Well, before I talk about this week, I promised photos from my companion’s birthday last Sunday, so I’ll include them here:
We started the day making pancakes for breakfast in a member’s house (And no, we weren’t being lazy or anything by not working until after lunch! It was a holiday because everyone needed to go and vote for the next president of Peru, so everyone was forbidden to have any sort of political or religious meetings, so we were told to NOT do anything!)
After lunch came the first of FOUR cakes that we ate. We still don’t know what animal is supposed to be on top. I think it’s a bear, the member that gave it to us thinks it’s a lion, and my companion thinks it’s a pig — to help you remember to not eat TOO much!
Funny story: We have a member who’s a nutritionist and has been training us HARD in the morning because everyone in my district is fat (Except for me — we measured and I’m only 14% fat in total! The problem is it’s all in my stomach, so I look fat even if I’m not 🙁 ) Anyway, we thought it would be funny if we gave the rest of the cake we had to her… and she ate a fourth of it while we were talking to her after the workout!
… I don’t know what this picture is. Let’s never mention it again.
Later, the ward (actually a branch) threw a little party for my companion! Something else funny: the cake the Relief Society president bought was coffee flavored! I think it’s kind of funny that a bunch of Mormons celebrated with coffee-flavored cake, but I hope we didn’t sin by doing it! (Note: Cake #2!)
Cake #3…
… And then Cake #4! Man, I didn’t want to even LOOK at cake for a week after this! (OK, not true; this cake was so good that we came over the following two nights to finish it!)
So I’d say my companion had a pretty good birthday! I just had a really good day!