So this week it was the first day of summer here and it's gotten real cold. It started to rain the past couple days and we got soaked. I'll include a photo and a video. It was colder than California winter and it's summer here. What a let down.
Also let down here, I've seen like 3 maybe 4 houses with Christmas lights. This place is dead with Christmas cheer. Or they just celebrate it differently idk. A couple people told me that they've seen videos of the United States where the whole neighborhood is decorated and I was like "ya that's everyone" ahahah.
But we got to carol a little bit to some people we've never met, also to members and less active members, and to people in the hospital. We also had a choir with the members of the district and the missionaries in the Plaza San Martin but none of the members showed up so it was just us and also nobody was in the Plaza San Martin because Rio Gallegos is dead so we basically sang to ourselves. Que triste es nuestra vida.
On Saturday we got to watch the pet movie for a little with the other missionaries and it's funny because one of the dogs is "Argentine" but everyone was like "nahh fam he's for sure Colombian" and then I'm just there like "que dijo?" [What did he say?]
We got permission in the mission to stay out until 12:30 so we spent the evening with President Leiva and the food was very aight and cold and not the best. But I guess that's a pretty typical and good Noche Buena thing. And the fire works were más o menos. Like idk. But I kinda like the whole idea of Noche Buena more than in the US.
So I got to skype you guys and that was awesome. It made everyone else sad and trunky and I'm like totally chill. After we made chorizo and popped cider.
On Friday I went on divisiones with Elder Ixcot and we had a miracle. I read in the Liahona the talk by President Uchtdorf called fourth floor last door or something like that and Ixcot and I talked about that and we got pumped to go find new people and well it was the last door we knocked on ahah but we had a miracle.
This punk kid opens the door and is like, nah my fam's sleeping but come back in like an hour, so in an hour we came back and we walk in and it was real incomodo [uncomfortable] because his family was in the middle of planning their christmas so we just sat there awkwardly for a bit then we showed the Ilumina el Mundo video and talked a bit about that and they loved it, and then we asked if we could help with any thing and the lady's like "ya I'm actually moving right now" so we hopped in her car and helped her move. All within a matter of seconds. It was super cool. She's moving to San Benito so I was stoked to go back there and help her move. She was super grateful but really it wasn't much work so she gave us two budín cakes and some juice. We were helping her move until like 11. She's super interested in the gospel and she said she lost some family members so we were able to teach both the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation super casually as we moved and gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she doesn't believe in coincidences and that we were supposed to come help her move and stuff. Like how cool is that!!!! She's real normal too. Miracle of miracles. And it was fun to get out of town a bit and do something different just teach like a normal lesson and do the usual stuff. Ixcot is super fun too. Best day.
A video of Colin singing a Christmas hymn in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fa7lhAcdk&t=9s
Colin's mission did the mannequin challenge and I can't post the link to the video directly because it's on facebook, but hopefully you can see it via Colin's page here.
Colin's mission did the mannequin challenge and I can't post the link to the video directly because it's on facebook, but hopefully you can see it via Colin's page here.
We visited la ría! Couple goals
the "lake" in my area lol
Soakin wet boizzz
#warningwednesday #hdybyz
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