What a fanntastic week!!!!
First my birthday was great. We had a district meeting in Patapo where
they sang to me. And of course I received many eggs on my head. The
thing is, it was not my first rodeo in receiving eggs. The first egg I
completely dodged, the second no... But the elders that smashed them on
my head, I gave them a great big hug, and rubbed my head all over their
shirts...They should have seen it coming.... haha.
Jorge
Torres, my recent convert, had his birthday on the 10th. It was funny
because he did not believe me when I told him, he made me take out my
visa to prove it to him. Then he gave us cake and we laughed.
On Friday, there was a multizone activity in Chiclayo with half the
mission. Usually multizones are where we learn a lot, and it is super
spiritual,but this one was a Christmas party. We got there played ping
pong until everyone arrived and then we walked to Rokys and ate pollo a
la brasa with inca kola and icecream. It was good. The funny thing is we
filled the entire top floor of restaurant, and all the peruvians were
like,, what in the world his going on? A bunch of gringos and Latinos in
white shirts and ties all walking togehter and eating here... It must
be the end of the world. Afterwards, we did our skits, and watched santa
claus is coming to town,,,the classic Christmas tale with the mailman
and the burger meister meister burger.
It was a great time.
After we ate banana splits and they gave a some gifts from the mission: a
custom made temple recommend holder with a picture of the trujillo
temple on one side saying mision peru Chiclayo, and the other side has a
picture a Presidente y Hermana Williams that says in spanish with lots
of love and care. It is sweet.
After, the party
we tried to get back to our area, but there were not combis that late
in the night. So we stayed with the assistants and they ordered pizza
hut. Also my package showed up afterwards too. What a blessing....
After
chatting basically all night,.... haha... the assistants... we went
back to the cria just to travel again for stake conference. Elder Wilson
Calderon spoke on the key to being happy is serving.. Then he had all
the elders and sisters stand up.. He then said, look these are happy
people and for this reason.
Sunday,
for the general session of stake conference we watched it in the cria
at the chapel. The sad thing is that the internet feed did not work, so
we missed over half of the conference. To calm the congregation, I
played prelude Christmas music..
Then today we played soccer and football with my new gift also.
Thanks for the package.. the tree was awesome,, thanks so
much... I will for sure see star wars when I get home. I opened the
football right away.. and the music because I am putting it on an mp3
player right now. It is hard to add music to the iPod, because I do not
have the iTunes account and pass word for it
