May 1, 2016

The context you don't see here is that Isabella and Shaun asked Jacob what his favorite thing to do and favorite food are.

Jacob writes:

My favorite thing to do.... hhhmmmm I like to play football or futball on P-days. I love being with the families of the ward. There are at least 4 really strong families in the ward and I love how welcoming they are. I like to play a game with rocks when we are walking. You try and kick it between your companion's legs. When it goes through its called a caño!

My favorite dish from a family has been papas bombas, I think its what it is called. It is fried potatoes with meat inside! From what I bought, I like the sandwich milonesa. It is fried meat con ham in a sandwich! yum yum! ooooooohyuuuuuum haha

We do walk everywhere! We take a taxi sometimes and bus sometimes but mainly walking. We are in a really poor area. This week we were walking and a man told us to watch out for these two teens in from of us. We were walking and they kept looking back at us. We then stalled and went into a members house nearby. It can be dangerous sometimes, but I know the lord watches over us.

This week has been a little more frustrating but I also have seen the daily blessings from Heavenly Father.

Like I have said I just wish I knew Spanish and I know more of the vocabulary - it's just conjugating and structuring the sentence. Anyway this week hhhhhmmm teaching is good, we teach a lot of people, mainly Elder guzman, haha. But they are good and receptive. 

It was kind of sad this week also because the culture is really welcoming but its also really tough sometimes. It makes me appreciate more where I live and what kind of things I had. They live pretty dirty, and they burn their trash. Saturday and Sunday people play music all day. I couldn't sleep one night because our neighbors had blaring music the whole night. It's a different culture for sure. The showers are funny because it's literally just a spigot coming out of the wall, haha. But I am doing good.  Toda bien! I still love it. People ask me if I like Tucuman, and I say yes! I tell them it is different for me but I like it. Ultimately it is about the people here and I love the people. The little kids make fun of us sometimes, haha. One member says my name like "Wallf. Elder Wallf." I love it! haha

A blessing this week was that we needed to take the bus and it was late. We got on and we forgot our bus card, my comp asked if anyone had one and literally 3 different people stood up and were willing to help pay for us, after that the bus driver said, "No no, it's okay, you can just ride for free." I know that was another time where Heavenly Father looked out for us.

Sundays are always good! we had 6 investigators at church but some didn't show up and it makes us sad because it delays their baptism date. I can definitely see the trials getting stronger for some of the investigators because they are so close to baptism. It's really interesting, but I know why that happens and I know we can help.

Que mas? I am going to send some pictures and if I think of more I will email!