11/23 5: Happy Early Thanksgiving

Happy early Thanksgiving! It´s so strange to live somwhere where they dont celebrate Thanksgiving, I didn´t even realize that Thanksgiving was this week until someone mentioned it yesterday. Everyone here started decorating for Christmas a week or two ago so its not too different from the United States, haha. It reminds me of how places like Costco bring out their Christmas things like right after Halloween. 

            This week´s been really great for us, we have 3 new people that we´ve been teaching regularly and this biggest surprise of all...a baptism next month! We had a talent show on Thursday night in the ward with all of the missionaries in our zone and the brother of a girl we´ve been teaching who´s a member told us he wanted to be baptized this week! He´s usually always with us when we teach his sister but we´re going to teach him more in the next few weeks so that he feels more prepared. Hermana Espinoza and I couldnt stop smiling after he told us! Back to the ward talent show - they were mostly musical numbers and our zone of missionaries promised to sing a song but no one had decided what song we were going to sing, so as we were going on stage one of the district leaders told us the song that we were going to sing and no one except like 5 people knew it...and it was really awkward!so we all just kind of stood there and swayed to the music..yikes. 

           We went to a members home for lunch on Tuesday, Mary Demura, and afterwards they were asking me wht kind of food we have in the US for Christmas and they were trying to explain what raisins were in Spanish but it wasnt working...so the husband took to Google and that lead to them looking up all these random foods like peaches, almonds and eventually  a squirrell (?) and asked me how to say them in English haha.Our ward is called La Paz and theres more or less 80 people?  

           I´m becoming more acccustomed to the culture here in Ecuador, things like people walking around with dead chickens in their hand..And theres a bakery right down the street from where we live and Hermana Espinoza and I may or may not be frequest customers...if they had any, we´d defs need a frequent customer card. And to get into the Christmas spirit Hermana Espnioza and I have been singing Christmas songs while walking, well she sings in Spanish and I tell her how to sing it in English so I´ll need to learn them in Spanish soon! 

            Well everything is going well here, have a fabulous Thanksgiving and eat plenty of turkey and cranberries (like thats even a question). ¡CHAO!