February 20, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XVIII

sooo.. we have this buddy.. and he has his own barber shop, he's super cool, and he likes us, because he lived in argententina for 3 years (where my comp is from).. he gave the other elders haircuts a couple of weeks ago, and then he was talking with my comp about argentinian bbq, and my comp was saying how much he misses it, and all that.. sooo anyways suddenly we get invited to a random bbq with this guy at his friends' house.. that was a couple weeks ago, and we some things happened (probably, i never know why things happen or don't happen here) so it didn't happen till this monday... so we played basketball with this guy in the morning, which was pretty fun, and then we went back to the house for a little, and my comp was texting this guy and trying to figure out where it was gonna be and stuff, and he gets directions and a time and everything... so anyways we get all dressed up fancy in our t-shirts and shorts and crocs, and start walking down the road a little, toward where it's supposed to be.. my comp is way ahead, and the rest of us are kinda behind talking, as he's leading us off the main road and down a path that i've been down before.. down this path is a bunch of garbage, and the usual shacks and all that (all super normal here).. sooo anyways i'm really not expecting much, but we just keep walking down the path, and we just see this gate, and a nice car parked outside of it.. and there our friend is, unloading his car of bAgggs of food.. and we're like whAttt theee.. so we walk thru this gate, annnd this the friend of our friend.. and he's just super rich basically.. he's got a nice house, giant landscape stuff in his backyard, a pool, a bbq, and a kinda umbrella/pavillion thingy with a table and stuff.. sooo i'm just super stunned, and idk what to do, cuz we literally just walked into the kinda place where you would rent for a niCe vacation, and this man just starts making a fire in the grill and unloading his bags and bags of meat.. sooo we just sat there for 2 or 3 hours, listening to music, drinking soda, talking to our new rich buddy, and the bbq/barber/dominican/argentinian/guy who apparently has a super rich friend... annnd the bbq was reallly good! there were 2 different kinds of sausage, and ribs, and some kind of steak, and bread, and this sauce that he was using to put on all the meat, that was kind of a green salsa kind of thing, with a ton of salt and stuff... annnd we ate sooo much meat, he bought and cooked a tOn.. it was sooo weird, because we just went out of the garbage and super loud motercycles, and all that, into a vacation house to have a bbq.. sooo that's the best pday i've had, everyone kept saying i looked "concerned" or "like i was going to die" annnd i think that was a mixture of the shock of going from a 2nd or 3rd world country (idk what this technically is here) into just some resort or something, annnd i probably ate like 30 pounds of salt, and idk if i've ever eaten that much meat at one time (my mom is vegetarian, sooo we were kinda deprived as children)... super cool tho, probably the closest i'll get to a vacation here... so we had transfers on wednesday, annnd turns out i got someone who is sUper old in the mission, and knows exactly what he's doing! which is pretty nice, cuzzz i gotta learn from sOmeone, and our area is really needing this kinda person right now, so that's great.. annnd people told me my comp was cool, and i would get along with him.. turns out i got one of the best missionaries in the mission (i think at least) and hopefully i'm not jinxing it or anything, but this is gonna be a good transfer... he also is probably the heaviest eater i've ever seen tho, which is super awesome.. when we bought our groceries, he put like 7 gallons of juice in the kart, annnd he lOves ice cream.. sooo idk who remembers bon, but we have one of those in our area.. annnd we made a house fund and bought a 2 gallon tub of ice cream (for like $30) the other night.. that's not gonna last long, buttt technically it's the cheapest way to buy ice cream here sooo.. i think we're gonna have a lot more fun shopping now tho, cuz elder palmer never let us buy anything fun.. okkk... sooooo... good news.. and bad news.. good news.. with my new comp we're actually dOing stuff now, so i'm no longer bored, annnd our area is pOppppping off now, even tho it's only been like half a week.. bad news.. these are about to get super short and probably more boring, because i no longer have time to write giant emails... sooo i'm just gonna recap things from this week... we started visiting our friends that are progressing as much as possible (instead of before when we would go once or twice a week).. we have people who are progressing fAssst.. we had 5 friends at church (before this, my record was 1 or 2).. my comp now listens to my ideas.. he has better ideas, so we're thriving now.. i now no longer want to leave, and it's going to be sad when it happens.. annnnd, i am now having fun in the mission! i also forgot i was scheduled to give a talk on sunday until it was sunday morning, so i wrote a talk in like 30 minutes, buttt i put a ton in there and i didn't use all of it, but it was a good 12 minute talk or so.. annnnnnd i'm out of time but i have a ton of super cool stories just from this half week.. it's interesting how that much of a small change can change things, buttt sUper cool i think... we also already had interviews with president (the first in the mission for some reason).. annnd i probably won't respond to every single persons' emails anymore.. unless you ask questions ofc, buttt just know, i read them all, annnd i will keep them forever... buttt yah, sounds good.. this could change if i'm ever bored again, buttt we'll just have to see... have a good week, loves yous, bye...