Taylor is in district of 8 and they spend all day together on the same schedule. Classes include: grammar, Spanish, lesson plans in English, etc."This morning we got to play FUTBOL AMERICANO!!! It was more fun than I anticipated. There is actually an all girl Catholic school SLASH (darn keyboard) nun's place right in view of the dirt field we play in. About 5 to 10 girls stood on the balcony and watched us for about 10 minutes.. We were gonna run over there and baptize them but we remembered to be obedient..... and that particular time was SPECIFICALLY for exercise, and not for baptizing.
I go on splits on Thursday. One day to realize how little we all know.
I have a teacher from Utah and he is great at drawing. I'm going to pay him to draw me a picture of the stripling warriors with two missionaries in the front. I believe it is in Mike's scripture case... but I need some more information on that picture. My president was going to look for it online. Do you think you can find that picture, or take one of Mikes scripture case for me and email it to me?
So here is for our experiences...
One morning one Elder decides "I want a grilled cheese sandwich" so we started our scavenger hunt. Day one, pancakes with individual wrappers. We all asked for 2 packages and by the time 20 elders asked for double when we usually don't, I think they got suspicious. So the next day we payed a janitor to go buy us some cheese and bread. So the night came, but how were we going to cook it??? You may ponder for a quite a while but to a missionary who rarely gets out the answer is clear! LETS GO GET THE IRONS!!!! So we did, and BOY did we have a fiesta that night. Talk about muy bueno!! I have pictures and videos I shall send. (see video at http://guatamtc.blogspot.com/)
Next experience. a kid from the Dominican republic got drafted to the MLB as a picture (or something spelled like that) at about 6 foot 2-4 he can throw a 95 MPH fastball. SO what do the missionaries do?? Lets let him throw a hacky sack at my back!!! and he did. Video is also coming. Not only is he good at baseball he can dunk. We would spend a good time just ally oooping it to him. (video at http://guatamtc.blogspot.com/)At the temple today we ran into a few missionaries outside.. a few as in like 40. We were able to talk to them awhile... one was saying he bought a tie for 200 Quetsales *ratio is about 7.5-8# quetz to 1 dollar. I said, "YOU SPEND 30 DOLLARS ON A TIE???" He was like "NO.. its only 15. " I quickly did the math and proved him wrong but he was determined that it was 8 to
one dollar. Then he said, "All I know is 700 Quetz is 100 dollars.. I WAS liKE BOY. Where did you go to school? Anyway everyone had a grand time talking about how the greenie would stand up to a missionary bigger and also served longer than me. Unfortunately he was in the South mission so I wont be able to talk to him much.Speaking of South Mission. Last week 20 bus drivers were murdered. You think thats bad do ya??? One elder at the temple pulled out a bullet from a 45. cal pistol (or something around there the bullet was kinda chingered) , and replied, "Ya we were shot at." He fired two shots at the missionaries but they were somehow able to escape. He then decided that "Hey I was just shot at, I'm going back for the bullet" so he pulled this bullet out of a wall and carries it around everywhere now. Just thought i would share some stories and tell mom "All is well."
I will try to send some pictures this week. We send mail out like Monday morning. So I will take my camera on splits and try to get a cd printed out. Then I will find some way to mail it home.
All is well, time to read "the ones if I have time!!"
Thanks for the letters. I finally got the one Kim sent me that says she just got back from Arizona... dated Jan 6th.
Love,
Elder Madera
