learning to love: 
  1. Ick. Right now I’m sitting in the internet café, it’s raining outside and I COULD SMELL a wet dog. I look around and he’s laying RIGHT NEXT to me. Ew. Why RIGHT next to me. I can hardly breathe.
  2. Hahahaha this week we saw a man squatting in a dried up river… As we kept walking by we realized he was using the Bolivian bathroom. BUT we noticed him picking up some trash from the ground SO at least he’s wiping, right?!
  3. The elders in our ward have been teaching a guy that speaks English. We met him this week. I don’t know if it’s his vocabulary, his accent or what but everything he said sounded a little creepy. First he said “What’s up ladies..?” with a smile and then he told us that if we wanted to convince him about that church he’d be willing to listen… UH NO. haha 

 Struggling to get over the wall... Don't worry I made it :)
 Paintballing. I look like a fool!
 Went to a birthday party. The piece of cake was bigger than my plate. 
 Our zone meetings are pretty entertaining. 
 Our trio came back!!! WAHOOO. But just for a day...
 Trio. Otra vez. 
 We're so pretty. 
 HAHAHA. I forgot about this. Compi now hates this bird.. So we found a way to keep it from eating our food. BUT then when we let it out it ended up CHARGING COMPI. Haha she definitely screamed. 

 drinking my bag juice WITH my Halloween earrings. THANKS JAMIE. 
Found another bridge. 
PAINTBALLING. I'm getting so good ;) yeah. right. 

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