So this week was full of ups and downs. The good parts were that we found a lot of new people to teach and saw some really good progress in our investigators. The bad parts were that our we had to spend two nights sleeping on the floor in other houses, with soaking wet clothes, but I'll get to that.
It's definitely getting rainy out here. Almost every day we've had to pull out our umbrellas to defend ourselves from the rainstorms passing by. But at least it's been a little bit cooler haha. Also everyone is getting ready for the holidays. But not Thanksgiving, just Black Friday. Apparently it's huge here and almost every store is getting ready for this week. It kinda bums me out that there won't be much for Thanksgiving this year, but I'm thinking we'll just go buy some chicken or something and have a little Thanksgiving dinner.
But anyway, onto the week.
On Wednesday, we played soccer with some members and recent converts and made the mistake of letting all their friends come and play too. We ended up with way too many people and some of the members didn't even get a chance to play with so many people. So after about an hour, we stopped playing and had just members play. That made some of the other kids mad and they all went and sat by the side of the court. After about 20 minutes they all left and we finished playing about 10 minutes after. While we were closing up the church, we look for the keys to the house and they're nowhere to be found and some of the members had seen the kids that left early messing around where we left the keys. And the owner didn't have any extra keys so we had to spend the night with the other Elders, with clothes Elder Sandoval and Elder Cuevas let us borrow. The next day we looked for some kinda of way to get into the house so we could take off the old lock and go buy a new one. In the bathroom, there's a tiny window and with some help from the neighbor's tools we managed to take off the screen and the glass. And being the skinniest, they propped me up and slid me in feet first, and from there we just went and bought a new lock, installed it and it's good as new. All in all, it taught me that there's always a solution, and that solution usually turns into a good story.
Friday, we went to Limon to do a baptismal interview and go see Elder Gubler, who's been really sick this week. We had the idea that the last bus left at 8, but after wasting almost all the extra money we had in a taxi, we found out the last bus had left at 7. So soaking wet, we walked half an hour back to the other Elders' apartment and stayed the night there. The next morning, we took the bus at 5 in the morning, got to Siquirres at 6:30 and started the day like normal haha good times. But it was all worth it because we got the interview done and in the last lesson we had with them that night, we met one of the funniest members I've ever been around. Had me laughing until it hurt - It's the little blessings that count.
Also this week we had a member download Meet to Mormons and we watched it with Yoser and his family. It was great up until we got to the missionary part and according to Elder Ramirez, I looked like I was crying, so everyone made fun of me after that.
Anyway, a pretty weird week, but it was all good in the end. I hope you guys all have a super great week and enjoy Thanksgiving! Love you all!
Elder Hansen
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