hey mom!
hey so yeah i do have some antihistimine, but the rash was
like all over my body, and so a cream doesn´t really work that well for that.
the nurse said go get a pill, but no one had any, but it went away on it´s own,
weird though! as far as ensigns go, i´m not sure, but i think we get the
liahona´s and ensign´s at least every two months. we may get lucky and get them
tomorrow during district meeting, but yeah i think we get them, i really want
to read some talks again though! it really was a great conference! and i
haven´t seen the package yet either, but i just asked my zone leader´s and they
said it´s here, so they´ll give it to me tomorrow, i´ll let you know what i
think of it next week haha. i feel bad for dad though, i really would love so
much just to play some basketball, the few minutes of exercise i get in the
morning just isn´t very fun by myself haha. and speaking of how amazing the
earth is, i told you i just finished Jesus the Christ, and it talks about
miracles in there, and it says something about how people today, now that they
understand things like planting seeds and electric bulbs and computers and all
that, they don´t see them as miracles, but there really are some crazy things
on this world that we probably take for granted a lot!
with easter down here, they´re really big into "la
semana santa" which just means holy week. and so it starts on like
thursday i think, and it´s like suffering thursday, crucifixion friday, holy
saturday, and resurrection sunday, or something like that. and so this past
week it´s just been like a ghost town. everyone left to go visit family and
whatnot in the bigger cities. it was really weird, there weren´t buses or taxis
or anyone in the streets, and not a ton in their houses, it was just silent.
there would be like parades in the street, and everyone wears purple and
there´s a big Jesus carrying the cross, and i imagine a lot of people that are
the "i only go to church on easter and christmas" kind of people. so
not exactly the easter i´m used to haha, but yeah they celebrate something like
that down here :)
the weather is changing a bit down here too! it´s starting
to rain pretty regularly, and pretty hard. it makes or some really loud noise
in the houses, cause most of the roofs are just metal, so all that water
falling on it is loud! and it feels really good when the rain is falling, the
temperature falls a bit, but then after the rain stops and it´s even more
humid, it just gets super hot. and everyone says it rains about 8 to 9 months
of the year, so here´s for a long wet 8 months! :)
so i had a bit of an interesting interaction with my comp
this week. so there are a lot of lazy latinos here, called ponchetas, and my
comp isn´t exactly poncheta, but there are just some rules he doesn´t like to
follow. he´s always telling me to calm down when i tell him we should follow a
rule, and it´s never anything huge, but things like studying in the morning,
coming home late at night, things like that. and so i always tell him we should
do those things but he doesn´t like that. so we had a bit of a fight cause i
just couldn´t take it. he wanted to come home late, but i just told him no. he
didn´t really like that, and told me how stupid i was being, and i was just
like, how can you be mad cause i want to be obedient? so after that little
argument, about a half hour later he wanted to talk, and he was chill about it
so we did. but he told me how when people found out we were companions, i guess
a few people told him to watch out because i´m really strict with the rules, and
then he basically just told me how i need to calm down with following the
rules, and it´s ok to not follow some, and i was fuming inside. i told him this
quote i like, from the wife of Elder Nelson, she said "obedience brings
blessings, obedience with exactitude brings miracles" and i feel like i
need a miracle right now. i´m sick of not understanding everyone and not being
able to say what i want to say, so i want a miracle and i want to learn spanish
as fast as i can, so i´m gonna try to be exactly obedient. maybe it´s just
cause i´m new, but i don´t know, i don´t think i´m here to sleep in or stay at
member´s houses all day and do nothing. so yeah that was interesting, and so
i´m really hoping i leave this change. we have changes the 18th? so we´ll see how
that goes.
i did have a fun little experience with cooking the other
day though. so like i said there were like no buses, and on saturdays for lunch
we have to ride a bus for like 30 minutes, and after waiting awhile, we just
decided to not go. so i took the opportunity to cook, and it was pretty fun. so
i bought a pancake powder mix, but i was lacking a few things. it asked for
milk, but i didn´t have any so i used sweetened condensed milk. it asked for an
egg, but i just forgot to buy one so i didn´t use that. it asked for some oil,
but i did have that so that was good. i threw some vanilla in for good measure,
and so they ended up being the sweetest pancakes ever, cause of course i had
syrup on top. the pan must have been old or scratched or something, cause the
pancakes would stick, so they were pretty ugly, but pretty good too haha. i
think i might try with chocolate milk next time, cause i haven´t seen milk
where i live for awhile now.
not too much else happened. it was a fairly quiet week. and
i mean that literally as well. me and my companion never talk when we´re
walking in the streets. it makes for some awkward moments, but oh well. we
don´t really have any investigators right now, no one ever comes to church and
they have to come two times before they can be baptized, so our two baptismal
dates we´ve had have fallen through because no one goes to church. we try going
to their houses on sunday but usually they´re "not there" or some
other excuse. so not much to tell there. just hoping for some change in about a
week. but i hope everyone at home is doing well! it sounds like things are good
so i´m glad! i hope everyone has an awesome week!
much love,
elder paskett
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