Last week as I was leaving the Kingdom Hall, Luis asked me to do something which I found to be somewhat ill advised. He asked me to be the assistant for the Watchtower Presentation at the next meeting. Of course I said yes excitedly. Although inside I was screaming no! Mostly because Spanish is a bit hard for me. For instance: While he was explaining the part to me, I was talking about plans on Thursday over and over again I said Thursday this and Thursday that. Finally I stopped and turned to Luis.
"Am I saying eggs?"
He smiled really big...
"Yes".
And we all just busted up laughing.
The whole time I had been saying eggs "huevos" instead of Thursday " jueves" and no one wanted to correct me so they just let me keep saying it. So I was pretty sure that that part he had just given me was going to go terribly wrong. The part was with Stef. She is wonderful and made things very easy for me by writing everything down and only having me read one scripture. The night of the part I was nervous, but I knew that Jehovah would be helping me through it. Basically I said:
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| stef, me and brother luis. |
"Hope you got this Jehovah... because I don't!"
We did well! Gracias Jehova. Stef was so calm and it was all over before I could make a total mess of everything. It was very encouraging, not only for me, but it was good for the congregation. I was told by Sarah that some of the brothers and sisters are afraid to give parts. But the fact that I was willing to give a part even though I dont speak the language might encourage others to be more willing to accept assignments. I think she was just being really nice but it still makes you feel good to know that even though you are a horribly slow learner and butcher the language constantly that some things you do help out the congregation.
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| jen & carlos |
There is a brother and sister from the Lopez congregation named Jen and Carlos, who are builing a house in Machalilla. They're trying very hard to get it finished as soon as they can so they can move in. So me and Court took a Monday to go over there and help out. We got the glamorous job of sanding down the plaster walls. It was easy work and its nice to be able to help your brothers and sisters, so it was very satisfying to be completely covered in white dust by the end of the day. When we were all cleaning up Carlos looked at me and started to laugh.
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| the crew minus court who took the pic :) |
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| machalilla sunset |
"You were white before" he said " but you are whiter now!"On the ride back to Lopez on Courts motor bike, she could hear me having a bit of an episode behind her becuse the sun set was just magnificent! So she stopped and let me take a picture. Enjoying the sunset over the ocean from the back of a motor bike. That's up there from me on the "wow my life is sort of amazing right now" moments.
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| the end of the beach |
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| Mr.crabby |
Today Mechaela and I took a little trip to the end of the beach in Lopez to some pretty amazing rocks. I get a little over excited about large rocks, mountains, boulders ect. In my over excitement to play on the rocks I abandoned my shoes behind a boulder a ways away from where we ended up spending most of our time. Several people came and went while we were there and one of them took my shoes with them. Who steals a persons shoes! Honestly! So i was a bit angry about that, but hey, they're just shoes. No reason to ruin an awesome day.
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| " the cave..is a good song" |
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| sea anenomies |
We were walking along the beach to go home (me barefoot) and I stepped on the sand and it felt a tad weird. So of course I immediately begin diggin' because you really never know what sort of interesting creature your going to find beneath the sand. I dug up part of what Mechaela and I assumed was a sting ray. I didn't want to run the risk of pulling a Steve Erwin (RIP crocadile hunter), so I quickly ran and got a large stick to pry whatever it was from the wet sand. I jammed the stick in the sand and a huge...
and very ugly fish came flopping out.
"What is that?!" we both screamed unanimously.
It immediately began thrashing around. Me and Mechaela were beside ourselves with excitement because it was just so bazaar looking. We were instantly fascinated. So we of course took pictures and played with it for a good while before returing it to its sandy home. You would have thought we found a bag of candy buried in the sand with the amount of happiness we got out of finding that fish.
Back at home (and with a new pair of shoes) I made donuts for Anna, Jenn, Court, Stef, Mechaela and Veronica while they watched "Miranda" and laughed.
"I prefer the term shenanigans"
Kelly
