Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Church, Yay! Something Familiar-ish!

So on Sunday Sarah, Mckenna, Stefanie, and I decided we wanted to go to church.  We took a crazy Rigshaw ride over to church.  It was nice to go to church because it was something familiar; some of it was even in English! But a good amount was also in Telegu.  We came early and sat down and a lot of the people would come over to welcome us or wave hello.  Everyone was really nice!  I was really happy to see four missionaries at the meeting, they reminded me of Chase!  There was one guy, however, that came to greet us, he was really nice, but after we said hello he just kept standing there looking at us with a smile frozen on his face.  It was a little awkward…  I figured he was maybe a greeter or a member of the bishopric who wanted to make sure we felt welcomed.  He told us that BYU students are his friends and that we were all his friends.  I smiled at him and said thank you and we were happy to be his friends… oops!  When the meeting started I realized that he wasn’t in the bishopric or anything, he was one of the guys our professor warned us about.  He sat right behind us and would follow us in between the meetings.  We were warned by our professor to stay away from the boys in church because they only want romance; they want wives really bad (this became very obvious during testimony meeting when a lot of the guys would talk about how badly they want to find a wife!).   And unfortunately I learned later that it is bad to smile at the men because it gives them the wrong idea! Oh great!  Well, we left church 5 minutes early and we will be switching to a different church meeting time.  We also learned about some of the jewelry that married women wear here along with toe rings so I think I will be getting some of that!

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