This week was unexpected! i unexpectedly got sick and then unexpectedly got better pretty fast!
also unexpected! the festivities that went down the whole week for Holy week!!! i felt like it was just building and building and expected Easter Sunday to be crazy but then..... pretty much nothing happened. I was a lil disappointed.
It was interesting to see how much we have lost as a society in our celebration of Easter. In america i feel like it has too much commercial focus with the Easter Bunny and new clothes and the like but even here, with none of that, the focus was on buying palms and having the priest bless them, and walking the streets behind huge float like processions carrying statues of Christ and Mary and other unidentifiable figures. Also people here walk the streets carrying crosses and then the really extreme ones whip themselves and the really really extreme ones crucify themselves. they said it is for their repentance. how sad.
yeah sure that looks like a swimming pool
Anyway we taught a new couple this week! we went back to teach this family that has been giving us excuses the last couple times and this time they straight up ditched us and handed us off to the "mag-asawa" [married?] lolz but it turned out to be really great! it's a new young couple (when i walked in i thought they were like 15/16..... nope, 19 and 20 pala [of course - thank you Katie:)] and they're really smart and religious so it was way fun! they asked cool questions. then at the end we were just chatting and the guy (his name is rain btw) was like i have a question. how hard really is your mission? and we were like uh. it's hard.
But it's so worth it!!!! and then we gave the sister the Book of Mormon and she was just holding it close and her husband came back in the room and she was like how long have i wanted a bible and the sisters just gave me one! the first time they met us! she was stoked!!
Over all great lesson and then we stood up to leave and i stood up rather quickly and just smacked my head on the bottom of their stair. soooo hard. like that was friday. i still have a bump on my head. so hard. so i like bent over and put my hand on my head and immediately i feel another hand like rubbing the back of my head and i thought it was my comp. nope! it's this rain kid! I look at my comp and she's like wide eyed staring at the kid lookin like "hey that's my job!" so hilarious. he was there so fast!!!
Also hilarious. remember the other week with the little kid that gasped when he saw me and my comp said it was because he thought i was a fairy?? cool well we taught them last week and the mom was kinda angry the whole time.... but we still taught :) and then we came back this week and we turned the corner and the mom had the EXACT same reaction the kid had the other day. so great. straight up GASP!!!!!! but then she let us in! and she was happy! and she was willing to listen more!! baby steps. she'll come around :)
So this week we set up a special Easter fhe for our less active and investigator that live way close to a member so we thought it would be perfect! and super chill to gather them all and the member was so excited! and volunteered to feed us all :) so we invited everyone and everyone is on board and excited and then the day of we go by our less active's house to pick her up and......... she can't come. her husband didn't give her permission to go to church or this thing. and she's got fresh bruises on her face so im not pushin it. lamest thing ever. they're not even married. she needs to peace out. so we're suuuuper bummed.
But we go to our investigator to pick her up! and she's watching her grandkid! so she can't come either daw [it is said]. laaaaaaame. so we go to another less active near by just so we have someone to bring to this awesome fhe we've planned!!! and she's got a bunch of family over.... and they're all eating..... lame.
so we walked back to this member's house empty handed. ready to bring some "new investigators" in off the streets. and we get there and the elders are already there. also empty handed. lame! fail on our part. luckily!!!!! the members were doing work!!! so they call up the part member family the elders invited and work through all their excuses and get them to come!!!! yaaaaayyy!!!! so they came. and it was great! lots of bonding and good fellowship and nourishment from the good word of God :)
That's all folks! have a great week! im off to ERT this week which may or may not stand for..... exit rain trauma...... or emergency rat thunder.... who knows. i just know i have to go...... and we get pizza lolz
mahal kita! [I love you] or in my comp's sweet language: Mujhe apsay pyaar hai.[??].. something like that :)
-sister jones
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