So i have now been on my mission for 3 months!. That's 1/8 done. That's pretty dang crazy. Elder chevalier only has 3 months left. So he enjoys to give me tude about that but luckily i love him so his tude isnt too bad. So this week there weren't any baptisms but things are still going great here. we had a lot of great lessons and something that is super cool is we have an investigator that is working on getting married so she can be baptized! it should happen here in a few couple of weeks. And what makes it even cooler is they have a picture of a temple so we asked them about that and they have a goal to make it to the temple and to be sealed together! So awesome. She is 16 and her soon to be husband is 22. Relationships here are super different. Dad asked about fathers here and that is a super confusing concept that i will have to explain when i get the chance to call you here in a few months. Short version is most households that i have been in here have only 1 parent. Not all but quite a lot. Its sad but i have still seen some really good parents here.
I did have an oppurtinity to give a talk this last sunday. it was on family home evening. Talks don't really stress me out here. Especially because the ward is only like 50 people (which is a pretty good number) and i know almost all of them at least by name. And they all know i dont speak the language very well so they were very nice and said i did a good job after wards. I remembered how much i hate giving talks off of pieces of papers... I much prefer just talking. but i cant really do that yet with portuguese but i will work on it.
So funny story for the week. I figure if i dont tell you you will just see it on elder zunigas blog. but elder zuniga uses the public restroom sometimes. and the only one we know of is in this market building. and everytime he does he tells me to get a contact. so this last time i was like im gonna do well this time. so i go looking and try to start a conversation with the fruit the lady was selling. i asked how much for a papiya and then said i wanted one pear. so she put a papiya and like 6 pears in the bag. i was like i only want one pear thats it. and she was like pay for one pear today and pay for the rest tomorrow. since it was portuguese i was trying to say no but it didnt really work.... anyways i thought it was 500 escudos all together and i only had 400 so i was slike okay fine she wins. so i paid it and took it all. we go back the next day and turns out it was 500 more. it was 900 all together. the old lady duped me. the worst part was she was already a member.... soooooooooooooooooooooooo all that happened was i was humilated. The other elders enjoyed it quite thoroughly. All i wanted was one dang pear!
Elder Zuniga's post on his blog of the event:
So nothing really interesting happened this week, just same old work. But hey! funny story about my son. So I was having stomach problems one day and I needed to make a mad dash for the bathroom. Luckily, there is ONE public bathroom in this city (and the only one I have seen in this country) and it was closer than our house, so I went there. It's also a fish, fruit, and vegetable market so that's where everyone buys those things. Before going into the restroom, I gave McMullin a pass along card and told him "Here, contact someone by yourself. Get the name and number and where they live, good luck!" and I went into the restroom. I swear I only took like 5 minutes and when I came out, I saw McMullin with a huge bag of fruit and he's like "Don't even ask about it!". It turns out he tried contacting a fruit lady and told her he wanted one pear. He ended up getting haggled by the lady and she sold him like 7 pears and a huge papaya haha. He spent almost 10 bucks on it, that's enough for like 4 lunches for us. Yeah... we need to work on his Portuguese ;p
So this week is the end of the transfer. unless someone gets transfered here from praia and the package is already in praia i probably wont see it until april. but thats okay. it just makes them that much cooler. i just need to remember to make requests months in advance. Or of course i get transferred. That could happen too. i guess we will know in a week.
P is getting so big! everytime i see a tiny girl aging from 0-2 i think of p and how i wont see her until she is 2. but thats okay. she will still love me the most!
Well i think that is most of the things that i had to tell you. I love you all. Thanks for the letters and i hope everything is going well for everyone out there. I love hearing about the things you are all doing even if you think its boring or nothing unusual.
Love Elder McMullin
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