I couldn´t write until today this week, but it should go back to normal next week. This week...winter started. And here that means RAIN. Every single day pours rain really, really hard on us. The mornings start hot with clear skies, and then all of the sudden dark clouds come out of nowhere and start pouring! The streets become literal rivers, and sometimes we just have to walk through. We´ve gotten really wet, but it´s really fun and definitely worth it to be able to help the people. Last week we helped build a wall for some of the members of the church. This week we helped them to move, because they didn´t put walls on all sides, and so the house flooded anyway. It reminded me of helping out in Houston Texas after hurricane harvey struck. The water had gone up to the people´s waists. So we helped them to move out, even though it was still raining. They were all okay.
This week has been full of teaching my companion what it is to be a missionary. He´s learning how to get over the fear of talking to people in the street, and we´ve actually found a ton of new people to teach! Some of them are true miracles, and really excited to learn the gospel of Christ. My companion is super excited to be able to teach people too, and he´s actually really good at it. Now that I have a latino companion, I speak almost no English all day, which is crazy to think about. But it´s going great and it´s super fun.
One day when we were eating lunch with some members of the church, we were given some chiltepe peppers. Chiltepes are VERY spicy, but my companion didn´t know yet. Ther´re really small (one is about half the size of a pea), so he wasn´t really worried and promptly put one in his mouth. I then got to watch him run around for like ten minutes breathing heavily and drinking water and talking without stopping about the flames in his mouth. It was really funny, and I ended up eating one too just to make him feel better. But I was still laughing so hard that I hardly noticed mine.
We went to teach some people this week that haven´t come to church in a long time. They live with a guy who isn´t a member of the church, and we´re starting to become really good friends with him. He gave us each a coconut yesterday from his tree so we could drink the milk (something that´s really common here), and we started talking about the scriptures. It was a really good conversation, and the investigator was really interested, asking lots of really good questions. All of a sudden, out of nowhere this really old, wise member of the church showed up and sat down next to us. He started explaining the Book of Mormon, and how nobody can read it without knowing it´s true. The Bible talks about it multiple times, and the only thing that it does is testify of Christ. We started teaching about the truths of the book, and my companion helped us teach too. And then the old guy said he had to go and just disappeared. Reminded me of Master Yoda. It was a really cool lesson.
There was another time this week where we passed a bunch of kids playing soccer in the street. We made teams and told them we´d buy them all water if they beat us. It was a really fun game, and they ended up winning. So then we sat down with all of them and read the scriptures with them and taught them about how they need to serve their families and be kind to others. It was so great. On the mission, we just want to be more like Jesus. And while we may never get there, we´re getting better everyday.
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