It was an alright week, work-wise. It was pretty hard with the holidays, but we worked hard. We did a companion exchange/baptismal interview on Wednesday. I went to Hospital Ward with a ZL Elder Sessions (who was in Las Piedras with me) and did an interview there. The lady I interviewed had 10 kids! And now one of them is getting baptized in a couple of weeks too. In the interview, I felt like she really gets it. It was a good experience. I have an exchange planned with Sarandí del Yí tomorrow, one of the missionaries is having some problems so he'll be coming here with me. Then I'll have another interview in Hospital Friday. Lots of travel, for sure (5 hrs round trip from Sarandí del Yí). But we're looking forward to it. Elder Fajardo also needs to get out of the area... He's starting to get a little cabin crazy, so to speak.
We are getting pumped for Zone Conference on the 20th - we'll be starting it out with a temple session with the President and his wife. It should be awesome - it has been like 6 months since I've been to the temple. Something like that. And I should also be getting that other package. Huzzah!
As far as the work here, I have come to the conclusion that there is a lot of work to be done with the less active members. The bishop has asked us (the two couples) to work with 6 endowed members who aren't coming. 4 of them have children that are of age and not baptized. So there is work to do. There's another family reactivating (oddly, the brother of a family we've recently started to work with) whose son wants to get baptized. Point for Trinidad II. Also, the Torradefló family (Eugenia) just got back from a vacation to Florida (UY). Today the dad Nacho was in a white shirt and tie, and a nice trimmed up haircut. It definitely shows that he is progressing and working towards the temple. There is a ward trip to the temple on the 30th, and I talked to them about going - the mom to get her endowments and Eugenia to do baptisms. They said they'd talk about it as a family... so I guess we'll see what happens. I think there's something going on though - it's the temple. We'll talk to them about it tonight in the FHE.
So funny story... Last sunday we were out doing contacts and we find this great mother/daughter couple. They just sat on the curb and started to talk to us like we had been friends all our life, so we just sat there in the street and chatted with them. They don't drink (in excess) nor smoke, and they have a really Mormon attitude about family life. So after talking for a while, she offered us water, and when we said yes she offered us a soda. Again we said yes and she offered us a cider (which in Spanish refers to any sparkling drink - just most are alcoholic). That's where it got dicey. We politely refused, and she assured us that it didn't have alcohol. So we accepted, and she brought out the most incredible sparkling dark strawberry cider I have ever tasted. The bottle said "Sidra Leve," and thus we drank. I had two cups. That night, I had the wierdest dream I think I have ever had in my entire life, and woke up with a pretty intense headache. About midday it hit me that maybe the word "leve" required more investigation. (stop laughing, dad) Turns out, it means "slight". Hmmm... So we headed to the store and hunted down a bottle. Sure enough - 4.5 grams/liter alcohol content. That's basically nothing, but it was enough! It was really good sparkling cider though. :D
(rest cut for family)
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