February 21, 2012

Pamilia,
Maayong gabii sa inyo tanan. We are doing well here in Capitol. We have two baptisms coming up on March 3, Flor and Delia. They are such great investigators, probably the best I have had my entire mission. Flor came to priesthood session of Stake Conference on Saturday and they both came with Their young son for the Sunday session. They have read every assignment and kept every commitment we have given them. They understand everything we teach the first time we teach it and directly apply it in their lives. Delia is in her 40s and Flor is in his 50s and they keep thanking us young missionaries for teaching them. They feel so ignorant even though they are well learned as to things of the world. Flor is an engineer and is really smart. It is such a miracle that we can be the ones teaching them, and not the other way around. I feel so blessed to have the knowledge of this gospel in my life and to have been raised with it in my family. What an incredible blessing. And even more, I am a 6th generation member of the only true and living church upon the earth, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, from multiple ancestral lines. How many people can say that?
You asked last week about the candy here. They do eat cough drops all the time, especially the little kids. They love anything that is menthol flavored, even shampoo and soap. The classic snack here is a roll with Coco-Cola. Even the babies drink it here. They have bakeries everywhere with tons of styles of bread. We stop for a bread snack about 3 times a day. You can get a roll for P5. They also like shrimp flavored puff things and chicharon, pig fat that is fried until it gets hard and crunchy, its pretty good, just expect an early heart attack! They even have fake chicharon that is just a flavored cracker. They also eat a lot of hot dogs for breakfast, but they are sweet and they die them red. You eat them with rice and put soy sauce or sweet ketchup on them.
Amping lang mo. Kita lang ta sa sunod.
Love you,
Elder Schenk