Thursday, July 9, 2009

new mission... new comp...a day at the park!

i still dont know my pres. his name is pres jayme and he is american that is it. me and my comp are working way hard. some stuff from this week. i held a monkey and ya thats about it cool haha. we have a few good investigators. one wants to be baptized but she cant cause she isnt married and her bf is a drugy and they live behind the drug dealer (i saw bags and bags of coke there) haha. she wants to leave him but doesnt have a place to go with her 3 little kids. its a tough situation. they live in a house 100 times worse than our old wooden barn.
the toe kills haha. it hurts bad. i dont know what happend. it just happend haha. but i think it might be gettin better haha. it sucks to walk all day with it haha. but the monkey is cute huh. im gonna bring one home haha. but no not really. everyone is poor. but she is looking for an bedroom to rent. but like her house she lives in now is prob a little smaller than annies bedroom. THE HOUSE. and bathrooms here are just like outside in the ground. it kinda sucks cause we have to walk through all the crap and mud and stuff cause its just like a poop swamp casue there is no plumbing. kinda gross. like they put wood boards on the ground to walk on so you dont sink in the poop/mud.
im in the capital of the state. there are nicer neighborhoods with tolets in the houses but there richer and dont like us. haha. so we work in the poor areas. the houses are built in the air cause the city drains the water from rain storms where these houses are. so every year during rain season the ppl have to leave and live in the streets cause there house go under water. but there poorer and love us. like everyone knows us in these neighborhoods. the bathrooms are a little gross. the are built of wood with a wooden seat to sit on but its just so ppl dont see you cuz its just opended and goes to the groudn and stuff. so the water from shower, pea, and poop just go on the ground. every "bathroom" you walk by will be stinky around it and swampy with wooden boards to walk past it. its great. haha. i will try to sneak a pictiure of one some time. ppl love to steal cameras here so i have to be careful with the pics. i LOVE 3rd world countrys haha.

1 comment:

we said...

Hey! This is way random but I know Elder Swalberg who is still serving in the Cuiaba Mission I think he was transfered out of Acre when you were transfered there. Maybe you don't know him but it's amazing to see everything on your blog!! Are you in Rio Branco? Good luck with the work! -Olivia Redd