I know you have probably received a billion happy 4th of July wishes from all of the missionary letters, but Happy 4th! You don't realize how nice everything is in the USA, until you live outside of it.
This week was pretty relaxed for us. Monday and Tuesday were normal and then Wednesday we traveled out to La Merced again to meet our new mission president. He and his wife are really nice people but I'm really going to miss our old mission president. Their styles are a little different so I will have to get used to that. But I guess you can't compare someone on their first week as mission president to your old one who had 3 years of experience. Anyway we met him and his wife on Wednesday and then traveled back to Villa Rica.
The next day was the 4th of July and it was one of the funnest ones I've had so far. In the morning we showed up to breakfast and our pension had cooked us hot dogs for breakfast. Which is a total coincidence because 1. They don't know what hot dogs are here and 2. They use hot dog meat as sausage. So we showed up to breakfast and had hot dogs and bread. Then for lunch we spoiled ourselves with an American meal. My companion and I are both from the states so we made hamburgers, French fries, guacamole, bought lays chips, and I even brought out some girl scout cookies from a package my parents sent me. After that we did some festivities, shotgunned soda and threw some firecrackers (closest thing to fireworks we had). After that we went proselyting as normal and then at night an investigator invited us over for dinner to celebrate the 4th and we ate pizza together. So in one day here I ate hot dogs, hamburgers, and pizza. And the best part was that I didn't eat one grain of rice that day!
The rest of the week was pretty normal, but Sunday was the final of the Copa America. And it was Peru vs. Brazil. It was the first time Peru had made it to the finals in over 30 years so everyone was hyped about the game. So of course all of our appointments on Sunday fell through... So we went and studied in the room to avoid the temptation of watching the game. Brazil ended up winning 3-1 so everyone was sad about that haha and today for p-day I am wearing my Brazilian soccer jersey. Its only 10:30 in the morning and I've already received some comments about it haha so we will see how the day goes.
And now this time I'll end off with a funny story. Saturday night we were walking to an appointment and a half drunk guy stopped me and started talking with us. He then straight up said, "Hey I want to stop drinking and get baptized in your church." He was a little drunk so we can't take what he said entirely serious, but we are going to try to find him sober and see if he still wants to be baptized. Anyway the funny part was we asked him if he had seen missionaries before and he said that the other day he saw us eating churros in the road. (We bought some churros the other day and with one of them my companion challenged me to eat the entire churro in 3 bites.) He pointed at me and said that he saw me trying to stick the entire churro in my mouth haha, so I learned that people are always watching you even when you don't think so. So don't try to put an entire churro in your mouth in public unless you are fine with people seeing you! 😂
Photos:
1 and 2) Happy 4th!
3) Weekly Planning Session done right
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