Letter 8/13/2014

Mission: accomplished.  Man, I miss you. I got the boxes! Both of them. The purple watch you got me matches my companion´s! She has it in teal, so now we are wonder twins.  A recent convert gave us these avocados. There is one more, but as you can see, I had my hands full. haha. I thought of a tagline for this picture- Avocado season... it´s kind of a big deal. lol. People have been gifting us SO many avocados. We don´t even know what to do with them. I made guac and I use it on my egg sandwiches. It´s actually awesome. Pic of that coming later. Here is a picture of Señor Nutella Banana Face. Here is the delicious sandwich. The mustard is very necessary. I like it with swiss cheese.  The cup there has starfruit juice in it. De-lish! Anyway, things are going well here in Tamboril. I realized that I only have 5 transfers left, so that made me feel weird. Oh, here´s something funny/cool: Two people in the last week have told me that I sound like I´m Argentinian. Isn´t that weird?? One of them told me that if she wasn´t looking at me, she wouldn´t know that I´m American. I took that as a quirky compliment.  Aug 13
Here is yesterday´s lunch. Eating *healthy* cough, cough... haha. A lot of oil went into that meal. The spinach was kind of bitter, but I felt a little better about myself after eating it. haha. And this is Sister Bates! My spud of a companion, get it? haha. Ohhhh sense of humor... where have you gone... haha.Want to know why we felt the need to eat healthy? I´ll show you why... haha. THIS was the magical ice cream we went to go eat after I wrote last week. It´s at a supermarket in Santiago. I ABOUT DIED AND WENT TO THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM right then and there.  We are already saving up for round two. :)) I had a double scoop cone with mint chocolate chip and caramel with chocolate. Divine is the word my mouth learned that day.  Here is the other half of the flavors. AND the guy was like: ¨Do you want to do some taste tests?¨ I bet he gets a lot of girls.  Anyway, long story short is that Hermana Bates and I are having a good old time.  We have some investigators who already know a LOT of doctrinal truths that most people don´t know. It is SO cool to teach them. Also it´s hot today in Tamboril... but that is more normal than not.  I hope all of you are having a great week, thanks for all of your love, support and emails!! Stay true to the faith!!