May 16,2011

Familia,

This week has had its ups and downs. The house we moved into was gross. Ants everywhere, and this week alone mice have gotten into our food 3 times. By now it´s much better...after a week of cleaning in every spare moment it´s probably one of the better houses in the mission, minus the mice...we had somebody fumigate for the ants and soon somebody´s going to come with poison for the mice. What we´re going to do about the salamanders, I don´t know. Ignore them, probably.

Freijoa and pineapple were 2 new jugos I had this week. The pineapple was super good, the freijoa almost really good except for the strange texture. Oh, and there are these things called mamónes, which are strange. I don´t know how to describe them, you´ll just have to look them up. The work is...going. Almost nobody came to church of our investigators, and we invited a lot. José Manjarrez and his not-yet-wife are awesome. They finally read, and they were both asking really deep questions even though they are just starting. Oh, and there´s a story about José and a Jehova´s Witness that I don´t have time to get into now. They are working on getting married and now that they are finally reading the Book of Mormon I think they´ll progress quickly. They´re both awesome people and it´s been great to have the opportunity to teach them.

Other stuff...my spanish is improving a lot, I´m starting to understand people a lot more. I feel comfortable as a missionary now, more or less. I still have lots to learn, but that never changes.

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The house before cleaning. gag...I can´t believe the people before us left us their dishes to wash! There was a pot full of bloated spaghetti, among other things...gah! And then the fridge...
Ben