November 5, 2012

Hey ya'll!!!  so another week has come and gone.  Well... not much has happened... hmm...

This week has been lots of work.  ¡estamos sacando la mugre!  Yeah for those of you that don't understand, that means, we are taking out the trash.  Kind of a weird phrase in missionary work considering we are actually bringing people to baptism, but still.  Think of it as we are taking the trash out of people lives?  Yeah, let's go with that one.  haha.  We have been working really hard.

It is really hot here.  I am jealous of all of you that have winter right now.  It has been like 32 degrees Celsius this past week.  I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit, but it is really hot.

This past week Janis finally decided she is ready to be baptized.  She will be baptized on the 18th!  Woot!  Finally!  She is so awesome.  We had a family night with her and another family from the ward last night and it was so much fun.  I'm so excited that she is finally ready.

Other than that, it has been fine here.  Me and my companion argued a bit, but what do you expect when you are with someone 24/7, and you are outside boiling for most of the day.  haha.  But we are cool now.  Not really anything else to report.  I guess I will talk a little bit about random stuff here.  The most common street food is completos/italianos.  It is basically a hot dog with diced tomato (lots), palta... (I don't remember the name in English ..), oh yeah, guacamole (lots), and mayonnaise (quite a bit),  and ketchup and mustard if you want it.  Pretty much every place has completos.

One more random fact is that the people always greet each other by giving besos, a kiss on the cheek.  Except for one man to another, unless they are family.  It is really funny because the girls always try and give us besos, but we can't as missionaries so we always have to say, "disculpe, solo podemos saludar con la mano como missionaros", or sorry we can only greet you with the hand (direct translation is kinda odd), but yeah.  So we have a lot of really awkward situations with that.

All the new missionaries going out is crazy.  They are opening an MTC-like place here for our mission alone to handle the new missionaries.  So they will leave straight from the U.S. to the mission to be trained.  They are doing that in a lot of other missions too.  That is their first plan to be able to handle all the missionaries.


That's all for now.  ¡Chao!

¬Elder Michael Knapp