This week I am going to get real. I had a goal when I first got here, to be pure Salvadorean after 6 months. Well I have officially been a missionary for 6 months and everyone still thinks I'm from los Estados Unidos. Every once in a while I get a Canada or Spain. Point is, I can eat as many pupusas as I want, speak as much Spanish as I can, but sadly I am not quite Guanaco yet. That being said, this week was actually pretty crazy. We dug a giant hole (goal was 7 meters) for a crazy old man to have a bathroom in his house, practiced Portuguese and Kak Chiqel in the bus, we fixed some flooding water pipes with wire and prayers, and got to hear from Elder D Todd Christofferson at a conference of 500 missionaries. While this week had its fair share of crazy moments and people, the highlight of it all was for sure this conference. We got to hear directly from an Apostle and even cooler, he speaks perfect Spanish. 500 missionaries strong, all of EL Salvador, and it was just an awesome experience. And he is sticking around here for a while too so we will see if he swings by Cojutepeque.
And to justify my title a little bit, this week 'besides being called Gringo' I have been called "Milton," "Mootoon," and just about any variation of the word you can think of, quite a few Spanish words that I gratefully don't understand, and to top it all off "Joesph Smith Junior" by a man screaming in the streets. People call us missionaries a lot of different stuff. And now, with 6 whole months under my belt here in the promised land, I am more grateful than ever for the name that I am here representing. A lot of people get confused when they see that both me and Elder Felipe are named Elder. And I don't know why but nobody believes we are twins. So quite a few times daily, we get the chance to explain who we are and who we represent. And even though Moulton is very difficult to pronounce in Spanish, its a pretty cool experience to represent 1. Jesus Christ and 2. the Moulton fam down here in La Provincia de Nuestro Senor Jesu Cristo El Salvador Del Mundo. Which is actually the full name of my country. So yeah, maybe I am not pure Latino yet, hopefully in another 6 months we will be there, but for now I am alright being a representative of the greatest man to ever live, in the country that bears his name. Hope everyone has a great week, thanks for the love!
SALUD
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