Semana 1 with Elder Galo

Elder Galo is my new companion and so far things have been going pretty well. He is definitely more of a letter of the law type of guy, whereas E. Castro was a little more of a spirit of the law type of guy, so it's been a little of an adjustment having him constantly bringing up little rules that I never even new existed. For example apparently we are not allowed to hold babies, which I had been doing almost every day. One of our investigator families has a little baby named Soy and since they live kinda far we normally accompany them from church back to the house and I would carry Soy at least part of the way to give her mom some relief, but apparently that is not allowed. I've been getting along with Elder Galo pretty well though for the most part and I think we will see some good success in the next few months here in Somoto. 

This week was a little crazy because we had to move, but we kinda rushed the moving process so as to not have to pay the next 30 days of rent at our old place which would have begain on the 14th. Also it was more convenient for Elder Galo to move before he unpacked all of his stuff. Because we rushed the move we ended up running into a number of problems at the new place. Turns out the dueña of our new house is super pinche and is not the best person. As soon as Mama Nerly and Hna Antonia figured out where we had moved they immideately advised us to move out. We will be taking their advice because a ton of problems quickly arose as she is not holding up with her end of the deal and is demanding more money to cover the cost of the microwave that we never use. So that's been fun and we are going to continue to look for another house. 

The highlight of this week was definitely the baptism of Hna Zaida, Hussiel's mom. She is the head of a family of 7, of which only one is a member (Hussiel). Oh and throughout my emails the spellings of people's names will likely change periodically because Castro had no idea how to spell anyones name and little by little I am learning how to spell people's names. For example I think earlier I wrote Hussiel as "Uziel", so yeah, try to keep up. The Baptism of Hna. Zaida was at a super cool location referred to as "la playa" and even though it is certainly not a playa, it is still a pretty cool place. 

Ok that's all for this week.

Elder Hamson

Pictured below: the baptism, the playa, and the rain coming down outside the cyber that I'm writing this.