Well here we are again... Email time! I seriously feel like I just
emailed yesterday... as usual. This week was pretty good!
* Something I realized about the difference between food in the US
and here: They don’t use sauces at all here. They use straight up salsa for
EVERYTHING. Like literally the word sauce translates to "salsa" here
because their sauce is salsa... And it’s always super spicy. The other day I
ate a jabañero chili pepper and another day this week I ate this thing that was
the spiciest thing I’ve ever eaten. My eyes were watering and nose was running
and I was coughing but I ate all of it because the family doesn’t have much to
share so I would have felt bad. I was so proud of myself. Also, they have a
food here called Chincharon. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of it but it is
literally pig skin. It’s either cooked so it is super soft and mushy or it’s
fried so it’s like the texture of Cheetos. It’s probably the most disgusting
thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. For La Comida the other day we had straight
up chincharon and rice. I wanted to die. I was literally gagging as I was
trying to eat it. And I somehow finished all of it. I think I’m pretty much
invincible at this point.
* You all know how much I love the sky and Thursday night was the
prettiest sky I think I’ve ever seen in my life. The sunset was amazing and I
wish I could have taken a picture but my camera sucks at capturing that stuff.
Then the moon was HUGE and orange and I don’t know if you saw it in the US but
yeah I was basically walking backwards cause I couldn’t stop staring at it, it
was so pretty! Then we saw 2 huge tarantulas in the road so that was pretty
freaky...(I don`t know why I added that part but yeah apparently there are
tarantulas here.)
* We’ve been hearing rumors from credible sources of 2 super cool
things that might be happening in our mission so in the next few weeks I might
be super happy about some things(:(:(:(:
* On Saturday we almost got attacked by a huge dog and I think I
almost had a heart attack. On Friday we looked for the house of a reference we
got from another missionary and when we found it there was a huge scary dog
chained up by the front door that was barking and snarling at us. We were too scared to knock so we threw rocks
at their window and nobody was home. So we went back on Saturday and saw that
the dog was laying down so we thought it was sleeping and chained up. As we got
closer it saw us and stood up and started barking super scarily at us and
running towards us and we realized the chain had broken or something. I started
bookin it because I seriously thought I was going to die but Hermana Lopez said
not to run so we inched away quietly then it stopped running and sat and
watched us as we turned the corner. We
got away from there so fast ahh my "fight or flight" instinct was
crazy. Haha. I don’t think we’ll be looking for that house again any time
soon...
* Today when we were grocery shopping they were blasting a bunch of
Coldplay songs like Yellow, Clocks, etc. the whole time and I got all trunky because
they were all cute songs and obviously the love life in the mission is pretty
rough haha. They also played a bunch of other music from the US that I love so
that was definitely a treat.
* This week I learned that you should never give up on
investigators. One of our investigators, Sandra, has a baptismal date for
November 21st (this baptism is my birthday celebration for you, Dad (; ) and
she is seriously golden. She is progressing so much and is awesome. About a
little over a month ago we were about to leave her because she had been being
taught by missionaries for 8 months and still wasn’t progressing. I had only
met her like twice. We went to have the appointment with her to tell her we
were going to leave her and something had changed. She told us she really wanted to
progress and we set a baptismal date with her. Since then she has been trying
so hard and has been going to church and keeping all her commitments and
progressing so much and we are so proud of her and so happy. She told us that
she forgets about her problems and worries about life when we teach her and it
made me realize that this really is a gospel and message of peace and I’m so
happy to be able to share it with people. But yeah, if you are a missionary or
future missionary and reading this: Never give up on your investigators, at
least not without a fight! I’m so glad we didn’t end up leaving her because she
is seriously a golden investigator and I’m so excited for her baptism next Friday.
(:
I love being a missionary and teaching people about the truth and
light of the gospel. It makes me so happy to see the change and progression in
the lives of our investigators and I know that I’m doing the best thing I could
possibly be doing right now. I love you all so much and pray for your
well-being every day! I hope you enjoy my emails, I’ll try to spice them up
somehow if they’re boring (:
Have a fantastic week everyone!
Con muchísimo amor,
Hermana Eyring
Hermana Lopez and I with our super guapa investigator Marta at church yesterday!
Cheesy but sending kisses your way(:
Super cute tan lines on my super cute feet... Results of missionary life
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