6 November 2017

Well, this last P Day was very interesting. It involved 2 Olaf pinatas, many smaller homemade pinatas, and far too much candy. Basically, we just had an activity where we beat the snot out of pinatas because it was Halloween and we could. One of my district leaders was wearing a kilt because you know, why not. Our attempts to blindfold people didn't work too well, and so we decided to just go with wearing a shark head backwards. Again, because why not. Everyone ended up with way too much candy, and I have Olaf's head on my desk. We used medieval flails on Olaf because the DL with a kilt had some randomly. As well as a short sword and multiple knives. He's a strange man. Later, we all played a game called Werewolf. Kind of like mafia, but more complex and with werewolves instead on a mob. This is us trying out the blindfold on a front facing shark head. (Didn't work)
Aftermath of a single Olaf pinata
Middle of a werewolf game

In the actual week, nothing too terribly exciting happened. Well, except for one door contact. I was on exchanges with my non-kilted DL(Who is also just English speaking, so I got to do a ton of Spanish work on my own.) and we were knocking some apartments. We get to one door, and as soon as we knock, it swings open. There's just a man standing there with a huge knife and a crazy look in his eyes. Before we can say anything, he says with much enthusiasm, "I'm making spaghetti!!" We said that was great and we were missionaries of the church before he yells again, "I'm busy, I'm making spaghetti!!" Every time he said he was making spaghetti, he shook the knife to emphasize it. I don't know why, but that was the funniest door contact I've ever had. When we walked away, we couldn't stop laughing. Aside from that, our week was pretty uneventful. Just my trainer getting super trunky as he's been doing something called "My Plan," which everyone says is designed to make you as trunky as possible. Basically, it's you making a plan for after you get home, and it involves you signing up for Institute and college, making plans for your career, where you want to be in 5 years, and (my favorite) dating plans. It's so hard for him to focus after doing it so I end up doing most of the work for the rest of the day. It's really been helping my Spanish. Unfortunately, we've been having some trouble with our investigators. Our most progressing one just dropped us, and we haven't been able to get in contact with our one with a baptismal date. We think he's avoiding our calls and not answering the door when we're there, but we aren't for sure. We'll keep trying with him. On the plus side, we have another who is reading in the Book of Mormon every day and progressing pretty well. He's already been taught a lot by other missionaries, but then he moved. The big problem with him is that he needs to get married, but we're working with him. We had a lesson with him last night and it went pretty well. His girlfriend (a less active member who recently reactivated herself) made us pupusas(I have no idea if I'm spelling that right), and they were delicious. I always find it funny how people here get more upset if you don't eat all of the food in their house. We had someone get mad at us before because we "only" ate 5 pupusas each. Hopefully I don't get too fat out here. 

I think that's all for my week, but I shall be back in another with some hopefully more exciting news. ​