Week 37

Well. As I am sure all of you know, this week was general conference, when we get to hear from the prophet and the apostles and all the awesome people. I watched Saturday in English, but on Sunday it was in Spanish, as the internet wasn’t working. It was really cool, but kind of odd hearing only Spanish without voice overs, and that the apostles voice over guys sound so weird.

We did a lot of preparation for the general conference, most of this week was inviting people to general conference, but we did have a funny story with our investigator named Jerinson

We were talking about joseph smith, and he asked why Joseph Smith had failed if he was sent from God. We were confused, and asked him to elaborate. Well, he told us that if the mission for Joseph Smith was to spread the gospel to all the earth, he had failed, as he had not preached it to everyone. We said that his mission was to reestablish the church, and to translate the book of Mormon, and that the mission of the church as a whole is to preach the gospel to all the world. So he looks at us kind of weird, than asks us why no is out preaching this gospel to everyone. Me and my comp looked at each other a bit weirdly, and then I just pointed to my comp and me while my comp said, "uhh, we are kind of doing that right now, with you, and everyone we can". And you could almost see the lightbulb go off in the investigators head of "duhhhhhh". So that was kind of funny.

We also were contacting up the wazoo, so that was ok, just hard, as this was semana santa, and that means that everyone and their mother are in the interior of the country. Also, that there are a lot of catholic processions. Which, just observing them, entails some person carrying a cross and a bunch of people following the dude with a cross. It was odd.

And, also, I made brownies for my bishop, and he loved them. So good times.

Have a great week!!

Elder berg

Week 36

Well, hello all! I hope everything is going awesome for all you people, here are my favorite stories of the week!!

We were talking about food, and I said I loved steak. And they were all, oh, steak is ok, but meh. And I asked how they liked their steak. They said ehh, I don’t really know. I said that I loved it pink on the inside, just cooked enough to be a bit brown. You would think I grew three more heads the way they all looked at me. 

"YOU WILL DIE THAT WAY!!

YOU WILL GET WORMS OR PARASITES!!

BUT IT’S LIKE EATING BLOOD!!

ITS RAW MEAT!!"

Well I told them to call me a vampire, because its amaaaaaaazing. So yeah. I feel bad for everyone out here, because everyone and their mother is a "health expert" and they know everything about medicine, so obviously I am gonna die of red meat deliciousness. Ughh. Sooooooo goooooooooood. So worth it. 

This week was good, we (my comp) did service on Saturday, knocking down a wall. And basically my comp did everything with the husband of the house. It was awesome. They were allllllllmost done, but then the husband missed with a swing of the tiny little hammer and hit a water pipe. BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHHHH. I heard "SONUVAB*****" in Spanish of course, and I just busted out laughing. So that left my comp and him to work for another few hours. Was hilarious. 

And when we were leaving the service, we heard yelping. Now, the lady who lives in this house with her husband has a dog. A pit bull. Big ol thing. Never tried to do anything to me in 7 months. And then we walk out, and this dog has another dog by the throat, trying to kill it. And then almost rips its ear off. so everyone in the street is running over to see what is happening, and I go yell for the lady, and then she picks up a huge stick and just starts whaling on this dog to let go of the street dog, and her dog just doesn’t care at all. So after about 45 seconds, her dog finally lets go, and the other dog is all bloody and trots off. Pretty disgusting. 

And we were at a super market, doing shopping, and then a guy starts talking to us, and says that he can’t quit drinking. We try to encourage him, and when I was talking, he cuts me off and said to my comp, that I have "good charisma". So that was cool. And then he starts talking about how he misses the church, but he won’t give us his address or his name to pass along to the corresponding elders. And he smelled sooo bad of alcohol. And then he starts talking about his time as a bishop. So that was pretty shocking for me, because I didn’t think that would be coming up in this conversation. But we tried to help him out, and invited him to church. Good times. Don’t know if he went, as he goes to another ward, but I hope so. 

Well, that was basically my stories of the week. I hope you all have a great week!!

Love,

Elder Berg

Week 35

Well, this week was kinda boring. I am staying in my area, and that means nine months by the end of the change, which is good, because we are going to do work and baptize. 

We met with our investigators, the kids, and their mom made us enchiladas from Nicaragua, which were AAAAAMAAAAAAZZZZZINGGGGG. They were like empanadas, but bigger, and filled with corn and meat and amazing deliciousness and it was AWESOME. I almost cried a little. My first non rice and chicken or spaghetti meal in a looong time. 

And i also got my hair cut. If you look up soccer players, its kinda like Ronaldos, but not nearly as awesome. I got the sides pretty short and left the top, so it looks kinda awesome.  I will take a picture later and send it. 

We met with our investigators and they are doing awesome, they are all progressing, and so we are happy.