From October 31, 2010: Carving Watermellons

From October 31, 2010:  The apartment carved watermellons for Halloween, and that was fun.  It got over 100 degrees here last week. The same night that we carved our mellons we slept outside. We were woken up at 12am with a rain storm and were able to bring our mattresses under the covering before it poured.

I have been trying to cook dinner and save money. I will have two eggs, onions, peppers, carrots and ramen for dinner for a long time considering there isn't any variety in diet here. Elder Orchard and I bought some stew ingredients so we have made that and it is very good.

The highlight of the week was when we were called by a member to give a blessing at 8am. We walked 20 minutes and she met us and started talking about her water tank. She sells its contents to the neighbors. We realized that she wanted us to bless her water tank with oil to bring people to buy the water. We were able to talk her out of that and only pray with her. Elder Orchard and I then walked back in the 80+ degrees and told the other missionaries what we went over there for.