Sunday, September 20, 2009

Empanadas & Johny Lingo

So the barrio had an activity on Saturday night. We decided to go because it had something to do with an empanda cook off and -wow! That sounded like it would have to be tasty!
So we get there and meet a few new people (since we went to the wrong ward last week) They all seem like great friendly people and we are getting used to kissing people all the time. (Kiss for the left cheek, kiss for the right cheek.."hola, como? estas?" "muy bien , Gracias")
A hermano who must be the elders quarom president told us before the empanadas we were watching a movie about talents. Sounded good to us. The activity was to start @ 7:00 but with Mormon/ Spanish standard time it was closer to 8pm. So we sit down to watch this movie and its clear to us its johny Lingo and the 10 cow wife, however apparently the church re-did this story and it is now a full length movie! We started to calculate... the movie would be done at 10pm and then the party would start. It would be 11:30 pm before we would be able to head home. We wispered through the begining of this movie, "we just are not on Spanish time yet, we could not possibly do this and get up for church in the morning." We snuck out one at a time , I made a pit stop into the kitchen and grabbed a plate with a sample of a empanada. It was very good!
The Yw activities that are on saturday are all day long activities and Seminary is 4 days a week for 90 min. and every weekend theres a get together and most Sundays a fireside. The church seems to be the central location for the social and spiritual activity. Its going to take some getting used to as well as we have school and work activities to fit in as well!

2 comments:

  1. WOA. seminary is 90 minutes??? what time is it at? Ours were 50 minutes! and allll day activities on saturday? Well at least you know your kids will be active in the church...they won't have any minutes away from it!

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  2. i did know about the johnny lingo movie, it's not the church that redid just one of those mormon movie companies (like the singles ward movies) Thats crazy that the party would start at 11 because our youth dances always ended at 11 so that we weren't breaking the sabbath...crazy spaniards!

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