Temple: Round Two!

We got to go to the Oaxaca temple again yesterday!

I was pretty excited about it :) As always, it was a great experience to be in the House of the Lord. It's also fun because there are two senior missionary companions there and they're always excited to speak in English to us. Other than the temple we just went to some malls nearby the temple... and I scored a 20 peso Subway sandwich! Yummmm.

So that was Saturday. Then on Sunday we went to church in the morning, came home and took a nap, went to mass with our family (still boring as heck by the way), and then went out to lunch at a family friend's house. This was so entertaining!

So our family has these friends... From the States! Well actually not at all but they switch off living there and here every eight months. The husband, Luigi, moved to Chicago from Italy when he was 22 and at some point met the wife, Mago, and they got married. I'm not really sure where they met though because she's from here in Tehuacan. But anyway they're really fun because they speak some English and are a lot more American than most people around here. They're headed back to Chicago in a couple weeks though so they invited our family over for dinner. It was really entertaining.

All of us together - Bonnie, Luigi, me, Mago, and our host dad

First off, we drove up and one of our students, Maria, was there! Well she's actually not mine because she's in kinder but I still see her every day before and after class.

This is Maria with Belen. It turns out Maria is Luigi and Mago's granddaughter. Small world right? She's a major cutie though so we had a lot of fun playing with her all night.

Also, they made us American food! We had cream of broccoli soup with french bread, pork and bean tacos (tasted like homemade Taco Bell... yum), and shish kabobs. I loved it because our host family was so confused the whole time about what things were and how to eat them. They all pulled the stuff off their shish kabobs and stuck it in a taco. So Mexi. It was fun to do a little role reversal and have them looking at me like, "how in the world do I eat this?"

And finally, I'm pretty sure Luigi is quite the alcoholic. Haha. His shoulder is currently thrown out from an unknown cause other than, as he says, "Too much beer." And as soon as we got there the alcohol started flowing. They brought out honey liquor, all sorts of wine, and beer, all of which they kept trying to get us to taste. I had to tell Belen many times that wine does in fact have alcohol in it and explain to everyone else even more times that we didn't want to try the honey liquor because even in small quantities, it's still alcohol. But that didn't stop some other people from getting hammered (cough cough, Luigi!). By the end of the night he was pretty red in the face and his English was not so hot. It was pretty hilarious because he would mumble to us and in what was supposedly our language, we would smile and act like we understood, and then our host dad would ask us to translate! Welp if I understood it in English in the first place I could do that for you, but I have zero idea what he's saying, sorry! So funny.

Here's another picture from the end of the night.

Chucho and our host dad on their motorcycles, Mago looking lovely, and Luigi being a goofball. I love these people! If I ever go through Chicago I will definitely hit them up for a place to stay haha :)