One Baptism down with ANOTHER soon

WEEK 29:

Today was temple day so our P-day has been moved to Wednesday. There have been a couple crazy experiences so I hope that I will have time to write about all of them. 

Last email I mentioned that an investigator had asked me to baptize them. The day of the baptism, I must have recited the baptismal prayer in my head a thousand times. There were tons of people at the baptism because there was a kid getting baptized at the same time. I said the prayer and it was a success. I didn't mess it up! The baptism was super uplifting and everyone was greeting the new members of the church. And I have ANOTHER baptism in 2 days. Someone from my old area. I can't wait.

Funny story: As a district a group of 4 missionaries including me went to eat lunch together at a pasta place. I wanted the extra spicy pasta. It comes out at it has 1 pepper on top. Quick background on this pepper. They are very hot. I asked very sarcastically why there was only one pepper. My companion told the chef without me knowing and they took my plate back in the kitchen. In a couple minutes one of the missionaries started coughing because he could smell the peppers. I started joking with him and coughing until I wasn't joking. There was no smell but taking a deep breath would sting your lungs and the back of your throat. The whole restaurant was coughing. They bring the plate out with about 20 peppers. All me friends know that I never step down from a challenge. First bite in I was sweating. I shouldnt have ordered the large portion. This was the most painful thing I've ever done. By half way I lost feeling in my upper body. When I was done I wanted to grab some soup to try and wash the spice out of my mouth. For some reason I could hardly move my legs and almost fell over. I had to wait about 30 minutes before I was able to walk normally again. The other missionaries were kind enough to take a videos of me. I can share the video with you if your Intrested. Just email me back. There were times I was barely able to put the spaghetti in my mouth because my arm was shaking so much. My eyes were twitching so much that they began to swell up. I was barely able to open my eyes.

Reflecting back in this, I'm not sure why they added so many peppers. They may have been mad that I sent the plate back or maby they wanted to prank a white person. I'm not sure. But I did make sure to take a picture with the chef. 

Most of these pictures are from last p day. We went on a super cool hike.

 I've also been having to eat cheap for and I found a place selling 20 dumplings for $1 haha. I'm sure my parents can guess what I'll be eating every day. 

Here are a few more random pictures.

Dinner with members.

Lady that wanted to take our pictures with some nice bikers.