Today was Pday! And we stayed home because we're both sick. I
still don't have my voice back, and we were still really tired from doing
divisions. So we washed clothes, cleaned the house, went and wrote our
families, and bought a little food. Also, fun news, we don't have money. As in,
there's no money in the mission accounts to withdraw for our quincenas (the
2000 lemps we take out on the 15th and 30th of every month). It's gonna be hard to figure out how to travel for divisions or buy food with no money. So of
course, we called the financial secretary and he said that there wasn't money
in this or the SPS Este mission, but that it should be deposited on Wednesday.
So we'll just hang in there until then. I pulled out money from my personal
account so I'm fine. It's hard because everything is dealt with in cash here,
there's no credit cards. So if you don't have money in your hand, you can't buy
anything.
But, we're fine. We also did a visit with a less-active
family, and they always give us baleadas for dinner. Really sweet people, I
love them. So that made for a fun day. There was finally sun today! So we were
happy for that.
Fun comment: you'll remember from pictures of our house that
we have 2 metal folding chairs and a blue plastic chair...that one is mine!
But I like it because it's not cold, you can lean back comfortably, it's a
little higher in the seat (for my REALLY long legs, of course) and (my favorite
part) you can rock it forward and balance on the front 2 legs when you sit. So
that's always how I sit, balancing like that. I could never do that at home
because it would ruin the joints of the chairs, but I don't really think it's
gonna hurt a beat up plastic lawn chair. But it's funny because Hna Cruz always
looks over and thinks I'm gonna fall! Hna
Mora also made a comment about my balancing habit. And I can balance pretty far
forward at well. In Santa Cruz
I'd always lean way back in the plastic folding chair and rest my knees on the
table, but that's kinda hard to do in my current chair, so I'm leaning forward
now.
And, another interesting thing: I like reading about the Ten
Commandments in Spanish, because it's written in the "tu" form of Spanish
and it's a more familiar way of speaking than "thee-thou-thy" in English.
So the Commandments as found in Mosiah 12 and 13 would be (normal speech
translated version)
1. You will not have other gods before me.
2. You will not make any graven image, nor any likeness of
something above in the heavens, or on the earth below.
3. You will not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
because the Lord will not hold someone innocent if they take His name in vain.
4. Remember the Day of Rest so it may be sanctified...
5. Honor your father and mother, so that your days are
prolonged on the earth that the Lord your God gives you.
6. You will not kill.
7. You will not commit adultery.
8. You will not steal.
9. You will not speak false testimony against your neighbor.
10. You will not lust after (covet) the house of your
neighbor...
Some of the commandments are a few verses long, so I
shortened them. But the point is, that it sounds a lot more like a parent
giving instructions to their children when you switch the form to how we speak
nowadays. Which is basically what the Ten Commandments are. And they are for
our protection. Kinda neat, huh?
