3/9/15 and 3/16/15

Here are excerpts from the last two weeks worth of emails:

Last week he wrote:
I have to tell you, I had another weird-welcome-to-being-a-grown-up-experience this week. Today we were grocery shopping and Elder Lee needed more toothpaste. We were perplexed at exactly what the difference was between Colgate Total, Colgate Total Professional Whitening, Colgate Total Professional, Colgate Total NEW Professional, and Colgate MaxWhite. Even though the lady "explained" the difference, I still couldn't tell, but she did tell us that the toothpaste with Shakira on it was not in fact the best as we had previously thought. How are you supposed to decide?? The box tells you practically nothing about the difference.

This week he wrote:
But, like, is there any real difference between the toothpaste, or is it just that they're different colors and they mark up the ones labeled "Whitening" and "shakira"?

How go things back in the Nard? Christian informs me filming has started for Tron 3 and that there will be a Rouge Squadron movie.

Things are going well here. I tried pig foot at a members house. It wasn't bad, but I didn't really enjoy it either. But I'm glad I tried it.

I do have to say, I had a tiny bit of a Knowledge Bowl relapse this week. We had a Zone meeting last night and a ward activity this morning, at both of which we played Jeopardy. The ward activity turned a little ridiculous (as happens when an entire ward plays Jeopardy in ONLY 2 TEAMS), and some of the questions Zack DEFINITELY would have challenges (Our answer of "By the Holy Ghost" to "How do you get a testimony of the BoM?" was denied as it didn't match the answer they had. Also we got the question "What is music?" which he also got "wrong". And the other team got "How do you get into the celestial kingdom?" All our team was waiting to see what on Earth the answer could possibly be, but they ending up getting right as the answer was "Respuestas Varias"), and there were some physical challenges mixed in, but it was still a fun time. At the zone activity I really got a fix when they question was "How many book are in the Old Testament?" and I told my team "I don't know for sure, but something is telling me I've heard the number 39 before for this" and it was RIGHT! And then we used that to figure out how many were in the New Testament when we got that question because I knew there was 66 books in the Bible. And I just remember thinking "Man, I loved Knowledge Bowl". That rush I get is just uggh.

Tell everyone I'lll probably get around to writing I legit general letter soon.

A quote from Elder Lee this week:

Me: That was back when you liked Taco Bell, yeah?

Elder Lee: Are you kidding me?? The first thing I'm doing when I get home is buying 5 99 cent beef and cheese burritos, unwrapping them, and then rolling them up all together to make a mega burrito.

I'm starting to learn a little bit of chilango. I figure I should learn Spanish first, but in DF I'm bound to pick up a lot of it. Are you very familiar with it? Lee says that in some areas it's super crazy. Like they use "Jamaica" in place of the word "Jamas" and they say something that translate into "Mattress" to say I know it or something like that.

Attached are pictures of:

A bien padre view from a member's house's roof

Me cooking the frozen taquitos Elder Lee and I got hooked on last week

A Pinguino

A bag with a surprising specific expiration date

My first agenda finished