Week 37: EATING COCKROACHES

I have never seen so miracles in all of my mission. 

This week was my first week with my hija hermana calvo!! I have really been having to improve my Spanish, she talks SOO fast hahah She told me thats just how they talk in el salvador!! Anyways this week we went and got pupusas (SOO GOOD) and I started eating and I bit into something that I thought was burnt cheese but then I felt little legs on my tongue so I pulled it out to examine AND IT WAS A COCKROACH AHHHHHH I was so freaking grossed out but I was eating at a restaurant owned by members so I threw what I had pulled out on the ground and swallowed the rest!!!! AHHHH Im gagging again just writing this. 

Then we visited the oldest guatemalan ever!! Shes 95 and cant walk. She literally just sits there all day. She wears a little diaper and everything haha

So we traveled to the furtherest part of our area the other day to eat dinner with a member. We left after to find a tuk tuk to get back to our house but not one passed. We couldnt just walk home cause we wouldve gotten robbed so quick cause its a dark path. So we waited until 9Ñ30 pm and we realized we HAD to do something. So we started freaking out a little and by 9Ñ45pm a SUPER sketch van passed by that was transferring people out of that part of the area so we took it home! hahaha Third world problems. 

When we take tuk tuks around our area I always invite them to church and all that. But they have all become good friends of mine! But some of them take it too far hahaha there is this one tuk tuk guy that always slows down when he sees us walking and asks if we want a ride and just flirts it up haha so awk!!! Literally no matter what when he sees us walking by he slams on his brakes to say HOLA GRINGA BONITA hahaha!  Even with customers in his tuk tuk!!  You gotta do what you gotta do to baptize. JK The tuk tuks are crazy tho. They are small three wheel motorcycle things and they should only fit 3 people AT THE MAX but somehow they have figured out to get 8 FULL GROWNS in one tuk. I always end up sitting with half my body hanging out and I have to depend on my arm strength to hold me in the tuk hahaha SO SKETCH.(INSTANT DEATH)

We saw SOOO many miracles this week. We have 6 investigators with baptism date!!! We found ENRIQUE this week. He is the biggest miracle of my mission so far. Basically hes an alcoholic of many years. And one month ago he made the choice to stay clean. I found him in a members house a couple of weeks ago and invited him to come to church thinking he was already a member and he came 2 weeks in a row BUT TURNS OUT hes never been baptized and hes ready to change his life!!!!! The lord is always preparing blessings for us that we cant see. He is on date to be baptized the 13th of April if he doesnt drink until then!!!!!! I made him a promise that if he cuts off alcohol I would cut out sugar!! We are in this together! I am so thankful for the savior and his power to change lives and prepare them to accept the restored gospel. 

Con amor, 

Hermana Salisbury