This week wasn't a blast, Williams and I were sick all week, but it was good to get a chance to study so much. There's not much that happened so I decided to spare you guys from the weird commentary and just share the highlights:
11/25
Today we went to the house of the Matos's for lunch, I knew it was going to be amazing because Presidente said that he was going to make Alligator to give me strength. It did give me strength, but I guess it wasn't quite up to his standards because he also offered to take some of the blood out of my arm and inject it into my posterior. Presidente Matos and his wife work in a hospital, but I was still feeling a little like that wouldn't be necessary, I know, I'm a little odd. Presidente Matos insisted on an injection so finally I consented to a power shot consisting of different vitamins, about 200 ml worth, which is a lot to have, you know, injected into you. Everything was going fine until about the last 20 ml worth, I started having a lot of pain, and then I got super nauseous, Williams says I started turning super white, even my lips were going white; I'm already very white, I don't know what "super white" is, but I'm guessing that's not good. Williams thought that he was going to be getting a new companion, since I was obviously about to die. Fortunately I regained my color and didn't die, and Irma Matos was so happy, she gave me an early Christmas present: A little grater I can take with me from transfer to transfer, I can't believe how thoughtful they are! That family's so sweet, but I think next time I'm going to refrain from any medical assistance.
11/28
Today was a blast! We had enough commitments today that we said that it would be valuable to do work today, even though Williams and I weren't feeling awesome.We saw almost all of our investigators because they spontaneously came to our night of integration which made everything so much nicer, not having to hunt down everyone when the sun is blazing almost as strongly as your headache makes things much simpler. We tried to play football with everyone tonight which only had two problems:
1. We're sick
2. We're American
While we were waiting for the game to start, one of the youths there treated us to hear about his entire love life. He's 15. I sincerely hope I was never 15. We taught a lesson to Mara today, it was amazing because her testimony has really grown and even told everyone there tonight (addressing her daughter) that we should never be afraid or ashamed to pray, because God is our loving Heavenly Father and he wants to hear from us, and we need him. It was great to hear that her testimony has progressed so much. Then the real fun began. I once saw a picture of one of my grandmas eating out of a giant watermelon with just a spoon. That's the size of the watermelon that Mara brought out for us and her daughter, Julianna, told her friends, "that's Elder Anderson, he eats a lot" and then I ate half that watermelon, so I guess I do eat a lot. I suppose that's one way to hydrate.
Other fun notes of what happened this week: We had birthdays this week, both were in the family that lives under us which made it easy to celebrate since our commute took about 4 seconds. That whole family really likes me, which isn't fair because I've barely said anything, to them, but it's nice of them to be so welcoming. I have a shirt for one of the local teams and when a guy at one of the parties saw it, he was like, "darn right, even the Americans know what's up" (I guess he's a small fan of that team). A boy got a phone for his birthday which is only priced slightly above some cars, and yes, people do trade cars for phones, so that's quite the birthday present. Then I got elected to help him move over all his games onto his new phone because I'm a "Roblox professor". Williams and I also talked to some people for like, 4 hours straight, so that's how my Portuguese is going. Just kidding, Williams did all the heavy lifting, but I can understand what's going on, so that's cool.
Thanks for the love and support!
Elder Anderson
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