So probably the highlight of my week happened on Monday when
I ate lunch. So I’ve been craving Mexican food like a pregnant lady craves
weird stuff. So we went to lunch at a
food court type place, and they had Mexican food. So obviously that’s what I
got. I got 2 beef burritos and a huge
bowl of nachos. Not nearly worth the money,
and not nearly as good as Taco Bell even, but so worth it to eat. I miss Mexican
food a lot. I even had a Mexican companion but we never cooked Mexican food. How sad is that? Anyway, after a fantastic start to the week
with that scrumptious meal, not much else happened Monday.
Tuesday I had to do a division with the district leader and
his kid. But first we had to have
district meeting and the zone leaders ended up showing up way late but of
course we had to wait for them and then our practices went long so we didn’t
end up starting the division until like 12:30. I went with the new guy, Elder Tauilili from Utah. He has been out almost 2 changes now
(Note: changes are every 6 weeks). We went to lunch and then back to the house
for language study and then into the street. We did some contacting and visited some less
active families before meeting up with their ward mission leader to do a visit.
It turned into this guy talking for an
hour and a half and saying how we don’t need to learn everything at once but he
touched on every subject of the lessons you could imagine and didn’t let us get
in a single word edge wise. So that was
something. Then while we were waiting to
go visit another investigator, Elder Stopper and the district leader rolled up
as it was time to change back. So I
ended my division a little early, and by 8 o’clock I was back with my
companion. One of the nicest, easiest divisions I have ever done. We grabbed some food and then went home.
Unfortunately I got a little sick later that night, nothing
stomach related, but I had a terrible sore throat and sinus pain again. I have it at least once a month, if not more,
ever since I got really sick last summer. I can’t imagine what it would have
been like if I still had my tonsils. It just sucks more than anything -- nothing
too serious.
Wednesday we had lunch with the Bishop and my comp was
ecstatic. So ever since I got here, he
has been going on and on about this Ecuadorian dish, Patacones. And on Wednesday, he finally got the chance
to make them. The issue was he needed platanos (Note: a type of banana) and he couldn’t find them
here, but there is a member from Peru and he grows them and they were finally
ready so he gave some to my comp and we ate with the bishop. What you do is peel them like a banana and
then cut them into slices and fry them a little bit and then dunk them in salt
water and finish frying them. It’s kinda
like an Ecuadorian french fry I guess. It was pretty good. Although I’ll stick with my potatoes.
Later that night we had a quite unusual ward mission meeting
as we got locked out of the church and nobody could find the keys so we sat
outside on these fire hydrant looking things and talked and cut up paper to use
as invitations to our movie night on Friday. Recently our ward mission leader has decided
that to get more members involved and coming to church and to reactivate less-actives,
we need to do activities. So its soccer
on Wednesday nights, movie night on Fridays, and English class on Saturdays. Unfortunately, they didn’t go so hot this week.
For the first time since I’ve been here, soccer didn’t have a lot of people and
ended early. Movie night only one family
came, and English class was planned for the same hour as the huge soccer game,
so that was poorly attended as well. We
are hoping for more success next week.
That about wraps up this week. This upcoming week I hit my
year mark, and my trainer goes home. So
that is a little weird. I’m getting old in the mission, even if I don’t feel it
yet.
We also have interviews this week, so it’s gonna be quite
something. I’m sure I’ll have some things
to write next week.
Well, I love all you guys and hope that you have a great
week.
Take care,
Elder Frost
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