I am excited that Ben is leaving, and that he already got
his visa that quick. I talked to a ton of elders in the MTC going to
Colombia who were all waiting to get their visas to leave, so he is
lucky to leave on time. That will be fun for him. Hopefully the letter
that I sent to him in the Provo MTC gets there in time. That is also
exciting that Tiffany is going to go on a mission too! That will be
cool.
I haven't heard anything other
than what you´ve told me about hurricane sandy, although Ive heard a
couple people mention it here, but I don´t know much about it. It sounds
pretty big.. And the elections are coming up. That is exciting, I'm
sure that I´ll hear a lot more about that this week.
A typical day is waking up, working out, eating cereal for
breakfast, studying while waiting for the water to boil to shower with,
showering, going back to studying until lunch, which we usually go to a
member´s house to eat, which you can read dad´s email for information
about what we eat, and a short story about something that we ate this
week that was interesting. Then, we work for the rest of the day,
talking to people on the street, members and investigators in their
homes, other random appointments, some sort of dinner, normally around
7, because they eat dinner later here, so 7 is early. We go back to the
apartment around 9 and plan for the next day and go to bed. Not too
exciting.
P-days, we usually play soccer first thing in the morning. We drop
our laundry off at the house of a member with a washer in the mornings,
and go play soccer for a couple hours, come back, shower and eat, then
we go out to use internet, go shopping for random stuff, and then for
groceries, normally we go with other elders in the zone, and we come
back at 6 and continue like a normal work day until 9.
We haven't really done anything more with the mission president. He
is plenty busy with other stuff. We had interviews with him a couple of
weeks ago, and I saw him today in the office and shook his hand, but
other than that, we don't often see him or visit the mission office.
For service, we have carried roof materials up a ton of stairs one
morning, and this week we moved bricks to help build a house for a
member. Nothing too exciting for service so far, but it is good.
I hope that everything is good for you all!
Love,
Elder Ward
Dear Dad,
Dear Dad,
This week has been good. We have been trying
to get a lot of new people to talk to, so we have been working extra
hard to do that, which is good, I like working hard, and when my
companion is more excited to work and go out and teach. So that has been
good. I have been a little bit sick this week, but am just going to
keep working and hope that the tiredness doesnt catch up to me and kill
me. But I am starting to feel better now. We have been walking a ton
recently, or maybe I am just more sore now. This hill is killing me! But
that´s alright, that will just replace my morning workout. I´m kind of
slacking in that department. I should be better in doing that, but I
have little motivation early in the mornings.. But my goal is 20 pushups
and 10 pull ups a day. We have a pullup bar here, because my companion
is obsessed with working out. So I try to do that and a little bit of
stretching, but thats about all I do right now...
I have been trying to get better at cooking this week, but it is
hard to do here. There arent all of the same ingredients, all of the
titles of food and directions are in Spanish, We dont have a oven or
microwave, and only have a stove with 1 working burner to cook
everything with. But I made chicken quesadillas this week and some
hamburger, as well as lame stuff like ramen and spaghetti and easy
boiling foods like that. Most of the time we eat at a member´s house,
which a normal meal for that is rice, beans, a block of cheese (which is
normally the grossest part), maybe some avacado or tomato slices, and
tortillas. And also we will almost always have banana soda, or
occasionally like sprite or a different soda or juice. But the foods not
too bad here, my stomach still isn´t loving it all, but it all tastes
good. We never really have a set mealtime for lunch and dinner. or how
many we will get. We had one day this week 1 breakfast, 2 lunches, a
snack, and 2 dinners, which we were obligated to eat, and we have to eat
everything on the plate to not offend them, so occassionally we get
super full, and sometimes we are hungry, it just depends on the day.
Thats a little sample of some of the stuff that happens here, just random stuff that I thought that I´d share.
Thats still weird to me that you guys got chickens. I dont know if
I see the point in that... Are the eggs good? Have you cut ones head
off and eaten one yet? WAIT! Hahaha, I have a funny story for you that I
remembered, its a good one...
So I was at the house of some members that we visit quite a bit,
and we were talking with them, and they were cooking something for us on
the other side of the room, and we waited for the food, and they
brought us our plates, and there were chicken legs on the plates, cooked
and flavored and all that, but like chicken legs, like just the 3
little feet/toe thingys. They insisted that we try them and said that
they were good, and I wanted to say that I had tried it, so we did. It
wasn´t all that great. The flavor was fine, just like you´d flavor
regular chicken meat, but there was only like bone and skin, there wasnt
any meat to eat, so you basically just suck on it to get the flavor
out, and eat at the skin. I didn´t spend too much time trying to eat it,
but I can say that I have had chicken legs now. So that was a fun
little experience.
Anyways, yup, that was good. I hope that you are doing well, and that everything was good for Halloween and stuff like that.
Love,
Elder Ward
