I was able to check 2 things off of my bucket list this week:
1 - Be somewhere warm while its snowing at home, and
2 -Use a machete to slash my way through the jungle!
But before we get to those stories, we'll start with Monday. After emailing, the missionaries from Cristo Rey, got a call that they will be in a trio until changes (DEC 5). So now we have 5 missionaries living in Ciudadela. Just 3 leave for the afternoon for Cristo Rey.
On Tuesday, Elder Sevilla and I were going to teach an investigator, and when we finished the lesson these kids wanted us to play baseball. So we played. We used a broken off tree branch, with a deflated soccer ball with a hole for your hand as a catchers mitt. It was a bit ghetto, but really fun.
On Thursday, we went to do service for Roberto's family. We got out our machetes and started choppin' up the weeds. We were the weed whackers. Its more fun when you imagine yourself in the thick jungle! While doing that, the zone leaders came over to interview Roberto's mom for her baptism. While waiting, we ate coconuts, starfruit, and mangoes straight from the tree. It was really tasty. And Roberto's mom passed, she will be baptized this week. Along with his sister!
Friday turned out to be a lot longer than planned! We had to interview someone for baptism. It usually takes just 20 minutes to get to San Benito, where we had the interview, but there was a crash further up the road, so it took 2 hours by bus and walking to get there, and another 2 hours back. It was really long, we didn't get back home until around 9:30 pm. It took forever!
Yesterday was the primary program here. There are only like 8 kids, so they had to do a lot of stuff. It was good times!
Tomorrow marks 5 months in the mission. Just 19 more to go!
-Elder Taylor
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| Elder Sevilla helping get ready for the primary program |
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| A bat that was chillin in the chapel |
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