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| Preaching in the rain |
Well, in 3 days, I will have been on the mission for an entire year now. It's been weird to think about, because one of the members out here is leaving for her mission to California in 2 days. It's been making me think about when I was getting ready to leave for my mission. The amount of stuff I have learned since then is absolutely crazy. And that's not even including the Spanish. Matter of fact the more time I've been out on my mission, the more and more I realize that I knew like nothing about the gospel before my mission. It's funny how you can go to church for 18 years of your life and not seem to know like anything that's taught. I even read over my farewell talk the other day. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was. I guess, I did know some things before my mission. The point, however, is that I've learned so much, and I'm only halfway done with my mission.
As far as this week went, it honestly went by so fast. We had some super cool experiences though.
We got to set two baptismal dates with dope dudes. We call them dope dudes cause they're.. well dope. They're two guys our age that grew up in the states so they know better English than they do Spanish. They're out here in Puerto Rico for school or something. They have like all the same interests as us and have been telling us about all the cool spots out here in Mayagüez. Lessons are pretty awesome with them cause we get out of the normal routine. They both are super interested as well.
We also got to watch our investigator from Peru defend his thesis for his masters degree in mechanical engineering. We felt a little out of place. One of the professors was super late so we ended up having to chill in the room talking with all of the other professors in there for like an hour before it started. There was actually a professor that was there from Italy. He knew like way less Spanish than we did though, so I was a little confused as to how he was ever able to teach anybody. Our investigator's presentation was awesome though. Although I was confused like the entire time (He started talking about bridges and then showed us like a thousand super complicated equations), it was a super cool experience. Now that he's done with that, we should actually be able to meet with him on a regular basis.
Overall super sick week. The only thing we didn't get to do was hike a super sick waterfall like last week.
As far as this week went, it honestly went by so fast. We had some super cool experiences though.
We got to set two baptismal dates with dope dudes. We call them dope dudes cause they're.. well dope. They're two guys our age that grew up in the states so they know better English than they do Spanish. They're out here in Puerto Rico for school or something. They have like all the same interests as us and have been telling us about all the cool spots out here in Mayagüez. Lessons are pretty awesome with them cause we get out of the normal routine. They both are super interested as well.
We also got to watch our investigator from Peru defend his thesis for his masters degree in mechanical engineering. We felt a little out of place. One of the professors was super late so we ended up having to chill in the room talking with all of the other professors in there for like an hour before it started. There was actually a professor that was there from Italy. He knew like way less Spanish than we did though, so I was a little confused as to how he was ever able to teach anybody. Our investigator's presentation was awesome though. Although I was confused like the entire time (He started talking about bridges and then showed us like a thousand super complicated equations), it was a super cool experience. Now that he's done with that, we should actually be able to meet with him on a regular basis.
Overall super sick week. The only thing we didn't get to do was hike a super sick waterfall like last week.