Letter #3

 Hola y happy new year,

2020 is behind us. This week was an interesting one. For one thing, I had someone offer me drugs for the first time. My companion and I were walking around a neighborhood going to a members house and a dude pulled up in his old beat car and decided that he'd ask the two well groomed men in suits if they'd like drugs. We gave him a pass along card with a picture of Jesus instead. 

I'm also super jealous of the people out here. Everyone has a palm tree in their front yard and an orange tree or lemon tree or pomegranate tree in their back yard. We saw a tree with grapefruits bigger than softballs. I've also started teaching an Elder from Columbia English slang. I've taught him Y'all, punk, no cap, trippin', and this bato (dude) has been teaching me some Spanish slang.

I bought a little notebook to write down all the words I hear and don't know. The first three words this week were

Coquetear—to flirt

Cabello-hair

Cajuela-trunk

So naturally when I was practicing (at a members house) I said " I am going to flirt with the hair on the trunk." I've never seen anyone so off guard jaja.

Quick notes cause P-day is almost over

 I've had two people ask me if my name is German because it looks like Schwarzenegger. 

I'm growing the chiles de árbol that made my tongue sore

A lady in the ward owns a food truck and she let's us eat there for free. She made the burrito in the picture 

I made cinnamon rolls for the first time

Whenever I'm full, I keep saying I'm flat (Llano= flat lleno=full)

The best in the west, 

Elder Sharkbait

(ooh ah ah)