All,
This week was interesting with Christmas and drunks and all. Tuesday,
we did a massive Estandarte with Zona Poblado, Buenos Aires, Medellín, and
another zone. We went to a place called Pueblito Paisa and sang, contacted,
shared Èl es la Dàdive [He is the Gift], contacted, and then did some more contacting.
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Pueblito Paisa in Medellin (thanks Google Images)
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It was really
fun, and there were about 80 missionaries and also the President, his wife, and
some family. And this place wasn`t even that big so we really contacted
everyone I think. I know I started at the end contacting people who had already
been contacted. But, it was fun and we gathered a lot of contacts.
All of us in a chiva (Party Bus) we rented for the Estandarte
Singing in the park
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Their
daughter is native Colombiana, but also attends BYU and speaks completely
fluent English and her best friends are the gringo missionaries because we
speak English and she likes English more than Spanish. Also, she speaks a couple
of other languages. We all sang a bunch of gringo Christmas carols and hymns
and had a contest between the latinos and gringos who could sing the carols
better and we grande finale-ed with O Holy Night and Winter Wonderland and won
hardcore.
For Christmas, all the zones of Medellín--also Chocó (the black colony
in the Colombian selva [jungle] and they don`t send hermanas there and maybe not gringos
either)--met in Guayabal for a conference.
3 hours of talks with Pte and Hna Pitarch and two
random missionaries (E´ Bishop and Hna Correa). We then ate lunch and then
Jakas and a talent show and then a couple hours of trainings from the APs;
then dinner, a gift exchange, and then Hurtado and I slept over at the LZ [Zone Leader's] house
and then cleaned up after Chocó in the morning. They, for their Jaka used like
massive party poppers and there was like a million pounds of confetti all over
and we cleaned it all up. Freaking Chocó is like a real separate clique in the
mission and it`s real interesting. They`re different.
Hurtado and I with a pair of gafas I bought for the Jaka for $5000 (roughly $2.11 in US)
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| My second ever mirror selfie with our new shades for the Jaka |
Friday was great to talk
with the family through Skype! We did a 3-way to talk to Talon, me, and the
family actually living at home and it was great.
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| Family at home, with me in Columbia on the left screen, Talon in Peru on the right |
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"That's my cool brother", I'm pointing at Talon in Peru |
Saturday and Sunday were normal
days of work, but literally everyone was vacationing somewhere else and we
didn`t have a single cita [appointment]. But, we got 3 nuevos [new contacts] and we are happy about that and
these people aren`t even seeming to just want to fight about the Bible, but
listen and we`re excited. Hopefully I`ll have a good update on that next
week.
Yesterday we ate at the house of an RM that got back just like a week ago
and his mom said that the parties will continue only until like the 15th of
January and we were like great let`s just teach la Palabra de Sabiduría [Word of Wisdom] a whole
bunch because everyone will be drunk or gone or already members, but still
partying. Actually, we went by Hno Torres Saturday to ask him to accompany us
to a cita (which actually fell through) and they were having a party with their
building and la familia Franco and making something called I think Marcillas
-- they`re basically a bunch of chicken, oregano, probably other spices, and
blood stuffed in pig intestines and they were doing it all by hand and had like
the bucket of intestines and the huge pot of blood and meat. It was
interesting, though I don`t actually feel that interested in eating it because there
was a whole lot of blood in that pot.
L to R Hno Torres, Hurtado, Hno Franco, Hicken
the mix for morcillas
the bucket of pig intestines into which they stuff the blood and
rice and meat
Hno Torres mixing the insides of
morcillas, consists of oregano, rice, chicken, and a whole lot of blood
Mom, the mom of that RM sent you a message on facebook because I told her you make good pizza and she wants to make a pizza for a Noche de Hogar [Family Home Evening] we are having on Tuesday. Also I told Hno Franco that you want recipes of soups, but I didn`t tell Hna Franco because she was busy chopping up chicken for the Marcilla but hopefully her husband will say something to her. This week was real interesting and real tiring.
Still eating well in our own kitchen -- Hurtado and I frying chicken and cooking dinner. Tasted great and it
was a little intense.
--
Always Great,
Élder Hicken
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