I have had so many different experiences here in the mission. It`s crazy to think that I`m already one third of the way through. I just have one year left in the mission. A year is a long time, but the time has been flying by.
There's a story behind the picture of the soup...I`ll share that in a bit.
I don't know if I explained before, but there are two other missionaries that are in our ward here in Puerto Pilon. Hermana Wilson and Hermana Chavez are the other two sisters. The day that we went to the temple Hermana Wilson took a spill and was stumbling a bit afterwards. Well this week she fell again and now she has a cast. She has to have the cast for three weeks. Because of this she isn't supposed to leave the house. That makes it kind of hard to work. For now she`ll be able to stay. My companion and I are praying for her.
Okay, so now the story of the soup...
On Fridays we have dinner with the other two hermanas in the house of one of the members....but since Hermana Wilson can`t leave the house as much as before we decided that we would bring them their dinner. So we went to the house of the member and she was willing to give us the food in containers so that we could take it to the other hermanas and the four of us could eat together in their house.
So we asked what she had made for us...she said it was ¨Sopa de pata con rabita¨ sorry I don`t know if that`s spelled right. Rabita is pig tail (which I`d already had before without knowing...Hermana Chavez told me wayyyy after the fact) and pato is duck so I was super excited because I hear that duck is really delicious. She asked if we eat pata, Hermana Chavez said, "No," and I said, "I don`t know I`ve never had it before but I hear that it's good." So the hermana gave me a sample...it was really...chewy and hard and realllly hard to eat...to be continued
Okay so we took the food to the other hermanas' house...when we got there two other hermanas were visiting Hermana Chavez and Hermana Wilson. Hermana Chavez told them what we brought to eat...all of the missionaries except for me and Hermana Wilson made faces and one of the missionaries made a gagging face...at this point I was starting to question what it was that I was eating. I served myself some soup without the meat and everything was good...Hermana Chavez served herself a plate of rice and chose not to eat the soup.
So as we were walking back to the bus stop I asked her about the soup. Eventually I came to understand that pata isn't the female version of duck...like I originally thought. Pata...as I now understand it to be...is cow foot.
Soooo I have had pig tail, cow foot, and cow intestines here in the mission...but I hear that people also eat cow tongue here and I bet I`ll get to try that at some point. Joy...haha....sometimes its best to not to ask what the meat is.
That's a huge blessing that Dad still has his job!! My companion and I have been praying and fasting for the jobs of our fathers.
I`m really happy to hear that Grandpa is doing better :) that is also a huge blessing. I've been praying for him too and all of your names are in the temple here in Panama.
I`m looking forward to getting the most recent letter from you guys. I`m glad that Sarah chose to write too. I really would like to hear from her.
It really is true that everyone has challenges. Something that I think is important to realize is that when people are really upset about something that we think is little we should take a second to realize that in their eyes its a big deal...especially with children. Children's worlds are smaller than ours and things that are a big deal to them seem small to us...but to them it's huge. I don`t know if I really said what I wanted to say there..haha hopefully the thought gets across.
I love you!!!! I look forward to Christmas when we`ll be able to Skype again.
I found my calling card!!! I don`t know if I told you that I lost it haha...and I also found my driver's license which I didn't realize I brought with me. A daughter of a family here is serving her mission in California. They told us that she had a car in one of her areas!! What an amazing blessing!! We take buses haha. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to serve a mission in the states. In a lot of ways it would be easier...but then its super awesome to be serving in Panama ;)
The next transfer is coming up. This is the last week. Transfers are on September 18th...we`ll see what happens...
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