So we had a rough night on Wednesday and a member saw us. He walked up and said "Hermanas can I tell you guys something?" and we said yes. Then he said "you BOTH have mustaches" hahahahaha I literally was so confused as to WHY he had to say that hahaha I laughed so hard cause no one would EVER say that to ANYONE!!! #BEAUTYGUAT
So we received a referral from a member of the church and his name is mundo. He lives in a wooden house with his roommate chimmychurri (thats his nickname) and they told us they SHARE THE SAME BED!!!! hahahaha And that they only have 1 sheet to share!!! They both are 70 years old and single so they just ended up being roommates. Chimmychurri told the member (that gave us the reference) that he has a CRUSH ON ME haahaha straight elementary school right now lol
It has been raining SO much. We got into a tuk tuk being super careful to not get wet. As we were in the tuktuk (its basically a golf cart) a huge truck drove in the lane next to us and hit a HUGE puddle that made the HUGEST wave and got us SOAKED!!! I bet he felt so cool getting us soaked!
A really nice lady gave us hot chocolate (even though its like 100 degrees) and then she told us to put some sugar in to stir. As I looked at the sugar tin it was FULL of ants!!!!!! I just put a REALLY small spoon full trying to avoid the ANTS but then she was like "DONT BE SHY HERMANA TAKE MORE SUGAR!!!" then she dumped in a BUNCH ahhaha So I got some good protein that night from a family of ants !!!
We always offer to pass by the houses of our investigators Sunday mornings to walk them to church. One of our investigators said he would meet us at a half way point cause he lives basically in the jungle. So we got to the meeting point and he wasn't there!! We waited like 10ish minutes and then decided that we needed to pass by his house. Church starts at 10 am and when we started to hike to his house it was 10:05 am hahaha SO we started RUNNING on the little dirt road that is super rocky! (in dresses with backpacks full of books) We found his house and we knocked the door and screamed for him but he didnt come out!!!! So we ran up this SUPER STEEP AND ROCKY path back to the meeting point and found him standing there!!! hahahha he said he got lost in the "big city" then we RAN to church!!! We got there late but hermano mundo went to church!!! WOOO
I have said this before but all the streets turn into rivers here when it rains because there isn't a good draining system. I have like three open cuts on my foot right now and I have had to walk in the NASTY rivers!!! I say nasty because there is dog poop and used diapers and dead rats because the people throw all there trash into the rivers. The cuts are probably SOOO infected hahaah everytime that I get home I pour cleaning alcohol in my cut to disinfect ahahha you gotta do what ya gotta do !! #GUATHEALTH
Its also sketch walking in the rivers on the dirt roads cause sometimes it gets deep and drops off but you dont know when its coming. We were walking to an appointment in the POURING rain and I took the next step and my leg DROPPED in the deepest hole and I fell so hard hahah It was so SKETCH!!! My comp was so confused and I was too honestly but now I am careful about where I step in the river (street) ahhaa
We have had some pretty intense lessons lately. We were talking with a 7th day advenist and I explained why the sabbath day change to Sunday with verses from the bible and he got super upset and he started his "come back" and the whole time he was trying to think of a comeback he had HIS MIDDLE FINGER UP!!!! AHAHHA I dont know if it was intentional towards us or what but I was DYING cause it was so awkward!!! He was flipping us off the WHOLE rest of the lesson!! That was his way to express his RAGE hahahaa #GUATRAGE
But this week has been a good one! I have really learned the importance of controlling the natural man. It is such a mind game. If we can truly learn the concept mind over matter we can become the people that God wants us to be. Controlling the natural man is learning to dominate our weaknesses and temptations. The lord doesnt expect perfection in this life but he wants to see EFFORT. He wants to see that we are pushing ourselves. May we all make the effort to be more holy, more forgiving, more giving, less judgy. May Christ be our strength.
Con Amor,
Hermana Salisbury
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