Grad School Interviews (1/23-1/24)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

We were supposed to go to Warnes (a province outside the city) to go to the ward of one of our workshop participants. We were also supposed to give a talk during Sacrament and inform people of the TAL workshops we taught. We were up and running by 7am, despite not having slept too long. BUT, Reynaldo never came to pick us up!! So........we didn't get to go to church. Not because we were slackers, but because we didn't know where our own ward met, since we had just moved into the apartment earlier that week and had planned on going to Warnes to give talks. We checked online but couldn't find any info. We don't have a phone yet either (we do but its not activated). So, we cleaned out the FRIDGE and then some. The apartment is starting to look more homey. And we watched Pride and Prejudice, the LONG version. Cristina had never seen it, she liked it better than the newer version. Then I spent all day tagging photos of me on facebook since Cristina taught me how to do it. It was kind of a long day being in our one room with AC all day. PS, we didn't have any food either, so we just ate rice and crackers. That was all the food we had. We may have torn up a piece of ham in it.

Monday, January 24, 2011

So Monday, we went to the Center to film my Interview so I could send it to BYU's MFT Grad Program. That's how we spent the entire morning, it was nerve-racking a difficult. But, it feels great to be done with it and to have finished it so quickly and so well. THEN we went to go eat Mexican Food!! It's called El Chile and the burritos were good, although they weren't authentic, but still, it reminded us a little of American food at home. At a reasonable price too. I think I paid $5 for the entire meal (even though its apparantly a really expensive restaurant just for tourists??). I felt more at home for sure. Well we came home because there was a guy who was supposed to come fix the dryer, but it turns out he couldn't so he's sending us someone else sometime this week or next week (although it probably will never happen with how the things move here). Everything moves quite slow here, definitely not used to it yet. And last but not least, we went to a store called Hypermaxi and bought a bunch of stuff for the apartment. AKA more WATER. Hermano Salazar and Camilo drove us there in the truck so we could by a ton. It wasn't as cheap as I expected, but we stayed under our budget and were super frugal with what we would and would not buy.

Ah well this is what's happened until now. It hasn't been easy adjusting to a new country and a new culture. But, I know the Lord has a reason for everything and there's a reason I'm here. I'm teaching workshops that can and will change people's lives.

I decided we should read a chapter in the Book of Mormon for "Family Home Evening" to help us be patient and have the spirit with us. (Ever since we have been doing this and reading a chapter a day and praying a lot and I already feel a world of difference. I feel Safer, more relaxed, and at home and can enjoy myself despite the terror..ha ha). We wanted to read something that applied to us, so we're reading about Mosiah's sons mission to the Lamanites. We feel like we can relate a liitle, and have no reason to feel sorry for us and every reason to trust in the Lord. Tonight, we read about Ammon and his cutting off the arms. Haha it's a great story, but I kind of feel like we are a bit like the sons of Mosiah. We each went our separate ways to teach the "workshops" to the "Latin Americans" and we're told that we should be patient towards them and have faith that God is with us always. Times are hard, especially when you're far away from your family and close friends. But it's the Footprints in the Sand poem, there's another set of footprints right beside ours.