Fight Week

I have to ask an apology for a misleading title, Our zone named this week of sacrifice or otherwise know as 100 hours of sacrifice, as Semana en la Lid, Translated means Week in the Fight  (effort to fight for the good) or Fight Week! The mission has changed some of the aspects and schudules of this week because missionaries got super tired from it. So it is a little more calm.<

Dias de Preparación are really busy. We always have to clean the house and run everywhere. Sometimes with one of the other elders in the house, Elder Echegaray. Today we went and bought Bolón, it is a ball of plantain with cheese and chicharon, (which I think is pork rind but it tastes soo good!)

We had a different group activity where we went to the park and handed out copies of the Book of Mormon and explained what it is and asked if we could come by their house to visit. Many don’t live nearby but it was super nerve-racking sometimes because some people were in the middle of eating or excercising. But it all went super awesome!

Something that is going down is the World Cup which is called the Mundial here. Every lunch we have to resist the temptation to watch it by turning it off. Because, now that I am here, I am becoming a huge fan of futbol although I still don’t know much about it. So many people talk about it that it gets me hyped.

My companion doesn’t like mucha pasta but I have really grown to love it, because it is a lot better than rice! jaja! So this week, without expecting it we got pasta and more pasta and more pasta! Super-duper happy. And when we got rice, it was mixed with other sauces. Super awesome the lunches this week.

Last night we were visiting a family that has a calling in stake. And they said the kids call grandma “tota” but I heard “torta” and I, without realizing, responded to the grandma saying “Oh so you are the cake!” The family burst out laughing say “No torta, TOTA” We had a good laugh about that last night.

Oh something GENIUS that they have here is syrup type stuff in bags like the picture below. They sell ketchup, jelly, jam, mayo, and condensed milk like that below so you can reseal it really easily. I haven’t seen them before the mission but they have them everywhere here.

My Favorite foods here so far are:

1. Bolón, (translation ball-ette) like I explained above

2. Caldo de Bola: (translation ball soup) it is soup that has a ball of plantain in a broth and it is super delicious

3. Encebollado: (translation onion-ized) THIS SOUP is really different and is SO GOOD everyone loves it. I haven´t found anyone that doesn’t at least tolerate it. Almost all love it. It is really famous.

 Well that looks like that is all for this week enjoy the information dump today that I have given!

Have a good week everyone!

Atentamente,

Elder Wilhelm