I love Comodoro. Pretty much much no missionaries like it here but idk it's great. It's the South American San Francisco. In every way South American.
This week we've been finding our way around on the buses. We've only gotten kinda lost a few times.
We had the conference with President and so I got to see all my good friends again. Elder KIDD, Elder EKBLAD, Teixeira, Hna Gavia, Hna Rodriguez and like a ton more. It was weird how many people I met. Like a TON. It was great. And the conference was cool too I guess. jaja.
But the problem is that Elder Salinas changes a ton when he's in groups. Like I honestly don't understand what changes. He gets SUPER immature and does the stupidest things. Like it was hard for me in the conference because I was like "who's comp is this? I don't know??" Hna Bulacio came up to me and warned about him hahah because she knows him from Paraguay. Also this week I noticed some things about Salinas. He HATES being wrong. And he's wrong A LOT. He always has to be the best. Like his pride is out the door. I was explaining him something about "teaching people not lessons" from 12 semanas [new missionary training] and he was like "I already know all this why are you teaching me this?" but like, it's something we have to do in his training and he didn't want to do it. Also he straight memorizes what he's going to teach so like he's obviously not applying it. Training a missionary is the WORST ughh. So thankful for Elder Kidd jajaj but he prolly hated me.
As for investigators, we couldn't find the family this week so that's a bummer, but we invited a kid to the "afternoon of movies" and we watched Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, the best movie, and he attended church with us. it was a miracle. We went to his house before church and his mom said he was sleeping, and we arrived to church and he called us saying he was on his way. He had woken up and gotten ready in like 4 minutes.
Also this week they asked us to prepare talks and I had prepped my talk to perfection, I had it all planned and it was so great, and encima it was my first talk not written down, and then they didn't even call me up to give the talk. I was like high key butt hurt. Super bummed to the max. And Elder Salinas's talk was like honestly... not good. But it's aight.
But the mission is sick! Honestly it's a weird place but in all the worst and best ways. Hay que vivirla. [You have to live it.]
Also I'm scared because everyone is saying I'm starting to talk like Elder Salinas and he doesn't speak well and his accent is not great. I had my porteño accent DOWN. But this week I said "ponéte las pilas" and Aaron Montiel told me I was super porteño so that was nice.
Elder Ross
Oh this week I played scrabble with Latinos and it was the worst idea of my life. I thought I was going to lose but nobody knows how to spell in Spanish and they kept making up words and were like "um no that word means ... in my country." Cualquiera. [Whatever.] I hated it. 0/10 would do it.
Three generations.
A year later. Still the same.
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