hello my mother father
brothers and sisters!!
So this week has been an
interesting, sad, happy, and all around rollercoaster week!! So we’ll start
with this last Wednesday!! It was the last district meeting we had with Rahm so
it was pretty dang sad to tell the truth!! The next day on Thursday me and Arreola
had a weekly planning together which is always a drag of time because it
usually takes up to 2 and a half hours to plan everything. It has to be done so
we just entertained ourselves with some matte and little pieces of bread!! After
planning, we went and visited a few of our investigators including a woman
named Angelica who is really trying to figure out which is the right church and
she’s really doubtful of everything so we’re trying to help her with that.
That night we stopped by
a basketball club that I thought didn’t exist, just to see if it existed. Well
turns out it does and it turns out that argentines still aren’t very amazing at
basketball haha! BUT ONE, this kid was a freaking beast. He wore a Steve Nash
shirt and played just liked him. We played one on one and the score just kept
going up and up and up so we ended it with a little abrazito!! Then we invited
them to soccer on Friday and literally they CAME. We got them comfortable in the church and they
are definitely gonna come back next week so that is super exciting!! Hopefully
we can get them in the wataaaa!!
On Saturday, we went to
see the Gonzalez family who have been inactive for quite some time, we wanted
to have a family home evening with them but as it turns out they had a friend
over. The friend was really drunk and hated us. So we started to leave and he
yelled and said “SIT DOWN I WANT TO LISTEN.” We proceeded to sit down and try
to say one word and he yelled at us that our rich pastor in Miami was soaking
it up and living the big life off of our tithings, as this all happened I
realized my companions only weakness is stupidity of others. I have never ever seen Arreola mad except for
that one time, they both stood up and got face to face just looking at each other
and what really upset me is that neither the dad nor mom said anything. They
didn’t even try to defend us like what in the heck guys!! So I was quite ready
to knock the living crap out of this guy if he touched my comp. Then it all ended with the drunk leaving and
me and Arreola talking and yelling in the street relieving anger and stress of
that situation. Not a fun time. Later
that night we found out that Elder Rahm is going to be the new secretary and
that Elder Gilliland is receiving his first son holy crap everyone is growing
up in the mission! Just yesterday I was watching Gilliland be born and now he’s
training, that’s absolutely crazy!!
Ok so
about the prank that we pulled on elder RAHM! It was so freaking good you guys
would not believe it!! So we went to the pension of Elder Rahm Gililland and as
it turns out we didn’t have the keys to get in BUT... the window was open and
we went in cooked and ate our food!! As we were about to close the window, a
lightbulb went off in unison as we both thought "the window is open and
how can we make Rahm freak out." We went in threw stuff all over the freaking
place and then hid elder Rahms ukulele, his backpack with ID tons of money and
a lot of other stuff, then we hid Gilillands guitar and Arreolas camera (which
we still haven’t found which is kinda scary). We left and ran to centro and on
the way saw our neighbor! We told the neighbor to tell Rahm if he came back
that a bunch of guys had left with a bunch of stuff and he didn’t know who they
were!! HE FELL SO HARD! We show up and he was scared to go into the pension so
I went in and pretended to "clear it out" then the fun began rahm
started FREAKING OUT we all played it so well and to end the joke when Rahm was
about to go and charge credit for the phone to call the police I ran out and
said hey wait up wearing his backpack and Gilliland came out playing his
ukelele! Exact words "DID YOU GUYS DO THIS? I’M GOING TO KILL YOU I HATE Y’ALL"
that’s all we heard. Well at least me and Elder Gililland. We sprinted 5 blocks
and went to go buy him a hamburger hoping he wouldn’t kill us when we got
back!! So we got back and all was good and the prank had been pulled. AND sadly,
from what I have been told he actually got robbed this Monday in the terminal of
his backpack with everything inside which really sucks.
So in
other sad news this week my best friend of the mission has come to his grave,
Elder Summers died yesterday and will now be touring the mission with his
family! Gosh dang it that would be so cool if I could show you guys the
mission. If you’re all saving up for a big trip when I get back, dump half of
it and come down here to meet all these great people!! Summers called me the moment before he died
and I think that may have been the only time I’ve cried so hard in the mission
because of another missionary leaving! He just uhgg it’s really sad and I’m
sure I’ll see him again at my wedding but it’s gonna be sad for a little less
than a year!
Well
today is 4th of July that means I’m gonna go and buy something sweet for myself
and not care about the calories that come with it! Goodness I sound like a 40
year old housewife that is on a strict freaking diet. Well that’s what I’m
going for in all honesty!! I’ve been doing a cross fit workout every day and
taking my protein and creatine every day for the last little while!! As of
right now I weigh 207 and I’m leaner than I was when I weighed 193 so I’ve put
on some muscle. Now it’s just time to lose some fat haha!! The diet is all good
we really don’t eat a whole ton here in Nonogasta. Not a whole ton of people feed
us which is fine. I guess but it’s definitely
cutting into the budget more than most missionaries!! So now that I have a year
in the mission I can speak just fine and communicate with anyone and I have
some pretty big vocab! Now I just need to get really freaking smart this last
year of the mission!! I want to be an expert when I get back so I can literally
talk to anyone and understand because mexican spanish in the US is
pretty....well crappy its straight Spanglish. Like here truck is camioneta and
there its trocko like what the heck is that that doesn’t even make sense, and
it’s like that with lots of things.
So
joke of the week from Elder Arreola told me it in Spanish and I couldn’t help
but laugh a little bit!! We all know that almost every church demands tithing
to help grow the church. The evangelists pay up to 40% of what they own to the
church and that’s how they show there love to God. The Jehovah’s witnesses pay
20% of what they have to the church and that’s how they pay their money to God.
The Mormons pay 10% to God to show him love and repay him. And finally, the
Mexicans pay their tithing in such a way that God and the Mexican is happy. So
the Mexican goes to the street and has all of his money in his hands, he throws
it into the air and says "God grab what you can the rest is mine!"
and that’s how the Mexicans pay tithing.
Now a joke for dad, this
joke just plays with words so ya haha!
un honbre quiere ir a
una fiesta en un edificio, este edificio tiene 4 pisos de joda,de los cuales
usted puede eligir. pero necesita dos personas para entrar y si no eres macho
ne le van a dejar entrar. ese hombre va y busca su amigo para acompañarlo a la
joda. Lo dice " ey che dale vamos a la joda quiero ver el tercer piso
escuche que bailan la noche entera" su amigo lo dice "no no quiero
tengo que ahcer algunos cosas aqui en las casa" su amigo le dice "
bueno si va conmigo pago so boleto" le dice "bueno voy" los dos
van a la joda pero el amigio no es muy macho, y el tiene miedo que no le van a
dejar entrar. llegan a la joda y las puertas del ascensor abren y hay un hombre
GIGANTE mas grande que los dos hombres casa tiene 3 metros de altura, los el
hombre los grita y los pregunta enojado "CUAL PISO?"
los dos hombres no dicen
nada solo se quedan con miedo. de vuelta el hombre los pregunta "CUAL
PISO?" Y el hombre chicito le dice " piselo a el ni quieria
venir"
Tell me if you got it. I
liked it! I love you all and hope that you had a great week this week!! I’ll
see you guys in a week and we’ll see what happens this week chau chau!!
