Entonces Family . . .
Merry Late Christmas!!! It was weird not waking up to our beautiful home on Christmas day. Instead we woke up to each other and our weekly planning session. It went well though. We had an activity with an investigator with lots of treats and a Christmas Christ movie. It was in spanish though so i was grateful when there was no talking actually. hahaa. After we worked as usual. We got home early and made ourselves a fruit dinner. We were too full from food from other people and our Christmas Eve dinner wasn´t settling well. I will get to that. Then we opened our presents!! Thank you so much for the blanket!! it made me cry a little and i had fun explaining all the pictures. Evan is lacking in a few of them though ahaha. We also exchanged presents with each other and she gave me a shirt with cats in it. Hermana Routsong said I was the only companion worthy enough to recieve that. I also got a few Bolivian things. Both of our home packages had presents for our companions so we actually got a lot. Our Penchenista also gave us presents!!
Well Christmas Eve. We had lunch with Alenjandra, Blanca and Enrique, two investigators and one less active. Enrique lived in Florida so he knows a bit of English. He made us Chicken Alfredo!!!!!!!!!! Ph my goodness it was like home. IOt was so good. We were there for about three hours. We invited another investigator who was lonely over to finish our leftovers so we had two lessons there. That night we had with the Pench and her family. It was a classic Bolivian dinner, Chicken, Potatoes, Corn and this really gross other potato stuff that i almost barfed. You have to eat everything! and since the family was there we couldn´t pull our bags out. I think the pench noticed I was struggling and she said if I can´t finish it is ok. Honestly biggest tender mercy I have ever recieved. I couldn´t do it! Bad thing was I ate all the gross stuff first. haha. We don´t eat with members that often so it is ok.
So Sunday Alejandra and her family came to church! They stayed the entire time too! It was a blessing. It is hard for people to come to church because a lot of the time they have to work. It is also hard to get them to read becasue they can´t read. So that´s a struggle for us. Also people are flaky and forget so we knock on doors a ton. We do a lot of contacting. mom you wouldn´t like it here, we waited an hour and a half for our Christmas Eve dinner. Anyways, we teach Ester and her daughter Carolina in their tienda, or store. It is always way hot and humid in there. Before we could even get the baptismal invitation out she just kept saying yes yes yes when!! So that was cool. They couldn´t come to church though becasue they had a wedding in Potosi they had to attend. That´s a bummer, they want it so bad i love it! Carolina is 9 and she is so smart. WE were looking through my picture book and she was telling me all the stories, she reads everyday, her mom can´t really read though so it´s sad.
Pedro, remember i invited him to baptism my first day!? yea well we habven´t had a lesson with him since and he won´t come to church nor will he read. We can´t get him to do antything. It´s so sad. I rememberd one time when we were with him i saw a Jehovah´s Witness pamphlet on his desk. They got to him. Freaking Pedro. I don´t even think i have ever seen a Jehovah´s Witness!!
Yesterday we had a lesson with Daniella, she is a really cute investigator. The spirit was so strong during it and she acreed to be baptized at the end of Janruary, although she thought it was a little soon. I hope all goes well. During the first lesson she was crying and seemed so grateful. We might be making Cheese bread with her tonight if Victor Hugo can´t. It wouldn´t surprise me if he coultn´t actually.
So as i was looking at the blanket i thought of some fun memories. Dad remember when we went to Florida together and i made you go on splash mountain 8 times!! Mom remember new York when I threw up after the play and that concert was going on! Evan remember when you were sleep talking and you said you were going to kill me. yea fun haha. Sam remember when you were following me and my friends around town all night long! that was creepy. Isaac remember when you would sleep over in my bed haha or remember before i left and we had our lord of the rings marathon! My comp loves that movie too and we talk about it alllllll the time. When i get back we are doing it again!!
All is well. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and it tastes so much better here. We are going to start to have dinner in our house because it´s cheaper and we aren´t getting enough fruits and vegtables with the pench. We will now get in at 8 and not have to leave after!! It´s kind of hot here and it´s raining a ton.
Ph today for pday we went into the city. i love it. i feel like i am in america until someone starts speaking to me haha. I found more places i have to go shop at during my last month or day here. For lunch i had thin crust pizza and italian gelato and a coke. i drink a lot of coke haha. it´s good. Oh we also wash our clothes in a bucket.
I don´t need any of that now though so don´t worry! thank you so much.
Hermana Parry
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