Ok I'm not drucho I swear but this letter might seem like it...
This week we helped Familia Jimenez with cleaning their yard, and I know what you're thinking, and NO I did not have to clean up trash or dog poop this time! Hoorah for Israel, amirite? Anyways it wasn't much work and Jose Leguizamon was with us and he took us in his car and we bumped reggaeton and it was dope. I love reggaeton and for sure gonna listen to it when I get back. I asked Teixeira what a song was bc he knew it and Kidd said something like "3 months in and already drucho" and it was funny.
This week I got a haircut and Teixeira worked art on my head. Like he spent an hour perfecting it and it turned out really nice. He and Elder Bobadilla keep saying "que facha, en serio, repiola, ooh" and stuff like that. They said that with my hair cut I could baptize anyone I wanted to. hahahah
On Saturday, Elder Kidd and I got locked in a garage and ended up crashing a slumber party with like 6 girls in a V small kitchen. Honestly I almost died laughing but I kept calm during it. After I lost it.
So that's the story of how I kissed like 10 girls this week. Well actually they kissed me. And don't worry it's only on the cheeks. The 6 from the slumber party, the lady that owns the peluqueria, and 2 ladies that we taught. As missionaries we aren't really supposed to kiss people on the cheeks but this week especially the girls just kinda did it and it's rude to turn it down because here it's just a nice greeting.
Elder Crawford and I went on divisions again on Friday and it wasn't that bad. I kinda like it actually. In its own different way. Elder Crawford is hilarious all the time. Super funny kid. I'm actually super impressed with his spanish because he didn't speak a lick before he came and now he is up with me. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed. We both had to give talks and he wung/winged/wang his talk and woah I could not do that. I had to write mine like a whimp. The ward was real nice and basically all 50 people in the ward said they liked it and could understand me. President Salerno came and he said he was proud of us.
On Saturday we had interviews and it went well. Hermana Salerno is super funny and she's practicing her english. Salerno is just a really great guy and the coolest. I can't compare him to another mission president so I don't know how he is but I like him as mine for right now. He speaks English well too so right now I talk to him in English. Real lucky.
This weeks drama is that Elder Galeano stayed with Teixeira and Crawford this week because he's supposed to go to Tolhuin but he doesn't have his passport to cross the Chilean border so he was probably gonna stay here with me and then Elder Kidd was gonna go back to Tolhuin. But I guess he got everything sorted out and is gonna fly there instead. Elder Galeano is honestly soooo funny. He's from Paraguay and he grew up speaking pure Guarani. He was teaching us and oh my gosh that's nothing like Spanish at all. It sounds like Japanese or something. He was telling us how to say "carne frita" and it's something like sao shiddidi and Elder Kidd, Crawford, and I look at each other and we just kinda laughed because well in the states it doesn't mean the same thing.
We helped an investigator of the other elders to fix her fence and it wasn't bad. The weather was perf this week. Anyways this lady is crazy. She is always picking up new dogs and at one point she had 40 something dogs in her small house. And she buries them in her front yard and this week some dogs dug up some of the dead dogs and honestly I thought when we were cleaning up her yard that I was gonna stumble across some corpse and be haunted by some ghost dog or something. I probably am getting haunted so pray for me.
This week Kidd and I were talking about what it would be like to serve in Brazil because of the stories that Teixeira tells us and I LITERALLY had this thought. Like no joke I had the thought "I wonder where I'll go on my mission?" Like I'm walking down the street in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina, with a companion, after having been teaching in ´castellano´and still it doesn't feel real. I don't know. I feel like it's just one long dream some times. It's crazy I'm already 3 months in!
This week we had some new guys come in so that makes Crawford and I NOT THE NEW GUYS anymore! But actually in our district we got a Tucumána so at least in our district we are still the worst ones in Spanish....
For the spiritual aspect of this letter
I finished the Book of Mormon again!!! Every time it's just real good stuff. It's different every time I read it too. Like things stick out more in different parts. I wrote my talk about the Book of Mormon. I'm gonna start again this week but I'm gonna read the Spanish one along with the English one. Does that count as reading it two more times??? (serious question).
Also we were teaching Joel and he was showing us a Christian video or something about the Atonement and I've NEVER felt like this but I felt like super dark and just not good at all. Like something I don't want to ever feel again. Something wasn't right. And exactly as I was feeling that Elder Teixeira was like "Joel turn this off! I don't feel the spirit with this. This doesn't invite the spirit!" It was crazy. And it's weird because it was something religious and Joel seemed to enjoy it but Teixeira and I and probably the other elders felt the same darkness from it. It's the first time I've felt like that and I wonder why Joel and probably other people in the world didn't feel that. Like Joel has the Holy Ghost now. He holds the priesthood. It's weird.
Also side note, I gave two blessings in Spanish this week and it was rough. Like it's scary in English but it's quite a challenge in a language I don't know. #
Anyways I think that's all this week...
Hope you all are good.
Elder Colin Ross
Also I think I may have broken the word of wisdom twice this week but I'm not quite sure. But that's a different story.
Ok bye
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