September 10, 2012
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Hey everybody, well I’m in the jungle in a area called BELEN in the zone MOYOBAMBA. My companion is Elder Castro from Lima and he was companion's with Elder Cifunetes my trainer and we have a lot of fun making fun of him. Every one of the gringos in my group is in the jungle, Brown and Geiting are in Iquitos and Price went there as well this change. Elder Stringham is in Pucallpa and Elder Anderson and I are now in Moyobamba. Elder Anderson and I traveled by plane to Tarapoto and from there the district leader in Tarapoto took us to a taxi station where we had a three hour taxi ride which was horrible, but the scenery was beautiful! Moyobamba is super junglely, but the area I’m in is right in the center of the city so it’s pretty rich ha-ha. There are more stores and stuff then in my area in Lima. The zone leaders are in the other zone in the city and all the other elders are in far off areas. Elder Anderson is in an area that just got opened up and they have about 40 members so he is going to be baptizing like a mad man. He is the first gringo to go to this area. All of the wards are branches and they are hoping by the end of this year to be a stake with wards. So if we get two more baptisms we will have as enough people needed for a ward here in Belen. This is elder Castors fifth change here so I’m sure he will be going this next change. So I’m trying really hard to learn the area so I can direct it next change.
After I met my companion we went and taught some families. The people here are super nice and it is easy to get in the houses especially when you have blue eyes ha-ha, but the hard part is finding the people a second time and to get them to come to church. But my apartment is pretty nice but we are thinking about moving to a different apartment because the guy we pay wants more money and we're like heck no ha-ha. There are bananas everywhere and we eat them at every meal. There are bats. Don’t worry I picked up a dead one. Ha-ha, I don’t want to get bit and get rabies. But there are parrots in the houses and huge bugs, its nuts. We were teaching this family and this girl took the diaper off her baby girl and sat her on her lap and the baby peed on the floor, on command. After the lady put the diaper back on and me and my companion with our eyes wide open and jaw to the ground. The lady said... yea I taught her that. Ha-ha it was something really weird, but pretty cool at the same time ha-ha dog training your children. On Sunday I gave a surprise talk in the sacrament meeting. So that was fun, but it was super easy. My Spanish is getting a lot better I just need to simplify my lessons because the people here learn a tad bit slower. The jungle is awesome it rains every day. You can see the stars. Everyone drives motorcycles. You can breathe the fresh air. And the only thing you can hear at night is the frogs and the thunder. Now I know why all the missionaries love the jungle so much more than Lima.
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| Only Sy would think it was a good idea to pick up a bat, not sure it is better that it is dead or not!! |
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