"I had my first experience with real Puerto Rican food this week and oh boy was it great on my bowels. Ha ha. I was paying for it the whole night. And it didn’t even taste good. Ugh. It might take a while to get used to their food. The love Platanos or plantain bananas they just fry em and eat em. Yuck. Its just like a burnt banana. Although Rice and Habichuelas are great. I really liek eating those and Rice and avacado is pretty good too. Elder and Hermana Reyes, a senior couple here took my companion and i out eat, and it was interesting. They also invited us to Thanks giving.
Here they have many strange words that are not usually in the spanish language. The name for almost any car but mainly bigger cars and vans is Guagua ( Goo-aww-Goo-aww) then name for thanksgiving is Dia de accion de Gracias but they all say sans givin. They say Wiken ((weekend) but in spanish is fin de la semana) and many other silly little words that they know in english and just shorten. It makes me laugh. So as you can tell i am in a much happier mood this week than i was last week. I’m getting used to things and trying to work harder. Trying to forget myself for these two years. It’s a hard task but it can be done. Last night i made a goal to not pass a single house when Contacting and talk to everyperson that we see. I plan on keeping that goal all through my mission becuase i want to have the opportunity to share with all the joy that comes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We had some interesting experiences this last week. One was with a lady that said she was baptized but her husband wasn’t and so she didn’t go to church but she wanted us to come back and share a little message with her. So we planned a little lesson and she was very warm and welcoming. We watched the finding faith in christ DVD and then after asked her what she thought of it and she thought it was a great one and loves Jesus Christ. Then after we bore our testimonies of the Book of Mormon and Joseph smith and then began her little rant. She went on and on about how Jesus Christ has no religion that he is the religion and Said that the authority in the Bible comes from the holy ghost which is in all of us. Many other strange things but we just politely excused ourselves becuase she wasn’t allowing the spirit to be there. Needless to say we’re not going back there and are praying for her heart to be softened.
The other day we were out contacting and it started raining so hard. Within minutes there was inches of water on the street and we were soaked. My companion wanted to go drop off our Bicycles and walk with umbrellas but i wouldn’t let him. We rode our bikes to an investigator but her husband wasn’t home so we couldn’t teach her. So we stood outside talking with her and her little son probably about 3 or 4 came out and stood in the rain then Pulled his pants down a little and Started peeing in the rain. =) I started cracking up It reminded me of all the little kids at the pool that would pull there pants down and Pee into the pool. What a life. A little boy without a care in the world. Then his mom noticed and Pulled his pants back up and then he came out a few minutes later and did it again. It quickly turned our wet soggy day very crisp and entertaining. I Laughed so hard.
We have an investigator right now named Manuel, he comes to church every week and faithfully reads the Book of mormon. Although he is having some struggles with some things at the moment. He has lived with his girlfriend for the last 30 years and they are still not married. She recieves Social security and that would be gone if they got married, BUT he is willing to do what he needs to to have the blessings of the Gospel. He also smokes but wants to quit that as well. He is a great man and if he can continue in faith he will be a great member of the Church and great example to his family.
Other than that we don’t have too much else going on. A little wet this week a little busy but i am getting used to it. I still want to kill the rooster. I am going to freeze when i come home. I have noticed a lot of people are recieving social security here and are living in the urbinizations paid for by the government but have Plasma TV’s and brand new cars. Hmmm. Something doesn’t seem right. But i really am beginning to love it. I Love Being a missionary and i love the chance to Grow."
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