Hola family!
This week I
went on divisions with another set of sisters. My companion has been kind of
sick and one of the sister training leaders was a little under the weather. So
they stayed home in my house. And I went with the other sister training leader
to do divisions in Santa Rita. (Double divisions, anyone?) Let's just say that
over the course of a few hours I had three different companions, which is just
a little disconcerting. But it was a good opportunity to go and learn from
teaching with someone else. And we got to scale a steep hill (small mountain?)
to go teach, which was also very fun.
Friday night
our ward had a Christmas dinner. The six of us missionaries stayed very busy
serving up the food. Overall, it was a good night with a good turnout of
members and some investigators.
Saturday
morning, I got to learn how to make tamales! Tamales are traditional food here
for Christmas Eve and for New Year's Eve. Our recent convert Lesly invited the
four of us sisters over to help her. She had already made the maza (batter) and
had the fillings ready. We helped to prepare the plantain leaves (you have to
heat them over a fire so they won't crack when you wrap the tamales.) Then you
put the maza and fillings in the center and wrap it up. In our tamales we put
potatoes, green peas, rice, a little meat, and a red sauce. Then the tamales
have to cook for three hours over a fire. We didn't stay the three hours, but
we came back Sunday to sample the tamales. After sampling, we had a really good
lesson with Lesly's husband. He says he knows he will take the step to get
baptized. He just feels like he needs some time to get ready.
Sunday we had
the Christmas program. I think that we should have more Sacrament meetings that
are almost entirely choir with a little narration in between. The ward used the
text of the Living Christ for the narration between songs. I thought it was a
good idea. Our ward could try that for Christmas or Easter sometime.
And then today
we had a multi-zone activity. We played a little soccer (we're in Latin
America, so it's almost a requirement) and then made graham cracker houses to
celebrate the season. The crackers aren't exactly graham crackers like at home
(they are called fiber and honey crackers), but they are similar. (I've heard
they also work to make s'mores, but I haven't tried it thus far.)
I love you
lots!
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