Week 9

Monday we got permission to leave our area and we went to the mall and it was awesome, its just like back home, we ate at Dairy Queen and McDonalds. We stood in this clothing store and listened to the dope music playing and I helped my trainer make a trunky list that night. 

Tuesday, we went to a gym here, lol its in someones house, all the work out stuff is in their living room and kitchen, we come so early in the morning, that she is still getting ready for work and watching TV and we are just working out in her kitchen. hahahahah anyways we were teaching this family and they asked how long I am here, when I said "22 months." the kids thanked me for taking the time to help teach and baptize them. That is why I'm a missionary. 

Wednesday. ate some local coconut peanut butter, oh man that stuff is sooooo good, then we had our zone training meeting and that was also suuuuuuuper fun. 

Thursday I went to a member and got my shirts tailored to fit me better. I noticed this week that I stared at the moon a lot. mostly because I realized its the same moon that all my friends and family stare at, it helped me feel more at home. 

Friday. We taught alot of goooood lessons that day. We finished that day with a beautiful sunset. 

 some graffiti, for some reason its super rebellious to write "Bon Jovi" every where lol

Saturday. We started teaching this guy who was from the IGLESIA NI JESU CHRISTO for those who don't know, that is a church started by an ex member from the Mormon church who based it off this verse in the bible about Jesus establishing his iglesia. which is Spanish for church. They are frickin crazy...... they are not even allowed to own a bible in their house.  Anyways the man invited us to a bible study sermon that night, and we decided why not? so we attended.....I have never in my life seen something more crazy.   This one guy got up and started reading and teaching from the bible. then after he said a prayer, HE STARTED SCREAMING OUT TO GOD at the top of his lungs. after every line, all the people said AMEN or O'O (which means yes) and everyone started crying...this lasted for 20 minutes.....then more study and prayer the same way.  He yelled at us for an hour. I had to bow down to hide my face because I was laughing so hard. It made me appreciate how normal our church is.  After the meeting all the leaders came up to me and my companion and tried to teach us....lol we explained how we were missionaries and they kept praying.... so weird. we finally left before one of us laughed and offended them. 

I just freaking love the kids here, they are all so funny

Sunday. It was fathers day, I said happy fathers day to all the fathers I saw the whole day.  I realize how much I love and miss my dad. For those who don't know I will personally thank god for making him my dad because he is the greatest!  I could not ask for a better father than him. After that we went to work and I saw this cow and named it Jerome and gave it a hug because he was all alone.

me and my new best friend

A lot of the people here are so racist to us. lol  they keep calling us jo (GI Joe) and ask if we want to smoke weed.  It's literally 80 percent of everyone we meet, we can't even get our message out and they always ask us if we play basketball. The educational system here sucks....so the people are not too bright lol. we asked this girl for 20 eggs and we payed the exact amount, so she counted on her fingers....and still messed up. and then tried giving us change. it's pretty funny sometimes.

Love Elder Yarro