Hey family,
so glad to hear that thanksgiving and all went well, i hope you had fun! and tell susan sorry that she puked so much haha that sucks! not gonna lie, i looked at the clock every once in a while on thursday and was imagining whose house you guys were at and what you guys were doing....i got a little homesick haha and that REALLY sucks that ripley died :( to be honest i wasnt really expecting to come back to him alive, i was expecting him to die while i was out here on the mish....maybe not so soon, but still. i was reading dads letter this morning when we were walking in the street and i freakin started crying because of dads story. what really got me was when dad said that ripley had followed neccia with his head when she was parking the car and that was why his head was all weird. i told the texan who was with us this morning what had happened and he was just like i have absolutely no feelings for animals because my dad killed 2 of our dogs for pooping on the carpet....it was so terrible i started laughing and it kinda lightened it a little. but seriously, the situation has to be so much worse there, just cuz you guys can all feel that missing part :( but things will get better!
so we had another baptism this week!!! it was susanna´s grand daughter and it was way cool. 2 of her grand daughters actually got baptized on that same day, so we all went to their house afterwards for a little party/our own thanksgiving here haha but dont worry! we were doing missionary work while we were there, because we are now going to teach karen´s mom. (karen is our baptism) and also her other sister too! so we are seriously going to baptize like the entire family of susanna and its gonna be awesome! oh yeah, and i had to direct that whole baptismal service too, like giving little speeches and all that. kinda nervewracking! but good haha and i also confirmed someone for the first time on sunday! way cool :)
so the work is kind of slowing down now....all the people we were talking to kind of fell through and like hide when they see us coming and dont want to talk to us. really the only investigators we have right now are those super old people who dont understand very much and they are going to be baptized the 9th of december, so we kind of have to find a ton of new people. also, i found out the other day that we dont work in like 3/4 of our area. the majority of our area is actually in the city and we have never even gone there before. so the other day we went and its basically like opening up a new area cuz we have absolutely nothing there. its gonna be kinda hard to get stuff started i think. we have only been working in the super dangerous part of our mission i guess.
speaking of dangerous part, the other day, my comp and i were walking in san cayetano city and 2 girls came around the corner in front of us. they werent carrying anything, and i think one maybe had a cellphone. but anyways, this guy came around the corner behind them on a bike and rode up and like jumped off his bike and put one of the girls in a headlock. at first she just looked at him and so we assumed it was her boyfriend or something. but then he like started grabbing at her and her friend booked it and the both of them were screaming like crazy. this is all taking place about 3 feet away from us, mind you. i froze, cuz i didnt know what to do, if i should help this girl or just stand by. but this girl finally got away and the guy took off after them and im pretty sure he was about to pull a knife. so we quickly put distance between us and this guy, and the guy gave up the chase and got back on his bike and drove away. SO scary. we were talking to elder ruiz and he said you just have to keep walking and if they come for you to run. he said he was in an area one time and across the street from them a guy had a gun to another guys head and was robbing him....and you just have to keep walking. so yeah, thats my scary story for the week!
this week, ive been able to understand spanish a lot better....im slowly getting my feet underneath me with everything. but there are some days where i can understand everything and then days where i cant understand at all cuz my brain is just fried! but its slowly coming along :)
also, we had to take some things from investigators this week. i took my first piercing, a bracelet with all the catholic saints on it, and a pack of cigarettes. the cigarettes came from the old grandpa, and we saw him the next day smoking. he saw us and was like absolutely terrified haha he had a bottle of coke in his hand and he started shaking and dropped his lid and was like trying to hide his cigarette from us and stuff...but now he says hes quit and doesnt even feel like it anymore, so we are right on track for baptism!
i actually cleaned the war zone that is our bathroom today and it was just nasty! remember how i spent like 4 hours cleaning my bathroom in cedar? well this one was like 50 times worse! so you can only imagine! haha
so yes, transfers were actually today and elder ruiz went to salta. but since im a newbie, my papi and i have to stay in our area together for at least 2 transfers, so that means that ill be here at least until the first of january. but ill probly be here for like 6 months cuz theyve been doing that a lot lately.
but yeah, thats about it for this week! i love and miss you guys and cant wait to hear from you next week! and i know its a little early, but happy birthday neccia! ill be thinkin about you on friday! love you guys!
Con amor.
Elder Sirrine
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