Well, it’s been a good week this week, but not really a week that’s been different or interesting. No dangerous service projects, no strange food, no birthday parties… nothing.
… But last week, yes!
There still aren’t any dangerous service projects (But we had something a little more scary happen: our mission president called us out of nowhere and asked us to come to his office one morning!) (It was just so he could teach us some cool new stuff), but because the 10th was my companion’s birthday we did some interesting stuff.
First, we ate cuy:
For those of you who don’t know, “cuy” means “guinea pig” (Explains the little foot, doesn’t it?)!
It was pretty good, but it’s flavor reminds me of what a pet store smells like, as in the smell of all the wood shavings and strange plant material. Like I said, it wasn’t bad, just weird! We ate cuy with Diana (The woman next to me in this photo):
She’s great and we’re planning to baptize her this Saturday, if everything keeps going well! When we first taught her in December, I honestly didn’t think much: she didn’t seem that interested, but we set another appointment, and when we came back she told us she’d prayed and asked if what we taught was true, and she’d received her answer in a dream! It took us a while to get her to accept baptism because when she started listening to us and changing her life, she started having more problems. She has a lot of faith and knows that these problems are trials, but it’s made it hard for her to go to church and things like that. But now she’s finally going to get baptized (And just before I leave the area, too! (Maybe))! I’m excited for that and also for the other family we’re planning to baptize, Yeferson and Camila! (I’ll write about them when I hove some pictures!)
After eating cuy, we also went to visit the Gallegos family, who are the people that threw a birthday party for me on the 31st. So we did a family home evening where we played games, and the losers got painted. Just about everyone lost, so…:
But anyway, that’s all I’ve got! Next week is my last P-day before cambios, and hopefully a few people will get baptized!
— Elder Schroeder