Hello Family,
I’m totally jealous of your sweet trip with the Linfords; to have an entire week on vacation without problems and total enjoyment. I totally miss the good times with the Linfords. Those were also some of the best trips. And what a way to start the new year.
And if you were wondering, I pretty much experienced the same Christmas I had just 7 days earlier, all over again. It’s literally the exact same thing, but instead of saying Feliz Navidad, everyone says Feliz Fiestas. But it was another spectacular time anyways, with fireworks and people screaming and singing in the streets the entire night. Yeah last week was a pretty great week.
I have my new companion, and he’s from Peru, and it has reminded me of my first transfer in the mission, because he does so many things that Elder Ricra used to do, because Elder Ricra was Peruvian also. Like the accent, and the words, things he talks about. It’s kind of funny. And check this, he listens to "Page" all the stinking time. It’s the lady that sings church songs, and one of her songs is called "Joy", and it doesn’t sound that happy of a song. So yeah, I’m listening to the Page now all the time, and really feeling the joy of my first weeks of the mission. But he does make way better food.
We both have had a great week. And we have been focusing on teaching a couple, Sergio and Rosia. They are really excited about the church because Sergio has had friends who are members, and the members have told him about all the blessings they have had, especially in the family. And Sergio has 2 kids. They agreed to be baptized this week. And right after we explained a bit about marriage, and they agreed to be married and to get a marriage date that next day. She was a little bit more excited because it was something she kind of wanted to do sometime. Sergio was a bit embarrassed though, because he didn’t have a ring or anything in the moment.
It is all going pretty fast. But they are awsome, and doing whatever they can to get married. They spent the whole weekend getting papers and getting analysis and stuff. Off topic but interesting subject - by law here, to get married you have to get blood tests and other things to make sure your not related. But what’s great is that they will be able to to get civilly married on the 13th. Super close, because we thought it would be way later. Anyway, I’m super happy because they are really getting excited and pumped about everything that is going on.
We have been getting into some storms lately here, So I get to wear my rain boots, like all the cowboys wear around here. Somebody gave them to me. So sweet. I don’t have to get muddy shoes. And... for free.
There’s been kind of a crazy drug bust going on in Recreo this week and it’s been freaking out everyone. We were building a members roof on Wednesday, and he stopped us to have us watch the neighbors get busted by the cops. The police were walking out of the house with so many marijuana plants. The member, his name is Lalo, he was getting a pretty good kick out of it, because the owner of the drug house was getting pretty frustrated that the police were taking all his marijuana away.
Later that day we were on the other side of town, and we made it around a corner and we see some older kids booking it down the street at us. So we get out of the way and realize they each have their arms wrapped around big black buckets/planters; planted with huge marijuana plants. And everyone they passed, started getting wild; up and cheering and yelling. It was one of those comical moments where I felt like I was watching a movie, but it was real life.
Soon the weekend came around and everyone was going nuts getting fireworks and steaks and what not. So we had our own chicken asado at our apartment. Which went pretty well, except for the fact that it tasted a bit like fish. I guess the parilla ( I don’t really know the word for it in english, but it’s the part of the grill that you put the meet on, but it’s not the entire grill) we borrowed, was used to cook fish the day before and we never cleaned it. But it was good chicken anyway, with a nice mashed potato and Pepsi of course. And then we slept on the roof again to watch the fireworks.
Before I get off I want to say happy birthday to Katie, because it’s your birthday, so thats pretty nutz. But really do have a happy birthday.
I love all of you and hope you have a great new year. See ya!
Elder Greene
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