Showing posts with label Simonica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simonica. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Week 75

I had some sucky nights this week. First of all, the lights went out on Monday night, and we couldn't open any of the windows because there are swarms of mosquitoes during the night here in Chao Bom. I was literally sweating all night long and couldn't fall asleep to save my life. THEN on Tuesday I made pizza, and I found a very sketchy piece of ham at a Chinese store here, it wasn't refrigerated or anything, but I thought it would be good putting it on the pizza.... WRONG!!! It is the sickest I have been in years, the rest of the day I was very miserable but I managed to work, but when I got back home I started shivering and shaking like crazy, I was freezing but burning up at the same time. I asked my comp for a blessing and I managed to fall asleep, then I woke up at 1:00 in the morning to rush to the toilet. Worst diarrhea I have had in my entire life. I literally did not sleep all night because I was still burning up and had to rush to the restroom every 30 minutes. By the time the sun came up I was completely dehydrated. My entire body was in pain and I still couldn't sleep. It sucked big time.
But... enough of that, I still managed to work for a few hours on Wednesday and then got back to work all day Thursday. Simonica got baptized on Saturday, and she wanted me to do the baptism, I felt super happy to do it. She went through a lot to be baptized, now part of her family hates her for joining another church, but I have never seen her happier now that she's been confirmed as a member.


So this morning we went exploring in some super cool tunnels near Chao Bom. We went in one end and 2 hours later, came out in a city called "Ribera Esprata". It was pitch black in there so we took flashlights. Some parts of the tunnel were super tight and we had to crouch and squeeze to get to the other parts.



We came out onto the beach at the other end, so we stayed for a few minutes. I tried climbing a palm tree but broke gravity instead, lol. 



Monday, June 22, 2015

Week 74

So this week wasn't interesting at all... nothing happened really. But we should be having another baptism this weekend. Her name is Simonica and she is one of the most (if not the most) prepared people for this gospel. She reminds me a lot of Araci back in Ribeira Grande, and she had problems with her family not wanting to get baptzed too, but her mom supported her right off the bat and convinced the rest of the family.
Hey I'm back! I left for a little bit because we had house inspections. The missionary couple comes about every 3 months to make sure our house is clean and we are taking care of it, so we cleaned it extra good this morning lol. I'm actually a pretty clean guy, most Americans are super dirty haha. Gotta go!