Monday, December 28, 2009

HUGE cucarachas and the lady with eighteen dogs. Yikes! But YAY for a BAPTISM.

Wednesday November 18, 2009
So Last Friday we had a baptism! Everything went well and it was a real spiritual treat. I am so glad that Cynthia realized the blessings she can receive from being a member in the true Church of Jesus Christ.
My companion and I made a cake for the baptism. and a miracle happened. haha we made the cake and it was super dry, and we couldnt get it out of the pan. but with the cake fell in two pieces bottom and top, and then we scraped the bottom out, so to put it back together we used dulce de leche but it looked really shady. haha. and then we put a bunch of dulce de leche on top and used coconut on top. the coconut here is so little it looks like parmesan cheese. but since it was SO HOT, the duluce de leche started to melt and we had to put it in the fridge. Ok so i was really sad thinking that the cake was a disaster and that it was going to be really embarassing. but we went and after the baptism everyone started eating and everyone asked who made the cake? it is so good!! somehow it was super moist and really really delicious. en serio, un milagro. something really little but it meant so much to me, that it turned out. Cuz yes i was praying.
Cynthia´s dad made it just in time to after work (he works for an ambulance) to baptize her, and he had to do the ordinance three times! luckily she was super good mannered about it all. Her dad said, she had too many sins, i had to do it three times! it was a good laugh.
The weather here affects EVERYTHING THE PEOPLE DO. its kind of frustrating acutally, if there is rain, nobody does anything. So yeah friday night right before the baptism it rained un monton! so nobody came except the families, but it truly was really beautiful, I am so grateful that everything turned out well, cuz i had no idea what i was doing!
So there is a woman we are teaching and she has 18 dogs. its nuts! I dont know if i already talked about her. But she knows each one of them by name. Everytime we pass by the dogs go nuts and are everywhere. My worst nightmare basically... haha not really, but yeah. Its crazy that the mission so far has taught me to be more tranquil, like whatever happens happens. I am still trying to get used to being soaking wet with sweat however.
For lunch we eat meat and pasta or salad. The salads here are shredded carrots, tomatoes, salt, hardboiled eggs, and oil. or some sort of mixture of those kinds of things. very different! But usually pretty good. and they put bread in the middle and everyone just pulls off a chunk and use the bread like a shovel. entonces, i am eating way too much bread ;).
There are bugs. HUGE cucarachas. Fortunately not any in my apt todavia pero en la calle siempre. La otra dia habia una araƱa grande en las espalda de un contacto. My companion just like went over to her knocked it down and stomped. But yeah i am trying to get used to seeing bugs all the time.
We were returning to the apartment (pensh) and i looked down and there was a huge cockroach on my shirt. it scared the crap out of me! so i screamed and hit it off and we were in the middle of the street. I really need to learn how to control my fear of bugs.........my companion got a kick out of it though! everyday many things happen that just make us laugh alot. it is usually my naivete with the culture and the language. The spanish is still a huge struggle. But whatever, I can teach, so thats what I focus on. But sometimes i speak in spanish and throw in english words. right now its my focus to not say 'like' anymore during lessons. Already there has been a huge improvement!
haha. its fun to to help my companion with english, there is a program that the latin missionaries have to do, so i get to be an english teacher. I never knew how difficult it is to explain some things, like phrases that we say all the time but really cant translate. that is how things are in spanish too but luckily Im getting the hang of it better.
Also WE ALMOST GOT THE STANDARDS THIS WEEK!!!!! agh we lacked ONE person in the church. and we seriously did todo posible para tener cinco en la capilla. it was super frustrating again. But oh well.
I know that Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restauration and that the same church that Jesus Christ Established is back on the earth!
What a great blessing. Almost everytime we teach the first lesson, I can feel again the Spirit testify to me of these things.
I hope that we always strive to build our testimonies and feel the Spirit everyday. It's important to know these things are true so we can know that the priesthood is on the earth and we can be sealed with our families for eternity! And always live in a state of happiness (mos 2:41)
Its also important so that we know the choices we make now affect our eternity. we need to remember the duration of eternity. (Enos 1:23)
Ok i love you all!
Until next week!

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