decide
it all just goes by even faster. So if you find yourself wanting time
to go by faster in life...just live your life on a missionary
schedule and you'll be done before you know it. I feel like the rest
of my life is going to be lived in 6 week periods though because
that's what I'm becoming used to here haha.
So
turns out that Christmas on the mission is pretty great. It's
Hispanic culture ( or at least Mexican, not sure about the rest) to
celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. They stay up all night then eat
dinner and open presents at midnight then fall asleep when we would
usually wake up on Christmas morning. Seems to make more sense to me,
that way all the kids can actually see Santa delivering their
presents. I've heard it's a pretty cool experience. Buuut being as
I'm a missionary and having to be at home by 9pm I didn't get to meet
Santa with everyone else but on Christmas Eve we did spend a few
hours helping the Sedillos make their famous tamales! And I say
helping for lack of a better word...it was more like we provided the
entertainment for them while they made the tamales hahah I'm sure it
was pretty funny for them watching us try to imitate their innate
tamale making skills. But I feel like I can officially say I'm like
at least 5.7% Mexican now because I can say I've made tamales. So
don't mind me if I put that on my next resume. But really though
making tamales is hard...they woke up at 3 am that morning and said
they wouldn't finish making all of them till after midnight Christmas
morning. But they are so worth it because they're pretty much the
best thing I've ever tasted...I might have had 9 in a row but I mean
who's counting. Also on Christmas Eve we went over to President
Gonzalez house! It was a lot different from the crazy kid filled
sedillo house...they are so proper and fancy haha and all their kids
are older than me and aren't married yet. They were going to eat at
midnight so Hna Gonzalez was so nice
and just made us our own dinner and talked to us while we ate. I love
her she's seriously the sweetest person ever. Then president showed
us like a thousand pictures from their trip to Mexico and we finally
had to be like I'm sorry president but we've got to go now! Haha they
were so nice though. On Christmas we were able to teach a few
lessons, do some service for our dear friend Mrs Digman and her fat
Pomeranian Romeo and she gave us each a cute Christmas blanket! You
know for when it gets all cold in Florida! Then we walked around
showing people He's the Gift and spreading Christmas cheer....but
just a side note most people put walking around Christmas Eve night
and on Christmas don't believe in it haha...it's pretty fun meeting
JW's ( Jehovah witnesses) and being like hi! Could we show you this
video our church published about The nativity and Christmas? "I
don't believe in Christmas." oh ok. well then. Awkward. Later on
Christmas we went over to the Turners who's dad is the member of high
council in our Ward and had invited us over for dinner! We've been
teaching his non member son in law and daughter a few times. But it
was a nice dinner and we got some good southern food! Afterwards we
left and enjoyed the sunset and wrote in our journals ( IVE BEEN
BEHIND FOR LIKE TWO MONTHS AND I FINALLY CAUGHT UP SO IM BACK FROM
THE PAST EVERYONE HALLELUJAH) and were given some time to "ponder
our relationship with the savior" as president had put it. It
was a perfect day. I will always remember this Christmas!
So
robertos baptism didn't happen this week. Actually, we aren't even
teaching Roberto any more. So he called me on Christmas after our
lesson and pretty much professed his love for me. Ok not love but
I'll just say he's confusing feeling the spirit when we teach him for
other things. That was really awkward and weird. Soooo yeah haven't
seen him since then and there's an elder in the Bradenton Ward who
speaks Spanish so we sent his records to them and they are going to
keep teaching him and help him get his feelings straight!
So
Ricardo is the referral from the other Hermanas that we met last
week...he is doing so awesome. Our second lesson with him we asked if
he'd prayed about Joseph smith and he said yes and also I went and
searched the Internet ( my first thought: oh gosh here we go) and
found this video about what your were telling me about and I loved
it! HE WENT AND WATCHED THE ENTIRE RESTORATION VIDEO HOW COOL IS
THAT? And he found the right website haha that was such a relief! I
asked him if he believed he really was a prophet and he said, well if
this wasn't true I feel like I would not have kept wanting to watch
that video and would have turned it off after a few minutes. But I
kept wanting to watch it and keep wanting to learn more so yes I do
believe he was a prophet. So cool. And he was supposed to be working
on Sunday and wouldn't have been able to come to church but he worked
extra late Saturday night and Sunday morning so he could come! He's
awesome!
Haha
so frustration of the week. Every week we have to do weekly planning
where we plan out the lessons for everybody we teach for the next
week. It usually takes like 3 hours. Sups fun. And we plan it all on
our iPads using the areabook planner app. Sooo we finish our planning
and go about our day and find out later that night that when we had
sunk, synced ( we still haven't figured out the real past tense of
the word sync so if you do please let me know) that THE WIFI HAD
EATEN OUR PLANS AND WERE GONE. haha I just laughed. I couldn't
believe that happened. So the next day we just put on a smile and did
planning
all
over again. Of course we forgot to check to see if area book would
delete our plans again and after finishing round two I sunk and
AREABOOK DELETED OUR PLANS AGAIN. TWO TIMES DEVOURED (if you can name
that movie I will send you a Book of Mormon as a reward). So yeah I
just feel so blessed that I got so much time to learn patience this
week. Be careful what you pray for! I have lots of pictures this week
I'll be sending since I forgot to last week. I hope everyone had a
holly jolly Christmas and a happy new year!
Hermana
Baugh
No comments:
Post a Comment