November 11, 2014

Helaman 8:17 Abraham rejoiced to know about Christ. Can this be said of us?

This week introduced a new twist in my mission- there was an emergency transfer that ended up with us in a trio. That means that along with Elder Schiavoni, Elder Giles is my companion! He's from Allyn, Washington.

This happened on Wednesday night. So we went to Feitoria to get Elder Giles and before we came back home we decided to try out the Xis Búfalo. It was a Xis made for 5 people to eat- (Xis is like a super hamburger) filled with bacon, fried hearts, fries, everything! We decided it was worth it to commemorate our new trio. Later, that night, we rearranged our house to have "triliche" - triple bunk bed! Yay! It turned out to be really hard to get into the top bunk so nobody sleeps there, but it was pretty cool.

our triple bunk bed!

view from the top

We had a pretty weird week, working in three. One advantage was that we got to take this picture of E. Schiavoni and me in front of the G.H. Drink shop. We'd wanted to take a picture for a while because "GH" has a special meaning for us, but we'd never had anyone to take the picture. It's in kind of a sketchy area of the city so we didn't feel comfortable asking someone to take it for us. Elder Giles acted like a super-spy and hid the camera under his bag so that we could take the picture! Being in a trio is a lot different in every other aspect. The whole teach-testify cycle that missionaries love gets all messed up in three. And contacting people in the street is pretty weird because three missionaries grouped around one person is kind of intimidating. But we're figuring things out little by little. And next week is the transfer so they'll get it all sorted out.

GH drink shop

On Friday, we were invited to Luis's house. A while back, the other time that I was in this city, I found Luis and Ivete. He was the crazy guy who invited us to lunch. Anyway, he invited us to have dinner at his house again. It was cool to relive the same thing again. I didn't ever imagine that I'd end up at his house again. He friend hearts and sausage with onions and it was great! (This week I ended up eating a lot of heart!)

I found out that Elder Giles has a lot of things in common with me- at least our childhoods were similar. We both grew up playing "Math Blaster," "Reader Rabbit," "Putt-putt," and "Arthur's thinking Games" on the computer. I'd almost forgotten about those games. I'm not quite sure how we got to talking about that, but it turns out that we grew up learning from the same games! How funny! And what a coincidence!

Elder Jasperson