Cars, Sickness and Random Pictures

Most of the district before transfers

Penguin porch statue

Scary dog

Interesting bumper sticker

Emily & her first trainers

Sombrero!

Today we went at like 9:30 in the transfer van with Elder Burton (the senior missionary that is over cars) and got five brand new Chevy Cruzes. The one we picked up and drove back to the mission office only had two miles on it when we go it. Unfortunately, we have to keep our old (not really that old but old for a mission car) Chevy Malibu that has like 60,000 miles on it. It has been having some problems lately, so that is irritating. It keeps telling us "ESC off, tires low, traction low," etc. We were a bit jealous of the new cars. 

PS I really miss driving. I haven't driven in over 4 months. My companion doesn't even really like driving. Oh well. I'll get over it. 

Nothing really exciting has happened this week. Actually, like nothing has happened this week. Mostly Hermana Chambers was sick so we were just at home except for when we had appointments. And I wasn't feeling great either, but I wasn't as bad as she was. But yeah. This week was boring. Also, most of our appointments cancelled. And none of our investigators came to church, because of the rain. I don't know what it is with Hispanics and rain, but church attendance goes down by like half when it's raining. It's weird. 

Oh, and we have lots of member dinners this week. They replaced some of the Hermanas in our district with Elders, and one of them is brand new, so they sent him and his companion into relief society with the food calendar and made him ask them to sign up. And Elders are always acting super pitiful and starving to get member dinners, but all the women fall for it. This new Elder, goes in and was like, "Hola... Tenemos... Hombre...?" Because he didn't know Spanish. What he meant to say was hambre, but what he said means "Hey, we have men." So yeah. It was pretty funny. He is a bit of an awkward person. But oh well. Maybe he'll get over it a bit when it isn't his first Sunday in the ward. But anyways, all the relief society women thought it was adorable so there were at least two people signed up for like every day for the next week or two, and a lot of them are in our area, so we have like three or four dinners this week and next. We're a bit worried because the people here are fairly poor, so a lot of times we really don't know what we're eating. But they are trying. Sometimes I'm pretty sure they just put the whole chicken in the pot after plucking it, and smother it with hot sauce and then put a bunch of rice on the plate. And I'm kind of joking, but at the same time I legitimately think that may have happened a couple times out here. But of course, sometimes it is actually awesome food. You just never know. But luckily I won't need to buy as much food this week.  I can't even tell you how many times I have eaten at places where I don't trust the cleanliness of the plates/food. Sometimes it is really scary. I rarely know what I'm eating. It's just... Great. 

But anyways. Yeah, this week has been uneventful. This next week we already have lots of appointments set up, so it's going to be pretty busy. Hopefully we're up to it. We're still not quite back to normal yet. Working on it.