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| Around town in Port Lavaca |
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| Around town in Port Lavaca |
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| Cool peacock at a member's house |
I don’t need anything for Christmas,
I have it all! Just put any money in my
account and I can use it for someone here, or just save it till after my
mission.
The best part about this week, we
went to a Jehovah’s Witness church! It’s
been my dream my whole mission to go to one.
But let me tell ya, they are way nicer than Mormons, especially the ones
here. (The branch here offended our only
two investigators that we brought to Thanksgiving dinner...) But everyone was super nice and all welcomed
us to sit with them and they showed us how the program worked and
everything. But pretty much, their
church is very much like ours: No one gets paid, the members give the talks and
lessons, same standards mostly, same ideas....
Except they are just a little off in some ways and those ways make a
huge difference, haha. But I did get a
free Bible! It’s super different, maybe
because they have changed the whole thing to the point that it can’t be called
a bible anymore.
Oh my, I am so fat. The day before
Thanksgiving, me and another Elder were on exchanges that day and we ate 3
whole pies... A small pumpkin pie for breakfast, (but with a tangerine so it
cancels it all out), then after lunch we ate an apple pie by ourselves, and
finally after we got home, we punished a Costco size pumpkin pie and an entire
bottle of whipped cream! I don’t know
where it all went because I still haven’t gained any weight on my mission. It’s
probably a tapeworm or something.
And then on Thanksgiving, we first
went and helped serve community lunches and then ate at the big Catholic Church
here. The food was super good too. But it was so fun to serve lunch to all the
people who can’t afford to have thanksgiving dinner.
Then later that night we had a big
dinner with the Escobedo family. There
were a lot of people there! But it was
super fun and they had everyone from grandpas and grandmas down to little kids
running all over. And then we tried to
visit people and we kept getting shut down for interrupting family time. I guess they don’t understand that we want to
teach them when they are all together... whatever.
And we met a new couple named Jose
and Ashley! Super cool! He works on a tug boat and has a lot of cool
stories, plus he is a chef and made us some super good burgers. She works at Wal-Mart so we have a new friend
there. And then they have two little
boys as well. And while we were there,
he taught me how to play the Cajon(?) It
is one of those box instruments you sit on and then it has a base drum and a
snare inside it. I don’t know if you
remember Katherine McPhee on American Idol singing Black Horse in the Cherry
Tree? Well that is the only time I have
seen people play it, but I definitely will get one some day! Sorry for the absurd reference, haha.
Elder lund
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