April 24, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XXVII

welcome.. so it's wednesday, and i'm the most tired i've ever been on the mission.. lemme explain... *monday was zone pday, we started the day out by going to san cristobal to a park to play some games.. i call my family pretty early, so i usually miss whatever the first hour of what they're doing is.. this time it was frizbee, and it was raining, so it was a bit muddy and stuff, and it looked fun, but once they started spikeball that's when i went over for real.. i played a tiny bit of that, and then i was talking to our ZL, and he's just like "hey i've got some cups and a tenis ball and an idea for a game".. so i'm like "uhhh ok, let's see it" so he gathers some other people, and goes and gets his cups and tenis ball, and it starts off with us just throwing the ball around, using the cups, annnd then we start thinking of ways to make it a little more fun.. so anyways we ended up with two teams, and a giant tire in the middle of the field, the objective of the game, is to use your cup and your team to put the tenis ball through the side of the tire that is on the other teams' side, from a minimum of 6 or so feet away.. sooo kinda like lacrose, but with the goal in the middle, and it's with cups, and the field is sUper wet and muddy because of the rain... so it was super fun ofc, i scored like 3 goals or something, which makes sense because i'm only good at fake sports.. i diD fall at some point and posssibly sprain my wrist, but i haven't decided yet.. hopefully i'm just being a baby and it's actually fine in a couple more days, cuz i've already been to too many doctors here... anyways tho, after that game i went to play spikeball again, cuz a new hermana from el salvador (shoutout to hyde) wanted to learn, and no one else who was over there knew the rules ig.. so anyways, it's safe to say she still doesn't know how to play the game, because there were just a couppple spikeball words i didn't know in spanish, and i'm not sure she understood my hand signals and weird faces super well either.. but the point of all this, is that i got pretty badly sunburnt.. yes ik i need to wear sunscreen, and a hat, and i'll get skin cancer, and all those things, and i hope i've learned my lesson too.. so anyways skip to monday night, and i am sunburnt, and my wrist is a little out of whack, and my legs are sooo stiff and sore from running and jumping, and my back is sore from bending down to grab a muddy tenis ball with a muddy cup, annnd i'm just barely moving in general... *and then tuesday comes, and i feel it all twice as bad ofc, cuz that's just kinda how it goes somehow, and walking around with my legs super straight and the sun burning my burns and all that stuff.. and then we had a couple super long talks in our house about our areas, and we went to bed at a time that i don't know because i was too afraid to look, because i knew that we had to get up at 5:30 the next day... *ok so i sleep really light this night, and then we get up at 5:30, and i am just a tinnny bit tired.. we walk down to the little stop to wait for the bus, we get on, the driver tells us we can't be on the bus, my comp negotiates and we get a spot on the bus.. we are standing again.. that was like an hour.. we are now in the capital again.. we pass by the temple and get a couple pictures, but don't go inside, because we need permission, and we only go as a whole mission.. we get to the doctors' office on time and we're waiting for him.. we call him to see where he's at, and apperently he had some sort of emergency funeral or something to go to.. sooo he says he'll be ready around 1.. sooo we text president to ask if we can get special permission to go do some ordanances in the temple, and while we're waiting for the response, we decide to go to wendys for some food, so we start walking towards the metro, and about 4 or 5 minutes later i realize i don't have my wallet.. so we go back to where we were sitting outside, and it's gone.. we ask everyone all around, and no one knows where it went.. sooo we start walking to the metro again, and my comp sees one of those street vender guys who sells tubberwares, and he's across a super busy highway, but he my comp thinks he saw this guy over there, and he's a very likely subject.. sooo we decided to start following him just as a last resort.. so we slowly make our way across this highway, and the guy is probably 100 yards away, but he starts wAlking.. sooo we're following this guy, and we're gaining on him, but he's super far ahead.. and then he turns a corner, and by the time we get around this corner, he's still ahead, but we almost have him (his tubberwares don't really permit him to go very fast) so we are now within yelling distance, and my comp says "hey bro" and he turns to look, and then starts walking a little faster.. sooo we start walking faster too.. we eventually catch up to him, and my comp asks him first if he was at that same park, and he says yes, and then he asks if he saw any wallets, and then he says "no no i haven't seen annnything, no i haven't seen anything".. and then he's like "here check my stuff" so he drops his bags to the floor and is trying to get us to look through them to look for the wallet.. so at first i just think, wellll he probably just has it oN him, like in his pocket or something, so my comp just says "no no we believe you, we don't need to look through your stuff, you don't have it on you tho?" so this man proceeds to lift up his shirt, and show us his fanny pack, and pull out his pockets, and then pull down his pants and very thoroughly show us that he didn't have it in his underwear either.. sooo at this point i realize that anyone as smart as this guy, would actually just take out the cash (which was $2500 (that's dominican pesos, so like $50 USD) at this time, to pay for anything in the capital) and then chuck the wallet somewhere.. sooo we help this guy put all his stuff back in his bags that he's been taking out, and say sorry for bothering him, and he gives us the whole "i'm christian i would never do anything like this" speach.. sooo while we're walking back we're kinda looking around for anywhere he could have dropped it, annnd i wish this was a cool story where you pray and you find the thing, and it all turns out ok, buttt sometimes the answer is just no.. so anyways, i'm now a little short of a wallet, $2500, my drivers license, my mission prepaid card thingy, my personal card, my metro card, annnd i watched some guy strip down to his underwear pat himself down, and we aren't even sure if it wAs this guy... so anyways we walk back to the metro, my comp buys me a new card, we go to wendys, and then president actually gave us permission to go to the temple!.. sooo we got to go do laundry, cuz that was all they had open, but we did that for a while, until around 1.. and then we get to the office again, and call the doctor, and he's been held up again, so he's coming at 3 now.. so we just did a little bit of studies, and i fell asleep on the concrete floor cuz i was so dead.. and this guy finally shows up around 4, and we go in, and he's dealing with a ton of random stuff, and we meet his boss lady, and she crazy, super funny, but crazy.. annnd eventually he got to us, and he gave me a couple prescriptions, and then offered to give us a ride back to san cristobal, and to take us to subway.. sooo we went with him through a ton of traffic and stuff to subway, and then he decided to just take us to a metro station instead because the traffic was so bad.. so we say thanks to him, go back on the metro, take all our connections to get to the busses that get to san cristobal, and finally got on the bus.. we get to san cristobal, and we get some lil ceasars again, and then walk to the cambita car station thingy, and get a car, and we finally make it back to cambita at like 8... soooo we didn't do too much that day besides phone contacting, buttt i was the most tired i've ever been here... *i went on an exchange with elder taggert which was fun *hung out with my best buds juan daniel and francesca (they're kids in the ward that are just super funny) *ok ok i don't think my wrist was actually sprained, which is fire.. it's almost back to normal.. i think *yah no, it totally could be actually, i have no idea, but it kinda hurts *we had another pretty big rain storm anyways, have a good week, love you guys! alma 11:40 And he shall come into the world to redeem his people; and he shall take upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.