Ok,
so I started out September with a pretty great week. On Saturday, I
attended my first wedding in the field. We (missionaries in general) had been
teaching the husband, Hermano Oscar; for almost a year. However, he wasn't
married to his wife and she didn't want to have anything to do with the church She refused to marry him just so he could be
baptized. However, we went in to teach
him a week ago and she had had a miraculous change of heart and actually
listened to our lesson and agreed to marry Oscar. It was a very quiet service.
Just their family, the lawyer, and us in their house, but it was very
rewarding. I've included (hopefully) a few pictures.
As I have already
written, I have fulfilled several of my lifelong dreams already by getting to
wade through a thoroughly flooded street and seeing a volcano erupt. This week
I added a few more things to that list.
The first occurred a
few days ago. We were walking and it began to rain pretty hard. We then began
to hear thunder getting closer and closer. Before long, it was louder and
closer than I have ever heard in my life. Finally, there was one clap of
thunder that was so close and the rumor later that day was that it struck in
the same park that we were in at the time. I couldn't believe how loud and
sharp it was. Not at all like the low rumbling I normally hear. It was actually
fairly terrifying at the time, although now I'm just thrilled that I could be
so close to a lightning strike (don't worry mom and dad, I'm pretty sure I was
quite safe.) There was a bunch of other
tall buildings and trees around and there wasn't much more we could have done
anyway.
The second experience
was even better. We were sitting, teaching a lesson, when I felt a few
vibrations in the floor. I thought that someone was pounding on the wall next
door, but a few seconds later the ground began to shake even more. I always
imagined earthquakes as just shaking the ground back and forth, but actually
the ground was moving in all directions. It was way cooler than I ever
imagined. I can see how even a relatively small earthquake that doesn't cause
much damage can make it impossible to walk. Anyway, the earthquake lasted for a
solid 32 seconds but didn't do much more than cause the TV to rock back and
forth and make my day.
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