So, this week has been awesome! There aren´t really any reasons in particular but it just has been awesome. This last weekend the missionaries from the MTC (Missionary Training Center) came and did some proselyting in our area and it was so much fun! They come every two weeks and it´s always the BEST when they come. What we do is, the missionaries get split up amongst the ward members and they go for about 4 hours and teach the less active members in the area and also let the missionaries knock on doors and find references for me and my companion. This time, me and my companion (Hna. Apolo from Ecuador) split with the other missionaries and I went with a church member and a girl from Kennewick, WA!!!! It was so exciting!!! It was like seeing a family member or something, lol. When they first got there, I said I was from Oregon and she´s like, ¨Hey! I´m from Washington! We´re like, cousins!¨ And then I asked what part of washington and she said Tricities and I was like, ¨We really ARE cousins!" It was super exciting, lol. This probably sounds silly, but when you spend all your time around Peruvians or Utahans (I have no idea what people from Utah are called, sorry, in my whole zone, I´m the only North American not from Utah, lol), it´s a little exciting when you find someone from your corner of the globe.
Anyway, it was really awesome to help the missionaries teach and go out and work with the members. It really does change EVERYTHING when the members help the missionaries. The work is so much easier and so much more successfull when we work in unity, and not everything is left up to the missionaries. We definitely can´t do it alone.
Also . . . the is the weirdest Christmas ever, lol. It´s hot outside and I have a craving for watermelon and corn on the cobb and hamburgers. It´s weird to see all the Christmas lights and everything up. It´s cool. Also, they have hot chocolate parties at night time . . . which I don´t know why they do, because it´s still hot outside sometimes and I want ice cream or something. Also, while we´re on that subject of weird traditions, I had a pretty bad cold this week (but I´m over it now and I´m perfectly healthy and everything is ok!) and my pencionista (the lady who feeds us breakfast) made me drink hot herbal tea and hot soup (did I mention it´s hot outside) and I couldn´t have any fruit because fruit is cold and I can´t have anything cold when I´m sick . . . it was great, haha. They definitely have some funny ideas here. Like a lady in our ward told my old companion (Hna. Ku, who went home because she was sick, but is back in the mission now! :) that she got her hernia because her mom tripped and fell while she was in her stomache. lol, I love it. Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying the snow and the cold weather. I never thought I would say this, but I actually do miss the snow, lol. Love you guys so much and I Hope you have a great week! Remember to love and serve your family and your neighbors! Love you guys so much!
Hna. Hulse
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