We met
this less active member of the church last week. Turns out that he is a chef in
a Swiss restaurant in the super rich part of Guatemala! This Sunday he is going
to make us some really awesome food. He grew up homeless with nothing, stealing
fruits from the market with his brother (Aladdin, right?) to feed himself.
Later on he got a job when he was 14 in a high-class place. The head chef there
took him under his wing and taught him everything that he knew. Since then he
has been working in several places making really high-class food. One of those
cool pick yourself up by your bootstraps stories!
Not
really too much to mention this week, been a pretty normal week. I need to
start making notes for what to write home... Everything just blurs together.
We
taught a short workshop on self-defense to some kids from a family that we are
teaching. One of them gets beat up at school, so our thought was to help him be
able to defend himself a little better. He didn’t really make any progress, but
at least he got super stoked. His mom told us the next day that he had gotten
really pumped the rest of the day, so even if he didn’t learn at least we have
a good relationship with them!
HEY I got my package like a week ago! The
shoe dryers are awesome! But seriously- super, super awesome!!! The Swedish
fish were delicious, and the white board is perfect! Thank you MOM! Now that
Jared is away from home it is going to be way different at home. I’m really
excited to go to college when I get back! Like, way too excited...
Adios,
Elder Rice
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