Hello Family!
Well hello all! How is
everyone? Let me just start out by saying that this past week was really
amazing. Many great things are coming to Barrio 9 :) First off,
Antonio has his baptism this Saturday!! How great is that. He was a
little scared but he is all good now and is ready for it. Luis is also
getting ready for his baptism next week:) He has been waiting for about a
month and he can´t wait for it. As I said before, his wife is a less
active member but she has been coming back and wanting to come. Benito also
is so ready! He would so get baptized right now if he could. He is still
waiting to get married, Diana is from Peru and she has been waiting for
her papers and has them, but Madrid is taking a little time with this. It
takes some time here so they should be getting married in about a couple of
months, no one really knows. It is just good to know that they are ready
for this. They have been coming to church every single week and attending
all the activities we have, which is so good. They really want to get
married and the amazing thing is they want to go to the temple and do work for
his father and get sealed in the temple. Benito is on fire right
now. As you can see, our investigators are doing well. They all are
progressing at their own speed, which is fine. Some aren't doing as well,
which is not so good. Amanda has her date set for the end of this month, but we
can never meet with her. She has time to go out and play, but not for
us. She does work a lot, but she always says, oh, I just have no time, I´m
sorry. We set up lessons with her, then she drops us, but we get to
meet with her almost every Friday and Saturday. Soo it could be
worse. Well other than that, our investigators are doing great!
Well, I have had some amazing food
this past week. First off, as I have said, I am in South America. Well
this past week I have had a lot of great dishes from Peru, Ecuador, Dominican
Republic and other places. Well the best are these two. First, I
had this drink from the Dominican, It´s called Morir soñando... ohhh wow this
was so good. It has milk ,lots of surgar, and a lot of lemon juice.
It might sound gross, but it is so good!! Second was this dish from
Ecuador. Our investigator, Luis, loves to cook and he and his wife made
rice, mashed potatoes, and a lot of meat. Well it was sooo good and yes
they gave us a lot of it. He gave Elder Woodbury and me a big plate of
rice, like a mound of it, basically, it covered the plate with a big dish of
mashed potatoes. Then there was a slab of meat on the side. Ohhhh
it was sooo goood!!! And yes, I ate it all.. And yes, I didn´t eat till
the next morning because I was so full!!!
Well something sweet is I Met JC
Carrol, He plays for Madrid Basketball and I guess he is pretty good. He
just came to Sacrament because he had a game that night, but he was super nice
and talked to us about the mission. He went to Chile I believe. Well onto
some funny things that have happend to me. Well we were talking to Diana
about a dream she had. Scary dream. She says that she feels
something dark is around their piso, but she said it was gone until this dream
she had. She said that she saw this Black Shadow jump onto their Piso
mate and come back into their piso. I was kinda freaked out but she says
that Fernando (the mission ward leader) came over and talked to them and calmed
them down. Well the funny part is we were talking about satan. Well
the word for satan in spanish is Santanas... welll I said Santana... kinda
similar but not. She looked at me and started laughing and said... like
the rocker?? hahah well ooops I corrected myself and said sorry for the oops I
just had :P
Well when we are on the street, I
stand out. I am a tan so I kind of blend in, but my size screams
American. We were contacting and I just stopped and turned around to run
down some lady I saw. Well as I turned around this little old
Spanish Lady runs into me. I stay still, she goes flying. Her
glasses about fall off and she is madder than a wet hen. Ohhh she was
about to scream at me. I of course am shocked and help her get her
balance.. I say sorry and just go on my way to get the lady I needed to
stop. Well that´s happend a couple of times, but not as bad. I tell
you what, Spanish old women are mean. They stare at you and say some
weired things..
I mentioned before, but the
transportation is really good. The buses are fast and get you to where
you need pretty quickly. Yesterday we needed to get to the church.
We walked to the bus stop and the bus was about to leave. Well, I start
sprinting. I tighten up my back pack and just sprint. I caught the
bus, and my companion, Elder Woodbury just takes his time seeing that I got the
bus. That's happend a couple of times. Well family I love you all
so so much!! I miss you all and I can´t wait to call in a little bit!! I
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUUUUU!!!!!
Love Your Favorite Spanish
Missionary,
Elder AlexLaubaugh!
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