Paraná, the City of Humidity
Dear Family and Friends,
I´ve had the craziest week
ever! But I´m starting to really love Argentina. People are relaxed
and I´ve learned to just go with it. Instead of talking about what I
did every day this week I just want to talk about some of the things
I´ve learned this week about Argentina. Hopefully this will help you
understand the country better, or just what I´m up to every day.
1. I learned that wild oranges are no good and have worms in them.
In our ward there are 4 sisters. the other sisters are Hermanas
Miranda (Chile) and Lake (Washington). Well Hermanas Miranda and Gomez
tricked the Americans last monday into eating oranges from the trees on
the street. Sick! Super sour and gross.
2. Take Hermana Lake everywhere, you´ll get free stuff. She´s tall
and has really long blonde hair so everyone falls in love with her. We
get samples everywhere we go!
3. When it rains, it really
does flood. Holy cow I´m glad I brought rain boots. The streets don´t
have good irrigation so the water gets up to mid calf in a matter of
minutes!
4. Don´t stalk people´s blogs before your mission, because they may
turn out to be in your zone and be the Elder to give you a blessing.
Thanks dad. That Elder that you found his blog? Yep, he´s in the
Paraná zone!
5. Don´t go to the hospital. Because it´s free, your spanish
companions may want to go when they see the excima on your hands.
Because of the humidity here, my hands got really bad so I ended up
going to a dermatologist because I also have an infection of some kind
in my armpit...it´s fixed now.
6. You can make your own soda with water with gas. It´s gross. They mixed juice with that water and call it soda.
7.
Sprinter vans are everywhere here. Dad, when you decide to buy a small
one for mom, buy it here. Almost all the cars are sprinter vans!
8. Baptisms here start late and no one cares. It´s the ordinance
that counts. There was a baptism of an 8 year old on saturday that we
had to decorate for and put together. It started an hour late and there
were tons of kids running around the whole time, but it was still
great.
9. There´s a lot of scooters here and they just drive on the sidewalks.
10. Mosquitos like me. I fear for the summer.
11. You clap outside houses when tracting. It´s not good manners to go up to their door and knock.
12. Even in a foreign country people think I look like their
relatives... mostly granddaughters. I´m also back to being called
blonde. I don´t understand it.
13. Mate is disgusting. It´s
worse than herbal tea! My companion´s from Buenos Aires and she drinks
it all day long! And no, she´s not a convert and she has 8 siblings
that have all served missions. Her little sister is serving in Peru
right now.
14. My singing voice isn´t as bad as I thought. At least I can sing the tune!
So
to answer your questions about the ward, it´s small. There´s only
about 50 people that come every week. And they don´t feed the
missionaries for some reason. We´ve only had one lunch appointment and
the bishop fed us one dinner. But that´s only Paraná, in other places
the missionaries get fed. Paraná is super humid and hilly. It´s right
by a river and it´s actually not very cold right now even though we´re
in the middle of winter. I hardly use my wool coat.
We have 3 investigators right now and a lot of recent converts
we´re working with. Our zone doesn´t baptize a lot, but that´s
changing. People don´t really like to let us in because we´re
strangers, so we do a lot of mini lessons on the streets. Also, they
won´t open their doors, they just stick their heads out the windows.
It´s super fun. Mainly, I smile a lot and their nice. if you don´t
smile, they´re not.
That´s all I have time for now. I have to talk to the financial
secretary to get some money back from the doctor and medicine. Tell mom
that I´m praying for her and I feel super bad. I love you all! Don´t
forget that dearelder is free!
Weston, read D&C 75:2-5.
Love,
Hermana Borup
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