Bonjour!
I've had another great week here in good old Pittsburg,
California! We had some pretty great adventures this week! To start off, the
Tongan man that we have on baptismal date actually asked us to move his date up
this week. So instead of having his baptism mid-October we are having it on
September 28th! We are super excited, but I still don't think we are as excited
as he is!
To explain my title a little bit, first off my district and
I found a giant metal bowl, and we thought "wow, you know what would be
fun? If we had a giant bowl of cereal in this!" So that's exactly what we
did; we made a giant bowl of cereal and then to be more sanitary we scooped out
the cereal with smaller personal bowls and ate out of those, but it was still a
blast and made for a fun adventure. Also this week, we ate dinner with our
Bishops wife. She is from the Philippines and told us that we were going to eat
Filipino food the Filipino way, which meant that we didn't use any utensils and
instead of plates we ate on top of giant banana leaves. I don't know if you've
ever eaten rice with your hands, but until you know how to do it properly it is
so hard. However, we eventually learned how to do it and now we are pros. And
finally, to explain the Indian wedding, we got new neighbors about a week ago
and they are Indian. They are both super sweet, but we really only talk to the
wife because the husband doesn't speak much English. Anyways to get to the
wedding part, we were coming home from church yesterday and they were having a
party and they invited us in and then explained that they were having a bit of
an after party for their friends and family since they had gotten married that
morning. It was insane! They gave us traditional Indian sweets and taught us a
little bit about their culture. It was SO cool!
Overall this was a great week, and I experienced a lot of
things that I never thought I would experience! This work is so good, and I'm
so grateful for the different people and cultures that serving the Lord has
given me the opportunity to experience! I love you all!
Love,
Sister Connery
Indian sweets
Filipino dinner on banana leaves
My companions and I picking up trash down by the water
Pittsburg
My companions and I at the visitors center in Oakland
My district
Our giant bowl of cereal
Filipino dinner on banana leaves again
My companions and I at church
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