Well Happy
Birthday to Claire!
What an
exciting week for the Greenes. Shakes, zoos, talks, bonfires, trespassing. I don’t
believe it could have been any better. But really, happy birthday Claire! You’re
super awesome! Hopefully I’ll get to hear another talk from you in the future. I’ll
have to check out the zoo when I get back too. Zoos are pretty sweet, especially
if they have churros. Hopefully they sell turkey legs as well.
Well, thanks
for the reminder about MLK day, because I was able to go back to the apartment
and make the raddest alfajor shake. It was not Chick-fil-a, but it was an Elder
Greene special. Man… “Chick-fil-a. I could eat there seven times a day. Where
the people laugh and children play. Oh I’m in love with Chick-fil-a. Classic.”
So I was
pretty discouraged today because my favorite panaderia is closed until March. So
that means, no donuts, no facturas, no churros, or super dank bread until March.
So that’s the big downer about my week, but it’s alright, I’ll have to
improvise.
This week was
pretty slow, we didn’t have a lot of fixed lesson, only with Rosia and Sergio,
who by the way are the cat’s pajamas. But we did a lot of knocking and
contacting this week.
It’s funny
because when you are in an area for a long time, (for example… me) you start to
reach a point where you’ve contacted almost all the houses. So what do you do?
You knock their door again, but 4 months later. This is how it plays out… They
answer and say, "I thought I told you I don’t want anything." I say,
"Oh I’m sorry, you must of mistaken us with the Jehovah’s Witness."
"Oh really?” "Yeah, it’s a totally different group of people that
knock on your door and bug you. We are new and have a special message. Plus I’m
from America and have no idea how to make a good steak. And apparently Argentinians
makes good steak. Will you teach me?"
Everyone
thinks we are Jehovah’s Witness. We’ll be walking in the street and a 10-year-old
will walk by with his friend, then punch his friend. The friend who got punched
will say, "Don’t do that, Jehovah’s Witness is coming." That happened.
Do you
remember Halloween when Elder Andrew and I wore those Halloween ties, and some
guy across the street yelled at us saying “wow what a tie eye"? Yeah, so
that guy is named Juan. And Juan owns a bar, and he is always trying to get us
to go to his bar and hangout with all of his 60 year old friends who hang out
at the bar. Bars are pretty funny here because people build bars wherever they want,
and there are a ton of them, and everyone picks and chooses their favorites. And
so the same old retired guys are sitting in front of their bar each day. Too
bad Juan lives in the sister’s area, and they don’t want to make the move and
go to Juan’s house.
Lalo invited
us over to eat empanadas on Thursday night, but it turned out, he invited us to
make empanadas; the tortillas, putting the carne in the tortillas, and then
frying them. It was actually a pretty fun time. But you can tell that Lalo has
no idea what he is doing, because he wanted to make the salty and sweet kind;
but just pumped the saltys with tons of salt, and pumped the sweets with tons
of sugar. But who cares… its fried food. And we made enough for dinner and
lunches for the next two days. I’ll send you a pic.
The circus
came to town and everyone is hyped. Everyone’s asking, "Hey, have you been
to the circus yet?" Well huns, what do you think I do all day? I’m serving.
It would be cool to go to the circus though. We walked by it last night on our
way home, and it’s defiantly a circus, full of trailer vans and hicks. It’s
great!
It’s a really
great and exciting week, because Rosia and Sergio should be getting baptized
this Saturday. We talk to them yesterday, and they are really exciting, and
have no doubts that it’s something they want to do. Their car actually wouldn’t
start yesterday, and they walked to church by themselves, which is like a 20
min walk for me, and I walk fast, and don’t have to walk with kids. So that
proved to me that this is something that they want. Luckily it wasn’t hot that
morning because sometimes during the day you just get fried walking around. Don’t
worry I’m pretty responsible about my sunscreen usage. Everyone asks why I’m
not sunburned, because I’m white of course. So I tell them that I have some dang
good blockage running around my body.
Next time I talk
to you guys we should have a new family of converts in the church of Jesus Christ.
I’m loving it, I really am.
I love you
guys and I miss you, and hope you have another fantastic week. Especially with
our new president. America should be great.
Elder
Greene
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