Pondering what to do now that I'm not in Incachaca
Here's what looks like an old western saloon
Good view from Sipe Sipe
So I don't feel super great cause I got crazy heat stroke or something today, long story short thought we were just gonna bus to cocha to buy food and come back so I didn't bring water but we ended up`doing much more, so I learned my lesson.
Also I am gonna shut up about the baptisms haha it fell through again, cause she wasn't quite ready and they want to be baptized together.
Highlights:
Get to play the game Mad Gab whenever the Latins try to speak english lol
Zone leader: Elder Swenson, what it mean, deeskguys
Me:... these guys?
ZL: No no no, Dihskys
Me: Ohhhh the skys
ZL: Nooo, Dihszguys
Me: Ohhhhh disguise!
ZL: Yeahhhhhh
Also
Puchohenso = put your hands up
Keys = Kiss
(Dont worry they make fun of my spanish too)
Ummm learned how to do a rubix cube lol, there's lots of dumb things/ toys to buy for whatever downtime (Don't worry there isn't much.) And all the Elders here are masters at rubix cubes. It just sits on our desk and whenever someone uses the bathroom they take it in there mixed up and bring it out done lol.
So in Bolivia when you have a baby the government gives you a ton of free food every month at the beginning, for 6 months, so this week our neighbor (Who is the ward mission leader's son, his wife is the nice lady that does my laundry, we all tight) Hooked it up with a ton of food so we're rollin.
Also the Christmas devotional was awesome! For whatever reason it's ten times cooler listening to our prophets when you're on a mission, probably partly cause you are directly doing work for them. Made me trunky though seeing temple square haha — Christmas is a trunky time, they're bustin' out trees and lights now.
Also random kids invited us to play soccer and we played for like 30 min then contacted their whole fam cause, which I am not big on soccer but that's way better than knocking doors, had it been bball they would've been so impressed we would have been able to cut straight to the baptismal invite'
More Highlights
Yesterday we went to an appointment, we took a member who is their acquaintance, and we had been there twice before and they were cool. There house is 3 walls and the back, away from the street, doesn't have a wall and it's sort of😉😉😉 the entrance to the house, so we walked around the first wall, standing on the side of their house, definitely not in it, and just calling there name cause that's what you do when they don't have a door, she wasn't there so we just kinda chilled for a sec wondering what to do, when she appeared out of nowhere, suuper mad, going off in quechua, and then her husband came around our side, freaking out at us, saying we were trespassing, its illegal, he could call the cops, we should have known, how could we think its ok, its not in the Bible, Jesus didn't just have horrible manners, he cant just walk into my house in the United States, etc. And we had no idea, total mistake, for the first 30 seconds we felt bad but he kept going off, for literally close to 10 minutes, finally he accepted our 100th sorry, lo siento, disculpe, perdon,so 100th times a charm, and calmed a little, and we actually got a return appointment lol, really weird, must've been an extra extra bad day for them, cause we honestly weren't in house at all, and we were just doing what we normally do, plus were missionaries, were not trying to steal a sack of potatoes, but yeah just funny story, alls good, he calmed down and accepted our apology
Aaaaaand that was the week! Hope all is well back home, love you all
Elder Swenson
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