Week 29 (Dec. 5, 2016)

So this week was a bit interesting. 

Monday my comp got sick. Chills and fever and just not doing good. So i gave him a blessing and we just stayed home all night. 

Tuesday he was still sick but we went to district meeting. Big mistake. Comp was still sick and got another elder there sick. So we went home and he slept the whole day. 

Wednesday my comp woke up feeling great but i was sick. So we stayed home the entire day. 

Thursday i thought i was feeling better so we left the house and we got to the corner and i threw up and so we went back home again. I took some medicine and slept a lot and didn't eat and felt better by the night. 

Friday we went out to our usual trip to Anton. Lots of investigators out there, but its a toss up if they are home or not. We ended up just teaching 3 lessons that day but they were all really good. 

Saturday we had some problems with people being busy so it was hard to get in. We went to a family that wasn't really progressing and i thought to myself, if they are home and don't accept the lesson I will not come back to this house. So we went, they were home, we asked if we could teach, and the lady told us that she is attending 2 churches every Sunday, and she has a preacher she likes, and she doesn't want to have us come over anymore. Nothing more we can do about that. As we walked away i told my comp, she is attending 2 different churches. Yet there are only 2 churches in the world. The church of god and the church of the devil. She had a 50/50 chance to get it right and she messed it up with both of her options. So she is now an inside joke with me and my comp. 

Sunday was changes. Well for everybody else. My comp is going to be staying here for one more change and I think that it will be good to have him here one more. 

Also, last night I called Elder Romero, who is one of my best friends here in the mission to see if he got changed. He answered the phone and didn't know who I was. He kept guessing people and all of them were Latinos. He was so surprised that I spoke such good Spanish. He had no idea that I could even speak Spanish because every time I am with him we just speak in English. Also I learned that his comp, who was in the MTC with me, is coming to my district and will be our district leader. So that is way sweet! 

Other things that happened this week. Lately we have been getting cancelled on for dinner a lot so me and my comp have to fend for ourselves. He likes going to KFC across the street but I hate eating fast food here. So what I did

 
is I make Arepas. They are a food from Venezuela that is like a corn tortilla, and you fill it with tuna and some spices. Well Tuna here for the good stuff is like $2, so I bought the cheapest that I could, and I bought some sardines and I mix it all together with mayonnaise and my comp thinks I'm crazy but it is delicious. I will put the directions at the end of this letter and some photo's.

And yeah that pretty much sums up the week. Not a whole lot because of being sick, but the next week should be good because we get to make up for all of the missed lessons for this week!! 

Also huge shout out to anyone that emailed me this week! I love getting emails and this week was a real pick me up on the email side of things so thanks for that!!!

Anyways, love and miss you all!!! Have fun in the snow!! It isn't even Christmas here except for the Christmas music in the grocery store. And also I found eggnog once in the store so that was pretty sweet!!! Its just gross that in Spanish they call it ponche de jeuvos, which is just like egg punch, like a fruit punch of eggs. Kind of grossed me out but it tasted delicious. They only had it once because we went to the store today and I couldn't find it. Sad day. 

Once again love and miss you!!

Elder Hamblin