Feliz Cumple, Papa! Happy Birthday, Dad! I love you!
We had Weekly Planning, made lunch, Hna Escobar received a
blessing of health from the elderes (her kidneys still aren't doing well) and
we headed out to conquer the world! Well, more or less. We went exploring
around some more of our area, and taught a few lessons standing up the ENTIRE
40 or so minutes with our backpacks and scriptures in-hand and everything. Not
my favorite, as usually we're at least offered a plastic chair to rest a little
bit from walking up and down the rock mountains, but we did everything on our
feet for about 4 hours straight. Go leg muscles! And hips, back, tummy, and
neck muscles! Go body, go!
There's also a tendency for the women to hide in the door
curtain (because the doors here are curtains...you only close the wood part if
you're not home or it's bedtime) and not let you pass into the house. Like they
wrap the curtain around themselves and twirl-play with the fringe or whatever
and don't really pay attention to you. I know, we're really scary, but we're
just talking about God and how He loves this person, and the Gospel is on earth
in its fullness and they can have a better family that will last forever
because of it. Crazy message, right? Never would have thought it was possible,
but it in fact is. Just gotta read, pray, and go to church. And listen to the
Holy Spirit. I think it's quite simple, actually.
We also found out that there's a cockfighting league, I
think that's what it is, that is on one of our bus routes, actually, so that's
some new info. They keep the roosters up by where the elderes live, and they
fight down where we live. Learn something new everyday, huh?
And everyone and their dog responds to "how are you
doing?" with "ay, en la lucha", or "in the fight," and
also that "aqui estoy, luchando", or "I'm here
fighting." Kinda an interesting
phrase, I think it mostly refers to the difficulty of life, but I don't really
see a whole lot of actual effort being put forth in this "gran lucha"
we're all supposed to be "luchando". That's just my thoughts. So I
always smile a little when they respond that way.
And the water in the house and the pila went out yesterday
and hasn't come back yet.
But, we made chocolate pancakes in the morning, so I was
happy! You just add cocoa powder to the batter, and they turn out really yummy.
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