Week 10 (July 18, 2016)

Okay, so I got in a fight with my companion again this week. We had lots of water in our bathroom because apparently our toilet isn't hooked up and I dumped water in the tank and it just fell out the bottom. So I went and asked the bishops wife for a mop. She said that I could use the mop as long as it was clean when I return it. No big deal. So I mop the bathroom and get most of the water out of it. Then I mopped the rest of our house. Like the other 10 feet that isn't in the bathroom. We didn't have any fabuloso so i just used some bleach from our laundry.  I was rinsing the mop out in the sink outside and cleaning it all off and my companion comes over and says that I need to use "hace" for it. "Hace" is Spanish for "you do". So I'm totally lost, he keeps telling me "hace" and something about "cloro".  "Cloro" is short for Clorox. So I tell him like 100 times that I used Clorox. and he just keeps yelling at me "hace!!" So we were being really loud and someone from the bishops house comes and and asks my comp whats wrong and he goes storming off yelling something about me being a stupid gringo. So I talk to the guy that came out and he says use "jobon" which means soap. So I go grab some actual soap and clean the mop with that. Then we had a dinner appointment that we didn't talk during it. Then that night before bed I tell him he needs to clean up all of the little hole punched papers that he has left all over the floor and he asks why he need to clean them up. My answer was "porque está a mess" and he yells at me in Spanish "your in panama use freaking Spanish" So I reply "porque está no limpio!" which just means that it isn't clean, he then blames me for mopping and says that when I mopped all, the paper became hard to sweep up, then he went in the bathroom and did his thing for like 20 minutes. So while he is in there I grab the broom and sweep up all of the little papers super easy. He comes out of the bathroom and I just look at him while I'm holding the broom with all of them swept and give him a ha ha I can do it but you can't kind of smile. Then I finished sweeping and went to bed. We didn't talk the rest of the night. 

The next morning, Friday we didn't talk much. I was able to find out that "hace" means soap in Honduras where my comp is from, hence the problem. I never learned the Honduran word for soap in the MTC. Things were bad. so since Saturday I have been on divisions with Elder R. He is from Honduras as well and having trouble with his comp too but we work very well together and he speaks English so he helps me out a ton with my comp. Its been a good last few days. 

The last few days have been great. My Spanish is really improving, just in the last 2 days we have taught 12 lessons to either inactive or to investigators. Me and Elder R. in our divisions were killing it. we did have a problem Sunday tho when our investigator who has a baptismal date and had to show up for church but decided to bail on us and didn't show up. I honestly think that we need to drop her as an investigator. She isn't really progressing at all. We have taught her all of the lessons and she asks us all of these way simple questions that we have taught her all the time. Like who is Joseph Smith? We taught her lesson one twice already. Her husband is actually a pastor in a different church and I don't think he wants her to even talk with the missionaries. Its hard. 

We also played soccer with some less actives and non members. I only scored one goal. it was really hard to play with the non missionaries but I made it work. Then today I had some money left over from my last pay day so I went to the store and bought some soccer cleats to play in. I got to use them to play in today. I absolutely killed it. I was playing so well. I scored like 4 goals and had a ton of assists. My team didn't lose a single game. I love playing soccer. I think i should have not played any other sports growing up I could have been way good at soccer haha!! I can totally play with all of these other missionaries who grew up only playing soccer. When I told them I have never played soccer it blew their minds! It was pretty funny. 

I dont have much else for the week. It was a really quick week actually. Hopefully the next one is just as fast. Love you!! 

Elder Hamblin