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| I made breakfast! |
Did a bunch more lessons in the morning, and went over to
Hna Aide for lunch! And we tried a plant called kilete for the first time.
Interesting taste, sort of like chamomile tea with lots of honey. Except it's a
fuzzy leaf that's really juicy and it had a sort of bitter taste to it as well.
Anyways, that was interesting. We drank Coke, like normal, and had rice and
beans and tuna noodles (the 2nd time in my life I've eaten tuna) and talked
about life and everything. I love that lady.
And we ran by some more people to visit them, but they
didn't want to, so we went and helped set up for the last of these activities
and participated in that. And practiced piano again. And that was our day.
But we got to play with Monse! She's the little 3 year-old
daughter of Gualdina, the one that calls us the gemelas (twins). And she was
telling us all about this guy that lives in a tree and eats seeds, and how
butterflies sing. She's probably my favorite child in all of El Dorado . She always dances around and gives
us lots of hugs and sits and talks to us. Little cutie.
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Hna Cruz hanging out with Montserrat (our favorite little
friend!)
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But, missionary-wise, we've been struggling with people not
praying lately. Like, more than usual. Which is annoying because you know who
messes up things like that, darn it.
Anyways, we heard the new excuse that
someone couldn't pray because they didn't have a Bible in their house. I don't
really see the connection between not having a Bible in your possession and not
having the ability to pray. But apparently that was an issue with someone and
they refused to pray. Other common reasons:
- they don't go to church
- they only know the Lord's Prayer
- we pray differently
- the missionaries should always pray because we have the
Word of God
- they're embarrassed
- they only pray in silence
- the gringa should pray because they want to hear me speak
Spanish (very common)
- the new companion should pray because they're new (that
always happens the first half of a change in a new area)
- they don't know anything about God
- they don't feel like it
- they want to have really long prayers
- they want to have really short prayers
- they don't know how to pray
- they only pray in school
- they have to go grocery shopping
- they just don't feel like it
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