My companion Hermana Zubeldia and I eat
lunch with members everyday and it´s always the same three things; chicken, bread
and this awful potato mixture, it´s potatoes with carrots and peas and then
SLATHERED in mayo. And yesterday we ate with the Relief Society President and
her family and there wasn´t any potatoes just rice. Just plain rice and I was
so excited then she pulls out a bag of mayo (yes bag...everything is in bags, even
milk) and I´m wondering what in the world is that for.... we have chicken rice
and bread....yupp definitely the sauce for the rice....we eat mayo multiple
times every single day.
Okay so this last week, Tuesday we had Zone and District
meetings. They were super fun. We are practicing Christmas songs because I
guess we are going to sing Christmas carols in the center of town all day on Christmas.
We have like 20 elders, 3 of them are tenors 2 are basses and the rest are just
horribly tone deaf...haha. For zone meeting we did an activity where we had to
tie a tie around our eyes and teach a lesson alone, hardest thing I have ever
done because the easiest way for me to understand is to watch their mouth, oh
well. We also had a meeting with our Bishop and it went really well and at the
end he told us ¨Go Home¨. All of the members have picked up little English
phrases and I guess that is his, it was hilarious.
Wednesday! We contacted in a new area that is literally in the
boonies like a solid 5 miles away from everything else. We met an awesome
family out there and I can´t wait to teach them more. They have a 7-year-old
daughter. We had a FHE with a part member family and the mom made meatballs
that were like solid grease. The food here is going to give me a heart attack
I´m pretty sure.
Thursday not a whole lot happened this day but we used a member’s
bathroom because when we are out contacting all the stores were closed for the
siesta, and this bathroom didn´t have a sink, the toilet seat was not attached
and there wasn´t any light, definitely quite the experience, oh and the toilet
didn´t flush.
Friday, I saw one of the members driving around on a Vespa.
Everyone here drives them, but he´s 11.....what? There are no laws. Families
use Vespas so like 5 people will be on one Vespa. I saw a lady holding a newborn
baby in one arm and driving with the other, what? so scary. Oh and we rode the
bus today because we thought it would save us time getting home we definitely
waited for the bus that is supposed to come every 20 minutes for almost an
hour! This place is crazy and great(:
Saturday We had an awesome lesson with our investigator Moira.
She is doing so well. She came to church on Sunday she keeps asking about
baptism but we need to get her and her husband married first. She is
progressing super well and hopefully will be baptized on December 6th. She said
she can´t wait to start the New Year off perfectly clean! How cool!!!! We also
did service today, it was way fun. Oh and when we were walking to do the service
there was a broken sewer pipe and to FIX it they were pumping it all over the
street, ummm, yupp only in Argentina.
We have two pretty solid investigators right now, Moira and
Oscar. Oscar is like an 80 year old man with no teeth and 10 years ago he went
to church for 1 year but never got baptized, so we have been working with him.
He is quite interesting. I don´t know a whole lot about people because I don´t
really understand what they say all the time, but I´m learning. The
language is coming. I´m adjusting to life here, it´s so different but I really do
love it.
Thank you so much for all the love and support everybody. Please
send me your address if you want me to write you, there is not enough time to
e-mail on P-day.
Always,
Hermana Barker
xoxo
The hermanas doing some service
Service day
Sewer repair in Argentina
It's not too hard to stay out of the pool
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