Hola Everyone!!
This
week has been crazy, just like all of the other weeks have been on my
mission. I feel like maybe I need to find another adjective to describe
what being on the mission feels like...haha suggestions would be
welcome!
Anyway.
What's interesting
to me about this week is that now that I'm pretty far away from the
ocean (way farther than in any of my other areas) I keep getting fed
seafood. Yeah. And, I don't particularly like it, but I can eat it. I
have some kind of fried fish and baked Tilapia in a red tomato-y sauce.
Both of which were fine, but not my favorite. However, nothing will cap
the great adventure that I had eating...
LENGUA. Yup. for those of you who don't speak Spanish, that's TONGUE. COW. TONGUE.
Now,
I think it would not have been that bad if it had been shredded or
something in an indistinguishable way and mixed with vegetables and
stuff - but no. I saw her take it out of the pot and it literally looked
like someone had just yanked it right out of the cow's mouth. Not to
mention it was HUGE. I was rather shocked by it (honestly
I wasn't expecting to see it all it's tongue-y glory) and so I kind of
freaked out. Which gave the member, and my companion, good excuse to
mock me for the rest of the night. And then it was just cut into giant
chunks and put into tacos. Oh my. I ate one and a half and that's about
all I could do. It didn't taste that bad really but I just honestly
couldn't get over the texture and the fact that it still looked like
pieces of grey tongue in my tacos. Oh man. What an adventure indeed. So
that was rather traumatizing.
Another interesting event, we
have quite a few stray cats around our apartment and one of them had
kittens last week! they are adorable! and they are living at the back of
the complex near the laundry room...I took some pictures :)
Other than those things, life in the mission
has been going well. We are still having trouble contacting many of the
referrals that we have received in the past little while so this week we
are going to make them priority in any of the open time slots that we
have. Boy are we grateful for these names/people we have been entrusted
with and we don't want to let those who referred us down!
I'm still finding it a little difficult to
transition to this new area. Things are just very different and it's
been an adjustment. However, I'm coming to honestly love those who we
teach. The members that I've met so far have been such a
blessing to help us. With time, I know that this area
will feel like home to me, just like the other areas that I've been in.
Sister Deskins and I are doing well :) It took some
time for us to adjust to teaching together again. Even tho we went through the MTC together we have both changed and have very
different teaching styles. But it's
good now! She has such a sincere testimony and the ability to truly
discern the needs of those around her. I'm learning so much from her!
Well, sorry it's so short but that's all for now!
Love,
Sister Hensley
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