The One with Peru, El Salvador, and the Dang Good Salsa 8/21/17

This week, we went on exchanges with some of the Elders in the English ward. The Elder I went with and I went to eat dinner with a family from El Salvador. The family we were eating with speaks English but prefers Spanish. So every time the Elder I was with tried to talk to the family, they understood the question but responded in Spanish. We would remind them that he doesn't speak Spanish and they would say something like "oh, yeah sorry", and then keep speaking Spanish. It was really funny haha and the Elder even learned a little Spanish.

Later in the week, I got a flat tire, so I went to the store and bought a new tube (the old one already had two or three patches in it). So then we took the bikes and biked a little more than thirty minutes from our apartment to an appointment. We had a lesson with one of our investigators which was super good and when we got on our bikes to go, I saw that my tire was flat again. We had patches so I put a patch on my tire. Right as we finished, this guy pulled into his driveway. We started talking to him and it turned out that his grandmother was Mormon and he used to study with the missionaries. We asked him if it would be alright if we had some missionaries stop by sometime and he told us that he would love that, and he would love for his 9 year old daughter to be taught. We would have missed him if I didn’t have that flat tire to repair. It was really cool to see things happen like that.

My companion and I felt impressed to visit a less active member that should have been about an hour bike ride away from our apartment. We got to her house in thirty minutes! When we got to her house and started talking to her she asked us if we had eaten dinner. We told her we ate dinner at the apartment and her response was "Oh, so you're hungry then." She made tacos and salsa for us. My companion and I had a thought prepared and some important questions we were going to ask her... And that was all forgotten when we had the salsa she made for us, it was probably the best salsa I've had in my life. Of course, we got over ourselves and shared a lesson with her. It was just a great night overall.

Love you all!!