Monday, November 21, 2016

Fun Facts for the Week

* I've only seen 1 roach this month in Managua, oh and 2 mice. But I see lizards all of the time and even in our apartment on the walls. In the words of Ben Harper:

My choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be
and if you causin' no harm then you're alright with me 

I feel the same about the lizards.
Though I saw one weird bug on my toothpaste tube....I used soooo sooo much air freshener on that sucker!


* Most days we have study time - both companion and personal. I'm supposed to do language study (in the mornings) but usually don't have the time so I usually incorporate it throughout the day.

 
* I am in the Reparto Schick ward, and area. We meet at 8 in the morning, so we get up at 5:30am on Sundays, to bring investigators and such.

  
* Most weeks we have about 120 people in attendance at church. This week for Stake Conference only about 70 of our ward members made it (we had to take a bus to the Conference vs just walk so I think that is why the discrepancy in numbers). But the Conference was well attended and the church was packed.

* Lopez and I are able to talk a lot more (since we are able to with my increased Spanish) and he is teaching me more. We joke around a lot with P and J, the 2 members who usually do stuff with us, one knows English, the other is our lunch guy. So it's good fun.

* I'm wishing I had more time with Lopez here. It's kind of a scary prospect in 2 weeks that I will have to teach a new person where everyone lives, what is everyone's state, and how to get everywhere. I have been taught stuff like our dinner schedule every week, and where to go for different things. So I have been asking a lot more questions about this stuff lately.

* I think my spiritual experience for the week would have to be Stake Conference, or some of or lessons with our investigator A. I really like him, he (I think) is what they're talking about when you hear someone mention a " Golden Investigator". 

*  I haven't had to give a talk in church yet, but I have had to pass the sacrament, and say the closing prayer

* We walk around a whole lot, miles usually every day! So we don't exercise traditionally in the mornings. But we do usually play sports with other Elders on Pdays.

* We usually see our Wards Bishop at least once a week. We saw him on the road today, he is a taxi driver. They have tons and tons of taxis around here. But he didn't pull over and kick his passenger out to give us a free ride sadly.... lol

* I can't roll my "R's". I can somewhat imitate it with a guttural sound made in the back of my throat, but I can't otherwise. It sounds really weird when I do it in Spanish, so I don't usually.

* I translate lyrics for the natives here sometimes. I feel I can translate decently enough

* I know enough Spanish to get by. I still need to be able to recall what to say, and understand when people are talking and what they are saying. It feels like my learning is super slow, but it's probably faster than most people in the world.

*  I have tons of sugar everyday. We don't really have sugar (in like candy) very much. Or desserts. but I get lots of sugar from the soda. It's everywhere, and we have it all the time. Most of the meals, we have either Soda or Juice, and at least 2 or 3 times a day at people's houses. I wonder how much weight I'd lose If I went off of it! Or I could just get a parasite. I hear they work really fast.

* I just can't wait for the 24th (of November) because that's my 1 month mark here in Nicaragua!

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