I love my new area!!! The branch is way bigger than my old one in Los Reales so church is a totally different experience. Its a lot more like the spanish Branch back home. Our Area is also more than two times bigger, so it takes a lot longer to get from place to place, but good things are coming for this area. We are teaching quite a few Less Actives right now and have had a lot of good experiences. We live really close to the University of Arizona campus, so there are always a lot of people walking around
So we had been trying to get a hold of this one part member/ less active family (the husband is a member but his wife and kids are not). We can only visit them later at night and the past couple times we had tried, there was a gate around their house that was always locked and we could never even get to the door to knock. One night we just decided to go check, so we drove to the house. The gate was locked but the front door was open. So we said a quick prayer in the car and as we got out and walked to the gate, the wife walked to the front door and saw us! She came and opened the gate and we were able to talk with her for a little bit. Her husband wasnt there, but we got a return visit for tonight. She had told us that the kids had been missing the missionaries so they would be excited to see us! We are super stoked to go back and talk more with them. Such a blessing that she just happened to walk to the front door the same time we were walking up. One of our goals for this transfer is to find a family to teach, so this could be the one(:
So in Los Reales, it was a spanish area, but a lot of the people we taught spoke english. Here in Sanora, none of them do. One less active that we go visit does, but other than that, nada. So my spanish has definilty been put to the test and will totally grow while I am here. Im way stoked!
We are teaching a girl from Honduras, and her spanish is pretty different than the spanish here, so sometimes it is really hard to understand her. But it just makes us listen that much harder. She has a baptismal date set for the 8th of february so that will be really exciting! We are trying to teach the rest of the family so I will keep you updated on how that goes as well.
Lets talk food... or rather, things that people eat that shouldnt be eaten. Last night we went to see a less active and we talked about the weird food they eat here. We talked about menudo (i've told you my horror story about that), she also told us about this thing called "tripas con leche" which is where they take the intestines of a cow and boil them. There is this milky stuff inside the intestines that gets chewy when you boil it. So after they boil it, the grill it and put a bunch of lime and lemon on it, and wala, you got yourself some chewy cow intestines. Another thing they eat a lot of is Lengua (aka cow tounge). Hermana Hardy says she has had that and it isnt too bad, atleast the way she ate it wasnt bad. They cut it into slices and serve it with some green chile sauce and a bunch of veggies... man alive you would think I am in a foreign country! haha Thank goodness I have been able to start eating meat more. Fish is still... nasty haha.
I've been reading in Alma and am actually almost done. The war chapters are incredbile! I get totally dragged in whenever I read. It is so amazing how the Lamanites can never seem to figure out why the Nephites always beat them. Over and over it compares how the Lamanites have desires for power and bondage of the Nephites while the Nephites have desires to keep their families free and have the power to worship how they want. Just goes to show how important it is to remember Heavenly Father in all things. I love love love reading the Book of Mormon!
Well, sorry not much has gone on this week. It was just a lot of getting used to the new area and meeting everyone! Cant wait for this next week! Love you all so much! I hope all is going good!
Love,
Hermana Lundquist
So we had been trying to get a hold of this one part member/ less active family (the husband is a member but his wife and kids are not). We can only visit them later at night and the past couple times we had tried, there was a gate around their house that was always locked and we could never even get to the door to knock. One night we just decided to go check, so we drove to the house. The gate was locked but the front door was open. So we said a quick prayer in the car and as we got out and walked to the gate, the wife walked to the front door and saw us! She came and opened the gate and we were able to talk with her for a little bit. Her husband wasnt there, but we got a return visit for tonight. She had told us that the kids had been missing the missionaries so they would be excited to see us! We are super stoked to go back and talk more with them. Such a blessing that she just happened to walk to the front door the same time we were walking up. One of our goals for this transfer is to find a family to teach, so this could be the one(:
So in Los Reales, it was a spanish area, but a lot of the people we taught spoke english. Here in Sanora, none of them do. One less active that we go visit does, but other than that, nada. So my spanish has definilty been put to the test and will totally grow while I am here. Im way stoked!
We are teaching a girl from Honduras, and her spanish is pretty different than the spanish here, so sometimes it is really hard to understand her. But it just makes us listen that much harder. She has a baptismal date set for the 8th of february so that will be really exciting! We are trying to teach the rest of the family so I will keep you updated on how that goes as well.
Lets talk food... or rather, things that people eat that shouldnt be eaten. Last night we went to see a less active and we talked about the weird food they eat here. We talked about menudo (i've told you my horror story about that), she also told us about this thing called "tripas con leche" which is where they take the intestines of a cow and boil them. There is this milky stuff inside the intestines that gets chewy when you boil it. So after they boil it, the grill it and put a bunch of lime and lemon on it, and wala, you got yourself some chewy cow intestines. Another thing they eat a lot of is Lengua (aka cow tounge). Hermana Hardy says she has had that and it isnt too bad, atleast the way she ate it wasnt bad. They cut it into slices and serve it with some green chile sauce and a bunch of veggies... man alive you would think I am in a foreign country! haha Thank goodness I have been able to start eating meat more. Fish is still... nasty haha.
I've been reading in Alma and am actually almost done. The war chapters are incredbile! I get totally dragged in whenever I read. It is so amazing how the Lamanites can never seem to figure out why the Nephites always beat them. Over and over it compares how the Lamanites have desires for power and bondage of the Nephites while the Nephites have desires to keep their families free and have the power to worship how they want. Just goes to show how important it is to remember Heavenly Father in all things. I love love love reading the Book of Mormon!
Well, sorry not much has gone on this week. It was just a lot of getting used to the new area and meeting everyone! Cant wait for this next week! Love you all so much! I hope all is going good!
Love,
Hermana Lundquist