This week was pretty alright for us. Not a lot happened. We weren't able to find that many new investigators, but that's okay, we were able to work quite a bit with the people we were teaching last week. Lot of work to do :)
Also, this week was kind of weird because we had some other random things we had to go do. The stake held a blood drive this week, and they asked all the missionaries from the stake to come help. We all went and had to contact outside of the church and try and get people to donate blood. It was kind of interesting...a lot of people know we are missionaries so it was a quick "No" and walk away. So some people you had to tell them after they already denied "It's just a blood donation" and they sometimes turn around and go "Ah, cool" and take a flyer and go in, haha. I think the best part of the blood drive was when we ran in and grabbed a hymnbook and sang as loud as we could to contact. We would have 3 people sing and the other would hand out flyers. Haha, I don't know if it really worked but we had a lot of fun doing it.
Also...today we literally took a portal back to freaking Costco. It's a store here called Pricemart, and its just Costco's divorced wife or something. We have a member who let us borrow their card and so you KNOW we hit that up. We found all kinds of good stuff. It's kind of hard though because they are basically American prices, and they sell everything in bulk to it's a bit much for a missionary budget. We did what we could though :) It was super weird...we are just walking down the aisle dying at everything we see, and all the sudden we hear a bunch of people speaking English. What the heck?? So we look at them and go "hey, uh, are you gringos?" and they go, "Oh hey!! What ward are you guys from?" and we were like, "huh? Gringos...and members??" haha, it kind of freaked us out. That doesn't happen too much down here. They were super nice, and gave us some shopping tips. They (or their husbands) work in the US embassy so they all live down here. Super crazy run-in. They were super nice too, they invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner even. Sadly, it's outside of our mission, but they were super nice to invite us. They even bought us lunch after. Super cool experience, haha!
After our cool Costco experience we headed over to a mall called Hayuelos (where JUMBO is) and went bowling as a zone. It was cool and really a lot of fun. I'm still pretty awful at bowling but that's okay I still love it. And heck, Elder Hancock freaking killed it. Who woulda thought, haha.
And that's kind of the week! Not a ton happened, but just enough to keep it interesting :) Love you guys, keep on living large.
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From Jessica Wilcox (pictured): Saw your cute son at PriceSmart today and want to share! We invited him to thanksgiving, but we live in the Bogotà north mission so they didn’t think they could come! He seems to be doing well. They were so cute, we gave them some cash to buy lunch and they tried to give us the change back. It was fun to run into them. Keep my name somewhere in case you or he needs some help (we forgot to tell them our names). We American members down here get it and are happy to lend a hand! |
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