Tuesday
Today we did divisions and I was with Elder Lopez -the crazy one- and we made pupusas for our district meeting. They're sooooo yummy!! We had two lessons today and they went really well fortunately. Martin and Fatima have been reading the Book of Mormon with their families every night! Anyways, as we were contacting, Elder Lopez tried to teach me a new greeting to say to people walking by on the street and I was SO BAD. Apparently 'eso!' is a more casual greeting that guys say to each other and Elder Lopez said it to tons of people and every single one of them said something back. Then when I tried saying it they NEVER said anything back. Most of the time they just looked up and stared at me as I walked by. So i'm sticking with 'buenas!'
Wednesday
We drove the 2hr bus ride to Los Santos to end divisions and we made pizzas from scratch for lunch. It was my first time making a real pizza (not just pita bread and tomato sauce and cheese:) We rode back to Cartago and ran into the Sister missionaries who asked if I could play a song called 'Peace in Christ' for their baptism on Saturday and I said I would try. (The real reason I accepted it was because I would have a reason to practice the piano:)
Thursday
Today we were walking down a street and a guy on a bike yelled out at us and started pedaling right for us.Honestly my instinct was to start running away cuz he was coming fast, but he stopped right in front of us and started yelling -in a nice way (like john the across the street neighbor in Idaho)- Why haven't you come to my house???? Then right there in the street he starting telling us about how he lost his Book of Mormon and he loved it and how it was a 'smaller easier-to-understand bible' and how he wanted to talk with us and a thousand other things super super fast. We set up an appointment for a few hours later and gave him a new Book of Mormon and he was SO happy. He kissed it and rode off holding it up to the sky 😂 After lunch we went to his house and spent like 2 hours answering all his questions before we had to leave to go to the church to practice 'Peace in Christ' . We practiced for almost 3 hours and ran into a problem. Our district didn't know whether to have me sing or play the piano because none of them know how to sing and they need me singing to be in tune and I can't play the piano and sing at the same time. At length we decided that I would play the piano really loud :)
Friday
The baptisms are tomorrow so today we spent the day traveling to their houses and doing the baptismal interviews.
Saturday
Alright just so things aren't confusing, this is the order of stuff that happened today: a baptism in the morning, a wedding in the afternoon, and 3 baptisms right after the wedding, and then the wedding reception. okay
We arrived at the church early to practice our song one last time, and when the time came for the baptism to start, I was still sitting on the piano bench and it was assumed that I was gonna play all the hymns sooooooooo ill just say I did my best. Also our musical number went super good!! A little stressful because I was trying to conduct with my head and sing and play but overall it was okay and I'm grateful I could help invite the spirit. After lunch we went back to the church again to get everything ready for the marriage of Martin and Fatima. Then we waited for them. And waited. And waited. They were 30 minutes late :)
OH MY GOSH I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVEN'T SAID THIS ALREADY
Manfred brought his brand new Canon Rebel T6 and let me use it and was so impressed with how well I knew the camera that he said he wanted ME to take the wedding photos! So I became a wedding photographer for the day!!! It was soooo fun!! I basically looked for moments when people were laughing or smiling or hugging or doing other happy stuff and snuck undercover shots like a spy. Now I really want to make a video for them but I know I won't have time...
After the marriage, we had 3 more baptisms, and we sang 'Peace in Christ' as a district again but there were like 100x more people. And someone turned on the fan during the song and it blew down my sheet music and train-wrecked the song. I took a deep breath, trying not to laugh (for some reason our district always gets the giggles in the most serious times) and started over. It all turned out great. After the baptisms, I became a waiter for the wedding reception and we had to leave soon after that to eat dinner with Manfred and get the surprise good-bye party ready for Elder Fugal - our zone leader who goes home in 2 days. I'm okay with that though because Clayton comes in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday
Church was super awesome today. That's because in sacrament meeting the 4 people that were baptized yesterday were confirmed and received the gift of the Holy Ghost and a blessing and the Spirit was really strong! Oh, also today was the primary program! so we got to hear all the cute little latino kids bear their testimonies and yell all their songs :)
Today
P-Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Clayton comes!!!!
Have a great week everyone!
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