Hola familia!
So this week has been pretty dang awesome haha still pretty hard, but the majority of the experiences have been super positive and fun and whatnot.
So first off, they just changed the days that we do our district meeting so now im not gonna get the dearelders until tuesday and it kind of screws everything up...so what we can do is you can still just email me, everyone can, and then ill go print all my emails off in the morning on p day, read them, and then respond later, deal? so just email from now on and ill work it out haha
so some things that i forgot last week. the tradition here in argentina is whenever youre like greeting someone, you always kiss them on the cheek, and they do the same to you. the members know that they cant kiss us as missionaries, but i cant count how many kisses ive received from girls and ladies here on the mission....and a couple of dudes too! haha not many missionaries can say that huh? but after the first visit, we tell them that we dont do that as missionaries and everything is fine.
ive already taught a little bit of english here, one of investigators is studying english in school and i had to help him with the homework. its funny cuz the people here can not say th. any word that starts with th or has that sound in it they cant pronounce it all. also, ive been to the rich and poor parts of town now, and there is like no separation. theres a super ghetto building here, and then a building completely on stainless steel and glass right next to it. youre either rich or poor here, and you can definitely tell the difference. we went to mcdonalds for lunch and its kinda funny cuz youre pretty loaded if you eat at mcdonalds.....its almost classy here to eat at mcdonalds haha
so a couple weeks ago, there were a couple of elders walking in front of us under some orange trees that line the side of the street. a bus came hauling down the street and like destroyed some of the branches hanging in the street and these elders got destroyed by all the oranges that fell haha it was hilarious!
one of the goals of my mission here is that we baptize weekly....pretty hard but its actually possible. we have baptisms lined up every week for like the next month, so im pretty excited about that.
a lot of people here think that i look like im 25 and they are aghast when i tell them that im only 19 years old. they are always commenting on my eyes too....we have one investigator and she always tells me i have celestial eyes and shes convinced that when i get home off the mission shes gonna marry me. i love her to death haha shes like 61. she also wants me to teach her english so that she can come up to the u.s. and meet you mom, so that she can talk with her new mother in law. HAH! haha hilarious!
so i learned a new trick this week about sending electronics. you can put them in a plastic bag, and then put this bag inside a container of peanut butter! haha the other elders were telling me about it, and one kids mom sent him an ipod like that and it got here completely safe. so you might want to try that out!
so yes, i have visited those open air markets and theyre pretty sweet. thats where i bought my super sexy sombrero. but i didnt use it one day when it was freakin hot and i got sun stroke or something. i was super tired, had a huge headache, felt like throwing up, and was super dizzy. so from now on im going to use my sexy but functional sombrero to cover up from this nasty sun haha also, there are ponchos down here, like authentic and i asked the elder in my aparment how much his poncho cost when he bought it. but i said poncho like a white person, so like pahn-cho. he busted up laughing and said that i had asked him basically how much his weiner cost. so reminder, if youre ever in a south american country dont say poncho like a white person. youll look like a fool
my stomach has kind of been destroyed this week and it sucks! it started last sunday and didnt really improve until last night...but i think im on the upslope and things are lookin better. im not really sure what did it either, cuz the food isnt that weird. probly the water.
dad, hopefully me and you can understand each other when i get back, cuz i was talking to the peruvian elder and he said he went to brazil once and he could understand everything! he said portugeuse is basically drunk spanish, so well see if we can talk to each other haha
one humbling experience this week...we went to the house of a member to eat and it was the little girls birthday. she was showing us the money that she got for her birthday and it was one peso. one peso! about the equivalent of a quarter in the u.s. but she was so happy! she kept playing games with it and making us guess which hand it was in. kind of made me take a step back and appreciate how much we really do have in the united states, and you never know that until you can experience outside of the states.
so some more stuff about my comp. hes definitely from the deep jungle of peru, he was completely fascinated with the little tape dispensor that you sent me in the mtc. he kept looking at it and pulling tape and was amazed when the little serrated teeth could cut the tape. he just kept doing it over and over again. crazy.
so yeah, everything is going good, im still learning a ton, and i cant wait until i can actually understand everything and be a bigger part in the lessons and be a real missionary! i love and miss you guys and cant wait to hear from you!
con amor,
Elder Sirrine
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