Mission or Vacation?

I guess we do seem to be having too much fun to be "on a mission." Really, all the coming and going is just our finding our way around, navigating the buses to and from the grocery store (Lider), and the office. We do get hungry at lunch time and one day we did divert from the usual peanutbutter/jelly sandwiches to go to McDonalds. It was a wonderful change! It's hard to stay in a two room apartment after being so independent (think three cars for the two of us). And we are doing everything joined at the shoulders and hips and that is a change, too. Saturday's trip would have included both of us, but Jay was really sick with the Revenge again. Pomaire is a indigenous (Mapuche) Indian name for the town we visited with all the clay pottery. They had everything there from piggy banks to roasting pans to 5' pots to patio furnaces. I just looked. Lunch was a HUGE empanada that filled my whole dinner plate. I couldnt eat it all. Back to work, though. Imagine that you are waiting for a very important phone call from someone who needs a better job so he/she doesnt have to work 12 hours just to put rice on the table. When the call comes, you say some words that the boss said you must say: Centro de Empleo. Buenas dias. Then you hear a voice, but none of it makes any sense. They are just jabbering into your ear and you cant get a word in, even if you knew a word to say. So you say, Un momento, por favor. Yo hablo poquito espanol (sorry, no tilda for the n). And they keep on talking, or just hang up on you. Boy, you think you have just ruined someone's life! We had six people ring the doorbell at the same time this morning. It was pretty crazy, but Lilian did a good job while I mostly sat waiting for the phone to ring so I could ruin somebody else's life. Lilian and I studied spanish/english for an hour, and I helped Roberto write a job resume in english. He's a volunteer who just got hired last Friday. Then the jefe (big boss) took us home to FHE and dinner. It was SOOOOOOO nice and they were SOOOOOO nice. We had completos (these are huge hotdogs with mayo, ketchup, diced onion and tomato, guacamole) One is a complete meal. I played their electronic keyboard , Stephano played, I played some more just cuz. Tomorrow morning at 8 we are going to the devotional for the Area Presidency and the other senior missionaries. I have been asked to play the piano for the meetings because Sister Dahlstrom is going home soon. Lucky me!!!! Ciao for now. We have to make our PBJ sandwiches and go to bed.