Happy General Conference Easter weekend everbody! I hope you all
indulged a little too much on chocolate and enjoyed some of the buena palabra. (the good word) I'm still kicking it
strong out here in Amalia #longestintercambioever, where the house ran out of
water and we've been bucket showering in our drinking water. Sometimes I feel
bad for myself and Elder Froude, but then I remind myself that it's just an
opportunity to strengthen my testimony that charity exists in mankind- people
still let two stinky gringos into their houses to talk about God, to whom we
should pray, and Joseph Smith, to whom we shouldn't. Ladies and gentlemen, it's
April. Holy cow someone stop time!
First order of business is a shoutout to a certain hermano de otra
madre (brother by another mother) in
Peru who's about to hit the field. Remember—the first two weeks are the longest
and the relief society arms you got in the MTC'll burn off soon enough. Buena
suerte, mi sartén de hogar!! (good luck, home skillet!!)
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| Jacob Hogan in Peru MTC |
So, I finally had my first zone activity of the mission. Mission
rules are pretty strict on the subject in my mission, but we finally got the go
ahead. We did a three-event district competition which started with a handless
muffin eating contest.
Aside from the general hilarity of watching Elder Garcia smashing
his face into the table, he actually got the muffin in his mouth long before
the others, but overestimated his ability to swallow the moisture equivalent of
the Mojave Desert, and Elder Mecham came out on top. Curse that roguish devil.
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| The long-promised pig ear picture |
Afterward, we did a picture scavenger hunt in which I played Ammon
guarding a muffin, a sleeping seminary student (I knew all my days of practice
being asleep during seminary would be useful someday... haha just kidding, just
kidding), a Jaredite getting a yard of broom handle shoved through his
midsection, and the Virgin Mary. Then, we played gospel Guesstures, at which my
district actually dominated. In the end, they copped out of declaring us the
winners, which would have made us very angry had we actually won.
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Elders Johnson and Froude on the way to Sambil!
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The mission really does change you. Before the activity started, I
was playing the piano and one of the sisters came up and sat down by the piano
to listen. There was a time and a season in which a woman coming to listen to
my piano playing would've been a bright spot in my day. When I'd have affably
smiled and thought to myself, "Oh Johnson, why must you always be so
dashing?" But now, when a girl sits down and listens to me, I just wanna
stop and be like. "Um. Can I help you?" Haha great lozzy, I'm gonna
be a smoldering wreck in seventeen months.
The lowest point of it all was probably after we finished. Elders
Froude, Green, and I went with two of the sister missionaries to a tostada
shack for lunch. The numbers were offset and obviously we weren't even thinking
about anything uncouth,
but it's well-known that Froude and I are quite the
suave companionship in even the most appropriate of circumstances. Hem. Cough.
Right. So yeah, Froude offered one of them a sip of his oat juice,
but not to be outdone, I started laughing and spewed half a liter of guava nectar
all over creation. And the sisters. Ýeah. Someone please remind me why two such
gifted gentlemen are so stinkin' single.
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| Any questions? |
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We discovered that my camera can do light graffiti.
This is just a
sample of all the hot glamor pics we took.
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That's all for now. It was a pretty slow week. Hopefully, I'll be
back in Los Solares by next P-Day.
Love,
Dallin
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You can't see it very well in this picture,
but
Elder Froude is literally saving a puppy in this picture.
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