Monday, March 20, 2006

With a box of individually wrapped chocolates, two socks, a fork, a knife, and a die, 6 of us stood around their dining room table; each took turns rolling the die, hoping for a 1; when a 1 was rolled, that person put the socks on their hands, and then, only using the utensils, unwrapped and ate the chocolates. Meanwhile, the other 5 continue rolling the die; as soon as another 1 is rolled, that person receives the socks, and they continue. The game goes on until all the chocolates are eaten. It was pretty fun.

This wrapped up my day, but here is how it began…

After a lunch at the local ‘by the kilo’ café with the Cossios, I went to the SRE office for the rest of the afternoon. Dave and I agreed that I would work today at the office while he did homework, and then tomorrow we would switch.

From 1 to 6 this afternoon SRE files were updated, more instructions were written for the Cossios, I gave some teaching tips and helped them prepare for when they will be teaching by themselves here in a few weeks.

Twenty minutes on the phone with BYU Travel left me a little surer of my plans for the next two weeks, but then I called Porto Alegre.

I called Humberto, in Porto Alegre to confirm our trip to Joaçaba this weekend, and was given the green light for renting a car for our trip – thus, saving at least four hours round trip of our travel. Regarding more details, including our last day in Porto Alegre, Humberto requested we call him tomorrow morning. He wants us to stay in Porto Alegre until the 8th to help with a Stake Career Fair, but we are technically released on the 5th, and the 8th is the only weekend we have to sight see and visit people and places.

Sister Burrup, from Porto Alegre, also shared w/ me their trials from today – everything in their office was going haywire: the Internet wasn’t working, copy machine on the frits, etc.

At 8 pm David and I arrived at the house of Rubens & Family for another FHE. Valdmiria is always so nice to fill us with food before the message, and then Rodrigo, there recent RM son gave the spiritual message, and Tiago was in charge of the game. This is when we played the chocolate game described about above. Good times!