Hola,
Well I am not exactly sure what happened last week with my letter. I wrote it and I thought that I had attached it. Oh well. I hope that this one makes it this week.
It sounds like everyone had a good time in Arizona without me. I am not nearly as jealous about the café rio, the guac, the salsa, and all the other tasty stuff that you all ate as I would be because I have finally found cilantro. One of the sisters in the branch went searching for me and now she has it growing in her garden. I will be chomping down on some tasty items in just a short while.
I have officially done all there is to do as a branch president. I have now done temple interviews. One of our sisters will be going through the temple to receive her endowment and I am pretty stoked for her. We are making empanadas so that those that want to go can go. If any of you would like to buy empanadas it will be 8 pesos or 2.30 dollars for a dozen and they will arrive in about 3 months all nice and moldy. We will see how it goes this week and that will decide the next three weeks.
Sunday we had a decent turn out at church for not having the combi to pick people up. The majority walked to church. I was happy to see my two assigned speakers come through the doors. One of the sisters made a promise with Heavenly Father that she would walk to church every week for some amount of time that she decided. I tried to have another sister drive her home but she refused to go home in a car.
Our Saturday lunch appointment gave us this fruit for dessert. I don´t remember what it is called but is really fun to eat. It has a texture like that of the kiwi. I was completely surprised to find a white inside when I cut into it. It was extremely juicy but lacked flavor. The cool thing about it was the skin because you can´t scrape into it with your spoon so it is safe eating from the time you cut it in half.
My toe had some sort of blister on it so I took care of it and took a picture. It may be a bunion forming but I don´t know because I just don´t know what a bunion is or isn´t? I also have no clue as to how you spell that word. I hope you enjoy the photo of my big toe.
I did divisions with Elder Stone the 7´2” giant. We went out in the morning because our power was out. While we were out there we took some pictures of the sky. We thought the day would be a nice one....we were wrong. It rained really hard around 3 pm in the afternoon. The rain was flying sideways because of how strong the wind was. I took a picture of a raindrop for all of you.
We had interviews yesterday and I can tell you all that I will still be in the mission. We are trying really hard right now to find a family to baptize in April. President del Castillo wants us to watch the Lamb of God with a family and then put a baptismal date right after watching it. So that is what our strategy is but we still need a family to try it out on.
I hope that everything continues to go well back home. I hope that our economy gets a little stronger so I can stop hearing about it from everyone down here. Man do they like to talk about the states and our problems and yet their problems never cross their minds. Congratulations to Kennedy for her baptism and to Danny for graduating. I love you all. Chau
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tossing Cookies and Avoiding Spiders
Querida familia,
Bueno, I am just going to go ahead and start this one out with the bad news. This last Sunday my comp started tossing his cookies and let’s just say that wasn’t all. We made a nice quick trip downtown to buy some products that Hna. Del Castillo told us to buy. Then we got home and my comp just chilled in his bed until he had to visit his bucket or the bathroom. By the time church rolled around, he had stopped with the constant need of a bucket but still was in need of a bathroom. We went to church he was just fine. As priesthood started I made my very first visit to the bathroom and as priesthood ended I made my third. So we moved on to Sunday School and I moved into the bathroom for a few more visits. The bad thing about having problems during church in Clorinda is that I am in charge of a lot with my greeny by my side. Luckily the teachers of the classes showed up to our very small church meeting, 12 people in total. My speakers for sacrament meeting didn’t show up and only one of them advised me in advance. I decided to prepare a quick musical number and lengthen out my already prepared talk. Right before sacrament meeting I wrapped my arms around my porcelain buddy and left my lunch there. This could not have been a better day. I conducted the meeting, played the piano, did a musical number, gave a talk, and finished with a nice closing prayer. *Large breathy exhale* After our fun time at church the adventure continued in the pench. Now I was the one taking the medicine that we had bought for my comp. I was the one layed out on my bed. I was the one moaning in agony. I was the one making excessive amounts of bathroom visits. I was the one finishing the unfinished gatorade. Now I have no recollection of the past week. Maybe it had something to do with the prescribed medicine. Haha. What a wonderful life we live!
Well now that that legacy is over. We have had a fairly decent week. We met a really nice family yesterday and we taught them about the plan of salvation. We took care of business as usual and found a massive spider web in our front yard yesterday with a size large spider on it. We took a minute or two to watch it snatch up a fly and then suck the blood. The spider wrapped the fly in its webbing. It was almost like watching Discovery channel but this time I was Bear Grylls from “Man Vs. Wild”. My comp is still in the stage of being amazed by everything he sees. It is really fun to be around him.
Our area will be getting a lot bigger when they open up a bunch of new viviendas. The government says that they are about to give the homes to the people. I know quite a few people that are waiting for one and have been waiting for quite some time. Maybe I will be able to see some people in these viviendas. Maybe I will be able to be the first one to clap ‘em up. I might just a have a whole lot of firsts in this new part. Yeah for firsts!
Tomorrow we have our zone conference and will be making the routine trip to the Formosa Capital. Elder Lyndsey will be going home tomorrow and taking the pills with him. I will make sure to send you the info or if I haven’t already - good. We have a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. We will see how it goes. I love you all and hope that all continues to go well.
Hasta Luego,
Elder Hunsaker
Bueno, I am just going to go ahead and start this one out with the bad news. This last Sunday my comp started tossing his cookies and let’s just say that wasn’t all. We made a nice quick trip downtown to buy some products that Hna. Del Castillo told us to buy. Then we got home and my comp just chilled in his bed until he had to visit his bucket or the bathroom. By the time church rolled around, he had stopped with the constant need of a bucket but still was in need of a bathroom. We went to church he was just fine. As priesthood started I made my very first visit to the bathroom and as priesthood ended I made my third. So we moved on to Sunday School and I moved into the bathroom for a few more visits. The bad thing about having problems during church in Clorinda is that I am in charge of a lot with my greeny by my side. Luckily the teachers of the classes showed up to our very small church meeting, 12 people in total. My speakers for sacrament meeting didn’t show up and only one of them advised me in advance. I decided to prepare a quick musical number and lengthen out my already prepared talk. Right before sacrament meeting I wrapped my arms around my porcelain buddy and left my lunch there. This could not have been a better day. I conducted the meeting, played the piano, did a musical number, gave a talk, and finished with a nice closing prayer. *Large breathy exhale* After our fun time at church the adventure continued in the pench. Now I was the one taking the medicine that we had bought for my comp. I was the one layed out on my bed. I was the one moaning in agony. I was the one making excessive amounts of bathroom visits. I was the one finishing the unfinished gatorade. Now I have no recollection of the past week. Maybe it had something to do with the prescribed medicine. Haha. What a wonderful life we live!
Well now that that legacy is over. We have had a fairly decent week. We met a really nice family yesterday and we taught them about the plan of salvation. We took care of business as usual and found a massive spider web in our front yard yesterday with a size large spider on it. We took a minute or two to watch it snatch up a fly and then suck the blood. The spider wrapped the fly in its webbing. It was almost like watching Discovery channel but this time I was Bear Grylls from “Man Vs. Wild”. My comp is still in the stage of being amazed by everything he sees. It is really fun to be around him.
Our area will be getting a lot bigger when they open up a bunch of new viviendas. The government says that they are about to give the homes to the people. I know quite a few people that are waiting for one and have been waiting for quite some time. Maybe I will be able to see some people in these viviendas. Maybe I will be able to be the first one to clap ‘em up. I might just a have a whole lot of firsts in this new part. Yeah for firsts!
Tomorrow we have our zone conference and will be making the routine trip to the Formosa Capital. Elder Lyndsey will be going home tomorrow and taking the pills with him. I will make sure to send you the info or if I haven’t already - good. We have a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. We will see how it goes. I love you all and hope that all continues to go well.
Hasta Luego,
Elder Hunsaker
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Maria and Antonio Britez Baptism
3- 4-09
Well it's been awhile,
So my companion performed his first baptism three days into the mission. I tried to get him to do the confirmation but he wussed out. Luckily I hadn't added his name to the baptismal record. The baptism turned out really well. We had a lot of people there with mostly just the family of Antonio Britez because they are almost all members. After the baptism, we were invited to the asado that they were going to have. So my Elder Pruess has his first baptism and asado in the same day, how lucky. He stuffed his face and then Elder Stone and I stuffed our faces with cake and steak. We took the pictures to make Elder Robertson jealous. Haha.
The night of transfers we were at the house of the Sister Quintana having an FHE. We were playing a really funny game. The goal of the game is to eat as much of the alfajor (cookie filled with dulce de leche) as possible. However, you have to roll 5 on the die and then put on a bunch of ridiculous clothing articles (Hat, gloves, tie, scarf, etc...). Elder Robertson ate quite a bit of the alfajor with the fork and the knife that you have to use. We had just finished when the zl's called with the transfers info.
While I was in the mission office I took a couple of pictures. I took one in front of the office. Before our dinner with president, the trainers were waiting in the back part of the mission home where they have the province maps. I decided to take some photos of myself and my first area. I thought I'd take some of all the provinces so that you can all understand things better. After I found my comp I took the traditional greenie trainer photo. It looks somewhat similar to the picture I took with Elder Patterson.
I have the branch council tonight because I couldn't have it last week with all of the changes. We will be talking about future elders and planning more meetings. I hope that everyone shows up. Sunday was a nice and calm day. We had a really nice testimony meeting and there were 34 people in church. We are still searching for a chapel in our area. The task is not an easy one. Our area just doesn't have large homes or anything like it. I know that things will get a whole lot better and easier if we can just get a chapel close by the members.
I love you all and hope for the best. Talk to you soon. My comp has a few photos of us cleaning the baptismal font. I tell about that story next week.
That's all folks!
Anciano Hunsaker
Well it's been awhile,
So my companion performed his first baptism three days into the mission. I tried to get him to do the confirmation but he wussed out. Luckily I hadn't added his name to the baptismal record. The baptism turned out really well. We had a lot of people there with mostly just the family of Antonio Britez because they are almost all members. After the baptism, we were invited to the asado that they were going to have. So my Elder Pruess has his first baptism and asado in the same day, how lucky. He stuffed his face and then Elder Stone and I stuffed our faces with cake and steak. We took the pictures to make Elder Robertson jealous. Haha.
The night of transfers we were at the house of the Sister Quintana having an FHE. We were playing a really funny game. The goal of the game is to eat as much of the alfajor (cookie filled with dulce de leche) as possible. However, you have to roll 5 on the die and then put on a bunch of ridiculous clothing articles (Hat, gloves, tie, scarf, etc...). Elder Robertson ate quite a bit of the alfajor with the fork and the knife that you have to use. We had just finished when the zl's called with the transfers info.
While I was in the mission office I took a couple of pictures. I took one in front of the office. Before our dinner with president, the trainers were waiting in the back part of the mission home where they have the province maps. I decided to take some photos of myself and my first area. I thought I'd take some of all the provinces so that you can all understand things better. After I found my comp I took the traditional greenie trainer photo. It looks somewhat similar to the picture I took with Elder Patterson.
I have the branch council tonight because I couldn't have it last week with all of the changes. We will be talking about future elders and planning more meetings. I hope that everyone shows up. Sunday was a nice and calm day. We had a really nice testimony meeting and there were 34 people in church. We are still searching for a chapel in our area. The task is not an easy one. Our area just doesn't have large homes or anything like it. I know that things will get a whole lot better and easier if we can just get a chapel close by the members.
I love you all and hope for the best. Talk to you soon. My comp has a few photos of us cleaning the baptismal font. I tell about that story next week.
That's all folks!
Anciano Hunsaker
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