So, Monday, after email, we went to a place called the Obelisko. It's basically this big tall tower that you climb for forever, and then you can look out over all of Puerto Maldonado! It was really cool, and the view was actually really impressive. Afterwards, we went to this place called Copasu. It's a famous ice cream place here in Puerto, and it was actually SUPER good, especially cuz Monday it was very hot haha.
So, this week, we had tons of citas lined up, and we were ready to work hard. However, Tuesday, my comp started feeling kind of sick, and then got to a point that he was REALLY sick, so we came back to the room. Wednesday he was feeling about the same, so I sat around and read Jesus the Christ (which I finished! It was awesome. I highly recommend it.), and about 2 o'clock, I started to feel super sick. So, we were feeling about the same, but we live with 2 other elders, Elder Bazan (Part Peruvian, part Chinese), and Elder Lamb from Indiana, and in the morning, Elder Bazan got sick too. Basically, all our bodies were hurting, we felt nauesious, and it hurt to move. Friday, we started feeling a little better, so we went out and about to start working again. We happened to find out about a woman here who passed away recently, and they were having a viewing service. So, we went to ask if we could help with anything. The woman who had passed away has a daughter with like... 12 years, and a baby with 2 months. So we asked her widower if we could do anything, and he told us to come back at night to offer a prayer.
So, a bit of background on my comp before I tell you about this. My comp is Elder Garcia from Mexico. He is seriously awesome. He is my age, so we get along really well, and we laugh and joke a lot, but I feel like we teach effectively together. But, he cracks me up, cuz he loves Christmas so much, and even though he doesn't speak English, he can sing a ton of Christmas songs in English, word for word, almost perfectly. It's pretty great. So, we go to the funeral that night, and we are just kinda waiting around for about half an hour to say the prayer. This was a Catholic funeral too, and we don't know the traditions of a Catholic funeral, so we were really unsure of ourselves. But at one point, Elder Garcia started singing quietly, "I'll have a blue... Christmas... without you...." I smacked him and told him to be quiet, cuz I almost started laughing. He is kinda spacy so he forgot where we were, and just started singing. Cracked me up. But I told him that in the prayer he offered, he had to teach parts of the Plan of Salvation. So, he did the prayer, and was basically teaching Lesson 2 during it haha. Afterwards I gave a quick rundown of our message, and that we were here to share it with all in this time of difficulty and need. It was cool, and we actually got a few new investigators from it. All in all this was with like 30 people. It was cool.
Unfortunately, Saturday, the pain came back to me like, 3 fold, mostly in my chest. I dunno what I had, but I seriously couldn't breathe without feeling like my chest was gonna explode. It was nuts. Wow, it's raining a ton right now. Anyways.
Yesterday was better. It was testimony meeting, and it feels really good to be in a branch that everything is running quite smoothly already. It was really relaxing and refreshing to just sit back and listen to the peoples testimonies yesterday, cuz that never really happened in Echarati haha. I just am really excited about the branch that we are in.
Well, I think that's it for this week, I was sick, and even though I was sick, it was good. I did a lot of studying my scriptures and other missionary books, and got to bond a bit with my comp and the other missionaries in our room. Today we have plans to go and decorate our room for Christmas, so that's exciting. But, I'm excited for this week. Yesterday we hit up a TON of houses to get citas, so our week is already almost full, so I'm excited to see how it goes. Wish me luck. Anyways. Can't think of anything else. Love and miss you all, and I'm doing well! Hasta la proxima semana!
Con amor,
Elder Richman
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