tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79606928809568292042024-03-13T13:30:06.666-07:00Sam Milliron's Mission Adventures in ColombiaSam Milliron is serving for the next two years as a missionary for the LDS church in the Colombia Medellin Mission. I will post as frequently as he writes. Please pray for him and the work he is doing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06457362472423783002noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960692880956829204.post-70658632804215343872013-03-27T12:49:00.000-07:002013-03-27T12:49:13.587-07:00Update and Q&A March 27, 2013<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Also, we went to immigration last week. We were led to believe that it was like a DMV; you wait forever, for a process that takes a few minutes. But what we weren't told was that we would wait outside for 6 hours. And after we sat in solid sunlight for five-and-a-half hours, and had cheery and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">cherry</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> red faces to show for it, it poured for the last half hour we were outside, huddled under a tiny awning. Then we spent another hour and a half inside to get fingerprints, photos, and a stamp on our passport.</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Q.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Have you received any of the mail I have sent. The first was mailed on March 14!</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">A. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">No. </span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Q. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Have the TALL accounts come in yet? How’s the Spanish education going in general?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">A.</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">TALL accounts still a no go, we are still using the generics. Spanish is improving rapidly. We have a teacher for the afternoons. Native speakers attend, but only for two weeks. As a matter of fact, we had to move rooms last night, and me and my companion are going to be in a room with four native speakers.</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">A.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> </span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">There are a few things that are still weird. One thing is that all the native speakers use </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">A LOT</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> of mayonnaise. They buy them in 2 gallon containers, and go through at least one every couple of days, if not every day. That and the traffic</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">No that will take too much time. Let me sum up. (Princess Bride reference!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">We got in last week. There were eleven of us that met up at the
Atlanta airport, and then a 12th guy <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">flew in later that night. When we got to the airport, there were
three of us that could speak decently <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">enough to survive. Now most of us can.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">We have been very busy in the mornings, but do not yet have a
teacher for the afternoons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">We are using a program called TALL to complement our spanish
learning. However, we can't make </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">any progress yet because our usernames still don't work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">The food at the CCM is really good. There was this one dessert
that we all enjoyed very much. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">It was ice cream flavored with a fruit called
maracuya, and it had condensed milk in the </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">middle. There is also a fruit
called a grenadilla, also known as brainfruit or snot fruit, that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">you eat by
breaking off the hard outer shell, then sucking the insides out of the
soft inner shell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I have some jokes for you. There are some funny stories as well,
but I don't have my journal with me <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> What do owls say in
English? Who, Who.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> What do owls say in
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I can't send pictures, because they have a no camera policy for
missionaries. At the end of my</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">six weeks, they will give me a cd with a bunch of
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">My P day is Wednesday. Mi compañero is from Utah. All of
the other guys are from Utah,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I have to get off the computer in just a couple of seconds, so
let everybody know I love <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">them, and that I am having a good time. And if anybody is
offended because I don’t <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">email them, it’s because I don’t have their email.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">This is just supposed to be a short message, so I will tell you more at a later time.</span></div>
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