I had a pretty dang crazy week myself too. It was emotionally exhausting! But first let´s get some business out of the way. Mum, the Schwab card finally arrived. Yay! Is it only a debit card or does it function as credit too? Also, as I read the little manual, it says that the company charges the international exchange rate fee. Wasn´t the whole point of all that hassle because they supposedly DON´T charge that fee? haha ay ay ay.
Well so this week we had two big power outtages two nights in a row. I don´t know what happened, but this little town gets surprisingly dark without street lights haha. We had to end our work early and find our way home by the light from the occasional passing cars. It was a fun adventure--twice! haha. On Tuesday after our district meeting, a man walked into the chapel and told us he wanted to learn more about our church. What a miracle that he happened to walk in when there were 17 missionaries inside...haha. Unfortunately he was just visiting from out of town, but it was still a cool experience to teach him a bit.
This week I had several dreams that made me really homesick, so that was kind of a bummer. Normally I love seeing my family and friends in dreams, but for some reason it just made me super trunky this time haha. Lame. So I had to fight that off all weekend. On Friday, my companion completed a year in the mission! To celebrate, we made Tacos and had a little fiesta between the four of us haha. It was a blast. I had on my iPod the song ´´Jarabe Tapatio´´ from SPAC so we listened to that and celebrated Elder Tapia´s halfway mark haha.
Fun news: my carpal tunnel is still progressively getting worse, and now it´s to the point where I can´t really grip things. I drop stuff all the time, including a few glass cups...ha. Oops. Shaking hands is still pretty painful, and it doesn´t help that as missionaries we do it a bajillion times a day haha. Bleh. So put that in your prayers please...
However, there was one piece of good news to end the week. After a really rough week physically and emotionally, my companion and I were pretty frustrated and disappointed with the progress in our sector. It was 9:40 Saturday night, and we only had 20 mins left before our mission curfew. We thought about just calling it a night since it would take another 10 minutes to walk home and it´s better to be early than late, but we decided to visit one more person. We knocked the door of an inactive member we had found last week, but his 26 yr old nonmember daughter answered the door. She was surprisingly and refreshingly excited to talk to us and learn about the Church. She was anxious to read the Book of Mormon and even came to church with us the next morning. My campanion and I were definitely blown away. It was soooooo awesome! The only downside is that she was visiting from Concepcion where she attends college. Ha. But it was a great tender mercy of the Lord to have worked so hard for so many days and finally find someone actually interested in the Gospel.
I hope all is well with the fambam! Have a wonderful week! Send me more pics of the PAC show when you get a chance! Love you!
Elder Long :)
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