This week has been sooo much fun! Also, slightly
frustrating because it was the new year so we had to stay inside for the whole
New Year’s Eve day, so the elders ended up coming over to the house of the
members that we live with and we played cards for hours! We ate chips and salsa
Hna Castillo and I had made and some cookies-- it was so good! These Ecuadorians have some strange
traditions for New Year’s!! The men dress up as woman and dance in the street
in front of like every car until they give them money! It is crazy! --but we
had fun and then that night we had dinner with the family and they did some
like sparklers and pop-its!
We woke up Friday morning at 2am--we heard something
and got up and went to the little bathroom (that we never use) and as we were
turning the corner there was water all over the floor! So, we open the door and
the little tube thing under the sink had come off-- had broken somehow-- and
was shooting a jet of water into the corner! We had no idea where the water
shut off was or anything, so we grabbed the phone and tried to call Hno.
Fausto, who lives downstairs, but naturally he didn’t answer, so we went down
and knocked on the door and thank the lucky stars his wife got up and came to
the door. We were like, I’m sorry but we have water going everywhere! Like it
was out the front door and coming down the stairs! So she came up and got it
turned off and we swept the water out the door and she said that they would
come back and fix it tomorrow, so we went back to bed! But, man, what a crazy
night!! What was really cool, was that Hna.
Castillo had something like a dream and said it was a voice in her head clear
as day telling her that everything was getting wet --everything was wet! She
kind of woke up, but then she felt like she was wet and got up and looked saw
the water and came back into the room to wake me up just as i was getting up! It
was so crazy! I know that the Lord is
watching out for us!! Because if we hadn’t gotten up, we had backpacks and
books and crap all over the floor that would have been ruined!
This week, as I said, has been crazy! We also
left our keys on the desk one day and had the member come open the front door,
but then we still didn’t have keys to get into our actual house, so my
companion climbed through the kitchen window--and that is not very big at all!
Last night we were visiting a member/converso and
her house isn’t all that clean, so I have this habit of keeping my backpack on
my lap. We finished the lesson and she brought us yogurt and bread-- the
typical Ecuadorian roll that is like a hockey puck, hard and crumbles all over.
So, my hands are full and my backpack started falling, and not really thinking
I tried to catch it....so, my bread ended up on the floor and yogurt all over
my backpack and my hands and was somehow still coming over the side of the
cup...man that was not all that fun! ---but funny now!!:)
This week we also met a new lady named Marta Corba-
and she is super cool, she told us that she thought that we were the answer to
her prayers! and that she was going to come to church with us on Sunday, but
never came...sad day!
Today we played ecua-volley and we were playing
with a soccer ball that was so hard! but it was fun and we made some guacamole,
then as normal we went for pizza and we printed some pictures and came to
email!
my comp has almost a year in the mission and it
seriously is so much more fun than my first two cambios!!
I love you all soooo much,
Always and forever
Karlee Jo
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| Crepes and weird ice cream |
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| My companion plays the guitar |
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| Dancing in the street |
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| Sitting in gum. Yuck! |
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| Me and my comp (Hma. Castillo) at the crepe place |
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| Water coming through the door |
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| Waterfall/stream we walk by often |
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