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Also, it was my turn to pray as we left the house, and I said we were thankful for the "goz y paza" that the Gospel brings to people, instead of "gozo y paz," or joy and peace... Hna Robles just laughed and said that God is really good at understanding all kinds of prayers and always encourages us to speak from our hearts, even if it sometimes comes out wrong. So that was kinda funny, as I normally don't trip up like that, but that happens in English a lot too, so I don't worry, just thought it was funny it's starting to happen in Spanish as well.
And since we don't have an ironing board, I'm now a pro at ironing my shirts on the bed...it's actually kinda fun, but I don't know if I should recommend trying it sometime...Momma might get mad for ruining the bed! Haha!
Today was
pretty good, actually taught some lessons that we had planned, which was really nice. A lot of the time I couldn't understand what these people were saying,
but sometimes little sentences pop into my head of what I could respond with to
their torrent of words, so that's a blessing.
But as
for teaching today, that went pretty well, this one guy felt it was necessary
to recount to us the entire Noah and the Ark story to illustrate his belief
that prophets are important, so that was funny. And a little kid wanted to show
me all his Dragon Ball cards and asked me what the character's names were in English,
so that was my first taste of Dragon Ball, I can't say I understand exactly
happens with it. The show was also playing on the TV in Spanish, but all I
really got from it was there was this really muscular golden dude that was
chasing after these 2 kids that wanted this orange ball, and a girl that can
float on water had to go do something really important, and then the golden
dude threw some kind of ultra-light ball and the black haired guy shielded
everyone and ended up dying, I think, and that's about all I got from that
experience. Lots of yelling and jumping around and really intense
faces... perhaps it makes more sense with some English. Anyways, the kids were super cute, I kept the
littlest one occupied with my scriptures and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet so
Hna Robles could teach a quick message to the mom and older kid, and I gave my
testimony at the end...always supposed to adapt the lessons to the people, right?
Also it
was funny, we were visiting a family and the dad needed the son to be home
soon to go to a meeting, so he called him on the phone and I guess the son was
like, "Hello, who is this?" because the dad answered, "Soy yo, tu
papa" and I just thought that was the funniest thing in the world, partly
because of how he said it, like it was obvious who he was, and partly because
it translates over to something like "It
is I, your dad"....families are the same wherever you go, pretty neat.
So yeah, tomorrow's
Sunday! Whoohoo! hopefully our investigators will be able to come and we don't
have to walk around in circles for 40 minutes in this blessed heat... but I'm
planning to wear my ladybug outfit, so things should work out. Goodnight!
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