November 1, 2010

First off. Noche de Brujas is lame here. They don't do anything. They know its Halloween. But is way boring here. Nothing fun to report about it.

I learned something interesting this week. The word Celeste in Spanish is light blue. It sounds a lot like Celestial. I love the fact that is Celeste in Spanish. Just an interesting tid bit. (And i saw some dude with a UNC hat. Made me happy.)

Alright, so...In Ciudad Delgado there's a Church called Tabernacle of Faith. Sometimes we walk by, and it always sounds like a rock concert is going on. One of those types. Anyways. So the other night we are walking to an appointment and we come across a crowd of people walking through the streets. Its the Tabernacle people. Basically doing a peace protest march. Through the streets. And all their banners said Jesus Is The Lord of Ciudad Delgado. That's it. It was like a religious march through the streets with their pastor dude shouting into his mike some religious stuff. It was pretty funny. I wish I had my camera. Some did come up and shook our hands and said god bless you. They're nuts. But they recognize missionaries.

Oh yeah. So I had to give a talk this week. I took like 2 hours or so to write it. Sunday morning, I´m feeling pretty good. I timed it at about 8 and half minutes. But the ward started late. And E Almendarez spoke a long time. SO I had like 5 minutes to talk. So on the fly I had to pull stuff out of my talk and obviously this all is in Spanish. It worked out all right. If you're wondering why we had talks, the subject was missionary work and I talked about how important the members are in the work.

And last but not least. The 1 and a half hour bus ride. We took a bus to rest our legs (E Almendarez idea) but it went like every where else in the world, then Ciudad Delgado. So we spent an hour and a half on the bus. It sucked. Not much else to say. Boring week other than that. Some progress with investigators.

Got to go. Love you all. Miss you all. Hope everyone has a good week.

Love Elder Gilreath