This has been quite the week for sure. It has been like those chocolate chips I mentioned last week--bittersweet. Well, not really. It's been a good week. Trindade is trinity in English, and there are statues all over this little town of Mary, Jesus, God, and other people that are important to (I am assuming) the Catholic church. We walked around a lot today and took pictures with them. In a few of the statues there were places to put little white candles. I was really wondering why we have those little white candles in our house. We ended up walking to this big church that has a gold roof. It has intrigued me the whole week because I didn't know what it was, so we went exploring around our little town and found out it is a huge church. We then bought some churros, and they are a little different here. I got mine with doce de leite hehe. We also bought some ham pie things? The word pie really has a sweet flavor in my mind, but here they make everything sweet and also savory. It's a nice option to have. Today was a good day. Lots of walking and exploring, but now I feel a little more comfortable and acquainted with our fun little town.
Because we whitewashed the area, we had some fun with the lunch calendar. We texted the sister who had lunch for the next day, and she said she had already given us food or money. We then informed her that we are not the sisters and we are new elders. No dice. It turned out all good, though. After 5 days, the confusion is at a minimum now, and all is basically well. If everything was perfect, I would be concerned. The world would not be in balance, and maybe I somehow missed the Second Coming. But all is well because it's not perfect, and that's how I like it. A perfect church with imperfect people. We all love Jesus, and at the end of the day that's what's important (among other things).
At the end of a mission, missionaries will do a thing called My Plan. It's basically making goals and then making goals for how to reach those goals. It really makes you think. My homework given me on My Plan was to study my Patriarchal Blessing with some ideas they gave me. It was great. Then they said, your Patriarchal blessing is your whole life, where you can go and what you can be, where and what do you want to be just one year from now? It got me thinking hard. I have a concept for my whole life--an extremely vague general idea. But I had never thought about the first year after my mission. I guess I've always thought about what I'll be like when I die and who I will be then, but, how will I get there? Great question.
This is a confusing 2 weeks in one, but this last week was a good one too. A little better than the first week here because now I feel like a professional in my area (not really), but I feel better in my area now. We are getting acquainted with the pizza places that are good and also the burger places that are good. We have learned by sad experience where not to go to get pizza. We were sorely disappointed after we bought 3 pizzas... that one was painful. But no need to fear because we made up for it by buying a really good pizza.
We got haircuts today, and it was fun. I have reached the point where I am a little excited to meet new people because I'm not really great at talking about a lot of stuff, but they then ask where I'm from because of my accent, and then we start talking about that for a while. Sometimes haircuts are really awkward because you've got nothing to say and you're just sittin' there staring at a random person cut your hair. Weird concept sometimes. But we were talking the whole time. It was great. Then I bought some sunglasses just cus. They are absolutely useless for me because I wear glasses and can't see anything without them, but no matter because I will find opportunities to wear them. Not while I am driving of course. Maybe while I'm in a car with a crazy driver. You never know.
I know I have already talked about this before, but the concept of small and simple things bringing to pass great things is so great. It works for good things and for bad things. If you do a lot of little dumb things, eventually those little dumb things will become big dumb things (if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes). If you do a lot of little good things, eventually those little good things will be big good things. I would recommend doing good things because of a scripture in Doctrine and Covenants section 1, verse 3, "The rebellious shall be pierced with much sorrow; for their iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed." That's pretty scary :O I am just fine not having my iniquities spoken upon the housetops. I don't particularly want to hear your iniquities spoken upon the housetops either. :) "Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven." In the doctrine of Elder Locey, he thinks that those who have been forgiven won't have their sins preached to everyone. This scripture is talking about the rebellious, and the rebellious are not the righteous. So, long story short, there is peace in not being rebellious, and repentance is actually great--its change. Let's change. Anywho, that's all for today.
Have a good week! Utah doesn't have any water, but you can use lotion so your skin can have water. We don't like painful dry skin. Good luck.
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