Tuesday! Went to Potrerillos, received some palabritas de
amor from E Olivas, came home, made a
fantabulous lunch, went and contacted up a storm for 3 hours, and then
went to the church so that I could play piano and help teach the newly formed
ward choir how to sing some hymns.
I had a cool experience as we were going back to Santa Cruz
in the bus, as earlier E Olivas had given us some counsel about different
aspects of missionary work, and how a lot of times just saying hi and asking
how people are doing as you contact helps to start everything off right and
helps them feel good and more interested. So on the bus, good little missionary
that I am, started talking to the gentleman next to me, and after everything he
made the comment that he was happy that I had said hi and asked how we
were. He had received a good impression
of us and was willing for us to come visit him and his family. It was actually
a pretty neat little experience. So there's some blessings for being obedient!
As we were eating lunch today we watched the Restoration
video (20 min version) and part of "The Testaments" in Spanish, and
we got to the part where Kohor starts talking to Jacob, and the voice is
obviously different in Spanish because it's a different person doing the voice-over,
a lot more friendly and normal than the actual actor's voice. But I wanted to
show Hna Escobar how creepy his voice really is, so we stopped it, switched
over to English, fast-forwarded until the part again, played, and we both
freaked out over his voice. It sounds like how dirty feels and looks. Ugh. Hna
Escobar's eyes went wide and she got the shivers. Then we switched back into
Spanish and were fine.
I also made a quesillo and red bean tortilla folded in half
for part of my dinner tonight, and was quite pleased with myself. I have no
idea what you would call it, but it was good. And I had some bell pepper and
finished up my little bottle of banana-flavored soda.
And a very common phrase that we're encountered:
"Hola, hermanita, que tal? Como esta?"
"Pues, aqui, mirando/viendo-las."
Which translates to us asking how someone's doing and them
answering that they're there, looking at us. Kinda an interesting response, a
little bit hard to make a comment somehow connected to the subject of us
standing in front of them. Anyways, just wanted to let y'all know that we get
that a lot.
And a list of some of the churches that we've encountered so
far in our areas of Santa Cruz ,
there's quite a few, and we somehow manage to find new ones every few days. And
there's even more in the parts where the elderes are at. Just something to
think about.
- La Cosecha
- La Sala Evangelica
- La Iglesia de Dios, Hermandad Cristiana
- El Templo de Sinai (La Asamblea de Dios)
- Alfa y Omega
- Los Adventistas del Septimo Dia
- La Iglesia de Jesus, el Verdadero Dios
- La Iglesia del
Dios de la Biblia
- La Iglesia Biblica Bautista Independiente
- El Ministerio Iglesia de Jesucristo: Alfa y Omega
- El Ministerio Internacional: La Arca del Pacto del Vino y Aceite Nuevo (they've
got their own apostle and a
prophetess as well...they're husband and wife and lead the church)
- La Iglesia de Cristo
- La Iglesia Luterana Monte Getsemani
- Congregacion Evangelica Centroamericana: Genesaret (their
sign also has the words "Mas
vosotros sois linaje escogido")
- Los Testigos de Jehova (their sign out front says "El
Salon del Reino de los Testigos de Jehova")
- La Iglesia Livertando a los Cautibos
- La Iglesia Catolica
- La Iglesia Evangelica Filadelfia
- MAAM (El Ministerio Apostolico Avance Misionero)
- La Luz del Mundo (an Evangelical church)
- La Iglesia Evangelica Reformada
- La Iglesia Shaddai
- La Iglesia Fuente Luminosa Centroamericana
- La Iglesia de Cristo Ebenezer
- La Iglesia Bautista
And a Jewish denomination that I didn't quite catch the name of, but they meet in SPS, so the member have to travel quite a bit to get there.
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