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Dear family and friends,
So last week our pday got passed on to Christmas and we weren´t allowed to write, only talk. This week our
pday got passed on to today. so that´s why I haven´t been writing if
anyone was wondering.
So cool to hear about your San Francisco trip. You know, you have
been there twice now as a family and I have never gone. I think we
should change that when I get home. Or we can forget about San Francisco and take another trip to Mexico. I could use a long week in
Mexico right about now.
Weston! That´s super cool to hear you´re going south. Really south. Take lots of pictures of penguins for me.
So
this week was super long. Because of the holidays, no one wanted to
meet with us, and that includes members. We walked and tried tracting
and either no one was home, or no one wanted to talk to us. We did have
a great contacting experience Friday. We did some service for a less
active that morning and since no one else in our plans were home, we
went contacting. In one street we talked to 3 people with really strong
potential. One was a man named Gustavo who set up an appointment for
the next day. One was a less active named Marcelo, who´s wife is not a
member, but they were going out of town until March... they´re already
in our plans for March. And one was a guy that stopped us because he
thought we wanted to talk to him. Ya we do! He´s an old investigator,
but he doesn´t live in our area. But the next day we went to Gustavo´s
and it was probably the most awkward lesson of my life! We didn´t know
if he had a wife, but we knew he had 4 kids and that they were going to
be there. So we get there and there they all are waiting for us with
the nanny. But they wouldn´t talk to us, just stared across the table
from us. The man was standing next to me and the nanny was sitting on
the floor. I can´t really understand why it was so awkward but
afterwards Hna Garbin helped understand. She has never taught a man
before! Or kids! And she didn´t know how to handle it. Her comments
were out of no where on whatever subject. So it was all just a mess but
we´re going to go back more prepared next time. Also, I think she was
shaking.
Highlights of the week, I made my first asado. Yes, I also made
banana bread without a recipe. And it was dang good. All that watching
Hermana Smith cook paid off! But the asado came because on Saturdays
we cook for an old less active lady. She wanted asado instead of
milanesas and neither of us knew how to cook it. So I just sort of
guessed and it was delicious. Quite the cook these days.
Yes, my companion´s interesting. She´s from Peru and she´s great.
Super funny. She´s been here for 3 months, it´s her first area, and
she didn´t even know where the church was or what the bishop´s name was.
You can tell she´s a new missionary because she kind of likes to talk a
lot in the lessons and throw scriptures at the investigator. But
she´s a lot better than I was that´s for sure. With a lot more
practices in studies, she´s going to be an awesome missionary.
Well that´s all. Last night we didn´t do anything special but the
fireworks did wake me up. Also our blind investigator stopped us in the
street the other day and told us that revelation doesn´t exist and that
we´re teaching false doctrine. I think she may have gotten that from
her Jehova witness niece. Oh well. There are prepared people in
Centro, I know it.
Happy New Year!
Hermana Borup
P.S. Still haven´t done the blood testing yet. Lots of dumb complications. Everything´s closed until after Reyes.
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