Flour and a Pepper

Aight, buckle up tight, yall are in for quite the ride!

This week was craaaaaazy. 

The End.

Just kidding.

Alright, so this week started quite sad, honestly. One of my companions wanted to go home for personal reasons, so we went to the temple so he could recieve some inspiration from heaven. He sadly decided to go home. On Wednesday, we got his travel plans and we helped him pack. We then sent him on his way.

Then there were two.

At this point, both me and my otro (other) companion were quite depressed. To top that all off, we had these meetings with a member of the 70 named Elder Alonso (these were FUEGO, by the way). These were 4 meetings in total where we would sign in online for 3 of them and in person for one. Our in person was on Friday, and the Elder that had just left was supposed to conduct, so that fell onto my otro companion. He did pretty great, but I could tell he was a bit out of his comfort zone.

After that, there was a lunch that I was super excited for, because I had yet to eat any food all day. That was when the APs dropped the ball that I needed to participate in another meeting, since my comp had to...

AYE CARAMBA!!!! NO BUENO!! YO NECESITO COMIIIIIIIIIDAAAAAA!

No cap that was my reaction. In my head, of course. ;D

In said meeting, Elder Alonso commented that it looked like I had been on my mission for 22 months lol. When in reality it was like, 3 weeks!

Also, because the other ZL left (Zone Leader), I was technically acting zone leader for a couple of days. I didn't really do anything different because my comp did everything, but still....

Then came Saturday. On Saturday, we did an exchange, so that I went with a Spanish Elder into a Spanish area, and my comp went with the other Spanish elder and stayed in our area.

Saturday started with a service project! I got to pull weeds for a friend (which was strangely fun. What is happening to me?!?) What is rather sad is that there was a Solar eclipse during the time of the service project, which I completely forgot about until after... I missed it because I was serving. Best way to miss one, I guess!

After that, I got to practice my Spanish with a Columbian woman and the Hermanas. That was a lot of fun, because I got to hear the others get critiqued over their Spanish, but I was immune because I was new lol.

After that, we went and visited an older woman and got to speak with her. We even gave her a blessing, and I got to do my first anointing with oil!

And Saturday ended with a member dinner with the Hermanas. This dinner was pretty awesome. It started with a game where we spun a wheel where we had to do what the spinner landed on. Both of the Hermanas got floured, and my comp got whip creamed in the face. I also got floured, which was quite a blast.

During the meal, me and the new Hermana, Hermana Peterson, had the opportunity to try a Sobrano pepper. She dealt with hers better than mine. Although, to be fair, hers was smaller than mine, but whatever. 

Hot pepper. Oh my.

Then, finally, after my call with my parents today, I got to go skating at an arena. I "learned" how to roller skate. By wiping out 4 times. Very painful.

What was cool was that the employee manning the ring asked if I was OK, then asked about the tag on my shirt. So, missionary moment!

It's almost like God knew that I would fall...

I find it really cool that I was placed there though, not gonna lie. The fact that Missionaries are noticed, no matter what we are doing, is such a cool thought for me and also a heavy weight that we get to carry.

In any case, we are getting a new comp in like, 15 minutes so this is all for now!

Enjoy your week!

 - Elder Bahnmiller