Week 72: Public Transport Is Not My Friend

I am starting a new segment on my email called "Adventures with public buses" here we go:
These past few days me and my companion have been walking to our area ( we live about an hour walking distance ) but our legs just cant anymore so we decided to learn how to take the bus. Lets just say it was trial and error. We have the app blocked on our phone so we went of the guideance of the spirit. The spirit must not of wanted us to work in our area because every bus we went on took us in the opposite dirrecion. It was very humorus and we had some adventures one of them including getting stuck in the middle of a Mountain yes you heard that right we get on this bus and all confidently im like "oh yeah this seems right" but the bus turned and went on this wierd path and after about 10 minutes stopped and the bus driver told us to get off and wait for a different bus to pick us up. We got off and waited and the same bus did a fun little loop right in front of us. Stopped and picked us up again my question is "what was the point of us getting off the bus?" But in the end we always made it to our area.

I got sick the whole week i felt like crap but saturday really did me dirty. 

We had lunch with one of the people we are teaching and it was the strangest meal i have ever had. He kept saying sterotypical things like he gave us water and then his niece said " why did you give them water and not soda " and he with a confused looks goes " because their mormon they can only drink water " later while we are eating he asks what we lile do to do i go say that I like playikg sports and he goes " mormons can play sports?" he then later asks me if its true that everyone in the U.S eats 6 eggs for breakfast. i just looked at him and tried so hard not to laugh it was such a strange meal but we had a cool lesson about the plan of salvation so worth it. 


Our friends: 

Samuel: he is a reference from some random guy off the street we went to visit him and he is so cool. He is 22 and a barber and is budhist?? we are not sure whatvhis belives are but he started reading the book of mormon and when we taught him how to pray he sends us a message later saying how he now loves to pray. He has a baptism date so hopefully it all goes well. 

Raul: he is what we call a gris ( someone taught in the past ) he is cool but is kinda flaky with our appointments. He also has a baptism date so lots of prayers for him. 

Funny story: on sunday we are waiting outside and greeting people when this guy selling popcorn walks up to us and I invite him in he walks in sits down and about 5 minutes later walks out I ask him if he liked it and he goes " no ive seen enough" jajaja he said it so kindly that it made me laugh. 

As a mission every night we do a prayer on zoom but hermana Hermosilla has added a little twist.  She now calls one companionship randomly to give a house tour so that the whole mission knows whether or not you are clean. It has been pretty humorus and its a bright spot in my day. It feels like an invasión of privacy but its so funnym and everyone is so invested it makes it even better. 

Thats all for this week 
Los amo a todos
Hna jensen 









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 76: 17 Months, Hotter Than Mars And ITS SPRING!!!

Image
Whatttttttt i cant believe I am at 17 months ! Monday we did a district Pday in the Mountains. It sounds all nice and dandy but it wasnt. The ride up was twisty and we were in this old bus that tilted off the side of the cliff everytime we turned. We saw a 100 foot tall virgin statue and then a few yards away this minsicule jesus statue that you had to squint to see ( argentinas sure got her priorities straight here ) It was over 100 degrees and dusty. We hiked and ate asado which was the best part. I felt like angelia in the office when I said the music was too loud. On my behalf we couldnt hear eaxh other and had to ScReAm to speak.  Anways we ended up getting stuck in the Mountain because we missed the bus twice but it was fine because we ended up playing Catan i was partnered with elder Heredia and we won. and we drank mate you know theres nothing like sharing the same drink and straw between 8 missionaries as a bonding exercise. we love a good mateada. Tuesday: we we...
Read more

Week 77: Trio Life…Again

Image
Tuesday: we had a good day we picked up the Hermana Osmond from the terminal and got everything organized and we went to work we put 3 people on date for baptism so awesome and we have just been having a blast together. I am back to sleeping on the floor. With three of us sharing a room theres not enough beds so I am on the floor but I offered.  It will make me appreciate my bed at home all the more.  so right now i am kinda training not training both hermana Osmond and Hermana Ballam have just gotten out of their training and i am here to see how they will do on their own without me president literally called me personally and told me i am a glorified babysitter for the next 3 weeks itll be fun they are awesome i have enjoyed it so far . Wednesday: we put Samuel back on date for baptism so that was awesome!! For lunch we ate with a member and they pulled voka out of the fridge and poured me a glass best water ever. Later while we were out and about this guy calls out to us in...
Read more

Week 22: A Cruel Joke And Lautaros Baptism!!!!!!!

Image
Muy buenos dias bienvenidos a una otra semana!  Bueno this week was good on Monday me and Hermana Braatz wondered into a Catholic Mass where we got really wierd looks. It was a very peaceful experience we also saw some one get shushed by a priest and it was really funny we had to leave before we laughed to loud.  Thursday: our district leaders played a CRUEL joke on us. In the afternoon we waited patiently to recieve a call saying the Lautaro passed his baptism interview and at 4:30 or so we recieved a text from the Elders saying that they needed to talk to us about Lautaro because he failed his interview. We freaked out trying to call them sent texts and they werent responding so we trecked the 40 minute walk to Lautaros house and knocked on his door determined to find out what happened his sister answered and said that he had left because he failed the interview and we asked about what had happened and she told us that he couldnt answer some of the questions  because we...
Read more