alright Ill give you a over view of our days
wake up at 630, eat, iron, shower..... all that
9-10 personal study
10-11 companion study
11-12 is either language study or a lesson
12-1 is lunch
right after lunch we do Language study if it we had a lesson
then we study a book called the first 12 weeks.... basically new elder training
from then on its lessons all over our zone.... we stay pretty busy.... we also do a lot of street contacting along the way
the people here are are deeply religious.... everyone is typically receptive, and so its easy to find someone to teach when one lesson falls through
Dinner kinda comes whenever..... sometimes we get food in lessons
last night we had dinner from 8-9 with a family in the ward... got to eat, play soccer with their 6 year old, so that was fun.... until today i havent had much downtime like that so it was fun to eat, talk, and play with their kids
we also had a ward talent show which was fun... i guess I've felt somewhat out of place here, and seeing the ward get together and function like any other made me feel good.... i got roped into doing some act with the youth literally right before it happened.... don't know what it was or what even happened lol
but yeah, all is good, we get a lot of investigators, but everyone is kinda relaxed when it comes to time, reminds me of Jamaica.... so a lot of times people aren't home, but we just go knock around and find people
we have a good sized ward, but a lot of people are inactive, thats the only problem
we have a microwave, a sink that sometimes works and a small electric countertop stove, and a mini fridge, so not really a kitchen
regular shower..... nope.... we have a pipe that comes out of the wall.... doesn't always work... this morning i had to carry a 5 gal bucket of water up three floors just to take a cold shower -_-
the shower is the only thing that still bugs me.
Sooooo for todays P-day we all got together and took a bus up into the mountians!
i got a lot of pictures! So on the way we ran into like 4 parades because its their independence day, and they celebrate for like 3 days straight! We got to the mountain, Mt. Pico Bonito, right by it was a dole pineapple farm (if thats what you call it lol). It was a bit of a hike but was pretty scenic! We found numerous waterfalls, and crossed numerous bridges like simba 1 Kilimanjaro safari style bridges. (Disneyworld reference!) All in all it was really cool. We had to do some serious climbing though in some spots to get to the waterfalls but it was cool to see. It was a lot cooler, but we were still drenched in sweat!
we have a baptismal service on the 26th i believe! we are busy getting people for that!
I've been taking on the lead to invite people to be baptized, and its always great when we get a yes!
we got bible bashed by someone the other day, and i felt the spirit in an odd way, that no matter what he had to say against us, i still had as strong of a testimony as before.
Love you guys!
have fun in AZ and be grateful for the hot showers!
