November 29, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving?

hahaha it was fun. We had thanksgiving on tuesday, we got a whole chicken, butchered it and made Lemon Pepper Chicken, then with the rest made Uh-mazing Chicken Soup. Thursday was spaghetti. oh well hahahaha. Still no pictures? Thats ok, Thanksgiving sounds like it was fun for you all. Thats actually really good about Pop. His digitial recorder is kinda funny, because it types even when its just like sounds he makes. He sent me a letter in the MTC and it was just chock full of uggghhhhhhh and pbpbpbppbpbpb stuff. Well yeah Derek is gonna be huge, followed by Kyle.

Of course she gets to win here (lucky little twit), Braces and now the contact lenses. Oh and she gets a cute haircut. Clean the shotgun ok? Then she can use it to get rid of the short ones quickly.

Nah, Im good. Trunky doesnt happen all that much. Its worse when there is a lack of information/communication. Speaking of which, how are we doing? Hows work for Dad? You? Sarah? I dunno. maybe Aly has something to say? hahaha no worries really. Just plugging along getting that next golden contact. This week we were on fire, and as such stopped opening our mouths, because everytime we did the Lord blessed us with someone new to teach. Until Friday we were 1 contact : 1 new investigator Then we did some extras and we only had a few extra times that we spoke over the number of people we found this week. Thats stupid number stuff but whatever it was pretty cool. No I was not running all that much after monday. I feel fine now.

So since last monday we had no lights in our apartment. On tuesday we had an offer to fix them, from some guy stealing the lights to hook up another apartment below us. He wasnt stealing ours, but still its funny that people just do that haer and dont even bat an eye. So he is all 50 pesos Ill fix it right now. It was pretty tempting, but he wouldnt have been able to give us a receipt. So we called the mission office and they sent us a guy to fix them... It was just that the fuse was loosened and so we didnt have light.... STUPID. Now its so easy we could have fixed it had we known that there was a way to get into the high voltage box.

On thursday we had planning and that means we are supposed to plan the next week all morning. So we didnt know what was going on as we left for lunch. You see, near the apartment and the chapel, is this dirt road, where everyone chucks trash (or dead animals, mostly dogs) and no one really says anything. Its just like a public dump with no rules. So we were quite surprised to see people lined up on all sides of the street with lines dividing the dump into lots for houses and people clearing it out. Apparently these are all people who dont have houses and wanted one WAY bad, so they just decided to take the land. Of course the police are crawling all over but man it was very tense. Elder Lorimer and I were about to call Prez and get us taken out of here. The first night it looked like the end of the world. People running about. Random fires throughout. a few tents but mostly just piles of garbage, a few cars oddly parked, and that one guy from spongebob that always shouts "My leg!" when something falls. It was just apocalyptic. We are talking Lord of the Flies or Farenheit 451. Chaos. We have to walk past it all the time, but at night we just were thinking, please dont talk to us please dont talk to us. Pretty freaky. So now there is a brand new villa thats coming up in a few short months. *eye twitch*

so Friday the baptism for Matias went great. We had a visit from the South Zone, ZL´s. Matias was taught a long while back by missionaries, one of which was this zone leader (Elder Verdugo) so they got super special permission from President to come and see it. Elder Lorimer baptized, and I confirmed him. He is so good. Yesterday in Elders Quorum the EQP was explaining overcoming opposition and just ignorning and going on. Matias goes, "well the scriptures tell us that there has to be an opposition in all things, I think that these many times are in the form of our personal weaknesses, which the scriptures also tell us that we can take to Heavenly Father and overcome them, so really the opposition is there to make us grow and perfect ourselves. we just have to act." He hadnt even been confirmed yet...Hes like a future AP.

But before that on saturday we did service for this one family. They are almost all members except the grandma Way cool family, so we went to do some tiling in the upper part of the house, where the grandma lives. Elder Lorimer and I just hammered out about 2/3 of it and they kept asking us if we had done this before. Well in some form, we have both at least seen our dads do it. BTW Dad didnt you work in the BYU Scene Shop? When? cuz Elder Lorimers dad was one of the Foremen around the same time that I think you were there. Kirk Lorimer if it rings any bells. Yeah we just did a super job. Walls were not square. AT ALL, and we had to cut tiles with an angle grinder. It was all good considering. Also floor was no where near level. I will have to take pictures. Its pretty tight if you consider who did it.

Also we have been making these posters and stuff to make our own big Standard of Liberty to hang up in the church. It has the Orar Leer y Asistir... Read, Attend, Pray On it. and we made small ones (which I made, apparently I know how to draw) to hand out and put in peoples houses. Again pictures will come soon. So we also gave talks, about said banner. Unfortunately the only ones who paid attention fully were the young women. Ok not a bad thing but at the same time, these are not the ugliest girls in the world. the 7 or 8 young women giving you bambi eyes as you try to expound on the scriptures is kinda distracting. hahahaha. Oh well. Yeah thats about all I have to say for this week. We just keep on working. I will fill you in on any other fun developments next week. Love you all and miss you

Con Amor
Elder Ben