August 25, 2014
They can say Hunter usually but they dont understand the meaning. Chile is great. The Mission President and his wife are from Idaho. I have a mommita for food and we dont see her much. She makes food and leaves it on the table. We have a key to her house and we go for lunch and heat it up in the microwave. She is nice though. The mammita for laundry we know a bit better. She talks to us and we have recieved a reference from her. The food is off and on. Sometimes I love it and other times... it is all tomato. I have eaten chicken, pizza, completos (chilean hot dog. much better than american hot dogs), and even fried pig fat. (seriously, not the meat. just the fat)
Time has actually been really slow here. Every day drags and it feels like
it was a month since the last P-Day, not a week. We have struggled a little with
appointments falling through. We have three progressing investigators right now
though the missionaries before us had been reporting eight baptismal dates. We
never could find those eight people. We had one of our investigators with us at
church yesterday. He said "That is
what I always thought the church of Christ should look like." We have high hopes
for him and we teach him again tonight. He should have lots of questions from
church yesterday. The other two
are currently "con-vive" meaning they live together but are not married. They
already have a daughter who is four but appartently that is a big problem here
in Chile. Marriage just is not important.
The food is mostly good
here. Not a lot of fish but there is a lot of tomatoes... I try to eat it but it
is a struggle. I am eating well though. If my body ever gets adjusted to all the
walking we do then I will probably get fat. We eat a lot. It is usually a
regular breakfast (made by us), a huge lunch from the Mammita or by a member
family on Sundays, and then whatever we can find for dinner. Sometimes we eat
with a member family but usually not. My companion has a "get sexy" plan for
when he goes home. He has a diet and exercise schedule that he tries to follow
which usually involves skipping dinner. Unfortuanately for him (and fortunately
for me) Elder Cardozo, the argentine, is a good cook and he likes to cook at
night. We even had a barbaque on Thursday night.