Sister Alex Solomon:
Well I'd say it was a pretty good week. I'm getting to know more of the members and am enjoying biking it up! Sister Christley and I have a blast and her new name is Sister Craze-ley. She gets randomly excited about things and does this crazy happy dance and it just makes me crack up every time! I love her and I think this is going to be a great transfer!
I went on an exchange with Hermana Dueñas! She's amazing and I had the BEST time in a Spanish area! I was SO stinking full all day, though. We started out the day with a relief society activity and they fed us stupendous tostadas that were ridiculously spicy. They were so good though!
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The BEST tostadas and bread cookies |
While we were out tracting, this random lady told us to come in for water and then she made us eat a bunch of pizza, tried to make us eat some KFC, and tried to give us iced tea. I was so shocked! I've never had a random person we tracted into let us in and try to make us eat everything they have! It was amazing! For dinner, we had homemade enchiladas with rice and it was SO good. We ate with the elders and a Ward member. Fortunately for me, they were really nice and spoke in English most of the time since I was the only one who couldn't speak Spanish. I learned that I actually understand quite a bit though! I was able to contribute a little bit to our lessons that day but I mostly did a lot of smiling and nodding. Also, I held a little kitten while Hermana Dueñas was teaching in Spanish and it fell asleep under my arm and life was perfect.
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Literally the face of pure joy |
I have been really focused this week and I love it! We have around 60-ish missionaries that have been out less than 4 months so President Griffin has been talking to us older missionaries about how we need to build a curriculum to teach them everything we have learned before we leave. I've really been focused on passing on documents, trainings, and notes to my companion this week and just taking her out and showing her how to do everything I can think of. It really makes me see just how much I have learned this past year and I am constantly amazed at the things that I can do comfortably and naturally that I used to never think I could do. I see now just how much this mission is preparing me for my future and I would never change my decision to be here.
Interesting things: A man was driving by us while we were biking and he yelled at us to pull in to Dairy Queen so we did. I thought he was a Ward member because he was talking like he knew us but afterward, Sister Christley said she had never seen him before. We looked for him in our stake records too and he wasn't there...so a random man bought us ice cream and made us take $20.
Someone gave us a huge black trash bag full of loaves of bread. Seriously. They think we are STARVING. They literally gave us loaves upon loaves of bread. Why?! We physically cannot eat all that bread!
When I came to the Ward, there were 9 investigators total....this week, 6 of them moved. Yep, 6. They aren't even all in one family! #missionaryprobs
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THE BREAD |
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