So my first zone is a tiny pub called villa gorgona, tiny, an outskirt about half an hour outside of Cali way out in teh middle of the huge valley, and i love it!!! K it seriously is a whole different world here though, this town is dirt poor, literally, most of the streets are dirt and even parts of some of the houses are made of packed dirt... really poor area, but the people here are amazing!!! I mean at least i think they are haha i still cant usually understand most of what they say, but im picking up more and more every day!!!
Our little house is pretty nice though!!! My companion and i are really happy here and working well together!!! My trainer is elder Penafiel from Ecuador, and hes a way good missionary whose teaching me lots!! Teh people here are so open to hear our message, and I already had my first baptism!! On saturday we baptised a little 14 year old kid whos awesome named Kevin, it was way sweet!!! The biship confirmed him yesterday, and now weve got another baptism set up already for this saturday!! The hard part though is keeping the people active and following the rules of our church, but we are working out best at it!! The chapel though is a good 15 minute bus ride away though closer to Cali, and even though it doesnt cost much, its way too much for most people to pay, so its really hard for a lot of people here to attend, they are seriously so poor, and also only about half of the people in the wad actually have nice church clothes, but it is sooo humbling to see and im so glad to be able to bring the blessed message of the gospel to them!!!
Alright so kind of a funny note, the first night i got eaten alive by bugs haha, especially on my ankles for some reason, so i put on a ton of bug spray before going to bed the next night, and it worked great every where but my ankles, i dont know what it is about my ankles, but the buys here love them, so i know have converted to the dark side dad, and i now sleep with socks hahaha... but let it be made clear that i did not convert by choice, haha its the only solution i could find, even with my feet bug sprayed and under my covers they still get eaten alive, so ya i am not even more like dad haha...
k it is so dang hot here haha i am an absolute sweat machine, but oddly enough it doesnt bother me too much, i dont usually realize it, but it is really funny at times haha, at times i see a few drops of water on the pages of my scriptures as ive held them open on my lap during a lesson, and the best was after my first interview with the bishop here... I had an interview with the bishop to get to know him the other day (and the poor guy is from the coast with some crazy accent and waaaay fast spanish, i cant understand a dang word he says, i swear its a completely different language haha) and his wife fed us dinner afterwards, this way good soup and chicken, but they were really hot, and i just started sweating like a pig in an oven, and holy cow i dont think ive ever been laughed at harder haha they were absolutely dying laughing at how hard i was sweating, i dont know how they dont sweat so much too, they do a little bit but not like me, so hopefully i will get a little more acustomed to it... but ya finally the bishops wife even escorted me to the bathroom where i used toilet paper to dry off a bit (they are way poor and didnt even have a towel to let me use i dont think, their póor house is just a few bricks and sheets of wood and metal, one of the walls even fell over while we were eating dinner) but ya so that was really funny!!!
alright heres a good story for mom, we helped a family of some members and some investigators paint their house this morning, abnd holy cow it was the most inefficient thing i have ever seen in my life.... including all of my own inefficient workings in my day... they poured water in with the paint, and i asked them why they did that, trying to explain that it would then be too thin, but they told me thats what they are supposed to do because it helps the paint dry faster... Anyways so i start painting, to make things worse we are painting an orange wall white, and the paint is so dang thin that it took like six dips in the bucket to finally get like a little square foot completely coverd so no orange showed, and then the lady came over and showed me the technique they use to paint, she showed me and told me to do big strokes all the way up and down, and when she did it it just left a super thin coat of white with still tons of orange showing, and when i told her this she said thats just fine, that it will dry faster and then we come back and do another coat... well after 2 hours we finished the first coat in the two rooms that we were painting and my comp and i had to go, but ya the poor walls look dead aweful right now and have got at least another 4 or 5 coats to go before they are good, all because of this method they have of diluting the paint with water hahaha ohhhh how i would love to see mom set things straight in there and show no tolerance for such inefficiency, i tried to make you proud mom and do so myself haha but the language barrier was just barely too strong...
alright well ya thats it for now!!!! Espero que ustedes estan felices y disfrutando su verano!! Estamos sumamente bendecidos para tener este evangelio en nuestras vidas!! he sido dado mucho en cada momento de mi vida, y por eso yo tambien tengo que dar a los demas, y eso es lo que estoy haciendo!!!
Les amo
Nos vemos
Elder Tenney
No comments:
Post a Comment