November 30, 2010

Mom, Thanks for the email. There are a lot of questions so I’ll try to answer them all. Sorry if I end up missing one.
So I have some good news and some bad news this week. Good news is that Sister Erlinda Alcala is now saved in the kingdom. She was baptized and confirmed this last weekend. We spent 2 hours on Saturday morning cleaning the font. There is sand in the water so we had to clean up the sand box from last time, and then turn on the water really slow so no sand would come out. It ended up being really clean. Yay! We wanted to make it special, and since they literally have no money, we decided to make spaghetti for everyone. Elder Nicoleta wanted to buy 2 kilos of noodles, so we did, with three bags of sauce. We also bought ground pork and hotdogs to put in it. I’ve never had hot dogs in spaghetti, but it wasn’t too bad. Elder Nicoleta cooked the noodles, a huge pot full. We didn’t have a way to strain it so he just left them in the water. When I realized they were done I tried to pour the water out, but there was none. The noodles had soaked in ALL of the water! we ended up serving it in balls with a spoon, So the next time you make spaghetti, don’t forget to strain the noodles, or you will get pudding.
The bad news is that we were supposed to have our district activity today and go back to the awesome waterfall in Carmen, but we have no money. Today the support was supposed to come and there is no money in our account. Out of the 8 of us in the district, only 2 had money saved, the two Americans. Weird how that works out. And then it started to rain. So we didn’t go.
Brother Taoy didn’t come to church and smoked 3 cigarettes a day. But we recommitted him. Hopefully he will have faith. I have plenty of space left on my sd cards. Elder Nicoleta is from Manila, the big city filled with tons of people.
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! I had fried chicken with plain mashed potatoes and a little salt with some fake gravy. We found some sabau, any kind of saucy soupy broth, and bought that without the main dish for our gravy. I went on splits with Elder Frecker and he wanted a legit thanksgiving. That was the best we could do.
Thanks, love you all,
Elder Schenk