There are many signs pointing to me leaving, next transfer. Ya,
I´ve made many long lasting friendships here. I also have many vacations
to take down to Ecuador and probably many places to stay. But we´ll see
what happens. I´ll tell you guys in person! You never
know.
I still am "in charge". I´m written as the senior
companion and I´ve been in the area a while, so I still have much to do.
But I´m glad the area is up and running normally again. And the bus
strike ended! Now we don´t have to walk ridiculous distances. It´s all
getting much better day by day.
We had a farewell party for a ward member from Cuba
who´s going back for half a year. Everyone´s very sad. She´s really
nice. We´ve all been doing well with baptisms! We have one like every
other week or sometimes a few weeks in a row! The hermanas just baptized
almost a whole family from Ecuador. The father is waiting a bit and the
extremely cute baby is obviously too young. And I hate that rule about
not picking up babies.
I got the birthday package! Thank you mum! The socks
were a bit short, but they´re really comfy. It´s funny to see that
missionaries enjoy package openings vicariously through other
missionaries. Everyone gets excited when there´s a package. And I had to
explain to a lot of people my late package scheme. They all thought the
mail system here was just that terrible.
We got to go to the temple! I love it. I´ll be sad
to not be able to go in farther areas. The people in the Canaries
especially can´t go. Although once in a while we do get to give tours if
we live close. Mostly they involve outside stuff but they can chill out
in the waiting room. Raquel, our Spanish convert, didn´t want to leave
when we took her in. And there´s lots of cool facts and lessons to do.
Like there´s an olive tree next to it from the Garden of Gethsemane
that´s a couple thousand years old. I´ll give the tour to everyone when
we visit.
I found what is essentially corn nuts but with the
giant corn (something like homily in English)
from Ecuador! It´s dang good. Our Spanish investigator (who´s just
waiting for marriage papers) made us Holy Week food. It´s called
Torrijas and it´s a fancier and tastier version of French Toast. It just
has more spices and it´s more wet and they sprinkle granulated sugar on
it. I don´t remember if I mentioned it, but I found out at the
beginning of the mission that our "grilled cheese maker" is a sandwich
maker and it makes really good things. If you put lots of nutella in a
sandwich it´s amazing.
I forgot to ask an investigator if we could help him
with anything and he pointed it out. So I asked if we could help with
anything and for the first time he said yes and we taught him and his
brother (my first convert) how to tie a tie. It was very funny and hard.
Nigerians are a very direct people and they mocked each other a lot for
their mistakes and we laughed a lot. And I was on intercambios with
Elder Johnson from Washington (Aunt Toni, He says he´s heard of Yakima
and has been there.) and he learned a bit of Édu (A Nigerian dialect)
from other investigators and these people kind of flipped out when they
heard him say it. They laughed a lot too. They´re kind of a laughing
people. It´s fun to be around them.
We taught the young men this Sunday! Although one
didn´t come to church so we brought church to him and we all went to his
house. One guy went in first and then secretly opened the door for us
and we all suprised him in his living room. It was a really strong
lesson and I loved it.
We had a small ward sports activity this morning,
and we represented America with american football. Firstly, I was proud walking down the street dressed normally with a football in my
hand and being a big, tall American speaking English. The football
has a magical effect. But when we got there they all acted like the
football was an object from space and wanted to touch it and asked how
to throw it since it´s not just a normal ball. It was really funny to
watch, and we all had fun today.
I hesitate to say things that will happen in the
future, because they seem to realize that I mentioned them and change
themselves. But I´m excited for this transfer and we´ll do good work
here. I´ll be sad to leave this area when the time comes, but for now, I
can enjoy it. Miss you and and love you loads!
Os quiero,
Elder Morgan
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