9/20/10

Not a whole lot of new things going on here. We´ve been digging for anything new for the whole week, but that seems to happen here a lot. Finally got some new investigators, as we were essentially down to just those two kids. Erardo´s pretty well just stopped participating in anything. His mother says ¨Oh, he´s just used to the catholic church...¨, which translates into ¨Church for him is not making any decisions and going once or twice a year.¨. But, not a whole lot we can do. Hillary is still going to be baptised unless it falls through. We´re going to see. We´ve got a new investigator who accepted a date in the first lesson, so that´ll be for the 16th of October.

 

So the wedding was interesting. Went to the reception (had to bum a ride, since we took the train to Xeraco for the wedding. I keep telling Elder Crofts that we should requisition motorcycles from the office. The scriptures say that Ammon took his Honda with him when he preached to the Lamanites...), and waited an hour for the bride and groom to show up...with plates of food in front of us. Luckily, it was just snacks, but we all gave in after about fourty minutes. All the people assigned to our table didn´t come, except for Benjamin (from Holland, speaks English,  he´s the High Priest Group Leader), so we combined with another table. Main course was a suprisingly good lamb...I was very surprised that it tasted that good. Fell off the bone. Then there was ice cream, then the cake. Music was too loud, so no one really danced. We weren´t allowed to dance anyway(apparantly it´s one of those rules), not that I would have danced... Still, i´ve got a few pictures, which I´ll get developed and sent along soon.
 

Less insane travel this week. Just the normal district meeting on Tuesday. Elder Crofts and I hauled the typewriter along as a joke. Elder Corbitt was so jealous. Ever since he saw it during an exchange, he´s been scouring secondhand shops in Alcoy for one.

 

So, last p-day, I went and got a Texas Hold´Em set and taught Elder Crofts how to play poker and Baccarrat. I´m afraid he´s become quite the gambling addict...he may need counseling when he goes home. ;)

 

Today, we´re going to go to the Burger King that we discovered is in Gandia. Been here months and just happened to run into it the other day by accident...sort of embarassing it took so long. Then again, it took two weeks just to discover we had the same birthday.

 

Sid´s still doing fine, though he´s started school again, so we can´t take him many places anymore. Though I think we were getting so many lessons out of him we didn´t quite realize how bad our investigator pool had gotten.

 

Nothing new food wise. Same old, same old. I´ve discovered it´s remarkably easy to eat green beans when you mix them with applesauce...

 

We´re in the middle of a Mercadona boycott, so we´ve been shopping other places. Nice change. I can´t believe they thought they´d get away with charging 10 cents per plastic bag. They may get the weakwilled socialists here, but they won´t get this capitalist! I´ll shop around.
 

It may rain here today. We´re going to see, but I´ve got my umbrella just in case.

 

That´s all for this week.