Time to talk about the actual week! We
had an interesting series of events with Wayne this week. He just
disappeared. Now, this man loves talking with us. But we called on
Monday to confirm for Tuesday, and when we came on Tuesday he didn't
answer. So we called him, but no answer. This is very odd for Wayne. If
he isn't home, he always answers his phone. And he will normally return
missed calls within 5 minutes or so. Well, we tried calling again on
Wednesday and Thursday, and calling and stopping by on Friday. At this
point, we were really concerned for him. We figured that he was either
in the hospital, in jail, or dead. And with Wayne in particular, we
thought that these were all just about equally likely. But finally when
we called on Saturday, he answered. It turns out that he had been in the
hospital recovering from a really bad infection from previous
surgeries. He's on the mend now, and is doing a lot better. We're going
to stop by him tonight.
Elizabeth is doing really
well still. This last week we taught her about prophets, with a lot of
emphasis on Russell M. Nelson. She has been reading every morning in
the Book of Mormon, which is awesome! She just finished 1 Nephi, and she
said that she took our advice and set aside a time every morning to
read in the scriptures. She came to church yesterday, and is praying to
find out if President Nelson is really a prophet.
We
started teaching a member's niece this week, her name is Stefany. She
is pretty willing to learn, and wants to know more about the scriptures
and how to come closer to God. It's a good thing that's our specialty!
We had a great lesson about the Restoration and we're going back
tomorrow.
We also started teaching Saul last week.
He's got the funniest little kid, Mateo (Matthew). Whenever we'd be
talking, he'd start to try to run away from his dad. We were outside, so
this presented a bit of a problem. After chasing him down a couple of
times, Saul put him on the trunk of his car so he'd be stuck. He didn't
like that until he found out that he can use the back window as a slide.
It was pretty funny the whole time. The lesson with him went really
well, it turns out that he has been taught by the missionaries before
too! He likes learning more, and remembered a lot of what he'd been
taught before. We were going to go by last night until he told us that
he had been called into work in South Carolina. So, we're working on
setting up another time with him.
Gio wasn't able
to make it to church this week because he worked, but summer vacation
starts this week and so he said he's going to try to get Sundays as his
day off now. We taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he
understood everything without a problem. He also started reading the
Book of Mormon on his phone during lunch at school, because he says
that's the only time that he has to do it right now. I'm excited for
him!
And now for the fun story of the week. I
decided that I wanted some tacos. The only problem is that there isn't a
whole lot of places that sell authentic tacos. That became a whole lot
less of a problem with the discovery of a Hispanic grocery store called
Tropicana. The best part for me was the fact that they sell
pre-marinated carne al pastor, my favorite kind of meat for tacos. Long
story short, I'm now the proud owner of a tortilla press and have been
making tacos. They're pretty delicious. My only regret is that I bought
the aluminum press rather than the cast iron, the aluminum feels pretty
flimsy. I only bought the aluminum because it'll be easier to take home
with me, the cast iron would weigh too much to go with me.
That's all for the week, bye!
(The pictures are one of the tacos I made and some pretty huge pants that we found while volunteering at a thrift store.)
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