hey hey
looks like you had a good easter! poor carter only had teddy
grahams...haha thanks for the photos (instagram no? how hip you all are... This
week was sweet, Easter in spanish is called La Pascua, and they celebrate the
semana santa (holy week) the last week of the lords life here on the earth.
Thought that was interesting, but yeah for easter we had the oppurtunity to do
some sweet mission work in celebration;) ha but was a good day, for church I
was asked to teach the priesthood class of the restoration, it went pretty well
ha its funny cause I was trying to find a awesome way to teach it and then I
realized the atonement is one of the main lessons we teach people every day,
but I always like to be creative and have different ways to learn and teach it.
Also the primary had some nice candy bags and we got some of
that so we were stoked haha, but yeah good day alfonso recieved the aaronic
priesthood so that was cool. Also had found an awesome lady and her kids and we
were going to pick them up to go to church but her son had been sick and has a
fever now so that was too bad.
So at the beginning of this week ( miercoles) we went to
punta arenas (3 hours away) for our interviews. We bought tickets to ride in a
bus with 2 stories so that was fun because we were in the very front of the 2nd
story so we got a sweet view of the road and sea and stuff. But interviews are
always sweet, also got to go to zona franca where there are a lot of stores
that import goods from other countries for cheap. but yeah cool stuff, it was a
nice 6hr round trip haha.
ha I liked your idea with the whisks, we didnt do anything
for tradition, some people do things like that but its rare and when they do
its influence from gringo tradition ha they laugh at our traditions cause they
have nothing to do with anything. But hey coloring eggs are sweet.
For our family night of the ward we watched como hallar fe
en jesus cristo. and then after we played a game that was pretty funny called
pobrecito mi gatitito (poor little kitty) where one person acts like a cat and
tries to make the people sitting in the circle laugh, haha so great a game,
unless you have to be the little kitty, I had to be it a lot because watching
your 70 year old president acting like a poor little kitty is hard to hold in.
We have been working really hard though, im starting to
notice some spanish errors that im trying to shake off like saying
"or" en vez de "o"
or saying um or como a lot. It isnt like english, people in english can say
that and get away with it, but in spanish they get really confused when you say
repeated words like como or um or ughh, like piano, if you practice something
to many times wrong its hard to adjust, so luckily my comp helped me notice
some things so I can talk more clearer.
It has been a lot of contacting this week, we are having a
lot of days of 3-9:30pm straight contacting but we have awesome attitudes and
are just making our contacts quality and just loving the people. We know the
lord has people being prepared for us so we are happy and are going to just
keep working.
The food here is a little different, well for us its amazing
ha, our mamita cooks very well, pastas, pizza, soup (always before the meal,
meat with rice or noodles, chicken nuggets, and other stuff. Its really good,
our mamita is known throughout the mission ha we eat really well here
(sometimes too well). she also made us pancakes with manjar and syrup 2 nights
in a row friday and saturday so that was pretty sweet.
Thanks for all the recipes im excited to try to make them,
hopefully I can find the ingredients, are there any others that dont take much
ingredients, money is also hard to accomplish some of these haha.
hmm... but yeah all is well, glad you all had an awesome
week, Christmas is coming up this week im soooooo stoked!!!! ha I mean general
conference, but thats christmas for a missionary soooo excited. There is a
sweet scripture that talks about when we listen to the prophets our faith is
build and they can give us unshakeable testimonies so that is pretty sweet Im
pretty sure its in Jacob 2:10 but I really dont know for sure, maybe just read
all of jacob or something and youll find it. but yeah this conference will be
in spanish which is cool, I like listening to their real voices better but its
cool to watch it in spanish as well.
ha but yeah all is good! thanks for the pedigree stuff!
thats interesting! what about moms side?
Les Amo mucho, que les valle muy bien!
Con Cariño,
Elder Carter
here is some photos of puerto natales,
The statue is of a milodon, it is an extinct animal here in
this region (patagonia) ha and Im preaching to it, but the milodon is super
popular here its funny,
and the hand thing was a cool statue thing at the entrance
of the city.
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