Eveybody Clap Your Hands! Since I've been here I've experienced, hobos, drunk people, vicious dogs, a wedding, and many other crazy things. Where is here you may ask? Downtown Denver baby!
So here are a few stories about my new crazy life. Transfer day has come and gone. Trujillo and I were pretty much just going to wing the whole thing. We didn't have a clue where we were going to live, didn't have a GPS, no phone either. We only knew a few steps and then its rely on the Lord time. Well He provided. An elder let me borrow his GPS. The zone leaders where there to give us directions, keys, and our phone. So the next adventure was to get to our apartment. I didn't realize how downtown our home was until I was driving through it. Probably my favorite part of the day is finding a parking place near our apartment every night. haha.
Our apartment is now wonderful and beautiful but you should have seen it when we first walked in. It stunk and was... yeah... No thanks to the elders that lived there before. They did do the dishes though haha. There was a giant map of our area and the do's and don'ts of the area. "Don't talk to the hobos they ask for money, not food, money." "Don't walk on Colfax..." (the street right next to us) "...after 7pm." "Don't ever go through City Park." Okay so mostly Don'ts. The only do's were, "This is the best Icecream shop ever!" hahaha. And because I'm a rebel ( ;D ) I went to City Park, and this week we are going to walk on Cofax after 7. KIDDING... maybe... ;)
On Friday we attended a wedding that a set of Elders put on. Yes, pretty much these Elders planned this wedding. Its something that we struggle being in a Spanish ward. Some of the people we are teaching don't have papers thus can't get legally married. Which they need to be in order to be baptized. Elder Jijon (or He-Haw as we call him) and Elder Robertson did a fantastic job. There was a really small turn out in the beginning but we waited just a little longer and then the people arrived. The kind of stupid thing about being in a Spanish ward is that they truly believe that you can't dance. Of course we can't dance with someone or anything other then appropriate but I CAN DANCE GOSH DARN IT! haha for example... The Cupid Shuffle came on and I wanted to go join the line but couldn't. I was really sad. Oh well...
One last crazy story... Though its probably more funny for Trujillo and me but I'll tell it anyways. There was a potential that we went to contact around 7pm at night. As we head up to the door we see a grey almost terrierish dog by one of the parked cars. Of course being the animal lover that I am I call to it. Mistake. When it got a little closer I realized that it had its hackles raised and that it was baring its teeth. We both drop our 50lbs purses off our shoulders ready to wack it one if it got any closer. Eventually Trijillo bent down to pick up a rock and before she got back up it had scampered off. Well about 2 days after we were in the same neighborhood again at 7pm in the dark. Trijillo gives me a look and I know what she's thinking.
"No, nu uh! I'm not going to die today by a vicious dog!".... "Okay fine." And I picked up a rock to arm myself. We are almost to the door when we hear barking and we get scared we start running. We then realized that nothing was coming after us and we turn around to go back to the house when we see a white dog just staring at us. We jumped and screamed... hahaha Oh man the poor thing. We start laughing so hard. The dog probably just wanted to come and see what we were doing and we reacted the way we did. He scampered off real quick.
Okay that story is not as funny as I think it is and its pretty lame. Okay got to go... AH my session is ending!
Love you guys! Don't Do Drugs and Stay Sweet!
Hermana Durfee
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