Monday, October 21, 2013


The leaves are just starting to change here; most of them haven't yet. I'll take some pictures and send them to you when they start to change more. There really are trees EVERYWHERE here. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a tree. Like almost literally you can't, unless you're standing in the middle of the road. Which would probably be a bad idea. Even though people here are WAY better drivers than in Utah. In some ways. Utah is just a place of terrible driving. The thing that people do here though is they won't let you change lanes. The instant you put your signal on, they speed up so you can't get in. You pretty much just have to start going over before they back off. It's super annoying. But aside from that they are usually better drivers than Utah. Unfortunately I won't be driving for a while. I miss driving. I'm not the designated driver in our companionship, because Hermana Chambers knows the area better because she's been here and extra transfer, and she's the senior companion. So unless I'm like training next transfer *knock on wood* then I won't be driving for a while. Oh well. Someday. At least Hermana Chambers isn't a crazy driver at all. If she was I may have had to ask President Wilson if I could drive.

Yeah, our member dinners were pretty good this week. One of them they gave us soup. Hispanic soup is not like real soup. It is just like quartered vegetables and chicken legs/meatballs/mystery meat in broth. It is weird. You can't just eat it with a spoon. You like eat the stuff out of it and then drink the broth. But it tastes good, usually. If you don't get too many bones.  Also, I tried Columbian food for the first time this week. The Hincapie's, the parents of the two boys that just left on their missions last month are Columbian and they are like the sweetest people ever. The Columbian food was super good, except these like fried banana things. Those were nasty. But the rest was great! And they are like the nicest people and all they want to do now that they have missionaries out is spoil the missionaries here. It is funny. They just want us to come over and stay for the whole day. He was like, "Come over sometime when you don't have appointments afterward and we'll watch a movie and have popcorn and my love will cook delicious Columbian food." It is funny. They're adorable. 

We have one lady and she was dropped 3-4 years ago for a weird reason that isn't really a good reason to drop someone, and she was never picked back up. But, we went over there and she still lives there and we had a really good restoration lesson and her son, who is probably in his 20's was there.  At first he was playing with his phone and not really paying attention.  She seemed just a bit skeptical but when we started talking about Joseph Smith, her son started looking super interested and when we asked if they would read the introduction and gave her a Book of Mormon he asked if he could have one too, in English so he could understand it better.  We have high hopes for him, and for her too.  Unfortunately someone else got home right before we were about to challenge them to be baptized, and they all got super distracted and both of us felt it wouldn't be right to invite them after that, but we're going back next Saturday and we're super excited!

But yeah. Not too much else is happening. Things are good.
Love you all! You are the greatest! Thanks for your support and love and whatnot!
The church is true!
Hermana Emily Ann Pratt


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