Okay so oh my… I’m not sure if you guys are getting sick of my stories about cholos and this weeks…. this one…it takes the cake.
So first off… AMBER IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!! AHHH I’m so happy! We were at a park finding when I got the call from the Elders in my last area telling me the news when i seen a slightly shady gangster talking to Hermana Wall. So i hung up and went over, we sat down and he started to tell us that “he gots some questions…” we answered them the best we could and then he cut in and started telling us all about his baby momma, the bible, drugs, ya know the usual ect., ect., ect. Then he starts going into how he went to jail and got put “in the shoe.” Now, at this point I’m a little confused because in Tremonton, UT, those are one in the same, so I ask “wait sorry I’m confused, the shoe?” And this is how it went…
“Oh you dont know what the shoe is? Well I was in jail but then I got put in the shoe for taking him out”
“Him? You took him out?”
“I mean, yea, he messed up so ya know we went and took him out”
“Wait… did you kill him?”
Then he looks at me, and his eyes get all wide and he goes
“D@M*! I dont know!! Did I kill him???”
……….
Uhhhhh hahaha
………. well no worries he remembered a second later that they just stabbed him but he lived so it was all okay😅🙃
The rest of the conversation looked like a heart rate machine track, but initially concluded to a mutual agreement that maybe hes not quite ready for the gospel.
One day maybe…. one day very far away… with much less acid.😂
I swear I dont make this stuff up guys.
Like you know on Halloween how we would all dress up like funny gangsters, walk around with “swag” and talking like we didnt graduate the 5th grade? Yeah all of that is for real hahaha. Everything. Chains, baggy shorts, sway from side to side, talking with your hands waving all over the place and sounding like every sentence should be a rap lyric… yeah it’s not a joke.
But it’s also interesting because whenever we ask people how they are and they always somehow respond saying something about how glad they are to have another day and be alive. For a while I was just kind of like, yeah okay of course were all grateful for another day like cant you give me something less basic? But multiple times this week me and Hermana Wall have been told CRAZY stories about people’s lives and we decided that it’s really not such a “basic” thing here to have another day. These people are genuinely grateful for the day they have today and to them it IS a gift. Which is super cool!
Dont worry, I’m safe and I am going to continue to have more days to be grateful for, haha I’m not saying I’m probably going to die here- I’m definitely safe- but like, it really made me realize how grateful I am, or should be, for my life. Ther’es so much good!
Have the best week and be safe! Love life and be grateful for it!
Love Ryenne
(Pictures:)
1. FINALLY RAINED
2. For my girl B💙
3. We LOVE mariachi!!
4. La familia alamillos! You wouldn’t guess it but they actually dont speak any English haha!
Hermana Wood In The Hood 