Knee Injury Curse

It has been another great week here in Ciudad Sandino! I don´t know if you can believe it, but I just came from the hospital where my companion was being looked at for a left knee injury. He was sentenced to a week of complete rest, though we won´t be having emergency exchanges, we´ll just take it easy and pray it gets better. I guess it´s just my curse that all of my companions injure their left knee.

Funny story from this week:
We´re knocking doors, and we come to a house where there is a little girl playing with toys in her front yard.
Us: Is your mom home?
Her: Yeah
Us: Can you call her for us?
Her: No, if I leave, someone will steal my toys

A cool investigator that I want to talk about this week is named Hilary (pronounced heelawry). She is 16 years old and dating an inactive member of the church named Jason (pronounced yayson). Jason´s mother, a very active member, determined to do anything to get her son back to church, invited Hilary to attend church, and she came. We of course jumped on this opportunity and made an appointment to visit her. Passed by her house, but she wasn't home, we passed by the next day a couple times, without luck. We kinda forgot about her, until the next Sunday, lo and behold, she comes to church again. Thrilled to see her, yet a bit bothered by the fact that she was impossible to find, we made another appointment. Two times at church meant she could be baptized if we could find a way to teacher her all of the lessons. We have successfully taught her twice now, and she is accepting everything. Really a golden investigator, but wasn't ready to commit to baptism yet. We'll keep working with her, and we are going to work ferociously with her inactive boyfriend, who may re-activate when he finds out that he could potentially baptize his girlfriend.

Anyway, that´s all for today, love you and sorry for the lack of photos!
Elder Stephen Watts

Answers to some of the questions we asked:

What's the most interesting food that you've eaten?

The most interesting thing I have eaten was iguana, but I thought it was chicken until I was midway through and they told me it was iguana. The worst thing I've eaten is called indio viejo and to describe it, I would say it tastes and smells like an indio viejo, go ahead and plug that into google translate. The best thing I've eaten are pupusas, which we got at a restaurant owned by El Salvadorian immigrants. A pupusa is essentially a stuffed tortilla, and mine had cheese, sausage, and basil leaves. Tasty tasty.

What kind of drinks do people give you?

We mostly drink fresco (juice mixed with water and sugar) but there is a drink here that is made with chocolate and corn powder that white missionaries refer to as mud, but I actually really liked it, probably because the one time I had it she added a ton of sugar.

Tell us a little about your schedule.

Our schedule is: Wake up at 6 and do exercise, personal study, and get ready. Leave house at 9. Eat lunch at 1 and do companion and language studies after lunch. Leave house again at 3:30 and work until 9, 9:30 if we have an appointment.

About how many lessons do you teach a week?

We find, on average 15 new investigators a week, which means teaching the first lesson at least 3 times a day to people who are receiving us for the first time. Other lessons add up to nearly the same, maybe 10 or 12 a week.