1. Ernesto accepted a baptismal date! - Ernesto is an old man that is very hard of hearing and super smart. He used to be an analyser for a newpaper or somethign, so when he reads the Book of Mormon is like a full-fledged analysis of what every single word means. It´s really great to talk to him, but is just that we´ve been visiting him for about a month and a half and haven´t even been able to teach him about Joseph Smith. But we did get through The Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that´s good.
2. I was late to a lesseon because the lady I was doing divisions with had to untangle her two pigs that were tied to a tree. It was awesome and reminded me greatly of the time that me and Caydee (and Justin) had to lasso that pig in the back yard.
3. I have a new companion! We´re a threesome now and she´s from Argentina. Her name is Hermana Rial and she is really great. It´s fun because if I´m confused about something in Spanish, I aask Hrna Groesbeck, but we´re forced to speack in Spanish because Hna Rial doesn´t speak English. Plus, they both rock.
4. Hrna Groesbeck bought me two sweaters in Otavalo (don´t worry, I gave her money for them)
5. Hugo Jr. and Ronny got baptized this last Saturday! Their parents can´t get baptized because Hugo Sr. needs to first get his divorce to got through, so their date is in September. It´s amazing how much these two jovenes have changed. When we first started to come to their house, they wouldn´t even leave the back room, but now when we come over, they just have big smiles on their faces and they accepted a date happily.
6. Doris found her ex-husband and he said that he´d do their divorce mutually. This means that 1) it´ll be about $300 cheaper and 2) she can get married and baptized this coming October.
7. Saturday for lunch I ate chicken stomach. Yes, it was disgusting. Yes, I didn´t chew but rather just swallowed it without thinking.
8. We ate another root beer float from the existing root beer we had left from a member in our ward that works for the US embassy and brought it back for us from the states.
9. I had a warm shower 5 of the 7 past days! This is a record, seeing as our shower is electric and only works when it wants to. I´ve become very good at taking both very cold and very hot showers. The technique is actually the same, the too hot is more comforttable though. At least you can stand on the side and soak up the steam.
10. One of the Senior missionary couples that just left gave us their popcorn popper and thus, I make popcorn every night.
Well, that´s it folks. The top-ten-in-no-particular-order-list-of-what-happened-this-week list. I´m doing well and haven´t gotten sick as of late, so maybe my stomach is finally used to eating this much rice!
Oh, and Mom, I don´t think that I´ll have time to make my own umbrella, and I think that nearly any one that you find will be better than the one I´ve got.
I don´t know how to rotate the picture, but it´s of me, Hna Groesbeck, and Hna Rial at the Bisilica in downtown historical Quito. Huge Catholic cathedral.
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