Things are going good here. Monday. Well, on monday we went to see if our bikes were fixed yet, they weren´t. The guy that told us that he would fix them, Charlie, was like i need money to get the stuff. i didn´t want to give him money, but my comp did it. We saw him a couple of days later at his ¨house.¨ he was wondering how we knew where he lived...and he told us several times before. We heard that he´s a drug addict and that it´s not really his house. He was deported here in ´97. Well, it turns out, we haven´t seen him since. so my comp lost 300 pesos, which he couldn´t afford to lose. Tuesday. One thing from tuesday is teaching Alvertina. I forgot last week to tell you about her 3 year old son, Hansen. He is soooo funny. He´s way out of it. He reminds me so much of landon, just dazed out. But he talks like crazy is the only thing different. All he does all day is watch cartoons where they fight, it has to be. When we were there he ran out into the room, jumped into a fighting stance. Alver noticed that his thumbnails were painted, and she asked him why he did it. He looked at his fingers, then put up his fists and yelled I painted my fingers so i could fight with more power! Yaaaaaaa. then he just took off. oh man, it was sooo funny. you would have to see him. But last week i said it seemed like her husband was holding her back, we found out that it was. He drinks, and when he drinks, he goes crazy. so she´s kind of ashamed of it and doesn´t like it at all, so we taught her the word of wisdom, and since she wants him to stop, it was perfect. She seems really interested and wants her husband to get involved too. We also committed to doing pushups and stuff every morning...it lasted a couple days. Wednesday. Wednesday I ran out of clothes, and the only time we had light for those 3-4 days was that day, which would´ve been perfect, but Elder Vasquez beat me to the washing machine. As soon as he was done, the power left. it finally came back on saturday, so i did my clothes fast. We also got some tops made for us. I couldn´t get it at all, but it clicked on saturday. Now I hardly mess up, and I can aim it well enough to get it to land in a frisbee. I can pick it up, and i can almost pararlo, or throw it and pull it back to where it lands in my hand instead of hitting the floor. it´s so fun. One of our references, Nena, told us to never come back. We were like what. she said if i don´t go to church, don´t come back, i don´t want to waste your time. that´s good that she understands that our time is valuable, but it wasn´t good hearing that. i just thought, well, that´s over. but to our surprise, she came to church.....and it was Raining Sunday, and everything shuts down when there´s rain. nobody goes out in the rain. they´re all afraid of getting the gripe...flu, sorry. We also had district meeting, and one of the sisters brought brownies. it was soooo good. Friday. Friday was interviews. At interviews i had to give the devotional, so i chose testimony, which happened to be the theme that the ap´s taught us while president Antivilo was doing interviews. It went well. Hansen and Vasquez both think that they are leaving. Chamberlain is going to stay. and i have no idea. we´ll see. i don´t like to guess anyway. i can´t believe this is the last week of the transfer already. Afterward, we had a spanish scripture chase. i came in second and my reward was a package of starburst. my comp was 1st. he got the butterfinger. oh how i wish i had the butterfinger, but the starburst were still amazing. President Antivilo saw hansen´s top, and he took it for a spin, In the church. it was crazy. he was really good too. our branch president is really good too and is begging us to make him a top. at lunch time (we have free time 1-3, everything shuts down) we played ¨dominican baseball¨. it´s so fun. we played with three people. So what you do is you have a stick, and some hard thick 5 gallon jug lids. you have the pitcher, the catcher, and the batter. it´s every man for himself. If you miss three times in a row, of course it´s an out. you get two outs. Also if the pitcher or catcher pick up the cap while it´s still moving or catch it, it´s an out. you score if the cap comes to a complete stop. you only switch on two outs, no matter how many points. i got pretty good at pitching. i had like 14 points, to 5, to 2. it was soo fun. then it started to rain...not fun, only because it equals a tooon of mud. At night, there was a huge group of kids, one had a mask on and they tried to scare us. Then we told them what we do in the states, and after, they all ran to houses and were trying to do it. that was funny. Saturday. Saturday was the finally day. Power finally came back, so i got to finally wash my clothes. i finally understood how to throw the top. i got it before, but not good. we finally did contacts, we started to run out of people. it wasn´t bad at all. I liked one family we contacted. the dad is bruno and the mom is marie. bruno paid attention the whole time, never looked away once. he seemed fairly interested, but i´m not sure. but they are never home. he drives buses and has another job. and marie sells skim ice, or popcicles. they are really good. 5 pesos. Finally the bikes were fixed. Even my gears were fixed and we didn´t even talk to manuel, the member that was going to try to fix them before about them. i´m glad that he didn´t let the charlie guy take them. It was Chamberlain´s birthday, and he got a few packages, so we finally got to eat some really good american snacks. Anyway. We went to Alvertina´s, but she wasn´t home. so we started to go somewhere else, and we were passing by pres. gonsalez´s house, and had a feeling to turn that way. but i didn´t. i did stop though, and i yelled at hanson and asked him what where we were going. he stopped, and then we looked up toward where the branch president lives, and there was alver. She was on her way to pres´s house anyway, so we had a good lesson there. another cool thing that happened is when we were at guillermo and niña´s we heard some good news. guillermo, niña wasn´t there, anyway, he told us that he ran into a guy that told him how to get papers for the kids cheaper than the way that they were going to do it. I´m so glad that whenever things like that happen to them they always recognize it as a blessing for doing what is right. Their family is soo awesome. they have 9 kids. the oldest i think is 15. they are so close, they are always together, one day we saw half of the kids walking down the street all holding hands....it was so cool. and the thing is that they are really really poor. but he has found some construction jobs. one was building a wall. he had people telling him all the time to quit. even a general told him to stop. every time he went and found the guy that told him to build it, and they all left him alone after that. and then he finished, and he couldn´t find the guy. hopefully he gets his money. but he told us it seems like someone is trying to stop him, that once he thinks he´s made it, another trial comes along. so we told him to keep going and after the trial comes the testimony and reward. ether. Sunday. sunday we had 7 investigators there, more than ever, and our two that always come (raifi and franklin) didn´t. one was one that hansen dropped along time ago. alver and her husband came. nena. morena and gerald. and glenys, another one that hansen dropped. today so far has been cool. we played some basketball. if felt good to run. well, this is already too long, so i better go.
P.S. Sorry, I got a little behind. I also just posted his emails back through October 20th, so be sure to read those when you get a chance!
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