Another busy day! The Lee's (returned mission president from Santiago who is temporarily living in our building because he owns an apartment here) invited us over for Family Home Evening. We had other plans with the senior missionaries so couldn't go but decided to make cookies and take them some before we left for classes at 3:30. Baking in our oven is always an adventure because the bottom burns, the outsides edges overcook and the inside doesn't cook. Other than that, it's a great little oven. You can't put a cookie sheet in it because it won't fit. But the cookies turned out fairly good even if grandmaed on the bottom. Karolina and Alexis from the Area Presidency Office are so great to help us out. They have spent hours on our phones trying to get them working and the phone company to fix the line - which is not exactly area work but we certainly appreciate them. We took them some cookies on the way to Spanish class. They must have hired those two because they have the biggest smiles I have ever seen. It's just a joy to walk in that office and see their faces light up and those big smiles appear!
Just before we left for class we heard prolonged shouting outside. In the parking lot we walked over to the fence like cement thing to see a bunch of men waving their arms and shouting back and forth so you have to wonder if someone was murdered in the little store there. But the guard told us that they were just excited because a Dominican had won a race and taken the gold. That was good news!
In Elder Hammon's Spanish class today he was teaching us direct and indirect objects in Spanish. I do know what they are in English but in Spanish I'm lost. Guess it will take some more intense studying! Scott taught his Spanish class and we went upstairs in the Casa to be investigators for
the missionaries. I took my camera but forgot to put the memory stick back in it. There were three missionaries today. One is 330 lbs and the other is 120 lbs. Today there was a missionary from Trinidad who is going to Jamaica and he was 6'6"and all of 150 lbs. Their Spanish is getting much better. In Trinidad and Jamaica they speak English so he doesn't have to learn Spanish. It would be difficult to find three more different looking missionaries! They are great guys though...
Then we had FHE at the Leavitts but when we knocked and knocked on their door no one answered. Finally Elder Button came out from a couple rooms away and told us that they had moved down the hall into McDermid's apartment last week when the McDemids left. The Eickbushes, the Fords, the Bairs, the Hammons, the Levitts were all there. They had a fun game of building a house and rolling dice which I will have to bring home.
I want to include two pictures. One is what I think is the most striking difference between here and other cities I know - the horse drawn cart next to a nice new car is a common sight.
The other is of a woman selling things in the street. You will see women quite often carrying things on their heads but not many men do.
Just before we left for class we heard prolonged shouting outside. In the parking lot we walked over to the fence like cement thing to see a bunch of men waving their arms and shouting back and forth so you have to wonder if someone was murdered in the little store there. But the guard told us that they were just excited because a Dominican had won a race and taken the gold. That was good news!
In Elder Hammon's Spanish class today he was teaching us direct and indirect objects in Spanish. I do know what they are in English but in Spanish I'm lost. Guess it will take some more intense studying! Scott taught his Spanish class and we went upstairs in the Casa to be investigators for
the missionaries. I took my camera but forgot to put the memory stick back in it. There were three missionaries today. One is 330 lbs and the other is 120 lbs. Today there was a missionary from Trinidad who is going to Jamaica and he was 6'6"and all of 150 lbs. Their Spanish is getting much better. In Trinidad and Jamaica they speak English so he doesn't have to learn Spanish. It would be difficult to find three more different looking missionaries! They are great guys though...
Then we had FHE at the Leavitts but when we knocked and knocked on their door no one answered. Finally Elder Button came out from a couple rooms away and told us that they had moved down the hall into McDermid's apartment last week when the McDemids left. The Eickbushes, the Fords, the Bairs, the Hammons, the Levitts were all there. They had a fun game of building a house and rolling dice which I will have to bring home.
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