Six Days Until Christmas!

So not gonna lie most of the week actually really sucked lol I will keep my complaining short.

I got a bad stomach infection and could not eat at all, some of if not the worst stomach pains I had ever had, along with being super nauseated, so from Monday to Friday I would miss dinners and breakfasts and eat a bowl of soup from my pensionista, and some little snacks, like not even 1000 calories a day. I was able to work but just had no energy or strength.

On top of that I had an extra bad "Get hung out to dry" moment from my comp which was wonderful. Gave me a little anxiety cause I definitely didn't want it to happen again and yeah didn't help the week.

Buuuut there were some good things this week

I was nervous to go to the doctor cause I am not super comfortable with the Spanish yet so I was praying a lot and the doctor spoke super clearly and I was like magically understanding everything, and the nurse that was also there after a couple minutes was like do you speak english? Cause I do, which was super clutch.

Got drugs, feel like a champ now.

Praying for help too with the Spanish so I can talk and understand better cause I need to start leading everything now, and in just this week it has gotten a lot better and I am able to understand more, it takes a tonnnn of focus to pic out words and hear what they're saying which is annoying cause id crush it in english rn.

The church put on a play this week for christmas and did a bunch of funny skits, we couldn't act so some others did for us, it was actually pretty well done. Also the Sipe Sipe Branch Christmas Primary Program was yesterday, which was awesome

We have the best investigator that we met with Thursday. She speaks super perfect, clear Spanish I can understand her completely, even though she talks fast she talks clear, she'd be a way good rapper. Anyway she is the nicest, friendliest, cutest lady she's like 5 ft tall but has a lot of love haha, we taught her and then after we helped her put up christmas decorations (She has a nice, American style house) and listened to music which was awesome, it was a much needed time to chill and relieve some stress. It reminded me of home so kind of trunked me out.

Played basketball today with a professional Bolivian player, he's pretty good, he would be a good player at your local Vasa fitness, which for Bolivia, is, well, professional haha. The missionary bod has already set in, I feel like those 45 year old men who roll up for Elders ball and try to go hard cause they think they're 20 years younger but suck horribly cause they have 0 ability, that was me haha still in shape in my mind, but my body can't do anything, its ok cause I'm in 10x the spiritual shape i was in.

Aaaaand that was the week! More interesting news next week hopefully, thanks for the emails love you all!

Elder Swenson