Aaaand we'e back! (Though, you were probably expecting that, weren't you?)
Lots of interesting happenings this week. I became a temporary AP/Secretary, we got lost in a flower market, and we made Italian food to celebrate someone's first anniversary as a member. Confused yet? Let me explain:
Wednesday morning is the usual day for our Mission Devotional. However, we had other plans, we were going to go with our ward's primary president to visit some less active members, with the intent to be back in time for a second meeting with the Facebook team. So we missed the Devotional (which will become relevant in a moment) and went to find a whole bunch of people.The last person we visited happened to be at her little creamery in a massive market. And I mean massive. We probably spent a good fifteen minutes just trying to find her, and we hadn't even left the first big warehouse. We eventually found her, and then after chatting for a bit, tried to make our way back out. And promptly got lost in the middle of the half of the market dedicated to selling flowers. Smelled great. Not very good for navigating. So we missed both of those meetings. :P
And missing those meetings became very relevant the very next day. Tuesday night, we had been told that the District Leader Council would be held at the temple on Thursday. So we arrived, bright and early, to find exactly nobody in the building where they had told us to meet. Confused, we went to the mission offices, and found the Assistants and Secretaries in quite the scramble. Apparently (and we would have known this had we attended the devotional on Wednesday), the mission was on pause until we got all of the records for recent converts sorted. And so my companion and I just sort of got roped into things, and ended up working with the elders there in the office for quite a bit. Good times.
And the last story for the week, on Sunday, one of the newer members hit her first anniversary as a member of the church! To celebrate, we threw a bit of a lunch party, and my companion whipped out a recipe for Lemon Picada, which was delicous. It was a pretty fun Sunday.
I think that's about all I have the patience to write, writing on the phone is painful. :P Hope you're all doing great!
- Elder Blankenbiller
- Ward Lunch Party
- The Gray Pants Gang
- A sampling of Mercado Jamaica
- Elmo
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