Hola familia!
This week has been pretty good. Its getting pretty cold though, which I don't like. It's been about 19-21 degrees during the day. It makes knocking even less desirable and I think it also makes it harder for me to speak Spanish. haha. I've had a little cold this week too, but It hasn't really been bothering me much during the day, only in the morning. On friday of this week I went on exchanges with another greenie so our trainers could go to some leadership training meeting. So I worked in Bloomingdale (English) with Sister Parker. Our first appointment was with a new member named Jack and we were going to teach him at the church, he didn't end up making it, but I started talking with the sister from the ward there who came with us for the appointment. She was asking where I was from and she said she had a son serving in that mission. At that point I remembered that she said her name was sister Davidson and was like "Oh I think I know him!". Yup. The same Elder Davidson who served in the ward back home all summer. It was really funny, and random. The one day I work in the English program I meet his Mom. haha. I also walked over and saw his missionary plaque on the wall. So that was cool. The rest of the day wasn't overly exciting. I'm discovering that white people are generally less friendly when you're knocking....
I have discovered my new favorite holiday drink. It's called "ponche" and I'm still not sure exactly what it is but it tastes like Christmas. It's kind of like apple cider, only red and made by boiling various fruits and spices together. I've had it twice and the first time though I was a little bit uncertain because it had mysterious chunks floating in it and the lady gave us a plate and told us it was for the parts that weren't edible. So I spent the rest of the time trying to figure out exactly what was edible and what wasn't because I didn't recognize anything that was in it. One of them was sugar cane I'm pretty sure. It tasted really good though.
The branch president and his wife (Pres. and Sis. Urrutia) are from Guatemala and when I told Sister Urrutia that my brother was serving in Guatemala she got really excited and said she had "connections" haha. So we'll see what happens there. Today I think we're going to go bowling with our district so that'll be fun. Oh Happy Birthday Mom coming up this week! And thanks Grandma for the Christmas package I got it yesterday! Sorry I'm running out of time but I did upload some pictures!
love,
Hermana West
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